CSEAS Newsletter
April 29, 2016
CSEAS Events
Lecture
Monday, May 2
Varieties of State Building in the Borderland Area between China and Mainland Southeast Asia
Dr. Enze Han
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
180 Doe Library
5:00 p.m.
 
This talk examines how the interplay between domestic politics and international relations since the end of WWII has affected different patterns of state building in Southwest China, upper Myanmar, and northern Thailand.  Co-sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies
Campus Events
Concert
Saturday, April 30
Javanese Wayang Kulit (Shadow Play)
Hertz Concert Hall
8:00 p.m.

With Midiyanto as dalang (puppet master), accompanied by Gamelan Sari Raras directed by Midiyanto and Ben Brinner, featuring the singing of Heni Savitri. Ticket information available through the Department of Music website.
Stanford Events
Lecture
Monday, May 2
China's Growth Prospects and Implications for Southeast Asia
Wing Thye Woo
President, Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia, Sunway University (Malaysia); Professor of Economics, UC Davis
APARC, Encina Hall, Stanford University
12:00 p.m.
 
The talk will examine the recent marked slowdown in China's growth and explore the domestic and external implications of two scenarios of Chinese growth for two settings­­­­­­­­ in Southeast Asia. See the Stanford APARC website to RSVP.
Announcements
Cal alum Viet Thanh Nguyen received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his debut novel, The Sympathizer, which unspools the story of a Vietnamese communist spy living in Los Angeles. Nguyen received his B.A. in Ethnic Studies and English and his Ph.D. in English from UC Berkeley. He is Associate Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.  His latest book, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (Harvard University Press, 2016), is a work on non-fiction about memory and the Vietnam War.
New Book

Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam (University of Washington Press, 2016) by Pamela McElwee
 
This new book examines the management of Vietnam's forests from the French colonial period through the country's recent transition to market-oriented economics. The author is Associate Professor of Human Ecology at Rutgers University, and past editor of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies, which is published by UC Press for CSEAS.

Fellowships
Short-term residencies, DHAsia
Stanford University
 
DHAsia, a Digital Humanities initiative at Stanford University, is seeking proposals for its 2017 short-term residency program focused on East, South, Southeast, and Inner/Central Asia. Up to five applicants will be invited to Stanford campus during either Winter or Spring 2017 for an intensive 3-day residency. DHAsia will provide each invited resident an honorarium of $800, as well as all travel, lodging, and meals. Deadline: June 15, 2016. For application information, see the website.
Jobs
Vietnam and Southeast Asia Program Assistant
Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
Brooklyn, New York
Deadline: May 15, 2016
 
The Program Assistant will work with the Viet Nam Population Health Programme: Strategic Learning and Assessment and the Transformative Leadership for Health Equity in Asia: Development Support and Strategic Learning and Assessment. For more information, see the SSRC careers website.
 
Associate Director
Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM)
Yale University
REQ ID: 36856BR
 
RITM advances intellectual work related to ethnic studies and intersectional race, gender and sexuality research.  The Associate Director will manage the full range of administrative, financial, fundraising, research, educational and outreach activities of the Center. Advanced degree preferred. See Yale's career website for full details.
Call For Papers
November 17-18, 2016
Disaster Justice in Anthropocene Asia and the Pacific
Asia Research Institute
National University of Singapore
 
This conference brings together research on environmental disasters in Asia to illuminate questions of disaster justice from historical and contemporary perspectives. See the ARI website for more details. Deadline: June 30, 2016