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for Southeast Asian Studies
University of Hawaii at Manoa
18 November 2009
Issue: 92
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Featured Events

Attention UHM CSEAS Students - Spring 2010 Course Schedule Now Available! 

Download SEA Course List from CSEAS website here.  Enjoy!


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75th Anthropology Anniversary Colloquium Series Fall 2009 -
Museums, Anthropology and the Work of Culture in Contemporary Vietnam: The Politics of Memory in the Exhibit "Hanoi Life under the Subsidy Era" at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology


Margaret Bodemer, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Crawford 105, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
3:00 PM, Thursday, 19 November 2009

A recent exhibit at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology (VME) titled "Hanoi Life under the Subsidy Era" enlisted Hanoi residents - "ordinary citizens" - to document and discuss their experiences through a critical period in recent Vietnamese history.  The presentation explores Vietnamese ethnology and museums in the context of shifting visions of Vietnam from a colony without an indigenous civilization to a modern, independent, multi-ethnic nation state.

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Center for Philippine Studies Colloquium Series Fall 2009 -
Shifting Insider and Outsider Perspectives: Variant Identities of Sama Kulintang Music of Tawi-Tawi
Bernard Ellorin, Ph.D. Student in Ethnomusicology and 2008 Ligaya Fruto Fellowship Awardee
Tokioka Room, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
12:00 - 1:30 PM, Thursday, 19 November 2009

The Sama are a maritime ethno-linguistic group consisting of sub-groups with cultural identities distinct from one another.  The Sama kulintangan tradition and its music plays a major influence in cultural variation within this southern Philippine Islamized group.


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Events_IEW2009International Education Week 2009 Continues
Nationwide
16 - 20 November 2009

International Education Week is a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. In honor of International Education Week, CSEAS will be screening a special movie as part of its SEA Film Series on Wednesday, 18 November 2009 at 6:30 PM in the Center for Korean Studies Auditorium. 

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Of Geckos and Crocodiles: Analyzing Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Efforts
Michael Buehler, Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern Southeast Asian Studies 
USINDO Washington, D.C.
2:00 - 3:30 PM, Monday, 23 November 2009

This talk will evaluate the country's anti-corruption program of recent years, and outline the challenges that are likely to arise in the future. It will also compare Indonesia's KPK to similar programs in countries such as Hong Kong and Singapore.

RSVP to program@usindo.org | more info

Events_BabadUHM Music Series - Babad Alas Mrentani (The Opening of Mrentani Forest)
Presented by Javanese Wayang Kulit (Shadow Puppet Theatre, UH Gamelan Ensemble)
Orvis Auditorium, UH at Manoa
7:30 PM, Saturday, 28 November 2009

Master puppeteer Widiyanto joins the UH Gamelan Ensemble to present a wayang kulit performance in celebration of the 75th birthday of the ensemble's founding director, Hardja Susilo. The story will be told in both Javanese and English and accompanied by a full gamelan orchestra.


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UH Libraries Closed During Winter Interim
Systemwide
20 December 2009 - 10 January 2010

During these periods when the Library is closed, services will be unavailable, including borrowing, delivery, interlibrary loan, and telephone inquiries.  If you have interlibrary loan requests that need to be filled before the Winter Interim or during the first few weeks of Spring Semester, please make these requests by 4 December 2009.

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For SEA-related events nation-wide, see the SEA National Resource Center Calendar in sidebar.

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Open Positions & Fellowships

Featured Program - Advanced Filipino Abroad Program

De La Salle University at Dasmariñas
11 June - 7 August 2010

This program is a highly intensive eight-week program offered to students with at least intermediate level study of Filipino (Tagalog) language (or the equivalent). An applicant must be a graduate student, or a junior or senior in an institution of higher education at the time of the 2010 AFAP Program, and a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.

more info | Deadline: 8 February 2010


Associate/Professor (t/t), Department of History
Lingan University, HONG KONG
Begins mid-August 2010 (Three Year Contract)

All applicants should have a PhD degree in the discipline of History or Area Studies, complemented by a record of teaching experience and research commensurate with rank based on international standards.

more info | Deadline: through mid-November 2009


Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program
(FY) 2010

The Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language (UISFL) program provides grants to strengthen and improve undergraduate instruction in international studies and foreign languages.

more info | Deadline: 17 December 2009

Professor, International Security Studies
Air War College, Alabama, USA
Begins 12 July 2010

A regional specilization is also required, with expertise in Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia (including China), or post-Communist Europe (including Russia) being highly desirable. The position is an Administratively Determined (AD) civil service position.

more info | Deadline: 6 January 2010

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Call for Submissions

Featured NRC Conference - UC Berkeley and UCLA Joint Conference on Southeast Asian Studies: Space, Movement and Place in Southeast Asia
University of California, Berkeley, USA
2 - 3 April 2010

Spatial relations in Southeast Asia have long underpinned, stimulated and framed key works on political organization in the region, from Stanley Tambiah's 'galactic polity' to to Thongchai Winichakul's 'geo-body' to Benedict Anderson's 'imagined communities' to James C. Scott's 'zomia.' This conference proposes to re-examine these formulations, while exploring new research and new understandings about space, landscape and human impact in Southeast Asia.

more info | Deadline: 19 January 2010

International Seminar - Contextualizing Geographical approaches to Studying Gender in Asia
University of Delhi, INDIA
3 - 5 March 2010

Apart from providing a forum for Asian geographers to critically examine the contexts that shape their work on gender, the seminar also aims to initiate a productive dialogue between them and other Asian feminists as well as those based overseas.

more info | Deadline: November 2009

International WorkshopMarital Dissolution in Asia
Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore (NSU)
6 - 7 May 2010

In the less wealthy countries of Asia, divorce rates have varied tremendously in the past, from very low rates in South Asian countries to very high rates in the Malay-Muslim populations of Southeast Asia. It is only when the traditional marriage and kinship systems in these countries are understood, along with the pressures under which they are placed by social and economic developments, that trends in divorce can be understood.

more info | Deadline: 23 November 2009

Chotro Three Conference - Local Knowledge - Global Translations: The Imagination & the Images of Indigenous Communities in the Twenty-First Century
Bhasha Research and Publications Centre in Vadodara; Delhi & Shimla, INDIA
11 - 16 September 2010

As the Bhili tribal term 'chotro' implies, the aim is to 'bring toghether' writers, artists and scholars from all over the world interested in languages, literatures, cultures, histories and movements of the indigenous peoples of the post-colonial world.

more info | Deadline: 30 November 2009

Call for Articles - Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies
Third World Studies Center, University of the Philippines - Diliman
2010 Issues

Kasarinlan is an internationally refereed
journal published twice a year and provides a forum for critical and interdisciplinary perspectives on the Philippines and the Third World with special reference to political economy. The manuscript must strictly follow the Chicago Manual of Style.

more info | Deadline: 31 December 2009


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SEA Resources

SEA Cinema

SEAResources_NinoyDocUH Screening - Ninoy Aquino and the Rise and Fall of People Power
Center for Korean Studies Auditorium
6:00 PM, December 3, 2009, Thursday

Veteran filmmaker Tom Coffman produced this documentary on the late Filipino opposition leader, Ninoy Aquino, after doing research in the Philippines, Hawaii and US mainland.  After premiering at this year's HIFF, it will be shown again at UH Manoa.

more info

11th Jakarta International Film Festival
Jakarta, Indonesia
4 - 12 December 2009

The Society of Indonesian Films was established in Jakarta at the beginning of 1999 by several young Indonesian filmmakers & JIFFest, concerned about the future of the local film industry.  This year's opening night selection is Sang Pemimpi (The Dreamers), the sequel to Laskar Pelangi (The Rainbrow Troops).

more info
| watch festival trailer

6th SEA Film Show - My Dear ASEAN
Southeast Asian Studies Program, Thammasat University, Tha Prachan Campus, Thailand
Through 4 December 2009


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On the occasion of its 10th Anniversary, the Southeast Asian Studies Program will hold a Southeast Asian Film Show every Friday and Saturday through 4 December 2009. 

November screenings include:
20 November - Laskar Pelangi (Rainbow Warriors)/Dir. Riri Riza
21 November - Journey From the Fall/Dir. Ham Tran & Gardien de Buffles (Buffalo Boy)/Dir. Minh Nguyen-Vo
27 November - Lelaki Komunis/Dir. Amir Muhammad
28 November - Long Road to Heaven/Dir. Enison Sinaro

more info

6th Annual Bahama International Film Festival
Nassau, Bahamas
10 - 17 December 2009

The Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF) is committed to providing the local community and International festival goers with a diverse presentation of films from The Bahamas and around the world.  Here are two SEA-related films playing at the Festival:

Guerilla Midwife (Indonesia, 2008)
This documentary follows Ibu Robin Lim into the trenches of her work - from Bali, where hemorrhage after childbirth is a leading cause of death, into the Tsunami disaster zone in Aceh, where her battle is fought with love. more info

The Rapture of Fe (Philippines, 2009)
This fantastical drama follows the life and loves of Fe, a married overseas worker from Singapore forced home due to the global financial crisis. Between an abusive husband, impotent lover, and tree ogre (!!!), who and how will Fe choose?  more info

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SEA Publications

SEAResource_GenderPluralismGender Pluralism: Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times
Peletz, Michael
Routledge, 2009

more info





SEAResource_InTheCrossfireChinese Houses of Southeast Asia: The Eclectic Architecture of Sojourners and Settlers

Knapp, Ronald G.; Ong, A. Chester, photographer
Tuttle Publishing, 2010
more info



SEAResource_CrossfireIn the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary

Van, Ngo; Knabb, Ken and Hélène Fleury, eds
AK Press, 2010
more info




SEAResource_IslamSEAIslam and Politics in Southeast Asia - Routledge Malaysian Studies Series
Saravanamuttu, Jonah
Routledge, 2010
more info






SEAResource_ReligiousBoumaReligious Diversity in Southeast Asia and the Pacific: National Case Studies
Bouma, Gary D, Rod Ling and Douglas Pratt
Springer, 2010
more info



For more SEA Publications, search UH Press site

For more SEA resources online, see the SEA Resource Links in sidebar


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Explorations - Online
Film Series
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Explorations, the graduate student journal for Southeast Asian studies, is now available online.
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Now accepting participants for the Fall 2009 Speaker Series. Contact CSEAS with your abstract and CV. Listen to the Spring 2009 Series podcasts.
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National Resource Center Calendar

NOV 19
12:00 PM EST
SEAP Brown Bag Lecture Series
- "The Emergence of Asian regional marriage market and commercial match making industry: the case between Korea and Vietnam" @ Cornell University
more info

NOV 20
12:00 PM CDT
"Nibbāna Now or Never?" Vipassanā and the Weikza-lam: Two Competing Soteriologies in Contemporary Burmese Buddhism @ University of Wisconsin - Madison
more info

5:00 PM EST

Film Screening - "Don't Burn It, It's Already on Fire" (Đừng đốt, trong đó đã có lửa) @ Cornell University
more info


7:00 PM PST
Film - Screening "Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country" @ University of California - Los Angeles
more info


NOV 22
6:00 PM EST
Kamayan 2009: Iron Chef Philippines @ Cornell University
more info

NOV 23
12:15 PM CDT
Thai Language Table @ University of Wisconsin - Madison
more info

Disaster Relief


2010 Annual Meeting - Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
25 - 28 March 2010

The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Program Committee has prepared the following list of 282 panels and roundtables for the 2010 Meeting in Philadelphia. For your convenience, we've listed SEA-related panels below:

Thursday, 25 March
4. Banishing Acts: Exile, Identity and Connectivity across Colonial South and Southeast Asia (Penny Edwards, University of California, Berkeley)
10. Roundtable: Some Effective Approaches to Teaching and Analyzing Poetry - Sponsored by the Committee on Teaching Southeast Asian Languages (Robert J. Bickner, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
11. Red, White, and Green? Islam in Indonesian National Politics and Political Culture (James B. Hoesterey, Stanford University)

Friday, 26 March
31. Inner Flows and Fusions: Mapping Musical Dynamism in East and Southeast Asia (Eun-Young Jung, University of California, San Diego)
37. Democracy and Identity in Southeast Asia (Jacques Bertrand, University of Toronto)
38. Transgendering and Transgressive Meanings in South East Asia (Mark Johnson, University of Hull)
39. Center for Lao Studies' New Research on Contemporary Laos (Vinya Sysamouth, Center for Lao Studies)
40. Roundtable: The GMA Presidency and Its Legacy (David Timberman, USAID)
61. Local and National in Contemporary Policymaking in Southeast Asia: Environment and Energy Policy, Natural Resources Husbandry, Journalistic Norms, and Economic Management (Alasdair Bowie, George Washington University)
62. Who's Who? Rethinking Marginal Intellectuals in Late Colonial Vietnam (Martina T. Nguyen, University of California, Berkeley)
63. Buddhist Approaches to Violence: Narratives, Texts, and Doctrine (Jeffrey Samuels, Western Kentucky University)
64. Center for Lao Studies' New Research on Contemporary Laos II (Vinya Sysamouth, Center for Lao Studies)
79. Is Rule Change Real Change? Political Reforms in Southeast Asian Democracies (Dan Slater, University of Chicago)
88. New Perspectives on Southeast Asian Islam and the Middle East (Francis R. Bradley, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
89. Perspectives on Catholic Culture in Viet Nam, 1600-2009 (Nhung Tuyet Tran, University of Toronto)
113. Citizenship and Identity Issues in Contemporary Singapore: Political, Educational, Spatial, and Societal Perspectives (Yeow Tong Chia, University of Toronto)
114. Bringing Literature into the Study of Twentieth-Century Thai History (Michael J. Montesano, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies)
115. From Peace to Justice in Cambodia: Reconciliation and the Khmer Rouge Trials - Sponsored by the Southeast Asia Council (Caitlin N. Reiger, International Center for Transitional Justice)

Saturday, 27 March
140. Islam, Culture and Politics in Southeast Asia - Sponsored by the Indonesian and East Timor Studies Committee and the Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei Group (Timothy P. Daniels, Hofstra University)
141. Dangerous Histories in Southeast Asia: Disquieting Past - Sponsored by the Southeast Asia Council (Thongchai Winichakul, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
167. Dangerous Histories in Southeast Asia: Discomforting Narratives (Thongchai Winichakul, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
183. Presidential Roundtable: After Reformasi: Trends in Southeast Asian Muslim Politics and Culture (Robert W. Hefner, Boston University)
193. The Colonial City in a War of Decolonization: Socio-Cultural Approaches for a History of Saigon and Hanoi during the Indochina Conflict (1945-54) (Christopher E. Goscha, University of Quebec at Montreal)
194. Gendered Narratives of Islam in Indonesia: Performing Piety, Aurality, and Representation - Sponsored by the Indonesia and East Timor Studies Committee (Laurie M. Ross, University of California, Berkeley)
217. The Weave of Death: Funerary Cloths in Art and Ritual in Southeast Asian Buddhism - Sponsored by Thailand, Laos, Cambodia Studies (Erik W. Davis, Macalester College)
218. Political Islam and Electoral Behavior: Indonesia in Comparison (Jennifer L. Epley, University of Michigan)
219. Roundtable: United States Policy Toward Southeast Asia: Opportunities and Obstacles for the Obama Administration (Ann Marie Murphy, Seton Hall University)
220. Domestic Political Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam During the Late 1950s (Peter Zinoman, University of California, Berkeley)

Sunday, 28 March
243. Comparing Across Southeast Asia: Regional Patterns of Politics (Mark R. Thompson, University of Erlangen)
244. Roundtable: Ha Noi: A Thousand Years in the Embrace of the Red River - Sponsored by the Vietnam Studies Group (C. Michele Thompson, Southern Connecticut State University)
245. Roundtable: Burma/Myanmar: The 2010 Elections, the Constitution, Law, and Issues of the Distribution of Power and Legitimacy - Sponsored by the Burma Studies Group (David I. Steinberg, Georgetown University)
267. Dissecting Law, Sovereignty, and Citizenship in the Thai Polity (Eli A. Elinoff, University of California, San Diego)
268. Hidden Histories and Submerged Stories from Northwest Vietnam (Christian C. Lentz, Cornell University)
269. Individual Papers: Reflections on Contemporary Indonesian Studies (Justin T. McDaniel, University of Pennsylvania)

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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.