Southeast Asianists: Scholarly Profile – Trailer

The ANU Southeast Asia Institute is proud to launch our original eight-episode interview series titled Southeast Asianists: Scholarly Profiles, which will be available on our website on 7 September. Southeast Asianists offers rare insights into how established scholars approach their works.

Join us for the launch.

Date: Thursday 7 September 2023
Time: 3-4.30pm followed by light refreshments
Venue: Hedley Bull Theatre 2, Level 1, Hedley Bull Building, 130 Garran Road, ANU, ACTON, ACT 2601

Hosted and produced by Emir Syailendra, Southeast Asianists: Scholarly Profiles interview scholars and intellectual policymakers who have spent numerous years working and contributing to our understanding of Southeast Asia as a region. Hosted and produced by Emir Syailendra, this limited series profiled eight scholars who have spent numerous years contributing to our understanding of Southeast Asia as a region, namely: Prof Evelyn Goh, Prof Anthony Milner, Prof Khong Yuen Foong, Prof Cheng-Chwee Kuik, Dr Rizal Sukma, Prof Robert Cribb, Prof Virginia M Hooker, and Prof Anthony Reid.

Emir is a PhD Candidate at the Strategic and Defence Study Center at the Australian National University. Emir is inherently curious about the process that drives scholars to produce their groundbreaking works. In this series, he asks insightful questions to understand better what drives the Southeast Asianists into the field, their interactions with their environment as they conduct fieldwork, their writing process, their struggles, and what thoughts often keep them from sleeping at night when thinking about the region.