Thammasat University
and
Kyoto University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Co-Organized with Global COE Program "In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere"
under
CORE University Program by JSPS
on
Private Faces of Power and Institutions in Southeast Asia
Date: December 6th-7th, 2007
Venue: Royal City Hotel, Bangkok
Master of Ceremony: Asst.Prof.Dr. Cattleya Petchsing (Assistant Rector for International Affairs)
December 6
10.00 AM - 12.00 AM: Plenary Session
Opening Speech:
- Professor Anon Boonyaratavej, Secretary to the NRCT
- Professor Kou Ikejima, Director of JSPS Bangkok Office
- Professor Kosuke Mizuno, Director of CSEAS, Kyoto University
Keynote Speech:
- Professor Benedict Anderson: "Are networks and extended families the enemies of serious democracy in SEA Asia- The crisis of political parties"
- Professor Surapon Nitikraipot: "Globalization and Asian Societies"
12.00 AM - 1.30 PM: Lunch
Room 1 Project 7: "Social Resistance and Good Governance"
1.30 PM - 3.00 PM: Individual Paper (30 min/each)
- Naruemon Thabechumpon (Chulalongkorn University) on anti-dam movements
- Nalinee Tanthuwanit (Thammasat University) on anti-dam movements
- Krisada Boonchai (Thammasat University) on community environmental movements
3.15 PM- 4.30 PM: Comments by:
- Fumio Nagai (Osaka City University)
- Junko Hoshi (University of Tokyo)
Discussion
Room 2 Project 8: "Changing Families"
1.30 PM - 4.30PM: Individual Papers "Families": Internal Workings and Cultural Reproduction
- Kwanchewan Buadaeng: "The Ancestor Spirit Cults and Family Relation: Case of Karens in Northern Thailand"
- Yoko Hayami: "Family" and Cultural Reproduction against Mobility and Transience: Three cases of Karen across the border"
- Yunita Wiharto: The Persisting and Changing Family in Java: Empowering Women, Changing Power Relations-
- Aroonrut Wichienkeo: (Short introduction on Northern Thai manuscripts and reference to family-related issues)
Discussion
Room 3 Project 9(1): "Comparative Asian Economic History: Institutions and Environment
1.30PM - 4.30PM
- Kaoru Sugihara: "Labor-intensive Industrialization in Global History: Some thoughts on Southeast Asia"
- Porphant Ouyyanont: "Cheap Labor and the Industrialization of Bangkok after 1945"
- Somboon Siriprachai: "The Postwar Economic Development in Thailand: An Overview"
- Koichi Fujita: "Worlds Apart: Peasants in Japan and Agricultural Laborers in Bangladesh"
- Mya Than: "Myanmar's Agriculture in Historical Perspective"
Discussion
Note: other committed participants include Professor Kenta Goto and Professor Pasuk Pongpaichit
4.45PM -6.00PM: Joint Discussion of the 3 Projects (Introduction of each session)
6.30PM: Dinner Hosted by Prof.Dr. Surapon Nitikraipot (Rector of Thammasat University)
December 7 9.00 AM - 12.00AM: Project Sessions
Room 1 Project 7: "Social Movements"
9.00 AM - 10.15AM: Individual Papers (30 min/each, except Prof. Somchai, 15 min)
- Boonlert Visetpricha (Thammasat University) on homeless issues
- Somchai Phathananunth (Thammasat University) on farmer's movements
- Dianto Bachriadi (Agrarian Resource Center, Indonesia) on land occupation issues
10.15AM - 11.30AM: Comments by:
- Fumikazu Ubukata (Kyoto University)
- Teresa E. Tadem (University of the Philippines)
11.30AM - 12.30PM: Individual Papers (30 min/each)
- Fumikazu Ubukata (Kyoto University): "Let's Get Villagers Involved in: "The Strategic shift of Raw Material Procurement and Its Consequences in the Thai Pulp Industry"
- Teresa E. Tadem (University of the Philippines): "Localizing and Transnationalizing Governance and Democratization: The anti-globalization campaigns in the Philippines and Thailand on anti-globalization campaign"
Discussion
Room 2 Project 8: "Changing Families"
9.00AM - 12.00AM: Individual Papers "Transnational Families"
- Odine de Guzman: "Families in Transition: International Labor Migration, Gender and the Romance of the ‘Filipino Family'.
- Ratana Boonmatya
- Patcharin Lapanun: "Perception and Negotiation: Transnational Marriage and Local Isan Villagers"
- Wu Xiao An
Discussion
Room 3 Project 9(2): "Political Networks in Asia"
9.00AM - 12.00AM
- Onimaru Takeshi: "What we try to do in political networks in Asia"
- Hisasue Ryoichi: " The bank of Canton" in Sun Yat-Sen's Revolutionary Movement, Fund Raising and Overseas Chinese Networks"
- Joel Ariate
- Zuraida Mae D. Cabilo: " From Supermarket Shelves to the Halls of Policaymaking: The Philippines Fair Trade Forum (PFTF) as a political network"
- Sharon Quinsaat
Discussion
Note: other committed participants include Dr. Nobuhiro Aizawa
12.00AM - 1.30PM: Lunch
1.30PM - 5.00PM: Afternoon Session (separate sessions in 3 rooms)
Room 1 Project 7: "Social Movements"
1.30PM - 2.15PM: Individual Papers (15 min/each)
- Junko Hoshi (University of Tokyo): "The Community-based anti-dam movement under democratization and nationalism: The transition of social movement in Meinung, Taiwan"
- Kosuke Mizuno (Kyoto University) on labor movement
- Hetifah Sjaifudian (Akatiga-Center for Social Analysis, Indonesia) on citizen forum
2.15PM - 3.30PM: Comments by:
- Naruemon Thabechumpon (Chulalongkorn Univeristy)
- Masaaki Okamoto (Kyoto University)
Discussion
3.30PM-5.00PM: Individual Papers (30 min/each)
- Fumio Nagai (Osaka City University) on local government in the aging society
- Je Seong Jeon (Chonbuk National University, South Korea) on Korean connection in the movement
5.00PM - 6.00PM: Comments by:
- Kosuke Mizuno (Kyoto University)
- Vienrat Nethipo (Chulalongkorn University)
Discussion
Room 2 Project 8: "Changing Families"
1.30PM- 3.30PM: Individual Papers on "Family, Law and Ideology"
- Sulistyowati Irianto: "Changing Legal Position of Women in Inheritance with gendered perspective in Law (Case study among the Batak Women in Indonesia"
- Koizumi Junko (Kyoto University): "Family and Inheritance in Siam: Legal, Reforms, and Court case in the late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (provisional)"
- Chalidaporn Songsampan (Thammasat University): "Private Family, Public Contestation: Debates on Sexuality and Marriage in the Thai Parliament"
- Yeh Chienwei (Ibaragi University)
3.45PM - 4.45PM: Individual Papers on "Privatized Space and Public Power"
- Patricio Abinales: "Violence in the Golden Ghetto and the Unraveling of the Filipino Elite Family"
- Chalong Soontravanich
5.00PM - 6.00PM: Integration and Discussion
6.30PM: Dinner Hosted by Assoc.Prof.Dr. Chulacheeb Chinwanno (Vice Rector for International Affairs, Thammasat University)
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