[Tlc] TLC-UW Conference in honor of Charles Keyes

[justinm at ucr.edu]

FYI. This is a conference in honor of Professor Charles Keyes.
It is open to the public and features papers on a wide range
of subjects in TLC and SEA Studies.
Best,
justin

Conference Announcement
Religion, Ethnicity, and Modernity: Identity and Social
Practice in Asia

October 5-6, 2007
University of Washington
Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall

The Southeast Asia Center at the Henry M. Jackson School of
International Studies will celebrate its 20th anniversary on
October 5-6 by honoring the scholarly contributions of its
founding director, anthropology professor Charles "Biff"
Keyes.  Since the beginning of his career, Professor Keyes's
work has centered on three key Weberian themes-religion,
ethnicity, and modernity-which, together and separately, have
had special relevance to the study of Southeast Asia, and Asia
more generally.  Leading scholars of the region will attend
this two-day conference to explore these three concepts and
their relevance in understanding the complex and volatile
processes of change that have taken place in the region.

All parts of the conference are free and open to the public. 
The panels will begin at 2:00pm on Friday, October 5 and
continue throughout the day on Saturday.  There will be
receptions both evenings, with a dinner and keynote address on
Saturday by James Scott, Sterling Professor of Political
Science and Professor of Anthropology at Yale University.  If
you plan to attend Saturday's dinner and keynote address,
please rsvp to us at <seac at u.washington.edu>.   

For more details of the conference, hotel and shuttle
information, please visit our website at
http://jsis.washington.edu/seac. A conference schedule with
paper titles and abstracts will be posted by September 15. 

The conference will take place with generous support from the
Henry M. Jackson Foundation, the University of Washington
College of Arts & Sciences, the Center for Global Studies, the
department of Anthropology and the U.S. Department of Education.

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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
2617 Humanities Building
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu