CSEAS Newsletter
June 2020
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The temple complex at Angkor in Cambodia is now mainly only seeing local visitors. Tourist arrivals to the country have dropped significantly since March.
Photo
: Alastair McCread
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Thursday, June 18
Webinar
Maria Ressa and Seema Yasmin in Conversation: Reporting Barriers During COVID-19
8:00 a.m. PDT
Presented by Meedan
This discussion will analyze government misinformation during the current pandemic. Maria Ressa is the executive editor and CEO of Rappler, the online news site based in the Philippines. See the Meedan
website to register.
Saturday, June 20
Performance [Online]
Hanoman the Messenger
With Midiyanto, UC Berkeley
7:00 p.m. PDT
Presented by Amerika Bersatu and the American Indonesian Cultural and Education Foundation
An online
wayang performance with puppet master Midiyanto, UC Berkeley’s gamelan instructor, includes fundraising for gamelan musicians in Central Java affected by the pandemic. Use the
Zoom link to register. See the Amerika Bersatu
Facebook page for the poster.
Monday, June 22
Book Event [Online]
A Conversation with Phuc Tran
Presented by New American Economy
4:00 p.m. PDT
This event, to discuss Tran’s new memoir
Sigh, Gone, is being held on World Refugee Day. See the
event registration page for details.
Wednesday, June 24
Webinar
An Introduction to Sundanese Gamelan Music for Javaphiles
Henry Spiller, Professor of Music, UC Davis
7:30 p.m. EDT
Presented by Nusantara Arts
The talk will review Sundanese music’s unique qualities in terms of instrumentation, playing styles, and repertoire. See the
website for details.
Thursday, June 25
Open Studio [Online]
@Home with Artist Binh Danh
12:30 p.m. PST
Presented by the San Jose Museum of Art
This online event will present a virtual studio tour and discussion with the San Jose-based artist. See the museum
website for registration information.
Saturday, July 11
Conference [Online]
36th Annual COTSEAL Conference
10:50 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. PDT
The annual conference of the Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages (COTSEAL) will be held online this year. See the
website for the schedule and registration details.
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The New York Southeast Asia Network website has a helpful
calendar of upcoming webinars, although the time zones for some events are not always compatible for West Coast audiences. The website also includes links to videos of
past online events, such as the Yale University workshop Understanding Digital Vietnam, and a webinar on COVID19 and security issues in Indonesia with Jakarta-based expert Sidney Jones.
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The San Francisco Public Library has posted the
video of its virtual book club discussion held on May 21 with Nguyen Phan Que Mai, author of the new novel
The Mountains Sing.
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Alon, a scholarly journal dedicated to Filipinx American studies, seeks submissions for its first volume to be published in 2021. The submission deadline is July 31, 2020. See the
Facebook page of the Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies at UC Davis for more information.
NEW Deadline:
World History Connected, an affiliate of the World History Association published by the University of Illinois Press, is seeking papers for a special issue on Southeast Asian topics germane to the interdisciplinary field of world history. NEW deadline: August 15, 2020. Contact: Prof. Marc Jason Gilbert, mgilbert [at] hpu.edu.
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Comparative Literature
Chulalongkorn University
The Department of Comparative Literature invites applications for the 2020-21 postdoctoral fellowship. A degree in Comparative Literature is not necessary, but a focus on literature or related fields (such as Cultural Studies, Film Studies) is required. Deadline: July 15, 2020. See the
posted link for details.
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow
National University of Singapore
Candidates are expected to have a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies, Media and Communications Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, or a closely related discipline at the time of appointment. This is a two-year position and will commence in July 2021. For more information, see the
job posting. Deadline: August 15, 2020
Assistant Professor, Cultural Studies
National University of Singapore
NUS welcomes candidates whose expertise falls in one or more of the following areas: inter-Asia cultural studies; cultural and new media industries in Asia; network theory and data cultures of Asia; critical diaspora and mobility studies; new media, indigenous and sovereignty studies; digital ethnography; posthumanism, environment and ecology in Asia, cultural economy; cultural policy; critical creative industry studies; soft power and cultural diplomacy; multiculturalism and migration; community cultural development and; urban communication. Deadline: August 15, 2020. See the
job posting for details.
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In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates (UC Press, 2020) by Jana K. Lipman
After the U.S. war in Vietnam, close to 800,000 Vietnamese left the country and sought refuge initially throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific. From Guam to Malaysia and the Philippines to Hong Kong, this
new book examines what happened in the camps and explores how the local politics of first asylum sites often drove international refugee policy, emphasizing the contingencies inherent in refugee policy and experiences. The author is Associate Professor of History at Tulane University.
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Freedom Incorporated: Anticommunism and Philippine Independence in the Age of Decolonization (Cornell University Press, 2020) by Colleen Woods
This
new book examines diverging assessments of Philippines history, one in which, while U.S. policymakers and Filipino elites promoted the country as a successful postcolonial democracy, others highlighted ongoing U.S. hegemony. As these interpretations clashed, anticommunist Filipinos and their American allies began to link local political struggles to a global war against communism, thereby legitimizing the use of violence as a means to capture and contain alternative forms of political, economic, and social organization. The author is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Maryland.
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August 24-25, 2020
Conference
13th International Indonesia Forum Conference
The Center and Periphery: Development and Sustainable Management of Indonesian Resources
National Cheng Kung University
Taiwan
UPDATE: The 13th IIF Conference will not be held in Indonesia due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Instead, the organizers have adopted an in-person and virtual format. Each presenter can choose to present the paper either in person at National Cheng Kung University or virtually in an online session. NEW deadline for abstracts: June 30, 2020. See the
website for full details and instructions.
December 4, 2020
Workshop
Transboundary Environmental Governance in Southeast Asia
National University of Singapore
The purpose of this workshop is to explore how, why, when and what forms of transboundary environmental governance are emerging in Southeast Asia. Deadline: June 30, 2020. See the ARI
website for details. Organized by the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
March 25-28, 2021
Conference
Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference
Seattle, Washington
AAS is planning an on-site hybrid conference in Seattle incorporating both a face-to-face meeting and virtual viewing options. The conference organizers invite proposals for Organized Panels, Roundtables, Workshops, and Individual Papers. Deadline: August 4, 2020. See the
conference page for details.
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