ICAS 10 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 20-23 JULY 2017 THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF ASIA SCHOLARS CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 20–23 JULY 2017 CHIANG MAI THAILAND ICAS 10 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 20-23 JULY 2017 CONTENTS 2-3 Welcome 4-5 Venue Floor Plan 6-7 Schedule at a Glance 8-11 Special Events 12-21 Film Screenings 22-27 Exhibitions THE 10TH 28-107 Panel Schedule INTERNATIONAL 108-127 CONVENTION OF Advertisements ASIA SCHOLARS 128-136 List of Participants CONFERENCE 137-144 List of Participant PROGRAMME Affiliated Institutions Notes 20–23 JULY 2017 CHIANG MAI THAILAND CO-SPONSORS Chiang Mai City Arts & Cultural Center Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Thailand Convention & Exhibition Bureau ICAS 10 WELCOME 20-23 JULY 2017 WELCOME TO ALL ICAS 10 PARTICIPANTS On behalf the Local Organising Committee, I would like to extend our warm welcome to all participants of ICAS10, taking place from 20-23July 2017 in Chiang Mai. As the 10th edition of ICAS is taking place in Asia, it will be greatly beneficial and intellectually challenging to invite Asia scholars to use this platform to discuss and exchange ideas on how we can better understand the changes that are happening in this region today. The conference is envisaged as an opportunity for participants to question the old paradigms and to search for new ones that can help us to analytically investigate the emerging economic, political and social order, as well as to conceive a realisation of the need for a new methodology to help us in better dealing with the problems of environment degradation, migration, authoritarianism, ethnic conflict, inequality, commoditisation of culture, and so forth. The emergence of the ASEAN community in Asia is a hope for economic, political and socio-cultural connectivity as well as a challenge for policymakers and the grassroots. ASEAN in Asia is, thus, one of the central themes of this conference. We hope that participants will find a chance to critically examine the role of the ASEAN community in the context of a neoliberal economy. We are proud of the fact that Chiang Mai was chosen to be the venue for ICAS 10. It is situated in the middle of Asia, particularly in between China and India. It is a living ancient city of diverse ethnic groups, with a Northern Thai majority. It can be seen as an example of a place where two civilisations meet and are overlaid by modernity. Chiang Mai can present itself as a good example of an Asian city undergoing rapid changes while struggling to retain its traditions and cultures, with the active participation of local communities. It is our honour to be part of this conference. We hope all Asia scholars and other participants enjoy the vibrant academic deliberations and intellectual exchanges during this conference, and invite you all to join us in the celebration of Chiang Mai’s 721th anniversary. On behalf of the Local Organising Committee, Chayan Vaddhanaphuti, PhD. 2017, Chiang Mai Scenes of Chiang Mai. Images reproduced under a Creative Commons license, courtesy of flickr. of courtesy license, Commons under a Creative reproduced Images Chiang Mai. of Scenes 2 ICAS 10 WELCOME 20-23 JULY 2017 WELCOME FROM IIAS AND ICAS We warmly welcome all participants and visitors to the in 2018. In the same vein, the workshop “Perspectives on Tenth International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 10) Asian Studies in Latin America”, held in November 2016, has here in Chiang Mai, the ancient capital of the Lanna Kingdom, given birth to a new Latin America network on Asian studies. with its rich social and cultural heritage. Together with our An inaugural conference is planned for 2019. In the true ICAS local host and organiser, Chiang Mai University, ICAS 10 will spirit, these pan-African and pan-Latin American conferences bring fresh knowledge and perspectives to the city’s relations on Asian studies set out to bring together a diversified range of with the rest of Asia, through exchanges between a wide range individuals and institutions from these continents as well as the of international academic, social and cultural actors, on a rest of the world, whose shared engagement with Asia will further vast range of subjects including urban development, social deepen Asia-Africa and Asia-Latin America intellectual relations. and economic transformation, migration and connectivity, history and cultural heritage. Another way IIAS and ICAS facilitate the confluence of localised ‘connected knowledges’, and the decentring of the landscape In the lead-up to ICAS 10, it has been an honour and a great of knowledge about and in Asia, is the ICAS Book Prize (IBP). pleasure for us to collaborate with Chiang Mai University, From the start, the IBP has had a broad interdisciplinary basis in particular Acting Vice President for International Relations (‘Social Sciences’ and ‘Humanities’) instead of the traditional Prof. Dr Rome Chiranukrom, and the local organisers from geographic or disciplinary compartmentalisations. The recent CMU’s Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable diversification of the IBP’s language basis, in collaboration Development (RCSD), Prof. Dr Chayan Vaddhanaphuti with partners and sponsors from other linguistic regions, and Kanchana Kulpisithicharoen, in addition to many is a clear example of this decentralising approach. In addition other persons and institutions in Chiang Mai, including to the existing English Edition, the IBP will this year honour our supporting partners: Thailand Convention & Exhibition publications in the Chinese, Korean, French and German Bureau (TCEB) and the Chiang Mai International Exhibition languages. To achieve this growth, prospective partners were and Convention Centre (CMECC). approached to either organise and/or sponsor the respective language editions. We would like to thank the following Established in 1997, ICAS is a global platform enabling institutes, which eagerly took up the challenge: The Education individuals and institutions from different parts of the University of Hong Kong (Chinese Edition), Groupement world to come together to exchange views on a variety d’intérêt scientifique Études asiatiques (GIS Asie) (French of issues pertaining to Asia. Its Secretariat is hosted by the Edition), the German Institute of Global and Area Studies International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden, the (GIGA) and the Schweizerische Akademie für Geistes- und Netherlands. IIAS operates as a network-based, research- Sozialwissenschaften (SAGW) (German Edition), and Seoul driven organisation supporting the study of, with and National University Asia Center (SNUAC) (Korean Edition). in Asia. Informed by a humanistic agenda, the institute Together with the Asian Library/Leiden University (English focuses primarily on three thematic clusters: Asian cities, Edition), the IBP is now shouldered by eight institutions in Asia Asian cultural heritage and global Asian interactions. and Europe. We hope to include two more book prizes in the future, in Japanese and Spanish/Portuguese. ICAS has contributed to decentring the field of Asian studies by including a wider variety of voices from Asia, but also from We wish all participants, exhibitors and visitors a fruitful time other regions of the world. It has succeeded in convening an at ICAS 10 and an enjoyable stay in the vibrant and heritage-rich open space in which Asia scholars and cultural and social actors Chiang Mai. from the whole world can directly interact. An illustration of ICAS´s inclusive and global reach is the co-organisation with the Association of Asian Studies in Africa (A-ASIA) of its inaugural conference, “Asian Studies in Africa. Challenges and Prospects of a New Axis of Intellectual Interactions”, with the University of Ghana in Accra in September 2015. This historic conference Philippe Peycam Paul van der Velde is set to have a follow-up at the University of Dar es Salaam Director IIAS Secretary ICAS 3 ICAS 10 VENUE FLOOR PLAN 20-23 JULY 2017 VENUE FLOOR PLAN CHIANG MAI INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION AND CONVENTION CENTRE 4 ICAS 10 VENUE FLOOR PLAN 20-23 JULY 2017 ASIAN STUDIES BOOK FAIR Hallway A A1 Areca Book A2 Tara Books A6 University of Washington Press A7 Silkworm Books A8 NIAS Press A9 GIGA German Institute of Global & Area Studies A10 River Books Hallway B B3 Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences B4 Palgrave Macmillan B5 Entrepot Publishing B6 HIPE Publications B7 Routledge B8 Routledge B10 Wanfang Data Corporation B11 ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute B12 Amsterdam University Press B13 Cambridge University Press B14 Gale B15 Brill B16 NUS Press B18 Combined Academic Publishers B19 The Collective Bookstall B20 International Institute for Asian Studies B21 International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) & Asian Library, Leiden University Hallway C C1 Center for Asian & African Studies, EI Colegio de México C2 Hong Kong University Press C3 IRASEC/KITLV C4 Seoul National University Asia Center C5 Chiang Mai University C6 Chiang Mai University C7 UM China Data Center C8 Northern Smile Travel 5 ICAS 10 SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE 20-23 JULY 2017 SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE WEDNESDAY 19 JULY Afternoon Registration and badge pick up City Museum THURSDAY 20 JULY 8.00 – 16.00 Registration and badge pick up Registration Desk 9.15 – 16.30 Asian Studies Book Fair open Hallway A, B, C 9.15 − 11.00 Panel sessions Rooms: 1-25 11.00 – 11.30 Morning Tea Hallway A, B, C 11.30 − 13.15 Panel sessions + Film screening Rooms: 1-25 + Film 13.15 – 14.15 Lunch Food Court 14.15 − 16.00 Panel sessions + Film screening Rooms: 1-25 + Film 16.00 – 16.30 Afternoon Tea Hallway A,