Pulau dan Perahu, Islands and Boats:
Encounters and Mobilities within Maritime Southeast Asia and Indigenous Australia
19-20 October 2022
Seminar Room, 1st Floor Widya Graha Building, BRIN
Jl. Gatot Subroto 10, Jakarta
Global Encounters Monash (GEM) and the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities at the National Research and Innovation Agency / Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (ISSH-BRIN) invite you to a symposium exploring the deep history of movements and interactions within Maritime Southeast Asia and Indigenous Australia.
The Global Encounters Monash (GEM) project explores encounters between Australia’s Indigenous peoples and voyagers from the sea over the period of a millennium. The project aims to innovatively reconstruct Australia’s role in global exploration, creating a new transdisciplinary intellectual school with the potential to recast Australia’s history, and place in the world. GEM held its inaugural annual symposium in December 2021, in an online format (link to recordings here).
In 2022, GEM is partnering with ISSH-BRIN to hold its first ever in-person symposium on Wednesday 19th and Thursday 20th October, in the Seminar Room of the Widya Graha Building, Jl. Gatot Subroto 10, Jakarta. The symposium will be held in English. It will not be a hybrid event, but recordings will be made available. Keynote speakers will include A/Prof John Bradley from Monash University (in collaboration with Yanyuwa families), and Dr Dedi Supriadi Adhuri from BRIN.
We invite proposals for individual papers, roundtables or panel sessions exploring the long history of movements, exchanges, interactions and encounters within Maritime Southeast Asia and Indigenous Australia, from the deep past to the present day.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Trade and exchange within Maritime Southeast Asia and/or Indigenous Australia
- Australia and the Spice Routes
- Collaborations, encounters, and networks within Maritime Southeast Asia and/or Indigenous Australia
- First Nations accounts of interactions
- Maritime interaction spheres
- Interspecies encounters (animal, vegetable or mineral; fungal, viral)
- Remembering and commemorating encounters and engagements
- Maritime trade routes in Southeast Asia: past and present
- Maritime nations and national identity
- Cultural heritage management, including maritime or oceanic heritage
- Concepts of belonging and spirituality
- Postcolonial and decolonial thought
- Lives at sea – fishing, trading, piracy
- Estate, range and sea nomadism
- The sea as highway
- Evidence of encounters and interactions within the archaeological record
- Loanwords and other linguistic evidence of encounters and interactions
- The introduction of tamarind trees and other species into northern Australia, other botanical or zoological evidence of encounters
- The history of Islam in Australia
- Ship replicas, voyages retracing historical trade routes, reenactments of historical events
- Sex and kinship connections within Maritime Southeast Asia and/or Indigenous Australia
- Encounter histories explored within Southeast Asian and/or Indigenous art
- Batik traditions and trade in Southeast Asian and/or Indigenous communities
- Food histories, e.g. sambal belacan in Southeast Asia and blachan in northern Australia
- Any other topic related to movements, exchanges, interactions and encounters within Maritime Southeast Asia and/or Indigenous Australia.
Proposals may include a 20 minute paper for discussion; a 60 minute roundtable on a particular project; or a 60 minute panel session. Proposals will be peer reviewed before they are accepted.
To submit a proposal, please include the following in a Microsoft Word document:
- 20 minute paper: name of speaker, title of paper and 200-word abstract
- 60 minute roundtable: names of all speakers, title of roundtable and 200-word abstract
- 60 minute panel: names of all speakers, title of panel and 100-word abstracts for each paper
Please email proposals to global.encounters@monash.edu by Sunday 11th September 2022.
We are currently in discussion with Palgrave Macmillan and anticipate a collaborative volume emerging from this symposium.
KEY DATES
- Proposal deadline: Sunday 11th September 2022
- Selected abstracts will be notified by Sunday 18th September 2022
- Symposium dates: Wednesday 19th and Thursday 20th October 2022
For any further enquiries, or if you’d like to float any ideas prior to the proposal deadline, please email us at global.encounters@monash.edu.