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Benedict Anderson 1st Anniversary Memorial Roundtable

Nationalism, Citizenship and Statelessness: Current Issues and Developments in Asia On 18 January 2017, Asia Centre will be convening the Benedict Anderson 1st Anniversary Memorial Roundtable to discuss contemporary issues surrounding nationalism, citizenship and statelessness across Asia. Nationalism remains a powerful force in current times as it fuels growth from the 54 states of UN […]

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Asia Centre Launches International Faculty Club

  On 12 May 2017, Asia Centre launched the International Faculty Club (IFC) with some 40 academics, researchers and graduate students in attendance.   The event filled a gap in the Bangkok social landscape that brought together people across different tertiary institutions allowing those from diverse academic disciplines to dialogue, share innovative ideas and forge […]

Conference Report – International Conference on National Human Rights Institutions in Southeast Asia: Challenges of Protection

An effective national human rights institution(NHRI) requires a creative, purposive interpretation of the mandate, and a proactive approach to implementation, this was one of the key takeaways from Asia Centre’s International Conference on National Human Rights Institutions in Southeast Asia: Challenges of Protection held on 13 and 14 July at the Centre’s premises in Bangkok, […]

Innovative Research on Display at Asia Centre’s 3rd IFC

Four speakers came forward to share their research interests in their respective fields at AsiaCentre's third International Faculty Club (IFC) Night. They spoke on a variety of topics, including niche areas such as on representations of Tibetan Buddhism in contemporary China, women's entrepreneurship and digital technologies and linguistics.   Jingyu (Forrest) Huang, introduced his study on a three-dimensional Buddhist […]

Asia Centre’s 3rd Anniversary – Nite for Rights

    On 22 June 2018, Asia Centre will celebrate its third anniversary, dubbed Nite for Rights. We warmly invite you to join our event to celebrate advocacy and activism in the region! Program: 1. Book Launch: Asia Centre's new publication The Universal Periodic Review of Southeast Asia: Civil Society Perspectives 2. Malaysia Election roundtable 3. Announcement […]

International Conference on Business and Human Rights: Holding Governments Accountable in Asia

With increasing attention to business and human rights, this conference takes a critical look at the standards and practices on business and human rights in Asia. In particular it seeks to examine if this current interest in business and human rights conveniently ignores the civil and political violations by the State and its responsibility to […]