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Roundtable: 2024 Elections Pakistan, Indonesia and India

Date

Friday 24 May 2024

Time

15:00 - 17:00 hour

Serie

Research Colloquium: SSEALS (2024)

Address

Room

Vrieshof 2 / 0.04

Roundtable

Join us in a roundtable discussion with both academics and journalists on the recently concluded elections in Pakistan and Indonesia, and the ongoing elections in India.

The speakers participating in the Roundtable are Michel Maas, Casper Thomas, Dr. Irene Hadiprayitno, and Dr. Ritanjan Das. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Elena Burgos-Martinez.

About the Speakers:

Michel Maas started his career as a journalist with Dutch national newspaper De Volkskrant. He was based in Budapest as the European correspondent and since 2001, in Jakarta, where he was SE-Asia correspondent. In 2007 he also started working for the Dutch national broadcaster, NOS, both for radio and television. He stayed in Jakarta for eighteen years, during which he analyzed and made reports on Indonesia and on the other countries of ASEAN. He writes on a variety of subjects including politics, economics, culture and sports. At present, Maas is based in the Netherlands as an independent journalist and consultant. He is also an Associate Fellow of the Clingendael Institute and specializes in Southeast Asian affairs. Apart from being a journalist and a consultant, Maas also is the writer of two novels.

Casper Thomas is an editor at De Groene Amsterdammer, the Netherlands oldest current affairs weekly. Casper worked as foreign correspondent in India and the US for both De Groene Amsterdammer and Het Financieele Dagblad. This year, he is covering elections in Indonesia, India and the US. He is the author of multiple books, amongst which are De autoritaire verleiding. Over de opmars van de antiliberale wereldorde ('The authoritarian temptation. On the rise of the anti-liberal world order’) and Amerika’s laatste kans ('America’s last chance’).

Irene Hadiprayitno teaches International Studies and Southeast Asian Studies at Leiden University and conducts research on political, economic and social dimensions of human rights negotiations within varieties of contexts and issues. Her articles have appeared in Human Rights Review, Development in Practice, Global Jurist, International Journal for Minority and Group Rights, Third World Quarterly, etc. She currently serves as co-editor for the Palgrave Macmillan’s Book Series on Human Rights Interventions.

Ritanjan Das is university lecturer in contemporary South Asian politics at Leiden University. His primary area of interest is the political economy of development in contemporary India and South Asia. He has conducted extensive ethnographic research in various parts of South Asia for close to two decades and has published on various facets of development politics and socio-economic inequality in the region. His most recent work explores questions of identity, sovereignty, marginalisation, and democratic deficits in South Asia. Das is also a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.

Elena Burgos-Martinez is an environmental anthropologist and a political ecologist based at Leiden University, School of Asian Studies, where she coordinates and lectures in a variety of theoretical and methodological courses at BA, MA and PhD level, including courses focused on ecofeminism on islands in Asia and Oceania, the politics of decoloniality in academia, and environmental politics. She has also actively engaged in the re-conceptualising and re-theorising of formalised notions of relationality, place and space within fields like Island Studies, and the Environmental Social Sciences and Humanities.

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