Textiles as a Material Lexicon of Tributary Relations in the Lao-Tai world

255th INTG Meeting – A talk and presentation by Patricia Cheesman Background Patricia Cheesman has done in-depth field research in the Laos PDR and Thailand over the past 30 years. She published numerous books and articles on Lao and Tai textiles and has been lecturing at Chiang Mai University in the Thai Art Department since … Read more

Reflections on 40 Years of Research about Thailand

251st INTG Meeting – A talk by Niels Mulder Summary of Niels Mulder’s Talk In the last days of the year 2000, when I finished writing ‘Southeast Asian Images – Towards civil society?’ (Chiang Mai, Silkworm Books, 2003), I knew it would be my last work based on field research. That being the sign of … Read more

Peer to Peer – Premises of a New Layer in Civilization?

239th INTG Meeting – A talk by Michel Bauwens Background Michel Bauwens started his career as information analyst with USIA, moved on to the animal feed/ petrochemical sector as business information manager/cybrarian for BP, and moved on to create a magazine on digital developments, two Internet dotcoms (dealing with intranets and cyber-marketing respectively) before finalizing … Read more