Call for Papers
From: Oscar Salemink <OJHM.Salemink@fsw.vu.nl>
Reply-To: vsg@u.washington.edu
To: Vietnam Studies Group <vsg@u.washington.edu>
Subject: panel on uplands in Southeast Asia at EUROSEAS 2004
Dear colleagues,
Thomas Sikor and I propose a panel on uplands in Southeast Asia for the EUROSEAS conference in Paris, September 1-4, 2004. We are writing to explore your interest in participating and to ask for help in circulating this call for papers.
FOURTH EUROSEAS CONFERENCE
PARIS, 1-4 SEPTEMBER 2004
Panel 32: Sikor/Salemink
Theme: Economic, political and cultural transformations of the Southeast Asian uplands Scholars of Southeast Asia have long been accustomed to thinking in the terms of a radical ecological, cultural and political-economic distinction between lowlands and uplands. Research has only recently begun to question these terms and the implicit separation on the basis of topographic features. This panel is intended to bring together and stimulate scholarship on the economic, political, and cultural processes constituting the Southeast Uplands. Its participants will be encouraged to investigate not only the processes differentiating lowlands from uplands but also the processes linking uplands and lowlands through tribute, trade, markets, state-formation, conservation and development processes. Moreover, in order to debunk essentializing and generalizing notions of 'the uplands', participants will seek to understand patterns and processes of variation within upland regions. Participants are expected to combine locally grounded studies with attention to the larger-scale forces bearing upon upland lives and environments. Concrete issues of interest include the dynamics of market liberalization, migration, international conservation, the exercise of state power, human rights agendas, and the representation of upland people in Southeast Asian media.
Thomas Sikor heads the junior research group on Postsocialist Land Relations at Humboldt University Berlin. He has conducted extensive research on agrarian and ecological change in the uplands of Vietnam. He is now expanding the geographical scope of his research to Albania and Romania to explore the dynamics of postsocialist agrarian transformations in different settings. His e-mail address is thomas.sikor@rz.hu-berlin.de. Oscar Salemink is senior lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Recent publications include The Ethnography of Vietnam's Central Highlanders: A Historical Contextualization, 1850-1990 (2003) ; Viet Nam's Cultural Diversity: Approaches to Preservation (editor - 2001) ; and Colonial Subjects: Essays on the Practical History of Anthropology (co-edited with Peter Pels - 1999); His e-mail address is ojhm.salemink@fsw.vu.nl.
FOURTH EUROSEAS CONFERENCE
PARIS, 1-4 SEPTEMBER 2004
General information
The Fourth Conference of the European Association for South-East Asian
Studies (EUROSEAS) will be held in Paris from Wednesday 1 September
through Saturday 4 September 2001.
We expect at least 300-400 participants from European as well as from Southeast Asian countries. Participation is open to both EUROSEAS members and non-members.
In order to reflect the interdisciplinary character of EUROSEAS, the
programme is organized in parallel day sessions, with 36 panels, which
are listed below.
The deadline for receiving paper abstracts (max. 200 words) is 1 March
2004. Abstracts must be sent directly to the panel convenors.
Registration and accommodation
The conference fee (excluding meals and accommodation) will be €100
for EUROSEAS members and €150 for non-members. For students there
is a reduced fee of €50.
However, there will be an advanced registration between 1 March and 1 June 2004 at preferential rates: €80 for EUROSEAS members, €125 for non-members, and € 40 for students.
If you are interested in attending or participating in the conference, you will be able to register and apply for university accommodation from 1 March 2004 onwards by sending an email or registration form to the conference organization in Paris. Further details will be announced soon on the EUROSEAS website http://www.kitlv.nl/euroseas.html#conference.