(Source: Universiteit Leiden)
We learned of a conference on
state and society in South- and Southeast Asia (c. 1800-2000) at the
Universiteit Leiden.
Conference
Over the last decades, the study
of governance in Asia has increasingly expanded to include a focus upon
non-state entities. Historians have realized that engagement with local
intermediaries, civil society organizations, power brokers, and interest groups
has been crucial to the day-to-day administration of European colonies and
postcolonial states alike. Historically, colonial regimes contended and
interacted with pre-existing political and socioeconomic structures of the
regions they occupied and sought to reshape. Simultaneously there has been a
continued awareness that ideas, methods and policies did not develop in
isolation in each colony, but instead circulated in trans-imperial networks.
Similarly, nation states in postcolonial republics from Indonesia to India and
Pakistan have been compelled to seek dialogue with non-state actors, even as
their solutions to challenges from these quarters have been informed by wider
discourses on statecraft.
This conference seeks to bring
together these different insights in comparative perspective, to shed light on
the many paradoxes, differences and continuities of (post)colonial rule across
Asia. We seek to highlight the different sources and brokers of power in
colonial and postcolonial societies, and the manner in which these interacted,
contradicted, overlapped with and challenged the authority of the state. The
aim is to bring this wider context of governance into focus, by crossing
regional and temporal boundaries and including colonial and postcolonial states
in the same framework of research.
Confirmed keynote speakers
are prof. dr. Indrani Chatterjee (University of Texas at Austin), prof
dr. Robert Cribb (Australian National University) and dr. Farish A. Noor
(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore).
This is a N.W. Posthumus
conference co-sponsored by the programme AMT: Asian Modernities and Traditions,
the Vereniging KITLV / Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and
Caribbean Studies, the Institute for History (Leiden University) and the
Faculty of Law (Leiden University).
Conference programme and
attendance
We welcome all interested
visitors to attend the panels and keynote lectures. Attendance is free. We
kindly ask visitors to register their attendance by sending an e-mail to: relocatinggovernance2020@hum.leidenuniv.nl before
15 January.
Please indicate if you wish to attend the whole conference or only part of the programme”.
For more information, please read
the full (provisional) conference
programme.
More info here
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