The Center
for Southeast Asian Studies
University of Hawaii at Manoa
03 December 2009
Issue: 94
Weekly Announcement

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Hawai'i

New Spring 2010 - THEA 334: Taiji for Actors I
MWF 8:30 - 9:20 AM (CRN: 83443)
Location: Music Building 116
Instructor: Patricia Leong

CCS and the Confucius Institute at the University of Hawaii at Manoa are happy to announce an introduction to the ancient art of training the mind, the body and the spirit.  No prerequisite.

contact (808) 956 - 7677 | more info


Music Series - It's a Grand Night for Singing!
Performed by UH Concert Choir; Chamber Singers (Director: Rachel Samet)
7:30 PM, Tuesday, 8 December 2009

Join the UH choirs for a diverse and exciting evening of choral music.  The concert will feature works by Mozart, Rachmaninoff and Britten, as well as music from Hawaiʻi, Samoa, the Phillipines, Africa, and India.

more info


Around the World

Featured Opportunity - Construction Delegates
Swiss Red Cross
Across Southeast Asia (Padang, West Sumatra, Manila and Central Vietnam)
6 - 9 month contract

The Swiss Red Cross (SRC) is involved in the planning and implementation of early recovery programmes in disaster affected countries of South-East Asia. The SRC is looking for experienced construction delegates for the programmes in Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam as soon as possible.  

email delegatesima@redcross.ch | Deadline: 25 December 2009

Developing Maritime Energy Resources in Asia Phase 1 Workshop: Energy Cooperation and Contestation in Maritime Asia
National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)
Bali, INDONESIA
3 - 5 December 2009

The conference will bring together the principle investigator and the members of the three research teams to discuss their work. They will be joined by the project's senior advisors as well as other experts.  Sponsored by MacArthur Foundation Asia Security Initiative.

more info

Free IlluminAsian Film Screening - THE BETRAYAL (NERAKHOON)
Legacies of War, P.O.V. (PBS nonfiction film series), Asian Arts Initiative (Philadelphia)
Chinatown, Philadelphia, PA

7:00 PM, Friday, 4 December 2009

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Filmed over 23 years, Oscar-nominated documentary film THE BETRAYAL (Nerakhoon) (2008) is the directorial debut of THAVISOUK PHRASAVATH.  Phrasvath's life serves as a metaphor for the far-reaching repercussions that are still felt from America's involvement in the Vietnam War. Screening at the Asian Arts Initiative followed by discussion with Channapha Khamvongsa, co-founder and executive director of Legacies of War.

facebook | trailer | more info

2009 Annual Parol Lantern Festival and Parade

San Francisco, CA
December 2009

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Month-long activities include parol-making workshop, parol contest, parade, entertainment, and this weekend's popular (free!) Pasko celebration at the Asian Art Museum

more info

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

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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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Educational Programs

Pub-Death091609Featured Program - Çudamani Gamelan & Dance Summer Institute
Bali, Indoneisa
27 June - 17 July 2010

Intensive study with 6 master artists and a team of 12 assisting teachers using pedagogy developed collaboratiavely by Ibu Ni Ketut Alit Arini, Bapak I Nyoman Cerita and Çudamani; lectures and demonstrations by internationally reknowned scholars and artists; observation of rehearsals, 'backstage' preparation and performances; and visits to sacred sites and ceremonies. Participants engage with Pengosekan's community of artists, well knows as weavers, painters, dancers and musicians.  NEW - Çudamani will also offer elective courses on the fine art of making masks, bamboo instruments and offerings.

more info | Deadline: 15 February 2010

Deadline Reminder - Next Generation Fellowship in Asian Affairs
National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)
June 2010 - May 2011

The Next Generation Fellowship is a post-master's degree program that is cultivating a new generation of Asian affairs specialists committed to and capable of bridging the gap between the best scholarly research and the pressing needs of U.S. foreign policy toward a rapidly changing Asia.

more info | Deadline: 15 January 2010

Advanced Language Study Programs
NEW - Advanced Indonesian Abroad (COTIM)
Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana
Salatiga, Indonesia
14 June - 15 August 2010

This project is Fulbright-funded and coordinated through the Southeast Asian Studies Program at Ohio University. For more information about the nine-week intensive Indonesian language program and to access appropriate application materials, please visit the COTIM website.

more info | Deadline: 16 February 2010


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 Khmer (ASK)
Royal University of Phnom-Penh, Cambodia
14 June - 6 August 2010
more info | Deadline: 1 March 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

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Call for Submissions

FEATURED - 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


The Global South: The 12th Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading Group
University of Florida
25 - 27 March 2010

This conference seeks to investigate the way developing countries have been referred to as the "Global South." This model encodes a regionalism upon developing or economically disadvantaged areas, given capital's political, cultural, and economic marginalization of them as primarily working-class or provincial places--tendencies that manifest from as early as the triangle trade and colonization to today's movement of manufacturing jobs and affective labor to Southeast Asia and Latin America. 

more info | Deadline: 22 January 2010

2nd Annual Workshop: Developing Indonesia
Nordic Indonesia Studies Network (NSN)
NIAS, COpenhagen 21-23 April 2010

There are many scholars focusing on Indonesia in the Scandinavian countries but they are often isolated within their countries and, sometimes, also within their research environments. This workshop will give these researchers a chance to meet and discuss ongoing projects.

email norindostudies@gmail.com | more info | Application Deadline: 19 February 2010

Migration Policies in South and Southeast and East Asia Deficiency and Efficiency Discourse
Department of Cultural Studies and Kwan Fong Cultural Research and Development Programme, Lingan University, Hong Kong
17 - 21 June 2010

Started in 1996 in Tampere, Finland, the Crossroads Conferences were to fill what was felt to be a gap in the international cultural studies community. Since then it had become one of the most important international conferences in cultural studies where scholars from all five continents get together to exchange their scholarly insights as well as to get in touch with different cultures.

more info | Deadline: 30 March 2010

4th Annual International Asian Cultural Studies Association (ACSA) Conference - The Visual Imagination: Across Boundaries
Bangkok, Thailand
1 - 3 November 2010

All proposals should be submitted to the conference organizers at acsaconference2010@gmail.com

more info | Deadline: 30 April 2010


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SEA Resources

Emerging SEA Filmmaker

Now Playing at Zero Film Fest - Baju
Singapore | 10 min | Short Narrative |
Dir. Muhammad Azhar Bin Mohamed Shukor

Baju is a commentary on the rivalry that exists between street gangs in the Malay community of Singapore.  The film narrates the story of two rival gang members entering the army to fulfill their national service.

Now Playing at Zero Film Festival
Sat | December 5 | 12:00 PM | Los Angeles 
Sat | December 12 | 3:30 PM | New York

more info

SEA Cinema

Festival International Du Film de Marrakech

Marrakech, MOROCCO
4 - 12 December 2009

Chaired by Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco, this year marks the 9th Marrakech International Film Festival.  SEA highlights include the Malaysian film My Daughter (directorial debut of Charlotte Lim Lay Kuen) and a review of Thai film from 2000 to the present in the exciting program, Glance at Thai Cinema.

more info

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

JiFFest starts with the opening film Sang Pemimpi and closes with New York, I Love You. In between, 25 countries are being represented in this SEA showcase of high quality films.

more info


Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival
Guangzhou, China
7 - 11 December 2009

SEA highlights include the Sarawak, Malaysia and UK collaboration, Manang Bali, and the moving Burmese documentary, Beyond the Light.

more info

Publications

A Man Like Him: Portrait of the Burmese Journalist, Journal Kyaw U Chit Maung
Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay
Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2009
more info





ChineseTradeChinese Trade Ceramics for Southeast Asia, From the I to XVII Century: Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Charles Muller
Monique Crick
5 Continents Editions, 2010
more info




CommunionCommunion: A Culinary Journey Through Vietnam
Kim Fay
Global Directions/Things Asian Press, 2010
more info






FemNatOn Feminism And Nationalism: Kartini's Letters to Stella Zeehandelaar 1899-1903
Joost Cote (Author), Kartini (Author), Gunawan Mohamad (Author)
Monash Asia Institute, 2005
more info


Pub-Death091609Indonesia Beyond the Water's Edge: Managing an Archipelagic State
Cribb and Ford, eds.
ISEAS, 2009
more info






FunstonDivided over Thaksin: Thailand's Coup and Problematic Transition

John Funston, ed.
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009
more info





TheresaBookGender Trends in Southeast Asia: Women Now, Women in the Future

Theresa W. Devasahayam, ed.
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies,
2009
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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SEA Disaster Relief
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SEA Event Calendar

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


DEC 5
6:00 PM CDT
Singapore Food Festival @ University of Michigan
more info

8:00 PM PST
Jody Diamond and Gamelan Pacifica @ Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle
more info


DEC 7 - 12
The Allure of Refinement: Music and Dance of Indonesia
Location @ The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
more info

DEC 8
8:00 PM EST
Cornell Gamelan Ensemble Winter Concert @ Cornell University
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.