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THE RISE OF ASIA CONFERENCE SERIES

Mercredi 15 septembre 2021, par DK // CONFERENCES

This series of conferences provides a platform for physical meeting, sharing, exchanges, studies, discussion, networking and publication on diverse issues in contemporary world through a phenomenon widely recognised : THE RISE OF ASIA. It encourages the participation of scholars from a wide range of scientific disciplines (area studies, cultural studies, ecology, economics, geography, history, humanities, languages, management, political and social sciences…) and practitioners from diverse professional fields (business, civil society, education, enterprise, government, management, parliament, public policy, social and solidarity movements…), as well as artists, writers, journalists, based in diverse geographical areas (Africa, North and South America, Australia, Asia, Europe, Pacific…). Contact

SCIENTIFIC BOARD

CALL AND INSTRUCTIONS / APPEL ET CONSIGNES

• CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS (English)
• DIRECT LINK TO ONLINE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION
• APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS (Français)
• LIEN DIRECT AU DEPOT DE PROPOSITION

WORKSHOPS/ROUNDTABLES/PANELS/ATELIERS/TABLERONDES

• AFRICA-ASIA ECONOMIC EXCHANGES (English)
• ECHANGES ECONOMIQUES AFRIQUE-ASIE (Français)
• DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AND ECONOMIC CYBERNETICS
• INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT WATCH
• WOMEN’S RESPONSE, RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE TO COVID-19
• POST-COVID-19 BUSINESS WITH ASIA
• BRICS - WORLD ORDER
• G20 INDONESIAN PRESIDENCY
• THE RISE OF HALAL INDUSTRY
• COVID-19 AS A GLOBAL BREAKING POINT
• COVID-19 AND WORLD’S POLITICS

CONFERENCE DATES & MODE : ONLINE & OFFLINE
The conference will be organised partly online partly offline following the preference of speakers and the circumstances of the moment. The offline mode is not identical with hybrid mode. Contrary to hybrid mode, offline mode does not allow online participation but allows speakers to make their presentation from any locality via an online tool (Zoom or Skype) transmitted to an offline screen by the chair of the sessions.
February 09, 2022, Wednesday, Online :
Virtual Room, Opening and Plenary Sessions, Morning and Afternoon
February 10, 2022, Thursday, Online and Offline :
University Le Havre Normandy, Opening and Parallel Sessions, Morning and Afternoon
February 11, 2022, Friday, Online and Offline :
University Le Havre Normandy, Parallel and Closing Sessions, Morning and Afternoon

PUBLICATION PROJECTS
The Rise of Asia Conference Series is in collaboration with the following book series and journals for the publication of selected papers presented in the conference :

• Bandung Spirit Book Series
• Indonesian Journal of Politics and Area Studies (in English)
• Afroglobe (in English and French)
• Inter-Asia Cultural Studies
• Journal of International Women’s Studies
• Hungarian Journal of African Studies (in English and Hungarian)
• Masyarakat, Kebudayaan dan Politik (Society, Culture and Politics) (in English)

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
The conference is open to individual and group paper presentations. Those willing to present their papers are invited to submit their proposals until December 31, 2021.

The Covid-19 global situation allows us to state the following points :
1) We are living in a crisis of civilisation provoked or accelerated by the pandemic and the climate change, crisis that may be seen as a transition from capitalist mode of production-based towards another ; the new one is however unknown in advance.
2) Asia plays an important if not leading role towards a new global civilisation ;
3) There is a risk that the rise of Asia leads to a planetary catastrophe since it is based on a model of growth created and developed by the West based on economism, productivism, consumerism, materialism, patriarchy, model denounced as the root problem.

So, how does this “crisis of civilisation” manifest in different fields and different localities ? In what way the pandemic affects peoples, societies, nations, states ? How do they manage the pandemic ? Do Asian countries perform better than others ? Does the pandemic constitute a point of “bifurcation” (Immanuel Wallerstein), a moment of “delinking” (Samir Amin), towards a “global rebalancing” or a “global restructuring” (Manoranjan Mohanty) ? What “status quo” and what “transformation” following the pandemic ? Are there signs of changes towards a new global post-capitalist, post-productivist, post-consummerist, post-materialist, post-patriarcal civilisation ?

As a matter of indication, major changes in the following fields may help us to answer those questions :
1) Gender and women’s issues (feminist movements, ecofeminism, gender justice, “depatriarcalisation”, LGBT, MeToo...)
2) Ecology (climate change, pandemic, green cities, green capitalism, eco-renewable energy, plastic, waste, pollutions, eco-socialism, vegetarianism, veganism...)
3) Digital universe (information, communication, media, GAFAM, Ali Baba, cryptocurrency, fake news, artificial intelligence, cyber-economy, cyber-crimes, cyber-war…)
4) Biotechnology (medical-agricultural-industrial-environmental-biotechnology, genetic engineering, cloning, GMO, vaccines…)
5) Demography (national-regional-international uneven growth, aging societies, over population, ethnic-religious-conflicts, urbanisation, migration…)
6) New phase of decolonisation (counter hegemony, decolonisation of mind, Black lives matter, Palestine lives matter, anti-racism, anti-occupation, anti-apartheid, anti-war...)

It is to assess the state of the world under Covid-19 pandemic and to catch the perspective of a common future that the 6th edition of the Rise of Asia Conference Series is organised. It encourages the participation of scholars from a wide range of scientific disciplines (area studies, cultural studies, ecology, economics, geography, history, humanities, languages, management, political and social sciences…) and practitioners from diverse professional fields (business, civil society, education, enterprise, government, management, parliament, public policy, social and solidarity movements…) as well as artists and writers, based in diverse geographical areas (Africa, North, Central and South America, Australia, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Oceania, Pacific…).

THE RISE OF ASIA IN GLOBAL HISTORY AND PERSPECTIVE : 60 Years after Belgrade, what non-alignment in a multipolar world and for a global future ?
LA MONTEE DE L’ASIE EN HISTOIRE ET PERSPECTIVE GLOBALES : 60 ans après Belgrade, quel non-alignement dans un monde multipolaire et pour un avenir mondial ?
International and Interdisciplinary Webconferencing, February 10-12, 2021

FULL PROGRAMME
AVAILABLE ABSTRACTS
FLAG OF COUNTRIES REPRESENTED BY PARTICIPANTS
POST-CONFERENCE MESSAGES AND TESTIMONIES

BANDUNG SPIRIT BULLETIN

Samedi 31 juillet 2021, par DK // BULLETIN

BULLETIN ESPRIT BANDUNG (French version)