The
Ninth
International Conference on Thai Studies
Northern
Illinois University
April 3 –
6, 2005
Sunday April 3,
2005
12:00 p.m.
Check-in
and Regristration
Illinois
Room, Holmes Student Center
Session
A: Plenary
session
2:00 p.m.
Opening
and Welcome
Altgeld
Hall, Audtorium, 2nd floor
Arlene B. Neher, Conference director, Northern Illinois University
John G. Peters, President Northern Illinois University
H.E. Kasit Piromya,
The Royal Thai Ambassador to the United States of America
Darryl N. Johnson, former United States Ambassador to the Royal Thai Kingdom
Susan D. Russell, Director, Center for Southeast Asian
Studies, Northern
Illinois University
Clark D. Neher, Professor emeritus, Northern Illinois University
M. Ladd Thomas, Professor, Department of Political Science,
Northern
Illinois University
2:30-4:00 p.m.
The Silence
of the Bullet Monument: Violence and
"truth" Management,Duson
Nyor - 1948 and
"Kru-ze" - 2004
Keynote speaker
Chaiwat Satha-anand, Thammasat University
Session
B
4:00-6:30 p.m.
B1:
Crisis and Conflict in Thailand’s Deep South
Heritage Room, Holmes Student Center
Understanding conflicts in
the Thai South through domestic politics
Duncan
McCargo, University of Leeds
Thaksin's
Achilles Heel: why did the South go wrong?
Ukrist Pathmanand, Chulalongkorn University
Cultural
Politics and Violence in Southern Thailand
Wattana Sugunnasil, Prince
of Songkla University, Pattani
The
Myths and Realities of ‘Violence’ in Southern Thailand
May
Tan-Mullins,
National University of Singapore
Quandary
of Southern conflict: Structural or Ideological Accounts?
Srisompob Jitpiromsri and Panyasak Sophondwasu,
Prince of Songkla University, Pattani
Patterns
of conflict and paths to peace in Southern Thailand: a comparative
view
Joern Dosch, University of Leeds
Moderator
Duncan
McCargo,
University of Leeds
B2: Thai Language Change:
New
Idioms, New Media
Lincoln Room, Holmes Student Center
E-Thai: Thai Language in
the New Millennium
Yuphaphann Hoonchamlong, University of Hawaii
The
dynamic use of Thai idiomatic expressions
Chiraporn Patrapanupat, Chulalongkorn University
Analysis of Content and
Language in Isan Comedy Shows
Dusadee Kongsombut, Mahasarakham University
Campus
graffiti in Thai universities as an alternative communication venue: a
study of
gender changes, marginalization, discrimination, oppression and
resistance
among Thai university students
Sirach Lapyai, Rangsit University
Moderator
Carol
J. Compton,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
B3: Permeable
Borders:
Migrants, Refugees and the Re-configuration of 'Thailand'/Gendered Experiences of
International Migration
Illinois Room, Holmes Student Center
Re-Imagining
Nation: Women's Rights and the Transnational Movement of Shan Women in Thailand and Burma
Pinkaew Laungramsri, Chiang Mai University
Narratives
of Border-Crossing: Thai Migrant Workers in the Making of Singapore's Underworld
Pattana Kitiarsa, National University of Singapore
Women
and Trans-national Migration: Voices of "Mia-Farang"
from Rural Northeastern Thailand
Ratana Tosakul-Boonmathya, Mahidol University, Salaya
Dreaming
in the Shadows of Affluence
Prapairat Mix, Amnesty for Women Städtegruppe Hamburg e.V.
‘My
Home is Here and There’: Thai Migrant Women in the Netherlands
Panitee Suksomboon, Leiden University
Moderator
Charles
Keyes, University of Washington, Seattle
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Reception
hosted by the Royal Thai Consulate-Chicago,
Chet
Dherapattana, Consul General
Auditorium,
Altgeld Hall, Second Floor
Monday April 4,
2005
8:00 a.m.
Registration
and Check-in
Regency
Room, Holmes Student Center
Session
C: Plenary
session
8:30-9:30 a.m.
The Asia Foundation
Roundtable Discussion: Crisis in the South
Chaiwat Satha-anand, Thammasat University
Panitan Wattanayagorn, Chulalongkorn University
Surin Pitsuwan,
The Asia Foundation
John Brandon, The
Asia Foundation - Moderator
Session D
9:45-11:45 a.m.
D1: Violence in
the South
Heritage
Room, Holmes Student Center
Interpreting
the Conflict in the South
Robert
B. Albritton, University of Mississippi
Poverty
of the Thai Muslims in the South of Thailand: A Case of Pattani
Sirirat Taneerananon, Prince
of Songkla University
Buddhism
at Risk, The Land of Smile, The Violent
Nation in Crisis
Cholthira Satyawadhna, Rangsit University and Harvard University
Violence
in Southern Thailand: Implications between Youth in Bangkok and youth
in a Southern
Province
Alisa
Hasamoh, Chulalongkorn University
Moderator
Wattana Sugunnasil, Prince of
Songkla University, Pattani
D2:
Appropriations of the
Past and the Distant: The Dynamics of Thai Identity Politics
Lincoln Room, Holmes Student Center
A
Thai Prince Journeys to Angkor: Encounters with
a Hybrid Past
Alexandra
Denes, Cornell University
Appropriations
of the Appropriate: Policy and
Politeness in the Negotiation of Power at Pom
Mahakan, 2002-04
Michael
Herzfeld,
Harvard University
In-Appropriations:
Siam’s
Anti-colonial Imperialism in the Malay Muslim South
Tamara
Loos, Cornell University
Appropriation
as Conquest in Buddhist Architecture
Worrasit Tantinipankul, Cornell University
National
Mythos, Historical Narrative, and a Swift Kick in the Head: Muay
Thai Boxing and the Celebration of Thai Masculinity
Peter
Vail, Georgetown University
Co-Conveners
Alexandra
Denes, Cornell University and Michael
Herzfeld, Harvard University
D3: The Blurring
of the
Thai-Burmese Border
Room 305, Holmes Student Center
A Zinme
(Chiang Mai)
Tradition in Myanmar: Questioning the Origin of a
Burmese Ritual Dedicated to the Nine
Planets
Catherine
Raymond, Northern Illinois University
Impacts
of Thai-Burmese Border Politics on the Indigenous Peoples: A Case of
Mon
Sanctuary in Thailand’s
Westernmost District of Sangkhlaburi
Juajan Wongpolganan, Thammasat University
Citizens,
migrants, health & health care on the Thai-Myanmar border
Peter
Kunstadter and Chalee Juntakanbandit,
Naresuan University
Illegal
Immigration from Burma: Thailand’s
Perspective
Vasu Srivarathonbul, Northern Illinois
University
Moderator
Catherine
Raymond, Northern Illinois University
D4: Resistance
to the Grip
of Gender Ideologies in Lowland (Urban) Thailand
Illinois Room, Holmes Student Center
Sexual Politics in the
Thai Women's Movement
Kritaya Archavanitkul, Mahidol University at Salaya
and Kanokwan Tharawan, The
Royal Thai
Ministry of Public Health, and University of California, Santa Cruz
Structural Violence
against Women: Buddhism in Thailand
Dhammananda bhikkhuni (Dr. Chatsumarn
Kabilsingh), Songdhammakalyani Temple
The
Intimate Economies of Gender in Thailand
Ara Wilson, Ohio State University
Growing up in a
Transitional Society: A Study on Gender Differences and Changes in Body
Image,
Perceptions of the Young Thai Generation
Chulanee Thianthai, Chulalongkorn University
Gender, Sexuality and
Health among Thai Muslim Youth
Amporn Marddent, Mahidol University
Discussant
Chalidaporn Songsamphan, Thammasat University
Moderator
Marjorie
Muecke, University of Washington, Seattle
D5:
Particularity of Civil
Society in Thailand
Room 506, Holmes Student Center
Changes
in the Thai Political Dynamics: An Emergence of the Middle Class in an
Electronic Age
Snea Thinsan and Poom Moolsilpa, Indiana
University
Critical perspectives on
Thai broadcasting
policymaking and media liberalization
Chalisa
Magpanthong, Prince of Songkla University
Cooperate
Community Group (CCGs), Decentralization,
and Local
Governments in Thailand
Chandra-nuj
Mahakanjana, National Institute of
Development Administration
Civil
society: rural expressions of an urban keyword
Lotte Isager, University of Copenhagen
Studying Village Civil Society (Prachakhom) in North-Eastern Thailand for The
Development of Communities toward Establishment of Civil
Society (Prachasangkhom)
Noriyuki
Suzuki and
Keeratiporn Sritanyarat,
University of the Ryukyus
Socially
Engaged Buddhism in Northeast Thailand
Sakurai Yoshihide, Hokkaido University
Moderator
Gary Suwannarat, Independent scholar
12:00 p.m.
Lunch for
Conference Registrants
Ballroom, Holmes Student Center
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Session E: Plenary
session
12:30 –1:30 p.m.
Thailand’s
Relations with the World
Surin Pitsuwan, The Asia Foundation
Session F
1:45-3:45 p.m.
F1/G1 (Double
panel): Chaiwat Satha-anand:
Human Rights
and Buddhist-Muslim Relations in Thailand
Heritage Room, Holmes Student Center
Chaiwat
and the Study of Violence in the Muslim south of Thailand: A Critical
Exegesis
Saroja Dorairajoo, National University of Singapore
The
Tablighi Jamaat
in Thailand
Alexander
Horstmann, Institut
für Ethnologie,
University of Műnster
Exploring
Non-Violence in the context of Buddhist-Muslim Relations
Karel Kersten, Payap University
Troubles in the Deep South: Importance of External
Linkages?
John Funston, Australian National University
Reexamining
Political Violence in South Thailand
Omar
Farouk Bajunid, Hiroshima City University
Reflections
on the Current Difficulties in South Thailand
Uthai Dulyakasem, Walailak University
Merging
Ethics and Research in South Thailand: Is it
Possible?
Raymond
Scupin, Lindenwood University
Discussant
Chaiwat Satha-anand, Thammasat University
Conveners
Raymond Scupin,
Lindenwood University and Alexander Horstmann, Institut
für Ethnologie,
University of Műnster
Moderator
Raymond
Scupin, Lindenwood University
F2: What is in a
Name:
Historical Linguistics
Room 305, Holmes Student Center
Place
Naming of the Thais and the Zhuangs
Maneepin Phromsuthirak, Silpakorn University
Linguistic
Evidence, Historical Conclusion: Toponyms
of Khmer
and Mon Origins in Peninsular Thailand
Daoruang Wittayarat, Chulalongkorn University
Ethnicity
and early Tai (Thai) history
Maria Kekki, University of Helsinki
Renaming:
Rebirth in Thai Society
Somchai Sumniengngam, Silpakorn University
Moderator
John
Hartmann,
Northern
Illinois University
F3: Tradition
and Health
Room 506, Holmes Student Center
Whispering
Teeth: Nutrition Health of Wooden-Coffin People in the Pang Ma Pha Cave Sites, Northwestern
Thailand
Supaporn Nakbunlung and Sukhontha Wathanawareekool,
Chiang Mai University
A
Construction of Buddhist Principle for Consumer Protection on Health
and Drug
of Thailand
Suntharee T. Chaisumritchoke, Thammasat University
The
‘Revival’ of Thai Traditional Medicine and Local Practice:
Villagers’ Reaction
to the Promotion of Thai Massage in Northern Thailand
Junko
Iida, Kawasaki University of
Medical Welfare
Translation
of Lanna Medicinal Plant Recipes for
Research and
Development of Modern Pharmaceuticals and the Understanding of the Lanna Thai Cultures and Histories
Jiradej Manosroi and Aranya Manosroi,
Chiang Mai University
Body,
Discourse, and Power in Childbirth
Arattha Rangpueng, Mahidol University
Moderator
Sue Darlington, Hampshire College
F4: History and
Memory
Illinois Room, Holmes Student Center
King
Mongkut (r. 1851-1868) and the Creation of
a Modern Thai State
Constance
M. Wilson,
University of Washington
The Monarchy
in Modern Thailand: Invented
Tradition or Ancient Institution?
Giles Ji Ungpakorn, Chulalongkorn University
History
after 1976: The reception of Nidhi Eoseewong’s Pen and Sail
Chris Baker, Independent scholar
Mediating
Memories of the 1970s in Thai Cinema
Sudarat Musikawong, University of California, Santa Cruz
Moderator
and Discussant
Thongchai Winichakul, University of Wisconsin, Madison
F5: The
Vicissitudes of
Thai Buddhism and Changing Realities: Contesting Forms, Meanings and
Practices
Lincoln Room, Holmes Student Center
‘Bad
boys, bad boys, watcha gonna
do? Watcha gonna do when they come for you?’ –
Police monks (Tamruat Phra):
The Thai Sangha’s covert
disciplinary enforcement agency
Julian
Kusa, Australian National University
Sacred
Fury, Sacred Duty
Michael
K. Jerryson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sexuality
in Thai Buddhist Scripture
Kulavir P. Pipat, Chiang Mai University
The
Emergence of Female-Monk Terms in Thai and Change in the Thai Cognitive
World
Amara Prasithrathsint, Chulalongkorn University
Moderator
and Discussant
Grant Olson, Northern Illinois University
Session G
4:00-5:45 p.m.
F1/G1 (Double
panel): Chaiwat Satha-anand:
Human Rights
and Buddhist-Muslim Relations in Thailand (continued)
Heritage Room, Holmes Student Center
G2: Moving
Ethnicities across
the Greater Mekhong
Room 305, Holmes Student Center
Really
Need a Temple?-The Lue as Flexible
Buddhists
Shih-chung
Hsieh, National Taiwan University
Negotiating
Ethnicities: Thai-Isan Selves; Thai-Isan Regionalities
Alyson
Brody, SOAS University of London
Akha
Community Power for the Economic of Sufficiency in Thailand
Kanokrat Yossakrai, Thammasat University
Resistance
and Violence: The Everyday Life of a Frontier Community in Northeastern
Thailand
Suchada Thaweesit, Ubol Ratchathani University
Reconceptualizing Community:
Shifting Contexts of the Lisu in Northern Thailand
Joseph
Rickson, Chiang Mai University
Moderator
and Discussant
Deborah Tooker, LeMoyne College
G3: Reading
Culture: The
Un/Making of the Arts
Room 506, Holmes Student Center
Making
Literature (Wannakhadi) an Art (Sinlapa):
Politics and Poetics of Knowledge in Siam/Thailand (1910s-1950s)
Thanapol Limapichart, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Methodology
for the Study of Buddhist Art
Piriya Krairiksh, Thammasat University
An
Investigation in Thailand’s History
of Communication: The Interplay of Orality
and Literacy
Netnapit Tasakorn, University of Toronto
The
Development of Theatre Criticism in Thailand : A Research Project
Parichat Jungwiwattanaporn, University of Hawaii
Abandoning
the Paradigms, Inventing the Possibilities:
The Fiction of Prabda Yoon
Susan F. Kepner, University of California, Berkeley
Moderator
Charles Keyes University of Washington
G4: Five-Hundred
Carts of
Tricks: Activism, Politics, and Thai Women
Lincoln Room, Holmes Student Center
Situating
Rural Women’s Activism: Difference, Discourse and Dissent
LeeRay M. Costa, Hollins University
Women
and Labor Activism: Struggle, Power and Pleasure
Mary
Beth Mills,
Colby College
Exercising
and Politicizing: Provincial Women’s Groups and Local Thai
Politics
Thamora Fishel, California State
University, Long Beach
Discussant
Ara Wilson, Ohio State University
Moderator
LeeRay M. Costa, Hollins University
G5: Thaksin’s
Policies: Rhetoric or Reality?
Illinois Room, Holmes Student Center
The
Politics of State-Led Welfare Development: Healthcare and Pension
Reforms in Thailand
Worawut Mee Smuthkalin, Stanford University
“Give
Up and Get Out; Get Caught or Get
Killed”: Control and
Order in Thailand’s Drug
Suppression Campaign
Eric
J. Haanstad, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Pro-Poor
Populist Policies under Thaksin: Rhetoric
or Reality?
Erik
Kuhonta, McGill University and Alex Mutebi, National University of Singapore
Developing
CEO-Style governors
Nisada Wedchayanon,
National Institute of Development Administration
Is
Thaksin a Really Strong Leader? Elite
Disunity and
Challenge form the Mass under the Guise of Absolute Power
Katewadee Kulabkaew and May Tan
Mullins, National University of Singapore
If you can't say
anything nice about Thaksin…
Daniel Unger, Northern Illinois University
Moderator
and Discussant
Bidhya Bowornwathana, Chulalongkorn University
6:00 p.m.
Dinner on
Your Own
|
Session
H: Plenary
session
7:00 –8:15 p.m.
Regency Room, Holmes Student Center
The Power of
Law and Women’s Presence in Thaksin’s
Era
Keynote
speaker
Virada
Somsawasdi, Chiang
Mai University
Session
I
8:30-10:00 p.m.
I1: Round Table
Discussion
Heritage Room, Holmes Student Center
Understanding Muslim Southern Thailand: Past, Present and Future
Ahmad
Somboon
Bualuang, Prince of Songkhla University
Alisa
Hasamoh,
Chulalongkorn University
Chavivun Prachuabmoh, Thammasat University
M. Ladd Thomas, Northern Illinois
University
Mala Sathian, University
Malaya
Surat Horachaikul, Chulalongkorn University
Moderator
Saroja Dorairajoo, National University of Singapore
I2: Buddhism in
Modern
Contexts
Illinois Room, Holmes Student Center
Looking
at America to Turn Back
Modernizing Thai Society
: An Analytical Perspective of Phra
Prommakunaporn (P.A.
Payutto)
Dhanapon Somwang, Sripatum University
Buddhist
ideas of impermanence and the psychology of causal attribution in Northern Thailand
Julia
Cassaniti, University of Chicago
The
Regionalization of Local Buddhist Saints: Amulet and Crime and Violence
in Post
WW II Thai Society
Chalong Soontravanich, Chulalongkorn University
Moderator
and Discussant
Grant Olson, Northern Illinois University
I3: Made and
Remade in Thailand: The Circulation of
Artifacts,
Bodies and Knowledge
Lincoln Room, Holmes Student Center
Gift
and Counter-gift of Information Between
“Holders of
Knowledge”: The Remaking of a Karen “Eco-tradition”
Abigaël Pesse, University of Paris X – Nanterre
From
Northeast rice fields to Bangkok: The Circulation
of Pugilistic Bodies. The Thai
Nation at Stake on the Rings of Thai Boxing
Stéphane Rennesson, University of Paris X – Nanterre
“Traditional”
Handicraft to Weave “National
Identities”; Weaving in Thailand
and Lao P.D.R.
Annabel
Vallard, University of Paris X – Nanterre
Discussant
Michael
Herzfeld,
Harvard University
Moderator
Stéphane Rennesson, University of Paris X – Nanterre
I5: Contesting
Gender
Roles, Reframing Identities
Room 506, Holmes Student Center
The
Gender Ghetto and Sexual Minorities: What “toms” and “dees”
can tell us about the importance of gender and sexuality for social
analysis in
Thailand
Megan
Sinnott, Yale University
Standing
in the Shadows: Matrilocality
and the Role of Women in Village Politics in Northern Thailand
Katherine
Bowie,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Woman
Human Rights Defenders
Sabrina
Gyorvary and Romyen Kosaikanont,
Chiang Mai University
Doing
Feminism on Our Home Ground: A Case Study from Thailand
Sinith Sittirak, Thammasat University
Moderator
and Discussant
Katherine
Bowie, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Tuesday April 5,
2005
8:00 a.m.
Check-in and Registration
Regency Room, Holmes Student Center
Session
J: Plenary
session
8:30 – 9:30 a.m.
Regency Room, Holmes Student Center
Thaksin:
Wide Angle
Keynote
speaker
Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chulalongkorn University
Session K
9:45 a.m. - 11:45 p.m.
K1: Traversing
Across
Moving Frontiers: Mobilities, Histories,
and the
Production of Identities across the Southern Thai Social Landscape
Heritage Room, Holmes Student Center
Living
at the border between “Orang Cina”
and “luukchin”: The Chinese on
the East Coast of the
Thai-Malaysian borderland
Kazue
Takamura, Tokyo University of
Foreign Studies
A
Muslim guardian spirit in a Buddhist Kingdom: Thuat
Krai, Cosmos and Islam in Klai, Nakhon Si Thammarat
Alexander
Horstmann, Institut
für Ethnologie,
University of Műnster
Can
the Dead Speak?: The Politics of Forgetting
in a
Violent Landscape
Muhammad
Arafat bin Mohamad, National University of
Singapore
In
the Shadow of Cement Gods: Mobilities and
Politics of
Monumentality in a Malaysian village
Irving
C Johnson,
National University of Singapore
Nooraa:
Cult of the Long Khru
Jason
L Conerly, Northern Illinois University
Moderator
and Discussant
Irving C. Johnson, National University of Singapore
K2: Thai Literary Classics
and their
Emulations
Illinois Room, Holmes Student Center
Atthakhatha Jataka: The Relation to Thai Literature and
Society
Saiwaroon Noinimit, Silpakorn University
The
Inheritance of Classical Thai Literature on Contemporary
Children’s Literature
Ruenruthai Sujjapun, Ramkhamhaeng University
Janapriiyaanantakal : Audiences Affect
the Adaptation of ‘Aphai Mani Saga’
Pram
Sounsamut, Chulalongkorn University
A
Comparison of Relative Clauses in the Sukhothai
Inscription I and in
documents of King Rama
IV’s Documents
Natchanan Yaowapat, Chulalongkorn University
Moderator
Cholthira Satyawadhna, Rangsit University and Harvard University
K3: Nation and
Gender in
the New Thai Cinema
Lincoln Room, Holmes Student Center
“Lak-ka-pid-lak-ka-perd (sometimes
closed-sometimes open):
The In-Between Space in Apichartpong Weerasethakul’s Films”
Sopawan Boonnimitra, Chulalongkorn University
Suriyothai’s
International Make-Over
Adam
Knee, Ohio University
Discussant
Chalida Uabumrungjit, Thai Film
Foundation
Moderator
Adam
Knee, Ohio University
K4: Identity,
History,
Economy, and Place
Room 305, Holmes Student Center
Local
History of the Lower North of Thailand In the First Half of the
Twentieth Century
Jiraporn
Stapanawatana, Naresuan University
Social
History of Modernity in Rural Chiang Mai Province, Thailand
Kriangsak Chetpatanavanich, Chiang Mai University
The
Way of Self Sufficient of Isan People in
the Chi Basin
Jaruwan Thammawat, Mahasarakham University
Local
Community Network in Identity Construction and its Reproduction in
Natural
Resource Management: A Case Study from the Lower Mun River Basin, Northeast Thailand
Sommai Chinnak, Ubon Ratchathani University
The
Roles and the Perspectives of a Sociologist in Urban Planning and
Implementation
Processes : A case study of the planning of Thachnang-Thaprachan, an old area of inner Bangkok
Jirapa Worasiangsuk, Thammasart University
Discussant
Anan
Ganjanapan, Chiang Mai University
Moderator
Jennifer
Weidman,
Northern Illinois University
11:45 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Masks of Southeast Asia Exhibit, Open House, and
Meet the Director, Ann
Wright-Parsons
Anthropology Museum, Stevens Building
(Beverages Served)
Session L
1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
L1: Separating
and
Integrating Factors in the South
Heritage Room, Holmes Student Center
Broadcasting,
the South and the State
Annette
Hamilton,
University of New South Wales
Pondok Schools and Malay-Muslim
Nationalism
Jason
Johnson, Northern Illinois University
The
Contribution of Malaysian Universities Towards
Human
Resource Development Among Southern Thai Muslims: The Case of the
Islamic
University Malaysia International
Sidek Baba, International Islamic University Malaysia
Balancing
Minorities – A Study of Southern Thailand
Linda
True, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
What
Differences Can the Elite of Minorities Make: The case of Wadah
Group and the Violence in Thailand’s Three
Southernmost Provinces
Daungyewa Utarasint, Northern Illinois
University
Cross
Cultural Interactions at the Border at Takbai
Maren Schoenfelder, Hamburg
University
Moderator
Duncan
McCargo, University of Leeds
L2: Tourism
Lincoln
Room, Holmes Student Center
Waters
of Modernity: Tourism, Change and Continuity in the Songkran
Festival, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Ploysri Porananond, Sheffield Hallam University
Unseen
Thailand?: Touristic Practices in Chiangmai
and Phuket
Alden
Wilfredo
Q. Lauzon, University of the Philippines
Changing
Identity in an Historic City in Thailand
Fonvunjuntr Srijuntr, Arizona State
University
Moderator
Sue Darlington, Hampshire College
L3:
Geo-political
Economics in Post-Crisis, Post-911 Thailand
Regency
Room, Holmes Student Center
Thailand and the New
Imperialism
Peter
F. Bell, State University of New York, Purchase
Three
Southeast Asian Victims of 9/11: The ‘War on Terrorism’ in
the Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand
Jim
Glassman,
University of British Columbia
Populism/Authoritarianism:
The Politics of Governance under Thai Rak
Thai
Kevin
Hewison, University of North Carolina and Kanishka Jayasuriya,
Murdoch University
Harnessing
Suwannaphum: Thailand’s Foreign
Economic Policy toward Mainland Southeast Asia in the Era of Thaksin
Paul
Chambers,
University of Oklahoma
Thaksin’s
‘Economic Cooperation Strategy’ (ECS) and Thailand’s Endeavor
for Regional Clout
Alex
Mutebi, National University of Singapore
Co-Conveners
Peter
F. Bell, State University of New York, Purchase and Jim Glassman, University of British Columbia
Moderator
Peter F. Bell, State University of New York, Purchase
L4/M4 (Double
panel):
Redefining Otherness
Illinois
Room, Holmes Student Center
Dissolution
of the Tribal Research Institute: Have “Hill Tribe Others”
Become “Thai Us”?
Kwanchewan Buadaeng, Chiang Mai University
Otherwise
Others in Thailand: Hmong in the Thai
Marketplace
Patricia Symonds, Brown University
Who
are they/we the Karen?
Yoko Hayami, Kyoto University
The
Process of Marginalization and the Representation of Identity among the
Yunnanese Muslims in Northern Thailand
Liulan Wang, Kyoto University
Creating
the Other: Defining the Contemporary Thai
Ronald D. Renard, Independent scholar
Thai
but not Tai: Shan in Thailand
Nicola
Tannenbaum, Lehigh University
Changing
Meaning of the Elderly in Nan province, Northern Thailand From “Khon
Tao Khon Kae”
to “Phu Sung Ayu”
Yuji Baba, Mie
Prefectural College of Nursing
Co-moderators
Nicola Tannenbaum, Lehigh University and Yoko Hayami, Kyoto University
L5: Political
Socialization/Participation in the Political Process
Room
305, Holmes Student Center
Relationships
between Adolescents Democratic Behaviors, Political Responsibilities
Puntip Sirivunnabood et al.,
Chulalongkorn University
Thailand Election 2005:
Authoritarian Populism or Participatory
Democratic Governance
Ake Tangsupvattana, Chulalongkorn University
Political
Participation, Parliament, and the Law-Making Process in Thailand, 1979-2002
Aaron Stern, University of Michigan
Voting
Behavior in Thailand:
candidate-centered versus party-centered voting
Napisa Waitoolkait, Northern Illinois University
The
results of the Single-Seat Constituency & Party Lists Electoral
System: A
Comparison of Thailand and Japan
Michiko
Shida, Institute of World Politics
and Economy
The
2005 Election: Meaning and Prospects
Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chulalongkorn University and Chris
Baker, Independent scholar
Moderator
and Discussant
Daniel Unger, Northern Illinois University
Session M
3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
M1: The Ecology
of Pattani Bay
Heritage Room, Holmes Student Center
Fisheries
Resources in Pattani Bay
Supat Khongpuang
et al.,
Prince of Songkla University, Pattani
Diversity
of Habitats in Pattani Bay
Wanchamai Karntanut et al., Prince
of Songkla University, Pattani
Quality
of Water in Pattani Bay
Akom Sowana, Prince of Songkla University, Pattani
Sediments
in Pattani Bay
Akom Sowana, Prince of Songkla University, Pattani
Socioeconomic
Dynamics, Structural Changes and Consequences on Development Planning
of Pattani Bay
Srisompob Jitpiromsri et
al.,
Prince of Songkla University, Pattani
Moderator
Srisompob Jitpiromsri, Prince
of Songkla University, Pattani
M2: Round Table
Discussion
Lincoln
Room, Holmes Student Center
Thailand:
Anything but “Never Colonized”
Chaiyan Rajchagool
Michael
Herzfeld
Tamara
Loos
Thongchai
Winichakul
M3: Health/AIDS
Room
305, Holmes Student Center
Lives
of AIDS Widows: Remaining Issues in the Management of HIV/AIDS Stigma
in the
Upper-Northern Thailand
Senjo Nakai, Macquaire University
The
Lives of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Tai Community: A Case Study in Yunnan, China
Rui Deng, Mahidol University
The
Community Concepts in Thailand's HIV/AIDS Policy
and Practice: Community in AIDS, or
AIDS in Community?
Suchada Thaweesit, Ubol Ratchathani University
From
Family Planning to HIV/AIDS, and Now Medical Tourism: Thai development
policies
engendering bodies
Marjorie Muecke, University of Washington, Seattle
Moderator
Marjorie Muecke, University of Washington, Seattle
L4/M4 (Double
panel):
Redefining Otherness (continued)
Illinois
Room, Holmes Student Center
5:30 p.m.
Cash Bar
Sky Room 16th Floor, Holmes Student Center
6:30 p.m.
Dinner for
Conference Registrants
Regency Room, Holmes Student Center
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Session N
7:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Regency Room, Holmes Student Center
The Asia Foundation
Roundtable Discussion: Political Development since the 1997 Constitution
Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chulalongkorn University
Kavi Chongkittavorn, Nation Multimedia Group Public Company
Limited
Chris Baker, Independent scholar
James Klein, The Asia
Foundation – Moderator
Session O
8:30 – 10.00 p.m.
O1/O2: Film
Screenings/Film
and Ethnography
Illinois
Room, Holmes Student Center
Transnational
Tradeswomen
Vivian Price, University of California, Irvine
DVD
Show: Lung Puan Makes a Pikun
Flower
Jonathan Robertson, University of Dundee
Moving
Dai: The Band Tour in Sipsong Panna
Wasan Panyagaew, Australian National University
Moderator
Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University
O3: SEASite
Sky Room, Holmes Student Center
A
Demonstration of Northern Illinois University’s
Interactive Learning Resource for Southeast Asian
Languages, Literatures and Cultures
John
Hartmann, Northern Illinois University
O4: Khun
Chang Khun Phaen
Heritage
Room, Holmes Student Center
Chris Baker, Independent scholar and Pasuk Phongpaichit, Chulalongkorn University
O5: "Untitled"
(Wishes, Lies and Dreams)
Sky
Room, Holmes Student Center
Sarawut Chutiwongpeti,
Independent artist
Wednesday April
6, 2005
8:00 a.m.
Check-in and
Registration
Regency Room, Holmes Student Center
Session
P: Plenary
session
8:30 – 9:30 a.m.
Regency
Room, Holmes Student Center
‘Gender’
in Thai State Policy
Keynote
speaker
Kanokwan Tharawan, The Royal Thai
Ministry of Public Health, and University of California, Santa Cruz
Session Q
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Q1: The South:
History and
Historiography
Heritage
Room, Holmes Student Center
Thai-Malay
Conflicts in the Ayutthaya Period
Hung-Guk
Cho, Pusan National University
Origins
of Malay Muslim "Separatism" in Southern Thailand
Thanet Aphornsuvan, Thammasat University
Three
Texts from Islamic Thai Historiography
John Grima, Independent scholar
The
Social Network Construction of the Bala
Chinese
Business in Phuket
Suleeman Wongsuphap, LaTrobe University and Prince of Songkla University
Moderator
Q2: Issues
relating to
the politics of Thai Social Movements
Regency
Room, Holmes Student Center
Thai
Social Movements in an era of global protest
Giles Ji Ungpakorn, Chulalongkon University
The
Ebbs and Flow of NGOS in Thai Social Movements under the Thaksin
Era
Kanokrat Lertchoosakul, Chulalongkon University
SMS
Politics in Thailand: The Next Phase
of Direct Democracy?
Pitch Pongsawat, Chulalongkon University
The Dictatorship
of Thai Rak
Thai? A reflection
of the strength of the Peoples Movement
Kengkij Kitirianglarp, Chulalongkon University
Gender
Mainstreaming and the Ministry of Culture
Numnual Yapparat, Chulalongkon University
Discussant
Prapart Pintoptang, Chulalongkon University
Moderator
Giles Ji Ungpakorn, Chulalongkon University
Q3: Conventional
Hero and
the Unconventional Heroes and Heroines in Literature and Folklore
Lincoln
Room, Holmes Student Center
Phii
and Khwan in Thai Literature and Folklore
Elena Afanasieva, Russian Academy of Sciences
Orphan Tales: Reflections of People’s
Lives with Restricted Opportunities and Ethnic Relationships in the
Middle
Southeast Region
Jaruwan Thammawat, Mahasarakhan University
Unakan:
A Combination of The Images of Thai Hero
and Heroine
Thaneerat Jatuthasri, Chulalongkorn University
Sriburapha’s Angels: The
Development of Women’s Images in Sriburapha’s
Novels
Trisilpa Boonkhachorn, Chulalongkorn University
The
Significance of the Horse faced-Mask In The
Story of Kaeo Na Ma
Cholada Ruengruglikit, Chulalongkorn University
Moderator
Cholthira Satyawadhna, Rangsit University and Harvard University
Q4: New and Old
Autonomous
and Cross Cultural Identities
Illinois
Room, Holmes Student Center
The
Ahom (Tai) of India: Their Living
Religious Culture
Ranjit Konwar and Sikhamoni Gohain Boruah,
Office of the Conservator of Forest Guwahati, India
Unlikely
urbanites; The formation of a young elite
in post
socialist Laos
Warren
Mayes, Australian National University
Chinese
and the Expansion of Cities on Chi River
Nareerat Parisuthiwithiporn,
Mahasarakham University
Ethnic
Chinese in Modern Thailand and their Role in
Sino-Thai Economic Relations
Kesarin Phanarangsan, University of Pennsylvania
Working
Together? An Examination of a Multicultural Thai Office
Jennifer
Weidman, Northern Illinois University
Moderator
Nicola Tannenbaum,
Lehigh University
Q5: Natural
Resources
Room
305, Holmes Student Center
Narrative
of contest views of ecology management: The practice of Karen
Conservation
movement in Northern Thailand
Prasert Trakansuphakon, Chiang Mai University
Governance
and water in Thailand
Philip
Hirsch, University of Sydney
Moderator
and Discussant
Anan
Ganjanapan, Chiang Mai University
12:00 p.m.
Lunch on
Your Own |
Session R
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
R1: Cultural and
Economic
aspects of the Crisis in the South
Heritage
Room, Holmes Student Center
Communicating
the Crisis in Southern Thailand: An
Anthropological Perspective
Steffen
Ruholl, Institut für
Ethnologie, Freie Universität
Hamburg
What
is Jawi? Its Meaning, History, Scope, and
Future
Worawit Baru, Prince
of Songkla University, Pattani
Learning
the Thai alphabet as Muslim Identity at Work: A comparison between two
primary
school books
Claudia
Merli, Uppsala University
Rusembilan Revisited: Individualism,Capitalism,
and Internal Colonialism in a
Modernizing Malay Community in Pattani
Ronald Provencher, Northern Illinois University
Gender
and border crossings among Thai Malay Muslims in border communities of Southern Thailand
Michiko Tsuneda, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Women
in Conflict Situation
Amporn Marddent, Mahidol University
Moderator
and Discussant
Robert Albritton, University of Mississippi
R2:
Regionalizing Thailand: Studies on Thailand and Theravada Buddhism
in Honor of
Donald K. Swearer
Illinois Room, Holmes Student Center
Potency
Practices and Spatial Copying: Lanna and Sukothai Look to South Asia
Anne M.
Blackburn,
Cornell University
An
Emergence of the Lan
Na
Kingdom
Sommai Premchit, Chiang Mai University and Mahamakut Buddhist
University, Lanna
Campus
When
Northern Thailand was Lao:
Crossing Borders in Buddhist Studies
Justin
McDaniel,
University of California, Riverside
Traditions
of the Noble Ones: The Pan-Buddhist Vision of a Thai Buddhist Movement
Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey
De Graff)
Sanghas
without Borders? Thai Monks in Sipsongpanna and Dai-lue
Monks in
Thailand
Thomas Borchert, University of Chicago
Discussant
Donald K. Swearer, Harvard Divinity School
Moderator
Thomas
Borchert, University of Chicago
R3:
Thai-Vietnamese Images
and Interactions
Lincoln
Room, Holmes Student Center
Decapitation
and Heads Display: State Violence for the Sake of Civilization and
Westernization in Siam and French Indochina, 1880-1930
Chiranan Prasertkul, Cornell University
Ho
Chi Minh and the Vietnamese in Thailand: Nakhon Phanom,
Then and Now
Larry
Ashmun, University
of Wisconsin-Madison
The
Enemy Loved Us: Military Memories of Thai-Vietnamese Relationships in South Vietnam During the Second Indochina War, 1967-1972
Richard
A. Ruth, Cornell University
Moderator
Clark Neher, Northern Illinois University
R4: Political
Parties and
Elections in the Thaksin Era
Regency
Room, Holmes Student Center
Institutional
Reform. Thaksin and
Budgetary
Politics in Thailand
Allen
Hicken, University of Michigan
Thai
Rak Thai and the ‘New Politics’
in Thailand: An
‘Authentic’ Party on the March?
Hugh
Pei-Hsiu
Chen, National Chi Nan University
Policy
Platform and Party Competition: A Case Study of the 2005 Election
Punchada Sirivunnabood, Northern Illinois University
Constitutional
Reform, Coordination, and the Number of Parties in Thailand
Allen
Hicken, University of Michigan
Thai
Rak Thai and Contemporary Elections: A
Return to the
Government Political Party
James
Ockey, Canterbury University
Discussant
Erik Kuhonta, McGill University
Moderator
Allen Hicken, University of Michigan
R5: Popular
Sector Economy
Room
305, Holmes Student Center
Export
Marketing Strategy for Thai Manufacturing
firms
Suda Suwannapirom
and Vichit U-on,
Burapha University
Bangkok Street Food Vending:
Development and Diversity in the Age of Globalization
Narumol Nirathron, Thammasat University
The
Politics of Non-Ratification: Labor Politics in Thailand
Eunsook Jung, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Wild/Domestic
Pollution: Popular Media, Urban Lore, and Local Practice among Middle
Class
Homeowners in Northern Thailand
Jane M.
Ferguson, Cornell University
Moderator