Past events

Sydney Southeast Asia Centre’s annual Politics in Action forum brings political updates from Southeast Asia to researchers and practitioners from across the disciplines and beyond.

Prejudices against religious minorities are inherent in the hegemonic narrative of Thai identity, but these have recently taken a new form. Anti-Muslim sentiments in Thailand developed from the protracted Southern conflict that saw Buddhist victimisation at the hands of Malay Muslim insurgents. The narrative of ‘Buddhism under threat’ has been circulating online and offline, identifying particularly an external offence of Muslims who wish to capture the Thai state.

This event seeks to compare legal perspectives on the experience of technology, privacy, and COVID-19 crisis response in Australia, Singapore, Mainland China and Hong Kong. By comparatively exploring the legal frameworks for the COVIDSafe app in Australia, there is the potential to enhance international coordination in digital responses to public health crises.

A discussion about the short-lived Pakatan Harapan government and the possible return of kleptocracy in Malaysia

Early career researchers working on Southeast Asia at the University of Sydney are invited to attend SSEAC’s inaugural residential writing retreat, designed to provide you with the physical and mental space to write as part of a community of like-minded scholars from a broad range of disciplines.