IN Celebration of
the 20th Anniversary of
the Research Center for Humanities and Social Studies (RCHSS), Academia Sinica
2024 Annual Conference of Southeast Asian Studies in Taiwan
Perspectives and Methodologies of Area Studies: Reviews and Prospects of Taiwan’s Southeast Asian Studies
In 1994, with the initiation of the former President of Academia Sinica, Dr. Yuan-Tseh Lee, the Program for Southeast Asian Area Studies (PROSEA) was created. This marked the commencement of institutional research on the region among Taiwan’s academics, and consequently motivated the launch of graduate and undergraduate studies and research centers on Southeast Asia in several universities. In 2003, the Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies (CAPAS), grounded in PROSEA (and the Program for Northeast Asian Area Studies, also at Academia Sinica), was established. Over the last three decades, Taiwanese academia has generated three generations of researchers in these area studies—the senior, the middle-aged, and the junior. They have immersed themselves in a range of research issues, learnt from the experiences of international academics, absorbed their theories and engaged in ongoing debates. Concurrently, Taiwan’s connections with Southeast Asia have deepened. This conference, hosted by CAPAS, provides a timely opportunity to look at the perspectives and methodologies of Southeast Asian studies in Taiwan, Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia and beyond.
Some of the questions we will examine on this occasion are:
What constitutes area studies?
What is the relevance of area studies vis-à-vis academic disciplines, and what are their differences?
How do we reconcile regional unity and local diversities?
How do we connect different scales of studies, ranging from communities, nations, trans-nations, to trans-areas?
How do we move forward from ongoing debates between different research perspectives and methodologies?
What are the issues and research sites that require further exploration, so that we can go beyond established theoretical concepts and bring out new insights and interpretations?
The answers to these questions will require interdisciplinary efforts. We would like to make this conference a venue for exchange of ideas and inspirational moments. We sincerely invite local and international scholars to take part in it. We look forward to your participation as well as the continuous growth of Southeast Asian studies in Taiwan.
2024 Annual Conference of Southeast Asia Studies in Taiwan
Date｜07-08 Nov. 2024 Thur.-Fri.
Venue｜Academia Sinica（No.128, Academia Rd. Sec. 2, Nangang Dist., Taipei City）
Deadline for Abstract Submission｜08 Apr. 2024
Acceptance Announcement of Papers, Forums and Panels｜15 May 2024
Deadline for Papers’ Submission｜18 Oct. 2024
*The conference secretariat will arrange the conference program and chairs for panels. Self-organized panels may arrange their own discussants.
Online Submission｜https://forms.gle/NeqYvt39byUq6TBo7
Email Submission｜2024acsest at gmail.com
Phone｜+886-2-2651-6862
Secretary｜Edgard Chiang
Relevant issues for the conference:
- Methodologies of Area Studies
- Dialectics of Regional Unity and Local Diversities
- Colonization, Cold War and Southeast Asian Studies
- Southeast Asian Geo-politics and Geo-economy
- Cross-border Ethnic Politics
- Transnational Mobility of Southeast Asian Migrant Workers
- Inter-connections between Taiwan and Southeast Asia
- Ethnic Chinese, Hakka Groups and Ethnic Relations in Southeast Asia
- Southeast Asian Histories
- Southeast Asian Religions
- Southeast Asian Literature, Arts and Performances
- Southeast Asian Architecture and Urban Space
- Cross-area Borderland Studies
- Democratization and Electoral Politics of Southeast Asia
- ASEAN and International Relations
