7.30 – 8.30
Registration
9.00–9.30
Opening ceremony
presided over by
HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn
9.30 – 10.15
Keynote speech (I)
Representing the opponents: brāhmaṇas and others in the Jātakas
Kumkum Roy
– Jawaharlal Nehru University
10.15 – 11.00
Keynote speech (II)
Mapping Burma and Northern Thailand in 1795 – Francis Buchanan – Hamilton’s critical accounts of native maps
Jacques Leider
– EFEO
11.00 – 11.30
Break
Section I
Chair: Hwang Soonil
11.30 – 12.00
The notion of "force majeure" in the Three Seals Law Code and the Cambodian Legal Codes of 1891
Olivier de Bernon
-Musée Guimet, Paris
12.00 – 12.30
Display and installation: uses of the Buddha's word in Early Southeast Asia
Peter Skilling
– EFEO
12.30 – 14.00
Lunch
Section II
Chair: Justin McDaniel
14.00 – 14.30
Early Buddhism in Laos: insights from archaeology
Michel Lorrillard
– EFEO
14.30 – 15.00
Manuscriptology and literature: reflecting on northern Thai Buddhist chronicles
François Lagirarde
– EFEO
15.00 – 15.30
Break
Section III
Chair: Ulrich Timme Kragh
15.30 – 16.00
Hermits and the question of Hinduism in Thailand
Justin McDaniel
– University of Pennsylvania
16.00 – 16.30
Rethinking Thai Buddhist missions
Ven. Anil Sugandha Dhammasakiyo
– Mahamakut Buddhist University
16.30 – 17.00
Discussion
18.00 – 21.00
Book launch dinner
Justin Thomas McDaniel: The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk: Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand, Columbia University Press, 2011
Venue: Jamjuree Ballroom, M floor, Pathumwan Princess Hotel