The Plight of the Rohingya
INTS 1109Origins 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 […]
Contents May Have Shifted Under the Radar: Transnational Network and Airline Political Economies in Myanmar and Thailand
INTS 1111Lecture by Jane M. Ferguson, Australian National University
From Familial to Financial Obligation: Insurance and the Moral Economy of Illness in Vietnam
INTS 1111Lecture by Amy Dao, Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University. *** Flyer ***
Communication Repertoires and Cultural Memory in Everyday Urban Life in Vietnam
Watkins 1347Talk 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 […]
Hot off the Presses event with guest speaker, Sarita See
College Building South 114The 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 […]
The Viral Creep: Elephants and Herpes in Times of Extinction (Celia Lowe)
College Building South 114Please 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
Who is Indigenous Here? The Rising Stakes of Recognition in Indonesia (Tania Murray Li)
INTS 1113Professor Tania Murray Li Professor, Department of Anthropology Director, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies University of Toronto
Affective Expertise: Gender, Class, and the Labor of Social Work in Ho Chi Minh City (Ann Marie Leshkowich)
INTS 1111Professor Ann Marie Leshkowich Professor of Anthropology Director of Asian Studies at College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA).
“Call Her Ganda” Screening + PJ Raval (Film Director) Q&A
INTS 1111Join 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 […]
Grand Theft Buffalo – “Animals” and Property in Imperial Vietnam
HMNSS 1500Presented 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, […]