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31March
2011
Abstract
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30
April 2011
Deadline
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15
July 2011
Deadline
for pre-registration |
26-28
July 2011
Conference
dates |
29
July 2011
RILCA's
30th Anniversary |
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Keynote speakers |
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Professor
Dr. Craig J.
Reynolds
Invited
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Keynote
Address :
Professor
Dr. Craig J. Reynolds
a Fellow of the
Australian Academy
of the Humanities.
Professor
Dr. Craig J. Reynolds
is a historian
of Southeast Asia,
with a focus on
the mainland countries.
His PhD and MA
students have
written on Burma,
Laos, Malaya,
Thailand and Vietnam;
many of these
students have
returned to teach
and work in Thailand.
Professor Reynolds
has published
widely on nineteenth
and twentieth
century Thai intellectual,
cultural, religious
and social history.
Recent publications
include Seditious
Histories: Contesting
Thai and Southeast
Asian Pasts (Seattle
2006), Tycoons,
Warlords, Feudalists,
Intellectuals,
and Common People
(Bangkok, Textbook
Foundation Project
for the Humanities
and Social Sciences,
Thammasat University,
2007, in Thai)
and an edited
volume of essays
by O. W. Wolters,
Early Southeast
Asia: Selected
Essays (Ithaca
2008), which includes
an intellectual
biography of Wolters.
Professor
Dr. Reynolds first
came to Thailand
as a Peace Corps
volunteer and
taught English
in Krabi from
1963 to 1965.
His research on
Khun Phantharakratchadet,
the legendary
policeman from
Nakorn Si Thammarat,
has taken him
back to southern
Thailand. “Rural
Male Leadership,
Religion and the
Environment in
Thailand’s Mid-South,
1920s-1960s” appeared
in February 2011
in the Journal
of Southeast Asian
Studies, 42, 1,
39-57.
Professor
Dr. Reynolds holds
a BA from Amherst
College and a
PhD from Cornell
University and
is a Fellow of
the Australian
Academy of the
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Professor
Dr.Robert Bauer
Invited
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Concluding
Remark :
Professor
Dr.Robert Bauer
Professor Dr.
Robert S. Bauer
is an Honorary
Professor at
the Department
of Linguistics,
University of
Hong Kong. He
holds an M.A.
and a Ph.D.
in Linguistics
from the University
of California.
His attraction
to Chinese linguistics
has led him
to conduct research
on Cantonese
phonology, Cantonese
lexicography,
Hong Kong Cantonese
sociolinguistics,
and historical
- comparative
semantics of
East and Southeast
Asian languages.
He has been
lecturing on
Phonetics, Phonologies
of Cantonese,
Putonghua, English,
Sociolinguistics,
Historical-comparative
Linguistics,
Field Methods,
and General
Linguistics.
A few recently
published journal
articles, book
chapters, conference
proceedings,
and working
papers include
New loanword
rimes and syllables
in Hong Kong
Cantonese and
The Graphemic
representation
of English loanwords
in Cantonese.
Furthermore,
Dr. Bauer has
numerous conference
reports and
papers including
1st Workshop
on She Language
and Language
Competition,
Workshop on
Loanwords in
the Asian Context,
and Linguistic
Society of Hong
Kong Annual
Research Forum.
He has been
accumulating
experiences
in his areas
of interests
as an invited
guest lecturer
for university-level
subjects, invited
keynote speaker,
and invited
public and university
lecturer. Form
1994 to the
present Dr.
Bauer has been
a member of
advisory and
editorial boards
for the Journal
of Language
and Culture
at the Research
Institute for
Languages and
Cultures of
Asia at Mahidol
University in
Thailand, and
for Mon-Khmer
Studies at Summer
Institute of
Linguistics
in Dallas, Texas,
USA and Mahidol
University.
He has also
been working
for the Journal
of Chinese Linguistics
at the Center
for East Asian
Studies at Chinese
University of
Hong Kong as
an Associate
Editor since
2009.
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Professor
Dr. John Hartmann
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Invited
Speakers :
Professor
Dr. John Hartmann
Department of
Foreign Languages
and Literatures,
Northern Illinois
University, De
Kalb, State Illinois
Country USA
Professor
Dr. John Hartmann
has been working
as a Professor
of Thai Languages
and Literatures
in Northern Illinois
University since
1989. He holds
a BA and a PhD
from University
of Michigan, majoring
in English Literature
and Linguistics.
He wrote English
Language texts
for Thai students
at Teacher Training
Department in
Ministry of Education
in Thailand. He
also volunteered
to be a U.S. Peace
Corps Volunteer
at Nakhorn Sawan
Teacher Training
College, in Nakhorn
Sawan, Thailand.
Professor Dr.
Hartmann was invited
to be a keynote
speaker in UCLA–UC
Berkeley Joint
Conference on
Southeast Asian
Studies, “Languages
of Southeast Asia”
held at the University
of California
in Los Angeles
to speak on the
topic: “Tai Toponymic
Analysis: GIS
Insights into
Migration and
Settlement Patterns.”
His endless interest
in Tai studies
has recently brought
him to establish
a large body of
distinguished
work such as In
Rice: Origin,
Antiquity and
History, and “Terrain
Characteristics
and Tai Toponyms:
a GIS Analysis
of Muang, Chiang,
and Viang” co-authored
with F. Wang and
W. Luo. GeoJournal
(2010). He truly
specializes in
Thai and Tai as
seen in the papers
read at professional
meetings like
“Comparative Tai
Toponymic Analysis:
Lao Village Names
in Laos.” co-presented
with Vinya Sysamouth
in the Annual
Meeting of the
Association for
Asian Studies
in Philadelphia,
“Chiang (Xiang)
Toponyms in Laos
and the Middle
Mekong Region:
Historical Linguistics
and GIS Enquiries”
in the Third International
Conference on
Lao Studies at
Khon Kaen University
in Thailand, and
“What’s So Funny
About Sri Thanonchai?”
in the conference
on Humor in ASEAN
at Chulalongkorn
University in
Thailand.
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Prof.
Dr. Gerald W. Fry
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Invited
Speakers :
Prof.
Dr. Gerald W.
Fry
Professor of International/Intercultural
Education
Department of
Organizational
Leadership, Policy,
and Development
College of Education
and Human Development
Professor
Dr. Gerald W.
Fry is a distinguished
professor of international/
intercultural
education at the
Department of
Organizational
Leadership, Policy,
and Development
at the University
of Minnesota.
He studied abroad
as an undergraduate
in Germany, taught
in the Peace Corps
in Thailand, and
did fieldwork
in Costa Rica
on the relationship
between education
and national development.
Professor Dr.
Fry obtained his
doctorate in international
development education
from Stanford,
with a focus on
Southeast Asia.
Later, as head
of the Center
for Asian and
Pacific Studies
at the University
of Oregon, he
continued to be
particularly interested
in education and
development issues
in Laos, Thailand,
Cambodia and Vietnam.
He has a total
of approximately
13 years of fieldwork
experience in
mainland Southeast
Asia over a period
of five decades
and is fluent
in Thai and Lao.
Professor Dr.
Fry is currently
completing a book
on Thailand titled
The Thais: The
Bamboo and the
Lotus. In October,
2008, he gave
a presentation
on the book at
the International
Institute of Asian
Studies at Leiden
University, the
Netherlands. During
2008-2009, he
assisted the UNESCO
Office for Asia
and Pacific with
two projects:
1) a study of
education and
development in
Thailand, and
2) a comparative
study of secondary
education in China,
Korea, Thailand,
Malaysia, and
the Lao PDR.
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Dr.
Coeli Barry
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Invited
Speakers :
Dr.
Coeli Barry
Senior Advisor,
Culture and Rights
Project
Princess Maha Chakri
Sirindhorn Anthropology
Centre
Dr.
Coeli Maria Barry
is a Senior Advisor
at the Culture and
Rights in Thailand
Project at The Princess
Maha Chakri Sirindhorn
Centre. She received
her M.A. and Ph.D.
in Comparative Government
from Cornell University.
She has held professor
positions at UCLA,
and was also a visiting
assistant professor
of Asian Studies
at Cornell University.
Dr. Barry has developed
and presented courses
on the history and
philosophy of human
rights for various
university programs
such as the Masters
in International
RelationsProgram
at the Faculty of
Political Science,
Thammasat University,
and at the Institute
for Human Rights
and Peace Studies,
Mahidol University
in Bangkok, where
she has been working
as a lecturer until
now. She has also
received several
scholarships and
grants such as the
Mellon Fellowship
from the Department
of Government at
Cornell University,
the Foreign Language
Areas Studies Fellowship
(Tagalog) and the
McArthur Foundation
Peace Studies Grant
from Cornell University.
Her
publications include
(as editor) The
Many Ways of Being
Muslim: Fiction
by Muslim Filipinos,
“Identifying with
fiction: The art
and politics of
short story writing
of Muslim Filipinos”
in Hui Yew-Foong,
Encountering Islam:
The Politics of
Religious Identities
in Southeast Asia,
and “The limits
of conservative
church reformism
in the democratic
Philippines,” in
T.J. Cheng and Deborah
Brown, Religious
Organizations and
Democratization
in Asia.
Recently,
her lectures and
conference presentations
include “Assessing
the relationship
betweenThailand’s
international human
rights standing
and the domestic
rights landscape:
some preliminary
thoughts” at On
the Brink: Human
Rights in Thailand
at Australia National
University, New
Directions in Research
workshop; “Cultural
Rights and Human
Rights in Asia:
A Conceptual Overview
with implications
for Advocacy and
Research”, presented
at the First International
Conference on Southeast
Asian Human Rights,
Bangkok, ; and “The
Role of International
NGOs and Religious
Organizations in
Addressing Children’s
Rights” at the Pan-Asian
International Conference
on the Rights and
Plights of Children,
organized by the
John Paul II Center
for Catholic Social
Thought, Assumption
University, Bangkok.
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Professor
Dr. Suwilai Premsrirat
Invited
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Invited
Speakers :
Professor
Dr. Suwilai Premsrirat
Research Institute
for Languages
and Cultures of
Asia
Suwilai Premsrirat
is a Professor
of Linguistics
at the Resource
Center for Documentation
and Revitalization
of Endangered
Languages and
Cultures, Research
Institute for
Languages and
Cultures of Asia
(RILCA), Mahidol
University, Thailand.
She has been researching
and writing on
ethnic minority
languages in Thailand
and mainland Southeast
Asia since 1975,
specializing in
Mon-Khmer languages.
Her major publications
include a Thesaurus
and Dictionary
Series of Khmu
in Southeast Asia
(which was the
result of her
extensive studies
of Khmu in Thailand,
Laos, Vietnam
and China), an
Ethnolinguistic
map of endangered
languages of Thailand.
Her work on endangered
languages includes
a survey of endangered
languages in Thailand;
documentation
work on languages
in Thailand such
as Northern Khmer,
So (Thavung),
Nyah Kur, Chong,
Kasong as well
as the Iduh language
in Laos and Vietnam;
and language revitalization
programs for Chong,
Nyah Kur, Thavung,
Gong, Lavua, Mpi
and Mlabri. Professor
Suwilai is the
founder of the
Research Center
of Documentation
and Revitalization
of Endangered
Languages and
Cultures. She
is currently working
on a program for
Patani Malay –
Thai Mother Tongue
- Based Bilingual
Education in Southern
Thailand. Professor
Suwilai Premsrirat
has received the
Mahidol Award
as an outstanding
researcher (Humanities)
in 2001, the National
Research Council
of Thailand of
Thailand Award
as the Best Researcher
in Philosophy
of the year 2006,
the CIPL Award
(Comite’ International
Permanent des
linguist) as a
linguist who has
worked significantly
on endangered
languages in 2008
and Thailand Research
Fund (TRF) Award
for Outstanding
Research and Development
project in Mother
Tongue – Based
Bilingual Education
(Thai – Patani
Malay) in Southern
Thailand in 2011.
Professor Suwilai
is now a member
of the UNESCO
MLE working group
and has been nominated
as SEAMEO MLE
fellow.
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Assoc.
Prof. Dr. Gothom
Arya
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Invited
Speakers :
Assoc.
Prof. Dr. Gothom
Arya
[Invited Discussant]
Research Center
for Peace Building
Associate Professor
Dr. Gothom Arya
is the Director
of the Mahidol
University Research
Center for Peace,
and also the Chairman
of various organizations
including the
Foundation for
Child Development,
the Human Rights
and Development
Foundation, the
May 1995 Foundation,
the Peace and
Culture Foundation,
and the Appropriate
Technology Association.
He holds a PhD
in Docteur-Ing?nieur
from Universit?
de Paris. In 1995,
Dr. Gothom received
a Nobel Peace
Prize as a Council
Member in the
Pugwash Conference
on Sciences and
World Affairs.
His professional
experience in
ten years includes
positions as the
Registrar of the
Asian Institute
of Technology
(AIT) in 2001-2003
and the Chairman
of National Economic
and Social Advisory
Council in 2006
- 2010. He published
textbooks such
as Electronic
Circuits (three
volumes) and Power
Electronics (two
volumes). Honorably,
he was given distinctions
such as Knight
Grand Cordon (Special
Class) of the
Most Exalted Order
of the White Elephant,
was dubbed one
of the 50 leaders
'stars of Asia'
by Business Week,
and was bestowed
an Honorary Doctorate
Degree in Social
Sciences from
Prince of Songkha
University.
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Professor
William J. Klausner
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Invited
Speakers :
Professor
William J. Klausner
[Invited Discussant]
Connecticut Bar
Association
Professor
William J. Klausner
is working at the
Institute of Security
and International
Studies at Chulalongkorn
University. He is
fluent in three
foreign languages
–Thai, Lao, and
French. He has received
many notable Thai
national honors
such as being awarded
as a Member (Fifth
Class) of the Most
Exalted Order of
the White Elephant,
and as an Honorary
Member or the Siam
Society. He also
holds the position
of Advisor (Of Counsel)
at Ukrit Mongkolnavin
Law Office and Professor
of Political Science
at Chulalongkorn
University. Professor
Klausner has also
done a great deal
of community service
work including presenting
Cultural Orientation
Lectures to diplomats,
businessmen, foreign
aid workers, and
youth volunteers
since 1960; serving
as aBoard Member
for the John F.
Kennedy Foundation
since 1976; and
acting as President
Emeritus for the
James H.W. Thompson
Foundation since
2009. Many of his
publications reflect
his interest in
Thai studies such
as “Reflections
on Thai Culture”,
“Thai Culture in
Transition”, “Thai
Institutions and
National Security”,
and “Thai Culture
in Transition: Social
and Political Implications”
Dedicating himself
to research on Thai
studies, Professor
Klausner publishes
his sophisticated
articles and books
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Professor
Dr. John Hartmann
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Advisory
Committee :
Professor
Dr. John Hartmann
Department
of Foreign Languages
and Literatures,
Northern Illinois
University, De
Kalb, State Illinois
Country USA
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Assistant
Professor Dr.Megan
Sinnott
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Advisory
Committee :
Assistant
Professor Dr.Megan
Sinnott
Women’s
Studies Institute,
Georgia State
University
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Dr.
Vinya Sysamouth
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Advisory
Committee :
Dr. Vinya
Sysamouth
Director, Center
for Lao Studies,
San Francisco
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Assistant
Professor
Dr. Kirk Person
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Advisory
Committee :
Assistant
Professor Dr.
Kirk Person
SIL International
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