Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far
and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

03:45 pm • Roundtable 2: Locating Early Modern Southeast Asia

3:45 pm–5:00 pm
ROUNDTABLE 2: Locating Early Modern Southeast Asia

Discussion Questions
    1. Can you describe the regional and global connections made or unmade during the early modern period (c.1400-1800) in Southeast Asia?  What do you think were the impact of European arrival to various states and societies in Southeast Asia during this period?
    2. Conversely, what do you think were the impact of early Southeast Asian-European interaction in the politics and societies in Europe, if at all?
    3. How important was the early period of Southeast Asian-European interaction to the later political trajectory of colonial and postcolonial states in the region? 
    4. In your view, what are the themes, sources, approaches, geographic regions that remain frontiers for research on early modern Southeast Asia?
Participants
Joefe B. Santarita, PhD
     Dean and Professor, Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman
Ariel C. Lopez, PhD
     Assistant Professor, Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman
David Henley, PhD
     Professor, Leiden University, Netherlands
Stefan Amirell, PhD
     Professor, Linnaeus University, Sweden