Warfare in Early Modern Southeast Asia: State and Societies

Panel 30 at the 7th EUROSEAS (European Association for South East Asian Studies ) - conference to be held in Lisbon, July 2013.
Datum: 
Dienstag, 2. Juli 2013 bis Freitag, 5. Juli 2013
Ort: 
Lissabon
Deadline: 
Freitag, 30. November 2012

PANEL 30: WARFARE IN EARLY MODERN SOUTHEAST ASIA: STATE AND SOCIETIES

This panel aims to foster comparative scholarship on warfare in early modern Southeast Asia by focusing on one particular aspect: the link between warfare and statecraft. A similar but more general panel held at the Association for Asian Studies annual conference in 2002 both sparked a resurgence of interest in early modern Southeast Asian warfare and highlighted the difficulty of making comparisons across the region. In the decade since that panel, a growing body of work propelled by the addition of new scholars, approaches, and data has both begged revision of earlier assessments and required greater attention to more specialised aspects of warfare in the region. The comparisons that were so difficult to make in 2002 now seem possible.

This new panel will focus on the question of how different kinds of Southeast Asian states shaped and used warfare between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Specific topics that may be considered include, but are not limited to, the role of military technology in geopolitical shifts, the manners in which various states created and employed military forces, and changes in military ideology.

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Proposals for papers should be sent to

Kathryn Wellen at

wellen@kitlv.nl

and

Mike Charney at

mwcharney@ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

by November 30, 2012.