Past Events
State-Building in Southeast Asia in the Wake of World War II
Agenda
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Presentations:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Suthachai Yimprasert, Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
“Thailand at the End of World War II”
Prof. Dr. Taufik Abdullah, Indonesian Institute of Sciences
“Indonesia in the Second War: From National Awakening to the Establishment of a Nation State”
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Joseph Milton Fernando, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya
“‘The Second World War and its Impact on State-Building in Malaya”
Prof. Dr. Ricardo T. Jose, Department of History, University of the Philippines Diliman
“State-Building in the Philippines Amidst the Ruins of War”
Prof. Dr. Maitrii Aung Thwin, Department of History, National University of Singapore
“World War II Legacies in Post-Colonial Myanmar”
Wrap-up panel discussion:
Southeast Asia Today – Enduring Legacies of World War II
Report
On 25 June 2015 CPG and the Goethe-Institut Thailand jointly hosted the international conference “State-Building in Southeast Asia in the Wake of World War II” at the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University on the occasion the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The conference dealt with the Second World War from the perspective of its tremendous impacts on and legacies for modern state- and nation-building in Southeast Asian countries.
Among the renowned historians presenting on the countries Indonesia, Malayasia, the Philippines, Myanmar and Thailand have been Prof. Dr. Taufik Abdullah, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Joseph Milton Fernando, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya; Prof. Dr. Ricardo T. Jose, Department of History, University of the Philippines Diliman; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Maitrii Aung Thwin, Department of History, National University of Singapore; and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Suthachai Yimprasert, Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. The conference was complemented by a excursion to the historical site around the River Khwai in Kanchanaburi guided by Felix Pülm, founding member of “past[at]present history in format”, who also made a presentation on the River Khwai as object of memory culture of the Second World War in Thailand.
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