The 4th Southeast Asian Studies Symposium, themed The Year of ASEAN: Integrating Southeast Asia, will be taking place at Sunway University from March 20 to 24.
To be held for the first time outside the University of Oxford, the Symposium aims to present inter-disciplinary transnational solutions to contemporary Southeast Asian issues; provide opportunity for dialogues and networking among academic, business, political and civil society leaders from Europe and Southeast Asia; and a platform for emerging and established scholars to demonstrate their latest research on Southeast Asia.
Chaired by Professor Graeme Wilkinson, Vice-Chancellor of Sunway University, speakers for the opening plenary include Professor Dwight Perkins, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University; Professor Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Medical Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry at Harvard University; Professor Yoon Young Kwan, Seoul National University’s Department of International Relations and Professor Kiyohiko Nishimura, Dean of the Graduate School of Economics and Chairman of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo.
Professor Wang Gungwu, Chairman of East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, and Professor Walden Bello, Executive Director of Focus on the Global South, Bangkok, are the keynote speakers for the Symposium.
The event is held in conjunction with the Asian Economic Panel conference and is chaired by Professor Woo Wing Thye with distinguished panelists including Mari Pangestu, Professor in International Economics in the Economics Faculty at the University of Indonesia; Chalongphob Sussangkarn, Economist; Barry Eichengreen, Professor of Economics & Political Science, University of California, Berkeley and Muhammad Chatib Basri, Economist and former Indonesian Finance Minister.
The Symposium will also feature a unique showcase of Southeast Asia treasures from Oxford’s renowned Bodleian Library and Ashmolean Museum.
The Bodleian is one of the oldest libraries in Europe and the second largest in Britain after the British Library, while the Ashmolean Museum is the world’s first university museum. This is the first time Oxford is bringing some of the collections to Southeast Asia for a major exhibition.
This event is supported by the Ministry of Education Malaysia.
Registration is open until Feb 28 with fees of RM750 for professionals and RM300 for students.
To registration, go to www.eventbee.com/v/symposium2015.
For more information, email to Joyce Tang at joycet@sunway.edu.my or call 03-7491 8622 ext 8420.