Reconsidering Southeast Asia: Issues and Prospects | Southeast Asia Program’s 25th Anniversary Conference

8:00 - 8:30 a.m.
Registration

8:30 - 9:00 a.m.
Opening Session

Welcome Remarks
Gi-Wook Shin
Director of Shorenstein APARC

Opening Remarks
Don Emmerson
Director of the Southeast Asia Program, Shorenstein APARC

9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
The “Anthropocene” in Southeast Asia: Two Rivers

Panelists
James Scott
Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science; Acting Director of Agrarian Studies, Professor Emeritus, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Department of Anthropology, and Institute for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University (Zoom)

Brian Eyler
Senior Fellow and Director, Southeast Asia Program; Energy, Water, and Sustainability Program; Stimson Center

Moderator 
Rebakah Daro Minarchek
Assistant Teaching Professor, Integrated Social Sciences, University of Washington

10:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Coffee and Tea Break
        

10:45 - 12:15 p.m.
Geopolitics and U.S. Policy in Southeast Asia

Panelists            
Yuen Foong Khong
Co-Director of the Centre on Asia and Globalization and Li Ka Shing Professor in Political Science, National University of Singapore

Scot Marciel
Former U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar, Indonesia, and ASEAN and Oksenberg-Rohlen Fellow at Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University

Elina Noor
Director of Political-Security Affairs and Deputy Director of the Washington, D.C. Office, Asia Society Policy Institute

Gregory B. Poling
Senior Fellow/Director, Southeast Asia Program & Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Moderator 
Don Emmerson
Director of the Southeast Asia Program, Shorenstein APARC

12:15 -1:00 p.m.
Lunch Break

1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Lee Kong Chian NUS - Stanford Fellowship on Southeast Asia: Looking Back and Forward 

Panelists
Jacques Bertrand
Professor of Political Science, the University of Toronto; Director of the Collaborative Master’s Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies (Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Affairs) 

Paul Schuler
Associate Professor, University of Arizona School of Government and Public Policy

Gerald Sim
Professor of film and media studies at Florida Atlantic University and LKC Fellow 2016-17

Mark Thompson
Chair Professor of Political Science, Department of Public & International Affairs (PIA) and Director, Southeast Asia Research Centre (SEARC), City University of Hong Kong 

David Timberman
Independent Analyst and Consultant; Former Director of Asia Programs, Freedom House

Angie Ngoc Tran
Professor of Political Economy, Department of Social Sciences and Global Studies, California State University, Monterey Bay

Moderator 
Robert Hefner
Professor, Department of Anthropology and the Pardee School of Global Affairs, Boston University

2:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Coffee and Tea Break

2:45 - 4:15 p.m.        
Gender Inequality in Southeast Asia: Causes, Consequences, Solutions

Panelists
Mina Roces
Professor of History in the School of Humanities and Languages in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, The University of New South Wales

Mala Htun
Professor of Political Science, the University of New Mexico

Moderator 
Barbara Watson Andaya
Professor in the Asian Studies Program and former Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

4:15 - 4:30 p.m.
Coffee and Tea Break

4:30 - 5:45 p.m.
The Future of Southeast Asia

Gita Wirjawan
Minister of Trade of Republic of Indonesia (2011-2014); APARC Visiting Scholar (2022-2024)

Richard Heydarian
Senior Lecturer, Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City; Manila-based scholar and columnist.

5:45 - 6:00 p.m.
Closing Session

Closing Remarks
Don Emmerson
Director of the Southeast Asia Program, Shorenstein APARC