SEAS BROWN BAG SEMINAR SERIES* WEDNESDAYS,
12:00 NOON
DURING ACADEMIC SEMESTER
Room 203, Luce
Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue (Other events as indicated)
January
25
12:00 Noon
Brown Bag Seminar
"Why
do Balinese Make Offerings? Some Thoughts on History
and Complexity" Richard Fox, Research Associate, Department
of Anthropology, Harvard University abstract
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February
8
12:00 Noon
Brown Bag Seminar
"Reevaluating the Nghe-Tinh
Soviets of 1930-1931 using a Historical GIS: Refining
Some Preliminary Observations" David Del Testa, Department of History, Bucknell
University abstract
>>
February
10
6:00-8:00 P.M.
Luce Hall Common Room
10th
Annual Southeast Asia Spring Cultural Festival
Hosted by the SEAS Language and Literature Faculty Information
>>
February
15
12:00 Noon
Brown Bag Seminar
"'Human
Rights Are the Same as Coca Cola:' Contested Human Rights
Discourses in Suharto's Indonesia, 1968-1980" Brad Simpson, History
and International Affairs, Princeton University; Director,
Indonesia and East Timor Documentation Project abstract
>>
February
16
11:30 A.M.
Guest Lecture
"Suharto's
New Order: A Middleclass Counterrevolution"
Tony Day, Independent Scholar
February
18
Luce Hall, Rm 203
YIF Conference
YIF-CIA
8th NORTHEASTERN CONFERENCE ON INDONESIA Organized and hosted
by Yale Indonesia Forum (YIF) with Cornell Indonesia
Association (CIA) See
Yale Indonesia Forum >>
February
22
12:00 Noon
Brown Bag Seminar
"The
Politics of P(a)lace: Royal Space in Downtown Bangkok" Serhat Ünaldi, doctoral candidate, Department
of Southeast Asian Studies, Humboldt-University of Berlin
abstract
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February
24
12:00 Noon
Luce Hall, Rm 203
YIF-SEAS Seminar
"Two
Takes on Musical Genre and Hybridity in Indonesia: Simfoni Kecapi and Campursari" R. Anderson Sutton, Professor School of Music,
University of Wisconsin-Madison abstract
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February
29
12:00 Noon
Brown Bag Seminar
"Post-Mandarin
Prose and Prostitution in Colonial Vietnam" Ben Tran, Asian Studies and Department of English,
Vanderbilt University abstract
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February
29
4:00 P.M.
YVSG Workshop
103 Luce Hall
"Going
in and Getting Out of the Colonial Asylum: Families
and Psychiatric Care in French Indochina" Claire Edington, Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University See
Yale Vietnamese Studies Group >>
March
21
12:00 Noon
Brown Bag Seminar
"The
Making of Middle Indonesia - Kupang in the 1950s" Gerry van Klinken, Senior Researcher, KITLV (Royal
Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean
Studies abstract
>>
March
21
4:30 P.M.
Luce Hall, Rm 103
"The
Current State of the Indonesian Army" John Lee,
Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University
US Army, Foreign Area Officer See
Yale Indonesia Forum >>
March
23
4:00 P.M.
Luce Hall Auditorium
Special Lecture/Q&A
"Romancing
the Nation, Reasserting Order: Post (Economic) Crisis
Thai Cinema" Rachel Harrison, Reader in Thai Cultural Studies,
SOAS, University of London abstract
>>
April
12
5:00 P.M. - via Skype
Sage Hall, Rm 32
YIF Seminar
"Environmental
Implications of Land Use Policies in a Decentralized
Indonesia" Fitrian Ardiansyah, Australian National University
(VIA SKYPE) See
Yale Indonesia Forum >>
April
11
7:00 P.M.
212 York Street
hosted by YVSG
"Adrift
(Choi Voi)" FILM SCREENING
Followed by discussion with Director Bui Thac Chuyen information
and synopsis >>
April
18
12:00 Noon
Brown Bag Seminar
"Understanding
the Foreign Invaders: the 1862 Vietnamese Palace Examination" Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox, Department of History and
Non-Western Cultures, Western Connecticut State University abstract
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