SEMINARS
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September
21
David Biggs
Department of History, U.C. Riverside
"Spaces
of War: War and Environmental History in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam"
September 28
Alfred W. McCoy
"Surveillance
States: Police & Political Transformations in America's Philippine
Empire"
Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
October
12
Eric Tagliacozzo
Department of History and Asian Studies, Cornell University
"Remembering
Devotion: Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca"
October
19
Meredith Weiss
Research Fellow, East-West Center Washington
"The
Campus as Crucible: Student Activism in Singapore and Malay(si)a"
October
26
Rob Cramb
Agricultural Development, University of Queensland, Australia
"Custom,
Capitalism and Conflict: Agricultural Development on Customary Land
in Sarawak, Malaysia"
November
9
Saroja Dorairajoo
Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University
"All
My Men are Dead: Muslim Women and Violence in Southern Thailand "
November
16
Lee Ray Costa
Anthropology and Women's Studies, Hollins University
"Gender,
Sexuality and Nationalism in a Northern Thai Non-governmental Organization"
December
14
P.M. Laksono
Fulbright Scholar in Residence, Lafayette College
Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
"Visual
Mediations Prior to and after the Reformation around Yogyakarta, Indonesia:
a Quest for Social Justice"
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January 18
Tamara Loos
Department of History, Cornell University
"Competitive Colonialism: Siam and the Malay Muslim South"
January 25
Dan Duffy
Editor, Viet Nam Literature Project
Doctoral candidate, Anthropology, University of North Carolina
"Viet Nam Literature Project"
February 22
Michael Bodden
University of Victoria, B.C. Canada
"Shattered Families": Experimental Form, Transgression, and Cosmopolitanism in the Fiction of Djenar Maesa Ayu"
March 1
Hue Tam Ho Tai
Harvard University
"Starvation in the Rice Fields: The Famine of 1945 in Northern Vietnam"
March 22
Tom Boellstorff
Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine
"Comparatively Queer: Homosexuality and Transgenderism in Southeast Asia"
April 12
Michael Coe
"New Light on the Angkor Civilization: the Beginning, the Middle, and the End"
April 19
Tony Day, Yale University
"Self, Subject, and Literature in Southeast Asia in the Global Age"