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SUMMARY:Southeast Asia – Is the Long Term Benign or Scary? - Professor A
 nthony Reid\, Australian National University
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CONTACT:Eu-Gene Toh
DESCRIPTION:Renowned Southeast Asian historian Professor Anthony Reid will
  revisit his positive depiction of pre-colonial Southeast Asia and ponders
  the longer-term future for human and natural disasters.\nThe appallingly 
 destructive earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March 2011\, like that in A
 ceh and around the Indian Ocean in 2004\, forcibly reminds us how dependen
 t we are on the normal beneficence of our planet.  \nEvidence suggests tha
 t the 20th century was politically horrendous but environmentally benign\,
  while the 21st century so far looks like the reverse.\nThis talk will loo
 k at longer term Southeast Asian history in the light of our rapidly impro
 ving knowledge of how the planet works.  How did natural calamities affect
  Southeast Asian civilisation in the past and what does the future hold fo
 r the region? \n
LOCATION:Bowett Room\, Queens’ College\, Cambridge
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