Southeast Asia: Text, Ritual and Performance

Book talk by Christina Schwenkel 5th February
2021-02-05 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
UCR Professor of Anthropology Christina Schwenkel will be giving a talk about her new book Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam. Professor Schwenkel will be in conversation with Dr Abidin Kusno from York University.
Friday 5 February 2021 at 12:00 PM US Pacific time on Zoom.
Registration required: https://ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvf-ispjsuGtM_C-1Z9Qtl6vqryzil5HOQ
Contact Claire Edington with any questions at cedington@ucsd.edu.

Mark Padoongpatt talk: "Flavors of Empire: Food & the Making of Thai America"
2021-02-18 15:30 - 17:00
A talk by Associate Professor Mark Padoongpatt, founding director of the Asian & Asian American Studies Program at University of Nevada-Las Vegas. Thursday 18th February 2021 3:30pm on Zoom (US Pacific time). Organized by UCR’s Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Students Association (SEASGRAD); co-sponsored by UCR SEATRIP & Department of Anthropology.

Literary / Media Histories of (Post)Colonial Southeast Asia
2021-03-12 09:30 - 11:30
Literary / Media Histories of (Post)Colonial Southeast Asia
Friday 12 March 2021, 9:30-11:30 AM (US Pacific Time / Los Angeles) on Zoom
Organized by Southeast Asia: Text, Ritual, Performance (SEATRiP) at the University of California-Riverside. Co-sponsored by UCR’s Departments of English, History, and Media and Cultural Studies.
Please register in advance at tinyurl.com/sealitmedia21
Speakers:
Elizabeth Wijaya
Assistant Professor of Visual Studies, University of Toronto
“The Time Between Nations: Emerging Localities in Blood and Tears of the Overseas Chinese and
Spirit of the Overseas Chinese”
Nadine Chan
Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies, Claremont Graduate University
“Cinematic Artifactuality and Postcolonial Memory”
Cheryl Narumi Naruse
Assistant Professor of English and Mellon Assistant Professor in the Humanities, Tulane University
“Theorizing the Singapore Anthology as Postcolonial Form”
Philip Holden
Independent scholar
“Translocal Translation: World Literature and the Southeast Asian Port City”
Talk abstracts, speaker bios, and resources can be found at tinyurl.com/y2bsdehf
Questions? Please contact Weihsin Gui at weihsing@ucr.edu.

Ma Vang book talk: "History on the Run: Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies”
2021-10-11 15:30 - 17:00
https://ucr.zoom.us/j/96728509983?pwd=[REDACTED]
A talk by Ma Vang, Associate Professor at UC Merced, in association with the New Book Speaker Series: Aftermaths of Empire. Organized by SEAS/ANTH 203, Global Southeast Asias; co-sponsored by UCR SEATRIP & the Department of Anthropology.

In Praise of Limes: A Poetry Reading by Shirley Geok-lin Lim
2022-10-19 15:00 - 17:00
Shirley Geok-lin Lim will read from her latest poetry collection, In Praise of Limes (2022). A poet and Professor Emerita at the University of California-Santa Barbara, Lim has written eleven poetry collections, three novels, three short story collections, and has edited over 18 anthologies. She has received the American Book Award, the MELUS and Feminist Press Lifetime Achievement Award, and was the first woman and Asian person to be awarded the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.
If you have any questions, please contact Weihsin Gui at weihsing@ucr.edu.
Wednesday October 19 at 3:00 PM Pacific Time on Zoom
Zoom registration link: https://bit.ly/3DejGuo
