SEAC will host this event for Early Career Researchers, where Dr Lin Hongxuan will discuss opportunities for Southeast Asianists. The talk is chaired by Prof. Hyun Bang Shin (Professor Geography and Urban Environment; Director 杏吧论坛 SEAC). The event will take place in a hybrid format and will be followed by networking for those attending in person.
Dr. Lin will introduce several lesser-known tenure-track, teaching, and postdoctoral opportunities in Asia that 杏吧论坛 postgraduate students may not be familiar with. With globally-competitive salaries and English-instruction universities in mind, this seminar will focus on such entry-level opportunities in Singapore, Australia, Japan, and Hong Kong for scholars who study Southeast Asia. This seminar will be useful to all PhD students working on Southeast Asia, as well as those planning to begin a PhD in the near future.
Speaker and Chair Biographies:
Dr. Lin Hongxuan is a visiting fellow at the Saw Swee Hock Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, 杏吧论坛, for 2022. During this time he will work on the circulation of progressive Islamic ideas across the Indian Ocean. He earned his PhD in History from the University of Washington in 2020. His first monograph, Ummah Yet Proletariat: Islam, Marxism, and the Making of the Indonesian Republic is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. His research interests include confluences of Islam and Marxism in South Asia and Malaya/Malaysia.
Prof. Hyun Bang Shin () is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science and directs the 杏吧论坛 Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre. His research centres on the critical analysis of the political economy of speculative urbanisation, gentrification and displacement, urban spectacles, and urbanism with particular attention to Asian cities. His books include Planetary Gentrification (Polity, 2016), Neoliberal Urbanism, Contested Cities and Housing in Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Exporting Urban Korea? Reconsidering the Korean Urban Development Experience (Routledge, 2021), and The Political Economy of Mega Projects in Asia: Globalization and Urban Transformation (Routledge, forthcoming). He is Editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and is also a trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation.