Seminars & Events
Archive 2003-04
Fall 2003

SEMINARS

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Christopher Duncan
Visiting Assistant Professor in Anthropology
University of Missouri-Columbia
"Reconcilliation and Reinvention: The Resurgence of Tradition in Post-conflict North Maluku, Indonesia"



Kwanchewan Buadaeng
Postdoctoral Fellow, Agrarian Studies, Yale University
Researcher, Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
"The Construction of Karen Ethnic Identities in Burma and Thailand"

Philippe M.F. Peycam
Director, Center for Khmer Studies in Siem Reap, Cambodia
"New Trends in Khmer Studies: Tha Case of Angkor"
An introduction to the work of the Center for Khmer Studies

James Hagen
Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
"Communal Violence and the Collapse of Civil Society in Maluku, Indonesia"


Smita Lahiri
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
"Popular Religion, Filipino Nationalism, and the Production of Locality at Mt. Banahaw"

Scott Guggenheim
Principal Social Scientist, World Bank, Indonesia
Visiting Fellow, Southeast Asia Studies, Yale University
"Community Development in Times of Transition: Stories from Indonesia"

Kamala Chandrakirana
Indonesian National Commission on Violence Against Women;
2003 World Fellow, Yale University
"Violence as a Language of Reform: Organizing for Change in Post-Soeharto Indonesia"


Balazs Szalontai
Visiting Scholar, Hungary
"Comrades in Arms: Relations between North Vietnam, North Korea, and Cuba, 1962-1969"

Spring 2004


SEMINARS

Sophie Quinn Judge
Author
"Ho Chi Minh in Power: What We Know and What We Don't Know"

Mathieu Guerin
SEDET, University Paris/CNRS
"Swidden and Wet Rice Cultivation, Complementary Interrelations of Agrigultural Eco-Systems in Stung Treng (Cambodia) at the Beginning of the 20th Century"

Ann Marie Leshkowich
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Holy Cross
"Classing Down in Late Socialism: Gender and the Politics of Middle Class in an Urban Vietnamese Marketplace"

Yudian Wahyudi
Visiting Scholar, Harvard Islamic Legal Studies Program;
Assistant Professor of Islamic Legal Philosophy,
State Institute of Islamic Studies, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
"The Position of Religion in Indonesia's General Elections 2004"

Ward Keeler
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas
"What's Burmese about Burmese Rap?"

Edith Mirante
American-Burmese Activist/Writer
Founder/Director, Project Maje
"Burma's Resources Under Siege"

Christopher Goscha
Assistant Professor of History, University of Lyon
"Beyond the 'Colonized' and the 'Colonizer': Intra-Asian Debates on the Reality of Colonial Legal Categories in French Indochina (1887-1954)"

Kate Jellema
Doctoral Candidate, Interdisciplinary Program in Anthropology and History, University of Michigan
"When the Stream Runs Dry: Replenishing History and Power in a Vietnamese Village"

Neferti Tadiar
Associate Professor, History of Consciousness, University of California at Santa Cruz
"Laments of People's War"

Peter Zinoman
Associate Professor, Depeartment of History,
UC Berkeley
"Urban Modernity in Colonial Vietnam: Vu Trong Phung Views the City"