Contemporary Issues in Southeast Asia
10-11 March 2012
St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Jointly presented by the Asian Studies Centre (St Antony’s College), Project Southeast Asia & ASEASUK
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|Friday, 9 March 2011 (Optional Programme)|
Check into accommodation
from 3.00 pm
Walking Tour of Oxford
Meet outside St Antony’s College Library
5.00pm – 6.30pm
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Dinner
Bangkok House, own expense
7.00pm
|Saturday, 10 March 2011|
Registration
From 8.00am
Opening Remarks
Professor Robert Barnes (Oxford University, on behalf of Project Southeast Asia)
8.45am – 9.00am
Keynote Address: Unplanned developments: the hidden geometries of change in Southeast Asia
Professor Jonathan Rigg (Durham University, Chair (ASEASUK))
9.00am – 9.40am
Coffee/Tea
9.40am – 10.00am
Opening Panel: Past and Future Directions in Southeast Asian Studies
10.00am – 11.30am
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- Prof Jonathan Rigg (Durham University, Chair (ASEASUK))
- Searching for a vernacular subaltern transregional Southeast Asian history
Dr Pingtjin Thum (University of Oxford)
- Some reflections on Southeast Asia and its position in academia
Tom Hoogervorst (DPhil candidate, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford)
Panel I: Religion
11.30am – 1.00pm
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- Dr Mirjam Künkler (Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton/ Visiting Fellow, Department of Politics (Hilary 2012))
- Reshaping Shi’I identities in Southeast Asia: Between local tradition and foreign orthodoxy
Dr Chiara Formichi (Assistant Professor, Department of Asian and International Studies and Southeast Asia Research Centre (SEARC), City University of Hong Kong)
- Translocal and Cosmopolitan Islam: Chinese-style Mosques in Indonesia and Malaysia
Dr Hew Wai Weng (Postdoctoral research fellow, the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden)
- Religious Identity and urban piety in Indonesian society: A social movement analysis of the Salafiyaa and the quest to ‘purify’ Islam in Yogyakarta, Java
Chris Chaplin (PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge / Research Fellow, Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga)
- Chinese Muslim Dakwah Work in Malaysia
Pei-Chein Wu (PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS))
Lunch
Hall at St Antony’s College
1.00pm – 2.00pm
Panel II: State Power
2.00pm – 3.30pm
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- Dr Lee Jones (School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London)
- Sociological analysis of state policy behaviour in the making of regional policy in migrant workers protection: The case of Indonesia and the Philippines in ASEAN
Anisa Santoso (PhD Candidate, Institute for Asia Pacific Studies, University of Nottingham)
- Deficiency By Design: The Coalitional Origin of Thailand’s Inefficient Bureaucracy
Veerayooth Kanchoochat (PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge)
- Imagining language: The shifting position of prestige Chinese dialects occupy in Singapore
Deborah Cheong (MSc, University of Oxford)
Coffee/Tea
3.30pm – 4.00pm
Panel III: Political Economy
4.00pm – 5.30pm
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- Prof Anne Booth Professor of Economics (Asia), School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
- The Political Economy of Healthcare Commercialization in Vietnam
Dr Le Thanh Forsberg (Global Leaders Fellow/ Global Economic Governance Programme, University College, University of Oxford)
- The Political Economy of Islamic Finance in Malaysia
Dr Lena Rethel (Assistant Professor, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick)
- Global halal between Islam, states and markets in Malaysia and Singapore
Dr Johan Fischer (Associate Professor, Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Denmark)
- Thailand’s Provincial Poverty and its Determinants: Before and after the 1997 Crisis
Suphannada Limpanonda (PhD Candidate, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS))
Panel IV: Culture
5.30pm – 7.00pm
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- Prof Victor T. King (Emeritus Professor of South East Asian Studies, University of Leeds)
- Bornean Post-colonial Dilemma: Between Indigenous Right, Identity and Outsider
Dr Awang Azman Awang Pawi (Institute of East Asian Studies, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), Malaysia)
- The Burmese in Vernacular School History Textbook
Dr Myo Oo (Research Professor, Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, Busan University of Foreign Studies, South Korea)
- Redefinition of Javanese tradition in Yogyakarta and Surakarta
Ofita Purwani (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh / Lecturer, Sebelas Maret University)
- UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia: a Comparative and Critical Appraisal
Prof Victor T. King (Emeritus Professor of South East Asian Studies, University of Leeds)
Evening programme
Cultural Performance – Oxford Gamelan Society
7.00pm – 8.00pm
Dinner
Al-Shami, at own expense
8.00pm onwards
|Sunday, 11 March 2011|
Panel V: Marginalised Communities
9.00am – 10.30am
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- Dr Liana Chua (School of Social Sciences, Brunel University / University of Cambridge)
- Deciphering Southern Thailand’s violence: Organization and insurgent practices of BRN-Coordinate
Dr Sascha Helbardt (Post-doc researcher/ lecturer, University of Passau)
- Bringing home exotic women: the “mail-order brides” industry and Southeast Asian women
Dr Gwenola Ricordeau (Assistant professor, Université Lille-I)
- Urban Informality and Neoliberalism: Formalisation versus Demolition of Informal Settlements in the Philippines
Narae Choi (DPhil Candidate in Development Studies, University of Oxford)
- Legal mobilisation in post-colonial Malaysia: The law as a political tool for marginalised communities
Thaatchaayini Kananatu (PhD Candidate, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University Sunway, Malaysia)
Coffee/Tea
10.30am – 11.00am
Panel VI: Environment
11.00am – 12.30pm
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- Dr Paul Jepson (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)
- Biodiversity, liberalization and wildlife trade in Vietnam: Pangolins, Timber and State-society relationships
Dr Peter Larsen (The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)
- Hazy governance: The politics of environmental securitization
Dr Lee Jones (Queen Mary, University of London)
- In search of environmental accountability: Mobilization, the politics of risk and inclusive citizenship
Li Kheng Poh (PhD candidate, Human Geography, School of Environment and Technology, Brighton University)
- Environmentalism and the ethno-national struggle in Kachin land, northern Burma
Laur Kiik (MA candidate in the Department of Anthropology, Columbia University)
Lunch
12.30pm – 2.00pm
Panel VII: Local Governance and Decentralisation
2.00pm – 3.30pm
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- Dr Pingtjin Thum (University of Oxford)
- Neopotism and Punishment: The (Mis-)Performance of elected local officials in Philippines Julien Labonne(DPhil candidate, Department of Economics, Oxford University) and
Prof. Marcel Fafchamps (Professor of Development Economics in the Economics Department, Oxford University)
- Decentralisation and Democratisation in Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines
Prof. Patrick Ziegenhain (Interim Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Trier, Germany)
- Does local governments’ responsiveness increase with decentralization and democratization? Evidence from sub-national budget allocation in Indonesia
Krisztina Kis-Katos and Bambang Suharnoko Sjahrir (PhD candidate, Institute for Economic Research, Department of International Economic Policy, University of Freiburg, Germany)
- The paradox of communitarian democracy in Thailand
Thorn Pitidol (DPhil candidate in Social Policy, University of Oxford)
Coffee/Tea
3.30pm – 4.00pm
Panel VIII: Human Development
4.00pm – 5.30pm
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- Dr Philip Kreager (Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Ageing)
- Population aging in Vietnam – An irreversible truth
Matthew Tye (AXA Doctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology and Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford)
- Parental resources and children’s malnutrition over the life course and their consequences for cognitive outcomes – evidence from Indonesia.
Sarah Mohaupt (PhD candidate, Social Policy Department, London School of Economics & CASE (Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion))
- Mobility and Opportunities through lifelong learning in Singapore: Promise or trap?
Rebecca Ye (MSc candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford / Research Associate, Institute for Adult Learning (Workforce Development Agency), Singapore)
Closing Remarks
Dr Philip Kreager (Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Ageing)
5.30pm – 6.00pm
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