EXTENDED DEADLINE: March 13, 2010

Keynote speaker
Prof. Donald Emmerson, Director, Southeast Asia Forum, Stanford University

While traditional military conflicts have declined since the end of the Cold War, new non-traditional menaces, such as poverty, migration, people smuggling and environmental degradation, have increased. Major events like the 1997 Asia Financial Crisis, the SARS epidemic in 2003 and the tsunami in 2004 demonstrated that individuals felt and experienced a much deeper impact from these incidents than the state. The United Nations’ 1994 Human Development Report defines human security as both “freedom from want” and “freedom from fear”. The UN focuses on seven threatening areas: economic, food, health, environment, personal, community and political security. Yet, human security remains a vague inter-disciplinary concept. A concept that is consequently still contested, both theoretically and politically.

The upcoming 5th Viennese Conference on South-East Asian Studies invites submissions from various disciplines to dissect the main question of ‘how the broad spectrum of human security challenges has been conceptually and politically addressed on the transnational, national and/or local level?’ Panel 1 examines how human security is defined in South-East Asia. Panel 2 looks at the concrete implementation of human security in South-East Asia.

Panel 1: The human security discourse in South-East Asia

Panel 2: The implementation of human security on transnational, national or local level

Panel 3: Open Panel

SUBMISSIONS:
Please submit your paper proposals (max. two A4 pages) and your CV via e-mail (publics[at]seas.at) by March 13, 2010. We will send out notifications to all submitters of abstracts not later than March 31, 2010. Participants can give their presentations either in German or English. Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes and leave another 10 minutes for discussions in the plenum.
Successful conference contributions can also be submitted to the Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies (ASEAS) for publication.
We particularly encourage PhD students to submit proposals for this conference.

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