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BROWN BAG SEMINAR SERIES FALL 2018	OTHER SPONSORED EVENTS
September 26 Bernard Adeney-Risakotta, Founding Director of the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (ICRS) at Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta “Living in a Sacred Cosmos: Indonesia and the Future of Islam”	November 6 - 10 Yale and Wesleyan Universities hosted Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X, the Governor/Sultan of Yogyakarta. Concurrent events listed below:
September October 30 John Buchanan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale Agrarian Studies; Director of Research, Institute for Strategy and Policy - Myanmar “Strongmen as Benefactors: Opium, Patronage and State (Dis)Formation in Burma’s Shan State (1959-1996)”	November 6 Wayang Kulit Performance: "Arjuna Wiwaha (Arjuna's Meditation)” Featuring shadow puppeteer Ki Suharno Cermo Sugondo and gamelan musicians from the royal court of Yogyakarta at the Yale University Art Gallery
October 10 Christian C. Lentz, Assistant Professor of Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “Revolutionary Alternatives, or Điện Biên Phủ After the Battle”	November 7 Symposium: “Islam and the Arts of Java” With Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X, and four other panelists
October 24 David Edward Gilbert, PhD candidate, Stanford University “Laborers Becoming ‘Peasants’: Agroecological politics in a Sumatran plantation zone”	November 8 International Conference: “Mass Violence in Southeast Asia Since 1945” Keynote: Professor Geoffrey Robinson, UCLA co-sponsored with Genocide Studies
October 31 Traude Gavin, Senior Visiting Fellow, Department of Indo-Pacific Art, Yale Art Gallery “Researching the Borneo Textile Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery (Indo-Pacific Department)”
November 7 David Neidel, Asia Program Coordinator, Environmental Leadership and Training Initiative (ETLI), Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies “Filling a Void: The Challenges of Mine Site Rehabilitation in Kalimantan”
November 14 Heng Sreang, Research Scholar, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University “Time for Reparations? A View on the Cambodian government’s response to the genocide”
November 28 Thynn Thynn Hlaing, Yale World Fellow 2018} “A Bumpy Democracy Transition in Myanmar”
December 5 Steve Rhee, Senior Program Officer - Jakarta, The Ford Foundation “Reflections on Brokering Authority: 12 years in and still muddling through in Indonesia"

SPRING 2019

January 23 Brian Eyler, Director, Southeast Asia Program, The Stimson Center; Co-founder EastbySoutheast.com “Last Days of the Mighty Mekong: Navigating an Unstainable Development Pathway”	February 15 Southeast Asia Spring Cultural Festival Regional Food, Music, Dance and Art Hosted by Faculty and Students of the Southeast Asia Studies Language and Literture Progams
February 27 Laura Meitzner Yoder, Director and John Stott Endowed Chair of Human Needs and Global Resources; Professor of Environmental Studies, Wheaton College “Megaprojects and the National development Models in Timor-Leste”	February 25 Film Screening “The Cleaners” Directors: Moritz Riesewieck and Hans Block; Gebrueder Beetz Films Information / synopsis >>
March 6 Lê Đức Minh, Associate Professor of Vietnam National University and Research Associate of the American Museum of Natural History “Biodiversity Conservation in Vietnam: Challenges in the 21st century”	April 12 Yale Indonesia Forum Spring Dialogue “On Rising Fear, Anxiety, and Producing the “Other” in Indonesia” hosted by Yale Indonesia Forum
April 3 Ngo Vinh Long, Professor of Asian Studies, Department of History, University of Maine “Vietnam’s Relations with China: Domestic impact and international implications”	April 13 19th Northeastern Conference (NEC) on Indonesia “On Rising Fear, Anxiety, and Producing the “Other” in Indonesia” hosted by Yale Indonesia Forum and Cornell Indonesia Association Program information / Conference summary >>
April 10 Janet Alison Hoskins, Professor of Anthropology and Religion, University of Southern California, Los Angeles “'Little Hanois’” and ‘Little Saigons’: Cold War Polarities in Diasporic Vietnamese Temples”	April 20 Central Javanese Gamelan Music Concert Yale Gamelan Suprabanggo Director: Maho Ishiguro, Yale University with students of Yale Central Javanese Gamelan Ensemble, MUSIC 232
April 17 Ivan V. Small, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Central Connecticut State University “Currencies of Imagination: Channeling Money and Chasing Mobility in Vietnam”	April 21 Wayang Kulit (Shadow Puppetry) Performance “Lakon Babat Alas Mertani” Dalang/Puppeteer: Darsono Hadiraharjo Yale Community Gamelan Ensemble and students of the Culture and Performing Arts MUSI 233 Guest musicians: Anne Stebinger and Phil Acimovic Guest speakers: Michael R. Dove, program information and details >>