<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dear subscribers, </font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em"><font face="arial, sans-serif">We are pleased to announce the 5th Pre-Conference Virtual Workshop of the Timor-Leste Studies Initiative @ the Association for Asian Studies on March 11-18<span style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:0;vertical-align:baseline">th</span>, 2022. The project has several aims including the promotion of Timor-Leste Studies in the Americas, the development of teaching materials and distance language learning (i.e. Tetum), and the support for archival projects on Timor-Leste and East Timorese scholars.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The workshop will be held online. 11th, 12th, and 18th March (East Timor time)</font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The workshop which will be held online via ZOOM (links to come). Papers will be circulated among panelists before the workshop. Each panel will be assigned a discussant and panelists will provide directed feedback on the papers.<br><br>To register for this event <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSde70YHkjW-FQXukX4kkuT_T5X-cJQoEgZTNKhKeZRMWUUzkw/viewform">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSde70YHkjW-FQXukX4kkuT_T5X-cJQoEgZTNKhKeZRMWUUzkw/viewform</a> <br></font></p><p id="gmail-block-101707a9-491b-4437-a598-a951261e8f21" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Tentative Schedule as follows:</font></p><h4 id="gmail-block-5292af26-e6cb-46f7-86dd-1ab2875d0d7b" style="box-sizing:inherit;clear:both;line-height:1.8em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:18px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Panel 1. Culture, Religion and Education (100 minutes session)</font></h4><p id="gmail-block-b42e45d2-122d-4b3b-90e2-885a4e8c1b3b" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em"><em style="box-sizing:inherit"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Time: 0:00 AM 11<span style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:0;vertical-align:baseline">th</span> March in East Timor, 5:00 AM 10<span style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:0;vertical-align:baseline">th</span> March in Honolulu</font></em></p><p id="gmail-block-398b48a8-0b8e-4f93-b196-a315efbe92ca" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Miria Asaba, “Lao Hamutuk: Parallel Existence of Kultura and Catholicism in Oecusse, Timor-Leste”</font></p><p id="gmail-block-713d5fd5-29db-4e77-9c63-333af47d0782" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Alberto Fidalgo Castro, “Of Sacred Things, Taboos, and Orthopraxis: The Concept of Lulik in Timor-Leste”</font></p><p id="gmail-block-5f21b55c-49da-438d-8ed2-967cc2786a0c" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Rahul Goswami, UNESCO 2003 Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Timorese Culture (Title TBC)</font></p><p id="gmail-block-c858f08f-bb73-4d2b-bdd7-95da52b951ee" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Sheena M. Harris, Historical Narratives and School Education (title TBC)</font></p><p id="gmail-block-c858f08f-bb73-4d2b-bdd7-95da52b951ee" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><h4 id="gmail-block-b9a603b7-177a-4051-adfc-9811c5249078" style="box-sizing:inherit;clear:both;line-height:1.8em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:18px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Round Table Session on ‘The Future of Timor-Leste Studies’ (75 minutes session)</font></h4><p id="gmail-block-d0edb80f-ad6b-487b-a626-74c9f063dc67" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em"><em style="box-sizing:inherit"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Time; 9:00 AM 12 Saturday March in East Timor, 14:00 PM 11<span style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:0;vertical-align:baseline">th</span> Friday March in Honolulu</font></em></p><p id="gmail-block-a43cdcce-d4ce-4b8f-b1f5-98bb00c460cf" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Moderator: David Webster</font></p><p id="gmail-block-a43cdcce-d4ce-4b8f-b1f5-98bb00c460cf" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><h4 id="gmail-block-437d49d4-ff70-4431-befc-9d633e86707b" style="box-sizing:inherit;clear:both;line-height:1.8em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:18px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Panel 2. International Relations and Political Economy (100 minutes session)</font></h4><p id="gmail-block-96aaca92-49df-4139-87ea-3846736d5c5e" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em"><em style="box-sizing:inherit"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Time: 10:30 AM 12<span style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:0;vertical-align:baseline">th</span> (Saturday) March in East Timor, 15:30 PM 10<span style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:0;vertical-align:baseline">th</span> (Friday) in Honolulu</font></em></p><p id="gmail-block-70cd894b-6848-4f3e-958a-9a93c5c2de23" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Chales Scheiner, “The Resource Curse in Timor-Leste”</font></p><p id="gmail-block-2305b3f8-2c80-4aff-904f-bf95351bc206" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Wildan Faisol, “Timor-Leste’s Oil Dependence: Constructing the Country Economics”</font></p><p id="gmail-block-25f6c9ce-3017-468a-9efb-c4ba8ae8cad8" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Laurentina ‘Mica’ Barreto Soares, “Foreign Aid and Local Perceptions: The Case of China’s Foreign Aid to Timor-Leste”</font></p><p id="gmail-block-23bd657e-fc42-4aca-b517-fd268a929e42" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Alarico Ximenes, “East Timor Geopolitics in Southeast Asia: East Timor Hedging Strategy vis-a-vis Australia and Indonesia”</font></p><p id="gmail-block-23bd657e-fc42-4aca-b517-fd268a929e42" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><h4 id="gmail-block-72f05f19-c973-46e1-8e24-d7a3afc68052" style="box-sizing:inherit;clear:both;line-height:1.8em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:18px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Panel 3: Political Movements and their Histories (100 minutes session)</font></h4><p id="gmail-block-8dd4702d-f077-4ac5-a65d-e0e2f35b2922" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Time: 22:00 PM 18<span style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:0;vertical-align:baseline">th</span> (Friday) March in East Timor, 03:00 AM in Honolulu on the same day.</font></p><p id="gmail-block-5bd98fb2-82e2-4d68-ac5e-3b63a9dce666" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Marisa Ramos Gonçalves, “Researching East Timorese Ideas of Human Rights and Justice”</font></p><p id="gmail-block-1decdc4f-76d1-4da4-ad6b-8154201bba93" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Chris Lundry, “The East Timor Action Network: Advocacy, Polyarchy, and Lobbying Success on behalf of Self-Determination”</font></p><p id="gmail-block-e2f384ea-4573-4ef0-8aa5-14a4bf7d1d33" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Takahiro Kamisuna, “Nationalism in Transition: Construction and Transformation of Rai Timor”</font></p><p id="gmail-block-d0efbba8-87ce-4a0b-be49-fc9c39576f9e" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Ivo Mateus Gonçalves, “Debanking Colonial Myth: an East Timor Student Movement and Their Media” (title TBC)<br><br><br><br>Best regards, </font></p><p id="gmail-block-d0efbba8-87ce-4a0b-be49-fc9c39576f9e" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Kisho Tsuchiya<br><br>Assistant Professor, Kyoto University (Organizer, the 5th TLSI@AAS workshop)<br><br></font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em;font-family:"Source Sans Pro","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:20px"><br></span></p></div></div>