8th Southeast Asia Update – Program & book of abstracts online available!

Book of abstracts online available!

The Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (CADS) of Leiden University organizes this year’s annual Southeast Asia Update in cooperation with the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) and the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS). The Southeast Asia Update offers scholars and those interested in the region a platform to meet colleagues and to discuss current issues and new trends. The Update offers especially a platform for young researchers in the Netherlands and neighboring countries to present their work to larger audience.

This year we will also organize three round tables on three themes that in their urgency have a serious impact on the region:

-Climate Change and Environmental Prospects for Future SEA
-Pluralism, Violence and Religious Renewal
-Urban mass culture in colonial Java, 1900-1940

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to get a quick update on new research on Southeast Asia and to meet new colleagues and old friends!

If you want to attend the Update, please contact Yayah Siegers for registration before 13 June 2016: [email protected]

Program

09.15    Registration, tea / coffee

10.00   Welcome, Bart Barendregt (Anthropology, Leiden University) 

10.05   Round Table I  ‘Religious renewal‘

A conversation with Amrita Malhi (University of South Australia), Joshua Gedacht (Universiti Brunei Darussalam), Francis Bradley (Pratt Institute), Chiara Formichi (Cornell University), and Marieke Bloembergen (KITLV). Moderated by David Kloos (KITLV).

11.00   Paper presentations (10 minutes each, plus 20 minutes discussion)

Dominik M. Müller (Goethe University Frankfurt), ‘Bureaucratizing the sharia: Islamic governance and its supernatural counterforces in Brunei Darussalam‘

Elisa Fornale, (Marie Curie Researcher RU), ‘Regional migration governance and social protection in ASEAN’

Ward Berenschot (KITLV) and Charlotte Wagenaar (KITLV), ‘Incumbency, pluralism and democratization: The consolidation of Indonesia’s political class in 2015’

Annemarie Samuels (University of Amsterdam) & David Kloos (KITLV), book presentation Islam and the limits of the state 

12.00  Asian Lunch

13.30  Round Table II ‘Governance of climate change adaptation in Southeast Asia’

Gerry van Klinken (moderator, KITLV)), ‘Researching the governance of climate change adaptation in SEA: Local vulnerabilities and national states’

Richard Tol (University of Sussex), ‘Climate change in Southeast Asia: Economic effects when institutions are fragile’

Eren Zink (Uppsala University, ‘The politics of climate change science in Vietnam: Hot science, high water’

14.30   Paper presentations (10 minutes each, plus 20 minutes discussion)

Maxime van der Laarse (Leiden University), ‘Green consciousness in Indonesia’

Yukari Sekine (Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research), ‘Buddhist repertoires in Burma’s environmental movements: Local rituals, practices and construction of legitimacy’

Annet Pauwelussen (Wageningen University), ‘Cyanide delight: Affective lifeworlds of dive fishing in the Makassar Strait’

15.30   Break, tea /coffee 

16.00   Round Table III ‘Urban mass culture in colonial Java, 1900-1940’

Henk Schulte Nordholt (moderator, KITLV), with short presentations by Tom Hoogervorst (KITLV), Arnout van der Meer (Colby College), Dafna Ruppin (Utrecht University) and Henk Schulte Nordholt (KITLV)

17.00   Paper presentations

Paul Bijl (KITLV, University of Amsterdam), ‘Legal self-fashioning: Empathy, will and the colonial history of rights’

Hoko Hori (KITLV/Van Vollenhoven Institute), ‘Child marriage in Indonesia and a plurality of norms’

Friederike Trotier (Goethe University Frankfurt), ‘City promotion in decentralized Indonesia: Palembang’s new image as a ‘sport city’’

17.45   End and drinks