Fouth Euroseas Conference

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.

List of Panels
The following list of panels gives an accurate indication of the great variety of themes that will be discussed during the Fourth EUROSEAS Conference in Paris. For details, please contact the panel convenor(s) of the panel(s) that you are interested in. You will find their contact details after the panel description.

Panel 1: Bertrand
Theme: Mental health in Southeast Asia

The issue of mental health is becoming prominent in the international health agenda. It is leading cause of disability and an important part of over-all burden of disease. Most of South East Asian countries are now facing new challenges in order to address these needs and set up appropriate care and support. The panel aims at comparing: country mental health situations and problems (including epidemiological-demographic data); the main reasons for the increase of mental health problems; different prevailing societal attitudes and believes towards mental health and mental illness in South East Asia (level of discrimination or tolerance); mental health care seeking care behaviours; current methods of management of mental illness through both traditional and medical systems.

The main questions to be addressed are:
- To what extent are western-based psychiatric understandings of mental health and tools appropriate in prevention and care?
- What kind of innovative actions could be promoted taking into account local cultural, societal, economical and medical contexts?

Dr Didier Bertrand
IRSEA- CNRS, Marseille
Université de Toulouse le Mirail
FRANCE
Email: dbertrand@univ-tlse2.fr

Panel 2: Booth/Lindblad
Theme: Globalization and Regional Integration in South East Asia and along the Western Pacific Rim in the 20th Century

Export growth and diversification, inward flows of foreign direct investment and increased international migration are all aspects of what may be termed globalization. In the South East Asian context links with the global economy have been increasing, albeit it at different rates in different parts of the region, for over a century. But since the 1970s links with the regional economy of the Western Pacific rim have also become more important, and there has been much discussion of establishing appropriate inter-governmental institutions to foster these links. Some economists suspect that such institutions may be protectionist, and tend to downplay their relevance to the region, emphasizing instead the maintenance of an open trade and investment regime along the western Pacific Rim.

The purpose of the panel will be to explore all facets of the processes of globalization and regional integration in South East Asia over the 20th century. Although the list is not exclusive, the panel organizers would particularly welcome papers, which address the following themes:

(1) Growth and changing patterns of commodity trade, with particular emphasis on quantifying both changing composition of commodity trade and changing direction of trade.
(2) The relationship between trade and economic growth in countries and regions.
(3) Related to (2), processes of convergence and divergence in per capita GDP. Both within the countries of South East Asia and between those countries and the OECD economies
(4) Changing investment flows within South East Asia and between South East Asia and other parts of the world over the 20th century, and their economic impact. Papers can focus on one aspect, such as direct private investment, or portfolio investment, OR compare different investment flows, both official and private.
(5) Economic causes and consequences of migration flows within South East Asia and between South East Asia and other parts of the world over the 20th century.
(6) The impact of trade, investment and migration flows on economic growth and on the distribution of income within and between countries and regions.
(7) The role of formal associations (ASEAN, AFTA, EAEC, APEC) in encouraging closer economic links within South East Asia and between South East Asia and other countries in the western Pacific Rim, and in other parts of the world.

Dr Anne Booth
Dept. of Economics
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
University of London
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H OXG
UNITED KINGDOM
Email: ab10@soas.ac.uk

Dr Thomas Lindblad
Department of Economic and Social History
Leiden University
PO Box 9515
2300 RA Leiden
THE NETHERLANDS
Email: j.t.lindblad@let.leidenuniv.nl

Panel 3: Bouvier-Smith/Jonge/Smith
Theme: Violence in Southeast Asia. Ethnicity, Nationalism and Religion

The parameters of internal conflicts in Southeast Asian countries have evolved significantly in recent years due to various attempts at democratisation (in Myanmar, Cambodia, the Philippines, and Indonesia) and decentralisation (most prominently in Indonesia), the continuing fallout from the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, and most recently, the global 'war on terrorism'.Though nationalist, ethnic and religious identities have long been fought over in 'traditional' Asian societies, their mobilisation has transformed and intensified a number of the region's ongoing conflicts. Much social science research has focused on Southeast Asia's various conflict zones. This panel will provide a forum for presenting the state of this research. How much closer are we now to identifying the mechanisms and processes underlying interpersonal and collective violence, the signs that provide early warning, or the paths that lead toward positive conflict transformation? Particularly encouraged are papers that situate violent conflicts in their political, ecological, economic, religious, cultural, and global contexts, or that use case study and comparative research to address wider methodological and theoretical issues in the social sciences.

Dr Hélène Bouvier-Smith
Laboratoire Asie du Sud-Est et Monde Austronésien (LASEMA)
CNRS -UPR 297
Centre A.G. Haudricourt
7, rue Guy Môquet
94810 Villejuif Cedex
FRANCE
Email: bouvier.smith@laposte.net

Dr Huub de Jonge
Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology
University of Nijmegen
P.O. Box 9104
6500 HE Nijmegen
THE NETHERLANDS
Email: H.deJonge@maw.kun.nl

Glenn Smith
Laboratoire Asie du Sud-Est et Monde Austronésien (LASEMA)
CNRS -UPR 297
Centre A.G. Haudricourt
7, rue Guy Môquet
94810 Villejuif Cedex
FRANCE
Email: glenn.smith@laposte.net

Panel 4: Brac de la Perriere/Picard
Theme: Ethnicity, religion, and nation-state in Southeast Asia

Unlike the "world religions", whose basic tenets and symbols have to be meaningful to people of diverse cultural backgrounds, "traditional religions" are but a facet of a particular cultural system, inseparable from the totality of social life therein. Participation in their rites is a consequence of membership in a residential community as well as in a kin group. In such circumstances, religious identity coincides with ethnic identity. Increased participation in a broader social order, both in the form of an encounter with world religions and incorporation into a nation-state, is deemed to sharpen a sense of both ethnic and religious identity.

The question to be addressed in this panel is to elucidate what conversion to a missionary religion implies in terms of ethnic identity. While religious conversion often entails the crossing of an ethnic boundary, it is not necessarily the case, due to a growing dissociation between ethnic and religious identities. Religion provides a focus of identification that may crosscut or on the contrary nurture ethnicity. Why is religious allegiance central to some ethnic identities, and not to others? In short, how can we account for the form assumed by new religious constructs in dialogue with world religions and the nation-state?

Dr Bénédicte Brac de la Perriere
Laboratoire Asie du Sud-Est et Monde Austronésien (LASEMA)
CNRS - UPR 297
Centre A.G. Haudricourt
7, Rue Guy-Môquet
94801 Villejuif Cedex
FRANCE
Email: brac@ext.jussieu.fr

Dr Michel Picard
Laboratoire Asie du Sud-Est et Monde Austronésien (LASEMA)
CNRS - UPR 297
Centre A.G. Haudricourt
7, Rue Guy-Môquet
94801 Villejuif Cedex
FRANCE
Email: mpicard@ext.jussieu.fr

Panel 5: Braginsky/Murtagh
Theme: Looking inwards, looking outwards: Southeast Asians about themselves, their neighbours and the world beyond Southeast Asia

The panel will concentrate on the problem of the 'self'and the 'other': i.e., how the literary discourse, traditional and modern, reveals the image of writers' own peoples, of their Southeast Asian neighbours and of the world outside Southeast Asia. Three groups of topics are suggested for the discussion:

1. The sense of self and the image of national identity, which pays attention to specific features of national identity as portrayed by Southeast Asian writers; literary representations of the national character in its relation to the natural environment, religion, culture and history.
2. Those nearby or the image of the neighbour, which focuses on knowledge of the peoples of Southeast Asia about each other (e.g., the Thais about the Malays, the Vietnamese about the Khmer) and literary stereotypes in which this knowledge was/is embodied; as well as the vision of neighbours and relationships with them.
3. Those faraway or the image of the foreigner, which pays attention to the formation and transformation of the vision of the world beyond Southeast Asia at the different stages of literary history: ideas of its countries, nations and cultures; stereotyped images of the peoples with whom centuries-long relations have been maintained (the Chinese, the Indians, etc.) and of colonizing nations; and visions of weak and strong aspects of the civilization of the 'other'.

Dr Vladimir Braginsky
Dept. of Linguistics
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
University of London
Thornhaugh street
Russell Square
London WC1H OXG
UNITED KINGDOM
Email: Vb1@soas.ac.uk

Dr Benjamin Murtagh
Dept. of Linguistics
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
University of London
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H OXG
UNITED KINGDOM
Email:bm10@soas.ac.uk

Panel 6: Brown
Theme: Prison and punishment in South-East Asia. Historical and contemporary perspectives

This panel invites papers on any aspect of the prison and punishment in South-East Asia, in the past or present-day. Among the aspects which might be examined are: the ways in which the institution of the modern prison and the practice of confinement, imported from the Western world from the middle of the nineteenth century, were adapted to local social and political circumstances; the effectiveness of the prison as an instrument of social and political control; the colonial prison and the nationalist movement; ethnic and gender structures within the prison; rehabilitation and moral reform in the prison during the colonial period, and, in the modern world, the impact of declining faith in the prison's disciplinary power. But the panel also invites papers on forms of punishment in South-East Asia other than imprisonment -exile, execution, tattooing, and amputation - and in particular papers on indigenous notions of criminality and punishment, both historical and contemporary. Papers from any discipline -history, political studies, literature, sociology, and religious studies - are welcome.

Dr Ian Brown
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
University of London
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H OXG
UNITED KINGDOM
Email:ib@soas.ac.uk

Panel 7: Del Testa/Quinn-Judge/Rettig
Theme: 75 Years On. Reinvestigating Vietnam's Revolutionary High Tide of 1903/1

With the benefit of new sources, the end of the Cold War, and drawing on a bigger body of scholarly literature, influenced by new approaches and themes, we intend to re-investigate the revolutionary upsurge of 1930/1 and thus deepen and widen our understanding of this crucial juncture in French and Vietnamese history. Our main disciplinary tools of exploration will be those offered by history, political science, ethnography, literature, and the visual arts.

We are interested in receiving contributions touching upon any of the following themes: 1930/1 in history, historiography and theory; violence, peace, and conflict resolution; 1930/1 from a Communist perspective; 1930/1 as seen from colonial institutions; 1930/1 in Vietnam: contemporary non-Communist, non-colonial state reactions; 1930/1 in the metropole; 1930/1 in comparative perspective (Southeast Asia, China, South Asia); antecedents and futures of 1930/1. Our aim is to publish the revised conference papers in a major academic press. Contributions by Vietnamese and East European scholars are in particular invited.

Dr David del Testa
Department of History
Californian Lutheran University
Thousand Oaks/CA
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Email: deltesta@clunet.edu

Dr Sophie Quinn-Judge
Cold War Studies Programme/International History Department
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
London
UNITED KINGDOM
Email: sophie_qj@yahoo.com

Tobias Rettig
History Department
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
University of London
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H OXG
UNITED KINGDOM
Email: rettigtobias@aol.com

Panel 8: Dovert/Madinier
Theme: About the contemporary identities of the Malay world (XIXth - XXth century)

Does the Malay world exist? What are its boundaries, its historical, religious and linguistic characteristics? This panel intends to draft some answers to these questions, inviting specialists of various disciplines (history, linguistics, anthropology, political sciences...) and working on several countries (Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Brunei, Timor, South Thailand) to present their contribution. Rather than large summaries based on previous works, we will focus on approaches based on well-defined and innovative corpus, particularly insisting on projects and speeches from the area and aiming to precise what the so-call 'Malay world' really means.

Dr Stéphane Dovert
Institut de Recherche sur l'Asie du Sud Est Contemporaine (IRASEC)
32/38 Sino-Thai Tower 15th floor
Sukhumvit 21
Bangkok
THAILAND
Email: direction@irasec.com

Panel 9: Faure
Theme: The role of Japan in the Greater Mekong Sub-region

The central question of this study focuses on Japan's leadership and initiative in Indochina development. Although Japan is a top donor in Southeast Asia, and is economically powerful and politically influential, Tokyo has a long way to go in demonstrating leadership in any comprehensive development project abroad. During the last decade, Indochina became a critically important factor economically and politically in promoting Japan¹s diplomacy, and more recently for Japan's ASEAN policy. Japanese government had come to place particular importance on providing assistance to Indochina countries realizing the fact that GMS has captured the spotlight as a new frontier for development. However, ASEAN looks disappointed with Japan¹s economic contributions. In the same time, China became recently more active diplomatically in regards of its relations with ASEAN and Indochina. How Japan will react to this new situation, as China represents both an opportunity and a threat for some ASEAN member countries? The GMS offers a case study of the lack of both a clear vision of the future and a lack of leadership to achieve its goals. Therefore, it seems important to answer the following questions: Who controls the GMS agenda? And is Japan still playing a central role.

Dr Guy Faure
Institute of East Asian Studies
Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines
15 Parvis René Descartes
BP 7000, 69342 cedex 07, Lyon
FRANCE
Email: guy.faure@ens-lsh.fr

Panel 10: Formoso/Turton
Theme: Minorities rights and National Integration

The aim of this panel is to offer a forum for social anthropologists, historians, geographers and jurists interested by an examination of the rights and status of ethnic minorities, urban or highlanders, in contemporary South-East Asia. In the context of post-colonial nationalist policies, and of local states progressively strengthening control over their spatial and social margins, such a question is of great relevance. Actually, the rights of minorities, especially of highlanders, forest or sea peoples
are challenged by assimilation^Òs policies carried on by elites of the dominant socio-cultural majorities (Javanese, Siamese, Burmese, Khmer). Considering citizenship, landownership, economic opportunities and other aspects, the members of these groups are facing ostracism and restrictions, which reduce them to the condition of 'low grade subjects'. The objectives and effects of such policies have to be analysed, as well as the politic answers of those who undergo them. The role assumed in this interaction by international organisms, NGOs, Medias, and other institutions should also be considered.

Dr Bernard Formoso
Département d'ethnologie
Université Paris X Nanterre
200 Av. De la République, 92001 Nanterre cédex
FRANCE
Email: bernard.formoso@club-internet.fr

Dr Andrew Turton
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
University of London
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H OXG
UNITED KINGDOM
Email: at1@soas.ac.uk

Panel 11: Fournié
Theme: Literature and societal changes in Southeast Asia: outsiders' insight

It will consist in discussing the relevance of the literary modes of expression (mainly Indonesian, Vietnamese and Thai) as a tool to evaluate the transformations of present-day societies for foreigners. These groups are to be divided in two parts: those able to read and understand the original texts from those who read translations printed in Europe. This last point is of particular relevance for Vietnamese literature since literary works have been translated in almost all European languages.

This panel, besides emphasizing the modernity of contemporary Southeast Asian literature, is intended to be an incentive to translation works for specialists trained in our faculties but also a stimulus to read and study these translated short stories and novels both in university departments and for the general public concerned by a 'better and mutual understanding' between EU and SEA.

Dr Michel Fournié
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO)
2, rue de Lille
75343 Paris cedex 07
FRANCE
Email:fournie@inalco.fr

Panel 12: Gainsborough/Ramsay
Theme: Border Provinces and Border Relations of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos: Past and Present

Adopting both an historical and contemporary perspective, the panel will look at border provinces and border relations of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Its aim is to delineate the different political and economic forces involved, asking what agendas are being pursued and how they relate to each other. The panel particularly wishes to facilitate comparison about borders and border relations over time, exploring how the meaning, significance, and importance of borders may have changed. Papers addressing issues to do with borders in the pre-colonial and colonial period, in wartime Indochina, and in the contemporary period, including incorporating current debates about globalization and regionalism, are all welcome. The panel aims to be multidisciplinary so scholars from different disciplines are encouraged to submit abstracts. Panelists should draw as much as possible on original field or archival work.

Dr Martin Gainsborough
Dept. of South East Asian Politics
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
University of London
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H OXG
UNITED KINGDOM
Email: mg40@soas.ac.uk

Dr Jacob Ramsay
Faculty of Asian Studies
The Australian National University
Canberra, ACT 0200
AUSTRALIA
Tel.: +61 2 6125 2640
Fax: +61 2 6125 8326.
Email: jacob.ramsay@anu.edu.au

Panel 13: Goldblum/Franck/Lancret/Clément
Theme: Cities at the edge of metropolisation

Following works of Saskia Sassen and for Asia Terry Mc Gee, urban studies in the 1990's have mostly focused on the metropolisation process and the functional, socio-economic and morphological evolution of large metropolitan areas, within the context of globalization. This panel proposes to present a new perspective by focusing on the impact on cities placed at the edge of metropolisation, of the internationalization of urban economy and the regionalisation of the world system. These cities may be regional capitals such as Medan, Surabaya or Chiang Mai, or small national capitals as Vientiane or Phnom Penh. The specificity of our approach is to highlight three dimensions for these cities. They are linked to a regional and national hinterland. They take part in the urban hierarchies, which are dominated by the network of the Asian metropolis. They acquire new international functions within emerging transnational organizations.

The approach bears on the interconnection of these three scales. What are the markers and the actors of the internationalization of these cities? What are their capacities of territorial organization and the shape it takes? Which are the new processes of urban fabric and regional construction linked to the implementation of international funded projects? A special attention will be given to architectural changes, to the hybridization of architectural forms through the introduction of exogenous models versus the persistence of ancient forms.

We hope this panel will help to reconsider the often-undervalued position of these cities within urban and regional dynamics in Southeast Asia and to refine the concepts used to describe them.

Dr Charles Goldblum
Laboratoire Asie du Sud-Est et Monde Austronésien (LASEMA)
Campus CNRS,
Centre A.G. Haudricourt
7 rue Guy Môquet,
94801 Villejuif
FRANCE
Tel.: +33 1 49 58 38 12
Fax: +33 1 49 58 38 13
Email: charles.goldblum@wanadoo.fr

Dr Manuelle Franck
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO)
Department of Southeast Asia, Himalayas, South Pacific
Centre Universitaire Dauphine
Place du Maréchal Delattre de Tassigny
75016 Paris
FRANCE
Tel.: +33 1 44 05 44 32
Fax: +33 1 44 05 47 55
Email: manuelle.franck@inalco.fr

Dr Nathalie Lancret
CNRS - Ipraus
78 rue Rébeval
75019 Paris
FRANCE
Tel.: +33 1 53 38 50 56
Fax: +33 1 53 38 50 50
Email: nathalie.lancret@wanadoo.fr

Dr Sophie Clément
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Groupe de géographie sociale et d^Òétudes urbaines
54 Bd. Raspail
75006 Paris
FRANCE
Tel.: +33 1 49 54 25 25
Fax : +33 1 45 44 93 11
Email: Sophie.Clement@ehess.fr

Panel 14: Goscha
Theme: Between Imperial Retreat and the Cold War: Early South and Southeast Asian Responses to the Cold War (1949-1962)

Just as the outbreak of the Cold War in Europe after WWII forced Western European leaders to rethink their security and their places in the world, so too did the arrival of the Cold War to Asia force non-communist Asian countries to make equally hard and historically important choices. Moreover, if former European colonial powers soon found their interests in Asia influenced by Cold War imperatives, Asian nationalists found their efforts to promote a decolonised region complicated by the impact of the Cold War. Much has been written on the process of imperial withdrawal from Asia. And thanks to the opening of new archives, we now know much more about the communist sides during the Cold War. Surprisingly, we still know precious little about how newly independent South and Southeast Asian countries viewed and dealt with the Cold War; the policies and actions of the retreating Western imperial powers and the Americans arriving on the scene; or how the communist giants, China and the USSR, viewed these countries trying to run a middle-course. This panel addresses these questions.

Dr Christopher Goscha
Institut d'Asie Orientale
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lettres et Sciences Humaines
15, Parvis René-Descartes
69342 Lyon Cedex 07
FRANCE
Email: cgoscha@club-internet.fr

Panel 15: Goudineau/Hardy
Theme: Migration and Indigeneity. Narratives on 'origins and territories' in Mainland Southeast Asia (historical and anthropological perspectives)

Behind the entire history of the region lies the memory of conquests (extension of the Tai populations, Vietnamese expansion into Champa, etc.), migrations both forced (Lao, Burmans, Phuan) and spontaneous (Hmong, Tibeto-Burman), and transmigrations organised within newly formed nation states (in Laos, Vietnam, Thailand). Yet, from both nationalist and indigenist perspectives, a regional debate has emerged around the notion of identification to and possession of territory, justified in terms of antiquity, legitimacy and the rights and powers (notably of religion) of certain populations over the land... Migration and indigeneity are two inter-related themes, which should be studied together in a multidisciplinary perspective including history (archaeology, court annals, historical demography) and anthropology (notably of religion and politics). The scope of the subject is broad, and the panel will attempt to bring examples from different countries to bear on a number of pertinent questions, shedding light on key issues and proposing avenues of approach.

Dr Yves Goudineau
IRD-Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient (Paris)
24 rue du Regard
75006 Paris
FRANCE
Email:yves.goudineau@paris.ird.fr

Dr Andrew Hardy
Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient (Hanoi)
5 pho Ha Hoi
Hanoi
VIETNAM
Email: hardyvn@yahoo.co.uk

Panel 16: Grave/Collomb
Theme: Transmission, apprenticeship and education in South-East Asia

This panel deals with practices (ritual, artistic, sportive, educative) and more especially with their systems of transmission. Participants will present the practice they study, then, will describe the process of transmission one uses to keep alive the savoir-faire. The way social values influence perpetuation of the techniques must be considered too. The general comparison will thus be more focussed on transmission systems as an interface between a practice and a social system than on a common classification by kinds. The interest of the theme is to study the differences and, all the more, the similarities between 'oral/corporal transmission' and written/formal transmission' and the relation that occurs between them.

Dr Jean-Marc de Grave
Laboratoire Asie du Sud-Est et Monde Austronésien (LASEMA UPR 297)
Campus CNRS BP8
94 801 Villejuif cedex
FRANCE
Email: degrave.jm@wanadoo.fr

Natacha Collomb
Maison de l'archéologie et de l'ethnologie René Ginouvès
Université Paris X - Nanterre
200, avenue de la République
92 001 Nanterre cedex
FRANCE
Email: nacollomb@numericable.fr

Panel 17: Grünbühel/Singh
Theme: Biophysical and socio-economic transition in Southeast Asia

In recent years, several studies have reported that the strategy of economic development followed by SE Asian societies has been to intensify the extraction of a limited number of resources. The transition to present resource extraction levels and consumption practices have led to drastic changes in social structure and cultural practices, and have decreased the potential for innovative solutions. Concomitant to biophysical transitions (i.e. material and energetic throughput and land-use patterns), the panel explores the analogous effects on socio-economic systems, such as changes in time use patterns and societal interrelations. These can be adequately monitored through case studies while simultaneously informing about changes occurring within the subsistence economy that are not reflected in classical macro-economic studies. This session explores new methods and approaches that have been developed in order to describe the physical economy of transitional societies and to formulate typologies of economic activities, each with their restricted area of performance.

Papers are invited to represent a broad range of different stages in transition, from relatively closed societies managing their own resource base to societies that are interconnected socially, economically, and materially with economic hubs and larger networks.

Dr Clemens M. Grünbühel
Department of Social Ecology
Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies at Austrian Universities
Schottenfeldgasse 29/5
1070 Vienna, Austria
Tel.: +43 1 522 4000 407
Fax: +43 1 522 4000 411
Email: clemens.grunbuhel@univie.ac.at

Dr Simron Jit Singh
Department of Social Ecology
Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies at Austrian Universities
Schottenfeldgasse 29/5
1070 Vienna, Austria
Tel.: +43 1 522 4000 407
Fax: +43 1 522 4000 411
Email: simron.singh@univie.ac.at

Panel 18: Gueraiche/Korinman
Theme: Traditional political structures under the influence of democracy

Western countries' analyses of their former colonies in Southeast Asia (or in other parts of the world) have traditionally been performed according to a given theoretical framework. The existence of a state, political parties, and the installation of parliaments representing 'the nation', for example, are taken as indicators that the country acquired, as part of its colonial heritage, a specific political model, and that it is therefore on the road to democracy. Positivist explanations for some governments' deviations from the Western model of democracy are not uncommon: the persistence of warlords in Thailand or the genocide committed by the Khmer Rouge are historical 'errors' that do not call into question the fact that the modern state in Asia is heading towards western-type democracy. What is the relevance of western concepts in understanding what 'democracy' means in Singapore, or what 'republic' signifies in the Philippines? The optical illusion that the world functions according to the occidental model disappears when we examine these countries on a smaller scale. Democracy is exposed as a veneer that masks deep-rooted pre-colonial practices that follow a different logic, or are at best a syncretism of traditional and western structures.

These issues will be discussed in two half-day sessions. The first part (convenor: William Guéraiche) focusing on history, will combine papers on nationalist leaders. Figures such as Sukarno and Suharto, Ho Chi Minh, Manuel Quezon and Lee Kuan Yew were at the juncture of two cultures: how did they combine (or not) existing political systems and western legacy? The second part (convenor: Michel Korinman) will examine the same questions, but at the level of political groupings: what are the regional and / or national specificities and what comparisons can be made for Southeast Asia as a whole?

Dr William Gueraiche (part 1)
33, rue Mathurin Régnier
75 015 Paris
FRANCE
Email:wilgueraiche@wanadoo.fr

Dr Michel Korinman (part 2)
Sérignac
82 500 Sérignac
Tel.: +33 5 63 65 24 03
Email: michel.korinman@wanadoo.fr

Panel 19: Guerreiro/Kerlogue
Theme: Material culture, local heritage conservation and the construction of identities in contemporary Malay-Indonesian World

In the 1960s, post-colonial insular Southeast Asia countries, the local elites have defined new conceptual entities focussed on the construction of national identities through the processes of creating a National culture within their pluri-ethnic societies. Ethnic groups living at the periphery were excluded or marginalized culturally. In turn, since the mid-1990s, these populations are now asserting their identities through either key items of material culture (architecture, sculpture, textiles or basketry) or Festivals linked to local expressions of identity and ethnicity, which are promoted and supported by the local governments, NGOs. The 'revitalisation' processes linked to material culture have received little attention until now in contrast to other contemporary expressions of cultural identity in the Malay-Indonesian context.

The panel explores the actual role of Museums, cultural Festivals and craft activities in the processes of building a regional/local identity and the conservation of cultural heritage, with its implications for tourism and handicrafts production. Are these reinvented, events and/or complex, hybrid or transformed objects, merely symbolic or economic investments of material culture?

Dr Antonio Guerreiro
IRSEA
Marseille
FRANCE
Email: AGuerr7065@aol.com

Dr Fiona Kerlogue
Anthropology Department
The Horniman Museum
100 London Road
Forest Hill
London SE23 3PQ
UNITED KINGDOM
Email: Fkerlogue@horniman.ac.uk

Panel 20: Harrison/Jedamski
Theme: Between Reproduction, Transformation and Reinvention. Women in South East Asian Arts, Literatures and the Media

Artistic and literary works in South East Asia, whether created by men or women, have infrequently served to reflect and to reinforce patriarchal stereotypes of women. The objective of this panel is to expose 'texts' from a range of fields including oral and written literatures, folklore, cinema, the print media, advertising, television, radio, theatre, fine art and photography to an examination of the multiple layers of female characterisation and representation they encompass. In this context we seek to investigate the extremes of female stereotype, from the ideal and pure woman (the virginal daughter, the perfect, loyal wife, the all-forgiving mother) to the inverse expression of male fantasy and fear (female monsters and ghosts, angry, vocal, violent or cruel women and uncaring mothers, eroticised or sexually 'perverted' women such as lesbians and prostitutes).

What the panel aims to achieve through the analysis of such depictions is an opening up of the space between the binary oppositions of 'good' and 'bad' to reveal the possibilities for a more complex layering of female characterization and portrayal. We take this question a stage further in a call for papers specifically examining how female writers and artists have attempted to break with convention and counter male-directed imagery of women, and how they themselves have been received. To what extent does their subversion of stereotypes open up sufficient critical space for women (and men) to develop new concepts of gender and gendered relations and to transform and reinvent their roles.

Dr Rachel Harrison
Centre of Southeast Asian Studies
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
University of London
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
WC1H OXG London
UNITED KINGDOM
Email: rh6@soas.ac.uk

Dr Doris Jedamski
Salomonsteeg 3A
2311 SC Leiden
THE NETHERLANDS
Email:D.Jedamski@planet.nl

Panel 21: Henley/Boomgaard
Theme: Credit and debt in Southeast Asia, past and present

The economic crisis, which has afflicted Southeast Asia over the last five years, was precipitated in the first place by excessive borrowing and debts. Although the magnitude and international scope of this problem are new, it reflects a much older pattern. For centuries, observers have remarked on a characteristic complex of debt-related features of economic and social life in Southeast Asia: high levels of debt; high interest rates; a lack of savings; a general scarcity of cash; debt-bondage of various kinds; and a need for advance payments in order to initiate commercial transactions. Throughout the twentieth century, governments in the region sought (with varying success) to combat what they saw as the problems of usury and indebtedness among the population by means of state credit and pawning institutions. The aim of this panel is to investigate the reasons for high interest rates and high levels of indebtedness in the past, and to assess the continuing relevance of the high interest/debt/dependency complex in present-day Southeast Asia.

Dr David Henley
KITLV
P.O. Box 9515
2300 RA Leiden
THE NETHERLANDS
Tel.: +31 71 527 2913
Fax: +31 71 527 2638
Email:henley@kitlv.nl

Dr Peter Boomgaard
KITLV
P.O. Box 9515
2300 RA Leiden
THE NETHERLANDS
Tel.: +31 71 527 3242
Fax: +31 71 527 2638
Email: boomgaard@kitlv.nl

Panel 22: Hitchcock/Van der Boon
Theme: Gender, Politics and Business in Southeast Asia

The term 'political business' is often used by analysts to describe the close interrelationship between business interests and governance in Southeast Asia. In the region one also finds significantly large percentages of women in influential management positions in both the private and public sectors. This is an exploratory panel designed to compare research findings on the cultural aspects of business and the role played by gender, ethnicity, class, cronyism and traditions in contemporary Southeast Asia.

Dr Michael Hitchcock
International Institute for Culture, Tourism and Development
London Metropolitan University
277-281 Holloway Road
London N7 8HN
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel.: +44 20 7133 3322
Fax: +44 20 7133 3082
Email: m.hitchcock@londonmet.ac.uk

Panel 23: Le Vu Quan/ Nguyen Manh Cuong
Theme: Understanding Reform. Vietnam's Transition to Market Economy

Vietnam officially launched its reform in 1986 at the Sixth Communist Party Congress. Doi Moi was a slogan for the reform aimed at building a market-based economy in Vietnam. The performance of the reform in the 1990s was considered highly successful. Together with China, Vietnam has been one of the most successful transitional economies in the world during the last fifteen years. Therefore, it is of great importance and noteworthy to understand the reform process in Vietnam and from which lessons could be drawn for reform in other transitional countries. The panel attempts to address the following questions:

(1) Why Vietnam was able to carry out the reform successfully while many other countries failed?
(2) What were the determinants of the Vietnam Communist Party (VCP) to carry out the reform?
(3) What was the approach of the reform: gradualism vs. big bang? And top-down vs. bottom-up?
(4) While political reform did not happen, economic reform took place on a drastic scale, raising the question of what external factors besides politics in pushing forward the reform?
(5) How institutional change took place during the reform and to what extent the improvement in the quality of institutions played a role in the success of the reform?
(6) What were the social and environmental consequences of the reform?

Dr Le Vu Quan
Department of Economics and Finance
Albers School of Business and Economics
Seattle University, 900 Broadway, Seattle,
WA 98122
USA
Tel.: +1 206-296-5737
Fax: +1 206-296-2486
Email: lequ@seattleu.edu

Dr Nguyen Manh Cuong
Institute of Social Studies
P.O. Box 29776
2520 LT The Hague
THE NETHERLANDS
Tel.: +31 70 426 0484
Fax: +31 70 426 0799
Email: manh@iss.nl

Panel 24: Lim/ Braeuchler
Theme: The Internet and Society in Southeast Asia

While the Southeast Asian Internet and digital communications is not the dominant network in the world, its impact in social, culture, and politics of the society in this part of the world has been tremendous. How do the phenomenal changes in communication affect social relations and institutions in Southeast Asian countries? How do Southeast Asian communities worldwide interact online? Who has access to the new media and who is excluded? How is the global Southeast Asian Internet situated in relation to the digital globalization and the 'Western' domination of the Internet? The proposed panel provides a distinguished forum to explore these topics and problems.

Dr Merlyna Lim
University of Twente
Enschede
THE NETHERLANDS
Email: merlyn@bdg.centrin.net.id

Panel 25: Manguin/Glover
Theme: New Data on the Transition to Statehood in Early Southeast Asia

During the first century of archaeological and historical research in Southeast Asia, orientalist scholars, initially trained in the study of neighbouring Indian or Chinese cultures, chronically disregarded the millennium long period that led from late prehistory to the emergence, around the 5th century AD, of those civilizations that could be studied with the tools they were familiar with: philology, epigraphy, art history and monumental archaeology. This disregard for the proto-historical phase of Southeast Asian archaeology, and a focus on little else but monumental archaeology and art history for the historical phase, led to profound misrepresentations of crucial developments in early state formation and urbanization. For long, the enduring controversies over the processes of 'Indianisation' (and 'Sinicisation') of Southeast Asia, while gradually returning responsibility for some of the cultural dynamics to the local people, did not bring about real progress because of lack of solid data to substantiate the various interpretations at hand.Recent progress in the archaeology of proto-historical and early historical sites is now closing the long-standing gap between prehistory and 'classical' Southeast Asia: these studies have brought proof that regular exchange with the Indian subcontinent and, to a lesser degree, with China had become the rule long before inscriptions, monuments and statuary inspired by India started appearing in Southeast Asian sites, therefore conclusively contradicting earlier assumptions on an abrupt 'civilizing' process driven from overseas. The emergence of complex polities in western Southeast Asia during the early 1st millennium AD can now be firmly associated with regional and long-distance trade networks in which the Southeast Asian peoples and political powers played an essential role, alongside merchants from regions further a field. This panel proposes to bring together some of the archaeologists that have contributed to this epistemological and methodological leap forward and younger scholars presently engaged in similar research in this field.

Dr Pierre-Yves Manguin
Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient
22, av. du President Wilson
75116 Paris
FRANCE
Email: manguin@efeo.fr

Panel 26: Margolin/Delaye
Theme: Singapore, central and singular

Since 1819, Singapore has been at the crossroads of Southeast Asia. Yet the island has always represented a very peculiar societal, political and economic construction: the 1965 independence may not have been accidental after all. This panel should focus on the centrality, the originality and the influence of Singapore, both along the colonial period and more recently. How did politics interact with the economy and the society, at different stages, and in different areas? When, how and by whom was Singapore considered as a possible model? How was assumed, developed and protected the central position of Singapore, both in words and in deeds? Historians, geographers, political scientists, economists and sociologists should make use here of their differing approaches on a unique reality. 'Longue duree' and comparative papers will be most welcome, but more focused ones will be considered too. The goal of that gathering is to further the often-neglected European knowledge on Singapore, through the investigation of a few essential questions common to several social sciences.

Dr Jean-Louis Margolin
Institut de Recherche sur le Sud-Est Asiatique (IRSEA/CNRS)
Université de Provence
Campus Saint-Charles
3 place Victor-Hugo
13003 Marseille
France
Tel.: +33 4 91106114
Fax: +33 4 91106115
Email: margolin@noos.fr

Panel 27: Persoon/Perez
Theme: Indigenous Peoples in Southeast Asia. The international discourse, national policies and local realities

As we are approaching the end of the UN Decade of Indigenous Peoples (1994-2004), numerous international bodies are reviewing their policy guidelines with respect to indigenous peoples. Others are still struggling to achieve final wordings for their declarations. At the same time indigenous peoples around the world have become more vocal, better organized and interconnected through modern means of communications. As a result, the topic of indigenous peoples is well established on the agenda at international forums ranging from the bodies of the United Nations, the Convention on Biological Diversity, World Intellectual Property Organization, the multilateral donor agencies (World Bank, Asian Development Bank) and the nature conservation organizations.The apparent unity at the global level however is not present at the national level. Within the Southeast Asian context countries differ widely with respect to the recognition or acceptance of the rights of indigenous peoples. Indonesian policies are still aimed at integration and assimilation of what is being called 'the isolated communities'. The Philippines has largely accepted the international trend and issued its 'Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act (1997) while the situation in other Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam, and Malaysia, and is still dominated by policies aimed at integration into mainstream society. At the same time indigenous people throughout the region are getting more united and use the international discourse for putting pressure on the national governments in their struggle for territorial rights, cultural rights and protection of their traditional knowledge and intangible culture.

The aim of this panel is to bring together researchers with an interest in the interaction between the international discourse, national policies and manifestations of indignity at the local level.

Dr Gerard A. Persoon
Centre of Environmental Science
Leiden University
P.O. Box 9518
2300 RA Leiden
THE NETHERLANDS
Tel.: +31 71 527 7474
Email: persoon@cml.leidenuniv.nl

Panel 28: Reyes/ Priyambudi Sulistiyano
Theme: Southeast Asia in the new Global Context

Remarkable developments have occurred in Southeast Asia since the collapse of the European communist block. It has witnessed dramatic politico-economic changes and crises, increasing internationalization, changing political consciousness, growing diasporic movements, and the rise of transnational terrorist threat and involvement. Under such volatile conditions, scholarly traditions and knowledge are often made ineffective, and redefinitions of the political, economic and cultural landscapes much needed. A 'new' Southeast Asia requires the re-examination of past frameworks and the understanding of emerging indigenous perceptions and experiences. The contributors of this panel take up this task, as they explore and try to provide answers to diverse contemporary social phenomena of the region: Malaysia's urban cultural transformation in relation to global economic formations; the issues of reconciliation, power and forgiveness in the complex social matrix of Indonesian politics after the fall of the New Order; the figurative return to the Filipino people amongst Filipino historians to argue for an 'emic' indigenization and appropriation of their discipline; and the region's linguistic transformations in terms of loan words. The panel attempts to offer a regional perspective on formative identities in current Southeast Asia that is sensitive to the region's interconnections with and differentiation from global processes and formations.

Dr Portia Reyes
Southeast Asian Studies Programme
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
AS 3, 06-17
National University of Singapore
117570 SINGAPORE
Tel.: +65 68745010
Fax: +65 67776608
Email: seapr@nus.edu.sg

Panel 29: Reyes/Rato
Theme: Sexuality and medicine in nineteenth century Southeast Asia

This panel will explore how medical practitioners, spiritual leaders, prose writers and poets in different Southeast Asian cultures imagined sexuality. It will discuss how reproductive physiology; sexual pleasure and venereal diseases were described and will examine the impact of western medicine on popular perceptions of the body. As western influences intensified in the latter half of the nineteenth century, mental states and sexual practices came to be recategorised under new scientific rubrics, bringing about a shift in conceptions of what constituted the normal and the pathological. Modern scientific discourse however often did not challenge traditional moral prescriptions. Arguments purportedly founded on 'science' and 'reason' were deployed instead to perpetuate negative views of female sexual desire. What place did modern medicine hold for the traditional arts of love or indigenous methods of contraception and abortion? In what ways did an anatomical understanding of bodily mechanisms include a physiology of pleasure? The panel will address how the emerging western medical specialties of psychiatry, gynaecology and obstetrics scientifically reaffirmed female sexuality and sexual desire as dangerous.

Dr Raquel Reyes
Department of Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia and the Islands
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
University of London
UNITED KINGDOM
Email: rr11@soas.ac.uk

Dr Montira Rato
Department of Eastern Languages
Faculty of Arts
University of Chulalongkorn
THAILAND
Email: montira.r@chula.ac.th

Panel 31: Robinne/Sadan
Theme: Reconsidering Political Systems of Highland Burma.

A Study of Kachin Social Structure: Comparative approaches 50 years on from Leach 2004 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure by Edmund Leach. This panel will mark the continued relevance of this classic work, but will also attempt to contemporize some of the issues with which it deals by presenting significant new research. It is hoped that the papers collectively will facilitate new readings of this major work and revitalize the interpretive apparatus by which new researchers may come to know it. Three ethno-historical themes will frame the panel:

1) A critical examination of Leach's theory of socio-political oscillation in the light of new research. Issues to consider may include analysis of the relationship of theory to fieldwork, the integration of historical and anthropological data, and the manner in which political, 'verbal' and geographic categories are privileged in Leach's analysis
2) Analysis of the syncretic or oppositional relations between 'traditional' animist or shamanistic religious practices and those of Buddhism and Christianity. The impact of these relations on contemporary Kachin social and political organization, and the manner in which Kachin elites negotiate aspects of the 'traditional' and the 'modern' may also be considered.
3) Processes of centralization and their impact on Kachin engagement with the Burmese central power. Comparative analysis of engagement with the state in China and India may also be considered.

Dr. François Robinne
Maison Asie Pacifique
Université de Provence - Campus St Charles
3 place Victor Hugo
13003 Marseille
FRANCE
Tel.: +33 4 91 10 61 45
Fax: +33 4 91 10 61 15
FRANCE
Email: Francois.Robinne@up.univ-mrs.fr

Dr Mandy Sadan
Department of History
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H OXG
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel.: + 44 207 7637 2388 ext. 4670
Email: mandy.sadan@talk21.com

Panel 32: Schulte Nordholt/Tornquist and Charras/Fau
Theme: Local autonomy: democracy and identity in comparative perspective.

The global trend toward according more local autonomy has also affected the countries of Insular Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and South Thailand). The recent implementation of Regional Autonomy in Indonesia represents a radical change from four decades of centralization. During the first two sessions, part 1 (approx 6-8 papers) of this panel we would like to analyze the political effects of decentralization and the establishment of regional autonomy in various countries in Southeast Asia. It has been assumed that a transition from a centralist tot a decentralized state is paralleled by a transition from authoritarian to democratic rule and a shift in emphasis from a strong state to a strengthening of civil society. Assumptions like these should be critically reviewed. We invite papers, which discuss the political impact of decentralization and regional autonomy and in particular the forms and figurations of regional leadership and the conditions and constraints under which democracy can take shape.

The second two sessions, or part 2 (approx. 6-8 papers) deal with spatial and cultural aspects of decentralization. Two movements can in this respect be identified: the first is a powerful tendency to split administrative territories into smaller units; the other a still embryonic tendency toward inclusiveness, i.e. interregional initiatives which give shape to new alliances and wider networks, (e.g. either inter provincial within for instance Sumatra, Sulawesi, or Kalimantan --the pan-Dayak movement--
national or even transnational --Malays and Chinese on both sides of Malaka Strait). These movements are a reaction to the excesses of the previous period during which local cultures were marginalized, ethnic diversity negated, and regionalization obstructed. Questions that are addressed concern the two opposite trends in order to evaluate the premises of a dynamic regional reconstruction, which is perhaps more in conformity with the specificities of an archipelagic space organized around and by its seas.

Dr Henk Schulte Nordholt (part 1)
KITLV
P.O. Box 9515
2300 RA Leiden
THE NETHERLANDS
Tel.: +31 71 527 6477
Fax: +31 71 527 2638
Email: schultenordholt@kitlv.nl

Dr Muriel Charras (part 2)
Laboratoire Asie du Sud-Est et Monde Austronésien (LASEMA)
CNRS - UPR 297
Centre A.G. Haudricourt
7, Rue Guy-Môquet
94801 Villejuif Cedex
FRANCE
Tel.: + 62 21 788 312 69 (until end of August 2004)
Fax : + 62 21 781 47 85 (until end of August 2004)
Email: charras@ext.jussieu.fr/ charras@cbn.net.id(until end of August 2004)

Dr Nathalie Fau (part 2)
Laboratoire Asie du Sud-Est et Monde Austronésien (LASEMA)
CNRS - UPR 297
Centre A.G. Haudricourt
7, Rue Guy-Môquet
94801 Villejuif Cedex
FRANCE
Tel.: +33 1 42 39 60 50 (= also fax)
Email: n.fau@wanadoo.fr

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.

Dr Oscar Salemink
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Faculty of Social Sciences
Free University Amsterdam
De Boelelaan 1081c
1081 HV Amsterdam
THE NETHERLANDS
Tel.: +31 20 444 6712 / 6704
Fax: +31 20 444 6722
E-mail: ojhm.salemink@fsw.vu.nl

Panel 33: Tertrais/Boisseau du Rocher
Theme: South-East Asia and Europe: pattern and partnership

South-East Asian countries are close to European cultures due to the results of colonisation. From a historical viewpoint, we can perceive at least three periods in South-East Asian-European relations since 1945. First, the decolonisation period, which meant, on the one hand, a break in bilateral relations between European and South-East Asian nations (The Netherlands-Indonesia, France-Vietnam, Great Britain-Malaya) and, on the other, the awakening of Asia as a region. In the second period, Europe and South-East Asia were each separately engaged in the regional building process: EEC in 1957 and, ten years later, ASEAN, which could be said to follow the European model. And, slowly, the latter took up relations with the European organization. Finally, despite their economic differences and different historical backgrounds, regional building continues parallel to each other with the two regions strengthening their relationship on a multilateral basis notably since 1996 in ASEM (Asia Europe Meeting), following a joint French-Singaporean impetus. The panel will examine the relationship between South-East Asia and Europe in the second part of the XXth century according to different aspects (economical, political, social, cultural) and on different levels and various scales

Dr Hugues Tertrais
Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
& IRICE-CNRS
110 Rue des Grands Champs
75020 Paris
FRANCE
tertrais@univ-paris1.fr

Panel 34: Thompson/Guenel, Grange/Guillou, and Van Eeuwijk/Schroeder-Butterfill
Theme: Transformations in Health Care Systems in Southeast Asia

Health care systems in Southeast Asia have been subject to various transformations in recent times as well as in the past. Dramatic changes such as colonial intrusion, demographic transition, or economic crisis have strongly affected health care systems in the region. Consequently, individuals and communities have been forced to deal with new medical realities, which induce changes in health behaviour and attitudes, as well as in health and illness patterns. This panel will cover three topics, each with its own session:

1) Public health in Indochina and its implications in terms of demographic and socio-cultural transformations within indigenous societies. Papers could examine the interaction between Western and local conceptions of endemic diseases, the historical development of public health during the colonial period, and coexistence between biomedicine and traditional medical systems and consequences of this for the structure of post-independence health care systems.
2) Emerging 'neo traditional healers' in Southeast Asia's health care systems. Papers welcome on, for example, outlook of traditional/neo traditional therapeutic supply and the interactions between medical doctors/traditional/neo traditional healers, and the influence of international bodies and national policies on healers' practices.
3) The consequences of health transition in Southeast Asia, such as rapid ageing, the emergence of chronic diseases, urbanization and changes in lifestyle influencing health. Contributions invited on the elderly and health, the shift from cure to care, urban health, and pluralistic use of health provision.

Dr Michele Thompson (topic 1)
Southern Connecticut
State University
501 Crescent St.
New Haven/CT 06515
USA
Email: Thompsonc2@southernct.edu

Dr Françoise Grange (topic 2)
Institut Universitaire
d'Études du Développement (IUED)
24, rue Rothschild
Case Postale 136
CH-1211 Genève 21
SWITZERLAND
Tel: +41 22 906 59 80
Fax: +4122 906 59 47
Email: Francoise.Grange@iued.unige.ch

Dr Peter van Eeuwijk (topic 3)
Institute of Anthropology
University of Basel
Münsterplatz 19
CH-4051 Basel
SWITZERLAND
Tel.: +41 61 267 27 38
Fax: +41 61 267 27 47
Email: Peter.Vaneeuwijk@unibas.ch

Panel 35: Tran Thi Liên/Quinn Judge
Theme: The Democratic Republic of Viet Nam and the 'Fraternal Countries' during the Cold War (1954-1975)

Since the disintegration of the communist bloc, a new approach to the International Relations of the Vietnam conflict, as well as to the internal functioning of the DRV, is possible, thanks to newly accessible sources from Eastern Europe. The aim of this panel is to explore the different points of view of the 'fraternal countries' on the DRV, between 1954 and 1975. On the one hand, the panel intends to highlight the complex diplomatic relationships between the two big brothers with the DRV: USSR policy towards Vietnam (1949-1964) (Mari Olsen, PRIO, Oslo), and Sino-Vietnamese relationships (1966-1973) (C A Connolly, LSE, London). On the other hand, it proposes to emphasize the points of view of Eastern European Communist Parties on the internal policy of the Lao Dong party and to examine how they influenced their Vietnamese comrades: The Ideological Debate in the DRV in 1967-68 and the Significance of the Anti-Party Affair (Sophie Quinn Judge, LSE, London), North Vietnamese Domestic and Unification Policies in a Comparative Perspective, 1954-1964: Similarities and Differences between the DRV and the DPRK. from Hungarian archives (Balazs Szalontai, CEU, Budapest) and The Catholic Question in North Viet Nam from Polish Sources (1954-65).

Dr Tran Thi Liên
Centre d'Histoire du XX e Siècle (CHEVS)
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
2/16 rue des Papillons
59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq
FRANCE
Email: tltran@nordnet.fr

Dr Sophie Quinn Judge
2, East Montgomery Ave.
Bala Cynwyd Pa, 19004
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Email: sophie_qj@yahoo.com

Panel 36: White/Lont
Theme: Living with Crisis in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia's 1997 economic crisis has had different, often contradictory and sometimes unexpected impacts in different countries and different social groups. This period of turbulence exposed the failure or predicament of particular models of social, economic and/or political development, and reshuffled social relations in many corners of society. Comparative dimensions, historical depth, and local-level research in its broader context, are thus important elements in the understanding of how Southeast Asians, in various countries and social groups, experienced and responded to recent developments. The mechanisms through which global and national economic or political convulsions are translated into local impacts and responses have been studied in all Southeast Asian countries. We propose to organize a panel session which aims to bring together a number of local and regional studies, to explore the experience of crisis in Southeast Asia from a comparative perspective, to provide a window on more fundamental features of social, economic and political change.

Dr Ben White
Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
Kortenaerkade 12
2518 AX The Hague
THE NETHERLANDS
Tel.: + 31 70 4260 548
Email: whiteb@iss.nl

 

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