Sacred Sites Conference 2005 Programme

Sacred Centres in Monsoon Asia and Their Transformations
Dr Ian Mabbett, School of Historical Studies, Faculty of Arts, Monash University

Incorporating the Periphery - The Temples of Classical Southeast Asia and Their Social Context
Dr Alexandra Haendel, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University

Visualising Angkor: Digital Reconstructions of Settlements and Religious Architecture
Mr Thomas Chandler, PhD Candidate, School of Multimedia Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

What Epigraphy has to Teach Us on the Integration of the Khmer Temple Sites into the Lived Environment
Prof Kamaleswar Bhattacharya, University of Bonn

My Son and Po Nagar Nha Trang Sanctuaries: In Regards to the Cosmological Dualist Cult of the Champa Kingdom (Central Vietnam)
Mr Tran Ky Phuong, Independent Scholar

Religious Architecture and Landscape in the Plain of Phan Rang
Dr William Southworth, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden University

Panel 3: The Local Influence
Chair: Dr Stuart Robson, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Monash University
Discussant: Prof Pamela Gutman

View from the East
Dr Kyle Latinis, Independent Scholar

The tomanurung Sites of South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Dr Ian Caldwell, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Leeds

Interpreting Myanmar's Earliest Buddhist Sites
Dr Robert Hudson, Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Archaeology, University of Sydney

Recent Developments in Archaeology in Myanmar
Dr Ernelle Berliet, Independent Scholar

The Dynamics of Angkor and its Landscape: Issues Arising from the Greater Angkor Project
Assoc Prof Roland Fletcher, Department of Archaeology, University of Sydney

Secrets of Phnom Kulen: The Geography of Relocating the Capital
Dr Robert Acker, Faculty of Geography, University of California, Berkeley

Connecting the Dots: Investigating the Issue of Transportation between the Temple Complexes of the Medieval Khmer (9th to 14th centuries AD)
Mr Mitch Hendrikson, PhD candidate, Department of Archaeology, University of Sydney

Journeys and Landscapes: Some Preliminary Remarks on Ancient Javanese Perceptions of Their Lived Environment
Emeritus Prof Peter Worsley, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney

Imagery of the Temple in Old Javanese Poetry
Dr Stuart Robson, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Monash University

Graves, Trees and Powerful Spirits as Archaeological Indicators of Sacred Spaces
Dr Andrea DiCastro, Monash Asia Institute, Monash University

Temples and Landscape in South Central Java
Dr Véronique Degroot, Leiden University

Speculation on Landscape Usage around Sambor Prei Kuk
Mr Heng Piphal, Independent Scholar

Environment and Settlement in Eastern Cambodia from the Neolithic through the Protohistoric Metal Ages: Case Studies in Kampong Cham
Mr Heng Sophady, Independent Scholar

The Khmer Temple at Phimai and its Ties to the Regional Communities
Dr David Welch, Senior Archaeologist, International Archaeological Research Institute, Hawaii

Life Among the Ruins: Habitation Sites of Trowulan
Assoc Prof John Miksic, Department of South East Asian Studies, National University of Singapore