Welcome to UHM Center for Southeast Asian Studies
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Exhibit Opening - CHAM: Syncretic Islamic Communities in Vietnam and Cambodia (20 Jan - 28 March 2010)
Presented by Center for Southeast Asian Studies, UHM and the East-West Center (EWC) Arts Program Curators: Mohamed Effendy bin Abdul Hamid, Emiko Stock, and Michael Schuster East-West Center Gallery, Honolulu, HI
This
exhibition illustrates visual aspects of Cham culture and how the Cham
have preserved their identity through ritual and religious practices,
art and architecture, writing and language, and everyday life
experiences. Join us this week for the following free events at the EWC Gallery:
1:00-4:30 p.m., Friday, January 22 Cham
Symposium: Cham culture and history will be discussed by six Southeast
Asian scholars from Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore, and Hawai'i
2:00-3:30 p.m., Sunday, January 24 Opening Festivities including reception and walk-throughs by the curators
12:00-1:00 p.m., Monday, January 25 Visual presentation by visiting curator Emiko Stock, Cambodia, ''Visualizing Cham Diversity in Cambodia''
more info | calendar of events
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Thai-U.S. Education Foundation 60th Anniversary Events
Celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Thai-US Education Foundation at these free events:
Anthropology Colloquium Spring 2010 - Impact of Colonialaism and Nationalism in "Thai" Archaeology Co-Sponsored by CSEASCrawford Hall 105, UH Mānoa3:00 p.m., Thursday, 28 January 2010Visiting Luce Asian Archaeology Scholar Dr. Rasmi Shoocongdej discusses Thailand and the complex ties between colonialism, nationalism, and archaeological research.
RSVP at anthprog@hawaii.edu | more info Reception - Celebration of Thai-U.S. CooperationFulbright Association Hawai'i ChapterTokioka Room, UH Mānoa5:30 p.m., Thursday, 28 January 2010The CSEAS community and members of the Fulbright Association in Hawai'i-- especially our many Fulbright Students and Fellows-- welcome visiting Thai scholars Dr. Rasmi Shoocongdej and Dr. Yongtanit Pimosathean. SEA Speaker Series - The Preservation of Shophouse Communities in Southern Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore Co-Sponsored by CSEAS and Historic Preservation ProgramTokioka Room (Moore 319), UH Mānoa12:00 p.m., Friday, 29 January 2010CSEAS is proud to co-sponsor the upcoming lecture by eminent planner and historic preservation expert, Dr. Yongtanit (Mai) Pimosathean.
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Featured Events & News
Hawai'i
ARTstor Workshop for Faculty & Staff - FREE Hamilton Library Room 113 19 - 27 January 2010
For more info, contact Kanako Iwase at kanako3@hawaii.edu or +1 808 956 8239.
Folding the Disciplinary into the
Interdisciplinary: Encounters of Ethnomusicology with Area Studies Presented by Dr. Ricardo D. Trimillos, Asian Studies & Ethnomusicology Hamilton Library Room 301 3:30 p.m., Thursday, 21 January 2010 Trimillos examines the relevance of music its use in insular Southeast Asia to understanding political identities,
ecological challenges, gender constructions, and notions of history and memory... more info
Visiting Luce Asian Ar chaeology Scholar - Dr. Rasmi
Shoocongdej
The UH Department of Anthropology is proud to host visiting Luce
Asian Archaeology scholar Dr. Rasmi Shoocongdej of Silpakorn University at the
following events:
Anthropology Occasional Seminar - Highland Archaeology in Pang Mapha, a Borderland of Thailand and Myanmar
Biomed T211, UH Mānoa 2:00 pm, Monday, 25 January 2010
Meet & Greet - Dr. Rasmi Shoocongdej
Manoa Gardens, UH Mānoa
6:00 p.m., Tuesday, 26 January 2010
RSVP to anthprog@hawaii.edu | more info
Piknik Yuk! Nongkrong Yuk! Indonesian Club @ UHM Kapiolani Park, (near Tennis Court, Table area) 11:00 a.m., Saturday, 30 January 2010 Potluck or $5 suggested donation
RSVP to erenst@gmail.com to attend the upcoming Indonesian Club picnic to practice Indonesian language, meet Indonesian students and enjoy Indonesian food and "Indo-tainment."
Around the Country
From Rebels to Soldiers: Military Integration of Former Insurgents in the Philippines and East Timor Featuring Dr. Rosalie Arcala Hall and Mr. G. Eugene Martin
East-West Center, Washington, D.C.
12:30 p.m., Thursday, 21 January 2010
Dr. Rosalie Arcala Hall and discussant Mr. G. Eugene Martin will
discuss the implications of these integration policies for the future prospects of peace in both countries... more info
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Employment Opportunities
Senior Advisor - Poverty Reduction Fund (PRF) Vientiane, LAOS One-year contract Deadline: 24 January 2010
Interested candidates should submit (1) a comprehensive CV presenting their academic background, experience and knowledge of local conditions; and (2) a letter of interest to PRF to prflao@laotel.com... more info
Country Director - Search for Common Ground (SFCG) Dili, TIMOR-LESTE Deadline: 10 February 2010
This position will take
responsibility for the start up of the program and overall management
and direction of SFCG-Timor-Leste, including new project fundraising and launching, strategy development, and coordinating day-to-day activities of the program... more info
Leadership In Action (LIA) Internship Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics 21 June - 13 August 2010 Deadline: 10 March 2010
LIA takes learning beyond the classroom,
and places the student interns in a range of API community based organizations
in order to gain real-life experience working at nonprofits. The intern will be paid $2,000 for the eight-week internship... more info
Gallery Manager - House of Matahati Ampang, Selangor, MALAYSIA
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Educational Programs
Summer Internship Program - Bridges Across Borders Southeast Asia (BABSEA) International Legal Studies 17 May - 9 August 2010 Deadline: 14 February 2010
This program offers an opportunity to make a real contribution to fighting the
hardships and legal inequity in
Southeast Asia... more info
2010 FASS Summer School - Southeast Asia in Context NUS-IARU Global Summer School 21 June - 23 July 2010 Deadline: 5:00 p.m., 26 March 2010
Join universities in the International Alliance for Research Universities (IARU) for this 5-week intensive program... more info
Summer Study - Hue Vietnam University of California - Riverside 26 July - 28 August 2010 Deadline: 1 May 2010
The programs offers students two for-credit courses exploring travel writing in Vietnamese history and producing travel writing/podcast/video production near Hue.. more info
Annual Workshops - Vietnamese Studies through Field Trips and Exchanges Integrated Culture and Language Studies (ICLS) Dhang, VIET NAM
The ICLS annual workshops provide
overviews of Vietnam as a nation in transition, while special topic seminars
focus on selected aspects of Vietnam's history and culture... more info
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Fellowships & Scholarships
Jefferson Fellowships - Reporting New Realities: Beyond the Economic Crisis
East-West Center, with support from the Freeman Foundation
Honolulu, HI, USA; Hong Kong, Shanghai, PRC; Jakarta, INDONESIA 17 April - 9 May 2010 Deadline: 27 January 2010
Participants participate in the East-West
Center's International Media Conference in Hong Kong... more info
UH Funding Opportunity - 2010 Diversity and Equity Initiatives SEED Office Maximum award: $5000 Deadline: 5 February 2010
This initiative has supported speakers, authors, research, performance and media projects that address diversity in many aspects of higher education. For more information, email Pua Auyong at paw@hawaii.edu... more info
Residential Visiting Fellows Watson Institute, Brown University Begins 1 July 2010 (three-years) Salary: $55,000/year Deadline: 15 February 2010
The mission of the Watson Institute is to pursue interdisciplinary
research on pressing global issues and to foster more direct
engagements between scholarship and policy and public debates. Informal inquiries should be directed to Deborah Healey... more info
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Call for Submissions
Deadline Extended - Dissertation Workshop: Democracy and Identity in Asia The Asian Institute, University of Toronto 13 - 15 May 2010 Deadline: 22 January 2010
Applicants should be graduate students researching some aspect of the politics of identity recognition in Asia in recent decades, and the challenges it has posed to practices and understandings of democracy... contact asian.institute@utoronto.ca
Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs 2010 Stanford University Deadline: 30 January 2010
The Stanford
Journal of East Asian Affairs showcases outstanding papers on East Asia and
Southeast Asia written by undergraduate and graduate students... more info
Beyond Borders: Ancient Societies and their Conceptual Frontiers University of California - Santa Barbara 16 - 18 April 2010 Deadline: 1 February 2010
Graduate scholars of any discipline are invited to submit abstracts for papers addressing the question of ancient borderlands, both physical and conceptual... more info
Siksacakr, Journal of Cambodia Research - "Colonial Encounters" Center for Khmer Studies Deadline: 31 March 2010
This issue aims to bring together new Khmer, Anglophone and Francophone scholarship on Cambodia, 1863-1954... more info
Southeast Asian Linguistics Society Department of General Linguistics Society, University of Zurich Deadline: 15 February 2010
Submit abstracts as both pdf and doc to sealsXX@gmail.com... more info
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SEA Resources
Art & Exhibitions
Review - 10th Jogja Jamming Biennale Jogjakarta, INDONESIA
In Jogjakarta, from the perspective of the arts, more is more... and the city reveals
once again its central role in the Republic's creative imagination... more info
Current - Exhibitions at SAM
Singapore Art Museum (SAM)
SAM regularly showcases the region's best known artists, as in the Earth and Water: Mapping Art in Southeast Asia exhibition (ends 28 March)... more info
Ongoing - Southeast Asia: Art of a Cultural Crossroads Newark Museum, New Jersey, USA
The works of art in this gallery provide a
glimpse into the rich artistic legacy of five major world religions
viewed through the cultural lens of Southeast Asia... more info
Film & Media
Film Conference 2010 - Megacities and Film: Southeast Asia on Screen Department of Culture and Media Education, Ludwigsburg University of Education, Germany 29 - 31 January 2010
Researchers from different countries present their views on megacities in contemporary filmmaking... more info
SEA Project Chosen for January Sundance Screenwriters Labs Park City, UT Late January 2010
The Sundance Institute Feature Film Program selected 12 new projects for this year's screenwriters labs, including Postcards from the Zoo from Indonesia's Edwin (co-writer/director) and Daud Sumolang (co-writer)... more info
Publications
Headhunting and Colonialism: Anthropology and the Circulation of Human Skulls in the Portuguese Empire, 1870-1930 Ricardo Roque Palgrave Macmillan 2010
Young Reader Focus - A Million Shades of Gray
Cynthia Kadohata Atheneum 2010
Passion, Betrayal, and Revolution in Colonial Saigon: The Memoirs of Bao Luong
Hue-Tam Ho Tai
University of California 2010
University of Washington 2010

For more SEA-related publications, visit 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 - Need classes? Download Spring 2010 SEA course list info here
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CSEAS Alumni Profile
 Where are they now? CSEAS Alumni featured profiles coming soon - Join the CSEAS Alumni and Community group
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Explorations - Online
 Explorations, the graduate student journal for Southeast Asian studies, is now available online.
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Film Series

The SEA Film Series kicks off Spring 2010 with the recently discovered classic, Aloha (1950), tonight, 20 January 2010, at 6:30 PM in the Korean Studies Auditorium, UHM. Subtitled by CSEAS! more info | poster
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Speaker Series
 Now accepting participants for the Spring 2010 Speaker Series. Listen to the previous Speaker Series podcasts.
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Advanced Language Study Programs
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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)
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