Launch of Prof Anthony Reid's History of South East Asia: Critical Crossroads
For the Launch by
Professor Craig Reynolds of
Professor Anthony Reid's
A History of South East Asia:
Critical Crossroads
6pm Wednesday June 24th
Full details of the event at the foot of this invitation.
“Southeast Asian history merits the attention of the people who are its heirs for all the usual reasons, and because much of that history offers a route around and beneath the brittle nationalist preoccupations of many of their textbooks. It merits the attention of the rest of the world for three crucial reasons: its dangerous tectonic interfaces can determine the world’s climate and the survival of our species; its women were more autonomous economically and socially than other societies whose histories are known; and its societies had other mechanisms for cultural and economic coherence than the states which dominate much history elsewhere.” (from the Preface)
Anthony Reid is a Southeast Asian historian, once again based as emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, where he also served for many years before 1999. In between he was founding Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA (1999-2002) and of the Asia Research Institute at NUS, Singapore (2002-7). A corresponding member of the British Academy, he was awarded the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2002, and the Association of Asian Studies (US) ‘Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies’ Award in 2010. Critical Crossroads rounds out and embraces his ten authored books (and many edited volumes) on Southeast Asian history.
Professor Craig Reynolds taught and researched Southeast Asian history for many years at Sydney University and the Australian National University. A fluent speaker of Thai, he has published especially on Buddhist and Thai history, including the influential National Identity and Its Defenders: Thailand Today (revised ed. 2002), and Seditious Histories: contesting Thai and Southeast Asian pasts, (2006). He is a member of the Australian Academy of Humanities.
When: 6pm Wednesday June 24th, 2014
Where: Asia Bookroom, Unit 2, 1 - 3 Lawry Place, Macquarie. ACT
RSVP: By the 23rd of June, either by phoning 6251 5191 or Email Us
Admission by gold coin donation to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation
If you can't join us on the 24th of June and would like to buy a signed copy, let us know as it can easily be arranged.