CSEAS Newsletter
October 11, 2019
‘Walk Run Cha Cha’, a new short film, recently highlighted by the NY Times Op-Docs series, tells the story of Paul and Millie Cao, once separated by the Vietnam War, who have discovered a love for ballroom dancing. The documentary will screen in San Francisco in November.
CSEAS Events
Wednesday, October 16
Panel Discussion
Renarrating the Past: Conflict and Negotiation of Narratives along the Borders of India, Vietnam, and Japan  
With Kana Tomizawa, Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Shizuoka & Hisashi Shimojo, Assistant Professor of International Relations, University of Shizuoka
180 Doe Library
4:00 p.m.
Organized by the Center for Japanese Studies, co-sponsored by CSEAS
Discussants: Prof. Mark Blum (EALC) and Prof. Penny Edwards (SSEAS)

Thursday, October 24
Lecture
Cultural Expertise on Southeast Asia and Asylum Expert Witnessing
ChorSwang Ngin
Professor of Anthropology, CSU Los Angeles
3335 Dwinelle Hall
4:00 p.m.
Campus Events
Monday, October 14
Performance
Wayang Bali: An Evening of Balinese Shadows
125 Morrison Hall
7:30 p.m.

A Shadowlight production of a Balinese shadow play. Free admission.

Wednesday, October 16
Panel Discussion
The Belt and Road Initiative: The Future of Energy + Water in Asia and Beyond
With James Fahn (Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley), Tim Stumhofer (ClimateWorks), and Juliet Lu (ESPM, UC Berkeley)
Chou Hall, Haas School of Business
6:00 p.m.

Monday, October 21
Lecture
Industry 4.0 and the Extension of Malaysia's Economic Success Story
Lim Guan Eng, Minister of Finance, Government of Malaysia; Secretary General of Malaysia’s Democratic Action Party (DAP)
B100 Blum Hall
12:00 p.m.
Organized by the AMENA Center for Entrepreneurship & Development, Haas School of Business; Blum Center for Developing Economies

Malaysia's Minister of Finance will deliver a talk on the country’s development trajectory, current initiatives, and what remains to be done. RSVP online by October 19.

Wednesday, October 23
Concert
Javanese and Balinese Gamelan
Hertz Hall
12:00 p.m.
Organized by the Department of Music

A free concert by UC Berkeley's Javanese and Balinese gamelan ensembles.
Bay Area Events
Monday, October 21
Keynote & Panel Discussion
2019 Shorenstein Journalism Award Ceremony
With Maria Ressa , Rappler (Philippines)
Koret-Taube Conference Center
Stanford University
12:15 p.m.

See the events page to register. 

October 25 - 27, 2019
Performance
140 Lbs: How Beauty Killed My Mother
SF Columbarium & Funeral Home
1 Loraine Ct, San Francisco
11:00 a.m.

A solo show by Vietnamese-American playwright and activist Susan Lieu about losing her mother to plastic surgery malpractice. Lieu plays 11 characters while also weaving the story through the lens of the Vietnamese refugee experience. See the website for details.
Jobs
Assistant Professor, Cultural Anthropology (Southeast Asia)
Northern Illinois University

The Department of Anthropology and Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor with expertise in Southeast Asian cultural anthropology. See the careers site for details. Deadline: November 1, 2019.

Assistant Professor, Asian History
University of Florida

The Department of History invites applications for a tenure track appointment in modern Asian history. Area of specialization is open (East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, transregional/transnational). Deadline: November 1, 2019. See the application portal for details.

Director of Hmong Studies
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

The College of Letters and Science invites applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor of Hmong Studies. The position is open to qualified candidates with a PhD in Hmong Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, Asian Studies, Ethnic Studies, or other related disciplines. Deadline: November 1, 2019. See the jobs site for details.

Assistant Professor, Sociology
College of William & Mary

The Department of Sociology and the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies program seeks applications for a jointly appointed tenure track position in global labor and gender. Possible areas of expertise could include: transnational flows of labor and gender, gender and work, sex work, intersectional approaches to labor, transnational feminist organizing, informal or criminalized labor, and the politics of domestic work. See the careers site for details. Deadline: November 1, 2019.

Assistant Professor, Religions of Asia
DePaul University

The Department of Religious Studies invites applicants for a tenure track appointment specializing in religions in Asia (including Central, South, East, and South East Asia). See the jobs site for details. Deadline: November 15, 2019.

Assistant Professor, History of Asia and the World
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

The Department of Humanities invites applications for a tenure-track position. The preferred fields are modern East Asian, modern Southeast Asian, or Asian American history. Preference will also be given to candidates working in a comparative, transnational, or global context or specializing in the broader history of trans-Pacific and U.S.-Asia relations. See the jobs site for details. Deadline: November 15, 2019.
New Books
Dangerous Mediations: Pop Music in a Philippine Prison Video (Bloomsbury, 2019) by Aine Mangaoang

This new book examines the 2007 viral video of 1,500 Filipino prisoners performing Michael Jackson's hit 'Thriller.' Taking the video as a point of departure, and combined with first-hand experiences from fieldwork in the Philippine prison, the book investigates historical discussions on postcolonialism, surveillance and prison philosophy as well as contemporary scholarship on popular music, participatory culture and new media. The author is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo.
Bangkok is Ringing: Sound, Protest, and Constraint (Oxford University Press, 2019) by Benjamin Tausig

This new book presents an on-the-ground sound studies analysis of the political protests that transformed Thailand in 2010-11, where media was used by dissident groups to broadcast to different audiences. The book traces the history and use in protest of specific media forms, including community radio, megaphones, CDs, and live concerts, and also looks at how sound and political movements are constrained and channeled, with the examples of the Red Shirt and Yellow Shirt protests. The author is Assistant Professor of Music at Stony Brook University. He was recently interviewed about the book on the New Books Network podcast .
Call For Papers
May 28-31, 2020
Conference
46th Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society
Francophone Borderlands
SUNY Buffalo

This year’s theme invites participants to consider the peripheries of the French Empire as central to understanding the French colonial empire and the people who inhabit it, as well as the ways zones and points of contact are particularly revealing of imperial and colonial experiences. See the website for information. Deadline: November 1, 2019.