2024 GRADNAS Seminar Series
The GRADNAS Seminar Series in 2024 will showcase the emerging scholarship on the historical International Relations of Asia. There has been a “global” and a “historical” turn in International Relations scholarship in recent years. Scholars are increasingly looking at Asian history to enrich International Relations theory. What are the theoretical insights that emerge from studying Asian history? Does Asian history provide us with new concepts and new understandings of order? Does Asian history challenge the received metanarratives of International Relations theory? How were historical Asian polities connected with each other and with the world beyond Asia? Can the International Relations theoretical findings from Asian history shed light on other parts of the world? What, if anything, do these findings tell us about the emerging world order? Join us as we celebrate and showcase the excellent research by GRADNAS members and friends on the Historical International Relations of Asia.
Events
April 26, 2024 | 12 pm (AEST) | Seminar: Interconnected Asian History and “Open” World
Orders
Speaker: Manjeet S. Pardesi (Associate Professor and Head of Programme: Department of
Political Science and International Relations , Victoria University of Wellington)
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April 20, 2023 | 10 am (AEST) | Panel Discussion: China’s economic statecraft as a tool of international influence
Chair: Evelyn Goh (Professor: Strategic & Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University)
Speakers:
Taylor Fravel (Professor: Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Alvin Camba (Assistant Professor: Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver)
Emirza Adi Syailendra (PhD Candidate: Strategic & Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University)
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May 24, 2023| 12 pm (AEST) | Panel Discussion: Power and Ideas in Global Order
Chair: Amy King (Associate Professor: Strategic & Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University)
Speakers:
Manjeet Pardesi (Senior Lecturer: Victoria University of Wellington)
Na Young Lee (PhD Candidate: Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California)
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June 16, 2023| 10.30 am (AEST) | Book Discussion: State Formation through Emulation- The East Asian Model (CUP, 2022)
Authors: Chin Hao Huang (Associate Professor: Political Science and Head of Studies (Global Affairs, National University of Singapore)
David Kang (Maria Crutcher Professor of International Relations, University of Southern California)
Discussant: Natasha Hamilton-Hart (Director: New Zealand Asia Institute, University of Auckland)
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July 18, 2023| 6 pm (AEST) | Panel Discussion: Rising Powers and international order
Chair: Courtney J. Fung (Associate Professor: Department of Security Studies and Criminology, Macquarie University)
Speakers:
Hoo Tiang Boon (Associate Professor, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore)
Ronan Tse-min Fu (Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica
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August 22, 2023| 9.30 am (AEST) | Book Discussion: Reliability and Alliance Interdependence:
The United States and Its Allies in Asia, 1949-1969 (Cornell University Press, 2022)
Author: Iain Henry (Senior Lecturer: Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University)
Discussant: Fiona Cunningham (Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania)
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September 20, 2023| 11 am (AEST) | Panel Discussion: Middle powers and multilateralism
Chair: Dylan Loh (Assistant Professor - Public Policy and Global affairs program, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Speakers:
Alex Yu-Ting Lin (Senior Research Fellow and Assistant Director, University of Notre Dame’s International Security Center)
Yusuke Ishihara (Senior Fellow, National Institute for Defence Studies (NIDS), Ministry of Defence, Japan
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October 24, 2023| 11 am (AEDT) | Panel Discussion: China and the Region
Chair and Speaker: Chanintira na Thalang (Associate Professor, Thammasat University, Thailand)
Speakers:
Wen-Qing Ngoei (Associate Professor of History, College of Integrative Studies, Singapore Management University)
Ketian Vivian Zhang (Assistant Professor, Schar School of Policy and Government
George Mason University)
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November 22, 2023| 7 pm (AEDT) | Panel Discussion: Intersections between the Domestic and the International
Chair and Speaker: Rosemary Foot (Emeritus professor - Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University)
Speakers:
Michael Magcamit (Lecturer - Global Politics, Politics Department, The University of Manchester)
Catherine Jones (Lecturer - University of St. Andrews)
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