Abstracts

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CONFERENCE DAY 1: Monday 29th November

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12.00 - 12.15pm        Welcoming Address: Patrick Jory, President, AMSEAS

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12.15 - 12.50pm        Keynote Address: Nick Cheesman: “Mainland Southeast Asia:  
                                      Control and Resistance”
 

12.50 - 1.00pm          Break

 

1.00 - 2.20 pm          PANEL 1: Authoritarianism and Resistance

 

CHAIR:  Melissa Curley, University of Queensland

 

• Uniformity to Resist: Ruptures and Solidarity among Thai Pro-Democracy Protestors
         Wichuta Teeratanabodee, Nanyang Technological University
   

• Does Regime Matter? Reconsidering Thailand’s Democratic Recession from Below
         Suthikarn Meechan, University of Canterbury
   

• Regime Crisis and State Mobilisation: The Case of Cambodia
         Mun Vong, Griffith University

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2.20 - 2.30pm             Break

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2.30 - 3.50pm             PANEL 2: Authoritarian Institutions

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CHAIR: Simon Creak, Nanyang Technological University

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• Rule of Law for Political Gain: Trends in Civil Society in Lao PDR
         Andrea Haefner, Griffith University
   

• Fighting the Pandemic like Fighting the Enemy: Vietnam’s Securitization of COVID-19
         Phan Xuan Dung, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 
         To Minh Son, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
         Quah Say Jye, National University of Singapore.
   

• Power before Education: The Authoritarianism of a Thai University
         Matthew Kosuta, Independent Scholar

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3.50 - 4.00pm             Break

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4.00 - 5.20pm            PANEL 3: Media Activism and Access

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CHAIR: Arjun Subrahmanyan, Murdoch University

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• Breaking News Taboos: The Politics of Social News and Thailand’s 2020 Protests
         Sippachai Kunnuwong, Sungkonghoe University
   

• Vietnam's Media in the Oil Rig Crisis
         Le Thi My Danh, FPT University
   

• Bridging the Digital Divide: Reducing Digital Inequalities in Vietnam via ICT Access and Usage
         Khang Pham Minh, Ho Chi Minh University of Social Sciences and Humanities
         Tai Quoc Nguyen, Ho Chi Minh University of Social Sciences and Humanities

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END OF DAY ONE

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CONFERENCE DAY 2: Tuesday 30th November

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11.00am - 12.40pm   PANEL 4: China and Mainland Southeast Asia: History

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CHAIR: Marnie Feneley, University of New South Wales

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• Hegemonic Imaginings: Revisiting Historical Discourse about Chinese Colonialism in Nanyang, 1905-1940
         Ruixin Yang & Yuhang Yu, Independent scholars
   

• Kirin in the Chinthe’s Territory: The Presence of Chinese Films in British Burma, 1925-1927
         Yongchun Fu, NingboTech University
   

• Revisiting Miscellaneous Notes on the Southern Seas: A Nineteenth Century Chinese Official Visits Vietnam
         Josh Stenberg, University of Sydney
   

• Old Burmese Weights were not Opium Weights. They were Weights. What Else do we Know about Them?
         Bob Hudson, University of Sydney

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12.40 - 12.50pm         Break

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12.50 - 2.10pm          PANEL 5: China and Mainland Southeast Asia: The Present

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CHAIR: Patrick Jory, University of Queensland

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• Patriots Abroad: Imperialism, Grand Strategy, and Capitalism in China’s Activities in Mainland Southeast Asia
         Gregory V. Raymond, Australian National University
   

• Cambodia-China Relations: From a Critical State Theory Perspective
         Sreang Chheat, University of Queensland
   

• Angstful Aspirants: Ethnic Minority Uplanders in Far-North Laos are Greeting China’s Rise with a Compelling Cocktail of Aspiration, Awe, Angst and Ambivalence
         Paul-David Lutz, The University of Sydney

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2.10 - 2.20pm             Break

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2.20 - 4.00pm           PANEL 6: Labour, Development, Migration

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CHAIR: Gerard McCarthy, National University of Singapore

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• Labour and Electoral Politics in Cambodia
         Kristy Ward and Michele Ford, University of Sydney
   

• Processes and Pathways of Vietnamese Migration to Australia: A Network-Based Approach
         Lan Anh Hoang, University of Melbourne
   

• Challenges in Managing Undocumented Migrant Workers under the New Law on Contract-based Vietnamese Overseas Workers: A Case Study of Runaway Vietnamese Migrant Workers in Japan -
         Nguyen Thuy Duong, Hanoi Law University
   

• Exclusive Urbanism: Development and Privatisation in Vientiane
         Kesone Kanhalikham, National University of Laos
         Kearrin Sims, James Cook University

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4.00 - 4.10pm             Break

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4.10 - 5.30pm           PANEL 7: Environmental Activism

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CHAIR: Justine Chambers, Australian National University

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• Towards the ‘Expanded Field’ of Environmental Activism in Cambodia
         Stephanie Benzaquen-Gautier, University of Nottingham
   

• Plastic Constellations and Actor Insights in Thailand
         Achmad Firas Khudi, Chiang Mai University
   

• Learning to Transform Bangkok: The Roles of Thai CSOs in Transnational Knowledge Flows
         Chieh-Ming Lai, University of Sydney

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5.30 - 5.40pm              Closing Remarks: Melissa Curley, University of Queensland