The Center for Southeast Asian Studies Presents:

Southeast Asia Lecture Series

Speaker: Dr. Daromir Rudnyckyj, University of Victoria, Department of Anthropology

Title: “Approaches to Southeast Asian Capitalism”

Dr. Rudnyckyj’s current research examines the techno-politics of money. His most recent book, Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in Global Finance (University of Chicago Press, 2019), which he will be presenting, examines efforts to create a transnational financial network independent of debt. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Malaysia, he illustrates how the state, led by the central bank, seeks to make the country’s capital Kuala Lumpur “the New York of the Muslim world”—the central node of global financial activity conducted in accordance with Islam.

Conducting field and archival work in Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe, Dr. Rudnyckyj’s publications and research have been cited by scholars in a wide range of disciplines; have been featured on television and podcasts around the globe; and have been supported by the American Council for Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, among others. His talk on NIU’s campus will engage students and faculty from many departments—anyone who is interested in the timely issues of globalization, money, religion, development, finance, and statehood.