Historical Materialism Conference East and Southeast Asia 2025 – Schedule

Chair: Geoffrey Rathgeb Aung – University of Vienna

Embedded Sufficiency? The Sufficiency Economy as Labor Discipline in Post-Crisis Thailand

Aila Trasi – Johns Hopkins University and Goethe University Frankfurt

Travelling Mangoes: Tropical Reckoning, Socialist Polemics, and Cultural Mediation in Asia’s Long Seventies

Xuesong Shao – National University of Singapore

Red Scare Settler Colonialism: A Case Study of Major Sanchai Buntrigswat’s “Thailand: The Dual Threats To Stability In A Study Of Communist Insurgency And Problems Of Political Development” (1979)

Areerat Worawongwasu – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

From Organizational Principle to Official Ideology

The 1980s Democratic Centralism Debate and the Reinvention of Communist Party Rule in Vietnam

Dai Tran – Fulbright University Vietnam

Chair: Inaya Rakhmani – Asia Research Centre, Universitas Indonesia

Beyond the Proletarian Ideal: Rethinking Capitalist Diversity in Neoliberal Indonesia

Diatyka Widya Permata Yasih – Universitas Indonesia

Unfree labour as an imperialist relation: A view from Southeast Asia

Stephen Campbell and Ma Cheria

The Labour Paradox and Uneven Geography of Labour in the Neoliberal Rise of East Asia

Dae-oup Chang – Sogang University

Asian Trajectories in the Age of Southern Authoritarian Populism

Alf Gunvald Nilsen – Centre for Asian Studies in Africa, University of Pretoria

Chair: Rianne Subijanto – Baruch College, City University of New York

Platformization of Domestic Care Services and Care Workers Response

Hyunok Lee – Sogang University

Remote Carework and the International Division of Reproductive Labor

Stephanie Dimatulac Santos – Chulalongkorn University

Political Gravitas and Translocal Epistemologies of Sending Communities: The Thailand- Israel Migration Regime in the Orbit of Isaan

Shahar Shoham – Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM) at Humboldt University of Berlin

Chair: Stephen Campbell – Nanyang Technological University

Rawed: Gutta Percha, Deforestation, and the Quest for Global Imperialism

Rianne Subijanto – Baruch College, City University of New York

Peripheral capitalism and persistent legitimation crises in Southeast Asian history

Gerry van Klinken – Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies KITLV

Oil and the Emergence of Indonesian Extractive Capitalism

Farabi Fakih – Universitas Gadjah Mada

The Management Questions: From Disaster Management to Planetary Management

Fathun Karib – Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

Chair: Dae-oup Chang – Sogang University

The Financial Impact on Profitability of Nonfinancial Corporations: Evidence from the Korean Economy (1975 to 2020)

Deokmin Kim – Gyeongsang National University

The Channels of International Transfer of Value: The Case of South Korea

Guhyeon Jeong – Gyeongsang National University

Changes in South Korea’s Agricultural-Food Production System and Elaboration of Workers’ Class Positions

Wonjik Kim – Gyeongsang National University

Busan Yongho-dong Catholic Cemetery: At the intersections of urban sprawl, legal restrictions and monetary calculations

Mikyoung Kim – Gyeongsang National University

Chair: Fahmi Panimbang – Sedane Labour Resource Centre

In Praise of Hardship, or the Labor Theory of Schooling of Chinese Youth

Yukun Zeng – Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan

Echoes of Value: Sonic Materialism and the Interspecies Politics of Edible Bird’s Nest Production in Malaysia

Yu-An Kuo – Duke University

WORKING-CLASS MACROECONOMICS: Seeing Capitalist Totality through Monetary Policies in Southeast Asia during the Fed’s 2022-2023 Rate Hike

Hizkia Yosias Polimpung – Monash University Malaysia

The Asian Capitalist Conjuncture: Contradictions and Critiques

Muhammad Ridha – IFAR LPEM UI