CRASSH

16.30-18.00

OPEN TO PUBLIC MELLON LECTURE

by James Scott (Political Science, Yale)
Introducing "Zomia": Site of the Last Great Enclosure Movement of (relatively) Stateless Peoples in Mountainous Southeast Asia

Chair: Susan Bayly

NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED!

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, Mill Lane 

18:00-19:00

Drinks reception, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane (for conference participants only)

19:30-21.45

OPEN TO PUBLIC Screening of:

Terlena: the Breaking of a Nation (2004),
followed by a Q&A session with writer and producer Andre Vltchek.

Location: Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College

Friday 27th March

9:00-9.30

Registration
Location: Lecture Theatre 2, Mill Lane 

9.30-11.00

Locating the State

Chair: Victor King

The Anthropology of a Necessary Mistake: The Unsettled dead and the Imagined State in Contemporary Singapore
Ruth Toulson (Denison University, Ohio)

String: Binding Self to State in Southeast Asia
Andrew Walker (Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies The Australian National University)

The Expatriate State: Authority and Citizenship Among Indonesians in Sydney
Nicola Frost (SOAS)

11:00-11:30

Coffee Break
Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane

11:30-13:00 

The Place of Power
Chair: Liana Chua

Landscape, Potency and Agency in Eastern Indonesia
Catherine Allerton, LSE

The symbolic appropriation of war associated objects in a post-conflict Jorai community of Northeast Cambodia
Krisna Uk (University of Cambridge)

Governing the Aesthetic Domain Neoliberal Constructions of Seamlessness, Iconicity and Expertise in Singapore
Lee Kah Wee  (U.C. Berkeley) 

13:00-14:00 

Lunch
Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane 

14:00-15:45 

Sovereignty and Jurisdiction
Chair: Jeyamalar Kathirithamby Wells

'Transformative’ or ‘Toothless’?:  The ASEAN Charter and the ‘Expectations Gap'
 Avery Poole (University of British Columbia)

Chasing the Dragon: Opium and the Transformation of State Power in Mainland Southeast Asia
Tomas Larsson (University of Cambridge)

Cultural Constitutionalism and Emergency Powers in Thailand
Victor V. Ramraj (National University of Singapore)

State Power at the Margins: Thinking about Sovereignty and Jurisdiction in Indonesia’s Borderlands
Michele Ford (University of Sydney) and Lenore Lyons ( University of Wollongong)

16:30-18:00 

OPEN TO PUBLIC EVANS LECTURE

by Shelly Errington  (Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz)
Cosmic Centers and the Subject of the 21st Century

Chair: Leo Howe

Location:  Lecture Theatre 3, Mill Lane 

19:00(for 19:30)

Conference dinner at Christ's College 

Saturday 28th March 

9:00-10:30 

Location: Lecture Theatre 2, Mill Lane

Virtue, Prayer and Power

Chair: Fenella Cannell

From the Power of Prayer to Prayer Power:
Religion as Politics in the Contemporary Philippines
Deidre de la Cruz (University of Michigan)

The Power of the Gift: Motivations for Donations in the South of Laos (and Beyond)
Holly High (University of Sydney)

Moral Politics, Anti-Politics and the Garrison State in Burma:  The Power of Virtue in State-Making and Resistance
Ingrid Jordt  (University of Wisconsin, Milaukee)

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break
Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane 

11:00-12:45

Location: Lecture Theatre 2, Mill Lane 

The Practicalities of Power
Chair: David Sneath

Power, Cacique Democracy, and Post-Colonial Imagination among the Bugkalot (Ilongot) of Northern Luzon, Philippines
Shu-Yuan Yang (Academia Sinica/Harvard University)

The Power of a Burmese General
Nicholas Farrelly (Australian National University)

Indonesian CSO Network: Instrumentum or Locus of Power?
Yanuar Nugroho (University of Manchester)

Privateers, Politicians, Prowess and Power
Loren Ryter (University of Michigan)

12:45-13:45 

Lunch
Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane 

13:45- 15:15

Power in Performance
Chair: Mark Hobart

Sakti Reconsidered: Power and the Disenchantment of the World; Examples from Bali and Elsewhere in Indonesia
Adrian Vickers (University of Sydney)

Kala Defanged: The End of Power of Java
Andrew Beatty (Brunel University)

Music as an Instrument of Subversion in the Colonial Philippines
David R. M. Irving (University of Cambridge)

15:15-15:45 

Coffee Break
Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane 

15:45- 17:00

Facilitating Power: Welfare, Well-being and Prosperity
Chair: Graham Brown (University of Bath)

Bureaucratic Migrants and the Power of Prosperity in Upland Laos
Sarinda Singh (University of Queensland)

The Power to Support: State Welfare and the Rise and Fall of a Spirit Medium in a Rural Vietnamese Community
Markus Schlecker (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany)

End of Conference