Meet the Author: Nuraliah Norasid & The Gatekeeper
2020-09-28 21:30 - 22:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
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
