Traditional Medicine in Laos (with Elizabeth Elliott and Ounkham Souksavanh)
Traditional Medicine in Laos (with Elizabeth Elliott and Ounkham Souksavanh)
Dr. Pierce Salguero sits down with two guests, Ounkham Souksavanh and Elizabeth Elliott, to talk about community engagem... Read more
8 Aug 2023
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49mins
Cause Lawyering and Human Rights in Indonesia
Cause Lawyering and Human Rights in Indonesia
Why have issues of human rights become so contentious in Indonesia, 25 years after the much-heralded post-Suharto democr... Read more
4 Aug 2023
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22mins
Marnie Feneley, "Reconstructing God: Style, Hydraulics, Political Power and Angkor's West Mebon Visnu" (National U of Singapore Press, 2023)
Marnie Feneley, "Reconstructing God: Style, Hydraulics, Political Power and Angkor's West Mebon Visnu" (National U of Singapore Press, 2023)
In December 1936, a villager was led by a dream to the ruins of the West Mebon shrine in Angkor where he uncovered remai... Read more
1 Aug 2023
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47mins
Helen Ting M. H. and Donald L. Horowitz, "Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia" (NIAS, 2022)
Helen Ting M. H. and Donald L. Horowitz, "Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia" (NIAS, 2022)
Why is Malaysia in need of electoral reform? How can we explain recent changes including the anti-party hopping law and ... Read more
21 Jul 2023
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35mins
Jenna Grant, "Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Jenna Grant, "Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Jenna Grant is a cultural anthropologist from the University of Washington and author of Fixing the Image: Ultrasound an... Read more
15 Jul 2023
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44mins
Callie Wilkinson, "Empire of Influence: The East India Company and the Making of Indirect Rule" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Callie Wilkinson, "Empire of Influence: The East India Company and the Making of Indirect Rule" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Indirect rule is widely considered as a defining feature of the nineteenth and twentieth century British Empire but its ... Read more
14 Jul 2023
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40mins
Ethnicity and Nation-Building in Myanmar
Ethnicity and Nation-Building in Myanmar
Did the bloody 1 February 2021 military coup in Myanmar produce an unexpected ‘solidarity dividend’ by unifying opponent... Read more
14 Jul 2023
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25mins
Is Laos a Criminal State?: Kearrin Sims on the Current Status of Laos
Is Laos a Criminal State?: Kearrin Sims on the Current Status of Laos
There is a growing list of human rights abuses and acts of violence against those who have sought to promote political t... Read more
13 Jul 2023
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33mins
Anne Giblin Gedacht, "Tōhoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan" (Brill, 2022)
Anne Giblin Gedacht, "Tōhoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan" (Brill, 2022)
Anne Giblin Gedacht’s Tōhoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan (Brill, 2022) centers c... Read more
11 Jul 2023
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1hr 7mins
Radhika Seshan and Ryuto Shimada, "Connecting the Indian Ocean World: Across Sea and Land" (Routledge, 2023)
Radhika Seshan and Ryuto Shimada, "Connecting the Indian Ocean World: Across Sea and Land" (Routledge, 2023)
The Indian Ocean world has a rich history of socio-economic and cultural exchanges across time and space. Connecting the... Read more
2 Jul 2023
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52mins