Nailed It
2019-10-23 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | INTS 1109
Film 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 UCR Asian Pacific Student Programs, and the UCR Center for Ideas and Society.
Please forward this announcement to all who may be interested!

More About the Film:
In virtually every city, state and strip mall across the U.S., women get their nails done in salons likely owned by Vietnamese entrepreneurs. How did this community come to dominate an $8 billion dollar nail economy? Nailed It takes viewers from Los Angeles to the Bronx to meet the diverse people and relationships behind this booming and enigmatic trade.
Among others, the film features Mantrap, a nail salon chain which found its start in Los Angeles by business partners Olivett Robinson and Charlie Vo, who opened nine locations, demonstrating a small business model that was copied so frequently it became a part of Vietnamese culture—and the American standard for Asian nail salons in black neighborhoods.
More About the Director/Producer:
Director/Producer/DP Adele Free Pham is an activist and filmmaker, with experience in all aspects of documentary production. Her feature documentary NAILED IT, about the genesis and culture of the Vietnamese nail industry had its broadcast premiere on PBS in May 2019, and is the highest streamed film of the America Reframed series. Her next feature STATE OF OREGON uses the 2016 murder of Larnell Bruce Jr. by a white supremacist as a narrative touchstone to expose Oregon’s founding as a separatist white homeland state—and 150 years of racial exclusion and violence that continues today. A short film by the same title was released by Field Of Vision in 2017 and has 187k views on social media.

The Seeds of Turmoil
2020-01-16 15:30 - 17:00 | INTN 3023
Huế’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 of “social movement theory” I assert that this short-lived mass movement created collective identities for ordinary lay Buddhists – “People of the Pagoda”, they styled themselves – and had strong and persistent impacts on their individual lives. By emphasizing the personal, human experience of local residents using their eyewitness accounts, I attempt to illuminate how such momentous happenings affected Huế’s social and cultural life as the mobilization spread turmoil through the city. This bottom-up, grassroots approach seeks to remedy the twin imbalances of Western-centered and Vietnamese government-issued narratives in the Viet Nam War’s historiography.

Exposing Modesty: Fashionable Piety and Scandal in Indonesian Urban Life
2020-03-05 15:30 - 17:00 | INTS 1111

Meet the Author: Nuraliah Norasid & The Gatekeeper
2020-09-28 21:30 - 22:30
The University of California-Riverside’s Southeast Asia: Text, Ritual, and Performance (SEATRIP) program will be hosting a “Meet the Author” event with Nuraliah Norasid, author of The Gatekeeper (Epigram Books, 2016). This event will be held on Zoom.
Date and Time: Monday 28 September, 9:30 PM (US Pacific time; Los Angeles) / Tuesday 29 September, 12:30 PM (Singapore time)
Zoom registration link: https://tinyurl.com/yychfrx8
Publisher’s synopsis of The Gatekeeper: “When young medusa Ria inadvertently turns an entire village to stone, she and her older sister flee to Nelroote, an underground settlement populated by other non-humans also marginalised by society. There she becomes their gatekeeper, hoping to seek redemption and love…until her friendship with a man from above threatens to dismantle the city she swore to protect.”
This event is co-sponsored by the UCR English department, Comparative Literature department, Science Fiction and Cultures of Science program, and Singapore Unbound.
Nuraliah Norasid will also be part of a panel about “The Political Possibilities of the Short Story” with Ricco Villanueva Siasoco on Friday 2 October at 8:00 PM (US Eastern time; New York). This event is part of the 2020 Singapore Literature Festival organized by Singapore Unbound. You can register for this panel at https://tinyurl.com/y4vf5hu2

David Biggs's panel: "Militarized Landscapes of the Indochina Conflicts"
2020-10-28 09:00 - 10:00
“Militarized Landscapes of the Indochina Conflicts” organized by the Council of Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University
David Biggs, Professor of History, UC Riverside
Jonathan Padwe, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Leah Zani, Anthropologist, author, and poet
This panel will feature Leah Zani, David Biggs, and Jonathan Padwe, authors of three recently published books on the subject of militarized landscapes of the Indochina conflicts, based on research in Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. During the hour-long panel session, the authors will engage in an open discussion about the innovative research methods used in their work and will also focus on new approaches to writing about the legacy of war torn landscapes. The discussion will be moderated by Erik Harms, Chair of the Council on Southeast Asian Studies at Yale and will include ample time for questions and answers from the audience

Wednesday, October 28, 2020 – 12:00 to 1:00 PM (US Eastern time)
Workshop / Panel Discussion Via Zoom
Admission: Free but register in advance. Registration info/link provided on the website link.

Book talk by Christina Schwenkel 5th February
2021-02-05 12:00 - 13:30
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
