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Host: Century Park Hotel
Sponsor: Union Network International (UNI)
Homepage: http://www.asean8iuc.net
Email: lourdesportus@yahoo.com
Organizers: University of the Philippines (College of Mass Communication; School of Labor and Industrial Relations) and National University Singapore
Deadline for abstracts: December 31, 2006
Description:
Theme: 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 will be introducing 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 (such as Asian Farmers Association and AsiaDHRRA) shall be invited.
The University of the Philippines, Diliman Campus through the College of Mass Communication and the School of Labor & Industrial Relations, and in collaboration with the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, will take its turn in hosting the conference.
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, Health, 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 health and food practices in SEA
HIV and health risks
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
Womens 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
Peoples voice in ASEAN processes
o Role of leadership, management and 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
Technology and Distance Learning
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 interesting places in the Philippines.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACT IS DECEMBER 31, 2007
The abstract should be e-mailed to lourdesportus@yahoo.com. It can be either in the body of the e-mail or as a MS Word attachment.
Full Paper submission deadline is APRIL 30, 2008.
Mail Address:
Dr. Lourdes O. Portus (Chair, Steering Committee, 8th ASEAN IUC) lourdesportus@yahoo.com +63-2-9206864/66 +63-2-926-3465
Submitted by: Airah Cadiogan
Date received: December 17, 2007, revised December 18, 2007
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