UPCOMING EVENTS 2013

CKS/ RUPP joint workshop on:

History and Citizenship in Cambodia today

Dr. Kenneth Hall, History Professor at Ball State University and
Dr. Ilicia Sprey, St. Joseph’s University, U.S.A.

TIME: Tuesday 28th- Friday 31st May 2013

VENUE: The Center for Khmer Studies, Phnom Penh Office, # 234, st. 450, Tuol Tumpoung 2, Khan Chamka Morn

– 1st Seminar on TUESDAY 28TH MAY: 8.00-11.00 AM—on:
NATIONALISM AND CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION IN MODERN CAMBODIA

– 2nd Seminar on TUESDAY 28TH MAY: 2.00-5.00 PM—on:
A REVISIONIST HISTORY OF ANGKOR

– 3rd Seminar on THURSDAY 30TH MAY: 8.00-11.00 AM—on:
TEACHING DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEA

– 4th Seminar on FRIDAY 31ST MAY: 1.30-4.30 PM—on:
GLOBALIZATION AND CAMBODIA: TEACHING ASEAN CENTERED WORLD HISTORY

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ABSTRACT:
NATIONALISM AND CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION IN MODERN CAMBODIA
This session will address the problems of defining Cambodian citizenship, with attention to issues of Cambodia’s diversity as a nation. The session will question the current value of Benedict Anderson’s “Imagined Communities” approach to the Cambodian nation-state, in evaluating Cambodia’s multi-cultural, multi-historical, and multi-ethnic present. For example, does “Khmer” effectively define Cambodia?

A REVISIONIST HISTORY OF ANGKOR
Recent histories of Cambodia have been focal on the Angkor water management network as foundational to Angkor’s successful centralization and definition. This historical view had notable consequence in the Khmer Rouge attempts to reconstruct the Cambodian Angkor past. The revisionist history is now questioning this view, supported by new archeological evidence that indicates semi-autonomous regional “nodes” that were in various ways drawn to participate in the Angkor polity. What is at issue here is important to the notions of political centralization, internal and external linkages in Angkor’s history, as legacies of Angkor’s functionality that derived from a variety of internal and external religious, cultural, and economic (trade) contacts, especially those with Angkor’s Cham and Thai neighbors.

TEACHING DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEA
This session will address the revisionist history of Democratic Kampuchea, in part reactive to a lecture that was presented on the Monday prior to this series of workshops. This workshop will draw on the recently published Teacher’s Guidebook on The Teaching of “A History of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979), by the Documentation Center of Cambodia and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport – as this provides a useful template for new instructional initiatives in Cambodian historical education.

GLOBALIZATION AND CAMBODIA: TEACHING ASEAN CENTERED WORLD HISTORY
History texts tend to center on the West in addressing issues of global relationships. This session, in contrast, will take a Southeast Asia-centered approach to World History, wherein history instruction is centered on contemporary Southeast Asian societies during a series of historical periods, with focus on individual and regional societal developments and regional and global connections, and the consequences to Southeast Asia as well as the wider world.

Note: These sessions are not “lecture –driven“, but are workshops designed to engage the participants in a series of problem solving exercises that are common to new “immersive” education strategies. The intent is to provide useful instructional materials and alternative instructional methodologies that the participants can directly apply to their classrooms.

The sessions will be led by Dr. Kenneth Hall, Professor of History at Ball State University and Dr. Ilicia Sprey, St. Joseph’s University, U.S.A.

Please email puthea_sim@khmerstudies.org to register your place by the 27th May or call (855) 023 991 937

Click Here for event poster: CKS RUPP Joint Workshop
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Center for Khmer Studies Lecture Series 

The monthly lectures, that are open to the general public, are an expansion of the successful lecture and seminar series in Phnom Penh. The aim is to bring together Cambodian and international scholars, business people and artists to discuss the latest research and developments in the field of Cambodian and Southeast Asian studies, across all disciplines in the social sciences, arts and humanities. The lectures and seminars will provide excellent opportunities to interact with junior and senior Cambodian scholars and researchers. The intention is to extend participation beyond CKS research Fellows to anyone conducting international standard research in Cambodia, including local and international NGOs who are dealing with related social science, arts and humanities topics, as well as Cambodian universities and CKS alumni. This series of lectures and seminars will be held at both CKS sites, in the capital Phnom Penh and our headquarters in Siem Reap. Previous speakers have included UNTAC Chief Dr. Benny Widyono and Astrology Researcher Professor Matthew Kosuta. For further information…CLICK HERE

Conference, 18-19 December 2012, CKS Headquarters Siem Reap POSTPONED
Cambodian Crossroads: Intersections of Political Economy, Social Justice and Culture. A Quarter Century of Renovation.
This conference aims to bring together scholars working from diverse disciplines to explore Cambodia’s political, eco-environmental, and socio-cultural developments over the past quarter century (1990-2015) in concert with conceptual frameworks within social science paradigms of social justice, environmental and comparative political and cultural studies. Paradigms and issues include: authoritarianism as cloaked in democratic features prevalent in Southeast Asia; devolution of authority to grass roots via decentralization and civic society engagement; eco-environmental coalitions and ad hoc groups dispossessed of ancestral lands used for agro-industry calling for social justice; migration and immigration and economic changes; arts of resistance and renovation in gendered expression of language, arts, theatre and dance.