CSEAS Newsletter
December 6, 2019
Fireworks for last week's opening ceremony at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games in the Philippines.
This will be the last CSEAS newsletter of the semester. The next newsletter will be sent out when the spring semester begins in January 2020. 
Bay Area Events
Friday, December 13
Performance
Gamelan Sekar Jaya - Balinese gamelan and dance
Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak St., Oakland
7:00 p.m.

Presented as part of Friday Nights at OMCA.
 
Saturday, December 14
Festival
Parol Lantern Parade
Jessie Square, San Francisco
4:00 – 8:00 p.m.

The parade, sponsored by SOMA Pilipinas, loops through Yerba Buena Gardens. See the  website  for the parade route and festival information. 
 
Friday, December 20
Book Event
The Southeast Asian Diaspora in Poetry & Memoir
Oakland Asian Cultural Center
388 Ninth St., Oakland
6:30 p.m.

This book event brings together the work of Laotian poet and dancer Krysada Phounsiri and Cambodian writer Sieu Sean Do. Co-sponsored by Eastwind Books.
Summer Study
June 5-August 12, 2020
USINDO Indonesian Summer Studies Program
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
 
This program offers intensive Indonesian language instruction in Indonesia. The program is open to U.S. university students at any level of study as well as recent graduates (within 6 months) of any U.S. college or university. The program cost is $2,000. Deadline: January 24, 2020. See the USINDO website for details.

June 15-August 20, 2020
Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI)
University of Wisconsin-Madison

SEASSI offers intensive language training for academic credit at the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year levels for Burmese, Filipino, Hmong, Indonesian, Javanese, Khmer, Lao, Thai and Vietnamese. See the website for details. UC students can apply for a summer FLAS award through CSEAS to support participation in this program.

July 1-August 5, 2020
Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad
Magsayod: Knowing Cebuano Language and the Philippine South
Cebu City, the Philippines

This program is designed for K-12 teachers and is sponsored by the Center for Philippine Studies at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. Deadline: December 15, 2019. See the website for details. Note: Graduate students or juniors/seniors who are prospective teachers in the areas of social sciences, humanities and foreign languages are also eligible to apply.
Fellowships
The UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) at UC San Diego is accepting applications for the 2020-2021 IGCC Dissertation Fellowship Competition. The Fellowship consists of a nine-month stipend of $25,000. Doctoral students enrolled at any UC campus are eligible to apply. Applicants must advance to candidacy by June 30, 2020. See the website for details. Deadline: February 10, 2020.
New Books
The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century ( W.W. Norton, 2019) by Thant Myint-U

This new book dissects how a singularly predatory economic system, fast-rising inequality, disintegrating state institutions, the impact of new social media, the rise of China next door, climate change, and deep-seated feelings around race, religion, and national identity have come together to challenge Myanmar’s incipient democracy. Thant Myint-U received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. His previous books include The Making of Modern Burma (2001) and The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma (2007). This book was recently named one of the NY Times Top Books of 2019.
In That Time: Michael O'Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam (Public Affairs, 2019) by Daniel H. Weiss

This new book tells the story of the American experience in Vietnam through the life of Michael O’Donnell, a musician and poet who served as a soldier and helicopter pilot. O’Donnell’s best-known poem, “Letters from Pleiku,” gained new life after the events of 9/11. In 1970, during an attempt to rescue fellow soldiers stranded under heavy fire, O’Donnell’s helicopter was shot down in Cambodia. He remained missing in action for almost three decades. The author is the President and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and former President of Haverford College. A book excerpt was recently posted by the online journal Literary Hub. The author was interviewed about O'Donnell in November by NPR.
Call For Papers
March 17-19, 2020
Workshop
AAS-SSRC Dissertation Workshop Series 
Borders, Migration, and Transnational Flows
Boston

This workshop is intended for doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences who are developing dissertation proposals, or are in the early phases of research or dissertation writing, or are writing up dissertation research. The workshop is held immediately preceding the 2020 AAS annual conference in Boston. See the SSRC  announcement  for details. Abstracts due January 6, 2020.

April 7-9, 2020
Conference
SPAS Graduate Student Conference
Stories of Movement in Asia: Boundaries and Exile
University of Hawaii-Manoa

The School of Pacific and Asian Studies (SPAS) welcomes proposals for papers, performances, and panels for this conference. Deadline: January 31, 2020.

May 11-12, 2020
Workshop
Forced Relocations: Conceptualizations, Cases and Data
Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
Bonn, Germany
 
This workshop foregrounds the question of how to deal with forced relocations that ranged from commodified trade in enslaved people to the different forms of exchange of bonded people, including tribute, abduction, kidnapping, repopulation, warfare and other kind of forced movements. The ‘Exploring Slave Trade in Asia’ project is a collaboration by the International Institute of Social History, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, Linnaeus University and ENS Lyon. Abstract deadline: December 31, 2019. See the website for details.

July 20-24, 2020
Workshop
Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies
Asia Research Institute
National University of Singapore

This forum will be organised thematically broadly reflecting (though not limited to) the core research strengths of the Asia Research Institute, including the Asian dynamics of religion, politics, economy, gender, culture, language, migration, urbanism, science and technology, identities, population and social change. Deadline: December 20, 2019. See the website for details. Hostel accommodation will be provided.