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September
13
David Reeve, University of New South Wales, Australia
"Becoming
Indonesian: the Painful Journey of Ong Hok Ham"
September 20
Mary Callahan, University of Washington
"'All
Necessary Instructions': State-Society Relations in Burma's Ethnic Minority
States"
October 4
Ben Arps, Leiden University
"Shiva
Teaching Bhima in Muslim Java: The Effects of a Scholarly Edition in
a World of Performance""
October 10
Film Screening: Hanunóo (Mindoro, Philippines)
including Discussion with producer Hal Conklin, and Karl Heider
(Part of the Margaret Mead Film Festival at Yale, hosted by the Yale
Department of Anthropology and the Peabody Museum)
October 11
Karl Heider, University of South Carolina
"Folk
Psychology, Emotions, and Rasa Theory in West Sumatra"
November 1
Wynn Wilcox, Western Connecticut University
"Southern
Sympathizers and Lost Causes in Vietnamese Historiography
November 8
Christophe Robert, Yale University
"Forget
the War? The Question of Everyday Life in Contemporary Saigon
November 15
Le Thi Lien, Institute of Archaeology, Vietnamese Academy of
Social Sciences: Research Fellow, Harvard-Yenching Institute
"Vestiges
of Early Buddhist and Hindu Art in the Cuu Long River Delta and Problems
in the Study of Oc Eo Culture"
November 29
Kevin Heppner
"Sovereignty,
Survival and Resistance: The position of rural Karen civilians within
Burma's conflict"
December 6
Edward Miller, Dartmouth University
"War
Stories: The Taylor-Buzzanco Debate and the Future of Vietnam War Studies"
SEMINARS
January 16 (Luncheon Tuesday - 12:00 noon)
Raymond Burghardt, former U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam;
Director of East-West Seminars, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
"The U.S. and Vietnam: Old Enemies Become Friends"
(Co-sponsored with Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, International Affairs Council, and The MacMillan Center)
January 31
Patricia Spyer, Chair, Anthropology in Indonesia, University of Leiden; 2006-07 Senior Fellow, Center for Religion and Media, NYU
"Blind Faith: Painting Christianity in Postconflict Ambon (Indonesia)"
February 21 (Co-sponsored with International Security Studies)
Robert K. Brigham, Department of History and International Relations, Vassar College
"Is Iraq Another Vietnam?"
February 28
Oanh Thi Hoang Duong, Postdoctoral Fellow/Fulbright Scholar, Yale University 2006-2007; Dean of International Studies, Hue University, Vietnam.
"The Era of Vietnamese Integration: Opportunities, Challenges and Action in Education"
March 7
Muhammad Haji Salleh, poet, editor, translator; Research Associate, Harvard Yenching Institute 2006-2007; Professor, School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia
"Poetry Reading - works written in and about Malaysia and Southeast Asia "
April 3
Indonesia Forum workshop: "Dialog with Laksmi Pamuntjak"
See http://www.yale.edu/seas/LPamuntjak.htm
April 4
Goenawan Mohamad, Tempo Magazine, founding editor
"The call of the secular, or a Javanese 'Kulturkampf'"
April 18
Carla Jones, University of Colorado
"Flexible Piety: Middle-Class Consumption and Islamic Value(s) in Urban Indonesia"
April 25
Keat Gin Ooi, Asia-Pacific Research Unit (APRU), Universiti Sains Malaysia
"Southeast Asian Studies and Globalization: Prospects in Southeast Asia"
April 26 (THURS) 1:00 P.M. - 380 Edwards Street, 1st floor classroom
Keat Gin Ooi, Asia-Pacific Research Unit (APRU), Universiti Sains Malaysia
"Genocidal Intentions or 'Ghosts in the Sunlight:' an Evaluation of Civilian Killings in Japanese-Occupied Borneo 1943-1945"