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Welcome to the Official Web Site of the
First
International Conference on Lao Studies
Overall Theme:
Promote & Develop Lao Studies
The
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
of
Northern Illinois University is pleased to announce the First
International Conference on Lao Studies (ICLS) to be held on Friday-Sunday,
May 20-22, 2005 in DeKalb, Illinois, USA. The main objective of this
conference is to provide an international forum for scholars to present and
discuss various aspects of Lao studies.
Rationale
The Lao PDR today has a population of more than five million people,
comprising an amazing complex of ethnolinguistic groups. Moreover, the
number of people in the Lao "diaspora" numbers as many as twenty-five
million. In recent years there has been an increased interest in Laos and its
peoples as subjects of serious discussion by scholars and the interested public
alike. Indeed, there has been a flowering of scholarly publications on topics
pertaining to Laos in the last several decades and a growing interest cultivated
by the international media with its global reach. The First Lao History
Symposium,
held in the Spring of 2003 at the University of California-Berkeley, heralded
the burgeoning of a growing interest in Lao studies among a new generation of
scholars. This conference will build on that momentum.
The 2005 conference will feature papers on any
topic concerning Lao Studies. Topics include all ethnolinguistic groups of Laos, the Isan Lao and other ethnic
Lao groups in Thailand, cross-border ethnic groups in Thailand, Vietnam, China,
Burma, and Cambodia (e.g., Akha, Hmong, Khmu, Mien, Lao Phuan, Tai Lue, Tai
Dam), and overseas Laotians.
For more
information, please contact:
Center for Southeast
Asian Studies Outreach Coordinator Julia Lamb:
jlamb@niu.edu
Professor Catherine Raymond:
craymond@niu.edu
Professor John Hartmann:
jhartman@niu.edu
Vinya Sysamouth:
laolanxang@yahoo.com
or other
organizers
Contact Address:
Center for Southeast
Asian Studies
412 Adams Hall
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115 USA
Phone: 1-815-753-1771
FAX: 1-815-753-1776
E-mail:
cseas@niu.edu
Center's Webpage:
www.niu.edu/cseas
Lao Studies I Webpage:
www.seasite.niu.edu/lao/LaoStudies
Click here to learn Lao, Hmong, and Khmer at SEASSI 2005
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Vinya Sysamouth
laolanxang@yahoo.com
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