The University of the Philippines, Diliman Campus (Joint hosts: College of Mass Communication and the School of Labor & Industrial Relations), in collaboration with the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, invites abstracts for the 8th ASEAN Inter-University Seminars on Social Development, which will take place on May 28 to 31, 2008, Manila Philippines. The theme for this year's event is "ASEAN as a Community:
Solidarity in a Globalizing World."
The IUC is the biggest bi-annual gathering of academics and social scientists in Southeast Asia. Backstopped by its Regional Secretariat based in the National University of Singapore, the IUC has helped advanced the understanding of the human condition in all its dimensions in Southeast Asia. It is able to enlist the participation of leading scholars and researchers from different centers of learning all over the region, including those coming from outside the region.
As a backgrounder, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), in its Leaders’ Summit in 2003 in Bali, adopted a historic vision to transform the region into an ‘ASEAN Community’. Based on Bali Concord II, ASEAN shall be an integrated community by 2020 built on three integration pillars – economy, socio-cultural and security. Since then, ASEAN, which is marking its 40th year in 2008, has advanced the economic integration program to 2015 and is now drafting an ASEAN Charter that will dramatically transform the ASEAN into a rules-based institution.
The academe, with its intellectual resources, can contribute a lot in
· Sharpening the vision of an ASEAN community,
· Fleshing out the plans and programs of regional integration,
· Identifying problems and prospects in the integration process, and
· Insuring a human-centered ASEAN integration.
However, the 8th IUC has also introduced another innovation. It has accepted the formal involvement in the IUC of ASEAN working people as participants. The newly-formed ASEAN Service Employees Trade Union Council (ASETUC) based in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur shall participate as a co-sponsor. Through the ASETUC, other trade unions and civil society organizations (CSOs) or non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from the region shall be invited.
Key themes for the 8th IUC
1. Art, Literature and Religion
· Literary as political: literary studies in SEA
· Role of arts and ethnic traditions
· The bible islands: new Christian movement in SEA
· Solidarity of religions and the global war on terrorism
2. History, Culture and Political Practices
· Inter-Southeast Asian cultural studies
· Us or them: critical social science in SEA
· History from above and below: delineating frameworks in SEA history
· Dynamics of SEA political leadership
· Cultural diversity and regional unity
· Balancing security and democracy
· Nurturing a culture of regional solidarity and people to people contact
· Shifting food practices in SEA
3. Human Rights
· Anti-terrorism and human rights in SEA
· Building respect for human rights
· Humanizing migration and movement of peoples
· Peace and Conflict amidst Development
4. Identities
· Queer studies in SEA
· New Muslim identities and formation
· Women’s movements SEA
· Gender issues in SEA
5. Media and New Media
· Independent film cinemas in SEA
· Subaltern uses for cellphone technology and the Internet
· Asian telenovelas
· Law, media and the state in SEA
· Globalization and the ASEAN media
· Bridging the voice gaps: role of media and communication
· Films and Development
· Use media in PR and Advertising
6. People, Social Movements, Social Dialogue
· Fair trade, fair labor
· Peasant movements in Southeast Asia
· Migration issues in a regional economic community
· People’s voice in ASEAN processes
· Role of social dialogue in regional integration
7. SEA Economy
· Building fortress ASEAN: bilateralism, regionalism and multilateralism.
· Digital and development divides
· Turning the region green and sustainable
· Breaking the glass and bamboo ceiling
8. Science and Technology
· Technological Development in ASEAN contexts
· Role of environmental science in development
· Marine and natural resources for progress
The conference shall be capped with a dialogue among participants for the formulation of resolutions, research agenda and future plans. Selected papers shall be published.
A feature of the conference is a city tour or visit to an interesting place in the Philippines.
Abstract / Proposal Submission Instructions
Submission should include:
· Presenters name
· E-mail address
· Position and Institutional affiliation
· Mailing address
· Paper title
· Paper abstract (250 WORDS) sufficiently detailed for the program committee to decide whether or not to include it. If accepted, the abstract will be reproduced verbatim in the conference program.
Deadline for submission of abstracts is November 30, 2007.
The abstract should be e-mailed to lourdesportus(at)yahoo.com. It can be either in the body of the e-mail or as a MS Word attachment.
For other details please view: www.fas.nus.edu.sg/soc/asean
Full Paper submission deadline is April 30, 2008.
Conference Fees
Foreign Participants:
$200.00 (regular)
$150.00 (early registrants, on or before March 30, 2008)
Local Participants:
PhP3, 500.00 (regular)
PhP3, 000.00 (early registrants, on or before March 30, 2008)
Hotel Accommodation
Please visit: www.centurypark.com (attention or email: Cherryl Ann Uy at cuy(at)centurypark.com.ph for conference rates)
