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The Year of ASEAN: Integrating Southeast Asia20–24 March 2015 at Sunway University, Malaysia
4th AnnualSoutheast AsianStudies Symposium
in conjunction with theAsian Economic Panel conference
The Southeast Asian Studies Symposium organised by the University of Oxford is the world’s largest annual conference on Southeast Asia.
It aims to present interdisciplinary and transnational
solutions to contemporary Southeast Asian issues,
provide opportunities for dialogue and networking
among academic, business, political, and civil society
leaders from Europe and Southeast Asia, and also a
platform for emerging and established scholars to
demonstrate their latest research on Southeast Asia.
After three successive years at the University of
Oxford, Project Southeast Asia is pleased to bring
the 4th annual Southeast Asian Studies Symposium
to Sunway University, Malaysia, in the heart of
Southeast Asia. It will be hosted by Sunway University
and the Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia.
The Asian Economic Panel (AEP) conference will
be held in conjunction with the Symposium.The Year of ASEAN: Integrating Southeast Asia20–24 March 2015 at Sunway University, Malaysia
4th AnnualSoutheast AsianStudies Symposium
in conjunction with theAsian Economic Panel conference
Themes
Featured Speakers
The Environment and
Natural Resources
Education
Public Health
Economic Development
While panels and workshops on these themes will be particularly welcomed, the Symposium
will also accept panels and papers on any topic relating to Southeast Asia.
Professor Wang Gungwu
• Chairman, East Asian Institute, National University
of Singapore
• Chairman, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy,
National University of Singapore
• Chairman, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies,
Singapore
Professor Walden Bello
• Professor of Sociology and Public
Administration, University of the Philippines at
Diliman
• Executive Director of Focus on the Global
South, Bangkok
• Akbayan representative in the Filipino Congress
ASIAN ECONOMIC PANEL CONFERENCE
The Asian Economic Panel (AEP) conference
invites about 40 economists from around the
world (particularly from Asia) to meet three times
a year to discuss issues that are important to sub-
regions of Asia or individual Asian countries. The
proceedings of the AEP conference are edited and
published thrice yearly in a journal, Asian Economic
Papers (MIT Press).
Panellists include:
• Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University
• Professor Barry Eichengreen, University of
California
• Dr Chalongphob Sussangkarn, Thailand
Development Research Institute
• Professor Kiyohiko Nishimura, University of
Tokyo
• Professor Fan Gang, National Economic
Research Institute
• Professor Dato’ Dr Woo Wing Thye, Jeffrey
Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia
Registration to
the Symposium
also includes a
complimentary entry
to the Asian Economic
Panel conference.
Day 1Friday
20th March 2015
8:00AM Registration
9:00AM Opening Plenary — “Key Challenges for Asia in the 21st
Century”
• Professor Graeme Wilkinson (Chair)
• Professor Dwight Perkins — “Malaysia’s Past and
Future Economic Development: A Comparative
Persepective”
• Professor Arthur Kleinman — “Addressing the New
Agenda of Social and Health Problems in Asia: Why
Economic and Policy Studies Need Anthropology and
Global Health”
• Professor Yoon Young-Kwan — “East Asian
International Relations of the 21st Century and the
Role of ASEAN”
• Professor Kiyohiko Nishimura — “Enhancing
the Effectiveness of Monetary Policy: Evolving
Transmission Mechanisms and Heightened
Uncertainty”
11:00AM Break
11:15AM Welcome Addresses and Official Opening
• Tan Sri Dr Jeffrey Cheah, ao
Founding Trustee, Jeffrey Cheah Foundation
• Professor Nick Rawlins
Pro Vice-Chancellor for Development and External
Relations, University of Oxford
11:30AM Royal Keynote Address (Subject to Confirmation)
• DYMM Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah, Sultan of Perak
12:00PM Special Luncheon Addresses
• Professor Wang Gungwu
• Professor Walden Bello
2:00PM Panels A (Refer to List of Panels)
4:00PM Break
4:30PM Panels B (Refer to List of Panels)
5:30PM Jeffrey Cheah Distinguished Speakers Series (Open
to the Public)
• Professor Nick Rawlins — “Pain and the Brain”
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Day 2Saturday
21st March 2015
8:00AM Registration
9:00AM Panels C (Refer to List of Panels)
11:00AM Break
11:30AM Panels D (Refer to List of Panels)
1:00PM Lunch
2:00PM Panels E (Refer to List of Panels)
4:00PM Break
4:30PM Panels F (Refer to List of Panels)
Jeffrey Cheah Distinguished Speakers Series (Open
to the Public)
• Professor Barry Eichengreen — “Global Economic
Prospects: What Should Keep Us Up at Night?”
7:30PM Reception at Sunway Resort Hotel
8:30PM Gala Dinner at Sunway Resort Hotel
• Dinner address by Tan Sri Dr Jeffrey Cheah, ao
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Day 3Sunday
22nd March 2015
8:00AM Registration
9:00AM Panels G (Refer to List of Panels)
11:00AM Break
11:30AM Panels H (Refer to List of Panels)
1:00PM Lunch
2:00PM Panels I (Refer to List of Panels)
4:00PM Break
4:30PM Panels J (Refer to List of Panels)SEA
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Day 4Monday
23rd March 2015
8:00AM Tour of Arkib Negara Malaysia (National Archives
of Malaysia)
9:00AM Closing Plenary of Southeast Asian Studies
Symposium and the Opening Plenary of Asian
Economic Panel Conference — “Slower Growth in
Southeast Asia: What is to be done?”
• Professor Dato’ Dr Woo Wing Thye (Chair)
• Dr Mari Elka Pangestu — “Regional Trade Reform as
Growth Driver”
• Dr Chalongphob Sussangkarn — “Thailand’s
Long-term Development: Aspiration, Reality and
Challenges”
• Dr Muhammad Chatib Basri — “The Middle-Income
Trap Awaits Indonesia?”
11:00AM Break
11:15AM Asia’s Newest Tiger: Sri Lanka? — Prema-Chandra
Athukorala & Sisira Jayasuriya
12:45PM Lunch
2:00PM Understanding the Economic Malaise of Russia —
Iikka Korhonen
3:30PM Break
3:45PM Technical Progress, Resilience and Competitiveness
of the Korea Export Industries — Heeho Kim,
Mikyung Pai & Jaimin Lee
5:15PM Are the Benefits from ASEAN Integration
Sustainable? — Kiki Verico
7:00PM End of Day 1
7:30PM Reception & Dinner (by invitation only)
• Professor Barry Eichengreen — “Hall of Mirrors:
The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the
Uses – and Misuses – of History”
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Day 5Tuesday
24th March 2015
8:00AM Tour of Forestry Research Institute of Malaysia
(Oxford SEA Symposium)
8:45AM Macro-stabilization & Zombie Firms — Yiping Huang
10:30AM Break
10:45AM The Determinants of Outward FDI by Chinese Firms:
The Role of Chinese Returnees — Zhao Chen & Tony
Fang
12:30PM Lunch
1:30PM Malaysia’s Past Successes and Uncertain Future:
Graduating from the Middle or Caught in the Middle?
— Hooi Hooi Lean & Russell Smyth
3:30PM Jeffrey Cheah Distinguished Speakers Series (Open
to the Public)
• Professor Jeffrey Sachs — “The Age of Sustainable
Development”
The Organizer reserves the right to alter the content and timing of the
programme in the best interest of the Symposium.
It is accurate as of 16th February 2015.
Panels A Day 1 - 2:00PM
1. Jokowi Six Months On: Has the Promise Been Fulfilled?
2. The Challenges of Contemporary Security in Southeast Asia
3. The Role of Democratic Media in Malaysia and Singapore
4. Natural Resources, Environment and Landscape Management 1
5. Philippine Narratives of Public Health 1: Colonial Diseases
6. Cities of Hotspots: Digitality, Education and Civic Creativity
Panels B Day 1 - 4:30PM
1. Breaking the Cycle of Coups in Thailand: Part 1, The Future of Thai Democracy
2. Emerging Issues in Southeast Asian Education Systems
3. Issues of Local Businesses in Malaysia
4. Natural Resources, Environment and Landscape Management 2
5. Philippine Narratives of Public Health 2: Contemporary Institutions, Structures and Agents
6. Government, Social Policy and the Role of the State in Determining Economic Development in Southeast Asia
Panels C Day 2 - 9:00AM
1. Achieving Transparency and Accountability in Natural Resource Development
2. The Future of Tourism in ASEAN: More Blessing than Blight?
3. The Future of Singapore Values and Identity
4. Difficult Knowledges: Methods for Knowing the Unseen, the Hidden and the Silent
5. Refugees in Southeast Asia
Panels D Day 2 - 11:30AM
1. Understanding the Reformed ASEAN
2. Can we have Race without Racialisation in Singapore?
3. Natural Resources, Environment and Landscape Management 3
4. The Discussion of Sexuality, Reproductive Health and Rights among the Young: Issues of Disability, Unwanted Pregnancy, Policy and Youth-Friendly Services
5. Education, Migration, and Disadvantage in Southeast Asia 1
List of Panels
Panels E Day 2 - 2:00PM
1. Human Resources Issues and Challenges in Southeast Asia
2. Art and Society in Southeast Asia
3. Breaking the Cycle of Coups in Thailand: Part 2, Voices from Thailand
4. Natural Resources Management and Policies
5. Public Health Challenges in ASEAN: Lifestyle Diseases, Communicable Diseases and Environmental Contamination
6. Education, Migration, and Disadvantage in Southeast Asia 2
7. State-Society Interactions in Southeast Asia
Panels F Day 2 - 4:30PM
1. Progress of Human Resource Policies in Southeast Asia in the Past Decade and Looking Forward
2. English in Southeast Asia
3. Neoliberal Governmentality: The Singaporean Context
4. Documentaries on the Environment and Natural Resources I: Borneo
5. Genomics in the Understanding of Human Origins and Disease in Southeast Asia
6. Mediated Civil Society and Governmentality in Southeast Asia
Panels G Day 3 - 9:00AM
1. Documentaries on Myanmar
2. The State and Future of the Study of Gender in Malaysia from a Multi-disciplinary Perspective: Disciplinary and Methodological Challenges and Opportunities
3. Urban Archaelogy for Sustainable Development in Southern Vietnam 1
4. Marketing, Branding and Economic Development Policies 1
5. Malaria in Southeast Asia
6. Technlogy in Southeast Asian Schools
Panels H Day 3 - 11:30AM
1. Historical Legacies in Southeast Asia
2. Gender and Nationhood: The Emerging Gendered Modernities of Malaysia and Indonesia
3. Urban Archaelogy for Sustainable Development in Southern Vietnam 2
4. Marketing, Branding and Economic Development Policies 2
5. Overcoming Childhood Obesity in Malaysia: Aligning Multidisciplinary Fields for Better Outcomes
6. Documentaries on Development, Urbanisation, and the Underclass in Kuala Lumpur
Panels I Day 3 - 2:00PM
1. “The Look of Silence”
2. Documentaries on the Environment and Natural Resources II: The Philippines
Panels J Day 3 - 4:30PM
1. “The Look of Silence” Round table Discussion
2. Documentaries on the Environment and Natural Resources III: Cambodia
The programme is subject to change. It is accurate
as of 16th February 2015.
Contact
Dr Pingtjin Thum
pingtjin@projectsoutheastasia.com
+44 (0) 7721 763059
Ms Joyce Tang
joycet@sunway.edu.my
+603 7491 8622 (Ext. 8420)
Ms Ng Beng Lean
bengleann@sunway.edu.my
+60 19 391 1265
For more information, please visit
www.projectsoutheastasia.com/academic-events/sea-symposium-2015
1 Inclusive of admission to all events and all meals at the 4th Southeast Asian Studies Symposium and
Asian Economic Panel conference2 No refunds are permitted3 Each tour is limited to only 30 participants
* Registration ends on 28th February 2015
Registration Fees1,2
Professionals
RM750 (~£140)
Students
RM300 (~£55)
Optional Add-ons2,3
Tour of Forestry Research Institute of Malaysia
RM50 (~£10)
Tour of Arkib Negara Malaysia
RM30 (~£6)
Registration Details
To register, please visitwww.eventbee.com/v/symposium2015