20 - 21 May 2014
Inspired by the spirit of the 1955 Asian-African Conference held in Bandung, Indonesia, a new Open Access Journal “Bandung: Journal of the Global South” was launched in mid-2014 with a vision to providing an academic and policy platform for the interested scholars and practitioners to develop new theoretical perspectives, share revealing findings and exchange views on the complex post-colonial landscapes of the African, Asian and Latin American peoples, for identifying their own ways and strategies of development and decolonization.
Funded by the Department of Applied Social Studies and the Office of the Provost, this inaugural conference marks the launch of the journal in response to two concurring trends in the global focus – the emerging importance of Global South in international arena and the growing influence of China on Global South countries. The two-day conference gathered interested local and twenty distinguished international scholars to interrogate the theoretical, conceptual and policy issues pertaining to South-South relations and development in cross-disciplinary human and social sciences perspectives including cultural, historical, social, political, economic and security relations between and among the states and societies in the Global South.