Southeast Asia: Text, Ritual and Performance

Global Borderlands by Victoria Reyes
2019-10-16 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | College Building South 114

Ghost Tape #10 with filmmaker Sean David Christensen
2019-06-04 12:00 - 13:30 | INTS 1109
SEATRiP 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 featured at the San Francisco International Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, New Hampshire Film Festival & the Athens International Film + Video Festival. His films have screened at the Angelika Film Center, Phoenix Art Museum, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts & the Musée des beaux-arts in Montréal. Of his short film, Fan Mail, Jonathan Kiefer of the San Francisco Film Critics Circle called it, “One of the best shorts of 2009.” Amy R. Handler of Moving Pictures Magazine has described his filmmaking as, “Brilliant…fragile & hypnotic,” and Sundance Award-winning director Jay Rosenblatt has described Christensen’s short films as, “Evocative…they do what many short films fail to do, make you wish they were longer.” Christensen is a graduate of the MVA program at the University of Southern California / Center for Visual Anthropology. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
Online at: www.seandavidchristensen.com
Sponsored by SEATRiP (Southeast Asia: Text, Ritual, and Performance) UC Riverside
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Footprints of War Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam
2019-05-17 16:00 - 18:00 | HMNSS 1303

Southeast Asia and the Diaspora: Gender, Labor, and Performance
2019-05-10 08:30 - 18:30 | Culver Center of the Arts

Playing Music, Performing Culture: The Pedagogies of Community-Based Thai Music in the United States
2019-04-15 13:30 - 14:30
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 Sunday School, mostly held at Thai Buddhist Temples in the United States. What makes such classes interesting is that it is removed from native setting, thus forcing emigrant Thai instructors to adjust certain strictly-held customs regarding musical transmission to allow for performance practicality. This paper critically examines the pedagogical approach used by an instructor at The Thai Cultural and Fine Arts Institute of Illinois to transmit both musical and cultural knowledge to Thai American students. Drawing on the concept of cultural performance that regards specific social organizations as a medium containing cultural particularities, I argue that learning the process of music-making is equally, if not more, vital as the performance itself. In addition to musical competency, such process instills specific affective behaviors that galvanize Thai cultural identity. Rather than attempting to locate authentic or correct practices, this paper highlights what is culturally at stake, such as musical secularization and deauthorization of teacher, when balancing musical processes and product outside their “home” context; and illustrates the agency of music in maintaining cultural identity in a diasporic community.
Nattapol will present this paper at the symposium Passages: Locating Global Traditions in Southeast Asian Music and Performance, hosted by Indiana University. Please come provide your feedback and suggestions. Nattapol is a first-year Ph.D. student in ethnomusicology. He holds an M.A. in ethnomusicology from Kent State University, and this presentation is drawn from his M.A. thesis.

SEATRiP/Asian Studies Brown Bag with Weihsin Gui on Singaporean graphic novels and comics
2019-03-13 12:00 - 13:30
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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. My talk looks at other less overtly contentious Singaporean graphic novels to show that graphic narratives about seemingly quotidian topics can also invite readers to engage in reflective thinking and cultural critiques of the country’s authoritarian status quo. Drawing on Thierry Groensteen’s concept of braiding and Caroline Levine’s idea of affordances, I offer a formalist analysis of Liew’s Warm Nights, Deathless Days, which is about the life of Nanyang-Style painter Georgette Chen, and Koh Hong Teng’s Last Train From Tanjong Pagar, which is based on heritage tours of Singapore’s railway stations and civic district.
Bio: Weihsin Gui is Associate Professor of English at UC Riverside. His essay on Sonny Liew’s and Koh Hong Teng’s graphic novels is forthcoming in a 2019 special issue of Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings about Asian comics.

Ethnic Hierarchies and Gender in Dissent and Empowerment: Migrant Labor in Malaysia and Vietnam
2018-12-03 15:30 - 17:00 | INTS 1111
Presented 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 state system (LBS) has affected female and male migrants differently, from the dehumanizing recruitment phase to the precarity and coping mechanisms while working in Malaysia. Class analysis alone does not explain the different cultural, language, and religious practices among these five groups. These practices offer strategies, especially to the ethnic minorities, who act individually or in solidarity with others, in response to the transnational LBS system, or bypassing it altogether. I focus on ethnic hierarchies, based on economic factors (land, finance, education), and cultural resources (transnational networks, language, religion). These ethnic hierarchies inform and mediate how migrants engage in different spaces of dissent. Physical third space is occupied not according to the duality of legal-illegal categories in the name of the law, but in the tacit acceptance of the community in which the migrants live and work. Metaphorical third space is about discourse of dissent, uttered by non-state competing authorities, to challenge the state’s authority through ironic and subversive mimicries. Overall, I highlight different gender responses in these spaces of dissent and empowerment. My findings are based on eight years of research and fieldwork interviews in Vietnam and Malaysia (2008- 2015), a significant period of change in labor export policies.

Angie Ngọc Trần is a Professor of Political Economy at California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB). She is an activist scholar, working on labor movements and resistance in Vietnam, and transnational labor migration. Her current book project is on the full cycle of south-south transnational migration patterns, focusing on Vietnamese migrants of different ethnic groups, working in Malaysiaand returning to Vietnam, bringing ethnicity, class, gender, religion, and forms of empowermentand resistance into her analysis. Her 2013 book, Ties That Bind: Cultural Identity, Class and Law in Flexible Labor Resistance in Vietnam (Cornell University Press), analyzes over 100 years of labor movements and resistance in Vietnam, using race, class and gender analyses. Her other research interests and publications include critical perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility in textile/garment/footwear and agro-processing sectors in Vietnam, impacts of multi-stakeholder negotiations on labor relations in Vietnam, and implications of trade-labor linkages for Vietnamese labor unions and workers through regional trade agreements. Access to these works is at: https://works.bepress.com/angie-tran/

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Grand Theft Buffalo - "Animals" and Property in Imperial Vietnam
2018-11-26 16:00 - 18:00 | HMNSS 1500
Presented by: Prof. Bradley C. Davis, Eastern Connecticut
Based largely on nineteenth century archives but informed by a broad environmental humanities perspective, this presentation considers the category of animals in imperial Vietnam. As an element of a sedentary agricultural empire, buffalo (bubalus bubalis) received legal protections that befitted their collective status as biotic farm machines, including an important role in imperial discourses of property that informed French colonial law in the late nineteenth century. Elephants, however, enjoyed a very different status in imperial Vietnam, one elucidated through imperial law and one that reflected their role as biotic war machines. How do the practices and conventions surrounding buffalo and elephants contribute to discourses of development and governmentality in imperial Vietnam? Does “animal” (động vật – “mobile thing”), itself a neologism, capture the historical experiences of buffalo and elephants?
A historian of Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Vietnam, Bradley Camp Davis (PhD University of Washington, 2008) is an associate professor of history at Eastern Connecticut State University. As an author and translator, he has written articles on imperial geographies, banditry, ethnographic knowledge, the creation of the French consular system in northern Vietnam, Tai polities in the Black River Basin, and the cultural politics of language in Vietnam. Davis’s first book Imperial Bandits: Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands (Washington, 2017), examines nineteenth century bandit armies whose violent acts echo into the present. This talk comes from his current project examining discourses on nature and ethnic difference in Vietnam from the Nguyễn (1802-1880s) to the early French colonial period.

"Call Her Ganda" Screening + PJ Raval (Film Director) Q&A
2018-11-26 15:30 - 17:00 | INTS 1111
Join director PJ Raval and GABRIELA-LA for a screening of “Call Her Ganda.” When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina transwoman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case–an activist attorney (Virgie Suarez), a transgender journalist (Meredith Talusan) and Jennifer’s mother (Julita “Nanay” Laude)–galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of US imperialism.
This event is presented by Gender & Sexuality Studies, Media & Cultural Studies, Asian Pacific Student Programs, and the LGBT Resource Center, and is supported by the Highlander Empowerment Referendum.

Affective Expertise: Gender, Class, and the Labor of Social Work in Ho Chi Minh City (Ann Marie Leshkowich)
2018-10-15 15:30 - 17:00 | INTS 1111
Professor Ann Marie Leshkowich
Professor of Anthropology
Director of Asian Studies at College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA).

Who is Indigenous Here? The Rising Stakes of Recognition in Indonesia (Tania Murray Li)
2018-04-25 15:00 - 16:30 | INTS 1113
Professor Tania Murray Li
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Director, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies
University of Toronto

The Viral Creep: Elephants and Herpes in Times of Extinction (Celia Lowe)
2018-04-12 16:00 - 18:00 | College Building South 114
Please join us for a talk with:
Celia Lowe
Professor of Anthropology and International Studies
Director of the Southeast Asia Center at the University of Washington

Hot off the Presses event with guest speaker, Sarita See
2018-02-14 15:00 - 16:30 | College Building South 114
The Filipino Primitive: Accumulation and Resistance in the American Museum

Sarita See argues that collections of stolen artifacts form the foundation of American knowledge production. Nowhere can we appreciate more easily the triple forces of knowledge accumulation—capitalist, colonial, and racial—than in the imperial museum, where the objects of accumulation remain materially, visibly preserved. The Filipino Primitive takes Karl Marx’s concept of “primitive accumulation,” usually conceived of as an economic process for the acquisition of land and the extraction of labor, and argues that we also must understand it as a project of knowledge accumulation.

Can you please share this event with colleagues and students in the Anthropology department who may be interested in attending? It is free and open to the public. We are eager for a strong audience and appreciate any help. For more information see flyer attached or visit our website: http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/event/see/

Communication Repertoires and Cultural Memory in Everyday Urban Life in Vietnam
2017-11-29 15:00 - 17:00 | Watkins 1347
Talk by Christina Sanko
Visiting Scholar
Centre of Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI)
University of Bremen, Germany
The talk presents PhD research on communica4ve processes within the Vietnamese urban population and how these forge the construc4on of cultural memory in everyday life. Informed by theore4cal approaches in memory (Erll 2011) and communica4on studies (van Dijck 2007), the project inves4gates par4cularly how media representa4ons, media prac4ces and interpersonal communica4on construct memories within and across different genera4ons (Mannheim 1959) in urban centres of Vietnam. In the talk, I discuss insights from four months fieldwork in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), including methodology, software-assisted analysis of qualita4ve data and preliminary findings.
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From Familial to Financial Obligation: Insurance and the Moral Economy of Illness in Vietnam
2017-11-27 15:30 - 17:00 | INTS 1111
Lecture by Amy Dao, Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University.
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Contents May Have Shifted Under the Radar: Transnational Network and Airline Political Economies in Myanmar and Thailand
2017-11-13 15:30 - 17:00 | INTS 1111
Lecture by Jane M. Ferguson, Australian National University

The Plight of the Rohingya
2017-10-23 17:00 | INTS 1109
Origins and Prospects Panel Discussion with
Charmaine Craig (Creative Writing)
Tamara Ho (Gender & Sexuality Studies)
Emily Hue (Ethnic Studies)
Over 5000,000 Rohingya have recently been driven out of Myanmar due to violent attack by the country’s army, causing a refugee emergency. In this public conversation, we will consider: the history of majority nationalism and ethnic conflict in Burma/Myanmar, the perceived complicity of de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the role of Islamophobia in the current conflict, and the subject of refugee resettlement in an area of US travel- and “Muslim-bans.”
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The Indonesian Way: Islam and Democracy
2017-05-03 12:15 - 13:30 | INTS 1113
A lecture by Dr. Giora Eliraz
The “Indonesian way” is increasingly challenged by exclusive, intolerant winds originated outside of the local context. About two years ago Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the largest Muslim organizations in Indonesia, started to publicize its initiative of promoting globally, to the Middle East in particular, the concept Islam Nusantara (the Islam of the Indonesian Archipelago), as a multi-faceted message of a tolerant, moderate, peaceful Islam for curbing terror and extremism. This initiative seems to correspond with growing self- confidence of Indonesia of the post-reformasi era including its foreign policy. So far there are no signs that “Islam Nusantara” has an impact on Islam in the Middle East. Moreover, during recent months the “Indonesian way”, in a sense of the distinctive Indonesian Islamic identity, seems to be increasingly challenged by strict exclusive, intolerant winds, originated outside of the local context. It was mainly manifested by the tough gubernatorial campaign in Jakarta that was closely connected with the blasphemy accusations against the Jakarta’s Christian and ethnically Chinese governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, known as Ahok , for allegedly insulting Islam. As to the gubernatorial, Ahok was defeated in the run-off election in April by the Muslim candidate, Anies Baswedan, who won decisively. These entire developments leaving behind a trail of questions, related to founding values and concept of the secular oriented Indonesian polity, including separation of state off religion, pluralism as well as the distinctive, impressive process of building democracy in the home to the largest Muslim population in the world.
Dr. Giora Eliraz is the author of Islam in Indonesia: Modernism, Radicalism and the Middle East Dimension. Brighton & Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2004 and the monograph, Islam and Polity in Indonesia: An Intriguing Case Study. Washington: Hudson Institute, February 2007. His major research interests are related to both Southeast Asia, Indonesia in particular, and the Middle East. Dr. Eliraz is affiliated with the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington and Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Sponsored by Middle East and Islamic Studies; Southeast Asia: Ritual, Text, and Performance; Maimonides Chair in Jewish Studies; Holstein Family and Community Chair of Religious Studies.
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Film screening and mini-recital: Thai Music at the Millennium: The Post-Life of a Royal Court Music
2017-03-08 19:00 - 22:00 | INTS 1128
DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
Film screening and mini-recital
Thai Music at the Millennium: The Post-Life of a Royal Court Music
The electrifying Thai classical music ensemble Kor Pai will play a brief live set after a screening of the film Homrong (Overture, 2004), in which their music is heard prominently. Homrong is a biopic about Luang Pradit Phairau (1881-1954), widely regarded as the most influential musician of the 20th century, whose career bridged the royal courts, to the end of the absolute monarchy, through the rebuilding of Bangkok following WW2. Kor Pai (“Bamboo”) is a top-ranked Thai classical music ensemble formed over 30 years ago, featuring two generations of outstanding musicians with court lineages. They have won awards for their recordings and film scores. Their performances reflect the best of traditional styles as well as a contemporary spirit of experimentation based in traditional knowledge. Kor Pai will be in Southern California on tour, with performances scheduled at UCLA and at several Thai Buddhist temples. Their performance will be introduced by Dr. Supeena Insee Adler (Ph.D., UCR in ethnomusicology) and Kor Pai leader Prof. Anan Nakkong.
Free and open to the the public.
Parking: Complimentary permits available at the Kiosk.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Music, the Program in Southeast Asian Studies, and the Program in Asian Studies.
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Comparative Postcolonial Theory and the Question of Chinese Empire
2017-02-23 11:10 - 12:30 | HMNSS 2412
This lecture joins the recent calls to expand the Anglo-Franco focus of prevailing postcolonial theory by engaging with Asian empires as well as Sinophone perspectives situated in Southeast Asia. What might a more comparative or relational postcolonial theory look like? How might Sinophone studies contribute to a more globally-oriented postcolonial critique?

Shu-mei Shih is a professor of Comparative Literature, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Among other works, her book, Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific (2007), has been attributed as having inaugurated a new field of study called Sinophone Studies. Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader (2013) is a textbook that she co-edited for the field. Besides Sinophone studies, her areas of research include comparative modernism, as in the book The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937 (2001); theories of transnationalism, as in her co-edited Minor Transnationalism (2005); critical race studies, as in her guest-edited special issue of PMLA entitled “Comparative Racialization” (2008); critical theory, as in her co-edited Creolization of Theory (2011); Taiwan studies, as in her guest-edited special issue of Postcolonial Studies entitled “Globalization and Taiwan’s (In)significance” and the co-edited volume Comparatizing Taiwan (2015) and Knowledge Taiwan (2016). She is currently working on two monographs entitled Empires of the Sinophone and Comparison as Relation, and two co-edited volumes: Keywords of Taiwan Theory and World Studies: Theories and Debates.

From "The Trust Of The People" to "Obeying Your Elders"
2017-02-10 15:00 - 16:30 | HMNSS 1303
From “The Trust Of The People” to “Obeying Your Elders”:
Colonial-era Transformations in Elite Confucian Thought
Friday February 10
History Library HMNSS 1303
3pm – 430pm
Using evidence from the policy questions and responses on the Palace Examinations, as well as textbooks and educational policy manuals from the post-civil service examination era, this talk will trace how the nineteenth century classical canon–a diverse set of philosophical, political, poetic, and geomantic texts–was gradually narrowed in secondary educational curriculums into twentieth century Confucianism, which focused more narrowly on questions of moral upbringing and filial piety.
Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox is Professor of History and Non-Western Cultures at Western Connecticut State University. He is the author ofAllegories of the Vietnamese Past (2011), and the editor of Vietnam and the West: New Approaches (2010).
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Social Capital in Vietnam: Regional Variation and Local Development Trajectories
2017-01-13 15:10 - 16:30 | INTS 1111
Dr. Hy Van Luong
This talk will focus on the regional variation in social relational configuration in rural Vietnam. It compares and contrasts specifically kinship and association ties in the northern delta and the central coast of Vietnam on the one hand and those in southern Vietnam on the other. On the basis of data from 7 rural Vietnamese communities, the paper explores the linkage between social relational configurations and local development trajectories in rural Vietnam.
Dr. Hy Van Luong is Professor of Anthropology at University of Toronto. He has conducted extensive field research across urban and rural Vietnam since 1987 on kinship, gender, political economy, gifts and social capital, and sociocultural transformation. Professor Luong is the author and co-editor of nine books, as well as numerous chapters and articles in major edited volumes and academic journals on social organization, political economy, and discourse. His most recent monograph is entitled, Tradition, Revolution, and Market Economy in a North Vietnamese Village, 1925-2006 by University of Hawaii Press (2010).

Sponsored by SEATRiP and co-sponsored by Asian Studies and Anthropology.

Ideologizing Bird Music-Dance Traditions
2016-12-05 14:10 - 15:30
Maria Christine Muyco
University of the Philippines
Fulbright Scholar in Residence at UCR
Colloquium presentation sponsored by the Program in Southeast Asian Studies
“Ideologizing Bird Music-Dance Traditions”
My past research centers on the Panay Bukidnon of the Philippines and its ideology called sibod that manifests itself in the binanog (hawk-eagle expressive tradition). This ideology refers to sunú (music/movement structure), hampang (play on structures), santú (synchronization of elements), and tayuyon, which is a sense of mastery evident in the experience of ‘flow.’ Among the Panay Bukidnon, flow is to meet the goal of cultural sustenance and coexistence with one’s kalibutan, or environment/consciousness, in order to heal and to restore balance. The pursuit of this goal entails a commitment of communality and a consciousness of support from larger societies. The Panay Bukidnon use the term sibod even in sociopolitical negotiations involving ancestral land domain and settling disputes.
MARIA CHRISTINE MUYCO is Associate Professor and former Chair of the Composition and Theory Department of the College of Music at the University of the Philippines (UP). She obtained her PhD in Philippine Studies at UP in 2008, with Alternate Studies in Ethnomusicology/ Dance Theory at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 2006-2007. She is also a composer having earned her Master of Music (Composition) from the University of British Columbia and Bachelor of Music (Composition/Indigenous Music Performance) from UP. Her work on the music and dance traditions of the Panay Bukidnon, particularly about a local ideology called SIBOD, earned the UP best dissertation award in 2008. A book about this topic was recently published by the Ateneo de Manila Press. She is founder of Balay Patawili, Inc., a nongovernment organization that has produced/presented festivals, workshops, and performances, and has made other efforts to develop Panay Bukidnon culture. She is currently a Fulbright Scholar at UC Riverside.
For more information, contact Prof. Deborah Wong, deborah.wong@ucr.edu. Free and open to the public.

On the Cusp of History: Exploring Incipient Vietnamese Civilization
2016-11-04 15:00 - 16:30
The Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside presents:
On the Cusp of History: Exploring Incipient Vietnamese Civilization
Dr. Nam C. Kim, Associate Professor, Section Chair – Archaeology
Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Exploring the underpinnings of Vietnamese civilization requires an engagement with textual narratives, archaeological data, and even the various agendas of modern-day communities. Like elsewhere in the world, legend, memory, and text have been combined in Vietnam to construct, reconstruct, and detail ancient origins, thus exploring the temporal margins between “prehistory” and “history.” Increasingly, the archaeological enterprise has been used as a means to complement or challenge existing historical and conventional knowledge. Sitting on the cusp of history, ancient communities and settlements of the Red River Delta during the first millennium BCE provide a glimpse of what many consider to be incipient Vietnamese civilization. Of particular interest is the Co Loa site, which occupies a prominent place within the national imagination of Vietnam today. This lecture explores recent archaeological investigations of the site and how findings have contributed to ongoing research about early “Vietnam”. In doing so, it considers the potential complementarity between history and archaeology, while also highlighting some of the methodological challenges researchers face when dealing with the early history of Vietnam.
Nam C. Kim investigates past societies and their lifeways through archaeological research. He is interested in the emergence of early forms of urbanism and archaic states, particularly in Southeast Asia. Kim’s work also explores the links between the material record and the concerns of contemporary societies, as they relate to issues such as national identity and cultural heritage management. Beyond his work on Asian archaeology, his research explores the various evolutionary and cultural dimensions of organized violence, warfare, and peacemaking throughout human history.

Sponsored by Anthropology, Asian Studies, and SEATRiP

The Uprooted: The Systematic Removal of Mixed-Race Children in Colonial Vietnam
2016-10-26 16:00 - 17:30 | HMNSS 1303
HISTORY LIBRARY TALKS
public & students welcome; light reception @ 5:30pm
In the 1890s, French colonists in Indochina founded charity organizations to “protect” mixed-race children born to Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Lao mothers. Protection societies gave them room and board in French institutions, tuition to the colony’s elite schools and job replacement upon reaching adulthood. A close examination of protection society rhetoric, membership, and actions reveals that the societies helped managed the colony’s racial agendas in ways that the colonial government legally could not. While the societies’ efforts to “save” métis children did in fact help many of these children and their mothers by providing food, shelter, and an education, their program also had dire consequences for some including permanent separation from mothers and high incidence of suicide. This talk draws on oral histories and colonial records to explore the lives of these mixed-race children.

Christina Firpo is Associate Professor of Southeast Asian History and Women’s and Gender Studies at CalPoly University of San Luis Obispo, California. She is a author of The Uprooted (Hawaii, 2016) and has published numerous articles in such journals as Vietnamese Studies, French Colonial History, and the Journal of Social History. She is currently writing a book titled Negotiated Affections: Informal Economies of Clandestine Prostitution in Northern Vietnam, 1920-1954.
Co-sponsors:

Southeast Asian Studies Program (seatrip.ucr.edu)
Department of Ethnic Studies (ethnicstudies.ucr.edu)
Global Studies Program (globalstudies.ucr.edu)
