Links of interest

The CÉRIUM

CÉRIUM, an international studies centre at the University of Montreal, has the mission to encourage greater understanding of international issues. This mission is accomplished through research, training and dissemination activities.

Website and blog on Southeast Asia:

Students taking part in the summer 2008 course POL 3401 - Asie du Sud-Est were invited to write up five posts on various themes explored during class. This is a first attempt at the blog experience and 24 students chose to participate. The result is close to 100 posts (each around 600-800 words) that have been put up on the blog. This course requisite was offered as an alternative to the traditional paper or to the not as traditional website. Nationalism, political structures and democracy, indigenous and ethnic minorities, economy and development models, multiculturalism and integration, as well as the challenges of globalisation are among the larger themes you will encounter when reading through the blog. Since this is a first attempt for the students at blogging on South-East Asia, we welcome all comments on the post. Lastly, we would like to highlight that this blog was the excellent idea of Alex Cayla, a student of the 2007 class.

The blog on Southeast Asia by students of POL 3401 (in French only)

Two students chose to create a website on Burma, as others did for Thailand and the Philippines in 2007. This website contains various sections on history, politics, economy, news, conferences and interviews as wells as some information on food, culture and tourism.

The POL 3401 student web site on Burma (in French only)

As part of the summer 2007 course POL 3401 – Asie du Sud-Est, Dominique Caouette offered to those who were interested to create a website looking specifically at the human rights situation in one Southeast Asian nations. Such opportinity was made possible through a joint initiative between the Canada Chair of Asian Research, Université de Montréal and Equitas (International Centre for Human Rights Education). Each summer, this NGO organises an international human rights training program that brings together over a hundred human rights activists from more than 60 countries who gather early June at John Abbott College.

That year, two groups of student went to John Abbott to meet the Philippine and the Thai participants. From these interviews and research carried out as part of the class, they were able to develop two web sites, the first dealing with the Philippines and the second on Thailand. This is a first step, in the coming years, more website will be develop as a result of this collaboration effort.

The POL 3401 student web site on human rights in the Philippines (in French only)

The POL 3401 student web site on human rights in Thailand (in French only)

Asia Pacific Affairs

An International Review of Asia and the Pacific