Friday Forum: Thanik Lertcharnrit

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

The Prehistory of Thailand, from the Beginning to the Emergence of Urban Centers ~ Sponsored by the University Lectures Committee ~ Co-sponsored by the Archaeology Brownbag Series and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies   …

Friday Forum: Jerome Whitington

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

Late Industrial Environments are Constituted by Uncertainty: Notes from Lao Hydropower Viewing contemporary environmental politics through the lens of crisis or destruction may lead to an overly apocalyptic understanding of our contemporary ecological predicament. A …

Friday Forum: Jane Ferguson

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

Four of the Thirteen Lives Are Stateless: The Cave Rescue, Hollywood Heroism and Ethnonational Traps at the Thai-Burma Border In 2018, the world news watchers were captivated by the real-life rescue of the boys’ soccer …

Friday Forum: Boreth Ly

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

Of Rice and Roses: Preliminary Thoughts on Critical Pleasure and the Philosophy of Sabai   Colonial regimes in Southeast Asia considered natives to be lazy and incapable of making progress, and thus separate from the …

Friday Forum: Nam Kim

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

Archaeological Explorations of “Viet” Origins: A Personal Journey The discipline of archaeology in present-day Vietnam has an interesting and deep history, one marked by alternating backdrops of political stability, social upheaval, and nationalistic agendas. Past …

Friday Forum: Palita Chunsaengchan

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

Censoring “Miss Suwanna of Siam:” Film Diplomacy and the Ruling Class’s Double Vision Palita Chunsaengchan Ph.D., Assistant Professor Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies University of Minnesota Miss Suwanna of Siam (1923), putatively the …

Friday Forum: Derek Heng

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

Diversity in a Melaka Straits Region Port-City: Temasik in the 14th Century Pre-modern port-cities of the Melaka Straits region were one of the most diverse places in Southeast Asia. The range of networks, the openness …

Friday Forum: Oona Paredes

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

Fringe Histories: Re-placing imperial spaces in Southeast Asia within an Indigenous context Oona Paredes Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures University of California – Los Angeles How can we imagine the spaces and peoples …

Friday Forum: Muhammad Adlin Sila

@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Being Muslim in Indonesia: The Local Conception of Islam and Every-day-experience of Muslims in Bima, Eastern Indonesia Please click here to join the virtual meeting. No prior registration required; email seasia@seasia.wisc.edu with any access issues. …

Friday Forum: John Roosa

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

The 1965-66 Massacres in Indonesia within the Frame of Genocide Studies: What is Gained, What is Lost Genocide Studies, since its beginnings as an academic field in the early 1980s, has worked with a more …