Back to All Events

More Than a Sideshow: US Propaganda Campaigns and the Global Color Line in Cold War Cambodia, 1955 – 1970

  • Northern Illinois University – Peters Campus Life Building, 100 545 Lucinda Avenue DeKalb, Illinois, 60115 United States (map)

Organizer: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University

Type/Location: Hybrid / DeKalb, IL

Description:

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University for a talk by Ron Leonhardt, Assistant Professor of History at Missouri State University. His research charts the lives, mobility, and politics of non-Khmer populations living in Cambodia in the post-independence decades of the 1950s and 1960s.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Ron Leonhardt is a historian who specializes in the history of Southeast Asia and is based at Missouri State University. His research charts the lives, mobility, and politics of non-Khmer populations living in Cambodia in the post-independence decades of the 1950s and 1960s. As part of his research, Leonhardt also explores Cambodia’s involvement in international sports, ties to U.S. Third World Leftists, and relations with Eastern Europe during the early Cold War period.

Registration:

To attend the event in person, please register here.

To attend the event virtually, please register here.

 
Previous
Previous
November 13

The Indonesian Left in the Twentieth Century: Beyond the Rise and Fall of a Party

Next
Next
November 16

Six Thousand Migrants, Two Ships and One Spy: Southeast Asia and the Making of Shenzhen