4th Annual
Southeast Asian
Studies Symposium
in conjunction with the
Asian Economic Panel conference
The Year of ASEAN: Integrating Southeast Asia
20–24 March 2015 at Sunway University, Malaysia
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.
Themes
The Environment and
Natural Resources
Public Health
Education
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.
Featured Speakers
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
Registration to
invites about 40 economists from around the
the Symposium
world (particularly from Asia) to meet three times
also includes a
a year to discuss issues that are important to sub-
complimentary entry
regions of Asia or individual Asian countries. The
to the Asian Economic
proceedings of the AEP conference are edited and
Panel conference.
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
Programme Itinerary
and List of Panels
Day 1
8:00AM
Registration
Friday
9:00AM
Opening Plenary — “Key Challenges for Asia in the 21st
Century”
20th March 2015
SEA Symposium
• 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”
8:00AM
Registration
Saturday
9:00AM
Panels C (Refer to List of Panels)
21st March 2015
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)
SEA Symposium
Day 2
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
8:00AM
Registration
Sunday
9:00AM
Panels G (Refer to List of Panels)
22nd March 2015
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 Symposium
Day 3
Day 4
8:00AM
Tour of Arkib Negara Malaysia (National Archives
of Malaysia)
9:00AM
Closing Plenary of Southeast Asian Studies
Monday
23rd March 2015
Symposium and the Opening Plenary of Asian
Economic Panel Conference — “Slower Growth in
Southeast Asia: What is to be done?”
Asian Economic Panel Conference
• 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”
Day 5
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)
Tuesday
Asian Economic Panel Conference
24th March 2015
• 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.
List of Panels
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
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
1. Breaking the Cycle of Coups in Thailand:
Part 1, The Future of Thai Democracy
2. Can we have Race without Racialisation
in Singapore?
2. Emerging Issues in Southeast Asian
Education Systems
3. Natural Resources, Environment and
Landscape Management 3
3. Issues of Local Businesses in Malaysia
4. The Discussion of Sexuality,
Reproductive Health and Rights among
the Young: Issues of Disability, Unwanted
Pregnancy, Policy and Youth-Friendly
Services
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
5. Education, Migration, and Disadvantage
in Southeast Asia 1
Panels E
Day 2 - 2:00PM
3. Urban Archaelogy for Sustainable
Development in Southern Vietnam 1
1. Human Resources Issues and Challenges
in Southeast Asia
4. Marketing, Branding and Economic
Development Policies 1
2. Art and Society in Southeast Asia
5. Malaria in Southeast Asia
3. Breaking the Cycle of Coups in Thailand:
Part 2, Voices from Thailand
6. Technlogy in Southeast Asian Schools
4. Natural Resources Management and
Policies
Panels H
5. Public Health Challenges in ASEAN:
Lifestyle Diseases, Communicable
Diseases and Environmental
Contamination
1. Historical Legacies in Southeast Asia
6. Education, Migration, and Disadvantage
in Southeast Asia 2
3. Urban Archaelogy for Sustainable
Development in Southern Vietnam 2
7. State-Society Interactions in Southeast
Asia
4. Marketing, Branding and Economic
Development Policies 2
Panels F
5. Overcoming Childhood Obesity in
Malaysia: Aligning Multidisciplinary Fields
for Better Outcomes
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
2. Gender and Nationhood: The Emerging
Gendered Modernities of Malaysia and
Indonesia
6. Documentaries on Development,
Urbanisation, and the Underclass in Kuala
Lumpur
3. Neoliberal Governmentality: The
Singaporean Context
Panels I
4. Documentaries on the Environment and
Natural Resources I: Borneo
1. “The Look of Silence”
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 Multidisciplinary Perspective: Disciplinary
and Methodological Challenges and
Opportunities
Day 3 - 11:30AM
Day 3 - 2:00PM
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.
Registration Details
Registration Fees1,2
Optional Add-ons2,3
Professionals
Tour of Forestry Research Institute of Malaysia
RM750 (~£140)
RM50 (~£10)
Students
Tour of Arkib Negara Malaysia
RM300 (~£55)
RM30 (~£6)
To register, please visit
www.eventbee.com/v/symposium2015
Contact
Dr Pingtjin Thum
[email protected]
+44 (0) 7721 763059
Ms Joyce Tang
[email protected]
+603 7491 8622 (Ext. 8420)
Ms Ng Beng Lean
[email protected]
+60 19 391 1265
For more information, please visit
www.projectsoutheastasia.com/academic-events/sea-symposium-2015
Inclusive of admission to all events and all meals at the 4th Southeast Asian Studies Symposium and
Asian Economic Panel conference
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No refunds are permitted
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Each tour is limited to only 30 participants
* Registration ends on 28th February 2015
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