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BROWN BAG SEMINAR SERIES FALL 2015	OTHER SPONSORED EVENTS
September 16 David Biggs, History and Public Policy, UC Riverside “National Networks, War Zones and Layered Sovereignty: Village Landscapes as a Lens on the First Indochina War”	October 8 - Genocide Studies Seminar (co-sponsored) Jessica Melvin, University of Melbourne “Mechanics of Mass Murder: Military Coordination of the Indonesian Genocide”
October 7 Celia Lowe, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington “Biological Futures: Securing Life in the Indonesian H5N1 Outbreak"	October 8- Film Screening with Daniel Ziv, Director “JALANAN”
October 14 Baladas Ghoshal, Centre for South, Central, Southeast Asia and South-West Pacific Studies, JNU “Indonesia under President Jokowi: An Assessment”	October 13 - Ethnography and Social Theory Lecture Series: Anthropology (co-sponsored) Lisa Barthlemes, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology “Itinerant Vendors and Local Officials in Hanoi, Vietnam”
October 28 William deBuys, author and conservationist “The Last Unicorn: A Frontline Report on Wildlife Protection in Laos and Vietnam”	November 11 - Film Screening Vivian Norris, Filmmaker/Director “Obama Mama”
November 4 Edith Mirante, author and founder of Project Maje, an independent information project on Burma’s human rights and environmental issues “The Wind in the Bamboo: Indigenous People of African Appearance Survive in Asia”	November 19 - Genocide Studies Seminar (co-sponsored) Noah Shenker, Monash University “From L.A. to Phnom Penh: The Transmission of Documentation Strategies in Post-Genocide Archives”
November 18 Rahimah Abdulrahim, Executive director of The Habibie Center, Indonesia; Yale World Fellow 2015 “The Role of Social Media in the Democratization of Indonesia”	December 1 – Seminar, hosted by the Alliance for Southeast Asian Students, Yale University Pavin Chachavalpongpun, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University; Distinguished Fellow, Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University
	December 2 - JAVANESE GAMELAN - CONCERT AND LECTURE-DEMO, Sumarsam, University Professor of Music, Wesleyan University; Instructor, MUSI 232, Yale Department of Music; Featuring the Yale Gamelan Ensemble Information on Yale Gamelan >>

SPRING 2016

January 20 Dave Paulson, Department of Anthropology, Temple University “Writing in the Margins: Indigenous Literacy, Childhood Socialization, and Rapid Modernization in a Vietnamese Village”	February 1 WORKSHOP: Contemplating the Rise of Asian Cities “Build, Dwell, Live” Co-sponsored with Whitney Humanities Center, and the Councils on East Asian Studies and South Asian Studies
January 27 Douglas Hood, Physician Associate, Department of Neurology, Yale-New Haven Hospital ”Homicide in the Cambodian Community”	Feb 24 - Feb 29: Art Exhibition: “Altered State: Painting in Myanmar in a Time of Transition” Collection curated and presented by Ian Holliday, Vice President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning), The University of Hong Kong (Co-sponsored with ALSEAS)
February 3 Heidi Hoefinger, Professor of Science, Berkeley College, NYC "Sexual Economies and Identities in Contemporary Cambodia”	February 26 SPRING CULTURAL FESTIVAL Food and Performances Hosted by the SEAS Language Studies Students and Faculty
February 10 Ivan V. Small, Department of Anthropology, Central Connecticut State University “Affecting Mobility: Consuming Driving and Driving Consumption in Southeast Asia”	March 7 WORKSHOP: Contemplating the Rise of Asian Cities “Imagine, Conceive, Represent” Co-sponsored with Whitney Humanities Center, and the Councils on East Asian Studies and South Asian Studies
February 17 John D. Phan, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers University “The Rise of Chữ Nôm and the Vernacularization of Poetic Forms in Early Modern Vietnam”	April 4 WORKSHOP: Contemplating the Rise of Asian Cities “Move, Connect, Exchange” Co-sponsored with Whitney Humanities Center, and the Councils on East Asian Studies and South Asian Studies
February 24 Ian Holliday, Vice President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning), The University of Hong Kong “Freedom and Fear in Myanmar”	April 15 YIF Spring Dialogue “Women’s Eyes at All Issues: On Indonesia” Hosted by the Yale Indonesia Forum
March 2 Duncan McCargo, Professor of Political Science, University of Leeds; Visiting Professor, Columbia University “(Un)Happy Stories from Thailand’s Constitutional Court”	April 16 14th Northeastern Conference (NEC) on Indonesia “Women’s Eyes at All Issues: On Indonesia” Hosted by the Yale Indonesia Forum (YIF) with the Cornell Indonesian Association (CIA)
March 9 Martina Nguyen, Department of History, Baruch College (CUNY) “Wearing Modernity: the Press, Fashion, and the “Origins” of the Vietnamese National Costume, 1932-1937 “	April 17 Film Screening “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” (Thailand 2008) Introduction: Rikker Dockum, Linguistics, Yale University Co-sponsored with MacMillan Center
April 13 Mitch Aso, Assistant Professor, Department of History, SUNY Albany “Modernity’s Environment: Rubber Plantations and the Making of Vietnam, 1897-1975”	May 6 Javanese Wayang Kulit “ARJUNÅ IN MEDITATION” Dhalang: Prof. Sumarsam; Yale Gamelan Ensemble; guest artists: I.M. Harjito, Alec McLane, and Muryanto
April 20 Victor B. Lieberman, Raoul Wallenberg Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of History, University of Michigan “Why were Nationalism and Democracy European? Ethnicity and Power in Asia and Europe c. 1400 to 1850”	May 6-7 International Conference CONFLICT IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA Exploring the history of the ongoing dispute in the South China Sea. Hosted by the Council on Southeast Asian Studies, with support from the Council on East Asian Studies, and the Institute for Vietnamese Culture and Education.
April 27 Nam Kim, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Archaeology and Reconstruction(s) of Early Vietnam”	May 9 WORKSHOP & PLENARY SESSION: Contemplating the Rise of Asian Cities Co-sponsored with Whitney Humanities Center, and the Councils on East Asian Studies and South Asian Studies