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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


January 23
SEAS Seminar

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

January 26 (Sat)
7:30 p.m.
Battell Chapel

400 College Street
GAMELAN CONCERT-GAMELAN SUPRABANGGO
Sarah Weiss, Director
>click here for details

January 29
4:00 P.M.
Room 105
10 Sachem Street

Tyrell Haberkorn
Colgate University
"A Disintegrating State: Assassination, Arbitrary Arrest, and the Failures of Law in Thailand"
(Co-sponsored with the Department of Anthropology)
February 6
12:00 Noon
Room A001-ISPS
77 Prospect Street
Erick Danzer
University of Wisconsin
"From Farmers to Global Markets: The Politics of Commodity Supply Chains in Indonesia"
(Co-sponsored with the Department of Political Science)
February 12 (Tues)
3:30 P.M.
211 HGS
320 York Street
Christopher Goscha
University du Quebec a Montreal
"Reconfiguring the 'Colonial Encounter': Inter-Asian Connections inside and outside French Indochina"
(Co-sponsored with the Department of History)
February 13
12:00 Noon
Room 119
8 Prospect Place
Christopher Wilson
"Governance Issues and Collective Violence in Southeast Asia: the case of North Maluku, Indonesia"
(Co-sponsored with the Department of Political Science

February 20
SEAS Seminar

Satya S. Tripathi - CANCELLED -
UN Recovery Coordinator for Aceh and Nias
"Dynamics of Complex Recovery Processes: Rebuilding Aceh and Nias after the Tsunami"
February 27
12:00 Noon
211 HGS
320 York Street
Nhung Tuyet Tran
University of Toronto
"Vietnamese Women at the Crossroads of Southeast Asia: Gender, State, and Society in the Early Modern Period"
(Co-sponsored with the Department of History)
February 28 (Thurs)
4:00 P.M.
Room 105
10 Sachem Street
Erik Harms
Duke University
"Vietnamese Power Inside Out"

(Co-sponsored with the Department of Anthropology)
March 5
SEAS Seminar
Sonja van Wichelen
Cultural Sociology, Yale University
"'Secrets to Happy Polygamy':Shifting Masculinities in Indonesian Public Discourse"
March 5
4:45 P.M.
Room 102, LUce Hall
Yale Indonesia Forum
"Decentralization in Indonesia: Papua's Experiment"
Oktovianus Mote
. Papuan human rights activist, journalist and visiting fellow at Cornell and Yale Universities
March 26
SEAS Seminar
Nick Enfield
Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics
"Karii, a Vietic group of upland Laos: nests of diversity in a rapidly changing world"
March 29
7:00 P.M.
Yale Film Theater
212 York STreet
FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION
Little Heart / Trai Tim Be Bong
with Director, Nguyen Thanh Van,Actress, Hong Anh, and Cinematographer Nguyen Huu Tuan
>click here for details
April 9
SEAS Seminar
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)"
April 12 (Sat)
12:00 Noon - 8:00 PM
Room 203, Luce Hall
34 Hillhouse
YALE INDONESIA FORUM WORKSHOP
Narrative, Memory and History in Indonesian Arts, Media and Culture
>click here for details
April 18 (Fri)
2:00 Pm - 4:30 PM
Room A001, ISPS
77 Prospect
NOM STUDIES WORKSHOP
Traces of Identity: Vietnamese Language, Classical Chinese, and Chu Nom (Nom Script)
>click here for details
April 22
4:00 P.M.
Room 102
Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse
Yale Vietnamese Study Group
Charles Keith
History, Yale University
"Communism and Catholicism in Colonial Vietnam: the Early Stages of a Bad Relationship"
   

July 18-19, 2008
Yale Indonesian Forum: International Conference
Atma Jaya University, Yogyakarta
Towards An Inclusive Democratic Indonesian Society: Bridging the Gap Between State Uniformity and Multicultural Identity Patterns.

>click here for details


*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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