22 Sept - "Thailand's New Government: The Changing Landscape" by Professor Duncan McCargo

SERI-Penang Institute is pleased to invite you to a talk on “Thailand's New Government: The Changing Landscape” by Professor Duncan McCargo. The details are as follows:

Date: 22nd September 2011
Time:  4pm-6pm
Venue: Seminar Room 1 & 2, Level 2, Wawasan Open University

Abstract
The 3 July 2011 General Election in Thailand represented the fifth consecutive general election victory for parties loyal to former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, and are proving a serious challenge to the country's royalist elite to the influential military. In this update, Professor Duncan McCargo will explore the implications both for Thailand's domestic political direction and wider relations with the region.

The Speaker
Duncan McCargo is professor of Southeast Asian politics at the University of Leeds. McCargo is best known for his work on the politics of Thailand. His research has covered electoral politics, the political role of the media, the military and politics, the career of Thaksin Shinawatra, and most recently the ongoing insurgency in Southern Thailand, where he has done extensive fieldwork.

McCargo has published nine books, including The Thaksinization of Thailand (with Ukrist Pathmanand, NIAS 2005), and Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand (Cornell, 2008), which won the inaugural 2009 Bernard Schwartz book Prize from the Asia Society. His new book, Mapping National Anxieties: Thailand's Southern Conflict, is forthcoming from NIAS Press.

Duncan McCargo is in Malaysia as a distinguished visiting professor at College of Law, Government and International Studies (COLGIS), Universiti Utara Malaysia.

We would like to invite representatives from your department to attend the above mentioned talk.  

Kindly revert and register the names/designation/telephone contact of your officials attending the talk by Friday, 16 September 2011.