CALLS FOR PANEL AND PAPER PROPOSALS
The 7th International Conference on Philippine Studies
(7th ICOPHIL)

7th International Conference on Philippine Studies (ICOPHIL 2004)
"The Philippines: Changing Landscapes, Humanscapes, and Mindscapes in a Globalizing World"
16-19 June 2004, The Netherlands (Leiden-Amsterdam)

The Seventh International Conference on Philippine Studies is organised to provide a forum for scholars engaged in research on Philippine society, culture, economy and environment. Focusing on past and present developments in the Philippines it will devote special attention to interconnections between the Philippines and the world at large. A growing awareness of global relationships has become part of the academic disciplines from which the participants study Philippine issues. These disciplines include anthropology, history, linguistics, literature, sociology, political science, economics, geography, environmental sciences, performing arts, communication sciences and others in the broad field of the humanities and social sciences. Also scholars from the exact sciences who have hitherto not taken part in these conferences (for instance specialists in meteorology, volcanology, agricultural sciences, medicine and engineering) are enjoined to discuss the social relevance of their subject matter for Philippine society. Multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives are becoming increasingly important. This makes the organisation of periodical multidisciplinary conferences even more fruitful and inspiring.

The International Philippine Studies conferences are held on a four-year schedule alternately in the Philippines and other continents. The European Philippine Studies Conference (Europhil) scheduled for the same year will be merged with the 7th ICOPHIL.

Panel topics
Some panel topics as suggested by the Organizing Board:
Nationalism and culture
Indigenous peoples and ancestral domains
Environmental politics
Migration: new insights
Conflict and conflict resolution
State-society relations
Issues in agrarian change
Urban dynamics
Old and new social movements
Health, illness, and body politics
Gender, class, and ethnicity: connections
Socio-economic mobility
Demography: the population problem revisited
Philippine literature
The media in social life
Philippine studies: a state of the art
ICT and new global Philippine entrepreneurship
Regionalism and federalism
Geopolitical developments in and around the Philippines

Panel and paper proposals

Proposals for panels and papers should be submitted by 1 October 2003 and be sent to IIAS at iias@let.leidenuniv.nl or by fax +31-71-527 4162. Proposals from the Philippines should send copies of abstracts to Prof. Bernardita R. Churchill at nitachurchill@hotmail.com or (02) 926-1347 (fax). Further inquiries about the conference may be directed to Prof. Churchill.

Proposals will be refereed. Abstracts of approved papers are to be submitted by 1 December 2003. Complete papers are to be submitted to panel organisers by 1 April 2004. The conference web page is at http://www.iias.nl/iias/agenda/icophil/ .