[TimorLesteStudies] Timor-Leste Workshop at AAS (Boston, March 19) - please register

[Michael Leach]

Pre-conference Workshop at AAS
Timor-Leste Studies 2020 Pre-conference Workshop

Draft Program of Events

Sheraton Boston Hotel, Boston Massachusetts,

March 19 2020

9am-5pm

Timor-Leste Studies 2020 Pre-conference Workshop presented by the Southeast Asia Council & Indonesia and Timor-Leste Studies Committee with generous support from the Henry Luce Foundation. It will take place before the official start of the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference<https://www.asianstudies.org/conference/> also being held at the Sheraton Hotel Boston.

The workshop aims to bring together East Timorese and North America-based scholars to discuss the future of Timor-Leste studies in North America and explore avenues for collaboration between East Timorese and North American academics and academic institutions.

The Timor-Leste Studies Initiative pre-conference workshop is a free event. Click here to register.<https://tlstudiesinitiative.org/tlsi-aas-boston-2020/#register>

Scheduled Participants

  *   ·         Antero Benedito da Silva – Director of the Peace Studies Center, Universidade Nasional Timor Lorosa’e, Researcher Comite Orientador 25
  *   ·         Maria Madeira – Independent scholar and visual artist
  *   ·         Laurentina (Mica) Barreto Soares – Doctoral Candidate Swinburne Institute of Technology
  *   ·         Rogério Sávio Ma’averu – Researcher at Centro Nacional Chega!
  *   ·         Takahiro Kamisuna – Graduate Student in History at National University of Singapore
  *   ·         Vannessa Hearman – Senior Lecturer in Indonesian Studies, Charles Darwin University
  *   ·         Marisa Ramos Gonçalves – Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, and part of the Research Group on Democracy, Citizenship and Law (DECIDe).
  *   ·         Susanna Barnes – Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Saskatchewan
  *   ·         David Webster – Professor in History, Bishop’s University
  *   ·         Brad Simpson – Associate Professor, History Department, University of Connecticut
  *   ·         Amy Rothschild, Assistant Professor Ithaca College
  *   ·         David Hicks, Professor in Anthropology, Stony Brook University

Morning Panels

Panel I: Writing History in Timor Leste

Since independence a number of projects in Timor-Leste have sought to ‘write histories’ of the Indonesian occupation. While the final report of the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation  is considered by many to be one of the most valuable ‘historical’ works to date, other historical narratives have been or are in the process of being produced in Timor-Leste. This panel will discuss the production of historical knowledge in Timor-Leste today. Panelists include:
·         Antero Benedito da Silva
·         Rogerio Savio
·         Marisa Ramos Gonçalves
·         Vanessa Hearmann
·         David Webster
·         David Hicks (Discussant)


Panel II: Current Trends in Research on Timor-Leste

This panel considers current trends in Timor-Leste studies in a range of academic disciplines by both East Timorese and non-East Timorese scholars, and also by practitioners, officers of national and international organizations, and others. In particular the panel aims to explore opportunities for collaboration between researchers and across disciplines at the national, regional and international level with a view to increasing the profile of Timor-Leste studies at the Association for Asian Studies Conference. Panelists include:
·         Laurentina ‘mica’ Barreto Soares
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·         Maria Madeira
·         Amy Rothschild
·         Susanna Barnes (Discussant)
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Afternoon Roundtable and Planning Sessions

Roundtable and planning session I: Open Access Resources for Timor-Leste Studies.

The aim of this round table is to provide practical input for the strategic plan of the Timor-Leste Studies Initiative. This session focuses on the strategic objective of creating an Open Access platform for evidentiary materials associated with the Timor-Leste independence movement and an Open Access repository of teaching materials on Timor-Leste history, society, politics and culture.

Roundtable and planning session II: Language Learning and People-to-People Capacity Building

The aim of this round table is to provide practical input for the strategic plan of the Timor-Leste Studies Initiative. This session focuses on creating opportunities for Tetun language learning in North American educational institutions and exploring avenues for people-to-people capacity building through educational exchanges, professional development workshops and research collaborations.

Book launches

Rogério Sávio Ma’averu presenting the collective work – ‘The History of East Timorese Women’

David Webster presenting latest book – ‘Challenge the Strong Wind Canada and East Timor, 1975-99<http://www.ubcpress.ca/challenge-the-strong-wind>’.

Film Screening

Lisa Palmer and Balthazar Kehi’s ethnographic film “Wild Honey: Caring for Bees in a Divided Land<https://vimeo.com/ondemand/wildhoneytimor>” will be screening as part of the AAS Annual Conference Film Expo<https://www.asianstudies.org/conference/program/film-expo/>. Time and place TBA.






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