Seminars & Events
Archive 2007-08
Fall 2007

Film Screening
" Journey from the Fall"
reading of one of Southeast Asia's best-loved political comedies
ATOMIC JAYA
Film Screening
" New Year Baby"

SEMINARS

Click on titles for links to abstracts

October 3
Huzir Sulaiman

Artistic Director,
Checkpoint Theater, Singapore;
Fall 2007 Yale World Fellow
"Democratic Space and the Performing Arts in Malaysia and Singapore"

October 10
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
Roland Fletcher
Director, Greater Angkor Project, Sydney University

"Angkor - urban landscape, economy and environment"
hosted by the Yale Center for Earth Observation

October 17
Ben Kiernan
Department of History, Yale University

"Writing a History of Vietnam from Earliest Times"

October 31
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
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 7
Duncan McCargo

University of Leeds, U.K.

"Thailand's Quiet Civil War: Why Southern Malay Muslims are Rebelling in Patani"

November 15
Andrew McWilliam

Australian National University

"East Timor after the Indonesian Occupation"
hosted by the Genocide Studies Seminar Series

November 28
Tony Day

Wesleyan University

"Time and Freedom in Contemporary Southeast Asian Film"

December 5
Christian C. Lenz

Department of Sociology, Cornell University

"Waving the Flag of Dien Bien Phu: State Formation in Modern Vietnam"

December 12
C. Michelle Thompson

Department of History, Southern Connecticut State University

"Medical Exchanges Between the Han and the Viet c. 300 BCE-1389 CE"

Spring 2008

SEAS Spring Festival 08
BALI EXTRAVAGANZA

SEMINARS

January 23

Andrew Weintraub
Department of Music, University of Pittsburg
"'Surrender':Dangdut and the Spectacle of Consumption in 1980s Indonesia"

January 29
Tyrell Haberkorn
Colgate University
"A Disintegrating State: Assassination, Arbitrary Arrest, and the Failures of Law in Thailand"

February 6
Erick Danzer
University of Wisconsin
"From Farmers to Global Markets: The Politics of Commodity Supply Chains in Indonesia"

February 12
Christopher Goscha
University du Quebec a Montreal
"Reconfiguring the 'Colonial Encounter': Inter-Asian Connections inside and outside French Indochina"

February 13
Christopher Wilson
"Governance Issues and Collective Violence in Southeast Asia: the case of North Maluku, Indonesia"

February 27
Nhung Tuyet Tran
University of Toronto
"Vietnamese Women at the Crossroads of Southeast Asia: Gender, State, and Society in the Early Modern Period"

February 28
Erik Harms
Duke University
"Vietnamese Power Inside Out"

March 5
Sonja van Wichelen
Cultural Sociology, Yale University
"'Secrets to Happy Polygamy':Shifting Masculinities in Indonesian Public Discourse"

March 26
Nick Enfield
Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics
"Karii, a Vietic group of upland Laos: nests of diversity in a rapidly changing world"

April 9
Kaja McGowan
Department of Art History and Archeology, Cornell University
"'Seeing... As if through a Sparse Shawl Unraveling': Ritual Cloth, Commercial Canvas, or a Good Opportunity to Show a Nude in Bali Between the Wars (1930-1950)"