The Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Washington invites paper proposals for our upcoming 2010 Graduate Student Conference to be held on May 14-16 in Seattle, WA. We envision this conference as having a productive role in furthering your current scholarship as graduate students through extensive feedback and peer review of presented works. To facilitate this unconventional conference format we have invited three emerging and innovative scholars, Carlo Bonura, Penny Edwards and Eric Tagliacozzo,.to discuss and share their current work while at the same time intellectually engaging with the themes and issues presented in student papers.
The format is as follows. First, paper presentations shall be grouped with a particular scholar who will read and provide substantive commentary for each of the submissions. In addition, each graduate student presenter will be assigned the paper of another student from their group and will be asked to read and provide comments. We will do our best to match these papers with expertise and interest as closely as possible. Please recognize what we are asking of participants: Not only will you have to write your own paper, you will be expected to provide comments on one other paper. While we realize that this will increase the time commitment, we expect that the resulting discussion will be significantly more beneficial for all of the conference participants.
Second, in lieu of traditional keynote speeches, our invited scholars will guide and participate in opening and closing roundtable discussions that will serve to introduce the themes of the conference and to reflect back on the presented papers. We feel that this format will help conference participants to directly address the connections between their papers, to confront broader questions and themes in the study of Southeast Asia, and to develop deeper professional and personal relationships with each other and with the invited scholars.
Carlo Bonura is a research officer in the Centre for Political Ideologies at the University of Oxford. His current research focuses on a cross-national comparison of Islamic conceptualizations of civil society in Malaysia and Indonesia including the discourses of masyarakat madani (civil society) and Islam liberal in Indonesia and Islam hadhari (civilizational Islam) in Malaysia. As a study in comparative political theory, his research explores the active engagement within contemporary Southeast Asian Islamic thought with Islamic reformist thought, European theories of civil society and the challenges of popular debates over public religion, secularism and multiculturalism. More broadly, his work reflects an interest in comparative methods and in particular the status of comparison as a concept within political theory. Carlo’s parallel research interests lie in the politics of Malay Muslim communities in southern Thailand. In particular, he has examined how narratives of location and their geographical articulations structure Malay Muslim political community as well as determine accounts of the ongoing political violence in southern Thailand. He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Logics of Comparison: the Conceptualization of Islamic Civil Society and Comparative Political Thought.
Assistant Professor Penny Edwards teaches at the University of California Berkley's Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies. She specializes in the modern cultural and political history of Cambodia and Burma, with a focus on textual, material and visual narratives of national, religious, gender and racial identity. Her book Cambodge: The Cultivation of a Nation, 1860 -1945 (Hawai’i University Press, 2007) explores the crystallisation of concepts of nation in and between Khmer and French secular and religious intellectual milieux. She has authored a number of academic articles and is joint editor of Pigments of the Imagination: Rethinking Mixed Race (February 2007), Beyond China: Migrating Identities (2002) and Lost in the Whitewash: Aboriginal-Asian Encounters in Australia, 1901 to 2001 (2003).
Associate Professor Eric Tagliacozzo teaches at Cornell University. His work has centered on the history of people, ideas, and material in motion in and around Southeast Asia, especially in the late colonial age. His first book, Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier (Yale, 2005), examined many of these ideas by analyzing the history of smuggling in the region. Several edited volumes now in press also look at Southeast Asia’s connections with the Middle East; at the idea of Indonesia over a two thousand year-period; and at the meeting of History and Anthropology generally (and conceptually) as disciplines. His upcoming book project entitled The Longest Journey: Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca, will attempt to write a history of this very broad topic from earliest times to the present.
Please submit a 500-word abstract together with a brief statement indicating which of the invited scholars’ work complements your own paper, and a CV to seagradconference@gmail.com .
SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACT DEADLINE: February 15, 2010.
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: March 1, 2010.
COMMITMENT TO ATTEND DEADLINE: March 15, 2010.
Final draft of papers will be due by April 23, 2010. Papers must be in English and please plan for presentations to be no longer than 20 minutes.
At the current moment we cannot provide funds for travel. However, if requested, we can provide a place to stay for graduate students.
The format is as follows. First, paper presentations shall be grouped with a particular scholar who will read and provide substantive commentary for each of the submissions. In addition, each graduate student presenter will be assigned the paper of another student from their group and will be asked to read and provide comments. We will do our best to match these papers with expertise and interest as closely as possible. Please recognize what we are asking of participants: Not only will you have to write your own paper, you will be expected to provide comments on one other paper. While we realize that this will increase the time commitment, we expect that the resulting discussion will be significantly more beneficial for all of the conference participants.
Second, in lieu of traditional keynote speeches, our invited scholars will guide and participate in opening and closing roundtable discussions that will serve to introduce the themes of the conference and to reflect back on the presented papers. We feel that this format will help conference participants to directly address the connections between their papers, to confront broader questions and themes in the study of Southeast Asia, and to develop deeper professional and personal relationships with each other and with the invited scholars.
Carlo Bonura is a research officer in the Centre for Political Ideologies at the University of Oxford. His current research focuses on a cross-national comparison of Islamic conceptualizations of civil society in Malaysia and Indonesia including the discourses of masyarakat madani (civil society) and Islam liberal in Indonesia and Islam hadhari (civilizational Islam) in Malaysia. As a study in comparative political theory, his research explores the active engagement within contemporary Southeast Asian Islamic thought with Islamic reformist thought, European theories of civil society and the challenges of popular debates over public religion, secularism and multiculturalism. More broadly, his work reflects an interest in comparative methods and in particular the status of comparison as a concept within political theory. Carlo’s parallel research interests lie in the politics of Malay Muslim communities in southern Thailand. In particular, he has examined how narratives of location and their geographical articulations structure Malay Muslim political community as well as determine accounts of the ongoing political violence in southern Thailand. He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Logics of Comparison: the Conceptualization of Islamic Civil Society and Comparative Political Thought.
Assistant Professor Penny Edwards teaches at the University of California Berkley's Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies. She specializes in the modern cultural and political history of Cambodia and Burma, with a focus on textual, material and visual narratives of national, religious, gender and racial identity. Her book Cambodge: The Cultivation of a Nation, 1860 -1945 (Hawai’i University Press, 2007) explores the crystallisation of concepts of nation in and between Khmer and French secular and religious intellectual milieux. She has authored a number of academic articles and is joint editor of Pigments of the Imagination: Rethinking Mixed Race (February 2007), Beyond China: Migrating Identities (2002) and Lost in the Whitewash: Aboriginal-Asian Encounters in Australia, 1901 to 2001 (2003).
Associate Professor Eric Tagliacozzo teaches at Cornell University. His work has centered on the history of people, ideas, and material in motion in and around Southeast Asia, especially in the late colonial age. His first book, Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier (Yale, 2005), examined many of these ideas by analyzing the history of smuggling in the region. Several edited volumes now in press also look at Southeast Asia’s connections with the Middle East; at the idea of Indonesia over a two thousand year-period; and at the meeting of History and Anthropology generally (and conceptually) as disciplines. His upcoming book project entitled The Longest Journey: Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca, will attempt to write a history of this very broad topic from earliest times to the present.
Please submit a 500-word abstract together with a brief statement indicating which of the invited scholars’ work complements your own paper, and a CV to seagradconference@gmail.com .
SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACT DEADLINE: February 15, 2010.
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: March 1, 2010.
COMMITMENT TO ATTEND DEADLINE: March 15, 2010.
Final draft of papers will be due by April 23, 2010. Papers must be in English and please plan for presentations to be no longer than 20 minutes.
At the current moment we cannot provide funds for travel. However, if requested, we can provide a place to stay for graduate students.
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