June 9 10, VENUE Faculty Lounge Block AS7, Shaw Foundation Building, National University of Singapore Level 1, 5 Arts Link, Singpaore

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1 Asian Experiences of Development: Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia, June 9 10, 2006 Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS, in collaboration with the University of Toronto and University of Cologne VENUE Faculty Lounge Block AS7, Shaw Foundation Building, National University of Singapore Level 1, 5 Arts Link, Singpaore This Workshop seeks to develop a historical perspective on the early years of development across Asia (Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia). Issues of development and development policies had entered discourses on paths to agrarian and industrial progress well before Second World War. However, it was only after 1945 that development assumed an ever-increasing importance as an all-encompassing discourse on the transformation of societies. Development policies were not just about industrialization, building of infrastructure, or creation of functional institutions designed to meet the needs of nation-states in a rapidly changing world. Development was also about the transformation of societies along ideological and social prescriptions. Development was harnessed both as a multi-causal tool for, and a multi-functional instrument, for changing societies. From early on, development policies operated on a number of levels, ranging from the local to the global, and involved a variety of actors covering village-level, national and foreign governments, non-governmental actors, academics, practitioners in the field, besides multilateral actors like the United Nations. Some of the themes and questions addressed by the Workshop will be: A) Visions of Post-Coloniality : how did various Asian societies imagine the future that would follow Independence? Who did the visioning?: what did they anticipate or dream? B) Concepts of Development : how prominent a place did economic development occupy in visions of a post-colonial future? What different strategies emerged in the period? C) Processes (Experiences) of Development : how did strategies of development evolve from their initial articulation in the 1940s & early 50s, to the subsequent conjunctures of the 1970s? D) Contemporary Relevance: how do development experiences of period relate to the problems, issues, and circumstances of the present day Asia? Please see below for FULL PROGRAMME All are welcome but registration is required. If you wish to attend, kindly Ms Diana Haron ( hisdh@nus.edu.sg ) or Ms Jasmine Sim ( hissimbl@nus.edu.sg ) by 5 June 2006 with the following information: Your Name --- Organisation --- Phone Number --- Address

2 Asian Experiences of Development: Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia, National University of Singapore 9 & 10 June 2006 Faculty Lounge, Shaw Foundation Building Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore in collaboration with the University of Toronto and University of Cologne Supported by the German Science Foundation, and the Southeast Asian Regional Office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Singapore

3 Friday 9 June WELCOME ADDRESS Assoc Prof Ian Gordon Head, Department of History, NUS Assoc Prof Tan Tai Yong Dean, Faculty of Arts & Social Sceinces, National University of Singapore 0910 INTRODUCTION Marc Frey, University of Cologne Ronal W Pruessen, University of Toronto 09:45 W E L C O M E R E C E P T I O N Panel I - NON-STATE ACTORS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA Chair: Imran Ali (Lahore University of Management Sciences) Stefan Hell (Asian Development Bank Hanoi/Leiden University) The League of Nations and Early Development Issues in Asia 10:15 Mark Emmanuel (National University of Singapore) Epistemic Communities in Malay Print Media in Colonial Malaya: Creating a Vision of the Malay future during the Great Depression ( ) Michael Montesano (National University of Singapore) Development or Prosperity? Entrepreneurship, Finance, and Real Estate Development in a Southern Thai Town during the Late 1960s 11:45 C O F F E E B R E A K PANEL II: KNOWLEDGE, EXPERTS, AND MICRO-MANAGEMENT Chair: Yong Mun Cheong (National University of Singapore) 12:00 Suzanne Moon (Colorado School of Mines, Boulder) The circulation of technical experts from Indonesia into development programs Sunil Amrith (Cambridge University) Health and Sovereignty in the New Asia: Visions of Development, :00 L U N C H Sponsored by the Konrad- Adenauer-Foundation, Singapore. PANEL III: STATE ACTORS AND THE ECONOMY Chair: Thomas Scharping (University of Cologne) Yong Mun Cheong (National University of Singapore) Trade in the Straits region: a strategy for development 14:30 Donna Brunero (University of Bristol) Visions of the Modern Asian Port : The Singapore Harbour Board Do Duc Dinh (Institute for Africa and Middle East Studies, Hanoi) Vietnam s Economic development : Contrast on the eve of Convergence 16:00 C O F F E E B R E A K 16:30-17:30 FIRST OVERVIEW DISCUSSION: IDENTIFYING KEY LINKAGES, THEMES, AND QUESTIONS 19:00 Dinner at Tepak Sireh Restaurant (Paper Presenters only)

4 Saturday, 10 June 2006 PANEL IV: VISIONS OF DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH ASIA: INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FACTORS Chair: Sunil Amrith (Cambridge University) Medha Kudaisya (National University of Singapore) 'The Mighty Adventure': The Planning Commission and Visions of Development in India, Gopalan Balachandran (Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva) Rethinking Economic Development and State-Building in Early Post-Colonial India, Amit Das Gupta (Institute for Contemporary History, Berlin) Planning by Consortia? The Aid India and Pakistan Consortia in the 1960s Imran Ali (Lahore University of Management Sciences) Visions of Development: The Case of Pakistan 11:15 C O F F E E B R E A K PANEL V: DEVELOPMENT IN EAST ASIA AND THE REGION Chair: Do Duc Dinh (Institute for Africa and Middle East Studies, Hanoi) 11:30 Thomas Scharping (University of Cologne) Chinese Economic Planning during the Mao Era: Internal Drivers and External Constraints Bai Gao (Duke University) Japanese and Chinese Economic Development in Comparison Marc Frey (University of Cologne) Regional Approaches v. Nation State Preferences: The Early Years of the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East 13:00 L U N C H PANEL VI: THE UNITED STATES AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING IN ASIA Chair: Yong Mun Cheong (National University of Singapore) Nicole Sackley (University of Richmond, Virginia) Passage to Modernity: American Experts, India, and the Pursuit of Development in the Cold War 14:30 Ronald W. Pruessen (University of Toronto) A View from the U.S. of the 1950s: Dwight Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, and Development in Asia Quek Ser Hwee (National University of Singapore) Development Experiments and Experiences in Southeast Asia during the Johnson administration. 16:00 C O F F E E B R E A K 16:30 CONCLUDING DISCUSSION

5 No Name Institution Address 1. Imran Ali Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan 2. Sunil Amrith Cambridge University 3. Gopalan Balachandran Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva 4. Bai Gao Duke University 5. Donna Brunero University of Bristol 6. Amit Das Gupta 7. Do Duc Dinh Institute for Contemporary History, Berlin Institute for Africa and Middle East Studies, Hanoi 8. Mark Emmanuel National University of Singapore 9. Marc Frey University of Cologne 10. Stefan Hell Leiden University / 11. Medha Kudaisya National University of Singapore 12. Michael Montesano National University of Singapore 13. Suzanne Moon Colorado School of Mines, Boulder 14. Ronald Pruessen University of Toronto 15. Quek Ser Hwee National University of Singapore 16. Nicole Sackley University of Richmond, Virginia 17. Thomas Scharping University of Cologne 18. Yong Mun Cheong National University of Singapore hisymc@nus.edu.sg