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"Private Faces of Power and Institutions in Southeast Asia"(2007/12/6-7)

Date: December 6 (Thu.) - 7(Fri.),2007
Venue:Royal City Hotel, Bangkok

Title:"Private Faces of Power and Institutions in Southeast Asia ".


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)