TThis is an announcement to invite you to the CSEAS Colloquium for January 2016. Date & Time: Jan 27, 2015 (Wednesday), 16:00-17:30 Place: Middle-sized Meeting Room (No. 332), 3rd Floor, Inamori Foundation Building, Kyoto University Title: From Bhumibol to Vajiralongkorn: Neo-Royalism and the Future of Thai Monarchy Speaker: Dr. Pavin Chachavalpongpun (Associate Professor at CSEAS, Kyoto University) Abstract: The speaker reinvestigates the concept of neo-royalism, in the specific context of the twilight of King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s period, to forecast the future of the royal institution. The primary objective is to employ such concept to assess the position of the king-in-waiting and consequently to imagine the place of the Thai monarch [ Read More ]