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Conference Announcement:
Continuity and change: (re)conceptualising power in Southeast Asia,
CRASSH, Cambridge University, March 26 -28 2009
Conference web page: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/542/
The study of power in contemporary South-east Asia has never been more
timely. Over the last half-century, the region has undergone
innumerable far-reaching changes. It has witnessed the rise of
postcolonial nation-states, rapid industrialization, economic growth
and democratization but also genocide, political upheaval and
widespread repression.
Power lies at the core of these important developments, whether in the
form of brute military force or as a more capillary 'disciplinary'
influence on religious and political subjectivities. New religious,
economic and political movements — all drawing deeply on local
traditions while proposing new forms of personhood, civil and
political society — cut across national, cultural, ideological and
sectarian boundaries.
Yet for all that power can be detected in the region, there seems to
be little specifically South-east Asian about contemporary scholarly
analyses. This is both puzzling and ironic given the central role that
earlier ethnographic studies of South-east Asia once played in
Identifying distinctively regional modalities of power, prompting us
to reconsider how 'power' could be most profitably studied in South-
east Asian contexts.
Continuity and Change is a major interdisciplinary and International
conference on South-east Asia. Its key aim is to reopen the debate on
the issue of 'power' — both in real life and academic scholarship —
as it is manifest across the region. Conference themes and questions
include:
Are there, or were there ever, distinctly 'South-east Asian' notions
of power that could still exist as alternatives or complements to
Western folk and political models?
Are scholars' analytic imaginaries of power in relation to nationhood
and governance congruent with the imaginaries of South-east Asians
witnessing or involved in such projects and processes?
What are the forms that 'power' takes?
How have recent theoretical developments within various disciplines
reshaped our understanding of the nature and location of power?
How useful is the concept of 'South-east Asia' as a geographical,
political and analytical entity in dealing with these issues?
Keynote Speakers:
James Scott (Political Science, Yale)
Shelly Errington (Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz)
Confirmed speakers: Avery Poole, Adrian Vickers, Andrew Beatty, Tomas
Larsson, Victor V. Ramraj, Michele Ford, Deidre de la Cruz, Holly
High, Ingrid Jordt, Catherine Allerton, Jérémy Jammes, Krisna Uk, Lee
Kah Wee, Sarinda Singh, Markus Schlecker, Yanuar Nugroho, Ruth
Toulson, Andrew Walker, Nicola Frost, Loren Ryter, Dimitri
Tsintjilonis, Shu-Yuan Yang, Nicholas Farrelly, David Irving, Heather
Maclachlan
Accompanying the conference there will be a screening of the
documentary film 'Terlena' by Andre Vltchek, who will be holding a Q &
A session after the screening.
Film screening: Terlena: the Breaking of a Nation, Winstanley Theatre,
Trinity College, Cambridge, 26 March 2009
For conference bookings and all other enquiries please contact Anna
Malinowska, [log in to unmask] Places are limited so please book early.
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Dr. Lee Wilson
Research fellow
Centre for Research in the Arts,
Social Sciences and Humanities
University of Cambridge,
17 Mill Lane,
Cambridge, CB2 1RX
Tel: +44 1223 766886
Fax: +44 1223 765276
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/
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