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CHAIRPERSON

Assoc Prof Maitrii V. Aung-Thwin, Asia Research Institute, and Department of History, National University of Singapore

PROGRAM

ABSTRACT

Outside of Southeast Asia, there is a long tradition of Southeast Asian Studies in places such as the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, China, Korea, and Australia. Latin America, however, has become another player in Southeast Asian Studies, with active research nuclei in Mexico, Argentina, and Chile. This virtual roundtable event will revolve around two key questions: What is the state of Southeast Asian Studies in Latin America? What are the resources and training available in Latin America? This dialogue will take place with the scholars of the Inter-Asia Engagements cluster of the Asia Research Institute at NUS, which studies Asia’s engagements with other parts of the world through the perspectives of disciplines such as history, geography, political science, and international relations. It houses several Southeast Asianists who are interested in learning about the research being conducted in Latin America and future possibilities of collaboration.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Carol Chan is Assistant Professor at the Society and Health Research Center, Universidad Mayor (Chile), and lead researcher at the Transpacific Research Network (https://getranspacifico.com/). She earned her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of In Sickness and in Wealth: Migration, Gendered Morality, and Central Java (2018, Indiana University Press), and co-author of Chineseness in Chile: Shifting Representations in the Twenty-First Century (2022, Palgrave MacMillan). She currently leads a research project funded by the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development, titled “Mobilizing Asia-Latin America as Method: A Multi-Sited Ethnography of Migration Infrastructure and Brokerage between Southeast Asia and Chile” (2020-2023). Her research interests include migration, gender, racialization, precarious and forced labor, and inter-ethnic conviviality.

Chris Lundry is a professor-investigator in the Centro de Estudios de Asia y África at El Colegio de Mexico. He works in Southeast Asia, predominantly eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste. His interests include comparative politics, international relations, revolution and separatism, post-conflict reconciliation, religion and politics, terrorism, colonial Southeast Asia, and film. He has co-authored an award-winning book on rumors and terrorism, and authored and co-authored several book chapters and articles that have appeared in American Behavioral Scientist, Contemporary Islam, Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context, Small Wars Journal, Asian Politics and Policy, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and Estudios de Asia y África, among others. His book Enfrentando a Leviatán. Soberanía impugnada en el este de Indonesia (El Colegio de Mexico) is forthcoming (2022). He is a member of the Comité Consultivo for the Anuario Asia Pacifico. He received his doctorate in political science from Arizona State University in 2009.

Fernando Pedrosa got his bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and his master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Salamanca. He coordinates the Asia and Latin America Study Groups of the Instituto de Estudios de América Latina y el Caribe of the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales of UBA and is the head editor of the journal Asia/AmericaLatina. He teaches Southeast Asian politics in the Faculty of Social Sciences of UBA and is Professor of International Relations at the Universidad del Salvador. He was also a guest researcher at the University of Malaya. He has supervised research projects and theses on Asia, both at the master’s and doctoral level. He has peer reviewed and published articles in academic journals, with several of his texts being translated to English and German. He is the author, co-author, or editor of seven books, among them Revisiting the Falklands/Malvinas question: transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives published by the University of London Press and Desafíos actuales en Asia Oriental: lecciones para América Latina, published by the Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires. His contributions regularly appear in media in Latin America and France 24 in Spanish.

Evi Yuliana Siregar is Professor at the Center for Asian and African Studies of El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City. She studied Indonesian literature for her bachelor’s degree and education for her master’s and doctoral degree. From 1991 to 1997 she worked at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Indonesia. In 1997 she was invited by El Colegio de Mexico as a visiting professor for Southeast Asian Area Studies program and three years later she was hired as a full-time professor there. She works on language, literature, gender, and culture in Indonesia, but recently has focused her research on higher education and educational policy in Indonesia. She is a pioneer in translation of Indonesian literary works into Spanish. Among her publications in translation are Sri Sumarah and El Regreso de Karman (Kubah). Now she is preparing to publish Reform of Higher Education in Indonesia and Higher Education in Southeast Asia.

Ezequiel Ramoneda is the coordinator of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CESEA) and secretary of the Department of Asia and the Pacific (DAYP) of the Institute of International Relations (IRI) of the National University of La Plata (UNLP). He is also Professor and Researcher at the School of Oriental Studies (EEO) of Salvador University (USAL) and at the master’s program in Economics and Business in Asia-Pacific and India of the National University of 3 de Febrero (UNTREF). Furthermore, he is a member of the Group for Asia and Latin American Studies (GESAAL) of the Institute for Latin America and the Caribbean Studies (IELAC) of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and of the Board of the Argentine section of the Latin American Association for Asian and African Studies (ALADAA Argentina).

REGISTRATION

Registration is closed, and instructions on how to participate in this webinar has been sent out to registered attendees. Please write to aritm@nus.edu.sg if you would like to attend the webinar.