ASIA_NEWS: workshop, 'Thailand Today'

[Greg Young]

From: Craig Reynolds <Craig.Reynolds at anu.edu.au>
About: workshop, 'Thailand Today'

WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT

Thailand Today: New Perspectives and Approaches

18-19 February 2003

Manning Clark Centre, Lecture Theatre 6
Australian National University

This workshop will offer an opportunity for scholars to talk about
their current research with special reference to new approaches to the
study of Thailand and Tai peoples.  Postgraduate students are
particularly encouraged to attend.

Sponsored by the Faculty of Asian Studies, the Research School of
Pacific and Asian Studies, and the National Thai Studies Centre, the
workshop is open to all.  A draft program is below.


For further information contact the convenors:
Peter Jackson  Peter.Jackson at anu.edu.au
Craig J. Reynolds  Craig.Reynolds at anu.edu.au


History (I):

Chris Baker, "Social change in late Ayutthaya"

Attachak Satyanurak, "New Trends in Thai Local History"


History (II):

Hong Lysa, "Thailand's virtual histories: Cults, dreams and cinema as
historical truth"

Rachel Harrison, "East Meets West: Perceptions of the Outside World in
the Prose Fiction of "Victorian" Siam" Religion:

Soraj Hongladarom, "Bangfai Payanak: Science, Belief and Thai Society"

Jovan Maud, "Cross-Border Brokers of Morality: Chinese Patronage of
Thai Monks in Southern Thailand"

Forms of Knowledge Method Issue(s):

Peter Jackson, "Contradictions and Ambiguities in Thai Culture and
Thai Studies"

Craig Reynolds, "Why is Thai nationalism so difficult to write about?"

Out from the Centre:

Andrew Walker, "Upper-Mekong borderline dialogues in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth century"

Tony Diller, "How do various Tai-speaking peoples come to terms
linguistically with (Bangkok/Central) Thai?"

Crisis and Threat:

John Funston, "Thailand and the War against terrorism: how threatened
is it?"

Peter Warr, "Why the Crisis is Not Over"


Politics and Polity:

Robin Hamilton-Coates, "The Development of Thai Citizenship"

Yoshi Nishizaki, "Limits of money, violence, and clients in rural Thai
politics"
 



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