Comparative Postcolonial Theory and the Question of Chinese Empire
HMNSS 2412This 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, […]
Film screening and mini-recital: Thai Music at the Millennium: The Post-Life of a Royal Court Music
INTS 1128DEPARTMENT 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 […]
The Indonesian Way: Islam and Democracy
INTS 1113A 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 […]
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