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Featured Updates
Hawai'i
CSEAS Spring 2010 Event: The Khmer Rouge Tribunal - Cambodia's Search for Justice Director: Elisa Hoven Tokioka Room, UH Mānoa 12:00 PM, Tuesday, 12 January 2010
With international attention on the Khmer Rouge tribunal, this timely documentary interviews two survivors of the Pol Pot regime and addresses major questions faced by the court today. After seeing the film, students are invited to discuss the challenges of international criminal law and its importance for Cambodia's national reconciliation.
Featured Spring 2010 Course - PLAN 752: Filmmaking for Social Research and Planning R 1:30 - 4:15 (CRN: 84050)
Instructor: Mike Douglass with Vera Zembonelli & Henry Mochida, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Saunders Hall 116, UH Mānoa
Plan 752 combines lectures, studio workshops and course projects on social research through digital film and online media. Its purpose is to equip students with filmmaking as a method of research and planning. No prior experience required.
email instructor | more info
UH International Cultural Studies Capstone Forum - Origins or Destination? Nostalgia and Yasmin Ahmad's (Re)Imagination of an Ideal Malaysia Presented by Mei Li Siaw, M.A. Candidate, English Burns Hall 4005, UH Mānoa 10:00 AM, Friday, 11 December 2009
Siaw addresses the
dialectical relationship between Yasmin's work and government-led
ethnosocial engineering, Islamization, and cultural obscurantism in
Malaysia.
more info
3rd Annual Pasko sa FilCom FilCom Center, Waipahu, HI 2:00 - 7:00 PM, Sunday, 13 December 2009

The
celebration includes various activities such as Filipino delicacies
cooking demonstration, entertainment, children games, Christmas carol, Parol (filipino lantern) and Christmas tree contest and a lot more. It's free and open to the public
make your own parol | more info
Update - UH Library Hours Hamilton and Sinclair Libraries, UH Mānoa 4 - 8 January 2010
Hamilton and Sinclair libraries will be open with limited services during the third week of the Winter Interim. General collections, music collections and the ITS/Library computer lab will be available, as well as shortened hours at the Business Window.
Ask-a-Librarian Live Chat (24/7) | more info
Around the World
Madani Islamic Film Festival Presented by Jakarta International Film Festival and RumahFilm.org Jakarta, INDONESIA 5 - 12 December 2009
Since the first time JIFFest was held, Islamic-themed films have always had their places in the line-ups. Islam remains one of the widely discussed subjects around the world, and films about Islam that come from both Islam-dominated countries and non-dominated ones continue to draw interests among JIFFest audiences. This year, JIFFest is proud to introduce Madani Film Festival, a special film festival on films about Islam from around the world. The select international films in this festival are those that touch on the lives of Muslims around the world. The films will ideally expand and enhance general public knowledge on different sides of Muslim life unlikely displayed or heard in other media. The festival is co-organized by Rumah Film.
more info
Reception for Efren PeƱaflorida Jr., CNN Hero & Philippines 21 Fellow Hosted by Asia Society and Maraming Bayani Foundation Tower Club, Makati City, Manila, PHILIPPINES 7:30 PM, Friday, 11 December 2009
Prior to
being named CNN Hero, Efren was one of Asia Society Philippines
Center's selected Fellows for the Philippines 21 Young Leaders
Initiative Class of 2009. The event is also a pledge for donations for
Efren's Dynamic Teen company and his kariton classroom.
more info
EWC Asia Pacific Democracy & Human Rights Seminar - Land Rights in Cambodia: and Dimension of Human Insecurity East-West Center, Washington D.C. 2:00 PM, Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Dr. Sokbunthoeun So and discussant Dr. John Bruce will examine the
state of land ownership in Cambodia, discussing the Cambodian
government's poor technical expertise in land management as well as the
underlying political economic conditions that threaten land ownership
for Cambodia's poor.
RSVP at (202) 327-9751 | more info
EWC Asia Pacific Security Seminar - An Interim Assessment of Evolving U.S.-Burma/Myanmar Relations East-West Center, Washington D.C. 12:30 PM, Thursday, 17 December 2009
Professor David I. Steinberg will introduce his book, Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know, giving an
assessment of the current state of U.S.-Burma relations, detailing the
situation within the country, and describing the challenges that lie
ahead for global engagement with Burma/Myanmar.
RSVP at (202) 327-9751 | more info For SEA-related events nation-wide, see the SEA Event Calendar in sidebar.
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Fellowships & Scholarships
Jennings Randal Peace Scholarship Dissertation Program U.S. Institute of Peace, Washington D.C. Begins September 2010 (10-months) Stipend: US$20,000
The Jennings Randolph (JR) Program for International Peace awards nonresidential Peace Scholar Dissertation Scholarships
to students at U.S. universities who are writing doctoral dissertations
on topics related to peace, conflict, and international security.
more info | Deadline: 5 January 2010 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modern Southeast Asia Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY July or September 2010 (10- or 12-months) Stipend: US$44,000, plus benefits
The Fellow will devote half time to his or her own research and will teach one graduate-level course on Southeast Asia per semester. Candidates from all social science disciplines, including history, are welcome to apply. more info | Deadline: 6 January 2010 Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) Research conducted with participating ORC s(includes Center for Khmer Studies) Stipend: US$10,000
Scholars must carry out research in two or more countries
outside the United States, at least one of which hosts a participating
American
overseas research center. Given changing travel restrictions
and/or security warnings to many countries, applicants should
contact CAORC before preparing
a proposal.
more info | Deadline: 15 January 2010
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Employment Opportunities
Senior Adviser, Human Resources and Capacity Development, Dili Government of Timor-Leste Begins 11 July 2011
The Ministry of Finance of the Government of the Democratic Republic of
Timor-Leste is looking to recruit a Senior Adviser Internal Reform,
Capacity Building and TA Coordination for its Planning and Financial
Management Capacity Building Program (PFMBP).
more info | Deadline: 11 December 2009
Country Director - Myanmar OxFam Great Britain 2 year Contract
OxFam Great Britain seeks a dynamic individual to provide strategic
direction and leadership of the country programme in Myanmar.
more info| Deadline: 3 January 2010
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) - Applied Cultural Anthropology Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology, Eastern Michigan University Begins Fall 2010
Candidates with applied ethnographic field research in Africa,
Asia, Europe or the Middle East, and topical specialties best
complementing those of current faculty are encouraged to apply.
more info | Deadline: 15 January 2010
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) - Asian Studies and Culture Department of Cultural Studies, University of Massachusetts at Lowell Begins 1 September 2010
Applicants with strengths in study of the cultural practices of everyday life or issues of postcolonial identity are encouraged to apply. PhD and three years of college-level teaching experience are required.
more info | Deadline: 25 January 2010
For more networking opportunities, join the LinkedIn CSEAS Alumni and Community Group
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Educational Programs
3rd Annual East-West Center Summer Institute for International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Bali and Aceh, INDONESIA Summer 2010
This two-week workshop is designed for participants working across a broad range of fields and disciplines related to International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and human rights. The workshop is best suited to people working within the Asia Pacific region or with an Asia Pacific focus. Participants from Southeast Asia are strongly encouraged to apply.
more info | Deadline: 1 January 2010
2010 Semester Teacher Assistant Program AFS Intercultural Programs MALAYSIA and THAILAND Begins Summer 2010
Community service, gap year and teacher assistant (TA) programs available in Malaysia and Thailand for Summer 2010. TAs work 15 class periods per week and become actively involved in the host school and AFS sponsored activities.
Malaysia | Thailand | general info | Deadline: 8 January 2010
Diversity Project: Understanding the Origins of High Marine Biodiversity in the Coral Triangle International Integrative Undergraduate Research Program for Under-represented Students Bali, INDONESIA Summer 2010 Stipend: US$4000, plus housing and expenses
Students will join a research team comprised of Dr. Barber, Dr. Kent Carpenter and an international tea.m of faculty, postdocs, and graduate students. Students will participate in field work in Indonesia, Malaysia or the Philippines.
more info | Deadline: 15 January 2010
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Call for Submissions
4th International Malaysia-Thailand Conference on Southeast Asian Studies: Re-examining Interdependent Relations in Southeast Asia Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 25 - 26 March 2010
The specific aims of the conference are: to promote cross border discourse on issues of shared interest and goals; to re-examine the concept of interdependence in Southeast Asia context; to deliberate on the issues and challenges and their relation to the concept of interdependence in Southeast Asia
more info | Deadline: 12 December 2009
7th Annual ASLI Conference - Law in a Pluralist Asia: Challenges and Prospects ASLI
(Asian Law Institute) and the Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws,
International Islamic University Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA 25 - 26 May 2010
Asia is arguably the most pluralist region in the world and law has a
critical role in accommodating and managing this plurality, which
exists at so many levels. There will be five parallel sessions that
focus on selected sub-themes.
more info | Deadline: 8 January 2010
20th Anniversary Meeting of Southeast Asian Linguists Society Department of General Linguistics, University of Zurich, SWITZERLAND 10 - 11 June 2010
Abstracts
are invited for papers on any topic related to the analysis of
Southeast Asian languages, such as descriptive, theoretical, or
historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology (ethnolinguistics,
language attitudes and ideology, discourse and conversational analysis,
language and gender, language and politics), language planning,
literacy and bilingual education. more info | Deadline: 15 February 2010
5th Annual Conference on Southeast Asian Studies - Transnational, National and Local Approaches to Human Security in South-East Asia Society of South-East Asian Studies
Vienna, Austria
28 - 29 May 2010
This conference aims to cover the discourse on Human Security approaches in South-East Asia and their implementation
effects through case studies. A third panel is held open to give
especially young scholars an opportunity to present their current
research on South-East Asia.
more info | Deadline: 8 March 2010
6th EuroSEAS Conference - Panel on Popular Literature of Southeast Asia School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, SWEDEN 26 - 28 August 2010
Topics of interest include but are not limited to: the interaction of
manuscript and print cultures; authorship and readership; hierarchies
of literary genres; texts as mass-market commodities; gender and genre;
technologies of reproduction, distribution and consumption; the
sociologies of taste and reading.
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SEA Resources
New Book on Yasmin Ahmad's Films
Yasmin Ahmad's Films By Amir Muhammad Matahari Books, 2009
more info
Free Downloads
Saved from Trade: Donated and Confiscated Gibbons in Zoos and Rescue Centres in Indonesia (In Endangered
Species Research) By Vincent Nijman, Cho-fui Yang Martinez and Chris R. Shepherd In this special theme issue, Primate Conservation: Measuring and mitigating trade in primates, this study highlights the ongoing illegal trade of these threatened species in western Indonesia.
more info | free download
Rural Poverty in Southeast Asia:
Issues, Policies, and Challenges (In Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development, Vol. 2, Nos. 1/2) By Arsenio M. Balisacan, Rosemarie G. Edillon and Sharon Faye A. Piza
To contribute in the efforts to strengthen the continuing war on
poverty especially in these transition economies, the paper highlights
the lessons learned in poverty reduction so as to identify more clearly
the policy options for achieving the Millenium Development Goals in the
Region.
AJAD | free download
The Rise of Supermarkets and Vertical Relationships in the Indonesian Food Value Chain: Causes and Consequences (In Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development, Vol. 2, Nos. 1/2) By Shyamal K. Chowdhury, Ashok Gulati and E. Gumbira-Sa'id
This paper reviews the causes of the emergence of modern retailing and
the vertical relationships in the Indonesian food value chain, and the
consequences of these changes on market organization and value
distribution.
AJAD | free download
Publications
Body 2 Body: A Malaysian Queer Anthology Jerome Kugan more info
Decentralization and Regional Autonomy in Indonesia: Implementation and Challenges Edited by Coen J.G. Holtzappel and Martin Ramstedt ISEAS/IIAS 2009 more info Different Voices: The Singaporean/Malaysian Novel by Rosaly Puthucheary NUS 2009 more info
Gender and Natural Resource Management: Livelihoods, Mobility and Interventions Bernadette P. Resurreccion and Rebecca Elmhirst, eds. ISEAS 2009 more info
What Your Teacher Didn't Tell You (The The Annexe Lectures, Vol. 1) Farish A. Noor Matahari Books, 2009 more info
See that latest SEA publications at UH Press
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CSEAS Admissions
 Thinking about a graduate degree in Southeast Asia? Check out the CSEAS site for program deadlines and updates.
NEW - Registration open! Download Spring 2010 SEA course list info here
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CSEAS Alumni
 We want to hear from you! Help us build our CSEAS community through mentorship opportunities, project updates and more. Contact CSEAS for more information.
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Explorations - Online
 Explorations, the graduate student journal for Southeast Asian studies, is now available online. |
Film Series
 Thank you for joining us for the CSEAS Fall 2009! Stay tuned for the Spring 2010 line-up and join the SEA Film Series listserv for more info.
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Speaker Series
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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 |
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