ARCHIVE 2007-2008
BROWN BAG SEMINAR SERIES FALL 2007 |
OTHER SPONSORED EVENTS |
October 3 Huzir Sulaiman, Artistic Director, Checkpoint Theater, Singapore; Fall 2007 Yale World Fellow "Democratic Space and the Performing Arts in Malaysia and Singapore" |
September 25 Film Screening: "Of Love and Eggs" (Rindu Kami Padamu) Discussant, Indriyo Sukmono, Yale Southeast Asia Studies (Co-hosted with PIER Outreach Program) |
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 |
November 6 Film Screening: "Journey from the Fall," with discussion by director Ham Tran (Co-hosted with the Vietnamese Students Association) |
October 15 Roland Fletcher, Director, Greater Angkor Project, Sydney University "Angkor - urban landscape, economy and environment" hosted by the Yale Center for Earth Observation |
November 13 Play Reading: "Atomic Jaya" with writer/director Huzier Sulaiman (Yale World Fellow) and actress Claire Wong (Co-hosted with the Yale School of Drama) |
October 17 Ben Kiernan, Department of History, Yale University "Writing a History of Vietnam from Earliest Times" |
November 13 Panel Discussion/Q.&A. “What’s Really Happened in Burma” James C. Scott (Political Science), Aung Win, Kevin Malseed (Agrarian Studies), Khin Maung Gyi and Viola Wu (Yale Nursing) |
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 14 Film Screening: "New Year Baby," with writer/director Socheata Poeuv and producer Charles Vogel |
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" |
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November 7 Duncan McCargo, University of Leeds, U.K. "Thailand's Quiet Civil War: Why Southern Malay Muslims are Rebelling in Patani" |
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November 15 Andrew McWilliam, Australian National University "East Timor after the Indonesian Occupation" Hosted by the Genocide Studies Seminar Series |
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November 28 Tony Day Wesleyan University "Time and Freedom in Contemporary Southeast Asian Film" |
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December 5 Christian C. Lenz, Department of Sociology, Cornell University "Waving the Flag of Dien Bien Phu: State Formation in Modern Vietnam" |
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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
January 23 Andrew Weintraub, Department of Music, University of Pittsburg "'Surrender':Dangdut and the Spectacle of Consumption in 1980s Indonesia" |
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January 29 Tyrell Haberkorn, Colgate University "A Disintegrating State: Assassination, Arbitrary Arrest, and the Failures of Law in Thailand" |
March 1 SOUTHEAST ASIA CULTURAL FESTIVAL 2008 – “BALI EXTRAVAGANZA” featuring Guest Performers: Gamelan Dharma Swara and Balinese Dance Troupe from the Indonesian Consulate, New York City |
February 6 Erick Danzer, University of Wisconsin "From Farmers to Global Markets: The Politics of Commodity Supply Chains in Indonesia" |
March 29 Film Screening: "Little Heart (Trai Tim Be Bong)," with director Nguyen Thanh Van, Actress Hong Anh and Cinematographer Nguyen Huu Tuan |
February 12 Christopher Goscha, University du Quebec a Montreal "Reconfiguring the 'Colonial Encounter': Inter-Asian Connections inside and outside French Indochina" |
April 12 Yale Indonesia Forum Conference "Narrative, Memory and History in Indonesian Arts, Media and Culture" |
February 13 Christopher Wilson, Independent Researcher "Governance Issues and Collective Violence in Southeast Asia: the case of North Maluku, Indonesia" |
April 18
Nom Studies Workshop: |
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" |
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February 28 Erik Harms, Duke University "Vietnamese Power Inside Out" |
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March 5 Sonja van Wichelen, Cultural Sociology, Yale University "'Secrets to Happy Polygamy':Shifting Masculinities in Indonesian Public Discourse" |
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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)" |