CSEAS Remembers Yasmin Ahmad
Welcome to your weekly UHM CSEAS announcement! This week, we celebrate the life and work of late filmmaker, storyteller, and humanitarian - Yasmin Ahmad. Please visit our humble tribute to Yasmin on our website with her bio, filmography, and links of interest. Feel free to share your favorite memory or film moment on our memorial post. UHM Librarian Yati Paseng-Christensen and filmmaker Yasmin Ahmad at the 2007 Yasmin Ahmad Retrospective (Honolulu, HI)
Yasmin Tribute + Trivia: Alongside another generous helping of events and employment opportunities, this issue introduces the new Yasmin Ahmad set on Flickr and features a special banner with stills from some memorable Yasmin works. Can you name all three? The first reader to correctly identify these stills will get featured in next week's issue; email cseas@hawaii.edu by Wednesday, 28 July.
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CSEAS News
Featured Fall Course - ASAN 491S-002: Vietnamese Cinema
University of Hawaii at Mānoa
23 August - 9 December 2010
Part four of the popular Southeast Asian Cinema courses, with a special focus on Vietnamese Cinema... more info
Coming Fall 2010 - Asian Studies Graduate Student Lounge, Moore 425
It might not be a royal sala, but the floors are waxed and the boxes cleared! Now accepting donations of the following items: chairs (computer chairs, sofa), area rug (5' x 10'), and various Asian decor. For more information, please contact Theresa at cseas@hawaii.edu
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Featured Events
Hawaiʻi
 Ongoing - As it Happened: Works by Sanit Khewhok
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
Through 10 October 2010
Khewhok is the 11th recipient of the Catharine E. B. Cox Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts. As it Happened embodies Khewhok's past and present and invites viewers to witness his evolution as an artist... more info
Around the World
 Transforming the Killing Fields into Healing, Living Fields: Advent of Duch's Verdict - PUBLIC FORUM
Pannasastra University of Cambodia (PUC), Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA
8:00am, Friday, 23 July 2010
The forum is part of an ongoing educational series striving to keep the public engaged and educated by broadening a discussion between the Cambodian public and those involved in the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge... more info
 From Indios Bravos to Filipinos: A History of the Philippines
Asia Society, Hong Kong, PRC
6:30pm, Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Poet and essayist Luis H. Francia will construct a historical
narrative, serving as a useful guide for those who are curious about
this Southeast Asian archipelago but know very little about it... more info
 Special Screening - Eskrimadors
Bayanihan Filipino Community Center, New York, NY, USA
2pm & 4pm, Saturday, 31 July 2010
The film traces the development
of the fighting art from its tribal warfare roots, its use in repelling
foreign invaders, as an art of duelists, and its transformation into a
sport practiced in over 25 countries... more info
 Indonesian Festival
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Saturday, 31 July 2010
Commemoration of the 65th Indonesian Independence and to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the sister city status of Los Angeles and Jakarta... more info
 HSSHH - Healing in the Clamor of History: Doctors, Healers and Patients in Cambodia
Presented by Anne Y Guillou
Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA
6:00 pm, Wednesday, 4 August 2010
The latest installment of the Humanities and Social Science Happy Hour (HSSHH) aims at understanding how a Western knowledge and practice such as biomedicine has been integrated and given a new meaning in a non-Western social context... more info
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Educational Programs
FEATURED: The American Experience in Southeast Asia (1946-1975)
US Department of State, Washington, DC
29 - 30 September 2010
Registration Available: 1 August 2010
Speakers include former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger... more info
Philippine Dance Gathering & Workshops (PDGW)
San Diego, CA, USA
Program Dates: 25 - 29 August 2010
Registration Fees: $40/day
PDGW is a unique, groundbreaking folk and traditional arts project. Confirmed Artists and Presenters include Dr. Ricardo Trimillos of the University of Hawaii at Manoa... more info
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Employment Opportunities
FEATURED: Assistant and Associate Professor - Asian History or Studies, National
University of Singapore
Location: SINGAPORE
Term: 2011 - 2012
Deadline: 30 September 2010
One appointment will be at the Assistant Professor (tenure track)
level; another at either Assistant or Associate
Professor level (tenured or tenure track)... more info
Senior Advisor/Program Leader Renewable Energy - SNV Viet Nam
Location: Hanoi, VIET NAM (frequent travel)
Term: One-year with possibility of extension (to begin immediately, ideally in August 2010)
Deadline: 28 July 2010
Please send application letter and CV (in English) to Ms. Nguyen Thi Hai Yen at yennth@snvworld.org.
Project Coordinator - Swiss Red Cross
Location: Takeo, CAMBODIA
Term: Three years (begins November 2010)
Deadline: 2 August 2010
Please apply to: Swiss Red Cross, Isabel
Bangerter, Rainmattstrasse 10, 3001 Bern, Switzerland, or delegatesima@redcross.ch.
Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Program Coordinator - American Refugee Committee
Location: Thailand
Deadline: 6 August 2010
ARC Thailand's Gender-Based
Violence (GBV) program has a mission to strengthen the capacities of
community stakeholders to prevent and respond to Gender-Based Violence
in five ARC-serviced refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border... more info
Medical Doctor - Timor-Leste Multi-Drug Resistance Tuberculosis
Location: Timor-Leste
Deadline: 10 August 2010
The Clinical doctor will work under the
direct supervision of Clinical Director of National Hospital Guido
Valdares and administration supervision of Director of community Health. Please email Mr. Augusto Joaquim Pinto. at Lacurubic_78@yahoo.com and Mr. Constantino Lopes at costa_tb@yahoo.com.
Assistant Program Officer, South & Southeast Asia
Mercy Corps
Location: Portland, OR, USA
Deadline: 12 September 2010
The South and Southeast Asia desk provides primary headquarters support
to Mercy Corps programs in Indonesia, East Timor, the Philippines,
Myanmar, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka... more info
Post Doctoral Research Associates and/or Visiting Scholars
Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance (NCGG), Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Term: 2011 - 2012 Academic Year
Location: Princeton, NJ, USA
Deadline: 15 January 2011
This fellows
program is targeted at developing a generation of scholars able to analyze and make policy
recommendations about the regional political economy in the Middle East, East, South, or Southeast
Asia, Africa and Latin America... more info
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Fellowships & Scholarships
NEW - AAS Council of Conferences (COC) Outreach Grants
Association for Asian Studies (AAS), USA
Deadline: 14 February 2011
Outreach Grants of up to $2,000
are made available to encourage education in Asian Studies. All
applications must be submitted electronically to Kai-wing Chow at
kchow1@illinois.edu... more info
Senior and Post-doctoral Fellowships
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE
ARI has position openings for outstanding active researchers from around the world, beginning between April 2011 and September 2011... more info
Bridging Cultures Through Film
National Endowment for the Humanities
Deadline: 28 July 2010
Awards are for one to three years and for up to $75,000 (for development) and up to $800,000 (for production)... more info
Teaching and Research Scholarships for U.S. Faculty and Professionals - Indonesia
American-Indonesian Educational Foundation (AMINEF) and Fulbright Scholar Program
Deadline: 2 August 2010
8 "All Disciplines" awards to teach, conduct
research, or a combination of the two in a fascinating multicultural and
multi-religious nation... contact mzdanovich@iie.org
Mellon Fellowships for Assistant Professors - School of Historical Studies
Institute for Advanced Study
Location: Princeton, NJ, USA
Term: 1 July 2011 - 30 June 2012, with the option of
staying through 15 August 2012
Deadline: 1 November 2010
The School is interested in all fields of historical research, including the Islamic world and modern
international
relations... more info
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Call for Submissions
FEATURED - 70 Years of Asian Studies
Association for Asian Studies and the International Convention of Asian Scholars
Location: Honolulu, HI, USA
Conference Dates: 31 March - 3 April 2011
Deadline: 5 August 2010
Please consider the special UHM CSEAS request for scholars interested in joining panels on Southeast Asian Cinema... more info
Buddhist Dynamics in Pre-Modern Southeast Asia
Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, SINGAPORE
Conference Dates: 10 - 11 March 2011
Deadline: 31 August 2010
The conference aims to bring together international scholars engaged in research on Buddhist archaeological, textual, or art historical sources produced across the region from the early first millennium C.E. until circa the 18th century... more info
Issue 4(1): Tourism in South-East Asia
Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies
Deadline: 15 January 2011
The upcoming issue aims at featuring a focus on Tourism in South-East Asia... more info
11th International Conference on Thai Studies
Mahidol University and the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia
Location: THAILAND
Conference Dates: 26 - 28 July 2011
Deadline: 15 January 2011
To submit abstracts, please send a Microsoft word file (.doc) and a PDF file of abstracts in English, in email attachments, to thaistudies2011@gmail.com.
New Annual Lecture Series - De-Centering the Nation State: Historical Methodology within a Pacific Geography
Department of History, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Location: Honolulu, HI, USA
Dates: TBD 2010-2012
The inaugural workshop is intended to have scholars cultivate a deeper understanding of history, place, and
intellectual practice in Asia and the Pacific Islands... more info
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Fall 2010 CSEAS Course List
The Fall 2010 Southeast Asian Studies course list available online>>>
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Coming Soon - CSEAS Alumni Profiles
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CSEAS Survey
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CSEAS Admissions
Thinking about a graduate degree in Southeast Asian Studies? For program deadlines and updates, check out the CSEAS site>>>
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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 thanks everyone for their support over the past year. Hundreds of people attended the free films that highlighted the stories of Southeast Asia and the filmmakers that tell them in such unique ways. We look forward to seeing everyone again in the fall semester. Have a great summer! We'll see you at the movies!
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Radio - NEW
Looking for a place to listen to radio from across Southeast Asia? Stream radiotime>>>
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Resources
Download + Stream
Coming Soon - Eskirimadors
Indio Bravo Films
This Weekend - Bride Trafficking Unveiled
Current TV
From Singapore, an Optimistic Forecast
Asia Society, 2010
New CSIS Reports
Free Downloads
Asia's Response to Climate Change and Natural Disasters Implications for an Evolving Regional Architecture
By Charles Freeman, Michael J. Green, Robert S. Wang
Comparative Connections v.12 n.2 - US-Southeast Asia Relations: Thai Turmoil; President Postpones Indonesia Trip Again
Publications
Coming Soon from Routledge
Michael Aung-Thwin, Kenneth Hall, eds.
Routledge 2010
Asceticism and Power in South and Southeast Asia
Peter Flügel, Gustaaf Houtman, eds.
Routledge 2010
Globalization, Culture and Society in Laos
Boike Rehbein
Routledge 2010
Mapping Thai Muslims
Wanni W. Anderson
Silkworm Books, 2010
Colonialism, Violence and Muslims in Southeast Asia - The Maria Hertogh Controversy and its Aftermath
Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied
Routledge 2010
FOOD: A Celebration
Imon Chowdhooree and Azeema Faizunnisa (co-editors-in-chief); Aileen P. Maypa (copyeditor and graphics artist)
East-West Center 2010Vote - 2010 The Star Readers Choice Awards
Yasmin Ahmad's Films
Amir Muhammad
Nominated for Best Non-Fiction - Vote Now
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