CCS FALL 2025 WEBINAR SERIES: CHINA, SOUTHEAST ASIA, AND GEOPOLITICAL DYNAMICS IN 2025 LIVED GEOPOLITICS IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA: CHINA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA

Starting Time 活動開始時間

November 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM UTC

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November 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM HST

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Participants 嘉賓

Edyta Roszko is a Research Professor and social anthropologist at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway. She is leading the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant project Transoceanic Fishers: Multiple Mobilities in and out of the South China Sea (TransOcean) that historicizes fishing communities in relation to and beyond the nation-state, security concerns and territorially bounded fisheries. Edyta’s newly awarded ERC Consolidator Grant project Global Hydroconnectivities beyond Ocean, Seas and Rivers combines anthropology, archaeology and geohydrology and contributes to the wider discussion on global Indigenous history and its relevance in the era of climate changes. Edyta is the author of Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam co-published by NIAS and the University of Hawai’i Press.

Shaun Lin is Lecturer at NUS College of the National University of Singapore. Shaun's research interests are in political geography (particularly the geopolitics of Southeast Asia and China), border studies (land and maritime), environmental politics, and geography pedagogy. Shaun serves as Social Media Editor for Space and Polity, and Book Review Co-Editor for the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Geography in Higher Education.

Patricio N. Abinales retired from the Department of Asian Studies, University of Hawai'i-Manoa, in 2025. He was a visiting research fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, from March to August 2025, where he was working on a book project on the University of the Philippines and the Marcos Dictatorship.

Moderator: Petrice Flowers is the Professor and Director for the Center for Indo-Pacific Affairs at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

Organizers 主協辦機構

University of Hawai'i at Manoa Center for Chinese Studies

Acting Director, Baoyan Cheng

Associate Director, Ni Zhang

Academic Support Specialist, Adriana Choi

Mode 活動形式
Online
Venue 地點
Zoom
Languages 語言
English
Description 詳情

Nearly a decade after the South China Sea Arbitration ruling, the region continues to be a focal point of overlapping maritime claims, resource competition, and strategic maneuvering among regional and global powers. This webinar brings together three distinguished scholars to explore the lived, political, and economic dimensions of the South China Sea from national and transnational perspectives. Dr. Edyta Roszko discusses The Role of Fisheries in Vietnam’s South China Sea Strategy, drawing from her ERC-funded projects on fishing communities and maritime governance. Dr. Shaun Lin analyzes the region’s geopolitical and legal complexities within the context of China’s Belt and Road Initiative and prospects for joint development. Dr. Patricio N. Abinales examines evolving commercial ties between the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) and the Chinese market, and how these relationships may be reshaped by growing maritime tensions.

Together, the speakers offer nuanced insights into how states, communities, and economies navigate the contested yet interconnected maritime landscape of the South China Sea.

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