ARCHIVE 2012-13
ARCHIVE 2012-13
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BROWN BAG SEMINAR SERIES FALL 2012 |
OTHER SPONSORED EVENTS |
| October 3 Keith Foulcher, Department of Indonesian Studies, University of Sydney, and Brian Roberts, Department of English, Brigham Young University “Indonesian Notebook: Richard Wright and Indonesian Cultural Modernism in the 1950s” |
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Discussion Forum following Chubb Lecture Panelists: Ben Kiernan and Sarah Weiss Moderator: Richard C. Levin Chubb Lecture at Yale: Click to view >> |
| October 10 Alfred W. McCoy (History Department, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Epistemology of Empire: Asian Wars, Information Regimes, and the future of U.S. Global Power” |
Film Screening “Mandove” with filmmakers Kian Tjong and Jim de Sève |
| October 17 Laurie Margot Ross, Southeast Asia Program Visiting Fellow, Cornell University “Visualizing the Cirebon Mask through the Zahir / Batin Matrix “ |
Film Screening “The River of Exchange” with José S. Buenconsejo, filmmaker and Dean, College of Music, University of the Philippines, Diliman |
| November 7 Ian Baird, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies “Large Hydropower Dams, Fish Migrations, Environmental Change, Livelihoods, State Territorialization, and Geopolitics in the Mekong River Basin” |
Film Screening “Short Films From Vietnam “ with filmmakers Nguyen Anh Thu, Le My Cuong, Nguyen Thi Minh Phuong, and Nguyen Thi Tham |
| November 14 Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung, Political Science Department, University of Massachusetts Lowell “The Grassroots’ approach to Poverty Alleviation in Contemporary Burma/Myanmar” |
“Singapore Today - Opposition Perspectives” Dr. Chee Soon Juan, Secretary General of the Singapore Democratic Party; Mr. Kenneth Jeyaretnam, Secretary General of the Reform Party of Singapore Commentator: Dr. Meredith Weiss, State University of New York Albany Click to view >> |
| November 28 Jayne Werner, Adjunct Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University “Religion and Communism in Vietnam: A Post-Colonial Perspective” |
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| December 5 Kimberly Kay Hoang, Program in Poverty, Justice and Human Capabilities, at the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and the Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Rice University “Chasing the Dragon: Sex, Finance, and Masculinities in Vietnam’s New Global Economy” |
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| December 12 Sylvia Tidey, Department of Anthropology, Universiteit van Amsterdam “ ‘Making the books look good’ or how anti-corruption efforts enable corruption in Kupang, Eastern Indonesia” |
SPRING 2013
| January 30 Andrew Alan Johnson, Weatherhead EAst Asian Institute, Columbia University “Naming Chaos: Accident, precariousness, and the spirits of wildness in urban Thai spirit cults” |
February 23 |
| February 13 David Price, Department of Anthropology, St. Martin’s University “Raymond Kennedy: Unanswered and Ignored Questions of Early Cold War Ethnography” |
March 29-30 |
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February 20 |
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| February 27 Claudine Ang, Department of Humanities (History), Yale-NUS College “Statecraft on the Margins: Drama, Poetry, and the Civilizing Mission in Eighteenth-Century Southern Vietnam” |
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March 6 |
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| April 16 Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh, Senior Editor and Analyst, Economist Intelligence Unit, Singapore “The Slow Road from Authoritarianism to Democracy: Where are Malaysia and Singapore?” |
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April 17 |
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April 24 |