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Professor Mark R. Thompson (Department of Asian and International Studies (AIS); Director, Southeast Asia Research Centre (SEARC); City University of Hong Kong) will be talking about "Democracy and its Discontents in Southeast Asia" as part of the University's Colloquium Politicum

With SPOTLIGHT, the Colloquium politicum wants to specifically highlight programs and interdisciplinary research with an international focus and outreach. As regards Southeast Asia, the University of Freiburg pursues an interdisciplinary concept of research. In the frame of the Southeast Asian Studies Programme, national and international guest scholars regularly present their findings and discuss current issues.

This colloquium will be presented by Michael Ewing-Chow, Associate Professor and WTO Chair in the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore.

27 May (Monday), 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM, Werthmannstr. 10 - Institut für Ethnologie Seminarraum

ROOM CHANGED! NEW ROOM: 1023 (KG I) ---------------- This colloquium will be presented by Prof. James J. Fox from the Crawford School of Public Policy in Australia National University's College of Asia & the Pacific. James Fox is a Professor of Resource Management in the Asia-Pacific Program (RMAP) and the Director of the ANU Korea Institute.

Leading international scholars will join us in this second conference organized by the Southeast Asian Studies Program at the University of Freiburg. Please contact us if you are interested to participate as a guest.

The current worldwide resurgence of religion goes hand in hand with new religious practices, forms of articulation and mass mediatization as well as idiosyncratic references to the past. This interdisciplinary conference will focus on the popularization of religions in Europe, Asia and the transcultural, global space. We are especially interested in the interconnection between the making of religion, tradition and the popular.