Sadly due to the COVID19 pandemic we are no longer able to hold the ASEAS50@LSE conference in September 2020. However we are negotiating with the London School of Economics and Political Science to postpone our event until September 2021.
In the interim, we are planning to hold a digital roundtable event in collaboration with LSE and will post further details in due course.
ASEAS50@LSE
Prosperity and Precarity
4-6 September 2020
Hosted by the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Today’s Southeast Asia is an increasingly prosperous region. Technological innovation, education, new investments in infrastructure – countries in the region have much to celebrate. At the same time, significant sections of the region’s population are experiencing ever more precarious lives. The challenges posed by the climate crisis, natural hazards, resource appropriations, urbanisation, industrial expansion and; political conflict can fall disproportionately on those on the margins. What needs to be changed to create shared and sustainable prosperity?
ASEAS50@LSE will explore this question across a series of interdisciplinary panels, framed by keynote speeches from leading experts on the rapid transformation of Southeast Asia. We invite scholars and practitioners across the humanities, social sciences, development sector, and business to propose panels. Panel proposals are due 25 March 2020. Approved panels will be announced at the end of March with a call for papers and all abstracts to be submitted by 29 May 2020.
Join ASEAS50@LSE to celebrate our 50th year as a Learned Society!
Possible Panel Themes:
Geographies of the super-rich
ASEAN economic integration
Global value chains and Southeast Asia
Emergent middle classes and urban elites
Cross-border investments and trades
(Trans)national real-estate drives
Non-alignment, ASEAN and global power shifts
ASEAN and the sustainability agenda
ASEAN and smart cities
Land-grabbing and livelihoods, rural and urban
Politics of the precariat
Environmental and climate precarities
Prosperity religions in Southeast Asia
China’s Belt and Road investments and their impacts
Emerging innovation hubs and special economic zones
Borders and bordering processes
Precarious childhoods
Gender, generation, prosperity and precarity
Ethnicity, inequality and Intra-Southeast Asian migration
Water and transborder management
Human rights, social media and political polarisation
Expulsions and modern-day slavery
Decolonising and globalising Area Studies for Southeast Asia
Academic freedom in Southeast Asia
Arts and creativity in social transformations
Heritage as an agent of social change
Faith and freedoms, texts and treasures
Archaeological frontiers and new social histories
Career conundrums; fitting Area Studies into your discipline
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