Conference programme

Wednesday, June 26

14.00

 Arrival & Registration

15.30

 Coffee
16.30 Welcome
16.45 Andrea Lauser
DORISEA Aims & Ambitions
18.00

Peter Jackson
Conference Keynote Lecture
"Modernity, multiplicity and magic in capitalist Southeast Asia: conjectures of living with paradox in the 21st century"

Thursday, June 27

Panel "Spatial dynamics of religion between modulation and conversion"
08.30

Chair: Annette Hornbacher

Guido Sprenger
"Introduction"
08.45 Janet Hoskins
"Re-orienting religious space in Southeast Asia and North America: From syncretism to diaspora"
09.30

Patrick McAllister
"Ritual imagination of rural village origins among migrants in Ho Chi Minh City: the case of cúng xóm ('hamlet worship') during the lunar new year festival"
10.15 Keiko Miura
"Merging deities, religious conversions, and spatial movements of spirits, objects and people in Angkor, Cambodia"
11.00 Coffee
11.30

Chair: Michael Dickhardt

Rito Baring
"From churches to malls: reconfiguring worship spaces in the Phillipines"
12.15 Chatri Prakitnonthakan
"Profane temple: transforming sacred space to profane space in Buddhist temples, Thailand"
13.00 Lunch
14.00

Chair: Volker Gottowik

Masao Imamura
"Reproduction of missing frontiers: or why Protestantism can climb the hills of Southeast Asia"
14.45 Nao-Cosme Rémon
"Religious conversions and flexible spaces in Riung (Flores, Indonesia)"
15.30 Coffee

Panel "Secularization of religion, sacralization of politics? The state of religion in Southeast Asia"
16.00

Chair: Olivia Killias

Vincent Houben
Introduction
16.15 Anthony Reid
"Puritanism, patriarchy and the modern Southeast Asian state"
17.00 Andrew Willford
"Betrayal, hospitalitry, and stories of justice among Tamils in Malaysia"
17.45 Ruth Streicher
"Practices of conversion in Southern Thai counterinsurgency"

Friday, June 28

Continuation of Panel "Secularization of religion, sacralization of politics? The state of religion in Southeast Asia"
09.00

Chair: Jörg Engelbert

Kari Telle
"Regulating ritual: spiritual aspirations and religious governance on Lombok, Indonesia"
09.45 Tsuda Koji
"'Chinese religion' in modern Indonesia: Focusing the trend toward systematization in the post-Soeharto era"
10.30 Coffee
11.00

Chair: Boike Rehbein

Napakadol Kittensenee
"Worshipping independence in contemporary Cambodia"
11.45 Giovanni Maltese
"(Re-)Sacralization of politics? Politics and society in Filipino pentecostalism on Negros (Oriental)"
12.30 Lunch
Panel "Materializing religion: on media, mediation, immediacy"
13.30

Chair: Jovan Maud

Peter J. Braeunlein & Volker Grabowsky
Introduction
13.45 Justin McDaniel
Panel Keynote
"The designers of Buddhist ecumenicalism in Southeast Asia and beyond"
14.30 Tom Patton
"The wizard king and his daughters: Burmese Buddhist female mediums, healers, and dreamers"
15.15 Patrick Campos
"The face of Jose Rizal as medium: the intersection of nation, religion, and documentary image"
16.00 Coffee
16.30

Chair: Paul Christensen

Monika Arnez
"Between propagation and mediation: negotiating Islamic norms in Forum Lingkar Pena"
17.15 Getrud Hüwelmeier
"Practices of mediation in pentecostal charismatic churches: Vietnam and abroad"
18:00 Benjamin Baumann
"Phi Krasue - how a postmodern ghostly image re-presents the abjection of 'Khmerness' in Thailand#s popular culture"
19:00 Conference Dinner & Party

Saturday, June 29

10.00 DORISEA Research Poster Session
11:00

Chair: Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin & Karin Klenke

DORISEA Academic Advisory Board Feedback & Final Discussion
13.00 End of Conference