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A flyer for the commencement of the annual SPAS Grad Student Conference 2019.

SPAS Graduate Student Conference 2019: Thogchai Winichakul

The Annual SPAS Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference begins Thursday, April 11. Please join us for a talk by keynote speaker Thogchai Winichakul at 3pm in the Center for Korean Studies to commenceannual program!

Thongchai Winichakul is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison , and currently Senior Researcher at the Institute of Developing Economies (ジェトロ アジア経済研究所(IDE-JETRO)) in Japan. His book, Siam Mapped (1994), was awarded the Harry J Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies, Inc. (AAS). He was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Award in 1994 and was President of the Association for Asian Studies by its members in 2013/14. His research interests are in the cultural and intellectual history of Siam focusing on the intellectual foundation of modern Siam (1880-1930). His forthcoming book is, however, on the history of memories of the 1976 massacre in Bangkok, the tragedy in which he was a participant. He is also a well-known critic of Thai political and social issues and has published six books and several articles in Thai.

Poster for Keynote Address by Dr. Thongchai Winichakul, titled: The Stranger and the Virtue of Intellectual Alienation. Abstract: The position/location of knowing is an important condition of the production of knowledge in area/ Asian studies. It entails the possible politics and approaches of knowledge. But the center-margin location is relative and relational. It is also scalar, i.e. the center of one sphere or at one scale may be provincial to another. The dominant knowledge about Thailand produced in the country is the royal-nationalism of Bangkok. It is, however, provincial in the global scale. It survives partly by intellectual protectionism from t he "stranger" -- the alleged outsider or alien, or the alienated insider from an intellectually odd location at home. These strangers are interlocutors across different spheres and scales of knowledge who appear in various forms, even a clown or a ghost. April 11, 2019, 3 to 5pm at the Center for Korean Studies Auditorium.

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