Historical Treaties of Southeast Asia

The Treaty Origins of the Cambodia-Thailand Conflict - New Blog Post by Stefan Amirell

The Treaties and Origins of the Cambodia-Thailand Border Dispute Ever since Cambodia became independent in 1953, its border with Thailand has been contested, the ancient Hindu temple Preah Vihear (or Phra Wihan in Thai) being a particular source of discord. To understand the present conflict, it is necessary to look at two treaties concluded in 1904 and 1907.

Two new events coming up!

On the 13th and 14th of November, respectively, we are happy to announce a seminar as well as a lecture held at Leiden University by several members of the Historical Treaties of Southeast Asia program!

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Events

Guest blog!

Professor Isaac Donoso from the University of Alicante writes about Islamic courts in the Southern Philippines, Moro historical diplomacy and the concept of "Bichara".

Read more over at: https://sea-treaties.org/index.php/blog/pandita-bichara-and-moro-historical-diplomacy

Reminder!

Don't miss the online seminar with Elsa Clavé (Hamburg University) on "Boundaries and land rights in treaties and land deeds in the Malay world (18th -19th centuries)."

Friday 17 May 2024, 13:15−15:00 (CET, UTC+2)

Pre-registration required.

Online Seminar: Boundaries and land rights in treaties and In the Malay world, the European presence and the conclusion of treaties have often been synonymous with territorial demarcations to delimit the spheres of influence of the various powers. These treaties address the issue of territorial sovereignty, which remains difficult to define and understand l...

New Blog Post!

This time it is our Principal Investigator, Stefan Amirell, who writes about a bicentennial anniversary worth taking note of this year.

Read more over at: https://sea-treaties.org/index.php/blog/the-1824-treaty-of-london-and-the-division-of-the-malay-world

Come work at the research centre we are affiliated with!

LNUC Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies announces 2-4 short-term positions (up to three months) during the autumn for the purpose of developing a research project idea into a full application.

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Vacancies page Here you will find all available positions at Linnaeus University. To easily find jobs that suit you, you can choose where in the organisation you want to work, under Organisational affiliation. Then click on Apply at the bottom of the advertisement and follow the instructions. You can also subscrib...

Thank you, co-organizers, participants, and visitors for your contributions to our recently concluded conference on ‘Treaty Making & Cross-Cultural Diplomacy in Asia (16th-20th Centuries)’, held in Manila at the beginning of March.

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Conference Report for Treaty Making and Cross-Cultural Diplomacy in Asia (16th-20th centuries) The first international conference organized by the research program Historical Treaties of Southeast Asia under the auspices of Stefan Eklöf Amirell and Ariel Lopez, financed by the Swedish Research Council, was held at the College of Law at the University of the Philippines Diliman in Manila bet...

We are delighted to present the online seminar series
"Treaties & Empire" for the spring semester of 2024!

4 seminars have been added, see them all on our website: https://sea-treaties.org/index.php/events

Please note that pre-registration is required.

Events

Online seminar!

On 19 December Tristan Mostert (Leiden University) will talk about protection-tribute treaties in the eastern archipelago in the early 17th century.

The seminar is held on zoom, pre registration required.

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Online Seminar: Round and about Banda: protection-tribute Presenter: Tristan Mostert (Leiden University). The role of diplomacy and treaty-making in early European colonialism has long been an issue of interest to historians, and the eastern archipelago has provided a particularly rich ground for its study. As the VOC and some of its predecessors tried to....

New blog post!

Hans Hägerdal writes about "Colonialism, Slavery and Local Histories in Early Modern Asia".

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Colonialism, Slavery and Local Histories in Early Modern Asia For several hundred years after 1498, seafaring European powers developed and co-opted a complicated network of commercial relations along the coastlands of the Indian Ocean World and Asia. For the most part, they did not open up new waterways but took advantage of existing systems of trade and exch...

Program member Maarten Manse's research project on Southeast Asian perspectives on British and Dutch colonialism has been funded! It will be closely associated with Historical Treaties of Southeast Asia.

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Southeast Asian perspectives on British and Dutch colonialism: New research project Historical Treaties of Southeast Asia program member Maarten Manse has been awarded a three-year project grant by the Swedish Research Council to explore the role of Southeast Asian actors in British and Dutch colonialism in the region.

Join the second installment of our zoom-based seminar series on Treaties and Empire!

On October 24, Saliha Belmessous will talk about Treaties and Indigenous Rights in Settler Colonies.

Preregistration required.

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Online Seminar: Treaties and Indigenous Rights in Settler Presenter: Saliha Belmessous (Oxford University). This paper examines the role of treaties in establishing the rights of Indigenous peoples in settler colonies, focusing on Canada and Australia in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In Canada, where Indigenous peoples and Europeans had mad...