SEAS BROWN BAG SEMINAR
SERIES* WEDNESDAYS,
12:00 NOON
DURING ACADEMIC SEMESTER
Room 203, Luce
Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue (Other events
as indicated)
January
23 12:00 Noon
SEAS
Council at YUAG
no seminar
January
30 12:00 Noon
Brown Bag Seminar
"Naming
Chaos: Accident, precariousness, and the spirits
of wildness in urban Thai spirit cults" Andrew Alan Johnson, Postdoctoral Fellow,
Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University abstract
>>
February
13 12:00 Noon
Brown Bag Seminar
"Raymond
Kennedy: Unanswered and Ignored Questions of Early
Cold War Ethnography" David Price, Department of Anthropology,
St. Martin's University abstract
>>
(See also: Yale
SEAS History: Raymond Kennedy)
February
20 12:00 Noon
Brown Bag Seminar
"A
Pox on TuÐuc: the Social and Political Effects
of Smallpox on the House of Nguyen" Michele Thompson, Department of History,
Southern Connecticut State University abstract
>>
February
23 6:00 - 8:00 P.M.
Common Room
Luce Hall
Southeast
Asia Spring Cultural Festival
Hosted by the SEAS Language and Literature Faculty
Food and entertainment celebrating the cultures
of Southeast Asia program
information >>
February
27 12:00 Noon
Brown Bag Seminar
"Statecraft
on the Margins: Drama, Poetry, and the Civilizing
Mission in Eighteenth-Century Southern Vietnam"
Claudine Ang, Yale-NUS College Associate abstract
>>
March
6 12:00 Noon
Brown Bag Seminar
"Southeast
Asia and Eurasia During A Thousand Years" Victor Lieberman, Marvin B. Becker Collegiate
Professor of Southeast Asian History, University
of Michigan
sponsored by the Traphagen Alumni Speakers Series,
Yale College Office of Student Affairs abstract
>>
March
27 12:00 Noon
Southeast
Asia Studies Council Meeting
closed to public
"Trans-Regionalism
and Economic Co-Dependency in the South China
Sea-The Case of China and the Malacca Straits
Region (10th - 14th centuries AD)" Derek Heng, Associate Professor of Humanities
(Yale-NUS College) abstract
>>
April 10 5:30 P.M., Rm
115 10 Sachem Street YVSG
Workshop
"Some
Initial Issues on the Foreign Policy of the Nguyen
Dynasty" Dr. Tran Duc Anh Son Vice Director of the
Socio-Economic Research & Development of Dà
Nang abstract
>>
April
16 4:00 P.M.
Luce Hall,Room 203
"The
Slow Road from Authoritarianism to Democracy:
Where are Malaysia and Singapore?" Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh, Senior Editor and
Analyst, Economist Intelligence Unit, Singapore abstract
>>
April
17 12:00 Noon
Luce Hall, Room 202
Brown Bag Seminar
"Ho
Chi Minh and Children: (De)Constructing Narratives
of Love and Devotion" Olga Dror, Associate Profeessor of History,
Texas A&M University abstract>>
April
18 4:00 P.M.
Luce Hall, Room 202
"Changes
in Burma/Myanmar Seen in a Geopolitical Context" Bertil Lintner, Journalist, Author, and
Strategic Consultant
Co-sponsored with the Council on South Asia Studies
and the Council on East Asia Studies
April
18 4:30 P.M.
451 College Street,
Room B-04
"'But
we need Relics!': Foundation Myths of Burmese
and Mon Buddhism" Donald Stadtner, Professor of Art History,
University of Texas, Austin
Co-sponsored with the Department of Religious
Studies, and the Hixon Fund
April
24 12:00 Noon
Brown Bag Seminar
"Domiciles:
Activist Spaces and Archived Selves in Indonesia" Doreen Lee, Assistant Professor of Anthropology,
Northeastern University abstract>>
Talks & events will
be added, updated throughout Semester.
Contact seas@yale.edu
for details
