2023 GRADNAS Seminar Series
The GRADNAS Seminar series will showcase the cutting-edge academic research on Asian security by GRADNAS members. It presents an exciting opportunity for research exchange involving the network, providing a regular occasion for GRADNAS scholars to share and receive feedback on their ongoing and published research. Join us as we celebrate and showcase the excellent research by GRADNAS members and friends.
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Events
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February 21, 2023 | 7 pm (AEDT) | Book Discussion: Ascending Order: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions (CUP, 2022)
Author: Rohan Mukherjee (Assistant Professor: Department of International Relations, London School of Economics)
Discussant: Darren Lim (Senior Lecturer: School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University)
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April 20, 2023 | 10 am (AEST) | Panel Discussion: China’s economic statecraft as a tool of international influence
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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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