Bérénice Bellina

Interventions :

« Building New Relations: The Indigenous Communities and the Museum of Anthropology of the National Taiwan University »,Chih-Hua CHIANG, Associate Professor, Department of anthropology, National Taiwan University

Naga. Democratization of the Museum Collections », Alok Kumar KANUNGO, IIT Gandhinagar

« Give Us Back Our Ancestors and Sacred Objects!’ American Indians and 35 Years of Repatriation », Joe WATKINS Archaeological and Cultural Education Consultants, Tucson, Arizona; Visiting Professor, GI-CoRE, Hokkaido University Sapporo & Research Associate, Global Station for Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversities: GSI & Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University, Sapporo

09:45–9:55 – Opening Remarks
Dr. Bérénice BELLINA (CNRS, UMR8068) & Prof. Frank MUYARD (EFEO)

Panel 1: India & Mainland Southeast Asia
Chair: Prof. Yves Goudineau (EFEO)

10:00-10:40 – Indigenous Archaeology: Learning from the Nagas (Northeast India)
Prof. Alok Kanungo
Archaeological Sciences Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

10:40-11:20 – Archaeological Practice and the Decolonisation of Knowledge:
Indigenous Notions of Space, Time and Matter and the Pre-modern History of the Forest-dwellers of the Nilgiri Mountains, Southern India
Prof. Daniela De Simone
Department of Languages and Cultures, Ghent University, Belgium

11:20-11:40 Coffee Break

11:40–12:20 – A Reflection on Archaeological Heritage in the Highland Region of Northwest Thailand
Prof. Rasmi Shoocongdej
Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Archaeology, Silpakorn University, Bangkok

12:20–13:00 – Engaging with the Heritage of Maritime Populations of the Lanta Bay:
A Community-based Archaeological and Ethnographic Project (the Lanta Bay Project, Thailand)
Dr. Bérénice Bellina (CNRS, UMR8068) & Dr. Olivier Evrard (IRD, UMR206)

13:00-14:00 Lunch

Panel 2: Island Southeast Asia & East Asia
Chair: Dr. Annabel Vallard (CNRS, UMR 8170)

14:00–14:40 – Exploring the Sustainability of Local Practices and the Role of Humans in Shaping the Landscape in Southern Palawan, Philippines
Dr. Hermine Xhauflair (University of the Philippines Diliman)
& Dr. Timothy James Vitales (National Museum of the Philippines)

14:40-15:20 – Indigenous Archaeology in New Guinea: Present Status and Possible Developments
Dr. Marian Vanhaeren (CNRS), Wulf Schiefenhövel (Max Plank Institute), Enrico Kondologit (University Papua), Erlin Novita (Research Center of Prehistoric and Historical Archaeological, BRIN, Jayapura, Indonesia) & Hari Suroto

15:20-15:40 Coffee Break

15:40-16:20 – The Importance of Indigenous Archaeology in Taiwan
Prof. Chiang Chih-Hua
Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University, Taipei

16:20–17:00 – Indigenous Archaeology in Japan: An Indigenous Outsider’s Inside Perspective
Dr. Joe Watkins  
Archaeological and Cultural Education Consultants, Tucson, Arizona / Research Associate, Global Station for Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversities: GSI & Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University, Sapporo

17:00–18:00 – Closing Roundtable:
Present and Future Challenges for Indigenous Archaeology in Asia-Pacific
Bérénice Bellina, Yves Goudineau, Alok Kanungo, Frank Muyard, Rasmi Shoocongdej, Annabel Vallard & Joe Watkins