Symposium on Political Economy of Occupation, Colonialism, and Conflict in Palestine This panel draws on contributions to the symposium Political Economy of Occupation, Colonialism, and Conflict in Palestine published in the Review of Radical Political Economics.
Financial Policy in the Era of the Climate Crisis: An African Perspective Based on her experience as a central banker and banking sector supervisor, Fundi Tshazibana outlines key challenges that climate change poses for central banks and the financial sector.
France’s Imagined Mission in the Levant: Louis IX’s Crusade in Religious, Colonial, and Nationalist Discourses (1693–2025) This paper investigates how the figure of Louis IX (Saint Louis; d.1270) was reimagined from the eighteenth century to the present in order to frame France’s role in the Eastern Mediterranean.
A Persian Archive of Early Modern Diplomacy: Letters and Emissaries between Golkonda and Isfahan This talk discusses select episodes in diplomatic exchange between the Safavid empire in Iran and the Quṭb Shāhī sultanate of Golkonda in the Deccan (peninsular southern India) in the first half of the seventeenth century.
Resurfacing Southeast Asia in Hong Kong photo periodicals This sharing session resurfaces the connection between Southeast Asia and Hong Kong in co-producing the national and Sinophone cultures across the region.
Plundering Security? The Evolution of Khaki Capital in Contemporary Thailand Security forces tend to enjoy a monopoly over violence within any given state. In some states, such as Thailand, they are also leading political and economic actors. Thus, military finance or “khaki capital” is of paramount importance. Using the framework of Historical Institutionalism, this study scrutinizes the path-dependent evolution of khaki capital over time in Thailand.
A Drunken Bee – Sunthorn Phu and the Buddhist landscapes of early Bangkok Sunthorn Phu (1786–1855) is an unlikely figure through which to understand nineteenth-century Buddhism in Siam. Despite being described as a “drunken writer” by the court astrologer after his death, he is now the national poet of Thailand. In this talk, Paul Lewis McBain shall explain how his newly-published book A Drunken Bee argues that the irreverent, rebellious, and parodic voice of Sunthorn Phu is an invaluable resource for understanding the Buddhism of early Bangkok.