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Seminars and Events - Fall 2007

   
 
SEAS PROGRAM
PUBLICATIONS


SEPTEMBER

SEAS BROWN BAG SEMINAR SERIES*
WEDNESDAYS, 12:00 NOON (unless otherwise indicated)
Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall <-click here for local directions and campus map
-click below on titles of talks or hosting programs for links to abstracts, papers, other information-

September 21
11:00 A.M.
ISPS B012
77 Prospect
Paige West
Anthropology, Barnard College, Columbia University
"From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: Tracking the Commodity Ecumene for Papua New Guinean Coffee"
hosted by the Yale Agrarian Studies Program
September 25
YVSG - 4:00 P.M.
Yale Vietnam Studies Group Workshop <-> Click for details
September 25 - Film Screening
"Of Love and Eggs (Rindu Kami padamu)"
(click on title above for synopsis)
Discussant: Indriyo Sukmono, Yale Southeast Asia Studies,
hosted by the PIER Outreach Program Film Series
7:00 P.M. - Luce Hall Auditorium
October 3
SEAS Seminar
Huzir Sulaiman
Artistic Director, Checkpoint Theater, Singapore;
Fall 2007 Yale World Fellow
"Democratic Space and the Performing Arts in Malaysia and Singapore"
October 10
SEAS Seminar

Socheata Poeuv
Director of award-winning documentary film New Year Baby;
Executive Director, Khmer Legacies
"What Does it Take to Heal? Finding Love, Joy and Pardon after the Cambodian Genocide"

October 15
(Monday)
5:00 P.M.
ESC 110
Sachem & Hillhouse
Roland Fletcher
Director, Greater Angkor Project, Sydney University
"Angkor - urban landscape, economy and environment"
hosted by the Yale Center for Earth Observation
October 17
SEAS Seminar
Ben Kiernan
Department of History, Yale University
"Writing a History of Vietnam from Earliest Times"
October 24
YIF - 5:30 P.M.
Yale Indonesian Forum Workshop <-> click for details

October 31
SEAS Seminar

Penny Low
Member of Parliament, Singapore; Yale World Fellow Fall 2007
"Global Power Shifts - Singapore 2.0 : survival of a small nation state"

November 1

(Thursday)
HGS 211

Sudjadnan Parnohadiningrat
, Indonesian Ambassador to the U.S.
special luncheon talk -(rsvp seating only)
"U.S.-Indonesia Relations in the Current Context of East and Southeast Asia" <-> click here for details and Video link

November 6 - Film Screening
" Journey from the Fall"
with director, Ham Tran
hosted by the Vietnamese Students Association

6:00 p.m., Room 119 WLH, 100 Wall St.
November 7
SEAS Seminar

Duncan McCargo
University of Leeds, U.K.
"Thailand's Quiet Civil War: Why Southern Malay Muslims are Rebelling in Patani"

November 13
(Tuesday)
7:00-8:30 P.M.
Rm. 119, WLH
"What's Really Happened in Burma?"
Discussion / Q.& A -hosted by the Amnesty International Club at Yale
Panelists: James Scott, Aung Win, Kevin Malseed, Khin Maung Gyi, Viola Wu, others to be named

November 13
reading of one of Southeast Asia's best-loved political comedies
ATOMIC JAYA
with writer/director, Huzir Sulaiman and actress Claire Wong
hosted by the
Yale School of Drama
8:00 p.m., Room 101, 205 Park Street

November 14 - Film Screening
" New Year Baby"
(click on title above for information)
with director, Socheata Poeuv, and producer, Charles Vogel,
co-sponsored with the Yale Film Studies Program
the Asian American Cultural Ctr, the Genocide Studies Program,
and the Schell Center
7:30 P.M., Room 101, Linsley-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street

November 15
(Thursday)
1:30 P.M. - B012
77 Prospect St

Andrew McWilliam
Australian National University
"East Timor after the Indonesian Occupation"
hosted by the Genocide Studies Seminar Series
November 27
(Tuesday)
YVSG - 4:00 P.M
Yale Vietnam Studies Group Workshop <-> Click for details
November 28
SEAS Seminar
Tony Day
Wesleyan University
"Time and Freedom in Contemporary Southeast Asian Film"
December 5
SEAS Seminar
Christian C. Lenz
Department of Sociology, Cornell University
"Waving the Flag of Dien Bien Phu: State Formation in Modern Vietnam"
December 12
SEAS Seminar
C. Michelle Thompson
Department of History, Southern Connecticut State University
"Medical Exchanges Between the Han and the Viet c. 300 BCE-1389 CE"

*Tea, coffee, juice provided at all Wednesday SEAS seminars
B.Y.O. bag lunches welcome


Talks & events added, updated throughout Semester.
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