ARCHIVE 2023-24
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FALL 2022
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| August 31 Arifi Saiman, Consul General of the Republic of Indonesia in New York “Diplomasi Santri (Santri Diplomacy)” |
| September 14 Hilary Faxon, Assistant Professor of Environmental Social Science, University of Montana (on leave); Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen. “Digital Village: Networking Agrarian Change in Southeast Asia” |
| September 23-25 “Indonesia’s Complexity: Investigating the Layers between the Apparent and the Underlying” Keynote: Nurfadzilah Yahaya, History Department, Yale University Opening Performance: Phil Acimovic and the Yale Gamelan Conference Program and Registration Information >> |
| September 28 Ken MacLean, Professor, International Development and Social Change (IDSC) and the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Clark University. “Human Rights Fact Production: What Is at Stake in Myanmar?” |
| October 12 Jangai Jap, Early Career Provost Fellow, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin “Ethnic Politics of Pro-Democracy Mobilization in Myanmar” |
| October 17 Ibrahim Suffian, Copsounder and Programme Director, Merdeka Canter for Opinion Research; Meredith Weiss, Professor, Political Science Department, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, University at Albany |
| November 2 David Moe, Henry Hart Rice Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University ”Unfinished Nation: Imagining a New Myanmar Beyond Religious Nationalism and Tribalism” |
| November 16 Qui Ha Nguyen, Postdoctoral Associate, Council on Southeast Asia Studies; Lecturer, Film and Media Studies Program, Yale University “The Poetics of Improvised Lives: Documenting Precarity, Creativity, and Care in the Wounded Land in Post-war Vietnam” |
| November 30 Sara Swenson, Assistant Professor in Asian Religions, Dartmouth College “Murmurs and Yelps: Buddhist Ethical Soundscapes in Vietnam” |
| December 7 Tun Myint, Professor & Chair, Department of Political Science & International Relations, Carleton College “Collapse of the Tatmadaw and the end of Burmanization in Myanmar: Understanding the contentious relationship between democracy and state sovereignty” |
SPRING 2023
| January 25 Rikker Dockum, Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania "The linguist and the King of Siam: Yale in the History of Thai Linguistics" |
| February 1 Jacob Weger, Lecture, Environmental Studies Program Seton Hall University “Deltas in Motion: Unpacking the Translational Politics at the Heart of Climate Change Adaptation in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam” |
| February 8 Courtney T Wittekind, Postdoctoral Associate, Program in Agrarian Studies “Real Farmers, Dream Cities: Agrarian Change, Demonstration, and the Politics of Visibility in Myanmar” |
| February 18 Frances O’Morchoe, Postdoctoral Associate in Myanmar Studies at Yale University “The Art of Pretending to Govern: The Administrative Origins of Myanmar’s Current State Crisis” |
| February 22 Asmus Rungby, Postdoctoral fellow, Yale university Council on Southeast Asian Studies, Research Associate at UNIMAS department of Borneo Studies (Universiti Malaysia Sarawak) “Outlines for an ethnography of Miaows and Whisker twitches: Concepts and approaches to the unspoken and the cynical in Malaysian Borneo” |
| March 1 Htet Thiha Zaw, Rackham Predoctoral Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University of Michigan- Ann Arbor “Indigenous Origins of State Education: Lessons from Myanmar’s Colonial Past” |
| March 8 Sandy Chang, Assistant Professor in Modern Asian history at the University of Florida “Love, Loss and Inter-Asian Intimacies in Colonial Malaya, 1900-1930” |
| April 5 Mark Sidel, Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Closing Civic Space in Vietnam: Detentions, Trials, Tightened Regulation, Restricted Funding, and Other party-State Pressures against Civil Society" |
| April 12 Quynh H. Vo, Professorial Lecturer of Asia, Pacific, and Diaspora Studies, Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Cultural Studies, American University in Washington D.C “Endless Revolution: Aesthetics of Resistance and Relationality in the Neoliberal Peace” |
| April 19 Ardeth M. Thawnghmung, Professor, Political Science “Food Insecurity, Conflict, and Violence in Post-coup Myanmar" |
| April 20 Ramayana: A Tale of Trees and Wood |
| April 26 Dr Max Lane, Senior Visiting Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) - Yusof Ishak Institute, Author of Indonesia Out of Exile: How Pramoedya’s Buru Quartet Killed a Dictatorship, Penguin Books (SEAsia), 2022 “Politics, Literature and the Nation Question: How a Book Put the Nail in the Coffin of a Dictatorship” |