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SEAC Café

A chance to ask difficult questions, discuss the topics that interest you most and hear more from academics across LSE working on Southeast Asia.

 

The SEAC Café consists of a series of small group sessions over the course of the year giving all LSE students the opportunity to engage with LSE SEAC Associates in an array of fields all focused on the Southeast Asia region.

These sessions are group meetings for open discussion in a more informal setting. Registration is required in advance and group sizes will be limited to ensure discussion topics can be kept relevant to all attendees.

 

Upcoming SEAC Café Sessions

SEAC Café Spring Term 2024 

 

SEAC Cafe with Professor Tim Forsyth

SEAC Café with Prof Tim Forsyth 

** Please note: This session has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for next academic year.  

Please reach out to Prof Tim Forsyth if you would like to set up a meeting. 

 

Poster - SEAC Cafe with Professor Kent Deng

SEAC Café with Prof Kent Deng 

Key Expertise: Economic growth and development, Reforms and modernisation in East Asia, Maritime history of Asia

Date & Time: Thursday 2 May at 12:30pm-1:30pm 

Location: Staff Dining Hall (SDR), Old Building, Floor 5 

Please register here.

 

Poster - SEAC Cafe with Dr Chris Chaplin

SEAC Café with Dr Chris Chaplin 

Key expertise: Religious social movements, Southeast Asia Islam & politics, Migration, Indonesia, Malaysia

Date & Time: Wednesday 8 May at 11:00am-12:00pm 

Location: Sheffield Street, Room: SHF 3.02 

Please register here

 

Poster - SEAC Cafe with Professor John Sidel

SEAC Café with Prof John Sidel 

** Please note: This session has been rescheduled to Wednesday 22 May, 12:30pm to 1:30pm

Key expertise: Southeast Asia, Philippines, Indonesia, Local politics, Policy reform advocacy, Transport/infrastructure 

Date & Time: Wednesday 15 May at 12:30pm-1:30pm 

Location: Staff Dining Hall (SDR), Old Building, Floor 5 

Please register here.

 

Poster - SEAC Cafe with Dr Laura Antona

SEAC Café with Dr Laura Antona

Key Expertise: Migration, violence, domestic labour, home, Southeast Asia  

Date & Time: Thursday 16 May at 10:30am-11:30am 

Location: Sheffield Street, Room: SHF 3.02 

Please register here

 

Poster - SEAC Cafe with Dr Qingfei Yin

SEAC Café with Dr Qingfei Yin 

Key expertise: Cold War, Borderlands, Vietnam, China-Southeast Asia Relations  

Date & Time: Monday 20 May at 12:30pm-1:30pm 

Location: Staff Dining Hall (SDR), Old Building, Floor 5 

Please register here.  

 

SEAC Cafe with Professor Hyun Bang Shin

SEAC Café with Prof Hyun Bang Shin 

Key expertise: Urban Political Economy, Gentrification, Housing, Urbanisation, Southeast Asia, East Asia 

Date & Time: Tuesday 28 May at 12:30pm-1:30pm 

Location: Staff Dining Hall (SDR), Old Building, Floor 5 

Please register here

 

 

  

Past SEAC Café Sessions

SEAC Café Winter Term 2023

SEAC Cafe with Prof Kent Deng

Key Expertise: Economic History, pre-modern and early modern China

Date: 2nd Feb 2023

 

SEAC Cafe with Dr. Qingfei Yin

Key Expertise: International History

Date: 8th Feb 2023

 

SEAC Cafe with Prof Shin, Hyun Bang

Key Expertise: Urbanisation, Gentrification, Housing, Cities, China, Korea, Southeast Asia

Date: 8th March 2023

 

SEAC Cafe with Dr Chris Chaplin

Key Expertise: Maritime Southeast Asia; Indonesia

Date: 8th Mar 2023

 

SEAC Cafe with Prof John Sidel

Key Expertise: International Politics, South-East Asia

Date: 14th Mar 2023

 

SEAC Cafe with Dr Kirsten Schulze

Key Expertise: Militant Islam, Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Southeast Asia

Date: 29th Mar 2023

 


 

SEAC Café Winter Term 2022

Thursday 10th February 11:30 - 12:30

Prof. John Sidel (Government/International Relations)

Area of Expertise: Southeast Asian politics, religion and nationalism

 

Thursday 24th February 11:30 - 12:30

Prof. Hyun Bang Shin (Geography and Environment)

Area of Expertise: Urbanism, Southeast Asian cities, infrastructure, planning and urban development

 

Thursday 3rd March 13:00 - 14:00

Dr. Tom Smith (Geography and Environment)

Area of Expertise: Southeast Asian tropical environmental change, wildfires, agricultural practices and land degradation

 

Thursday 10th March 12:00 - 13:00

Prof. Tim Forsyth (International Development)

Area of Expertise: Southeast Asian politics, environment and development

 

Thursday 17th March 16:00 - 17:00

Prof. James Putzel (International Development)

Area of Expertise: Agrarian reform and comparative politics in Southeast Asia

 

Friday 25th March 15:00 - 16:00

Prof. Kent Deng (Economic History)

Area of Expertise: Economic development in Southeast Asia

 

 


 

SEAC Café Autumn Term 2021

Week 3 - Thursday 14th October 12:00 - 13:00

Prof. Hyun Bang Shin (Geography and Environment)

Area of Expertise: Urbanism, Southeast Asian Cities, Infrastructure, planning and urban development

 

Week 4 - Monday 18th October 15:00 - 16:00

Dr. Tom Smith (Geography and Environment)

Area of Expertise: Southeast Asian tropical environmental change, wildfires, agricultural practices and land degradation

 

Week 5 - Tuesday 26th October 12:00 - 13:00

Prof. John Sidel (Government)

Area of Expertise: Southeast Asian politics, religion and nationalism

 

Week 7 - Wednesday 10th November 10:00 - 11:00

Prof. Tim Forsyth (International Development)

Area of Expertise: Southeast Asian politics, environment and development

 

Week 8 - Friday 19th November 12:00 - 13:00

Prof. James Putzel (International Development)

Area of Expertise: Agrarian reform and comparative politics in Southeast Asia

 

Week 11 - Friday 10th December 15:00 - 16:00

Prof. Kent Deng (Economic History)

Area of Expertise: Economic development in Southeast Asia