ARCHIVE 2003-2004

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BROWN BAG SEMINAR SERIES FALL 2003	OTHER SPONSORED EVENTS
October 8 Christopher Duncan Visiting Assistant Professor in Anthropology University of Missouri-Columbia "Reconcilliation and Reinvention: The Resurgence of Tradition in Post-conflict North Maluku, Indonesia"	November 19 Documentaries from Vietnam "Tolerance for the Dead (Mot Coi Tam Linh)" "The Sound of the Violin in My Lai (Tieng Vi Cam O My Lai)" With Filmmaker, Tran Van Thuy
October 15 Kwanchewan Buadaeng Postdoctoral Fellow, Agrarian Studies, Yale University Researcher, Social Research Institute, Chiang Mai University, Thailand "The Construction of Karen Ethnic Identities in Burma and Thailand"
October 22 Philippe M.F. Peycam Director, Center for Khmer Studies in Siem Reap, Cambodia "New Trends in Khmer Studies: Tha Case of Angkor" An introduction to the work of the Center for Khmer Studies
October 29 James Hagen Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut "Communal Violence and the Collapse of Civil Society in Maluku, Indonesia"
November 12 Smita Lahiri Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University "Popular Religion, Filipino Nationalism, and the Production of Locality at Mt. Banahaw"
November 19 Scott Guggenheim Principal Social Scientist, World Bank, Indonesia Visiting Fellow, Southeast Asia Studies, Yale University "Community Development in Times of Transition: Stories from Indonesia"
December 3 Kamala Chandrakirana Indonesian National Commission on Violence Against Women; 2003 World Fellow, Yale University "Violence as a Language of Reform: Organizing for Change in Post-Soeharto Indonesia"
December 10 Balazs Szalontai Visiting Scholar, Hungary "Comrades in Arms: Relations between North Vietnam, North Korea, and Cuba, 1962-1969"

SPRING 2004

January 27 Sophie Quinn Judge Author "Ho Chi Minh in Power: What We Know and What We Don't Know"	January 30 Southeast Asia Spring Cultural Festival "Tet Celebration: The Year of the Monkey" Featuring the Nguyen Dinh Nghia Family Ensemble with traditional Vietnamese instruments
January 28 Mathieu Guerin SEDET, University Paris/CNRS "Swidden and Wet Rice Cultivation, Complementary Interrelations of Agrigultural Eco-Systems in Stung Treng (Cambodia) at the Beginning of the 20th Century"	February 12 Film Screening "Trading Women" (documentary on the Thai sex trade in minority women form Burma, Laos and China) With filmmaker, David Feingold
February 11 Ann Marie Leshkowich Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Holy Cross "Classing Down in Late Socialism: Gender and the Politics of Middle Class in an Urban Vietnamese Marketplace"	April 23 Gamelan, Wayang Kulit Performance Featuring Professor and Puppeteer, Sumarsam, Wesleyan University and the Wesleyan Javanese Gamelan Ensemble
February 18 Yudian Wahyudi Visiting Scholar, Harvard Islamic Legal Studies Program; Assistant Professor of Islamic Legal Philosophy, State Institute of Islamic Studies, Yogyakarta, Indonesia "The Position of Religion in Indonesia's General Elections 2004"	April 23 Film Screening "The Flute Player" Guest Discussant, Arn Chorn Pond (documentary subject)
March 3 Ward Keeler Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas "What's Burmese about Burmese Rap?"	May 8 Pencak Silat Workshop (Indonesian Martial Arts) With Bapak Waleed, Ann Arbor, Michigan
March 24 Edith Mirante American-Burmese Activist/Writer Founder/Director, Project Maje "Burma's Resources Under Siege"
March 29 Tuong Vu Mendenhall Fellow, Department of Government, Smith College "State Formation and Arrested Development in Indonesia and Vietnam"
April 7 Christopher Goscha Assistant Professor of History, University of Lyon "Beyond the 'Colonized' and the 'Colonizer': Intra-Asian Debates on the Reality of Colonial Legal Categories in French Indochina (1887-1954)"
April 14 Kate Jellema Doctoral Candidate, Interdisciplinary Program in Anthropology and History, University of Michigan "When the Stream Runs Dry: Replenishing History and Power in a Vietnamese Village"
April 21 Kate Jellema Doctoral Candidate, Interdisciplinary Program in Anthropology and History, University of Michigan "When the Stream Runs Dry: Replenishing History and Power in a Vietnamese Village"
April 23 Peter Zinoman Associate Professor, Depeartment of History, UC Berkeley "Urban Modernity in Colonial Vietnam: Vu Trong Phung Views the City"