UPCOMING EVENT: The 2nd CU SDGs Platform Forum “จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัยกับการร่วมขับเคลื่อนความยั่งยืน: อนาคตโลกหลัง COVID-19” [Bangkok, 26 August 2020]

09.00-16.00, Wednesday, 26th August 2020 at Meeting Room 801 (Floor 8th), Chaloem Rajakumari 60 Building (Chamchuri 10), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Carl Middleton from CSDS will be presenting on this event.

Strategic management, Chief Transformation and Strategic Office (CTS) is inviting Chula staff to join the 2nd CU SDGs Platform Forum on “Chulalongkorn University in partnership of driving sustainability: the future of the Post-COVID-19” with the aim to develop CU SDGs Platform, an open mechanism for building a network of people working on Sustainable Develo0pment Goals (SDGs), which is the starting point for further collaboration in the future of the Chulalongkorn community.

Carl will present on “The Political Ecology of Public Resources and Competition : The Future Challenges".

For those who interested please register online within 24th August 2020 via QR Code or https://qrgo.page.link/7o9FV

For further information, please contact Strategic management, Chief Transformation and Strategic Office (CTS). Tel: 02-218-0461

For the full schedule, please see below:

UPCOMING ONLINE PANEL DISCUSSION: New Research on COVID 19 and its Consequences: People, Planet and Inclusive Society

Public Session organized for the International Conference on New research in international development, human rights, and international relations at a time of disruption

Institute of Asian Studies and Center of Excellence in Resource Politics for Social Development, Chulalongkorn University

Thursday 30 July 2020, start from 09:00-10:45 GMT+7/Thailand Time

Speakers:

• “COVID-19: Risks of Lives and Emerging of Social Movement of Migrant Workers in Chiang Rai Borderland” by Suebsakul Kidnukorn, Area-based Social Innovation Research Center (Ab-SIRC), Mae Fah Luang University [Read Abstract]

• “Tamsang-Tamsong: Social Distancing Promotion and Job Security for Motorcycle Taxi and Food Vendors during the Covid-19 Crisis” by Akkanut Wantanasombut, Mekong Studies Center, Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University [Read Abstract]

• “Rethinking the Future of Thai Fisheries: COVID-19 and Vulnerable Groups in Thai Fisheries Sector” by Nithis Thammaseangadipa, Asian Research Center for Migration, Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University [Read Abstract]

• “COVID- 19, Civil Society in Thailand’s Deep South and the Weak State” by Alisa Hasamoh, Faculty of Humanities and Social Development, Prince of Songkla University [Read Abstract]

Moderator: Naruemon Thabchumpon, Institute of Asian Studies and Center for Social Development Studies, Chulalongkorn University

THIS PANEL WILL BE HOSTED ON ZOOM

This panel will be an online panel discussion hosted via Zoom and you can join by clicking on the link below:

ZOOM MEETING LINK

You can also join using the details below:

• Meeting ID: 916 1843 6974

• Password: 166390

For any inquiries about this event, please contact Anisa Widyasari at communications.csds@gmail.com.

UPCOMING ONLINE PANEL DISCUSSION: Confronting the Triple Trap in the Mekong Region: The Pandemic, Economic Downturn, and Climate Crisis

This panel is convened by the Center for Social Development Studies, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University for the Seventh South-South Forum on Sustainability (SSFS7) hosted by Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

Thursday 16 July 2020, start from 14:00-16:00 GMT+7/Thailand Time

In this session, we will discuss how the ‘triple trap’ - the pandemic, economic downturn, and climate crisis – have affected communities across the Mekong region, and how these challenges have been responded to by them, as well as by civil society and state. We also examine the long-term implications of the triple trap, asking what transformations have already occurred and what could happen in the future.

Speakers:

• "The Implications of Covid 19's Disruption of Global Supply Chains for Southeast Asia" by Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South

• "Inequality, migration and Covid 19 in Thailand and the Mekong Region" by Naruemon Thabchumpon, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University

• "The pandemic in Northeast Thailand and implications for communities and (post)development” by Kanokwan Manorom, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Ubon Ratchathani University

• "The impact of Covid 19 in rural Myanmar: Community, civil society, and state responses" by Nwet Kay Khine, Paung Ku, Myanmar

Discussant: Pianporn Deetes, International Rivers, Thailand

Moderator: Carl Middleton, Center for Social Development Studies, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.

This panel will be an online panel discussion hosted via Zoom and is a public session of the SSFS7 conference. Registration is required on the link below:

ZOOM WEBINAR REGISTRATION

On the registration page, please choose 'No Registration Fee Required' and 'Invited Participant' and choose the ’16 July: Workshops on Venezuela, Mexico and Mekong Region‘ to receive the Zoom link for this session.

For more information about this conference, please visit the conference website here.