CONFERENCE OF THE NETWORK OF ASEAN STUDIES IN THAILAND
, 29/01/2016 10:01
On 27 March, Dr. Tran Dinh Lam – Director of Center for Vietnamese and Southeast Asian Studies participated the conference on “Building a network of ASEAN centers”, organized by the Center for ASEAN Studies, Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. This was the second conference of these centers. The first one was held on 7 and 8 July 2014. Attending this conference were 18 centers for Southeast Asian Studies of big universities from 10 member countries of ASEAN (including Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, etc.)
The conference focused on the issue of developing cooperation and building up a network connecting centers for Southeast Asian studies in major universities of the 10 member countries. At the present, the ASEAN communities have been getting closer to one another; thus professors of these universities all shared their wants of contributing physically and intellectually to the common community so as to help develop an area of peace and prosperity.
Scholars joining the conference were drafting a set of principles to agree on the standard organization of the centers. The Center for ASEAN Studies of Thammasat University is mainly responsible for the preparation. Thailand was taking the initiative and playing very well the role of a pioneer in building a system that connects all centers for Southeast Asian studies. Meanwhile, the participation of Singapore was a significant contribution to the process of establishing the network. With its growth and successful industrialization, Singapore was acquiring its own status and raising a big voice in this process.
All centers were in the process of drafting and collecting ideas. However, the presentations and exchanges of scholars, managers from these centers and institutes of Southeast Asian studies of the 10 member countries of ASEAN showed a necessity of establishing a network that connects studies on the region. Additionally, this second conference also opened a new direction for exchanging and teaching languages of member countries. This paved the way for centers to new developments about research, sharing and exchanging human resources throughout teaching and learning others’ languages.
Scholars hoped that there would be annual international conferences for members of the Southeast Asian Studies network. To achieve this, there was a suggestion in this seminar that each center should propose to its own government to further support this activity in the nearest future.
Center for Vietnamese and Southeast Asian Studies of the HCMC University of Social Sciences and Humanities is strong in this field because now it is opening Vietnamese classes for students and intellectuals from American institutes and universities such as Illinois. In the near future, when the policies on exchanging and teaching languages of the Southeast Asian countries are framed, the Center will take a further step in welcoming students from other countries in the region and from all over the world.
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