“Angkor and Its Global Connections”:
An International Conference to be held in Siem Reap,
Cambodia, 10-12 June 2011
In collaboration with the APSARA (Authority for the Protection and Management of Angkor and the Region of Siem Reap) National Authority of Cambodia, and with the support of the UNESCO Phnom Penh Office, the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore is pleased to announce the convening of a conference entitled Angkor and Its Global Connections in Siem Reap over three days 10-12 June 2011.
The aim of the proposed conference is to examine the history of the Khmer polities which were centred in and around the Angkor region, the development of their urban centres, and the links between these polities and other political and cultural centres in Southeast Asia, East Asia and beyond. It is hoped that the papers presented, selections of which will be subsequently published in an edited volume, will offer a state-of-the-field overview of Khmer polities, their urban development and their relations with other polities and cultural centres, including Tai, Thai, Cham, Viet, and Chinese polities, the Arab and Persian worlds and maritime Southeast Asia.
The need for such a conference is obvious. While there are annual ICC-Angkor meetings held in Siem Reap under the auspices of APSARA and UNESCO, these relate mainly to the preservation and maintenance of the monuments of the Angkor region. It has often been the case, however, that these ancient cities have been examined in splendid isolation, without sufficient reference to their external links which, it must be affirmed, are integral and essential elements for any functioning metropolis in history or today.
The most recent major scholarly conclaves to address the broader issues of the historical and external contexts of the Khmer centres were the ‘Khmer Studies Symposium’, hosted by the Greater Angkor Project at Sydney University in 2005 and the ‘Contemporary Research on Pre-Angkor Cambodia’ conference convened by the Centre for Khmer Studies, Siem Reap in the same year. The amount of archaeological, textual, epigraphic and comparative research which has been conducted since then suggests that the field would benefit from another gathering of specialists, with some new foci. It is to this end that the proposed conference is being convened. This is the first conference in the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre’s “Early Cities of Southeast Asia” series.
Research institutes throughout the world are invited to nominate scholars whose participation in the conference they will financially support. Independent scholars are also invited to submit proposals, but funding will be limited to those from Asia most in need of financial support.
The languages of the conference will be English and Khmer.
Proposals should be directed to:
Angkor and its Global Connections
Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Singapore 119614
Email: lucyliu@iseas.edu.sg
Applications close 10 April 2011
Queries should be directed to:
Ambassador Pou Sothirak (sothirak@iseas.edu.sg)
or Dr Geoff Wade (gwade@iseas.edu.sg)
With all best wishes,
Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Singapore
6 comments:
i think the more cambodia and khmer people exposed and influenced by people all over the world, the better our people and country will be in the future to come, you know! god bless cambodia.
To be honest If there is no 7 January I and my families are death by Khmer Rough already. I know Hun Sen is not perfect Prime Minister Of Cambodia but I have to give him this credit. Under khmer rough I and my families worked extremely hard and no food to eat because all the rice that we grown khmer rough gave all to China.
I would like to thanks Hun Sen for saving my life and my families.
Because of Hun Sen that's why I could send all my 6 children to Harvard Universith at America for their bright education in economic, finance, Actuary study, law and software engineering develoment courses at Harvard University. Thanks to my children that they study very hard. One of my child is getting his PhD in Autuary study at Harvard university this year. Another one of my second older child is doing his PhD in economic at Harvard Uni too. the last four are closing to graduate.
I am a CPP member and I proud of it.
If you look at King families, relative they are brainless in education. Our CPP member don't have bright education in university because at that time we have no chance but today we support our children to get PhD from all most every famous university around the world.
Cheers guys!
amen, god bless cambodia and all our beautiful and smart and bright young men and women of cambodia.
keep up the good work for our beloved and beautiful country of cambodia. i love you all.
please come back and help to make cambodia a better, competitive nation, ok! cambodia need more smart, intelligent, aggressive, clever young men and women. please get better education so cambodia will become a better country for all, ok! god bless cambodia and all khmer people.
Mrs. 7:31
Hun Sen did not come to save you or your family. He came to save his own ambition. You do realize he was a member of the Khmer Rough commanding forces, one of thousands of Khmer Communist who were trained by and loyal to Vietnam.
Your saving, I'm sorry to tell you, was just a mere side effect of the internal power struggle by Hun Sen and Pol Pot's faction, by the Vietnamese Pro vs Khmer Pro Communist.
They didn't do anything for you. You got lucky, and like the rest of us, you and your children,...well just us, who are have families still living in Cambodia, must suffer under another form of Khmer Rough by another faction of the Khmer Rough, while you and your super rich sons and family enjoy your education and money and freedom oversea in America.
How did you kids go to Harvard? You don't mean you are a "traitor" also and "ran away" from her own country like the "rest of us" oversea Khmer?
shut up! look to the brighter future of cambodia together, ok! stop making trouble like sam rainsy, ok!
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