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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Lia Kent [mailto:lia.kent@anu.edu.au]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 21 February 2017 9:30 AM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Euroseas Panel - call for expressions of interest<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">Dear colleagues,
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">Rui Feijo and I are seeking expressions of interest from scholars interested in presenting a paper as part of a Panel on ‘The powerful dead: the politics of martyrs
and other dead bodies in Southeast Asia’ at the 2017 EuroSEAS conference. Further details on the Panel themes are below. If you are interested in being part of this panel, please contact Lia Kent (<a href="mailto:lia.kent@anu.edu.au" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">lia.kent@anu.edu.au</span></a>)
or Rui Feijo (<u><a href="mailto:ruifeijo@gmail.com"><span style="color:windowtext">ruifeijo@gmail.com</span></a></u>) by 31<sup>st</sup> March with a title and an abstract.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">Kind regards</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">Lia Kent and Rui Feijo</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#292829"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-autospace:none"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#292829">The powerful dead: The politics of martyrs and other dead bodies in Southeast Asia</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Panel proposed to the 9th EuroSEAS Conference, Oxford, UK, August 16-18, 2017</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:#292829">In Southeast Asia as elsewhere, dead bodies act as potent political symbols. Their relationship to kinship, burial rites and the sacred gives them an affective power that can be mobilized by political elites during formative
periods of nation-building, including in the aftermath of conflict or struggles for national independence (Verdery 1999: 32-33). Private rituals of grief, burial and mourning are appropriated at such times in order to transform the dead into
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333">public symbols of sacrifice, martyrdom and nationhood. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333">Yet, the efforts of political elites to ‘consolidate and contain’ (Tuitt 2008: 259) the meanings of the dead are seldom all encompassing. Friction can be evident as national elites and other societal actors negotiate
questions such as how the dead should be represented and treated, and by whom, and which bodies are deserving of martyr status. Frictions may also occur between the nationalist meanings ascribed to dead bodies and their cultural, social, spiritual, and local
meanings. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333">This panel invites contributions from scholars whose work touches on these and other issues relating to the politics of martyrs and other dead bodies in South East Asian societies. It also invites scholars to consider
what this politics signifies about the tensions of social memory creation and/or nation-building in those societies.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333">Conveners:</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333">Lia Kent</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333">School of Regulation and Global Governance</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333">Australian National University, Canberra, Australia</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333">(<a href="mailto:lia.kent@anu.edu.au" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">lia.kent@anu.edu.au</span></a>)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333">Rui Graça Feijó</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333">Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra / Instituto de História Contemporânea da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333">(<a href="mailto:ruifeijo@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">ruifeijo@gmail.com</span></a>)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:#111111">Dr Lia Kent
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Fellow<br>
School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) <br>
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific<br>
Coombs Extension Building #8 <br>
The Australian National University<br>
ACTON ACT 2601<br>
T: +61 2 6125 1057<br>
E: <a href="mailto:lia.kent@anu.edu.au"><span style="color:blue">lia.kent@anu.edu.au</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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