Dr. Paul Lavy is J. Clawson Mills Postdoctoral Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, but divides his time between New York City and his residence in Vietnam. He received his Ph.D. in Southeast Asian Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2004, and taught Asian Art History at Pennsylvania State University, first as an Instructor and then as Assistant Professor of Asian Art History, from 2002-2006. His dissertation investigated the political context of early historic art and architecture in a region of Southeast Asia centered on what is now Cambodia. His publications include the article "As in Heaven, So in Earth: The role of Vishnu, Harihara, and Shiva Images in the Politics of Preangkorian Southeast Asia," published in the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. Articles in preparation include "Go Thap and the Development of Preangkorian Artistic Styles" and "The Earliest Vaisnava Sculpture of Southeast Asia."

In the Fall semester, Dr. Lavy will be teaching Art 491B - Art of SE Asia: Island (78711). For more information, please contact the chair of the department, Dr. Gaye Chan: gchan@hawaii.edu or 808-956-8251.

The Filipino American Historical Society of Hawaii and Revolution Books present

Stage Presence: A Reading and Book Signing with Gabe Baltazar, Jr., Theo Gonzalves, and Ricardo D. Trimillos

Stage Presence is a collection of essays and interviews with Filipino American performing artists. Each of the chapters features critically acclaimed and popular artists in their own right, who have also mentored hundreds of dancers, comedians, theater artists and musicians of all genres. In this rare collection, performers take time off stage to speak candidly about their creative processes, revealing personal frustrations and triumphs, while testifying to the challenges of what it could mean to be an artist of Filipino descent working and living in the United States.

Featuring: musicians Eleanor Academia, Gabe Baltazar Jr., Danongan Kalanduyan; bandleader and poet Jessica Hagedorn; choreographers and dancers Joel Jacinto, Alleluia Panis, and Pearl Ubungen; and theater artists Remé Grefalda, Allan Manalo and Ralph Peña. The book features a thought-provoking foreword by scholar and musician, Ricardo D. Trimillos.

Sunday, May 4, 2008
1:00 p.m.
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Asian Voices in a Post-Colonial Age: Vietnam, India and beyond
By Susan Bayly

This study of intellectuals and their cosmopolitan life trajectories is based on anthropological and historical research in Vietnam and India, two great Asian societies with contrasting experiences of empire, decolonization, and the twentieth-century socialist world system. The author explores the role of the intellectual in the economic, social and cultural transformation of the post-colonial world through in-depth ethnographic fieldwork methods. In identifying parallels and contrasts between Hanoi's 'socialist moderns' and the family and career experiences of their Indian counterparts, this book makes a distinctive contribution to the study of colonial, socialist and post-socialist Asia.

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Health Changes in the Asia-Pacific
By Ryutaro Ohtsuka and Stanley Ulijaszek (Editors)

The Asia-Pacific region has seen great social, environmental and economic change  over the past century, with great acceleration of change in the last 20 years, leading to dramatic changes in the health profiles of all populations represented  in South East and East Asia, Pacific islands and the islands of Melanesia. This volume considers recent evidence concerning prehistoric migration, and colonial, regional and global processes in the production of health change in the Asia-Pacific region. This book presents a cohesive view of the ways in which exchange relationships, economic modernization, migration and transnational linkages interact with changing rural subsistence ecologies to influence health patterns in this region.

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Asia, America, and the Transformation of Geopolitics
By William Overeholt

American security and prosperity now depend on Asia. The author offers an iconoclastic analysis of developments in each major Asian country, Asian international relations, and US foreign policy. Drawing on decades of political and business experience, he argues that obsolete Cold War attitudes tie the US increasingly to an otherwise isolated Japan and obscure the reality that a US-Chinese bicondominium now manages most Asian issues. The book covers Japan, China, Russia, Central Asia, India, Pakistan, Korea and Southeast Asia.

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For Better or for Worse: Vietnamese International Marriages in the New Global Economy
By Hung Cam Thai

This book takes a look at marriage and migration, with a specific focus on the unions between Vietnamese men living in the United States and the women who marry them. This book underscores the ironies and challenges that these unions face. It includes the voices of working class immigrant men dealing with marginalization in their adopted country.

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Global Markets and Local Crafts: Thailand and Costa Rica compared
By Frederick Wherry

This book compares the handicraft industries of Thailand and Costa Rica to show how local cultural industries break into global markets, and conversely, how global markets affect the way in which artisans understand, adapt, and utilize their cultural traditions. This book also develops a framework for studying globalization.

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King Siliman and Other Bidayuh Ayuh Folk Tales
By Robert Sulis Ridu. Ritikos Jitab and Jonas Noeb (compilers)

This book contains ten Bidayuh folk tales belonging to the category of dondan (legends and fables). The common feature in all these stories is that each contains an explanation of social relationships, the 'dos' and 'don'ts' of society and other moral values.

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