BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sea-treaties.og//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.10// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:45887fae-3d6e-4644-9434-844e3602f5b7 X-WR-CALNAME:iCagenda X-WR-CALDESC:Event Management Extension for Joomla! X-WR-RELCALID:3E26604A-50F4-4449-8B3E-E4F4932D05B5 X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:c42c63b6-055a-43f3-ac95-7d9905bc8a92 DTSTAMP:20260530T234604Z CATEGORIES:Events CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION;ALTREP="CID:": This guest lecture presents recent findings from the research programme Hi storical Treaties of Southeast Asia\, which examines treaty-making and cro ss-cultural diplomacy between indigenous Southeast Asian polities and Euro pean colonial powers from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth centur y.\nFocusing particularly on the Malay World during the long nineteenth ce ntury\, the lecture explores how treaties functioned not merely as instrum ents of imperial domination\, but also as arenas of negotiation\, accommod ation\, and strategic agency. By analysing diplomatic encounters across di fferent regional contexts\, the speakers highlight the complex interplay b etween coercion and local political practice.\n\nImage: Conclusion of the so-called Treaty of Laubuan between Brunei and the United Kingdom\, 18 Dec ember 1846. From R. Mundy\, Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes\, Vo l. II (London: John Murray 1848)\, face p. 295. https://commons.wikimedia. org/wiki/File:Treaty_of_Labuan1846.jpg.\nThe lecture consists of four shor t presentations by members of the project\, followed by comments from Dr M ulaika Hijjas (SOAS):\n· Prof. Stefan Amirell\, Linnaeus University: ’Uneq ual treaties’ and historical agency: A view from eighteenth-century Kedah \n· Dr. Maarten Manse\, Linnaeus University: Recasting the terms of empire : Treaty-making in Java in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries\n· Asso c. prof. Birgit Tremml-Werner\, Stockholm University: Coercion and accommo dation in treaty making practices viewed from Zamboanga\n· Dr. Ariel Lopez \, University of the Philippines: New Alliances\, Old System: Chiefly nego tiations along the margins of the Sulu Sultanate and the Spanish colonial empire\, c. 1870−1890\n \;\nThe event is free\, open to the public\, a nd held in person only.\nFor more information\, see: https://www.soas.ac.u k/about/event/historical-treaties-southeast-asia-coercion-and-accommodatio n-malay-world-during-long\n \; DTSTART:20260325T173000Z DTEND:20260325T190000Z GEO:00;0 LOCATION:SOAS Gallery\, room B103 ORGANIZER: SEQUENCE:1 SUMMARY:Public lecture: Coercion and accommodation in the Malay World duri ng the long nineteenth century TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://sea-treaties.org/index.php/events/38-public-lecture-coercion-an d-accommodation-in-the-malay-world-during-the-long-nineteenth-century END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR