LKYCIC Trending Thoughts “Islam, Politics, and Society in Southeast Asia”

By registering for the event, you consent to the collection and use of my personal information stated on the form by Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), including disclosure to SUTD’s trusted third parties. The personal information collected will be used for the purposes of administering the event registration as well as communicating relevant news and updates about SUTD. You may unsubscribe from any of these correspondences at any point by emailing to lkycic@sutd.edu.sg.

Photography and videography will be conducted during the event. Photos and audio visual recordings may be used by SUTD for event reporting, marketing, publicity, media and social media purposes.

Synopsis

This talk will identify trends in contemporary Muslim societies in Southeast Asia, focusing primarily on Indonesia and Malaysia. Drawing on two and a half decades of studying political Islam in the region, the talk will explore the prevailing schools of thought in the study of Islamism in the region and what scholars have identified as the “conservative turn” in Muslim socioreligious mobilization, examine these developments against larger transnational sources of Islamist activism, and discuss how and why these dynamics have resonated with and empowered political Islam in the region in the last four decades.

Speaker

Prof Joseph Liow is Dean of College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he is also Tan Kah Kee Chair in Comparative and International Politics, and Professor and former Dean at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. He is also Chairman of the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore. He held the inaugural Lee Kuan Yew Chair in Southeast Asia Studies at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC, where he was also a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program.

Joseph’s research interests encompass Muslim politics and social movements in Southeast Asia and the geopolitics and geoeconomics of the Asia-Pacific region.

He holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an MSc in Strategic Studies from the Nanyang Technological University, and a BA (Hons) in Political Science from the University of Madison-Wisconsin.