“De/Centering Southeast Asia” is the 5th SEASIA Biennial International Conference. It will be hosted by the Asian Center, University of the Philippines, one of the member institutions of the Consortium of Southeast Asian Studies in Asia (SEASIA). The conference is intended to be platform for centering Southeast Asian scholarship within Asia, by shifting one’s analytical position away from a dominant center towards the periphery to strengthen expertise, amplify voices, and resist subordination in these peripheries. De/Centering challenges dominant narratives and perspectives historically centered in the “West” and its gaze on Southeast Asia, and highlights the diverse and complex experiences, histories and cultures of the region as told by Southeast Asians themselves.
The deadline for the Call for Papers is on November 30, 2023.
“De/Centering Southeast Asia” is the 5th SEASIA Biennial International Conference. It will be hosted by the Asian Center, University of the Philippines, one of the member institutions of the Consortium of Southeast Asian Studies in Asia (SEASIA). The conference is intended to be platform for centering Southeast Asian scholarship within Asia, by shifting one’s analytical position away from a dominant center towards the periphery to strengthen expertise, amplify voices, and resist subordination in these peripheries. De/Centering challenges dominant narratives and perspectives historically centered in the “West” and its gaze on Southeast Asia, and highlights the diverse and complex experiences, histories and cultures of the region as told by Southeast Asians themselves.
The deadline for the Call for Papers is on November 30, 2023.
(b. 1941) Trained in Composition and Conducting at the University of the Philippines, got his Master of Music degree at Indiana University and his Ph.D. degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was a full fellow at the Summer Courses in New Music at Darmstadt, Germany, and undertook post-graduate work in Ethnomusicology at the University of Illinois under grants from the Ford Foundation and the Asian Cultural Council. He was Chair and now Member of Honor of the Asian Composers League and elected Vice President of the International Music Council at UNESCO from 2001 to 2005, the first Filipino in the five-person Praesidium of the highest governing body of the international music community. He was awarded National Artist for Music in 2014.
His contributions in the current social sciences to date can be put into four categories: (1) His early works on the post-colonial states of Southeast Asia. The most important book in this category is Democracy and Authoritarianism in Indonesia and Malaysia which was published in English by Macmillan in 1997. (2) The second cluster of his works is also about the post-colonial condition targeted at the latent eurocentrism of social sciences. The seminal work on this topic is Alternative Discourses in Asian Social Science, published by Sage in 2006. (3) Inter-religious dialogue, particularly, in Southeast Asian societies is another recurrent theme of his works. An Islamic Perspective on the Commitment to Inter-Religious Dialogue is the most recent in that series which has been published in Malaysia. (4) Finally, some of the well-received and intellectually acclaimed works of Alatas are his recent two books and a few papers on rereading The Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun (a Muslim and medieval precursor of a discipline that Aguste Comte four hundred years later called sociology).
List of Selected Publications:
Excerpts from: https://globalsocialtheory.org/thinkers/alatas-syed-farid/