The Center
for Southeast Asian Studies
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Sept. 17, 2008
Issue: 44
Announcements

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ScholarSpace: Building a Southeast Asian Digital Collection at UH Libraries

Presented by
Beth Tillinghast
ScholarSpace Project Manager
Rohayati Paseng
Southeast Asia Specialist Librarian
Margaret Barnhill Bodemer, Co-Editor of Explorations and Ph.D. candidates in Anthropology
Clare Chan, Assistant, Asia Collection

The Library at the University of Hawaii is championing ScholarSpace, an on-line service for storing all sorts of information (e.g., articles, dissertations, publications, slide shows, images, digital collections and audio and video clips) on a long term basis!  It's an easy-to-use web-based system that gives users a permanent home for their data without technical worries.

The discussants will describe how to set up a ScholarSpace institutional repository here at the University of Hawaii, the technical ins-and-outs of workflow and meta-data and the Open Access movement behind free, immediate, permanent, full-text, online access to academic material. The discussants will use as a case study setting up a Scholar Space digital collection for Explorations, a UH graduate student journal on Southeast Asian Studies.

Friday, September 19, 2008
12:00 - 1:15 p.m.
Tokioka Room, Moore 319
University of Hawaii at Manoa

Sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. For more information, please contact us at (808)956-2688 or <cseas@hawaii.edu>
Apsarases in Art & Literature
New Asia Collection Exhibit
Hamilton Library, 4th floor
September 8 - October 31, 2008

From the Rgveda in India, ca. 1200-900 BCE, to the opening ceremony "fei tian" dance of the Olympics in China, 2008, apsarases have held an enduring place in the imaginations of storytellers and artists all across Asia.  Likewise, scholars have been intrigued by the striking similarities between the legends of these Asian flying, female, sky/water deities and those of Western "swan-maidens."
 
The current Asia Collection exhibit features photographs of stone-carved apsarases at three temples in Cambodia (Angkor Wat, Ta Prohm, and Bantey Srei) and includes displays of artistic and literary representations in books and library resources for further research.

Come, see, and marvel at apsarases from all over Asia!

more info
Sexuality and Ethnicity: Issues from a Philippine Perspective

Presented by
Lilia Quindoza Santiago
Assistant Professor of Ilokano,
Department of Indo-Pacific Languages, UHM

This talk will attempt to deal with some very specific questions on the interconnections/intersections and contradictions of sexuality and ethnicity in the Philippine/Filipino context. The speaker will try to probe into fundamental questions like: (1) when sexuality discourses challenge long-held ethnic traditions, customs, and beliefs are there appropriate measures to be undertaken to keep ethnic identities at least stable and at most respectable? And, (2) when ethnic mores, traditions and beliefs endanger the reproductive health of peoples, or the environment can there be change or transformation of these beliefs without resorting to what may in the long run be "ethnic cleansing" or the extermination of these communities because their very own survival may depend on these "unhealthy" traditions, customs and practices.

This presentation will use mostly Philippine materials from Philippine experiences and perspectives and will discuss many evolving patterns of social and sexual life among selected and thriving ethnic and ethno-linguistic communities In the Philippines and in Hawaii.

Lilia Quindoza Santiago is author of several books including Sexuality and the Filipina (2007) published by the University of the Philippines Press. Before joining the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Dr. Santiago was full professor of Filipino and Philippine Literature at UP, a distinguished writer who has won literary awards for her essays, poems, and fiction. She was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar to Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia in 2005.

Friday, September 19, 2008
12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Saunders 244
University of Hawaii at Manoa

This event is co-sponsored by the Women's Studies Department and the Center for Philippine Studies. For more informatio, contact Professor Aya Kimura at <kimuraa@hawaii.edu>
Saman Dance from Aceh

Eighteen performers will present traditional dances from the Autonomous Territory of Aceh, Indonesia, the area of Sumatra island devastated by the earthquake and tsunami of 2004.

Thursday, October 23, 2008
8:00 - 9:15 p.m.
Imin Center - Jefferson Hall
East-West Center
Tickets available from October 9

more info
Open Positions and Fellowships 

Lecturer in Indonesian Studies
University of Sydney

more info | Deadline: October 8, 2008


Assistant Professor in Asian Modernities
Asian Institute & Deparments of Sociology or East Asian Studies, University of Toronto

more info | Deadline: October 15, 2008


Postdoctoral Position in Thai Studies
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
University of Wisconsin

more info | Deadline: October 15, 2008


Assistant Director Positions
Viet Nam Assistantce for Handicapped, Washington D.C.

more info | Deadline: October 15, 2008


Program Assistant (Fulbright)
U.S. Embassy, Viet Nam

more info | Deadline: September 23, 2008


Pre- and Post-doctoral Fellowships
Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
Academy Scholar Program

more info | Deadline: October 10, 2008
Call for Papers 

Pancasila's Contemporary Appeal: Re-legitimizing Indonesia's Founding Ethos
The Second International Yale Indonesia Forum Interdisciplinary Conference
Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
July 1-2, 2009

more info | Deadline: March 1, 2009


In Between Citizenship: Southeast Asians Refugees, Deportees, and Trafficked Victims
Association for Asian American Studies Panel
Honolulu, Hawaii
April 22-26, 2008

more info | Deadline: October 1, 2008
In This Issue
CSEAS Brownbag
New Asian Collection
Women's Studies Colloquium
Saman Dance from Aceh
Open Positions and Fellowships
Call for Papers
CSEAS Films

SEA Film Series
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Now in its fifth year!

In Fall 2008, the Center's popular Southeast Asian Film Series will include Muro-Ami (Philippines), White Silk Dress (Vietnam), Aloha (Malaysia/Singapore),
Quickie Express (Indonesia) in addition to other films from Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and the Philippines! 
 
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.