From: Darwis Khudori <darwis.khudori@univ-lehavre.fr>
Date: Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 11:49 AM
Subject: 150 YEARS OF GANDHI - THE RISE OF ASIA, France, March 13-15, 2019
Next year will be the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. I hope you could participate in a commemorative conference that will take place in France on March 13-15, 2019. You find below the announcement of the conference and the call for papers. I would be grateful for your kind help to spread this information to your networks.
Yours sincerely,
Darwis KHUDORI Directeur Master Echanges avec l'Asie Université Le Havre Normandie, France https://www.univ-lehavre.fr/ https://fai.univ-lehavre.fr/?page_id=500 https://gric.univ-lehavre.fr/ http://www.bandungspirit.org/ http://master-asie.fr/ darwis.khudori@univ-lehavre.fr
THE RISE OF ASIA IN GLOBAL HISTORY AND PERSPECTIVE
150 years of Gandhi: will it bring peace, justice and non-violence to the world?
INTERNATIONAL AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
Paris and Le Havre, France, March 13-15, 2019
ORGANISING AND HOSTING INSTITUTIONS
CHAC (Centre d’Histoire de l’Asie Contemporaine)
Univeristé Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
GRIC (Groupe de Recherches Identités et Cultures)
Université Le Havre Normandie, France
http://www.bandungspirit.org/
CALL FOR PAPERS
The conference is open to individual and group paper presentations. Those willing to present their papers are invited to submit their proposals following the GUIDELINES FOR PRESENTER CANDIDATES described in the call for papers. The conference call for papers lasts from November 1, 2018 to January 31, 2019. The selected proposals will be communicated to their authors between December 2018 and February 2019.
INTRODUCTION
The twenty-first century is emerging as the Asian century. During the first half of this century, the Asian region, extending from the Pacific Ocean to the Arabian Sea and northwards, to include Central Asia, is likely to establish itself as the new centre of the economic universe. This will draw to a conclusion three centuries of Western dominance over the world economic resources and for much of this time, its political spaces. This transformation in the world economic order will not be painless either for the East or for the West. Indeed, the transition has the potential for causing much grief to the world as no established order is likely to cede its hegemony without challenge.
The significant point of departure during this phase of transition lies in the fact that the receding economic power of the West (also more broadly classified as the North), dominated by the United States (US), remains and is likely to remain in the immediate future the dominant military power. Historically, the dominant political power, whether it was Rome, Britain or the US was, within its own spheres of influence, also the dominant military as well as economic power. This erosion of the economic power of the West while retaining military dominance with the US and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies, does not bode well for an easy transition for the global order.
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How the established powers of the West, led again by the US, will react to this changing balance of economic power towards Asia, which has narrowed their competitive space and domestic employment opportunities, remains a challenge for the leaders of the Western world. How far the hitherto dominant West will go to preserve their hegemony over their economic order remains critical in determining whether the Asian century will evolve peacefully or through a process of turmoil. (Rehman Sobhan, ”The Political Economy of the Asian Century” in Manoranjan Mohanty, Vinod C. Khana, Biswajit Dhar (eds.) with a foreword of Boutros-Boutros Ghali, Building a Just World. Essays in Honour of Muchkund Dubey, Inde, New Delhi, Orient Black Swan, 2015, pp. 144-161).
The quotation above raises many questions : will military powers continue to determine the future of the world ? Can military forces establish a world order based on peace, justice and non-violence ? Does economic development entail military development ? Is economic power equal with military power ? Is there any other force than military that may rule the world locally and globally ? Do the weak, the poor, the marginalized, the dominated, the discriminated, the oppressed, the disadvantaged have any chance to change their state of being in a non-violent way ?
It is to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi that the questions of world order based on peace, justice and non-violence are chosen to be the main subject of presentation and discussion of the third edition of The Rise of Asia Conference Series. It encourages the participation of scholars from a wide range of scientific disciplines (area studies, cultural studies, ecology, economics, geography, history, humanities, languages, management, political and social sciences…) and practitioners from diverse professional fields (business, civil society, education, enterprise, government, management, parliament, public policy, social and solidarity movements…), based in diverse geographical areas (Africa, North and South America, Australia, Asia, Europe, Pacific…).
SPECIAL SEANCES / ROUNDTABLES / WORKSHOPS
Special sessions/Roundtables/Workshops will be organised if there is enough number of proposals on the following topics:
Asia-Africa
Asia-Asia
Asia-Eastern Europe
Asia-Latin America
Asia-Middle East-North Africa
Asia-North America
Asia-Pacific-Oceania
Asia-Western Europe
Asia-World System
BRICS-World Order
Culture-Literature -Religion-Spirituality
Ecology-Architecture-Urbanism
Gender-Women Issues
Social and solidarity movements
De: hans@schoolforwellbeing.org
Cc: "Patcharee Chonmanat" <patcharee@schoolforwellbeing.org>, "Supit Knoop" <supitknoop@gmail.com>, "Jost Wagner" <jw@change-initiative.com>, "Wallapa" <wallapa.van@gmail.com>, "Apple" <nm@change-initiative.com>, "Somboon Chungprampree" <c_somboon@hotmail.com>, "Fon" <ravipa.pco@gmail.com>, "fonfah kanong" <fonfahkanong@gmail.com>, "Thanapol Kheolamai" <thanapol@schoolforwellbeing.org>, "Thanutra Teerasuphaset" <thanutra.t@fccthai.com>, "Woranut" <woranutc@yahoo.com>
Envoyé: Dimanche 28 Août 2011 15:31:51
Objet: School for Wellbeing Press Meeting FCCT Monday 29 August 19.30
Dear all resource persons and participants exchange platform Re-thinking Property,
In the first place of course a very warm thank you to you all again for joining the exchange platform! It has been a moving experience. We made many new friends and renewed many of our friendships. And, it is not yet over..
Many of you will be back home or on your way, hopefully with good memories of our creative meeting. But if you are still in Bangkok, this is to remind you that we will meet to REACHING OUT:
Monday 29 August at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand (FCCT). The address is below and I am sure you all will be able to find it easily. The programme is as follows:
· 18.30 Dinner (all are welcome)
· 19.30 Introduction (conference video?)
· 20.00-21.00 Panel discussion moderated by Surat Horachaikul
o Panellists
- Silke Helfrich – Commons Strategy Group
- Takayoshi Kusago – Kansai University
- Sharan Srinivas – Right Livelihood College
- Hans van Willenswaard – School for Wellbeing (replacing Dasho Karma Ura)
Attached is the written text of what is now ‘Action-Research Outline’ based on our discussion Friday evening 26 August at SASA (hopefully it will correctly contain all comments..).
In case of emergency please call Wallapa 081-406 2260 and ask for Hans.
Hope to see all of you (still) in Bangkok Monday 18.30,
Hans and Wallapa
Thanutra Teerasuphaset
Manager
Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand (FCCT)
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518/5, Ploenchit Road, Lumpini
Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330
Tel: 02 652-0580-1
Fax: 02-652-0582
Email: thanutra.t@fccthai.com
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