Spring 2021 Webinar Series: The Mekong, China, & Southeast Asian Transitions
Abstract:
In recent decades, people living in the Lower Mekong Region have witnessed major shifts from predominantly subsistence agriculture to industrializing economies, with attendant changes in migration, crop production systems, and major infrastructure(roads, dams, industrial estates). This series of four webinars will explore how communities in the region are experiencing the economic, social, and cultural dislocations of these transformations.
Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm HST | 7:00-8:30pm EST | 7:00-8:30am Vientiane/BKK/PhnomPenh/Hanoi
Dates:
Panel 1 : Jan 27- Markets for Mekong Commodities
Panelists: Ian Baird (Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison); Ben Belton (Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University); Nathan Green (Geography, National University of Singapore); & Patrick Slack (Geography, McGill University, Montreal)
Moderator: Jefferson Fox (East-West Center)
Watch recording of webinar here.
Panel 2 : Feb 24 – Migration, Mobility, and the Mekong
Panelists: Nga Dao (York University); Heather Peters (Ophidian Research Institute); Phanwin Yokying (East-West Center); Ore Huiying (Independent Photographer)
Moderator: Amanda Flaim, Michigan State University
Watch recording of webinar here.
Panel 3 : Apr 7 – The Spirits and Spiritual Life of the Mekong
Panelists: Andrew Johnson (University of California, Berkeley); Hieu Phung (University of Michigan); Holly High (University of Sydney); Benjamin Baumann (Universität Heidelberg, Berlin)
Moderator: Courtney Work (National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan)
Watch recording of webinar here.
Panel 4 : Apr 28 – Mekong Dams: Debates and the Politics of Evidence
Panelists: Brian Eyler (Stimson Center); Carl Middleton (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok); Pon Souvannaseng (Bentley University); Apichai Sunchindah (Independent consultant, Bangkok, Thailand); Nguyen Huong Thuy Pan (Asian Institute of Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
Moderator: Wisa Wisesjindawat-Fink (Michigan State University)
Watch recording of webinar here.
Read the EWC Wire summary of the webinar here.
This series is made possible through funding from the Henry Luce Foundation and is co-organized by University of Hawai’i-Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawai’i at Manoa-Center for Chinese Studies, East-West Center, Michigan State University-James Madison College and Asian Studies Center, and Chiang Mai University-Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development.