[Tlc] TLC-AAS panel call

[justinm at ucr.edu]

Dear All,

As you know the 2010 AAS meeting will be in Philadelphia between March 25th and 29th, 2010. 

If you would like your panel to be considered as the designated TLC panel for 2010, please send your proposal to the executive committee (via justinm at ucr.edu) before June 30th.

Several panel ideas were suggested at the business meeting in Chicago. These include:
A) Dr. Kate Gillogly would like to put together a session on development studies for next year’s AAS.  Ultimately, the focus and abstract will depend on the papers submitted, but she hopes to put together a panel that presents a broad survey of development issues in Thailand/Laos/Cambodia, with a mix among a practical focus among what has been done and what needs to be done or on-the-ground ethnography of how development projects work, with more distanced analyses of how development works as a culture in and of itself in Thailand/Laos/Cambodia.  She would give priority to issues in development studies that haven’t been addressed at the AAS (esp. resettlement, dam-building, urban slums, agricultural development, etc).  She hopes to use this as an opportunity to get people presenting who might not be regular AAS participants.
B) Dr. Sandra Cate suggested a panel on modern art and artists in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia.
C) Dr. Robert Albritton (Ole Miss) suggested a panel on Thai Music.
D) Dr. Nicola Tannenbaum (Lehigh University) suggested a panel on “non-majority” populations in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia.

Please contact Justin McDaniel at justinm at ucr.edu if you would like to participate in any of the panels above.

Best regards,
justin

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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