Royal University of Phnom Penh
Graduate Program in Development Studies
LECTURE SERIES
This public lecture series is an offshoot of the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS)’s Junior Faculty Training Program, a program that seeks to enhance the knowledge base and academic skills of junior Cambodian academics and researchers in the fields of social sciences and humanities. It is also part of the Socio‐Cultural Research Seminar Series conducted by the Graduate Program in Development Studies at the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP).
The Lecture:
This up‐coming lecture is entitled "Community Mobilization, Environment and Irrigation on the Tonle Sap Floodplain," to be delivered by Dr. John Marston.
Dr. Marston will talk about his current research on community organization around land and water resources in communes in Batheay district, Kampong Cham and Samprouch district in Kampong Thom. In particular, he will talk about how his research relates to the current controversies about "entrepreneurial irrigation" on the Tonle Sap floodplain (especially in Kampong Thom) and the larger issues of environment, community organization, and free enterprise that underlie the controversies.
The Speaker: Dr. John Marston, Director of the Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de México, Mexico
Dr. John Marston is a professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the Center for Asian and African Studies of El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City. He completed anthropology at University of Washington in 1997. His interest in Cambodia dates to the 1980s, when he worked with Cambodian refugees, and he came to Cambodia for the first time in 1989. He is the co‐editor, with Elizabeth Guthrie, of the book History, Buddhism, and New Religious Movements in Cambodia, published by University of Hawaii Press, and he has also published many articles in journals and edited volumes.
Time and Date: 8.00‐9.30am, Saturday, 26 June 2010
Venue: Room 418, RUPP Main Campus, Russian Blvd., Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Registration: Free
Please confirm your participation by June 24, 2010.
For more information, please contact:
Mr. Chean Men
Email: cheanmen@khmerstudies.org
Tel: (855) 023 991 937
Dr. Ngin Chanrith
Email: chanrith@rupp.edu.kh
Tel: (855) 011 616 437
