CSEAS Events

Thursday, April 6

Lecture

Littoral Images: A Conversation with artist Adam de Boer

308A Doe Library

5:00 p.m.

Monday, April 10

Panel Discussion

Desire and Relationality in the Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul

With Arnika Fuhrmann (Cornell University) and Jean Ma (Stanford University)

Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

4:00 pm

Organized by the Townsend Center for the Humanities, co-sponsored by CSEAS

See the Townsend Center event posting for details.

Friday-Saturday, April 14-15

Conference

UC Berkeley-UCLA Southeast Asian Studies Joint Conference

Networks and Knowledge in Southeast Asia

Golub Home Room, International House

2299 Piedmont Ave., Berkeley

Friday | 8:45 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Saturday | 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Friday, April 14

Conference Keynote

Journey to the South: Buddhist Connections across the South China Sea

Jack Meng-Tat Chia

Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies, National University of Singapore

Heyns Room, Faculty Club

5:00 p.m.

Thursday, April 20

Book Talk

Epidemic Politics in Contemporary Vietnam: Public Health and the State  

Martha Lincoln

Assistant Professor of Medical and Cultural Anthropology

San Francisco State University

223 Philosophy Hall (formerly Moses Hall)

4:00 p.m.

Campus Events

Sunday, April 9

Film Screening

Blissfully Yours (2002, dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

BAMPFA

2155 Center St., Berkeley

3:00 p.m.

Includes a Q&A with the filmmaker, moderated by Prof. Jean Ma

See the PFA website for ticket information.

Tuesday, April 11

Lecture

Apitchapong Weerasethakul in conversation with Hilton Als

BAMPFA

2155 Center St., Berkeley

5:00 p.m.

Organized by the Townsend Center for the Humanities

This year's Una’s Lecture features filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul in conversation with Hilton Als (English). See the Townsend Center website for details.

Thursday, April 13

Lecture

Theravada Cosmology In and Out of History

Alastair Gornall

Assistant Professor in History and Religion

Singapore University of Technology and Design

3335 Dwinelle Hall

5:00 p.m.

Organized by the Center for Buddhist Studies

Sunday, April 16

Performance

Javanese Gamelan and Shadow Play

Hertz Hall

3:00 p.m.

Organized by the Department of Music

Monday, April 24

Film Screening

The Ice Cream Sellers (2021, dir. Sohel Rahman)

10 Stephens Hall

5:00 p.m.

Organized by the Institute for South Asia Studies

The film screening, which focuses on the story of two Rohingya children in Bangladesh, will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker.

Bay Area Events

Thursday, April 6

Webinar

Southeast Asia in 2030: The Future of Intermestic Relations

with Richard Heydarian (UP-Diliman), Elina Noor (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) and Thitinan Pongsudhirak (Chulalongkorn University)

5:00 p.m. PDT

Organized by Stanford APARC

Registration is open.

Thursday, April 13

Performance

ShadowLight: 50 Years of Shadow Theater

Samsung Hall, Asian Art Museum

200 Larkin St., San Francisco

6:00 p.m.

Balinese shadow theater techniques and stagecraft will be presented and discussed. See the museum website for details.

CSEAS Update

Sarah Maxim is retiring as CSEAS Vice Chair this month, after twenty years at the center. Her successor is Alexandra Dalferro, who received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Cornell University in 2021. Dr. Dalferro’s dissertation examined silk production in Thailand, in particular among Khmer-speaking communities of silk producers in Surin province. She was a Visiting Fellow in the Thailand Studies Programme at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore in 2022, and is currently a lecturer at the National University of Singapore. She will be joining the center as CSEAS Program Director in May.

Campus News

The Pacific Film Archive retrospective on the films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul continues through April into May. See the full list of the films with ticket information at the PFA website.

Congratulations to CSEAS core faculty Prof. Daena Funahashi (Anthropology) on her new book, Untimely Sacrifices: Work and Death in Finland which will be published next month by Cornell University Press.

Other News

JSEALab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hosting a webinar series in April on the theme Against Authoritarianism in the Philippines with talks by Patricio Abinales (University of Hawaii-Manoa), Sol Iglesias (University of the Philippines), Mary McCoy (University of Wisconsin), and Aries Arugay (University of the Philippines). 

Jobs & Fellowships

Assistant Professor, Asian History

Truman State University

The university seeks applicants for a non-tenure-track position as assistant professor in Asian history and interdisciplinary studies. Deadline: April 10. See the job posting for details.

Next Asia Policy Postdoctoral Fellows

Asia-Pacific Research Center

Stanford University

Two postdoctoral positions are available to scholars with an interest in interdisciplinary research and policy engagement on contemporary Asia. There are four fellowship tracks: "Talent Flows and Development,” "Nationalism and Racism," "U.S.-Asia Relations," and "Democratic Crisis and Reform." Applications for the 2023 fall quarter are accepted on a rolling basis. See the website for details.

New Books

Call For Papers

August 29-30, 2023

Conference

Social Faultlines in Indonesia: Persistence and Change in an Evolving Landscape

ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute

Singapore

This conference aims to examine issues related to demographic diversity in Indonesia today, and the processes that lead to the persistence of social faultlines and emergence of new faultlines. Deadline: April 7, 2023. 

August 30-September 1, 2023

Conference – hybrid

Asian Catholic Materialities

Asia Research Institute

National University of Singapore

Deadline: May 2, 2023. See the ARI website for details.

September 21-23, 2023

Conference - hybrid

Migration and Citizenship Pathways in Asia

Asia Research Institute

National University of Singapore

Deadline: April 20, 2023. See the ARI website for details.

November 10-11, 2023

Workshop

Feminist and Queer Youth Activism in Asia: Identity Performance and Cultural Politics in Contemporary Mobilization

New York City

Supported by NYSEAN

The organizers (Meredith Weiss, Shawna Tang, Edward Aspinall) are seeking contributors for a journal special issue on feminist and queer youth activism in Asia, to include participation in a November 2023 workshop. Deadline: April 30, 2023. See the post for details and to apply.