ARCHIVE 2011-2012

ARCHIVE 2011-2012

FALL 2011 > | SPRING 2012 >

BROWN BAG SEMINAR SERIES FALL 2011	OTHER SPONSORED EVENTS
October 5 Philip Yampolsky, Director, Robert E. Brown Center for World Music, University of Illinois “Performing Indonesia Abroad 195”Traditional Music in Timor, East and West”	November 7 Film Screening “The Mother’s Heart (Tâm Hon Me)” with Director, Pham Hue Giang
October 12 Sophie Quinn Judge, Associate Director, Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture and Society, Temple University “Le Duan and the Political Struggle for Peace in Vietnam”	November 16 Rough Cut Film Screening and Discussion “Singing Sentiment” with filmmaker, Lauren Meeker
October 19 Allison J. Truitt, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University “Networks of Credit: The Middle Class Project in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam”
October 26 Nina Hien, John W. Draper Program in Humanities and Social Thought, New York University “Reconfiguring the Dunes: The Story of a Vietnamese Heterotopia”
November 2 Christina Sunardi, School of Music, University of Washington “Cultural Politics and Cross-Gender Dance: Redefining Senses of Masculinity and Femininity In Reformation Era East Java”
November 9 Kate Baldanza, Pennsylvania State University “A De-civilizing Mission: Chinese Views of Vietnam”
November 16 Lauren Meeker, Department of Anthropology, SUNY New Paltz “Learning Vietnamese Quan ho Folk Song in an Age of Intangible Cultural Heritage”
November 30 James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University “A Riverine Society: Burma and the Irrawaddy”

SPRING 2012

January 25 Richard Fox, Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University “Why do Balinese Make Offerings? Some Thoughts on History and Complexity”	February 10 10th Annual Southeast Asia Spring Cultural Festival, Hosted by the SEAS Language and Literature Faculty
February 8 David Del Testa, Department of History, Bucknell University “Reevaluating the Nghe-Tinh Soviets of 1930-1931 using a Historical GIS: Refining Some Preliminary Observations”	February 18 “8th Annual YIF-CIA Conference on Indonesian Studies” Organized and hosted by Yale Indonesia Forum (YIF) with Cornell Indonesia Association (CIA)
February 15 Brad Simpson, History and International Affairs, Princeton University; Director, Indonesia and East Timor Documentation Project “ ‘Human Rights Are the Same as Coca Cola:’ Contested Human Rights Discourses in Suharto’s Indonesia, 1968-1980”	March 23 “Evolving Regional Architecture in Southeast Asia and Implications for the United States” Nguyen Quoc Cuong Ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to the United States of America YIRA Lecture (CSEAS co-sponsored
February 15 Serhat Ünaldi, doctoral candidate, Department of Southeast Asian Studies, Humboldt-University of Berlin “The Politics of P(a)lace: Royal Space in Downtown Bangkok”	March 30-31 Yale Indonesia Forum Spring Conference Language Ideologies in Indonesia
February 24 R. Anderson Sutton, Professor School of Music, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Two Takes on Musical Genre and Hybridity in Indonesia: Simfoni Kecapi and Campursari”	FILM SCREENING “Adrift (Choi Voi)” Followed by discussion with Director Bui Thac Chuyen
February 29 Ben Tran, Asian Studies and Department of English, Vanderbilt University “Post-Mandarin Prose and Prostitution in Colonial Vietnam”
March 21 Gerry van Klinken, Senior Researcher, KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies “The Making of Middle Indonesia - Kupang in the 1950s”
April 4 Rachel Harrison, Reader in Thai Cultural Studies, SOAS, University of London “Romancing the Nation, Reasserting Order: Post (Economic) Crisis Thai Cinema”
April 18 Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox, Department of History and Non-Western Cultures, Western Connecticut State University “Understanding the Foreign Invaders: the 1862 Vietnamese Palace Examination”