{"id":1552,"date":"2016-11-15T08:58:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T08:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/?post_type=news&p=1552"},"modified":"2016-11-15T09:00:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T09:00:15","slug":"the-11th-pok-rafeah-chair-public-lecture","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/news\/the-11th-pok-rafeah-chair-public-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"THE 11th POK RAFEAH CHAIR PUBLIC LECTURE"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABSTRACT<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Malaysia is a maritime nation, strategically placed between the South China Sea and the Straits of Malacca. The maritime space between the Indian and the Pacific Oceans has, since the 14th<\/sup>\u00a0century been conceptualized as the \u201cNusantara\u201d. First used to describe the sea space between the islands claimed by the Majapahit empire and its surrounding mostly Malay\u00a0kerajaan<\/i>, the term has taken on different meanings throughout history. In the original meaning the term Nusantara is clearly a cultural and geopolitical concept, designating a combined land and sea (tanah air<\/i>) territory\u00a0 with loosely defined shifting boundaries, including current maritime Southeast Asia and its seas. Thus the South China Sea is here defined as a \u201cmediterranean sea\u201d and, from a Malaysian perspective, as part of the Nusantara. It is suggested that the concept of a Nusantara is used for the formulation of a Malaysian maritime policy. Such a geopolitically based policy would have to match and supplement the already existing policies of the Indonesian \u201cMaritime Fulcrum\u201d and the Chinese concept of a \u201cMaritime Silk Road\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

BIODATA<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Hans-Dieter Evers, is Emeritus University Professor of Development Planning, Senior Fellow, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn and the 6th<\/sup>\u00a0Pok Rafeah Distinguished Chair Professor (2016-17) at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.\u00a0 After finishing his postgraduate education in sociology, economics and geography at the University of Freiburg, Germany, he taught sociology at the Mannheim School of Economics, Monash University, at Yale University (where he was also Director of Graduate Southeast Asia Studies), University of Singapore (Head of Department) and Bielefeld University (Dean and Director). He also served as Visiting Professor at the Singapore Management University, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universitas Gajah Mada, EHESS (Paris), University of Hawaii, as Visiting Fellow at Trinity College (Oxford), as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore and in 2012-14 as Eminent Visiting Professor, Universiti Brunei Darussalam.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

His current research is concerned with maritime conceptions of space, the South China Sea and knowledge governance. He has published a large number of books, refereed journal articles and book chapters. He is co-editor of Catalysts of Change: Chinese Business in Asia (World Scientific 2013);\u00a0Beyond the Knowledge Trap: Developing Asia’s Knowledge-Based Economies (World Scientific 2011); Governing and Managing Knowledge in Asia\u00a0 (3rd revised edition, World Scientific 2014); The Straits of Malacca (Berlin: LIT 2008); Southeast Asian Urbanism: The Meaning and Power of Social Space (Singapore: ISEAS\/McGrawHill 2000); and The Moral Economy of Trade\u00a0 (London: Routledge 1994).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> for the Programme Book<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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