International Workshop Indigenous Warfare in Precolonial Monsoon Asia
Atelier international sur la nature de la guerre dans l'Asie des moussons précoloniale [renseignement fourni par M. Charney]
Please note that this workshop will include several papers related to Vietnam and the Chams (the lists of papers will be distributed at a later time). M. Charney signale que ce workshop aura plusieurs communications concernant le Vietnam et les Chams.
Department of History
School of Oriental and African Studies
London, January 10-11, 2003
Organizer & Contact person:
Dr. Michael W. Charney (SOAS)
Department of History
SOAS
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
United Kingdom
Tel. +44 (20) 8455-3216
Email: mc62@soas.ac.uk
This is a closed workshop, but if you would like more information, please contact Dr. Michael W. Charney.
This workshop seeks a better understanding of the nature of precolonial indigenous warfare across monsoon Asia. The objectives of the workshop are (1) to better understand the role of warfare in indigenous society throughout monsoon Asia, (2) to understand the ways in which European and Asian forms of warfare differed and why, and (3) to demonstrate that although forms of warfare within monsoon Asia were diverse, better developed research methodologies and paradigms can help to inform research across the regional divide. By bringing together scholars of various backgrounds, focusing on both South and Southeast Asia, we will pursue major issues regarding precolonial indigenous warfare across regional divides (South and Southeast Asia) and across the lines of source materials (between European sources and between European and indigenous sources).
This workshop also seeks to establish a more meaningful agenda for further research on indigenous warfare in monsoon Asia (South and Southeast Asia). We have identified several key areas for research on indigenous warfare: the different impact of warfare on state-building in the monsoon Asia context; the ways in which warfare helps to structure society and how society (especially understandings of gender) determines the organization of warfare; the relationship between culture and warfare, both locally and across monsoon Asia; the special logistical challenges facing indigenous armies in a monsoon environment; special ethnic approaches to warfare, wherein warfare plays a fundamental role in the formation of ethnic identities; the techniques of warfare; the origin and acquisition of new technologies of warfare; and the ways in which warfare crosses a variety of boundaries, whether geographical, political, social, or cultural.
This workshop brings together a core of European researchers with their international counterparts in order to cross-fertilize research approaches and methodologies as well as to inform a broader awareness of ongoing research on indigenous warfare in monsoon Asia.
Schedule
10 January 2003
9:00 Registration
9:30-10:00 Opening of the Workshop
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 Session II: Warfare and Society
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-Ö3:00 Session III: Culture and War
3:00-3:30 Tea Break
3:30-4:15 Session IV: The Logistics of War
5:00-6:30 Dinner
11 January 2002
10:00-11:30 Session V: Ethnic Approaches to Warfare
11:30-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30 Session VII: Technologies
2:30-3:00 Tea Break
3:00-4:30 Session VIII: Crossing Boundaries