Past Events at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies
October 2010
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Friday, October 22nd The Political Economy of Financial Development in Southeast Asia
Date Time Location Friday, October 22, 2010 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 208N, MunkSchool of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Southeast Asia Seminar Series
Description
Financial systems are central to the orderly function of modern capitalist economies, yet the financial systems of most emerging market economies remain underdeveloped, fragile, and subject to exploitation by economic and political elites. This paper explores the political origins–and the political consequences–of financial development in Southeast Asia. Recognizing that financial development can be both politically useful and politically threatening, it demonstrates how the postcolonial regimes of Southeast Asia created different kinds of financial systems that were designed to support different kinds of political systems. The various kinds of postcolonial challenges facing these countries accordingly shaped their subsequent trajectories of financial development. These findings have important consequences for our understanding of the origins of financial systems in emerging economies, and speak to fundamental debates about the role of the state in economic development.
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Thomas Pepinsky is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University, where he is also the Director of the International Political Economy Program and Associate Director of the Cornell Modern Indonesia Project. His research focuses on comparative politics and international political economy, with a focus on emerging markets in Southeast Asia. He is the author of Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes (Cambridge University Press, 2009), as well as articles in World Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Studies in Comparative International Development, Journal of Democracy, Journal of East Asian Studies, and several other journals and edited volumes. His current research focuses on comparative responses to the Great Meltdown of 2008-09, the financial politics in emerging economies, and political Islam and the economy in Indonesia.
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Friday, October 29th The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum: Legacies, Appellations, Justice
Date Time Location Friday, October 29, 2010 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Southeast Asia Seminar Series
Description
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, was established on the site of of S-21, a former Khmer Rouge security prison where more than 14 000 prisoners were interrogated prior to their execution in the nearby killing fields of Cheoung Ek. This illustrated presentation will look at the evolution of the Tuol Sleng Museum, from the immediate post-Khmer Rouge period (1979-1981), whose permanent exhibition is informed by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, to the present day, where recent exhibitions focus on more individuating portraits of victims and perpetrators, and on notions of justice, particularly as they relate to The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), the current trials of senior Khmer Rouge leaders. A detailed look at the content and form of the permanent and temporary exhibitions at S-21 will reveal how the representational legacies of the Holocaust and the pursuit of accountability are displayed and expressed.
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Carla Shapiro is an Asian Institute Research Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. She received her PhD in Media and Cultural Studies from The University of Sussex and her Master of Museum Studies from the University of Toronto. While locating her SSHRC-supported research primarily in the field of Holocaust Studies, her writings reflect an interest in genocide, human rights and social justice and their nexus in contemporary culture. Of particular interest is the efficacy of museum, gallery and community-space exhibitions as points of embarkation for historical learning and commemorative practices. She is also an independent curator whose praxis involves artistic and museological approaches to visualizing the experiences of survivors of gross human rights abuses.
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