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.

Programme Itinerary

and List of Panels

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

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