CSEAS Newsletter
April 15, 2016
CSEAS Conference
Friday, April 22 - Saturday, April 23
Making Southeast Asian Culture: From Region to World
Friday: 8:45 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.,  180 Doe Library
Saturday: 9:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.,  180 Doe Library
1:30 - 6:30 p.m., 370 Dwinelle Hall. 

Further details on the CSEAS website.
 
Keynote Lecture
Friday, April 22
Incidentally Southeast Asia: From World to Region?
Melani Budianta, Professor of Literature, University of Indonesia
Morrison Reading Room, Doe Library
6:15 - 7:30 p.m.
 
Prof. Budianta's keynote address will look at regional initiatives in knowledge sharing in Southeast Asia, at the position of Southeast Asia in inter-Asia scholarly initiatives, and will engage also with Southeast Asia through the lens of everyday lives. 
Other CSEAS Events
Discussion
Thursday, April 21
Indonesia Today: A Book Talk and Conversation with Leila Chudori
314 Dwinelle Hall, DSSEAS Library, Level F/G
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Leila Chudori is a senior editor at the Indonesian news magazine Tempo and known also for her fiction. Her most recent novel Pulang (2012) follows the lives of Indonesian political refugees cast adrift in Europe after the political upheavals beginning in September 1965 in Jakarta.

Lecture
Wednesday, April 27
Symbolic Capital, Cultural Capital, Human Capital: The Changing Function of the Arts in Strategies of Accumulation
Pheng Cheah, Professor of Rhetoric; CSEAS Chair
180 Doe Library
12:00 p.m.
Organized by the Institute of East Asian Studies

Focusing on Hong Kong and Singapore, this talk examines how a Hegelian model of cultural capital has been radically transformed in contemporary globalization. In this examination, where the cultural capital of a nation is no longer primarily located in its artistic production but rather in its ability to accumulate works of art with a global significance and promote the arts on a global stage. Moderated by Jinsoo An, East Asian Languages & Cultures, UC Berkeley
Campus Events
Festival
Saturday, April 23
Nusantara 2016
Memorial Glade
3:00 - 9:00 p.m.
 
Indonesian dance and music, food and games. Organized by the Berkeley Indonesian Student Association
New Book

Siam's New Detectives: Visualizing Crime and Conspiracy in Modern Thailand (University of Hawaii Press, 2016) by Samson Lim
 
This new book based on a diverse set of primary sources - police reports, detective training manuals, trial records, newspaper stories, memoirs, archival documents, and hard-to-find crime fiction - provides both an extended overview of the development and evolution of modern police practices in Thailand and a window into the role of the Thai police within a larger cultural system of knowledge production about crime, violence, and history.  The author (Ph.D., Cornell University) is Assistant Professor of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the Singapore University of Technology and Design.
Announcements
CSEAS core faculty Nancy Peluso, Henry J. Vaux Distinguished Professor of Forest Policy, gave the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography Lecture at the recent Association of American Geographers annual conference in San Francisco. Her presentation - Miners, Maids, and Other Mobile Subjects: Remaking Agrarian Environments in Indonesia - will be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal.
 
Dr. Joi Barrios, a poet and playwright, who lectures on Philippine and Philippine-American Studies and who teaches Filipino in the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, was recently awarded the Balagtas National Achievement Award by the Government of the Philippines. This award is the highest honor conferred to living Filipino writers who have contributed significantly to the development of Philippine literature. 
 
From the Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS): Aihwa Ong , Robert Lowie Distinguished Chair in Anthropology, will succeed Prof. Bonnie Wade as chair of the Group in Asian Studies. Prof. Ong is also a CSEAS core faculty member.

The Berkeley APEC Studies Center, chaired by Prof.  Vinod Aggarwal, is moving from the Institute for International Studies to IEAS. The center's current projects concern disaster management in the Asia-Pacific, regionalization of the internet with a focus on Asia, and the new economic institutional architecture of the Asia-Pacific. 
Fellowships
Postdoctoral Fellow in Southeast Asian Studies
The Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University
Deadline: May 4, 2016
 
The Chao Center for Asian Studies is accepting applications for the Henry Luce Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies to begin July 1, 2016. The search is open to any aspect of academic research in Southeast Asia with a transnational orientation. Applicants must have a Ph.D. degree at the time of appointment in one of the following fields: anthropology, art history, Asian or Asian American studies, cinema, comparative literature, Sanskrit studies, global health studies, history, political science, religion, science and technology studies, sociology, or women's/gender/sexuality studies. See the Rice careers website for application details.
Jobs
SEASSI Program Coordinator
University of Wisconsin-Madison
 
SEASSI is an intensive language institute administered by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UW-Madison. The SEASSI Program Coordinator will report to the Associate Director of CSEAS. The SEASSI Program Coordinator will also work with the SEASSI Language Director in coordinating specific tasks relating to the language program and the teaching staff. See the University of Wisconsin careers site for more details. Deadline: April 25, 2016
 
Program Director
Center for Lao Studies (San Francisco)
 
The Program Director is responsible for program management, development, recruitment strategies, promotion, outreach, fundraising, and assessment and evaluation. CLS's programs includes: Lao Oral History Archive, Summer Study Abroad in Laos, Publications, Journal of Lao Studies, Lao TLC, and the International Conference on Lao Studies. This is a one year temporary position, half-time, 20 hour work week. For more details, e-mail
 info@laostudies.org.
Call For Papers
June 30 - July 1, 2016
Lanes and Neighborhoods in Cities in Asia
National University of Singapore
Deadline: April 30, 2016
 
The conference seeks to reflect on the specificity of the socio-spatial production and its current evolutions of neighborhoods in the Asian context. Focusing on an in-depth exploration of neighborhood formations in city-making, the conference will address the following three lines of inquiry: 1. Questioning neighborhood "production of space" in cities in Asia, 2. Everyday urbanism, 3. Neighborhoods as sites of resistance and alternative city-making. See the NUS website for further details.
 
August 8-9, 2016
6th International Conference on Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies (ICAIOS)
The Concepts & Practices of Works: Economic and Livelihood Reconstruction & Recovery in Post-Disaster Society
Syiah Kuala University,  Banda Aceh, Indonesia
Co-organized with Universita degli studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy
 
ICAIOS invites extended-abstract submissions and panel proposals on base research as well as applied research and policy inquiries into the nature of "work" "livelihood", and "economy" and how they have (been) understood, shaped, changed, helped, or distracted the environment, social structure, and the post-conflict and post-disaster reconstruction and long-term recovery in the regions. Research related to the issues in the broader context of ASEAN Economic Community and Indian Ocean Rim Association are also welcome. See the website for more details and to submit an abstract.
 
November 10-12, 2016
Reconciling Indonesian History with 1965: Facts, Rumors and Stigma
Goethe University
Frankfurt, Germany

This international conference invites participants to examine historical facts and events involving the Communist Party of Indonesia and its sympathizers, to question stereotypes and stigma, to analyse how they appeared, the reasons allowing them to remain operative and finally their impact over the last century in Indonesia. See the H-Announce listing for more details. Convenors: Dr. Elsa Clavé (Goethe University), Prof. Dr. Asvi Warman Adam (LIPI), Friederike Trotier (Goethe University). Abstract submission deadline: April 15, 2016