The 2023 Asian Conference for Young Scholars of Southeast Asian Studies (AYSEA) will be held at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei on September 13, 2023. Featuring a keynote speech by Prof. Alan Hao Yang, Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies at National Chengchi University, the conference focuses on “The Future Directions of Southeast Asian Studies in the Post-Pandemic Era” and highlights presentations and discussions by more than nineteen participants drawn from the SEASIA consortium’s network of young, mid-career, and senior researchers.
Asian Conference for Young Scholars of
Southeast Asian Studies
(AYSEA 2023)
Theme: The Future Directions of Southeast Asian Studies
in the Post-Pandemic Era
September 11-12, 2023
Venue: R2319, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Hosted by: CAPAS Academia Sinica, TAEF, CSEAS/IIR NCCU
Program
September 11 (Mon.)
| 09:00~09:30 | Registration |
| 09:30~09:40 | Opening Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao (Chairman, TAEF and Adjunct Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Alan Hao Yang (Executive Director, TAEF and Distinguished Professor, Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies, National Chengchi University, Taiwan) Yu-sheng LIN (Associate Research Fellow, CAPAS, RCHSS, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) |
| Keynote Speech | |
| 09:40-10:40 | Chair： Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao Speaker：Alan Hao Yang Title：Beyond Bubble Tea and Semiconductor Chips: How Taiwan is perceived by Southeast Asian Countries? |
| 10:40~11:00 | Coffee Break |
| Session 1: Covid Policy and Energy | |
| 11:00~12:30 | Chair： Nawawi (Director of Research Center for Population, BRIN, Indonesia) |
| Yanu Endar Prasetyo (Researcher, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Organization, BRIN, Indonesia) Opportunity and inequality in Indonesia’s post-pandemic era | |
| Glenn Hong (Ph.D. Student, East Asian Studies,National Chengchi University, Taiwan) Unpacking the State-Led Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparative Analysis of ASEAN countries | |
| Julie Ann delos Reyes (Assistant Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan) Accelerating power sector decarbonisation: The role of Japan in Southeast Asian energy transition | |
| 12:30~13:30 | Lunch Break and special presentation |
| Session 2: Religious nationalism, environmentalism, and Islam boundary | |
| 13:30~15:00 | Chair： Yu-sheng LIN (Associate Research Fellow, CAPAS, RCHSS, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) |
| Walid Jumblatt Bin Abdullah (Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Religious nationalism in a post-Covid world: The cases of Malaysia and southern Thailand | |
| Sarah R. Rose-Jensen (Assistant Professor, American University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia) Theravada Buddhist beliefs and environmental activism in Cambodia | |
| Dylan Wooi Han Lee (Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan) Crossing Islamic boundary? “Whore” discourse, piety and sex work in Indonesia | |
| 15:00~15:20 | Coffee Break |
| Session 3: Migrant workers, rural-urban development and immigration | |
| 15:20~16:50 | Chair： Wen-Chin Chang (Research Fellow, CAPAS, RCHSS, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) |
| Jooyoung Kim (Research Fellow, Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, Jeonbuk National University, South Korea) Becoming Talented Migrant Workers: Recognition Struggles of Foreign Domestic Workers’ Communities in Singapore | |
| Ni-Ni Peng (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Southeast Asian Studies, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan) Development narrative and the transformation of the urban-rural interface in Myanmar | |
| Pintu Kumar (Ph.D. Student, Department of East Asian Studies, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan) Immigration, return, and settlement: Indian ethnicity and its cultural changes in Singapore | |
| Dinner | |
September 12 (Tue.)
| 09:00~09:30 | Registration |
| Session 4: Knowledge, movement and visual narratives | |
| 09:30~11:00 | Chair： Yen-lin Tsai (Associate Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) |
| Beiyu Zhang (Associate Professor, School of International Studies/Academy of Overseas Chinese Studies, Jinan University, China) The production of knowledge on Southeast Asia from the perspective of ‘Global South’: A case study on the history-writing of Singapore | |
| Chika Yamada (Assistant Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan) Untold stories of Sahrul Syah: The dark knight of Indonesian Harm Reduction movement | |
| Zhou Hau Liew (Assistant Professor, International Ph.D. Program in Taiwan and Transcultural Studies, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan) Planetary life-worlds of the resource frontier: remapping maritime Southeast Asia through visual narratives | |
| 11:00~11:20 | Coffee Break |
| Session 5: Dance and policing | |
| 11:20~12:20 | Chair： Kuan-Chi Wang (Associate Research Fellow, CAPAS, RCHSS, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) |
| Monica Fides Amada Wong Santos (Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines) Moving bodies, histories, and aesthetic transformations in Southeast Asian dance traditions: A view from anthropology | |
| Kevin Nielsen M. Agojo (PhD Student, Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Performative policing: The Philippine national police during the “War on Drugs” in a Challenged Democracy | |
| 12:20~12:30 | Closing |
Session 1-5：Chair 5 mins, Each presentation 20 mins, Q&A 25 mins (Session 5: 15 mins)
