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CALL FOR
PAPERS
Understanding Timor-Leste: 2019 TLSA Research
Conference
Liceu
Campus, Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa’e
(UNTL), Avenida Cidade de Lisboa, Dili,
Timor-Leste, 27–28 June 2019
** Deadline for call for
papers extended to Friday 12 April**
This
two-day conference for researchers is
organised by the Timor-Leste Studies
Association (TLSA). The TLSA is an
interdisciplinary, international research
network focussed on all aspects of
research into East Timorese society,
including politics and history, economics,
communications, health, language,
agriculture and science.
This year’s conference will also have four
special streams: the first on the theme of
1999: 20 Years On to be convened by
Clinton Fernandes and Mica Barreto Soares;
the second on the theme of Gender Research
in Timor-Leste to be convened by Hannah
Loney and Uka Pinto; the third on the
theme of Agriculture to be convened by
Claudino Nabais and Robert Williams; and
the fourth on 'Decolonising Knowledge"
convened by Jose Trindade.
Papers are invited for all these
special panels.
2019 marks two decades since Timor-Leste’s
historic ballot on self-determination and
the end of a long period of foreign
occupation. TLSA 2019 will be the occasion
for a comprehensive reassessment of the
momentous events of 1999. This special
stream invites contributions with a focus
on 1999. Papers on a range of topics are
welcome: politics, history, culture,
economics, international solidarity,
resistance organisations, military
strategy, international relations, the 30
August referendum, international
peacekeeping, war crimes, human rights,
civil-military relations, and much more.
The Understanding Timor-Leste 2019
conference will be co-hosted by the
Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa’e,
Swinburne University of Technology, and
the University of Lisbon.
The TLSA gratefully acknoledges the
generous support of Centro Nacional
Chega! for our 2019 conference and the
special panel on 1999: 20 Years
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