CKS/ RUPP joint workshop on:
History and Citizenship in Cambodia today
Dr. Kenneth Hall, History Professor at Ball State University and
Dr. Ilicia Sprey, St. Joseph’s University, U.S.A.
TIME: Tuesday 28th- Friday 31st May 2013
VENUE: The Center for Khmer Studies, Phnom Penh Office, # 234, st. 450, Tuol Tumpoung 2, Khan Chamka Morn
– 1st Seminar on TUESDAY 28TH MAY: 8.00-11.00 AM—on:
NATIONALISM AND CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION IN MODERN CAMBODIA
– 2nd Seminar on TUESDAY 28TH MAY: 2.00-5.00 PM—on:
A REVISIONIST HISTORY OF ANGKOR
– 3rd Seminar on THURSDAY 30TH MAY: 8.00-11.00 AM—on:
TEACHING DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEA
– 4th Seminar on FRIDAY 31ST MAY: 1.30-4.30 PM—on:
GLOBALIZATION AND CAMBODIA: TEACHING ASEAN CENTERED WORLD HISTORY
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ABSTRACT:
NATIONALISM AND CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION IN MODERN CAMBODIA
This session will address the problems of defining Cambodian citizenship, with attention to issues of Cambodia’s diversity as a nation. The session will question the current value of Benedict Anderson’s “Imagined Communities” approach to the Cambodian nation-state, in evaluating Cambodia’s multi-cultural, multi-historical, and multi-ethnic present. For example, does “Khmer” effectively define Cambodia?
A REVISIONIST HISTORY OF ANGKOR
Recent histories of Cambodia have been focal on the Angkor water management network as foundational to Angkor’s successful centralization and definition. This historical view had notable consequence in the Khmer Rouge attempts to reconstruct the Cambodian Angkor past. The revisionist history is now questioning this view, supported by new archeological evidence that indicates semi-autonomous regional “nodes” that were in various ways drawn to participate in the Angkor polity. What is at issue here is important to the notions of political centralization, internal and external linkages in Angkor’s history, as legacies of Angkor’s functionality that derived from a variety of internal and external religious, cultural, and economic (trade) contacts, especially those with Angkor’s Cham and Thai neighbors.
TEACHING DEMOCRATIC KAMPUCHEA
This session will address the revisionist history of Democratic Kampuchea, in part reactive to a lecture that was presented on the Monday prior to this series of workshops. This workshop will draw on the recently published Teacher’s Guidebook on The Teaching of “A History of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979), by the Documentation Center of Cambodia and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport – as this provides a useful template for new instructional initiatives in Cambodian historical education.
GLOBALIZATION AND CAMBODIA: TEACHING ASEAN CENTERED WORLD HISTORY
History texts tend to center on the West in addressing issues of global relationships. This session, in contrast, will take a Southeast Asia-centered approach to World History, wherein history instruction is centered on contemporary Southeast Asian societies during a series of historical periods, with focus on individual and regional societal developments and regional and global connections, and the consequences to Southeast Asia as well as the wider world.
Note: These sessions are not “lecture –driven“, but are workshops designed to engage the participants in a series of problem solving exercises that are common to new “immersive” education strategies. The intent is to provide useful instructional materials and alternative instructional methodologies that the participants can directly apply to their classrooms.
The sessions will be led by Dr. Kenneth Hall, Professor of History at Ball State University and Dr. Ilicia Sprey, St. Joseph’s University, U.S.A.
Please email puthea_sim[atmark]khmerstudies.org to register your place by the 27th May or call (855) 023 991 937
Click Here for event poster: CKS / RUPP Historical Workshop
