Calendar of Past Events (2002-2003)

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Academic Year 2002-2003

Fall Quarter 2002 | Winter Quarter 2003 | Spring Quarter 2003

Fall Quarter 2002

October 3, 2002, 7-9pm (co-sponsored by Town Hall) (Doors open at 6pm)
Traditional Southeast Asian Dance Performances, Southeast Asian Textile Market and Textile Exhibition at Town Hall

October 5, 2002 (co-sponsored by the Henry Art Gallery) (doors open at 11am)
Workshop on Southeast Asian Textiles

Thursday, October 17
SEAC Fall reception
4:00-6:00pm
Burke Room, Burke Museum

October 25-26
International Conference
Globalization, Justice and the Trafficking of Women and Children
University of Washington, Kane Hall
To register or for more information see their website at http://depts.washington.edu/womenctr/trafficking.html

Wednesday, October 29
21st Century Wars: Indonesia, Islam, the Middle East, and the U.S .
7:00-8:30pm
120 Smith Hall, University of Washington Campus
A panel discussion about the recent bombings in Indonesia featuring Dan Lev, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Ismail Budhiarso, an active member of Indonesian Muslim organizations in Seattle, Magid Shihade, doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Middle Eastern Studies. Moderated by Laurie Sears, Professor of History.

Friday, November 8
Dr. Naoko Kumada (Fellow, Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies, Stanford University Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cambridge University)
Dago, Cosmogony and Politics: religion and power in Burmese society
12:00-1:30pm, Smith 105

Wednesday, November 13
Sy Montgomery (author, conservationist, journalist)
Search for the Golden Moon Bear
3:30-5:00pm
Allen Auditorium
(slide presentation and lecture)

Monday, November 18
Professor Nick Kontogeorgopoulos (Anthropology, University of Puget Sound)
Mass Ecotourism and Community-Based Development in Southern Thailand: Exceptions, Trade-Offs, and Inevitable Compromises
3:30-5:00pm, Thomson 317

Thursday, December 5
Harry Bhaskara (Managing editor, The Jakarta Post daily)
Bali bombing casts a shadow over Indonesia's recovery
3:30-5:00pm, Thomson Hall, Room 119

Winter Quarter 2003

Saturday, January 11
Karen New Year Celebration
Noon-4:00pm
Rainier Valley Cultural Center
3515 S. Alaska St., Seattle, WA 98118
call 206-784-0854 or 206-784-5742 with questions.

Thursday, January 16
Brownbag film presentation
Mai's America (72 minutes)
Award-winning film about a Vietnamese teenager named Mai who comes to study in the United States. Expecting Hollywood, she instead lands in rural Mississippi, a crazy quilt of self-proclaimed rednecks, cliquish teenagers, South Vietnamese exiles and transvestite soulmates. From cosmopolitan Hanoi to the heart of the Deep South, Mai's unforgettable journey offers an outsider's glimpse inside America.
12:30-1:45pm
Location TBA

Thursday, January 16
The Open Classroom Lecture Series 2002-2003
Religion and Violence in the Post-9/11 World
Thursday, Jan 16
7:00pm
110 Kane Hall

Religion, State and Violence in Southeast Asia
Dan Lev (Professor Emeritus, Political Science, UW)

Religion & Violence: Sociological Observations
James Aho (Professor, Sociology, Idaho State U)

In the Name of the Father: Violence & the Symbolic Structure of
Monotheistic Traditions
Martin Jaffee (Professor, International Studies, UW)

Wednesday, January 22
Carol Wagner (author)
Women and Children in Cambodia
12:00-1:30pm
Smith 313

Friday, January 24
Peter Lape (Anthropology)
From Stegodons to Guerillas: Archaeology in E. Timor
3:30-5:00pm
Denny 401

Friday, January 24
Jane Ferguson (Anthropology, Cornell)
Grass Roots Media and Political Resistance in Burma
12:00-1:30pm
Location TBA

Monday, January 27
Chiranan Prasertkul (History, Cornell)
Slide presentation and lecture
19th Century Laos: Cultural Continuity and Historical Discontinuity
3:30-5:00pm
Location TBA

Saturday, February 1
(K-12 educator, documentary film workshop)
Teaching Diversity and Cross-Cultural Understanding through Film
8:30am-4:30pm
413 Balmer Hall
Speakers: Christoph Giebel (UW History), on using documentary film to teach about the Vietnam War; Carol Hermer (President of the Society for Visual Anthropology); John Sinno (President of Arab Film Distribution) and others. $40 pre-registration required. To register or for more information, please contact the Canadian Studies Center 206-543-6269 or email canada@u.washington.edu

Thursday, February 6
Film presentation and panel discussion
Reconciliation After War Through Film and Literature
Tran Van Thuy (film maker), Truong Vu (editor, scientist, literary scholar), Wayne Karlin (author, editor, teacher)
7:00-9:30pm
Kane 210

Saturday, February 8
Tran Van Thuy (filmmaker), Wayne Karlin (author, editor, teacher)
Film and discussion (films TBA)
12:00-4:00pm
Kane 220

Wednesday, February 19
Constance Wilson (UW affiliate professor, SE Asian studies)
Lao Literature in the Context of Lao History and Culture
3:30-5:00pm
Allen Auditorium (Allen library)

Saturday, March 1
Khmer Cultural & Educational Scholarship Symposium & Reception (Light Refreshments & Desserts)
1:00pm - 4:00pm
Ethnic Cultural Center
3931 Brooklyn Ave.
Seattle, WA 98105

Friday, March 7
Glenn May (History, University of Oregon)
Inventing a Hero and its Controversies in the Field of Philippine History
12:00-1:30pm
Parrington 310

Monday, March 10
Khin Omar and Paw Hset Hser (Burmese women's rights activists)
Women Rights and Current Developments in Burma
12:00-1:30pm
Parrington 310

Tuesday, March 11
Khin Omar and Paw Hset Hser (Burmese women's rights activists)
Freedom From Fear: Human Rights In Contemporary Burma
12:30-2pm
Condon Hall 109/129

Wednesday, March 12
SEA International Update dinner/lecture
Dan Lev (UW Professor Emeritus, Political Science)
Repairing Indonesia: Post-New Order Politics of Reform
5:30-8:30pm
Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall
$25 registration required. 3 clock hours available for K-12 educators upon request. To register or for more information, please call the South Asia Center at 206-543-4800 or email sascuw@u.washington.edu

Thursday, March 13
Cambodia: History, Culture and Current Challenges
4:00-7:00pm
Seattle Asian Art Museum
$10 registration required. Clock hours available for K-12 educators. To register or for more information, please contact the World Affairs Council at globalclassroom@world-affairs.org or call 441-5910

Friday, March 28
Didik Nini Thowok (aka Didik Hadi Prayitno, Indonesian dancer)
Dance performance with Gamelan Pacifica also featuring dancers
Nunuk Sri Rahayu and Asrtid Vinje and singer, Jessika Kenney
Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave
8:00pm, doors open at 7pm
Tickets & info 206/652-4255

Spring Quarter 2003

Tuesday April 1, 2003
Dr Pip Nicholson, University of Melbourne Law School
Vietnamese Courts: The Changing Shape of Party Instrumentalism?
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Law School (Condon Hall) Room 311

Saturday, April 5
Khmer Student Association Cambodian New Year 2003
6:30PM - 12:00AM
UW Seattle - HUB Ballroom

Tuesday, April 8
Professor Tran Phuoc Duong (Can Tho University, Vietnam)
EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE MEKONG DELTA
3:30-5:00pm
Parrington Commons
Reception to follow

Friday, April 18
Sulak Sivaraksa (Social Critic, author)
A Very Simple Buddhist Magic for our Modern Predicaments
1:00-3:00pm

Bamrung Kayuta, Ubon Uwa, Chalida Maneepakorn (Thai farmers/activists)
The Price of Rice: Thai Traditional Livelihoods at Stake
3:30-5pm
Ethnic Cultural Center
3931 Brooklyn Ave NE

Saturday, May 3
Wayang Performance by Professor Jan Mrazek with special guests Gamelan Pacifica
Roethke Auditorium, Kane Hall
8:00-10:00pm

Tuesday, May 6
John Marston (Southeast Asian Studies, El Colegio de México in Mexico City)
Death, Memory, and Building: The Non-Cremation of a Cambodian Monk
3:30-5:00pm
Loew 116

Thursday, May 8
Hoang Hung (Award-winning Vietnamese poet)
The Modernization of Vietnamese Poetry: A History from a Vietnamese Poet's Perspective
Thursday, May 8
3:30-5:00pm
Thomson 334

Friday, May 9
Monique Truong
Book of Salt, Book Signing
7:30 pm
ELLIOT BAY BOOK COMPANY
101 South Main Street

Friday, May 9
Darryl Johnson (U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, UW Distinguished Alumni Awardee) 3:30-5:00pm
Downstairs Conference Room
UW Faculty Club

Tuesday, May 13, 2003
BEYOND BAGHDAD: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION WITH INTERNATIONAL & REGIONAL SPECIALISTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
7:00pm
110 Kane Hall
One of the Panelists:
MARY CALLAHAN
Assistant Professor, International Studies. A specialist on democratization, military politics, & Southeast Asian politics.

Wednesday, May 14
Dr. Tran Van Nam (Fulbright-in-residence, Lecturer, National Economics University, Hanoi; Arbitrator, Vietnam International Arbitration Center, VIAC)
UNFREE TRADE WITH DEVELOPING COUNTRIES - A CASE STUDY OF THE CURRENT CATFISH DISPUTE BETWEEN THE U.S. AND VIETNAM
12:00-1:20pm
Savery 243

Monday, May 19
Pattana Kitiarsa (Suranaree University, Thailand)
Lives of Hunting Dogs: Contesting Thai Masculinities Through an Ethnography of Thai Boxing
3:30-5:00pm
Thomson 317

Friday, May 23
Is it time to rethink our Asian Studies courses?
10:00am - 4:00pm

Wednesday, May 28
Dr. Peng Hwa Ang (Associate Professor and Vice-Dean, School of Communication and Information Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
INTERNET CONTENT CONTROL AND PRIVACY ISSUES IN SINGAPORE
12:00-1:20pm
Raitt Hall, Room 114

Monday - Tuesday, June 2-3
Critical Asian Studies Seminar

Tuesday, June 3
Southeast Asia Center Spring Reception
4:00-6:00pm
Burke Room, Burke Museum

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