BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sea-treaties.og//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.10// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:9772cb2e-d9a1-41a6-a1cf-217d2ccb60e1 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:a27dcc3d-5b1d-4320-927d-ba8136fcd212 DTSTAMP:20261106T192444Z CATEGORIES:Events CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION;ALTREP="CID:": Friday 20 November 2026\, 4:00–6:00 pm Singapore time (09:00–11:00 CET)Vis itor Briefing Room\, National Library / Lee Kong Chian Reference Library\, 100 Victoria Street\, Singapore\nFrom the seventeenth to the mid-twentiet h century\, thousands of treaties shaped political and economic relations between Southeast Asian polities and expanding colonial empires. Drawing o n new research in original archival sources\, this roundtable revisits the se agreements through the lens of New Diplomatic History. It explores how Southeast Asian courts and governments served as dynamic centres of diplom acy\, knowledge production and cross-cultural exchange. It also highlights how indigenous rulers strategically negotiated\, adapted\, contested and at times subverted imperial legal and political frameworks to advance thei r own interests.\nBuilding on findings from the Historical Treaties of Sou theast Asia research programme and foregrounding regional perspectives\, t he roundtable offers new ways of understanding treaty-making and empire. T he discussion contributes to wider debates on agency\, connectivity\, sove reignty and international law in the history of Southeast Asia.\nPresentat ions\n\nHans Hägerdal (Linnaeus University): Coastal Elites and Diplomacy in the Papuan World: Treaty Relations between New Guinea and the Dutch Eas t India Company\, 1650–1800\nAriel Lopez (University of the Philippines): The Sulu–Tidung Treaty of 1747\nMaarten Manse (Linnaeus University): The W hite Kings of Java? Colonial Sovereignty Claims and the Politics of VOC Tr eaty-Making in Eighteenth-Century Banten and Mataram\nBadriyah Yusof (Univ ersiti Brunei Darussalam): Beyond ‘Unequal Treaties’: Indigenous Negotiati on and Court Diplomacy in Brunei’s 1905/06 Agreement\n\nChair: Stefan Amir ell (Linnaeus University)Commentator: Peter Borschberg\, Professor Emeritu s (National University of Singapore)\nLight refreshments will be served af ter the seminar. Registration is required.Register for the roundtable ← lä nka till https://forms.gle/HyTpbULRHKQJNMMu5\n  DTSTART:20261120T090000Z DTEND:20261120T110000Z GEO:00;0 LOCATION:Visitor Briefing Room\, National Library/Lee Kong Chian Reference Library 100 Victoria Street ORGANIZER: SEQUENCE:1 SUMMARY:Treaty-making in Maritime Southeast Asia: Indigenous Perspectives o n Interpolity Relations\, c. 1600–1950 TRANSP:OPAQUE URL:https://www.sea-treaties.org/index.php/events/49-treaty-making-in-marit ime-southeast-asia-indigenous-perspectives-on-interpolity-relations-c-1600 -1950 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR