Call for papers - Portuguese/Luso Asian (Singapore and Malaysia)

Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia, 1511-2011

28–30 September 2010

Singapore and Melaka

Co-sponsored by :

The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

The Embassy of Portugal in Singapore

CFP Website:  Call for papers-28-30.sep.10 (pdf)

In recognition of the half-millennium that has transpired since Afonso de Albuquerque's conquest of Melaka in 1511, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies issues this call for papers for a three-day interdisciplinary international conference of about 25 scholars to explore the legacies and evolution of Portuguese and Luso-Asian peoples and communities in Southeast Asia (along the Goa-Melaka-Macau axis) over the past 500 years.  Contributors are encouraged to submit paper abstracts whose themes build on recent scholarship that is introducing fresh perspectives for characterizing and contextualizing Portuguese/Luso-Asian experiences and interactions in the region.  Papers that also attempt to demonstrate (a) long-term legacies and evolutionary processes, or (b) linkages between the Portuguese/Luso-Asians in Southeast Asia and the larger Portuguese world globally are especially welcome.  Possible themes for papers include:

- Societal accommodation and attendant outcomes;

- Collaboration, integration, adaptation, and networking;

- Continuities, discontinuities, and transformations (political, economic, social, cultural, religious, or scientific);

- Reciprocal cultural impacts and social hybridity;

- Interactions and conflicts;

- The dynamics and impact of both formal and informal Portuguese and Luso-Asian structures and communities.
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Paper selection will begin on 12 April 2010 and conclude on 10 May 2010.

Electronic versions of proposals should be submitted to Dr. Laura Jarnagin Pang, PhD.
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