Event

Details

Guest speaker

Official opening of the exhibition

Including several performances

Uthit Atimana, Director of Chiang Mai Art Museum, Chiang Mai University;
Jörg Löschmann, Curator
Word of Greetings by 
German Ambassador 
Andreas von Stechow and 
Deputy Governor of Chiang Mai Province, Thongchai Wongrianthong

Opening panel debate

Ten misconceptions of opponents of globalisation - Debating the critique and the anti-critique

Invited speakers will present contrasting arguments to conceptualise issues surrounding the worldwide globalisation debate: “failures” of globalisation will be confronted with “errors” of the globalisation critics (in reference to a recent publication in Germany: “The 10 misconceptions of the opponents of globalisation”) will be debated representing different viewpoints in globalisation perception and realities.

Markus Balser, book author;

Najma Sadeque, Pakistan, and 
Nicola Bullard, Focus on the Global South

Facilitator: Khaled Ahmed, Consultive Editor, The Friday Times

Encounters with ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘globalism’ – a debate concerning the politics of culture and identity in globalisation from the arts' perspective

Artists, identity, role and creation of arts and the potentials as well as limits to inter-cultural communication in a postcolonial, globalised world: Invited artists, art curators and managers, art theorists and critics will lead the debate with possibilities for interaction from the general public in attendance.

(5 speakers were requested to prepare a paper or presentation, others encouraged to prepare for active contribution to the debate)
 

Farah Wardani, Jakarta, editor of CARBON art magazine;

Choong Kam Kaw, Malaysian Institute of Arts, Kuala Lumpur;

Suthee Kunavichayanont, lecturer and artist, Silpakorn University, Bangkok

Eddin Khoo, Malaysian poet, writer and translator and many more of the artists present

Facilitator: Heike Löschmann, Director HBF, Chiang Mai

Panel Debate

Dismantling Identity politics

Speakers from South and South East Asia will lead the audience to look behind the scenes of global and regional identity politics. This will lay the foundations to focus the debate on the pattern of religious identities and related fundamentalisms and the construction of national identities and the dynamics of its politics in the region that will be dealt with in two parallel afternoon workshops.

Khaled Ahmed, Consultive Editor, The Friday Times

Pinkaew Luangaramsri, Regional Center for Sustainable Development, Chiang Mai University

Neak Chandarith, Cambodian M.A. student, University of Kobe

Lertchai Sirichai, Institute of Liberal Arts, Walailak University

Facilitator: Anan Ganjanapan, Social Science Faculty, Chiang Mai University

Workshop 1

Suwat Jamjuree, editor of “Muslim Guidance” ,Thai language newspaper for Thai Muslims and 3 representatives of Southern Thai Muslim community;

Chin Chin Lim and Maria Chin Abdullah, representatives from Women's Development Collective Malaysia;

Najma Sadeque and Shirkat Gah, Women Living under Muslim Law Network, Pakistan;

Sisir Dutta, Director Bangladesh Institute of Theatre Arts, Chittagong and team

artists and guests

Facilitator: Khaled Ahmed, Editor Friday , Pakistan

Workshop 2

“National identity construction and nation building and the politics of multi-ethnicity vs. Myanmarisation in Burma – impact and ramifications for bilateral and regional relationships”. The focus of the second workshop will be an attempt for dialogue among people from Thailand and its neighbours in mainland SEA with a particular focus on Thai-Cambodian relations and a potential outlook at Thai relations with Burma/Myanmar and Laos.

Son Soubert, PhD, Cambodia, scholar and member of the Constitutional Council of Cambodia,

Neak Chandarith and Cambodian artists and HBF partners;

Decha Tangseefa, Ph.D., Political Science Faculty, Tammasart University on Thai-Burmese relations

Kyaw Yin Hlaing, NUS; Singapore, on ethnic identity politics in Burma

artists and guests

Facilitator: Anan Ganjanapan, Social Science Faculty, Chiang Mai University