Calendar of Past Events (2001-2002)

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Fall Quarter 2001 | Winter Quarter 2002 | Spring Quarter 2002

Fall Quarter 2001

Thursday, October 4
12:20-1:30pm, MEB ( Mechanical Engineering Building)æ 251
Film:æ THE DIPLOMAT, a film about Jose Ramos-Horta (56 minutes)

Monday, October 8
7:00-8:30pm, Kane Hall, Room 210
Jose Ramos-Horta of E. Timor (Nobel Peace Prize Winner)
Human Rights: Democracy and the Rule of Law in the Asian Pacific Region

Monday, October 15
3:30-5:00pm, Thomson 317
Patricia Harrington, author
Cambodia:æ Paradise Lost.æ An Authorâs Perspective on the Cambodian Experience in America

Friday, October 19
4:30-6:30pm, Thomson 317
SE Asia Center Fall Reception
Come join us for Vietnamese food, drinks and lively conversation.æ Meet our wonderful faculty and learn about our Center and program.æ

Thursday, October 25-27 (NW Regional Consortium for SE Asian Studies conference, University of Victoria)
7:30pm, Fraser Building, Room 159
Anthony Reid (Chair, SE Asian Studies, UCLA)
Indonesian Histories and Current Conflicts:æ Aceh and other Identity Problems

Monday, October 29
3:30-5:00pm, Denny 401
Enrique Bonus (American Ethnic Studies)
Race and the Cultural Politics of Space:æ Filipino Americans and the Practice of Locating

Wednesday, October 31
3:30-5:00pm, Thomson 235
John Badgley (UW SE Asia interim librarian)
Myanmar/Burma: Conserving the Heritage--Accessing the Future

Monday,æ Nov. 5
3:30-5:00pm, Denny 401
Curtis Renoe (Stanford University Law School)
Getting the Chance to Speak Doesnât Necessarily Mean Getting Oneâs Voice Heard:æ Narrative, Testimony, and Control in an Indonesian Criminal Court

Thursday,æ Nov. 8
3:30-5:00pm, Thomson 202
Anan Ganjanapan (Lecturer of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Thailand)
The Politics of Community Forestry in Thailand

Monday, November 19 3:30-4:30pm, Thomson 317
Film: SACRIFICE: THE STORY OF CHILD PROSTITUTES FROM BURMA

Wednesday, November 28
3:30-4:30 pm, 235 Thomson Hall
Information meeting on the UW campus about intensive 8-week summer Heritage Language Classes at the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this summer.

Monday, December 3
3:30-5:00pm, Thomson 317
Therese M. Caouette (Consultant, Rockefeller Foundation)
The Feminization of Labour: Propelling migration and Circumventing Human Rights in Southeast Asia

Winter Quarter 2002

Wednesday, January 16
3:30-5:00pm, Thomson 317
Janet Sturgeon (Visiting Scholar, Anthropology)
Border Practices, Boundaries and the Control of Resource Access

Tuesday, January 22
3:30-5:00pm, Thomson 202
Jamie Davidson (Ph.C., Political Science)
The Revenge of the Regions: Communal Violence and Its Politics on the Indonesian Periphery

Wednesday, February 6 ***POSTPONED***
12:30pm-2:00pm, Lowe 216
Film: FROM OPIUM TO CHRYSANTHEMUMS (2000, 70minutes )

Monday, February 11
3:30-5:00pm, Thomson 234
Professor Michael Leigh (Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Malaysia Sarawak)
Southeast Asian Responses to "Global" Terror

Friday, February 22
11:30-12:45pm, Thomson 211
Film: FROM OPIUM TO CHRYSANTHEMUMS (2000, 70minutes )

Monday, March 4
12:30-2:00pm, Thomson 231
Tuen-yu (T.Y.) Lau (Associate Professor, School of Communications)
Cross-cultural Experience of Technology and Management Transfer: The Case of Launching and Managing a 'Brand New' TV Network in Indonesia, 1994-1998

March 11, 2002
7:00-9:00pm, Gowen 301 (also from 12-1:30pm at Antioch University, 2326 Sixth Ave., Room 101)
Filomena Barros dos Reis (FOKUPERS)

Wednesday, March 20
5:30 to 8:00pm, Walker Ames Room of Kane Hall
Charles Keyes (Professor of Anthropology and International Studies)
International Update Lecture*: The Politics of Cultural Difference in Vietnam and Thailand

Spring Quarter 2002

Thursday- Friday, April 11-12
'Liberal Islam' and Social Justice in Indonesia
University of Washington, Seattle (A Seattle Humanities Forum)

Friday, April 12
8:00pm, FACULTY CENTER (FACULTY CLUB),
Wayang and Javanese Classical Dance Performance
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Thursday, April 18
3:30-5:00pm, Thomson 231
Shigeharu Tanabe (Anthropology, Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan)
Community and Identity across the Modern: Reflexivity in Northern Thai Spirit Cults

Monday, May 13
12:30-1:20pm, Balmer 302
Son Michael Pham (President, Greater Seattle Viet Nam Association)
"Business Climate in Viet Nam"

Monday, May 20
12:30-1:20pm, Balmer 302
Dr. Tuen-yu Lau (Director, UW Digital Media Program)
"Changes and Growth in SE Asia Media Industry"

Tuesday, May 21
3:30-5:00pm, Thomson 334
Pattana Kitiarsa (Anthropology, School of General Education Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand)
The Battles of the Cultural Selves and Identities in Thai Popular Culture

Wednesday, May 22
12:00-1:30, Communications 206
Elizabeth Archangeli
Brown Bag Lunch, Lecture, and Discussion
"Detained, Deterred, and Denied: Asylum Seekers in Australia"

Friday, June 7
1:00-3:00pm, Denny 401
Southeast Asian Studies Spring Reception

Thursday, June 27
12-1:30pm, Thomson 317
Carol Wagner, author
"Soul Survivors in Cambodia"

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