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I'm appalled but unfortunately unsurprised to hear that ICE is targeting my neighbors in Rogers Park today. Unidentifiable and unaccountable agents are roaming the streets with their faces covered targeting schools and community centers. It needs to end. Abolish ICE.

Songs Beyond Borders: Thailand and Transnational Musical Connections — New York Southeast Asia Network Join NYSEAN and NYU MAIR for a talk by Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Benjamin Tausig about the way that music features in their new books and how they engage with songs in their various writings. B...

I'll be speaking with @jwassers.bsky.social on Friday, October 3 (3:30pm) at the Wagner School at NYU on the topic of music, Southeast Asia, and transnational aesthetics.

It's a joint book talk! Jeff's is lovely (and available as an audio edition). Come one come all.

www.nysean.org/events/songs...

YouTube video by JSEALab Indonesia in Crisis: Affan Kurniawan, Protest, and a Polity on the Brink

ICYMI, recording of ** Indonesia in Crisis: #AffanKurniawan, Protest, and a Polity on the Brink ** held on 8 September 2025.

Organized and hosted by the Justice in Southeast Asia Lab, SEA Coalition for Academic Freedom and @nysean.bsky.social

ACLS Announces Winners of 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards $50,000 prizes award four open access books in the humanities and fund future open access publications

ACLS is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards. These prizes recognize and reward the authors and publishers of exceptional, innovative, and open access humanities books published from 2018 to 2023: bit.ly/4mS9oDX

Cats belonging to Indonesian politicians are the unexpected symbol of protests Images of these frightened cats rescued by concerned citizens have struck a deep chord in cat-obsessed Indonesia.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Assistant Professor -Modern Southeast Asian Humanities - Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

TT Assistant Professor Position in Modern Southeast Asian Humanities at UC-Berkeley!

Further details below --

To Outlive Tyranny - Dissent Magazine Flesh and blood alone cannot halt the advance of iron and steel. To stop the tanks, we need people to place blocks on the road and throw sand into the gears.

So grateful to write for @dissentmag.bsky.social's Fall 2025 issue "Authoritarianism and Resistance." I drafted the piece in June with the new school year in mind, as an immigrant scholar severed from her homeland: What can we teach the young about how to exist and persist at this historic juncture?

They have just enough (im)plausible deniability here to say that it’s about the Ride of the Valkyries scene from Apocalypse Now but yeah that’s the “game” they are playing

Thailand authorities must immediately drop charges against conscientious objector Ahead of the witness examination and hearing of activist and conscientious objector to military service Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal on 9 September, Amnesty International’s Regional Research Director Mont...

Statement by @amnestyuk.bsky.social supporting Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, Thailand’s first conscientious objector www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne... cc @marcusrediker.bsky.social

Join @jsealab.bsky.social, @nysean.bsky.social and SEACAF for this upcoming webinar:

“ #Indonesia in Crisis: #AffanKurniawan, Protest,and a Polity on the Brink”

📅 Sunday, September 7, 2025
🕗 8 PM CST | 9 PM EST
📅 Monday, September 8, 2025
🕗 8:00 AM ICT | 11 AM AEST

🔗 Register : bit.ly/4ncNJpT

A new translation from JSEALab breaks down the process of remilitarization in Indonesia which has led to civil unrest this week & the death of an innocent food delivery driver, Affan Kurniawan.

bit.ly/4naCIp7 

#polisiindonesia #JusticeForAffan #BubarkanDPR #affankurniawan #indonesiagelap #demodpr

New #JusticeinTranslation from the @jsealab.bsky.social on #AffanKurniawan in #Indonesia!

** Justice for Affan Kurniawan: The First Civilian Casualty of the Remilitarization of Indonesia, a collection of documents introduced and translated by Christopher Hulshof. **

Read/Download: bit.ly/4naCIp7

A few decades ago, when the study of transitions to democracy rather than away from it occupied the attention of political scientists, one would occasionally encounter an apparent paradox. Consider Mexico’s slow exit from a complicated single-party autocracy under the Partido Revolucionario Institucional. The PRI lost control of Congress for the first time in almost seventy years in 1997. But no one was certain if the country met the standard to be called a democracy until the PRI also accepted its loss in the presidential elections of 2000. Only at that point did it seem reasonable to say that Mexico probably was a democracy in 1997 too. That process is now playing out in reverse around the globe. Core components of democracy are being lost, but people often don’t know what kind of system they are in at any given moment. That suspension between states may only be revealed by future events.

The fall issue of Dissent, with a special section on Authoritarianism and Resistance, is off to the presses and will be in mailboxes soon. My editor's note contains this observation about our suspension of states between authoritarianism and democracy

Contributors to the RAINSTORM feature so far: www.facebook.com/media/set?va...

Powerful and urgent zine from @focussouth.bsky.social on #care and #resistance in #socialmovements. Available in multiple languages! Download the zine here:
www.agrowingculture.org/care-and-res...

Howling Memories | Los Angeles Review of Books Rhoda Kwan reviews two newly translated novels reckoning with China’s bloody past, Fang Fang’s “Soft Burial” and Tsering Döndrup’s “The Red Wind Howls.”

2 review essays on fictional works set in Asia came out in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social this week: Darran Wan's on 2 novels about Southeast Asia lareviewofbooks.org/article/emer... & Rhoda Kwan's on Fang Fang's Soft Burial & Tsering Döndrup’s The Red Wind Howls lareviewofbooks.org/article/howl...

Free to Think Podcast | Scholars at Risk Subscribe: Season 5: Episode 44: “Somebody wanted me in prison…” Paul Chambers and Tyrell Haberkorn on laws silencing scholars in Thailand Dr. Tyrell Haberkorn and Dr. Paul Chambers join Free to Think...

Listen to Scholars at Risk's latest 'Free to Think' podcast about academic freedom in Thailand and the targeting of Dr. Paul Chambers under the country's draconian lèse majesté law --

www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/po...

“How does a communist guerilla in one of the Cold War’s forgotten battlefields regain his footing at the end of history?” Darren Wan reviews "Delicious Hunger" by Hai Fan and "State of Emergency" by Jeremy Tiang. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/emergency-unending/

Upcoming @getsea.bsky.social minicourse on "Global Zomias: Highland Southeast Asia"!

Priority for graduate students in Southeast Asian Studies, but open beyond also --

Full syllabus available here: tinyurl.com/55jf69s5

Applications are available here: tinyurl.com/44ms234z

Rethinking Social Movements.Indonesian Studies talk coming up on Tuesday morning (EST) and Tuesday evening (ICT)! Details below --

I was very moved by my conversation with @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social...

He fled Boko Haram and helped build an award-winning restaurant. Now he’s facing deportation. Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention feels like "a second kidnapping," says his sister.

Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister.

“I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"

Rising number of doctors among hundreds of medical staff detained in Gaza, say rights groups Detention of Dr Marwan al-Hams by Israeli undercover unit on Monday takes number of doctors being held to 28, says Healthcare Workers Watch

Rising number of doctors among hundreds of medical staff detained in Gaza, say rights groups

Polishing Off Populism in Authoritarian Thailand | Journal of Democracy Thailand’s current crisis may finally end the cycle of populism and polarization that has crippled its democratic aspirations. But it is also revealing that there are far worse forces undermining Thai...

Thailand's current crisis may finally end the cycle of populism and polarization that has crippled the country's democratic aspirations. But it is also revealing that there are far worse forces undermining Thai democracy.

@dnsltr.bsky.social explains: www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...

Polishing Off Populism in Authoritarian Thailand | Journal of Democracy Thailand’s current crisis may finally end the cycle of populism and polarization that has crippled its democratic aspirations. But it is also revealing that there are far worse forces undermining Thai...

Notable new piece by @dnsltr.bsky.social‬ just out in @jodemocracy.bsky.social /provides a nuanced though brief sketch of Thailand's turbulent political history--& has astute comments on implications of the Thai story for thinking about global trends www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...

ด้วยความคิดถึง ความคิดถึงไม่มีที่ไป แต่ไม่เคยหายไปจากใจ ความคิดถึงมันไม่ได้ดังพอให้ใครได้ยิน แต่ก็หนักพอที่อยู่กับเราไปนานแสนนาน มันเป็นนักซ่อนที่เก่งกาจ ซ่อนอยู่ในชื่อที่ไม่กล้าเอ่ย ซ่อนอยู่ในรูปภาพที่ไม่กล้าลบ ซ่อนอยู่ในสถานที่ที่ไม่กล้าไป ซ่อนอยู่ในใจที่ไม่กล้าลืม ความคิดถึงมักติดอยู่ที่เดิม ๆ ที่ ๆ เราไม่เคยกล้าเดินไปจากมันจริง ๆ นิทรรศการด้วยความคิดถึง ขออุทิศพื้นที่นี้ให้ความคิดถึงของคุณได้มีที่อยู่สักครั้ง ขออุทิศแด่มนุษย์ผู้กำลังคิดถึงใครบางคน เร็ว ๆ นี้ 03.08.2025 - 17.08.2025 Kinjai Contemporary ”Dedicated to those who are missing someone.“

New event
📆3rd - 17th Aug
📍 Kinjai Contemporary, Bangkok

Thumb Rights hold new exhibition "ด้วยความคิดถึง / With Longing" Dedicated to all who are missing someone.

Details:
www.instagram.com/p/DMaTdYhpeaG

#WithLonging
#ดวยความคิดถึง
#thumbrights

The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing Why are activists in Thailand, Hong Kong and Burma willing to court danger to help one another? Historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom met dozens of dissidents, including Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, known for hi...

Looking forward to returning to @cwclub.bsky.social on July 30. Details here www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-... . This event in SF is being put on in association with @dissentmag.bsky.social which recently ran Ross Perlin's interview w/me about the book www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Liang Qichao: Reformer or Revolutionary? | China Books Review The legacy of the late Qing era intellectual, once exiled in Japan, is overlooked in the West. A new collection of his essays shows a revolutionary spirit that is still alive in dissidents abroad toda...

I wrote about Liang Qichao as a thinker, reformer, exile & influence on Mao & Lu Xun & others for @chinabksreview.bsky.social (thanks at @alexludoboyd.bsky.social for the well thought out initial big edits & @alecash.net for the good final polishing ones) chinabooksreview.com/2025/07/17/l...