[Tlc] TLC-AAS panels 2009

[justinm at ucr.edu]

Dear All,

See below the list of panels that have papers related to Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia Studies. The list of individual papers has not yet been published. If I missed anything, please tell me. Regardless, on first glance, it looks like a good year for the TLC!

The conference will be in Chicago from March 26-29, 2009. More details to be sent out this winter. For pre-registration, please see:

http://www.aasianst.org/annual-meeting/registration.htm

This year's TLC sponsored talk is:
"The Scholarship of Roxanna Brown and its Implications for Future Research on the Ceramics, Art, and Trade of Southeast Asia: Sponsored by the Thailand, Laos, Cambodia Studies Group (Robert L. Brown, University of California, Los Angeles)" on Friday at 1 pm.

Thanks,
justin 

http://www.aasianst.org/annual-meeting/panels.htm

THURSDAY, 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

5. Local Motion: Placing Herbal Knowledge in Early Modern East and Southeast Asia (Carla S. Nappi, Montana State University)

6. The Contribution of Pop Culture to Foreign Language and Culture Competency: Examples from Thailand and Cambodia: Sponsored by COTSEAL (John F. Hartmann, Northern Illinois University)

8. Individual Papers: South and Southeast Asia in International Context (Gilbert Rozman, Princeton University)

FRIDAY, 10:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.

50. New Voices in Asian Studies: Selected Graduate Student Papers from AAS Regional Conferences: Sponsored by the Council of Conferences (Mark E. Caprio, Rikkyo University)

54. Monastic Labor: Thinking about the Activities of Monastics in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Theravada Societies (Thomas A. Borchert, University of Vermont)

FRIDAY, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

75. Intersections and Divergences of Traditional Political Authority in South and Southeast Asia (Oona T. Paredes, University of Missouri, Columbia)

79. Truth and Prestige in Southeast Asia: Status, Authority and Knowledge from Indonesia to Vietnam (Gareth Barkin, University of Puget Sound)

80. The Scholarship of Roxanna Brown and its Implications for Future Research on the Ceramics, Art, and Trade of Southeast Asia: Sponsored by the Thailand, Laos, Cambodia Studies Group (Robert L. Brown, University of California, Los Angeles)

FRIDAY, 3:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.

105. The City in Motion: Fluid Dynamics of Culture and Power in Urban Southeast Asia (Sarah Womack, University of Oxford)

SATURDAY, 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

130. Individual Papers: Contemporary Issues in Thailand and Laos (Katherine A. Bowie, University of Wisconsin, Madison)

SATURDAY, 2:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

176. Sovereignty and its Exceptions: Making and Unmaking Impunity in South and Southeast Asia (Ken MacLean, Clark University)

179. Towards an Anatomy of Thailand: Modern Sub-Cultures (Michael J. Montesano, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies)

180. ASEAN/Southeast Asian Literature: Contemporary Trends and Translations (Teri Shaffer Yamada, California State University, Long Beach)

182. Roundtable: “The Language of the Gods in the World of Men:” Commentators from South and Southeast Asia: Sponsored by the South Asia Council (Charles Hallisey, Harvard University)

192. The Sinew of Power: Capital, Trade and Gunpowder in East and Southeast Asia, 1100-1683 (Wing-Kin Puk, Chinese University of Hong Kong)

SATURDAY, 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

200. Local Understandings of Corruption in South and Southeast Asia (Jonathan Padwe, Yale University)

203. Southeast Asian Grotesques: Wonder, Curiosity, and Horror in Perceptions of Southeast Asia (Sarah Benson, Saint Johns College)

205. Roundtable: Early Southeast Asian History: The Legacy of O. W. Wolters: Sponsored by the Southeast Asia Council (Craig J. Reynolds, Australian National University)

SUNDAY, 10:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.

239. Roundtable: Information Access and Border Crossing in Southeast Asian Studies: Sponsored by CORMOSEA (Raymond Lum, Harvard University)


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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
3046 INTN
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu