The Center
for Southeast Asian Studies
University of Hawaii at Manoa
June 2, 2008
Issue: 32
Announcements

Welcome to the Weekly Announcements e-blast from the Center. These messages are sent in HTML format (e.g., as a web page) with an option to view the message as text if you have any problems. Feel free to forward the email to friends using the links below. Share and enjoy!
Pacific Disaster Center and UH in Viet Nam 

The Hawaii based Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) and the University of Hawaii have recently completed a series of talks with partner institutions in Viet Nam, including the Viet Nam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), Water Resources University (WRU), the Institute for Economic Research, and the Center for Management and Mitigation of Natural Disasters.

PDC Executive Director Ray Shirkhodai and Chief Information Officer Chris Chiesa, along with University of Hawaii Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer David Lassner, met with representatives from VAST and directors/senior representatives from four of its approximately 30 institutes to discuss plans to develop, deploy and operate a seismic and tsunami warning system for Vietnam; begin student and faculty exchanges with PDC and UH in support of developing space technology curriculum and programs for Vietnam's 2020 goal of becoming a space nation; to establish collaborations with PDC and UH in studying flash flooding, debris flow and associated land slides, and active faults in the country; and discuss issues in related to urban flooding, climate change impacts, migration, etc., in HCMC and southern Viet Nam, in preparation for the upcoming PDC/East-West Center conference, Urban Asia: Challenges of Transition and Governance, later this summer.

An MoU Signing and PDC Hanoi Project Office Opening Ceremony was co-organized by PDC and WRU. The event was attended by over 40 representatives of Viet Nam's Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development (MARD), VAST, and WRU, as well as representatives of the U.S. Embassy, USAID, USTDA and The World Bank. Shirkhodai and Lassner provided opening remarks along with WRU Rector Dr. Nguyen Quang Kim. Chiesa provided a presentation detailing PDC's recent and planned activities in Viet Nam. WRU's Ms. Pham Hong Nga provided an overview of current WRU activities and programs at their Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City campuses, as well as planned expansions (via Asian Development Bank funding) of the Hanoi Campus. (WRU has over 10,000 students at its various campuses.)

-Notes courtesy of Ray Shirkhodai, Executive Director, PDC

For more information on the Pacific Disaster Center and their
cooperative projects/partnerships in Southeast Asia, go here.
 
Call for Papers
Religion in Southeast Asian Politics:
Resistance, Negotiation and Transcendence
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies,Singapore
December 11-12, 2008

The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore) is organizing a conference on "Religion in Southeast Asian Politics: Resistance, Negotiation and Transcendence" on December 11-12, 2008. We are inviting potential participants to submit abstracts that address the intersections between the state and religion (institutionalized or otherwise) in Viet Nam. Those interested are encouraged to write Dr Yew-Foong Hui <yfhui@iseas.edu.sg> for the "Call for Paper" ASAP, as the deadline for abstract submission is approaching very soon. Selected paper presenters will be provided with partial funding for travel and accommodations.


1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation: Supporting Small Languages Together
Honolulu, Hawaii, March 12-14, 2009

more info | Deadline: September 15, 2008
Scholarships

Indonesian Art and Culture Scholarship
USINDO, July 28-October 31, 2008

more info | Deadline: June 10, 2008
SEA Summer Books Issue

book

US-Philippines Strategic Relations: Underpinning of an Unequal Association
By Chintamani Mahapatra
Reference Press, 2007, 168p.        
Price $24

more info


East Timor: Beyond Independence
By Damien Kingsbury and Michael Leach (Editors)
Monash Asia Institute, 2007, 302p. 
Price $29.95

more info


Myanmar's Long Road to National Reconciliation
By Trevor Wilson (Editor)
Asia Pacific Press, 2006, 310 p. 
Price $ 39.90

more info


Myanmar: The State, Community and the Environment
By Monique Skidmore and Trevor Wilson (Editors)
Asia Pacific Press, 2007, 301p.     
Price $34

more info


Emerging India in Asia-Pacific
By Yagama Reddy
New Century Press, 2007, 406p.    
Price $54.50

more info


Container Shipping and Economic Development: A Case Study of A.P.Moller-Maersk in South East Asia
By Mejbritt Greve, Michael Hansen & Henrik Schaumburg-Muller
Copenhagen Business School Press, 2007, 72p. Price $23

Copyright Law and the Information Society in Asia
By Christopher Heath & Kung-Chung Liu
Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2007, 276p.    
Price $100

more info


The Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas
By Mina Roces & Louise Edwards
Sussex Academic Press, 2007, 320p.           
Price $75

more info


Pirates, Prostitutes and Pullers: Explorations in the Ethno- and Social History of Southeast Asia
By James Warren
University of Western Australia Press, 2008, 420p.  Price $39.95

more info

Colonising Poso: The Diary of Controleur Emile Gobee, June 1909-May 1910
By Emile Gobee, trans with introduction by Joost Cote
Monash Asia Institute, 2007, 86p.           
Price $9.95

more info

Indonesian Islam in a New Era: How Women Negotiate their Muslim Identities
By Susan Blackburn, Bianca Smith & Siti Syamsiyatun
Monash Asia Institute, 2008, 224p.           
Price $34.95

more info

Transnational Corporations and Local Firms in Developing Countries: Linkages and Upgrading
By Michael W. Hansen & Henrik Schaumburg-Muller
Copenhagen Business School Press,
2006, 398p.          Price $64

This book studies the organization and effects of linkages between transnational corporations mainly Danish and local firms in developing countries. It is based on a number of case studies of linkage collaborations and a survey of about ninety Danish firms and their relations to partners in developing countries. The analyzed host countries are Ghana, India, Malaysia, South Africa, and Vietnam. The book is a contribution to the emerging literature on firm strategy in developing countries, offering new empirical evidence of the multi-faceted and complex nature of cross-border inter-firm linkages. It documents how even small firms in both developed and developing countries engage in and can benefit from cross-border linkages.

more info

***These Marshall Cavendish Academic tittles below are on discount ***

Challenging Sustainability: Urban Development and Change in Southeast Asia
By Tai-Chee Wong, Brian Shaw & Kim-Chuah Goh
2006, 391p.   Price $23.40

more info

Chinese Indonesians: State Policy
By Leo Suryadinata
2004, 124p.  Price $13.20

more info

Frankie Sionil Jose: A Tribute
By Edwin Thumboo
2005, 287p.  Price $16.80

more info

The Naga Challenged: Southeast Asia in the Winds of Change
By Vicor Savage & May Mullins (Editors)
2005, 489p.  Price $21

more info


Re-thinking Administrative Reforms in Southeast Asia
By Ho Khai Leong (Editors)
2006, 235p.  Price $15.60

more info

Southeast Asia: Threats in the Security Environment
By Andrew T.H. Tan
2006, 285p.  Price: $19.20

more info

China and the ASEAN States: The Ethnic Chinese Dimension
By Leo Suryadinata
2005, 222p.  Price $16.80

more info

For ordering information, contact the International Specialized Book Services at orders@isbs.com or visit www.isbs.com
In This Issue
Pacific Disaster Center and UH in Viet Nam
Call for Papers
Scholarships
Publications on SEA
CSEAS Films

SEA Film Series
f-s-3

We had a successful year in which we screened 35 films in our weekly Wednesday series. We look forward to an exciting slate of films beginning in September, 2008. See you at the movies!
 
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa is one of nine National Resource Centers (NRCs) for the study of Southeast Asia as designated and funded by the United States Department of Education.