The Center
for Southeast Asian Studies
University of Hawaii at Manoa
25 November 2009
Issue: 93
Weekly Announcement

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Featured Events

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 Mānoa
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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CPS Fall Colloquium 2009 Free Film Screening - Ninoy Aquino and the Rise and Fall of People Power
Presented by the Center for Philippine Studies and the School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Korean Studies Auditorium, UH Mānoa
6:00 PM, Thursday, 3 December 2009
 
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.  It was one of the film entries at the 2009 Hawaii International Film Festival in Honolulu in October. 

contact cps@hawaii.edu

Sanit Khewhok receives Catharine E.B. Cox Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts

Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
Exhibition July - October 2010

Hailing from Thailand, Khewhok has been a respected member of the O'ahu art community for more than 20 years.  He earned a Diploma of Fine Arts from Silpakorn University in Bangkok, Thailand and went on to receive his Masters in Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Italy. 

view artist gallery

25th Southeast Asian Games
Vientiane, Laos
9 - 18 December 2009

The Southeast Asian Games (also known as the SEA Games), is a biennial multi-sport event involving participants from the current 11 countries of Southeast Asia.  The games will be broadcast live on 14 television channels.

more info

For SEA-related events nation-wide, see the SEA Event Calendar in sidebar.

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Open Positions & Fellowships

Featured Program - Advanced Study of Khmer (ASK) in Cambodia
Royal University of Phnom-Penh, Cambodia
14 June - 6 August 2010

This program with one week home-stays in rural of Cambodia provides 3rd year Khmer students with a "one-of-a-kind" opportunity to acquire the linguistic foundation necessary to engage in academic research, professional discourse, and cultural immersion with all segments of Khmer society.

more info | Deadline: 1 March 2010

Additional Advanced Language Programs:
Advanced Filipino Abroad Program (AFAP)
De La Salle University at Dasmariñas
11 June - 7 August 2010
more info | Deadline: 8 February 2010

Advanced Study of Thai Abroad (AST) 
Consortium Advanced Study of Thai Abroad
Chiang Mai University, Thailand
21 June - 13 August 2010
more info | Deadline: 1 February 2010

Vietnamese Advanced Summer Institute (VASI)
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
14 June to 6 August 2010
more info | Deadline: 1 February 2010

Legal Advisor (Tracking Code: 2009035)
The Asia Foundation
Dili, EAST TIMOR

The Legal Advisor will be primarily responsible for providing technical and coordination support for the Access to Justice Program's paralegal component with the goal to increase access to free quality legal aid services for Timor-Leste citizens, including vulnerable groups such as women, youth and rural populations.

more info | Deadline: 27 November 2009

Program Specialist - Disaster Risk Reduction
International Institute of Risk Reduction
Silang, Cavite, PHILIPPINES

The Program Specialist, Disaster Risk Reduction provides technical leadership in conceptualizing, developing and innovating model propositions in disaster risk reduction and climate change mitigation.

more info | Deadline: 30 November 2009

Communications and Outreach Officer
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
APEC Secretariat, SINGAPORE

Based in Singapore, the APEC Secretariat is looking for a suitable candidate to join its dynamic Communications and Public Affairs team as its Communications and Outreach Officer.

more info | Deadline: 30 November 2009

Open Positions (Multiple)
Management Systems International (MSI)
Regional Office, INDONESIA

MSI seeks candidates for several open positions -including Deputy Chief of Party, Grants Manager, and Parliamentary Specialist- as part of a five-year project funded by USAID.  NOTE: local position only; Indonesian citizenship required.

more info | Deadline: 4 December 2009

Programme Officer, Regional Protected Areas Programme
International Union for Conservation of Nature Asia Regional Office, Bangkok, THAILAND

The Programme Officer focuses on implementation of a range of projects within RPAP's current project portfolio and works with the RPAP Coordinator to develop new programme opportunities across the Asian Region within the framework of the results identified within IUCN Asia's Intersessional Programme 2009- 2012.

more info | Deadline: 11 December 2009

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Call for Submissions

C
reating and Consuming Asian Cuisines: Food, Memory, and Place

UCLA Asia Institute, Los Angeles, CA
2 May 2010

UCLA Asia Institute invites UCLA graduate students whose research interests focus on food in a variety of contexts related to Asia or to Asian culture in Los Angeles to participate in a discussion forum as part of the Asia Institute's second annual Asia in LA program.

contact eleicester@international.ucla.edu
| Deadline: 30 November 2009

Diasporas - Exploring Critical Issues
Mansfield College, Oxford University, UK
7 - 9 July 2010

This inter- and multi-disciplinary project seeks to explore the contemporary experience of Diasporas - communities who conceive of themselves as a national, ethnic, linguistic or other form of cultural and political construction of collective membership living outside of their 'home lands.'

more info | Deadline: 15 January 2010

KL Photo Awards: Portrait Stories
Kuala Lampur, MALAYSIA
2010

The 2010 KL Photoawards is open to all photographers, Professional and Amateurs.  First place prize winners receive US$2500 and the 'A/D Man' trophy commissioned from UK sculptor Matt Richards.

more info | Deadline: 31 March 2010

Best Paper on Indonesia or Timor-Leste
Association for Asian Studies
Philadelphia, PA

The Indonesia and East Timor Studies Committee on the Assoication for Asian Studies is pleased to announce the first annual competition for a prize to be awarded to the best paper presented at the annual AAS meeting in March 2010.

more info | Deadline: 12 April 2010

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


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SEA Resources

Free Online Courses at NIU CSEAS

Mahalo to our friends at the Northern Illinois University Center for Southeast Asian Studies for posting these free, not-for-credit courses:


Special Issue

Southeast Asian Diasporas: Memory, Nostalgia and the Representation/Recreation of Homelands
Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (Vol. 19, No. 2)
SEAP, Northern Illinois University, 2009

After 26 years in print, Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies is ceasing publication with the forthcoming Vol. 19, No. 2, a special issue on Southeast Asian diasporas, edited by Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen.  A limited number of complete sets of the journal are available for sale at the discounted price of $300 plus postage (a $200 savings over individual back-copy prices).

more info


Featured McFarland Publications

SEAResource_ThompsonRefugee Workers in the Indochina Exodus, 1975-1982
Larry Clinton Thompson
McFarland & Co, 2010
more info





SEAResources_PoolePolitics and Society in Southeast Asia
Peter A. Poole
McFarland & Co, 2009
more info







SEAResources_ThaoThe Mong Oral Tradition: Cultural Memory in the Absence of Written Language
Yer J. Thao
McFarland & Co, 2006
more info





SEAResources_CoatesCambodia Now: Life in the Wake of War
Karen J. Coates
McFarland & Co, 2005
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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Featured Events
Open Positions & Fellowships
Call for Submissions
SEA Resources
CSEAS Admissions
CSEAS Alumni
Explorations - Online
Film Series
Speaker Series
Resource Links
National Resource Center Calendar of Events
SEA Disaster Relief
2010 AAS
CSEAS Admissions
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Thinking about a graduate degree in Southeast Asia?  Check out the CSEAS site for program deadlines and updates.

NEW - Download Spring 2010 SEA course list 
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CSEAS Alumni
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We want to hear from you!  Help us build our CSEAS community through mentorship opportunities, project updates and more.  Contact CSEAS for more information. 
Explorations - Online
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Explorations, the graduate student journal for Southeast Asian studies, is now available online.
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SEA Film Series returns tonight at 6:30 PM, 25 November 2009 with the Thai Film, the Love of Siam (รักแห่งสยาม), in the Korean Studies Auditorium.  Join the SEA Film Series listserv for more info.

Speaker Series
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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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SEA Event Calendar

NOV 30
12:15 PM CDT
Thai Language Table @ University of Wisconsin - Madison
more info


DEC 2
12:00 PM EST
Brown Bag Lecture Series
- "Avoiding the Middle-Income Trap: Addressing Key Development Priorities in a Post-Crisis Vietnam" @ Yale University
more info

12:15 PM PST
Noon Concert -
Gamelan @ University of California - Berkeley
more info

7:30 PM EST
Film Screening - "Journey from the Fall [Vượt Sóng]" @ Cornell University
more info

4:00 PM PST
Lecture - "Colonial Hotels in the Asian City: Travel, Empire and Nostalgia" @ University of California - Berkeley
more info

DEC 3
4:00 PM CDT
Indonesian Language Table @ University of Wisconsin - Madison
more info

DEC 4
12:00 PM CDT
Friday Forum
-  From Rebels to Soldiers: Interrogating the Integration of Moro National Liberation Front and Falintil Combatants into the Philippine and East Timorese Armed Forces @ University of Wisconsin - Madison
more info

12:00 PM CDT
AIDS and Older Persons in the Era of ART: Evidence from Thailand @ University of Michigan
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)

full schedule
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.