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BROWN BAG SEMINAR SERIES FALL 2008	OTHER SPONSORED EVENTS
September 17 David A. Biggs, Department of History, UC, Riverside" "American Forays in Construction, Destruction, and Disruption: An Environmental History of the Vietnam War, 1952-1975"	October 5 Film Screenings: "The Bet Collector" – (The Philippines) *"Opera Jawa"* – (Indonesia) (Co-hosted with Global Lens/PIER Film School)
October 1 Allison Brown, Counter narcotics Advisor, Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock, Kabul, Afghanistan "Lessons Learned or Ignored? A Comparison of Opium Control Programs in Thailand, Burma, Laos and Afghanistan"	October 31 Film Screening: Three Documentaries from Viet Nam: Discussants: Film directors, Nugyen Huu Tuan and Phan Huyen Thu and Erik L. Harms, Yale Anthropology
October 8 Max Lane, Department of Malay Studies National University of Singapore "Unfinished Nation(s): mass action politics, history and the prospects of political instability in Indonesia ten years after the fall of Suharto in Indonesia"
October 15 Eric Henry, Asian Studies Department, University of North Carolina "Yuè States and Peoples in Early China"
October 22 Richard O'Connor, Departments of International Studies and Anthropology, Sewanee University "Between Legacy and Discourse: Southeast Asia as an Evolving Cultural Region"
October 29 Martin Loicano, Assistant Professor of History, University of Southern Mississippi "Political roles of Weapons Systems in the Republic of Viet Nam, 1967-1973"

SPRING 2009

February 11 Isabelle Beaulieu, Asian Studies, Université di Montréal “Fifty Years of Political Stability in a Rentier State: The Case of Malaysia”	February 11 Film Screening: "40 Years of Silence: an Indonesian Tragedy" Discussion with filmmaker, Robert Lemelson
February 18 Edward Miller, Dartmouth Colleg “Defending the Dharma, Defending the Nation: Religion, Nationalism and the Politics of Nation Building in South Vietnam’s 1963 ‘Buddhist Crisis’”	February 28 Indonesian Dance and Drum Workshop conducted by Ening Rumbini and Wahyu, West Java, Indonesia
March 4 Lorraine Paterson, Cornell University “Exiles from Indochina: Narrating the Lives of Colonial Deportees”	April 4 Yale Indonesia Forum Conference "Interreligious Relations in Indonesia"
March 25 Michael Bakan, College of Music, Florida State Unviersity “Monkey Chant Madness: Balinese Kecak in Fellini’s ‘Satyricon’ and the Coen Brothers’ ‘Blood Simple’”	February 28 SOUTHEAST ASIA ANNUAL SPRING CULTURAL FESTIVAL Featuring guest performers Ening Rumbini and Wahyu, West Java, Indonesia
April 8 Bradley Davis, Eastern Washington University “Bandit Rule Under the Nguyen: The Black Flags and the Vietnamese State, 1862-1873”	April 27 The Gitameit Voices Choir, Yangon, Myanmar Hosted byYale Spizzwinks LATimes article >>
April 15 Andrew Willford, Cornell University “The Indian Uprising and the Haunting of Justice in Malaysia”
April 22 Joel Kuipers, George Washington University “Linguistic Piety in Central Java”