Seminars

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2008 Seminars

2007 Seminars

2006 Seminars

  • Public Seminar Series - 16th November , Senate Room, Murdoch University, 12:30 pm
    Professor James Perry, Indiana University
    Radically Rethinking How We Motivate Public Servants
  • Japan’s Role in Asia Seminar Series - 27th October , Senate Room, Murdoch University, 12:30 pm
    Professor Takashi Shiraishi, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo
    Reflections on East Asia Community Building
  • Japan’s Role in Asia Seminar Series - 15th September, Senate Room, Murdoch University, 12:30 pm
    Professor Yasuji Ishigaki, Tokai University Law School
    Japan’s Strategic Vision for Asia and its Partnership with Australia
  • Public Seminar Series - 21st September , Senate Room, Murdoch University, 12:30 pm
    Professor Richard Robison, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands
    Liberal Markets, Illiberal Governance
  • Public Lecture - 28th September, Kim E Beazley Lecture Theatre, Murdoch University, 11:30am-12:45pm
    The Honourable Dr Brendan Nelson, Federal Minister for Defence
    Regional Instability and Australian Responses
  • Japan’s Role in Asia Seminar Series - 25th August, Senate Room, Murdoch University, 12:30 pm
    Professor Keiichi Tsunekawa, University of Tokyo
    Dependent Nationalism in Contemporary Japan and Its Implications for the Regional Order in the Asia Pacific
  • Public Seminar Series - 9th August, Senate Room, Murdoch University, 12:30 pm
    Dr Nathan Quimpo, University of Amsterdam
    Ethnic Conflict, Islamist Insurgency and the Peace Process in Mindanao, Southern Philippines
  • Public Symposium - 4th August, 8th Floor Conference Room, Exchange Plaza, Sherwood Court, 10:30 am
    Professor Yukiko Fukagawa and Associate-Professor Ann Capling,
    Japan-Australia Free Trade Agreement: How likely and who benefits?
    with assistance from a 2006 Australia-Japan Year of Exchange Grass-roots Support grant.
  • Workshop - 17th July, Senate room, Murdoch University, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
    Port Privatisation: The Asia Pacific Experience
  • Public Seminar Series - 15th July, Senate Room, Murdoch University, 12:00 pm
    Michael Fernandez, Singapore
    Nine Years in Changi
  • Public Seminar Series - 15th June, Senate Room, Murdoch University, 12:00 pm
    Dr Kazuhiro Harada, Visiting Fellow, Asia Research Centre
    From Coercion to Collaboration: Participatory Forest Management in Indonesia
  • Public Seminar Series - 12th June, Senate Room, Murdoch University, 12:30 pm
    Professor Robert G Sutter, with the US Consulate in Perth
    Bush and US Foreign Policy in Asia: Implications for the Region
  • Public Seminar Series - 5th May, Lounge Room, Club Murdoch, 10:00 am
    Dr Aloysius L. Madja, Indonesian Consul in Perth
    International Terror, Illegal Fishing and Papua: Issues and Implications for the Indonesian - Australian Relationship
  • Public Seminar Series - 3rd April, Senate Conference Room, 1:30 pm
    Dr Andrew Rosser, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK
    The Political Economy of State Building in Timor Leste
  • Roundtable - 13th March, 8th Floor Conference Room, Exchange Plaza, Sherwood Court, Perth, 10:00 am Sorry Full
    Dr Ellen Frost, Visiting Fellow at the Institute for International Economics, Adjunct Research Fellow at the National Defense University’s Institute of National Strategic Studies in the United States.
    Professor Stuart Harris, Department of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University and former head of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
    Professor Samuel Makinda, Chair for Security, Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Studies, Murdoch University. Member, Australian Foreign Minister’s National Consultative Committee for International Security Issues and member, Council for Security and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific.
    China’s Rise: Force for Regional Stability or Regional Friction?
  • Public Seminar Series - 1st March, Senate Room, 4:00 pm
    Dr Rajat Ganguly, University of East Anglia, UK
    Insurgency: Motivation, Capability and Opportunity Structure

 

2005 Seminars

Public Seminar Series Recordings
  • Public Seminar Series - 21st April, Senate Room, 12:30 pm
    Dr Edward Aspinall, University of Sydney
    The Social and Political Impact of the Tsunami on Aceh
  • Research Seminar Series - 5th May, Senate Room, 12:30 pm
    Ian Wilson, Research Fellow, Asia Research Centre
    Vigilantes, violent entrepreneurs and the privatization of security in Indonesia
  • Public Seminar Series - 12th May, Senate Room, 12:30 pm
    Professor Chua Beng Huat, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
    Taking Group Cultural Rights Seriously: Multiculturalism in Singapore
  • Research Seminar Series - 20th May, Chancellery 3.1b, 12:30 pm
    Jie Chen, Political Science and International Relations, UWA
    Transnationalization of Chinese civil society: implications for democratization
  • Research Seminar Series - 26th May, Senate Room, 12:30 pm
    James Warren, Asian Studies and Research Fellow, Asia Research Centre
    Typhoon: Climate ,History and Society in the Philippines: Some initial Thoughts
  • Research Seminar Series - 8th June, Senate Room, 12:30 pm
    John Edwards, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
    Recent animal and human disease events in Asia and the relationship with culture, systems of livestock production and the environment
  • Research Seminar Series - 17th June, Senate Room, 12:30 pm
    Kanishka Jayasuriya, Research Fellow, Asia Research Centre
    Contractualism and transnational welfare governance
  • Research Seminar Series - 11th July, Senate Room, 12:30 pm
    Bernard Arps, Visiting Fellow, ANU and Javanese Linguistics and Literature, Leiden University
    Audio scandals and their actors: crimes, gaffes and sensations involving sound media in recent Indonesian history
  • Research Seminar Series - 29th July, Senate Room, 12:30 pm
    Robin Gauld, Visiting Fellow, Asia Research Centre
    Advanced Asian health systems in comparison
  • Research Seminar Series - 5th August, Senate Room, 12:30 pm
    Terence Lee, Mass Communication and Research Fellow, Asia Research Centre
    Gestural Politics: Civil Society in 'New' Singapore
  • Public Seminar Series - 11th August, Senate Room, 12:30 pm
    Professor Paul Evans, Acting Director, Liu Institute For Global Issues, University of British Columbia
    A Conservative Restoration of Asia-Pacific Security?
  • Public Seminar Series - 19th August, Senate Room, 12:30 pm
    Associate Professor Paul Hutchcroft, University of Wisconsin-Madison visiting Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
    Strong Demands and Weak Institutions: Addressing the Democratic Deficit in the Philippines
  • Public Seminar Series - 22nd Sept, Senate Room, 12:30 pm
    Associate Professor Khoo Boo Teik, Universiti Sains Malaysia
    From Mahathir to Abdullah: What Does it Mean for Malaysia?
  • Public Seminar Series - 4th Oct, Senate Room, 12:30 pm
    Professor Dorothy Solinger, Professor of Political Science and Co-Director, Center for Asian Stiudies, University of California Irvine
    Globalisation and Job Loss in China: Comparing Protest and Welfare Effects with France and Mexico.
  • Research Seminar Series - 14th Oct, Senate Room, 12:30 pm
    Gary Meyers, Law and Research Fellow, Asia Research Centre
    Intellectual Property Law and the Protection of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge in Bio-Resources
  • Public Seminar Series - 20th Oct, Senate Room, 12:30 pm
    Associate Professor Vedi Hadiz, National University of Singapore
    Global Economy, Local Conflict: Indonesia After Soeharto
  • Research Seminar Series - 28th Oct, Senate Room, 12:30 pm
    Gary Sigley, Asian Studies, UWA
    Engineering the Soul: Market Anxieties and China's New Experts
  • Public Seminar Series - 3rd Nov, Senate Room, 12:30 pm
    Dr Mark Beeson, University of Queensland
    Living with Leviathan: Australia, Asia, and American Hegemony
  • Research Seminar Series - 11th Nov, Senate Room, 12:30 pm
    Colin Brown, Media, Society and Culture, Curtin University
    The Indonesian National Games of 1951 and 1953: sport, politics and ethnicity in early post-revolutionary Indonesia
  • Research Seminar Series - 18th Nov, Senate Room, 12:30 pm
    Malcolm Tull, Business and Research Fellow, Asia Research Centre
    Potential impacts of management measures on Indonesian artisanal shark and ray fishers
  • Research Seminar Series - 29th November, Brian Hill Lecture Theatre, 12:30pm
    Professor Bryan Turner, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
    Citizens and States in Asia: the dynamic of religion and politics in state formation
  • Public Seminar Series - 1st Dec, Chancellery 3.1b, 12:30 pm
    Associate Professor Vivienne Wee, Associate Director, South East Asia Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong
    Resource Politics and Competing Ethno-Nationalisms in Asia

2004 Seminars

  • ‘The Next Indonesia’ Seminar Series - 8th April
    Max Lane, Research Fellow, Asia Research Centre
    Revisiting the state in Indonesian politics: the "anti-capitalist" counter-revolutionary state and 1998.
  • ‘The Next Indonesia’ Seminar Series - 29th April
    Max Lane, Research Fellow, Asia Research Centre
    The process of revival of class struggle politics and its impact on the fall of Suharto and post-reformasi politics: the limitations of the structuralist approach
  • Public Seminar Series - 7th May
    Professor Shaun Breslin,University of Warwick
    Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: The Public, the Private and the International
  • ‘The Next Indonesia’ Seminar Series - 13th May
    Max Lane, Research Fellow, Asia Research Centre
    Revisiting the "Showcase State" (Development is STILL the issue): the political economy of economic development and the coming political crisis.
  • ‘The Next Indonesia’ Seminar Series - 10th June
    Max Lane, Research Fellow, Asia Research Centre
    Will Indonesia disintegrate? class, culture and nation in the era of dead-end development
  • Public Seminar Series - 17th June
    Professor Amitav Acharya, Deputy Director, Institute of Defence and
    Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
    Asia and the Age of Fear: Regional Order after 9/11
  • Public Seminar Series - 22nd June
    Max Lane, Research Fellow, Asia Research Centre
    The 2004 elections in Indonesia: preparing the way for the next political crisis
  • Public Seminar Series - 15th July
    Hugh White, Director, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Canberra
    Losing Faith: Asian Crises and Australian Security Since 1997
  • Public Seminar Series - 5th August
    Professor John Clammer, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
    Citizenship, Rights, Class and Identity in Post-Bubble Asia
  • Public Seminar Series - 2nd September
    Professor Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chulalongkorn University
    Thailand Under Thaksin: Another Malaysia?
  • Public Seminar Series - 23rd September
    Dr David Wright-Neville, Monash University
    Losing the Democratic Moment: Counter Terrorism in Southeast Asia
  • Public Seminar Series - 14th October
    Associate-Professor M. Ramesh, University of Sydney
    Emerging Forms of Capitalism in Asia
  • Public Seminar Series - 4th November
    Associate-Professor Norani Othman, Deputy Director, IKMAS, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
    Political Islam and Women’s Rights: Southeast Asia and the Middle East
  • Public Seminar Series - 25th November
    Sidney Jones, Southeast Asia Project Director, International Crisis Group, Jakarta
    Political Impacts of the ‘War on Terror’ in Indonesia

2003 Seminars

  • 27th February
    Dr Marshall Clark, School Of Asian Languages And Studies, University Of Tasmania
    Men and Masculinities in Indonesian Media
  • 3rd March
    Professor David Goodman, Director, Institute for International Studies, University of Technology, Sydney
    Structuring Local Identity: Nation, Province and Country
  • 15th April
    Associate Professor Greg Tower, Murdoch Business School, Murdoch University
    Accounting Models and Reporting Expectations: Evidence from the Indian Sub-Continent
  • 5th May
    Professor Paul Bowles, Department of Economics, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
    Privatisation of Rural Enterprises in China: Processes and Outcomes
  • 22nd May
    Max Lane, Fellow, CAPSTRANS, University of Wollongong
    Indonesian Politics after the 2004 elections: Crisis of the political elite, bankruptcy of 'Civil Society' and disorganization at the grassroots
  • 17th July
    David Reeve, Department of Chinese and Indonesian, School of Modern Language Studies, University of New South Wales
    Outsider/Insider - The painful journey of becoming Indonesian
  • 25th July
    Raja Mohan, Strategic Affairs Editor, The Hindu
    India's New Approach To The Indian Ocean
  • 30th October, EH 4.78, 12:30 pm
    Ian Wilson, Research Associate, Asia Research Centre
    The 'Para-militarization' of Indonesian political culture

2002 Seminars

  • 12th March
    Professor James Warren, Asian Studies, School of Humanities, Murdoch University
    A Tale of Two Centuries: The Globalisation of Maritime Raiding and Piracy in Southeast Asia at The End of the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  • 19th March
    Associate Professor David Brown, Head of School, Politics and International Studies, Murdoch University
    Globalisation and the (Re)Construction of Nation States: An Explanation of Ethnic Conflict
  • 2nd April
    Dr Greg Acciaioli, Research Fellow, Asia Research Centre
    Reappropriating Colonial Categories, Fashioning Conteporary Identities: Integrating Subnational and Transnational Loyalties in Decentralising Indonesia
  • 4th April
    Dita Sari, Indonesian Trade Union Leader
    Why I Rejected Reebok: Fighting Multinationals and The IMF in Indonesia
  • 16th April
    Associate Professor Sam Makinda, Politics and International Studies, Murdoch University
    Security and Sovereignty in the Asia-Pacific Region
  • 23rd April
    Dr Jocelyn Grace, Research Fellow, Asia Research Centre
    Responding to the HIV/AIDS Epidemics in Viet Nam
  • 14th May
    Dr Nils Bubandt, Aarhus University, Denmark
    Paranoia as Political Discourse. Violent Conflicts and Rumour Politics in Eastern Indonesia
  • 28th May
    Dr Shelda Debowski, Senior Lecturer (Management) and Associate Head of School (Research), Murdoch Business School
    Human Resource Management in China
  • 16th July
    Professor Jeffrey Henderson, Professor of International Economics, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester
    Globalisation, Economic Governance and Poverty: Comparing Malaysia and South Korea
  • 13th November
    Dr Mai Hoang Pham
    Socio-Economic Reform and Poverty Alleviation in Vietnam During the 1990s
  • 26th November
    Dr Luigi Tomba, Research Fellow, RSPAS, ANU
    Hopetown, China: Residential Segregation, the State and the Making of an Urban Middle Class

 

 
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