Friday Forum: Tyrell Haberkorn

206 Ingraham Hall
@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

“A Jurisprudence Against Coups in Thailand” Tyrell Haberkorn Professor of Southeast Asian Studies Department of Asian Languages and Cultures University of Wisconsin-Madison On the first anniversary of the coup by the National Council for Peace …

Friday Forum and Asian Languages & Cultures Job Talk: Courtney Wittekind

336 Ingraham Hall
@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

“Real Farmers, Dream Cities: Agrarian Change, Demonstration, and the Politics of Visibility in Myanmar” Courtney T. Wittekind Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University Program in Agrarian Studies, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies This presentation examines …

Friday Forum and Asian Languages & Cultures Job Talk: Lailatul Fitriyah

206 Ingraham Hall
@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

“Border Theologies: God and Resistance in a Southeast Asian Diaspora”   Lailatul Fitriyah Assistant Professor of Interreligious Education Claremont School of Theology This talk will examine Islamic and Christian theologies from the lives of Indonesian …

Friday Forum and Asian Languages & Cultures Job Talk: Claire-Marie Hefner

206 Ingraham Hall
@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

“Religious Authority in Action: Women, Islamic Education, and Everyday Activism in Indonesia” Claire-Marie Hefner Visiting Assistant Professor Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program Bard College Islamic schools are often imagined as spaces of restrictive rules and …

Friday Forum: Chaiyaporn Singdee

206 Ingraham Hall
@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

“The Afterlife of the Vietnam War Era: U.S. Army Uniforms in Thailand”   Chaiyaporn Singdee Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology Chiang Mai University   The economic power and global appeal of the second-hand clothing industry has …

Friday Forum: Mai Elliot

206 Ingraham Hall
@ 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm

“Looking For My Family’s Roots in a Changed Vietnam?”   Returning to Vietnam after the Vietnam War ended in 1975, I found a country that time, two long and devastating wars, a Communist revolution, globalization …

Friday Forum: Nattaporn Luangpipat

206 Ingraham Hall
@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

“National Policies, Economic Realities, and the Shifting Acceptance of Mandarin and Chinese Dialects in Thailand” Nattaporn Luangipipat Ph.D. Candidate in Composition and Rhetoric University of Wisconsin-Madison Language is an essential component in maintaining identity. Individuals …

Friday Forum: John A. Marston

206 Ingraham Hall
@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

“Dharmawara Mahathera: More Thoughts about a Transnational Cambodian Monk” Dr. John A. Marston Professor-Researcher Center for Asian and African Studies Colegio de México Dharmawara Mahathera (1889-1999) was a colorful Cambodian monk resident in India from …

Friday Forum: Phong Nguyen

206 Ingraham Hall
@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

The Interpretation of Silence: Navigating History, Myth, and Invention as a Vietnamese American Writer This talk will explore my family background, my efforts to understand and write about my father’s history, and how this background …