"The Campus as Crucible: STUDENT ACTIVISM IN SINGAPORE & MALAYSIA"

THE INSTITUTE OF MALAYSIAN AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (IKMAS)
Cordially invites you to

SIRI SEMINAR IKMAS
"The Campus as Crucible: STUDENT ACTIVISM IN SINGAPORE & MALAYSIA"

By:
MEREDITH L. WEISS
East-West Center Washington

Date/Venue:
16 March 2006 (Thursday), 2.30 pm – 4.30 pm
IKMAS Seminar Room, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi


Abstract
Based on archival data, interviews, autobiographical and academic accounts, media reports, and more, this project investigates the history and characteristics of student activism in Malaysia. I seek to situate student activism among other social movements and the university campus among other political institutions, to understand when and how student activism impacts upon national politics, what differentiates student activism from other forms of political engagement, and how the sector in Malaysia differs from student activism elsewhere. Broadly speaking, I outline the contours of a much-understudied phenomenon in order to shed light on core dynamics in Malaysian political development.

Biographical Sketch
Meredith L. Weiss is currently a visiting Fulbright lecturer at Universiti Malaya and Research Fellow at the East-West Center Washington. She is the author of Protest and Possibilities: Civil Society and Coalitions for Political Change in Malaysia (2005) and co-editor (with Saliha Hassan) of Social Movements in Malaysia: From Moral Communities to NGOs (2003).

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