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This homepage was inspirated by the First Inter-Dialogue conference on Southern Thailand, hosted by Prince of Songkla University and Harvard University.
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04/2005
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Many of our friends and colleagues joined the Ninth International Conference of Thai Studies at DeKalb, Northern Illinois University which this year strongly focused on Southern Thailand and the violence in the border region.
Raymond Scupin and Alexander Horstmann organized a panel in honour of Prof. Chaiwat Satha-Anand (Bangkok) on Human Rights and Buddhist-Muslim relations. Presenters at this panel included Raymond Scupin, Saroja Dorairajoo, Carol Keersten (Chiang Mai), John Funston (Sydney) and Alexander Horstmann. In addition to the very stimulating and sometimes moving presentations, Chaiwat Satha-Anand discussed and commented all papers in a second session dedicated to his work. Chaiwat also reminded us that he is only 50 years old and has still a life-time to come. Chaiwat recently published a collection of his essays (see news section).
Another exciting panel presented for the Ninth International Conference of Thai Studies was organized by Irving Johnson (Singapore) on Traversing Across Moving Frontiers: Mobilities, Histories, and the Production of Identities across the Southern Thai Social Landscape. The panel brought together current research on Chinese Buddhists in Golok, Malays Muslims in Patani, Thai Buddhists in Nakhon Si Thammarat and Thai Buddhists in Kelantan.
The conference programme of the ICTS is added here for a qick overview of numerous important panels on Southern Thailand.  Programme
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02/2004
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Workshop on A Plural Peninsula: Historical Interactions among Thai, Malays, Chinese and Others 5-7 February 2004 organised by Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore and the Regional Studies Program, Institute of Liberal Arts, Walailak University, Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University venue Nakhon Si Thammarat, Southern Thailand.
Alexander Horstmann presented his paper on: "Pilgrimage Centres, Sacred Landscapes, Mythical History Pilgrimage and the Making of Ethnic Identities in Southern Thailand". Papers of the workshop are edited by Michael Montesano and Patrick Jory for Singapore University Press.
Find a report on this workshop in the Kyoto Review of Southeast Asian Studies No. 5
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03/2003
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We met successfully 27/28 March 2003 in New York for a AAS-panel organized by Prof. Omar Farouk Bajunid (Hiroshima) on Buddhist-Muslim relations and dialogue in Thailand.
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2002
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First Inter-Dialogue Conference on Southern Thailand:
Current Transformations from a People's Perspective
Alexander Horstmann and Ryoko Nishii organized a panel on Border Identities for the First Inter-Dialogue Conference on Southern Thailand, 13 - 15 June 2002.
Border Identities at the Southern Thailand/Northern Malaysian Frontier
Panel Organizers : Alexander Horstmann and Ryoko Nishii
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Session A:
Religion and Social Space (Dr. Wattana Sukannasil, Prof. Ismail Yusoff, Dr. Ryoko Nishii, Keiko Kuroda, Dr. Alexander Horstmann, Dr. Zulkifli)
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Session B:
Border-Crossing Networks (Alisah Hasimoh, Jovan White, Irving Chan Johnson, Carlo Banura, Khamnuan Nuansanong, Wae-Maji Paramal)
The second session, organized by Alexander Horstmann, focuses on the intensification of border-crossing practices at the Thai-Malaysian border.
- Alexander Horstmann
Introductionary Note
- Dr Zulkifli
Langkasuka Spirit in Patani/Kelantan Arts and Culture
- Keiko Kuroda
Siamese/Thai speakers in Kedah
- Wattana Sukanasil
Consumption among Thai peasants in Takbai, Naratiwat
- Alisah Hasimoh
Malay Identity, Reuso, Naratiwat- paper submitted
- Jovan Whyte
Transnational Chinese Patronage of Southern Thai Buddhist Rituals
- Irving Chan Johnson
Movement and Identity Construction among Thai Buddhist in Kelantan
- Khamnuan Nuansanong
Buddhist monks in Malaysia
- Carlo Banura
Location and Muslim political community
- Alexander Horstmann
Moral Communities, Transnationalism and the Ambiguity of National Intimacy
- Prof. Ismail Yusoff
Reconfiguring Ethnic Marker in a Border Community: Buddhist Identity in a Muslim State
- Dr. Ryoko Nishii, ILCAA
A way of Negotiating with the other within the self: Muslim's acknowledgement of Buddhist ancestors in Southern Thailand
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