IN-EAST News
27.06.2015 - 00:00
Sat, June 27, 2015: Annual Conference of Southeast Asia Working Group (DGfG)
The annual conference of the Southeast Asia Working Group in the German Society of Geography / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie (DGfG) this year will take place at Campus Duisburg:
Time: Saturday, June 27th, 2015
Venue: Gerhard-Mercator-Haus, Senatssaal (1st floor), Lotharstr. 57, 47057 Duisburg
Programme
08:45 Welcome and introduction to the annual meeting
09:00 Fenna Otten (University of Göttingen): Livelihood transformations in the course of smallholder market integration in upland East Java
09:30 Thomas Neise, M.Sc. (University of Cologne): Firms’ Decision-Making under Risk and Regional Adaptive Resilience – A Conceptual Framework
10:00 Thi Xuan Thu Nguyen, MA (University of Cologne): Multinational Enterprises and industrial spatial localization in the Red River Delta and Southeast Vietnam
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 Prof. Dr. Lee Boon Thong (Nilai University, Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia): Urban Green Space Management for a Garden Nation
11:15 Prof. Dr. Monsicha Bejrananda (Faculty of Architecture, Khon Kaen University): Incidents of the Conflict over Urban Green Space: Cases from Northeastern Thailand
11.45 Moritz Breul, MA (University of Cologne): Global Cities from the Global South as Nodes in Global Value Chains: A Conceptual Framework of how Gateway Cities interlink their Hinterland
12:15 Hung Nguyen Trung, MA (University of Cologne): Rural non-farm sector's trends and factors affecting the changes of non-farm sector
12:45 Lunch break
13:30 Urban excursion
15:00 Dipl.-Geogr. Franziska Sohns (University of Cologne): Self-employment and its influence on the vulnerability to poverty of households in times of crisis in rural Vietnam – A panel data analysis
15.30 Dipl.-Geogr. Jöran Wrana (University of Cologne): Can Multinational Enterprises introduce new institutions to host countries? An explorative study about MNEs’ training programs with educational institutes and their potential influence on Vietnam’s vocational education sector
16:00 Ass. Prof. Dr. Dang Hoang Linh (Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam): Hanoi Political view of TPP and RCEP and Vietnam's preparation for participation
16:30 Dr. Thomas Hennig (Philipps-Universität Marburg): Hydropower Development and the Water-Energy Nexus in the Transnational Ayeyarwady Basin
17:00 Working group discussion and closing remarks
Please click here for a pdf-download of the conference programme: https://www.uni-due.de/in-east_former_website/fileadmin/news/Full_size/AK_SE-Asien_Einladung_Jahrestagung_2015.pdf
Contact: helmut.schneider@uni-due.de, Tel. 0203 379-1365