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, […]
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 […]