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Southeast Asian Studies
Interviews with scholars of Southeast Asia about their new books hosted by Nick Cheesman, Michele Ford, Patrick Jory, Duncan McCargo and Natali Pearson.
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October 3, 2026
The Colombo Plan
Conceived in 1950, the Colombo Plan for Co-operative Development in South and Southeast Asia was a unique experiment in foreign relations. Meeting ann…
October 1, 2026
The Range of the River
Six great Asian river systems have their origins in the Tibetan glacial region: the Brahmaputra, the Irrawaddy, the Salween, the Mekong, the Red and t…
September 24, 2026
The New Geography of Innovation
Increasingly, it seems like the corporate names that dominate headlines are much more diverse than they used to be. Samsung, TSMC, and SK Hynix. Aliba…
September 22, 2026
WWII in East Timor
WWII in East Timor: An Australian Army Site and Travel Guide (2/2 Commando Association of Australia, 2024) is an overdue addition to the history of a …
September 16, 2026
Beauty and the Nation
During the interwar years, Vietnamese society witnessed a rapid change in the way women looked. Rejecting the model of a sequestered maiden with black…
September 15, 2026
The Precarious Past in Premodern Java
The practice of history in premodern Java was profoundly influenced by precarious conditions of textual production and preservation: fragile manuscrip…
September 14, 2026
Domesticating Brown
This episode features a conversation with Dr. Christopher B. Patterson, Professor of the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbi…
September 5, 2026
Mass Expulsion
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, governments around the world have expelled, en masse, more than 30 million people. Yet despite its preva…
September 3, 2026
178 Done in a Day with the Vietnam War (JP)
Elisa Tamarkin, an English prof of high repute (Anglophilia and Apropos of Something: A History of Irrelevance and Relevance) at UC Berkeley, joins RT…
September 1, 2026
In the Shadow of the Khmer Rouge
As a child, Lim Muy Lang grew up in a prosperous Sino-Khmer family in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. When the Khme…
August 31, 2026
Paul Chambers
In this episode of Talking Thai Politics, Dr Paul Chambers, talks about his new book, Praetorian Kingdom: A History of Military Ascendancy in Thailand…
August 29, 2026
Savage
Savage: The Making of Modern Dogs in British Hong Kong (Cornell University Press, 2026) explores the dark side of colonial modernity through canin…
August 22, 2026
The Emergence of International Health Policy in Southeast Asia, India, and Sri Lanka, 1937–1978
Examining the emergence of international public health policy between the 1930s and 80s, The Emergence of International Health Policy in Southeast Asi…
August 19, 2026
Routes of Taiwan Tea
From misty mountain oolongs to the global boba boom, Taiwan’s teas carry far more than flavor. They embody contested borders, evolving identities, and…
August 17, 2026
Decolonial Endurance
A series of questions have been sparked by the indigenous urgency of the moment: What does it mean to live through a world coming undone? How do peopl…
August 15, 2026
Land of Famished Beings
In Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger (Duke UP, 2025), Sophie Chao examines how Indigenous Marind communities understand and theo…
August 13, 2026
The MANTRAMS Project and Digital Mantra Research
Every day, tens of millions of people use mantras all around the globe. Originating in South Asia and then spreading via practitioners, texts, rituals…
July 16, 2026
The Man Who Stole the Gods
On June 10, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York returned two pieces of artwork to Cambodia: an Angkor statue and a sandstone lintel. It’s the l…
June 30, 2026
Domestic Nationalism
In her most recent publication, Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health, and Modernity in Indonesia (Stanford UP, 2025), Chiara Formichi argues tha…
June 23, 2026
Infrastructure, Nickel, and the Politics of Polyalignment in Indonesia
Indonesia is often framed as a key arena of China-Japan-US competition in the Second Cold War. In this episode, we talk with Trissia Wijaya about her …