History

What are five topics you can talk about for 30 minutes with zero prep?

1. French Revolution leading into Napoleonic Wars
2. First and Second Punic Wars
3. The Peloponnesian War, The Syracusian Expedition 
4. The Gaelic Wars
5. The Meiji Restoration, subsequent reform of Tokugawa Shogunate into Meiji Era Modernized

What are five topics you can talk about for 30 minutes with zero prep?

1. Urban Theory
2. Political Ecology of Bitcoin Mining
3. Prosperity Cults in Thailand
4. Chao Anouvong Statue in Laos 
5. “Crypto-Colonialism”

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Anthropologist Michael Herzfeld came up with this concept to describe countries that were subject to the conditions of colonialism without being officially colonized (eg Greece and Thailand)

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Started booming in Thailand from the 1990s, these include religious/spiritual movements centered on magic monks, royal spirits, and Chinese and Indian deities. The book Capitalism, Magic, Thailand by Peter Jackson is a great take on this