CALENDAR OF EVENTS

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

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SPRING 2023 Events (To Date)

JANUARY    |     FEBRUARY   |     MARCH  |     APRIL 

SEAS BROWN BAG SEMINAR SERIES
Wednesdays, 12:00 P.M. EST
Room 203, Luce Hall (unless otherwise indicated)

January 25
Brown Bag Seminar
12:00 Noon		 “The linguist and the King of Siam: Yale in the History of Thai Linguistics”
Rikker Dockum, Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania 
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February 1
Brown Bag Seminar
12:00 Noon 		 “Deltas in Motion: Unpacking the Translational Politics at the Heart of Climate Change Adaptation in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam”
Jacob Weger, Lecture, Environmental Studies Program Seton Hall University 
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February 8
Brown Bag Seminar
12:00 Noon

“Real Farmers, Dream Cities: Agrarian Change, Demonstration, and the Politics of Visibility in Myanmar”
Courtney T Wittekind, Postdoctoral Associate, Program in Agrarian Studies
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February 15
Brown Bag Seminar
12:00 noon

“The Art of Pretending to Govern: The Administrative Origins of Myanmar’s Current State Crisis”
Frances O’Morchoe, Postdoctoral Associate in Myanmar Studies at Yale University 
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February 22
Brown Bag Seminar
12:00 Noon

“Outlines for an ethnography of Miaows and Whisker twitches: Concepts and approaches to the unspoken and the cynical in Malaysian Borneo” 
Asmus Rungby, Postdoctoral fellow, Yale university Council on Southeast Asian Studies, Research Associate at UNIMAS department of Borneo Studies (Universiti Malaysia Sarawak)
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March 1
Brown Bag Seminar
12:00 Noon

 “Indigenous Origins of State Education: Lessons from Myanmar’s Colonial Past”
Htet Thiha Zaw, Rackham Predoctoral Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University of Michigan- Ann Arbor
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March 8
Brown Bag Seminar
12:00 Noon
 		  “Love, Loss and Inter-Asian Intimacies in Colonial Malaya, 1900-1930”
Sandy Chang, Assistant Professor in Modern Asian history at the University of Florida
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March 31
Luce Common Room, Luce 202, Luce 203

5:15pm - 7:30pm

  ”Southeast Asia Studies Spring Festival”
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April 5
Brown Bag Seminar
12:00 Noon

“Closing Civic Space in Vietnam: Detentions, Trials, Tightened Regulation, Restricted Funding, and Other Party-State Pressures against Civil Society”
Mark Sidel, Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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April 12
Brown Bag Seminar
12:00 Noon
(Luce 202)

“Endless Revolution: Aesthetics of Resistance and Relationality in the Neoliberal Peace”
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
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April  19
Brown Bag Seminar
12:00 Noon
 

“Food Insecurity, Conflict, and Violence in Post-coup Myanmar”
Ardeth M. Thawnghmung, Professor, Political Science Department, University of Massachusetts Lowell
April 26 
Brown Bag Seminar
12:00 Noon

“Politics, Literature and the Nation Question: How a Book Put the Nail in the Coffin of a Dictatorship”
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
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Talks & events added and updated throughout Semester.
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