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Welcome to your weekly CSEAS announcement! Read on for the latest events and news related to Southeast Asian Studies, including employment opportunities, calls for submissions, and a bevy of SEA resources.

New on cseashawaii.comSEA Film Series (and archives!) now ready for reviews from SEA cinephiles everywhere.  Need film review inspiration?  See our section on Criticine.org, founded by the late great Alexis Tioseco.  Again, enjoy this week's offerings - and please forward to a friend!
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Special Event

On Surviving against the Odds: Teaching and Editing S. Ann Dunham
Presented by Alice Dewey
Center for Biographical Research, UH Mānoa
12:00 p.m., Thursday, 4 February 2010

Stanley Ann Dunham earned a BA in anthropology from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, and soon after moved with her husband, Lolo Soetoro, and her six-year old son, Barack Obama, from Honolulu to Soetoro's home in Jakarta, Indonesia, where her daughter, Maya Soetoro, was born.  

Dunham had just begun revising her work on nonagricultural enterprises of rural Indonesia for publication when she passed away in November 1995. Several years later, at the request of daughter Maya Soetoro, Alice Dewey took on the task of preparing Dunham's dissertation for publication... more info


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Featured Events & News

Hawai'i


20100127 Cham ExhibitOngoing - Cham: Syncretic Islamic Communities in Vietnam and Cambodia (through March)
Presented by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, UHM and the East-West Center (EWC) Arts Program
EWC Gallery, Honolulu, HI

An Introduction to Ancient Cham Sculpture and Architecture
Presented by Dr. Paul Lavy
East-West Center Gallery, Honolulu, HI
2:00 p.m., Sunday, 7 February 2010

UHM Assistant Professor of Art Dr. Lavy presents how the Cham have preserved their identity through ritual and religious practices, art and architecture, writing and language, and everyday life experiences. more info | calendar of events

20100204 Featured event news jhankarJhankar
Presented by Milun, EWCPA, and Lovers of South Asian Cultures of UH
Art Auditorium, UH Mānoa
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m., Sunday, 7 February 2010

A program of international music, song, dance, and dress with performances from Bali, Sumatra, and Myanmar.  Tickets available ($8.00 suggested donation) from:

Imon Chowdhoore at + 1 808 944-6191
Shakeel Makarani at + 1 808 944-7059
Yasmin Ahmed at + 1 808 395 5329

Note: tickets will not be sold at the door

20100203 NSASpring Colloquium on National Security Studies
Presented by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence Center for Academic Excellence and School of Pacific and Asian Studies, UH Mānoa
Center for Korean Studies, UH Mānoa
10 - 11 February 2010

To sign up, contact JiaLin (Sunny) Sun at + 1 80
8 956 2663 or email at jialin@hawaii.edu.

more inf
o | Deadline: 3 February 2010

20100203 Speaker SEriesSEA Speaker Series -
Malay Literature & Law: New Evidence from Pre-Islamic Times
Presented by Dr. Uli Kozok, Indonesian-Malay Language Program, UH Mānoa
Moore Hall 319, Tokioka Room, UH Mānoa
12:00 p.m., Friday, 12 February 2010

The Tanjung Tanah code of law, written in both Sanskrit and Malay in Pallavo-Nusantaric script and later in Arabic-Malay script, not only give us interesting insights into the changes that the Malay language underwent from the 14th to the 18th century, but also teach us the impact of Islamic law on the legal system of a Sumatran Malay polity... 
more info | download PDF

Around the World

Food Security in a Changing Climate
Dr. Achim Dobermann, International Rice Research Institute, Philippines
Asia Society, Hong Kong
6:30 p.m., Friday, 5 February 2010

Dr. Dobermann explores questions like - how will climate change affect the dietary staple for millions of people and how has scientific research improved food security? more info

A Discussion with the U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia
Sponsored in part by the Asian Development Bank
USINDO, Washington D.C.
8:30 a.m., Monday, 8 February 2010

Ambassador Hume will discuss President Obama's upcoming trip to Indonesia and the US-Indonesia Comprehensive Partnership. 

RSVP | Deadline:
5 February 2010

Asia Pacific Democracy & Human Rights Seminar - US Support for Human Rights Efforts in Southeast Asia

East-West Center, Washington D.C.
12:30 p.m., Monday, 8 February 2010

A discussion on U.S. assistance toward the development of the Human Rights Resource Center for ASEAN... more info


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Employment Opportunities

Project Manager - Public Affairs
Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), SINGAPORE
Deadline: 19 February 2010

The position promotes ASEF to external parties by developing and maintaining a coherent public image through media-related programmes and outreach activities... more info

Two (2) Graduate Student Teaching Assistantships - Asian Studies
University of Hawai'i - Mānoa, USA
Academic Year 2010-2011
Deadline: 5 March 2010

Two (2) teaching assistantships available in Asian Studies to assist instructors and serve as principal organizers for the 2011 SPAS Graduate Student Conference... more info

Associate/Full Professor and Director (tenure-track) - Center for Philippine Studies
School of Pacific and Asian Studies (SPAS), University of Hawai'i - Mānoa, USA
Deadline: 3 May 2010

SPAS seeks a dynamic, visionary leader who can help guide the Center for Philippine Studies in new directions, while continuing and enhancing its record in publications, extramural grants, undergraduate education, and outreach... more info


Language Proficiency Testers - Burmese, Hmong, Ilocano, Maguindanao
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
One year commitment

Candidates should be able to travel to New York for 8 days of training. All travel expenses related to the training (including flight, hotel, and meals) are paid for by ACTFL... more info


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Educational Programs

Partnership for Youth (P4Y) Cambodia: Reporting for Change
East-West Center: Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA
1 - 21 July 2010
Deadline: 23 February 2010

The program provides high school students with a unique, structured overseas learning experience, designed to foster global knowledge... more info

Focus on Indonesia

East-West Center: USA and INDONESIA
5 July - 6 August 2010
Deadline: early March 2010

This Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) program enables participants to understand key concepts and elements integral to Indonesia, as well as infuse them into a global learning framework and into their teaching.... more info

Topics in Ethnomusicology: The Arts and Culture of Bali - Summer Program
Colorado College: Bali, INDONESIA
25 June - 16 July 2010

Experience Balinese arts and culture through participation in daily life, attendance at a wide range of performances, and lecture-demonstrations by a variety of artists and craftsmen... more info

20100127 Educational programsSee our newsletter sidebar for more information on 2010 Advanced Language Study programs

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Fellowships & Scholarships 

Postdoctoral Fellow - Hmong Studies
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Begins 30 August 2010
Deadline: 8 February 2010

The fellowship is for work in any field of Hmong Studies and is generously funded by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation... more info

Residential Visiting Fellows
Watson Institute, Brown University, Rhode Island
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

PhD Position on the Modern History of Southeast Asia

Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Deadline: 15 March 2010

Applicants are invited to submit an open proposal on an aspect of the history of Twentieth Century Southeast Asia that fits within the NIOD/CHGS research profile...
more info

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Call for Submissions

The State of Filipino Studies and its
Diaspora

Philippine Study Group Student Association (PSGSA), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
12 February 2010
Deadline: 15 February 2010

Any questions or concerns can be sent to
jcbolton@umich.edu.


9th ASEAN Inter-University Seminars (IUS) on Social Development
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Wars, Displacement and Financial Tsunamis: Remaking Society and Economy
Lampineung, Banda Aceh
25 - 27 May 2010
Deadline: 28 February 2010

The IUS is presented by the Social and Politics Study Program, Syiah Kuala University in collaboration with the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore... more info

Film & History Conference: Representations of Love in Film and Television - Area: Sex and Love in Asian Contexts

Hyatt Regency Milwaukee
10 - 14 November 2010
Deadline: 1 March 2010 - EXTENDED

To submit a paper on representations of love and sex within, or from the perspective of Asian contexts, contact Sybil.Thornton@asu.edu... more info

2nd Cambodian Studies Forum
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Ohio University, Athens, USA
22 May 2010
Deadline:
1 March 2010

For more information contact, 2010 coordinator at cambodianstudies@gmail.com... more info

2010 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Convention - Panel on Southeast Asian Languages and Literatures: Theoretical and Practical Approaches
Albuquerque, New Mexico
14 - 16 October 2010
Deadline: 1 March 2010
 
Open to ongoing research, research papers, and topics related to teaching Southeast Asian (SEA) Languages, SEA languages and linguistics, SEA literatures, and SEA cultures.  Contact csuwanna@asu.edu... more info


5th Viennese Conference on South-East Asian Studies - Transnational, National and Local Approaches to Human Security in South-East Asia
Vienna, AUSTRIA
28 - 29 May 2010
Deadline: 8 March 2010

Our conference aims to cover the discourse on Human Security approaches in South-East Asia and their implementation effects through case studies.... more info

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SEA Resources

Art + Scene

20100203 Resources Vietnamese CeramicsLecture Event - Dragon Claws and Lotus Petals: Vietnamese Ceramics at the Museum
Birmingham Museum of Art, USA
12:00 p.m., 9 March 2010

Mahalo to Satyavati Benes and Shawn Eichmann at the Honolulu Academy of Art for the head's up on the only collection of this kind in the American Southeast... more info

20100203 Resources transpoptransPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Through 15 March 2010

Cutting-edge
contemporary art by critically acclaimed artists from three countries whose works explore representations of modernity and popular culture... more info

20100203 Resources PhralakDigital Replication of Phralak-Phralam, Vat Oub Mong
Vientianne, LAOS
Faculty of Fine Arts and local sangha, with assistance from the Northern Illinois University Center for Southeast Asian Studies

National Resource Center (NRC) project using methodology developed by
the Digital Conservation Facility Laos:

Film


20100203 Criticine Love LettersLove Letters - In Memory of Alexis Tioseco, founder of Criticine.comCriticine

In memory of a kindling flame extinguished at too early an age, Ben Slater and May Adadol Ingawanij continue to complete a series of 'Love Le
tters' for Criticine, which Alexis was working on before his demise... more info

20100203 Resources Film VoicePhangan Film Festival
Phangan, THAILAND
12 - 14 February 2010

This weekend of international independent cinema includes the Asian Premiere of the Voice over the Bridge, a documentary linking Myanmar's classical music with contemporary Western music... more info

20100203 Film Burma VJOscar Nominee - Burma VJ
82nd Academy Awards, USA
Airs Sunday, 7 March 2010

Congrats to filmmaker Anders Ƙstergaard and mysterious narrator "Joshua" on their nod for Best Documentary... more info

Publications

20100203 Resources Family Focus
Family Focus -
Hush!: A Thai Lullaby
Minfong Ho
Scholastic, 1996

 





Orchid Press, 2010









20100203 BioarchBioarchaeology of Southeast Asia
Marc Oxenham (Editor), Nancy Tayles (Editor) 
Cambridge Studies in
Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, 2009


For more SE
A-related publications, visit UH Press

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In This Issue
Special Event
Featured Events & News
Employment Opportunities
Educational Programs
Fellowships & Scholarships
Call for Submissions
SEA Resources
Film Series
Speaker Series
Advanced Language Study Programs
2010 AAS Annual Meeting
CSEAS Admissions
Sidebar_Admissions

Thinking about a graduate degree in Southeast Asia?  Check out the CSEAS site for program deadlines and updates.
CSEAS Alumni Profile
LinkedIncseas
Where are they now?  CSEAS Alumni featured profiles coming soon -  Join the CSEAS Alumni and Community group
Explorations - Online
Sidebar_Explorations
Explorations, the graduate student journal for Southeast Asian studies, is now available online.
Film Series
20100204 Film Series
The SEA Film Series continues with the Singaporean film, Truth be Told, tonight, 3 February 2010, at 6:30 PM in the Korean Studies Auditorium
more info | poster PDF

Speaker Series
Pub-Death091609
Now accepting participants for the Spring 2010 Speaker Series. Listen to the previous Speaker Series podcasts.
Web Resources
Advanced Language Study ProgramsLanguage

Advanced Filipino Abroad Program (AFAP)
De La Salle University at DasmariƱas
Dates: 11 June - 7 August 2010
Deadline: 8 February 2010

Advanced Indonesian Abroad (COTIM)
Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana
Salatiga, Indonesia
Dates: 14 June - 15 August 2010
Deadline: 16 February 2010

Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI)
University of Wisconsin, USA
Dates: 14 June - 6 August 2010
Deadline: 19 February 2010


Advanced Study of Khmer (ASK)
Royal University of Phnom-Penh, Cambodia
Dates: 14 June - 6 August 2010
Deadline: 1 March 2010
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)

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.