south china sea
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In recent years, the South China Sea has become a locus of increasing importance in media and policy circles. The attention is in large part due to the growing competition over access to its shipping routes and resources. Yet, discussions about and political claims over the South China Sea are often framed in reductive strategic terms. This preponderance limits our capacity to think critically about the South China Sea as a contested maritime space and its possible futures. The proposed workshop will seek to look at the South China Sea through different lenses. Ones that bring into focus the diverse ways in which it is possible to understand and imagine the South China Sea. The aim is to expand the terms of debate on the South China Sea towards an accommodation of more fine-grained sets of historical, linguistic and cultural perspectives. (Re-)conceptualising the South China Sea as a “mediterranean sea” would allow us to compare it with and draw lessons from other landlocked seas in Asia and elsewhere. For further details access https://sites.google.com/site/iasubd/homeTRANSCRIPT
South China Sea Workshop
Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Gadong BE 1410, Brunei Darussalam
Reframing the South China SeaTowards a Mediterranean Understanding of Culture and Resources
• In recent years, the South China Sea has become a locus of increasing importance in media and policy circles. The attention is in large part due to the growing competition over access to its shipping routes and resources. Yet, discussions about and political claims over the South China Sea are often framed in reductive strategic terms. This preponderance limits our capacity to think critically about the South China Sea as a contested maritime space and its possible futures.
Reframing the South China SeaTowards a Mediterranean Understanding of Culture
and Resources• The proposed workshop will seek to look at the South China Sea
through different lenses. Ones that bring into focus the diverse ways in which it is possible to understand and imagine the South China Sea. The aim is to expand the terms of debate on the South China Sea towards an accommodation of more fine-grained sets of historical, linguistic and cultural perspectives. (Re-)conceptualising the South China Sea as a “mediterranean sea” would allow us to compare it with and draw lessons from other landlocked seas in Asia and elsewhere.
• For further details access https://sites.google.com/site/iasubd/home • Proposed conference date: 11 -13 November 2013 (to be confirmed). • Contact: Prof Hans-Dieter Evers [email protected] and Dr Paul
Carnegie [email protected]
Conference Website
• The workshop is scheduled to take place 11 -13 November 2013 (to be confirmed).
• See the conference website for further information:
https://sites.google.com/site/iasubd/
Conference ScheduleDay One
Opening of the Workshop and welcome address
Day Two Key Note Address
Session 1 Resources of the South China Sea
a. Claims to the South China Sea territory resources
a. Fishing, shipping, tourism
a. Oil, gas and other natural resources
Session 2 The South China Seas as a mediterranean sea
a. History of trade and shipping in the SCS
a. Imagined communities, sates and empires around the SCS
a. The SCS in comparison: Baltic, Mediterranean, Java Sea, et al
Day Two
Session 3 The South China Sea as a Cultural Area
a. Linguistic domains and the exchange of knowledge and religion
a. Traditional and modern popular culture, migration and contacts
a. Is there a SCS culture and civilization? (Panel discussion)
Closing Session
CALL for PAPERS
Send paper proposals to: Prof Hans-Dieter Evers [email protected] Dr Paul Carnegie [email protected]
Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei DarussalamGadong BE 1410, Brunei DarussalamWebpages:http://www.ubd.edu.bn/index.php?id=157 https://sites.google.com/site/iasubd