Asian Diversity in a Global Context > Panels and Workshops
Panels and Workshops - 12-13 November 2010
Governing DifferenceRavinder Kaur & Ayo Wahlberg
This workshop explores the notion of "difference" in its multiple meanings and settings, and the ways in which it plays out in the social-political landscape...[Read more]
Belonging, citizenship and identitiesMarie Roesgaard & Brian Jacobsen
This panel will focus on the establishment of order (social, psychological, natural) and the various endeavours to ascribe discursively order and predictability to the surrounding world...[Read more]
Autonomy: a formula for security or a cause of separatist conflicts? Asian and European perspectives and experiencesTimo Kivimäki
This workshop looks at separatist conflicts - the main challenge to peace and security both in Europe and Asia...[Read more]
The transmission of Sanskrit medical literature in IndiaKenneth Zysk
The workshop is the fifth meeting of an international group of scholars working on the Indian medical literature in Sanskrit...[Read more]
Indigenous Peoples in the 21st Century Asia. Identities and strategies for self-determinationPeter B. Andersen
The workshop raises questions such as: How far to allow and to organize cultural, religious and linguistic diversity in modern states?...[Read more]
Dynamics of change in North Korea and Northeast Asia since the end of the Cold WarCamilla T. N. Sørensen & Geir Helgesen
This workshop explores the complexity and the dynamics behind economic, political and security developments in North Korea...[Read more]
Political movements in post-authoritarian regimesLars Højer & Morten A. Pedersen
This workshop invites ethnographic studies of emerging political imaginaries and incipient political movements in post-authoritarian contexts...[Read more]
State Policy and Local Responses in China’s WestTrine Brox & Ildiko Bellér-Hann
This interdisciplinary panel aims to generate ethnographic insights into the complex relationship between local society and the Chinese state...[Read more]
Globalization and trade with emerging economiesJakob Roland Munch
This workshop will focus on aspects related to international trade with emerging low-wage economies...[Read more]
Ideas in TransitBent Nielsen & Denise Gimpel
This workshop looks at the flow of ideas between East and West. Throughout history ideas have moved at different speeds and for enormously different reasons...[Read more]
Gendering AsiaCecilia Milwertz & Katja Rangsivek
The following themes will be in focus: ‘Effects of gendered Asia', ‘Gendered processes constructing Asia' and ‘How does the application of gender theory make a difference to the knowledge we construct of Asia?...[Read more]