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Episode 8 – Southeast Asia as a Time and a Place: Prof Tony Reid’s Sojourn to Understand the Region

This Southeast Asianist views Southeast Asia as a cohesive unit. Prof Anthony Reid emphasises various factors, including commonalities of environment and factors contributing to the shaping of political identities. He started his journey by imagining and gleaming Southeast Asia from various archives as he finished his PhD work at King's College Cambridge. He then journeyed through Southeast Asia as he worked at Prof Wang Gungwu's History Department. This was when he started viewing Southeast Asia differently as a cohesive unit. His subsequent works charted the various evolution of Southeast Asia as a region. The result is a deep understanding of Southeast Asia as a time and a place.  Anthony Reid was a member of ANU's former Department of Pacific & Asian History from 1970 to 1999, after an initial position teaching Southeast Asian History at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur (1965-70). In 1999, he became founding Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA, Los Angeles, and in 2001 founding Director of the Asia Research Institute of NUS in Singapore. He retired to Canberra in 2009, though accepting visiting positions at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University (2009-10) and at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2012-13). He was honoured with the Fukuoka Prize for Asian Culture (Academic) in 2002 and the Life Achievement Award of the Association of Asian Studies in 2011. He has been a fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities since 1987 and the British Academy since 2008. His research interests include the history of Southeast Asia, with particular interests in Indonesia and Malaysia, early modern history, nationalism, minorities, social, economic and religious history, and Sumatra. Having recently completed a new history of Southeast Asia, he is exploring the interface between history and geology in Indonesia's natural disaster record.