PROGRAM
OF THE
SECOND CONFERENCE ON
“CAMBODIA IN WORLD HISTORY/WORLD HISTORY AND CAMBODIA”
PANNASASTRA UNIVERSITY, PHNOM PENH
JANUARY 3-4, 2010
PROGRAM FOR JANUARY 3, 2010
WORKING DINNER: 6:00—9:00 P.M. GOLDIANA HOTEL
Attendees will meet in the lobby of the Goldiana Hotel, Phnom Penh at 6:00 pm for transport to restaurant for Conference Working Dinner.
The Goldiana Hotel is located at #10+12, St. 282, Sangkat Boeung Keng Kang I, Khan Chamkarmon, Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA. Tel/Fax: (855-23) 219 558. Web site: www.goldiana.com
Table Talk Presentation: Did French Colonialism Turn the Khmer into Colonial Subjects?
Jan Ovesen, Ing-Britt Trankell, Uppsala University, Sweden
A tentative answer is proposed using archival and ethnographic research relating to the French Medical Service from the turn of the twentieth century. The general Khmer attitude to the foreign presence in Indochina will be compared with that of the Vietnamese.
PROGRAM FOR JANUARY 4, 2010 Participants will gather in the lobby of the Goldiana Hotel at 8:30 a.m. for transportation to the nearby to the South Campus of Pannasastra University located at No. 184, Maha Vithei Preah Norodom (South of Independence Monument),Tel: 855-23-990-153, 855-23-427-916, Tel/Fax: 855-23-218-909, Email: info@puc.edu.k. Others may go directly to the South Campus and inquire for meeting rooms at the office at the top right of the central staircase.
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION: 9:00-9: 15 A.M.
Welcome by Sam Ang Sam, Dean of Liberal Arts, Pannasastra University of Cambodia
Key Note address: World History and Cambodia: New Opportunites, Fresh Perspectives, Professor Marc Jason Gibert, Hawaii Pacific University
SESSION 1 — 9: 15-11: 15 [TIMES APPROXIMATE]
BUILDING A WORLD HISTORY CURRICULUM FOR CAMBODIA
1. The Khmer Empire in Comparative Perspective
Richard Effland and Shereen Lerner, Mesa Community College
2. Battembang and Phnom Penh in World History Context
Tom Mounkhall, New York State University at New Paultz
3. Classroom Challenges in Teaching
Cambodian History in World History Courses
Ilicia Sprey, Saint Joseph’s College (Indiana)
4. The World and Two Very Small Places in Southeast Asia: Using Cambodia and East Timor in to Teach Post-Colonial Conflict in World History
Michael G. Vann, Sacramento State University
Special Comment: “From Battlefield in the Cold War to Post conflict Peace Building: Comparing Cambodia to Timor Leste
Benny Widyono, University of Connecticut and former UN Envoy
SESSION 2 — 11: 15-12: 30
ETHICS, TOURISM, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
1. Wildlife Conservation in Cambodia – A Global Perspective
Eric A. Strahorn, Florida Gulf Coast University
2. Multinational Corporations and Social Responsibility in Southeast Asia: Implications for Cambodia
Robert Hanlon, City University of Hong Kong
3. World Standards and the Management of Sum Areas in Cambodia
Julie Blot, Paris-Sar
bonne University
4. Ethics of Nationalism: Just Pride, Just Cause, or Just Wrong?
Chanroeun Pa, Australian National University
LUNCH — 12:30 -2: 15
SESSION 3 — 2:15-3:45 P.M.
SPACE, PLACE, AND IDENTITY IN CAMBODIAN HISTORY
1. Secondary and Primary Urbanization and Networked Relationships in Angkor, Cambodia in the Reign of Jayavarman VII
Kenneth R. Hall, Professor of History, Ball State University,
2. Living Memory/Living Absence: Memory and Cambodian American Selfhood Through the Work of Artist Anida Yoeu Esguerra
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, University of Connecticut Storrs
3 . What Remains: Returns, Confrontations, Representation, and Traumatic Memory of S-21.
Viet Lê, Center for Khmer Studies and the University of Southern California
4. Baptisms of Fire: The Second Indochina War and the Spread of Christianity in the Cambodian Highlands
Catherine Scheer, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris
SESSION 4 — 3:45- 5:15 P.M.
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS, ART AND “MODERNITY”
1. Picturing a New Cambodian Medicine: Images in the Revue Médico-Chirurgicale de l’Hôpital de l’Amitié Khméro-Soviétique
Jenna Grant, University of Iowa
2. Artist Dinh Q. Lê and Pol Pot’s Legacy
Megan C. McShane, Florida Gulf Coast University
3. Vladimir Bodiansky in the Development of the New Khmer Architecture
Brad Walters, Columbia University
4. A Tale of Two Cities: Soth Polin and Phnom Penh During Sangkum Reastr Niyum
Siti Keo, a graduate student at UC Berkeley.
5. Comic Books in Cambodian Culture
John Weeks, Media Adviser, Domrei Research and Consulting
SESSION 5–5: 15 – 5: 45 P.M.
WORLD HISTORY AND CAMBODIA, THE WAY FORWARD
Sam Ang Sam, Dean of Liberal Arts, Pannasastra University of Cambodia
Sotheara Vong, Deputy Head of History Department, Royal University of Phnom Penh
Henri Locard, Royal University of Phnom Penh
Marc Jason Gilbert, Hawaii Pacific University
Deborah Smith Johnson, Lakeside School, Seattle, USA
James Primm, Hawaii Pacific University
Tey U, Tofi Mika, and Theodore Jaquith, Honolulu Hawaii, USA
DEPARTURE AND DINNER
Participants will be transported back to the Goldiana Hotel to relax and freshen up for a dinner across at a nearby restaurant.
