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CSEAS Fall 08 Course List
The CSEAS course list for the Fall 08 is now available online. Please click here to view it! |
Conference Announcement
Ten Years After: Reformasi & New Social Movements in Indonesia, 1998-2008
UC Berkeley and UCLA Joint Conference on Southeast Asian Studies, April 25-26, 2008
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Gamelan Music of Java & Bali
 By UH Ensemble
Byron Moon, director
Hardja Sulilo, director emeritus
Saturday, May 3, 2008
7:30 p.m.
Barbara Smith Amphitheater
$12 General Admission
$8 Students & Seniors
For more information, visit the Music Department website or call 956-8742 |
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Bronze Age Yunnan: New Discoveries and Current Issues
a talk
By Dr. TzeHuey Chiou-Peng
Associate Curator, Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
Material goods excavated at Bronze Age sites in
Yunnan, Southwest China, are noted for idiosyncratic features that
combine traits from pastoral and sedentary cultures. This lecture
discusses findings from recent analyses, which indicate that Yunnan bronze industry resulted from continual cultural
contacts between Yunnan
and its neighbors. These data also delineate the evolution of a regional
culture that culminated in the establishment of socially distinct communities
near the Lake
Dian (circa 4th century
BCE to 1st century CE).
In the light of recent archaeological discoveries in
southwest China, this
lecture explains the reason why interactions between ancient Yunnan
and its surrounding regions occurred; it also lists research objectives
for possibly solving problems in current study of Yunnan bronze culture in the framework
of Southeast Asian archaeology.
Dr. Chiou-Peng (Ph.D., 1985, History of Art,
University of Pittsburgh) is an art historian whose work bridges art
history and archaeology in its focus on Bronze metallurgy in SW China. She has previously been affiliated with the University of New Mexico and the Art Institute of
Chicago.
Friday, April 18, 2008
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Art Building 137
University of Hawaii-Manoa
Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the
Department of Art & Art History, and the Center for Chinese Studies at
theUniversity of Hawai`i Manoa.
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New Books on Southeast Asia
 Thai South and Malay North:
Ethnic Interactions on a Plural Peninsula
By Michael Montesano and Patrick Jory (Editors)
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Khmer Women on the Move: Exploring Work and Life in Urban Camdobia
 By Annuska Derks Khmer Women on the Move offers a fascinating ethnography of young Cambodian women who move from the countryside to work in Cambodia's capital city, Phnom Penh. This book challanges the dominant views of these young rural women-that they are controlled by global economic forces and national
development policies or trapped by restrictive customs and Cambodia's
tragic history. The author shows instead how these women shape and
influence the processes of change taking place in present-day Cambodia.
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Research Opportunity
Research Associate or Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Geography and Resource Management of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Area: Laos
Research Agenda:
- rural development, the role
that natural resources (e.g. NTFPs) play in rural livelihood, and how
this is changing because of new economic opportunities, government
restrictions, etc., ( socio-economic rather than
ecological aspects)
- the contribution that natural
resources (e.g. NTFPs) make or can make in sustainable economic growth in
rural areas,
- the environmental, social, and
economic impact of Chinese migrants, rubber plantations, etc. in rural
areas, specially in the northern provinces of Laos.
- These are all rather broad
areas, and I would like to encourage the RA or Post-doc fellow to pursue
his/her own research interests.
RA or Post-doc fellow to start as soon as possible. Contract duration up to December 2009. The salary
starts from HK$20,000/month for the RA, and from HK$25,000/month for the
post-doc fellow. There might be additional money for fieldwork. Educational Requirements: - RA must have a Master degree
- Post-doctoral fellow must have a PhD.
- There are no restrictions on age or gender. Work permits are not allowed for citizens from Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia or Nepal.
Additional Qualifications:
Previous fieldwork experience desired as RA/Post-doc will spend most of his/her
time in Hong Kong writing up research notes, perhaps with a few months of
additional fieldwork in Laos. It
would also be possible to do research on the countries neighboring Laos (Vietnam,
Thailand, Cambodia, and Yunnan
and Guangxi in China).
For more information,
contact:
Claudio O. Delang, Ph.D.
Department of Geography and Resource Management
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, NT, Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 2609-6646
Fax: (852) 2603-5006
E-mail:cdelang@cuhk.edu.hk
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SEA Film Series
Now in its fourth year!
In Spring 2008, the Center's popular Southeast Asian Film Series will include Aloha (Malaysia/Singapore),
The Story of Pao (Viet Nam), Bagong Buwan (Philippines), The Legend of Lady Hill (Myanmar) in addition to films from Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Viet Nam and Cambodia!
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