PROGRAM
Date and Time: April 16, 2025, (9:00-16:45)
Venue: Tallinn University, Room M-328
For detailed abstracts, please refer to the book of abstracts.
9:00-9:15 Introduction and Welcome
9:15-10:45 Panel 1: Identities, Heritage and Connectivities
Female Aesthetic Labor, Cultural Heritage, and Ethnic Modernity: Tai Lue Businesswomen in Transnational Connectivity
Wanjiao Yu, Faculty of Social Science, Chiang Mai University
When Two Frontiers Meet: The Reconstruction of Tai-Ahom Identity and the Politics of “Ahom Looks East”
Amporn Jirattikorn, Faculty of Social Science, Chiang Mai University
Positioning Lanna cuisine in constructing local identity in Northern Thailand
Putthida Kijdumnern, Faculty of Social Science, Chiang Mai University
Discussant, Karin Dean, School of Humanities, Tallinn University
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 Panel 2: Objects, Trade and Ethnicity
A prized forest mushroom across ethnic boundaries: commodification, precarity and environmental contestation
Elliot Lodge, Regional Centre for Social Sciences and Sustainable Development, Chiang Mai University
Connecting for Growth: The Reciprocal Relationship between Thailand’s Mountain People and Monarchy
Urai Yangcheepsujarit, Faculty of Social Science, Chiang Mai University
Warlords, Federalism, and the Karen Struggle: Military Entrepreneurs and the Accumulation of Power in the Thailand – Myanmar
Borderlands
David Faber-Feenstra, Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam
Discussant, John Buchanan, School of Humanities, Tallinn University
14:15-15:45 Panel 3: Responses to Environmental Challenges and Ethnic Identities
Borders in Crisis: Geopolitical Tensions, Environmental Degradation, and Indigenous Resilience in the Himalayan Borderlands
Kikee Doma Bhutia, Asia Centre, University of Tartu
Private Tourism-Conservation Schemes in Maritime Protected Areas: Between Exclusion and Inclusion
Muhammad Ashry Sallatu, Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam
Co-Animating Indigeneity: Negotiating Intra- and Inter-Ethnic Connectivities Among the Orang Rimba of Sumatra
Saur Marlina (Butet) Manurung, Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam
Discussant, Elizabeth Rhodes, Researcher, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University
15:45-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-16:45 Wrap Up Session with Group Discussion on Unbounded Southeast Asia and Moving Forward (Karin Dean and John Buchanan)
Project no 101077207 „Advancing Trans-Regional Border Studies“ is funded by the European Union.