Ethnic Hierarchies and Gender in Dissent and Empowerment: Migrant Labor in Malaysia and Vietnam
INTS 1111Presented Dr. Angie Ngọc Trần, CSU Monterey Bay Migrant workers from Vietnam going to work overseas are not just the Kinh (the majority), but also from the other 53 ethnic groups in Vietnam. I focus on five ethnic groups:theKinh,theHoa(ethnicChinese),theKhmer,theChămMuslimsandtheHrê, who engage in different migration patterns and forms of resistance and empowerment. The transnational labor brokerage […]
SEATRiP/Asian Studies Brown Bag with Weihsin Gui on Singaporean graphic novels and comics
WeihsinGuiFlyer2 Braiding, Affordances, and Cultural Critique in Recent Singaporean Graphic Novels Sonny Liew’s The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, which won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2016 and three Eisner Awards in 2017, has been the subject of several academic essays because of its alternative depiction of Singapore’s political history and unusual narrative structure. […]
Playing Music, Performing Culture: The Pedagogies of Community-Based Thai Music in the United States
A practice paper presentation by Nattapol Wisuttipat “Playing Music, Performing Culture: The Pedagogies of Community-Based Thai Music in the United States.” Thai classical and traditional music, as a part of the nation’s intangible heritage, enables the imagination of the Thai community in diaspora. A cultural symbol, it is widely and popularly taught in almost every […]
Southeast Asia and the Diaspora: Gender, Labor, and Performance
Culver Center of the ArtsGhost Tape #10 with filmmaker Sean David Christensen
INTS 1109SEATRiP Brown Bag Speaker Series Psychological warfare during the Vietnam War and connections between the living and the dead are explored in this award-winning documentary short from the USC Center for Visual Anthropology. About the filmmaker: Sean David Christensen (b. 1985) is a visual artist who works in music & film. His work has been […]
Global Borderlands by Victoria Reyes
College Building South 114Nailed It
INTS 1109Film Screening w/ Q&A with Film Director, Adele Free Pham Southeast Asia: Text, Ritual, and Performance (SEATRiP) at UC Riverside is happy to announce a film screening of Nailed It (click to view trailer), along with a Question & Answer session with Film Director, Adele Free Pham. This event is made possible through co-sponsorships from the UCR Women's Resource Center, […]
The Seeds of Turmoil
INTN 3023Huế’s "People of the Pagoda" and the Buddhist Mobilization of 1963 Nguyễn Dịu Hương This presentation reconstructs the historical atmosphere of the Summer 1963 Buddhist mobilization in central Viet Nam’s royal city of Huế through close-up descriptions of those events based on what was considered significant by its participants and supporters. Glancing through the lens […]
