CONFERENCE PANELS (provisional)
I. SOVEREIGNTY AND JURISDICTION
Change in Contestation?: The ASEAN Charter and Norms of ‘Appropriate Governance
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
Power, Emergencies, and the Rule of Law in Southeast Asia
Victor V. Ramraj, National University of Singapore
State Power at the Margins: Thinking about Sovereignty and Jurisdiction in Indonesia’s Borderlands
Michele Ford and Lenore Lyons, University of Sydney.
II. VIRTUE, PRAYER AND POWER
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.
The Power of Virtue in Burmese Resistance Politics and State Legitimation
Ingrid Jordt, University of Wisconsin, Milaukee.
III. THE PLACE OF POWER
Landscape, potency and agency in eastern Indonesia
Catherine Allerton, LSE
Maintaining the power of the past: survival strategies and resistance amongst the Jorai ethnic minority group in war-torn Cambodia
Jérémy Jammes, Ecole Française D' Extrême-Orient, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, CNRS-EPHE, Paris, and Krisna Uk, University of Cambridge
Governing the Aesthetic Domain – Neoliberal Constructions of Seamlessness, Iconicity and Expertise in Singapore
Lee Kah Wee, U.C. Berkeley.
IV. FACILITATING POWER: WELFARE, WELL-BEING AND PROSPERITY
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
Power and the ‘quest for life’
Dimitri Tsintjilonis, University of Edinburgh
V. LOCATING THE STATE
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, City University London.
VI. THE PRACTICALITIES OF POWER
Power, Cacique Democracy, and Post-Colonial Imagination among the Bugkalot (Ilongot) of Northern Luzon, Philippines Shu-Yuan Yang, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University
The power of a Burmese general
Nicholas Farrelly, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University
Indonesian CSO network: Instrumentum or locus of power?
Yanuar Nugroho, University of Manchester
Privateers, Politicians, Prowess and Power
Loren Ryter, Cornell University
VII. POWER IN PERFORMANCE
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
Burmese Pop Musicians and the Censors: An Ethnography of Power Relations
Heather Maclachlan, Cornell University
