Calendar of Past Events (2004-2005)

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FALL QUARTER 2004

Wednesday, September 22
Lecture: *Elections in Asia and the U.S. Panel discussions included.
Time and Place: 5:30-8:30 pm, HUB 209, U.W. Campus

Tuesday, September 28
Lecture: 20th Century Myanmar Literature: Social and Cultural Change Reflected in Fiction
Speaker: U Thaw Kaung (Head of National Libraries, Burma)
3:30-5:00pm
Thomson 317

Thursday, September 30 - Saturday, Oct. 2
Western Regional Conference, Association for Asian Studies
University Tower Hotel 45th Ave and Brooklyn Ave. NE

*Friday, October 1, 2004
Workshop: Asia in World History Workshop for Educators
4:30-8:00pm
Burke Museum

Monday, October 4
Lecture: Making the Monkey: Narrating Science, Nation, and Biodiversity Conservation in an Indonesian Archipelago
Speaker: Celia Lowe (UW Anthropology)
3:30-5:00pm
Denny 401

Monday, October 11
Castilian, or the Colonial Uncanny: Translation and the Vernacular Theater in the Spanish Philippines
Vicente L. Rafael (UW History)
3:30-5:00pm
Denny 401

Thursday, October 14
Severyns-Ravenholt Lecture: Islam and Women's Rights
Speaker: Zainah Anwar (Executive Director, Sisters in Islam)
Time and Place: 7:30pm, 210 Kane Hall, U.W. Campus
Reception Following the Lecture at the Walker-Ames Room; Free and Open to the Public!

Zainah Anwar is the Executive Director of Sisters in Islam, a non-governmental organization working for the rights of Muslim women within the framework of Islam. Sisters in Islam, founded in 1988, is at the forefront of the women's movement which seeks to end discrimination against women in the name of religion. The group's activities in research, advocacy, public education, and legal services help to promote the development of Islam that upholds the principles of equality, justice, freedom and dignity within a democratic state. Her book, Islamic Revivalism in Malaysia: Dakwah Among the Students, has become a standard reference in the study of Islam in Malaysia. Ms. Anwar has also served as a member of the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia.

Sunday, October 17
Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Opening:
Thai film by Ekachai Uekrongtham: "Beautiful Boxer"
7:00pm
Cinerama Theatre (2100 4th Ave at Lenora St)

Thursday, October 28
Southeast Asia Center Fall Reception
4:00pm-6:00pm
Burke Room, Burke Museum

Friday, October, 29
Conference:
Laboring for Justice: The Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP) in Seattle and the WorldA Conference on the Origins and Legacies of Filipino American Activism, 1970s-1980s.
Time and Place: 9:00 - 4:30 pm, HUB 106B, U.W. Campus

Monday, November 1
Film: Film Showing and discussion with leading Vietnamese Filmmaker Dang Nhat Minh : Mua Oi ( The Guava Season)
Location: Allen Library Auditorium
Time: 6:00-9:00pm

The film Mua Oi will be shown followed by a discussion with the filmmaker and Christoph Giebel (UW History and the Jackson School) This film will be shown as part of a campus wide educational event before the U.S. elections called The Day Before. For more info see: http://www.thedaybefore.org/

The Guava Season is the story of a simple-minded man who manages to earn some money by posing for students at Hanoi's art school. He has lost his mental faculties after falling off the guava tree that reigned over the garden of his family home - he has been locked in his childhood memories ever since. Immediately after the withdrawal of the French army, the house was expropriated by the state and sold to a top senior civil servant. Obsessed with the idea of returning to his old home, Hoa breaks into its garden and, unintentionally, frightens the daughter of the civil servant.

About the director: One of Vietnam's leading filmmakers, Dang Nhat Minh began making documentaries in 1965, then turned to making highly acclaimed feature films in 1975. Dang's films are often set against the background of Vietnam's history, capturing its turbulence, tensions, and ironies. His works have received prizes at major festivals in France, the Netherlands, Italy and Japan, as well as in Vietnam. "When the 10th Month Comes" (1984), a subdued melodrama that deals with a family's love and loss during the war, has become a classic. In 2000, his most recent film, "The Season of Guavas", won the Don Quixote prize at the Locarno Film Festival. His other major films include "The Girl on the River" (1987), "The Return" (1994), and "Hanoi, Winter of 1946" (1996). He worked as Vietnamese director for The Quiet American, Phillip Noyce's film based on the Graham Greene novel. Dang Nhat Minh was born in Hue, in 1938.

November Film and Lecture Series: Mourning the Past: Violence and Public Sphere in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia Organizer and Moderator: Fadjar I. Thufail (Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellow, Project for Critical Asian Studies) Sponsored by the Project for Critical Asian Studies and the Simpson Center for the Humanities.
Lecture co-sponsored by the Southeast Asia Center.

"Shadow Play" launches a series of film screening/discussion about violence, testimony, and the Indonesian public sphere. The film represents an emerging space of documentary filmmaking in Indonesia over the last few years. The Indonesian public has recently turned to documentary films as one way to deal with the legacy of past violence. Documentary films provide room for victims, as well as perpetrators, of violence to come forward and recount their experiences. The discussion following each film screening seeks to explore how and in what way documentary films can serve to mediate trauma and memory of past violence brought about by the hasty political transformation over the last few years in Indonesia.

For descriptions of the films, go to: http://depts.washington.edu/critasia/events.htm#November_2004

Tuesday, November 2
Film: "Shadow Play"
Directed by Chris Hilton and Lexy Rambadetta Color, 83 mins, 2001
7:00 pm. Doors open at 6:30 pm
Communications 206 (Simpson Center)

Tuesday, November 9
Film: "Mass Grave"
Directed by Lexy Rambadetta Color, 20 mins, 2001, Indonesian with English subtitles
7:00pm. Doors open at 6:30 pm
Communications 206 (Simpson Center)

Tuesday, November 16
Film: "Flowers and the Wall"
Directed by Atnike Nova Sigiro Color, 35 mins, 2004, Indonesian with English subtitles
700pm. Doors open at 6:30 pm
Communications 206 (Simpson Center)

Friday, December 3
Lecture: The Afterlife of Violence: Stories of Balinese Women Widowed by the 1965-66 Mass Killings
Speaker: John Roosa, Ph.D., Department of History, University of British Columbia
3:00 pm
Location: Communications 206

*Saturday, December 4
Workshop: Using Documentary Film in the Classroom
Teaching Diversity and Cross Cultural Understanding Through Film
More Info and a Downloadable Registration Form at:
http://jsis.washington.edu/12-4-04-film-workshop.pdf
Location: Kane Hall
Time: 8:30am-4:30pm
Please contact the Southeast Asia Center for more info

Monday, December 6
Lecture: Shapes of change in Javanese Indonesia(n): language and identity in troubled times
Speaker: J. Joseph Errington (Yale University Anthropology)
3:30-5:00pm
Denny 401

WINTER QUARTER 2005

Wednesday, January 12
Benefit Concert: From Seattle With Love: A Benefit Concert For Tsunami Relief
Time and Place: 7:00 PM, Town Hall. Town Hall is located at the corner of Eighth and Seneca, one block east of I-5.
Tickets for From Seattle with Love  are $75, $50, $25, available in advance from www.ticketweb.com, or at the door. There are no service charges for advance ticket purchases for this concert.

The University of Washington's Balinese gamelan ensemble, Padmasari, will be participating in a benefit concert for victims of the humanitarian crisis in South and Southeast Asia.

In a community-wide response to the tsunamis in Asia and Africa, Town Hall Seattle will be the location of From Seattle with Love: A Benefit Concert for Tsunami Relief  on Wednesday, January 12 at 7 pm. All receipts from the concert will be sent to Mercy Corps and CARE, two of the major international relief organizations responding to this crisis. Appearing are actor Tom Skerritt, radio personality Dave Ross, Congressman Jim McDermott, noted local pianist Craig Sheppard, King County Supervisor Ron Sims, Hate Free Zone s Pramila Jayapal, Seattle Peace Chorus, Urban Rhythms Choir, and ensembles performing music and dance from the nations impacted by the tsunami: Chao Praya Ensemble, music and dance of Thailand; Indian classical dancers Joyce Paul and Priyanka Wilkins; internationally renowned Indonesian performers I Wayan Sinti and Istri Nilawati and Gambuh Gamelan; dancers from the Indonesian Students Association; and singers from the Somali Youth Leader Program. For information and performer updates visit www.townhallseattle.org.

Friday, January 14
Lecture: Cold War Shadow: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Indonesia During the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations
Speaker: Dr. Baskara T. Wardaya
Time and Place: 3:30-5:00pm, Communications 226, University of Washington Campus

When the Indonesian communists continued to be on the rise in the 1950s, the administration of US President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961) decided to prevent a communist takeover of Indonesia. Working through the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), in 1957-1958 the administration supported the Indonesian regional military commands in their opposition to Indonesia's central government and military command, which it thought were pro-communist. In policy attitudes slightly different from those of the Eisenhower administration, the short-lived administration of President John F. Kennedy (1961-1963) presented itself to be more open to the aspiration of the Indonesian people, as it was more open to the aspirations of other newly-independent countries. The administration's willingness to mediate Dutch-Indonesian dispute over West New Guinea and its eagerness to prevent Indonesia's opposition to the Federation of Malaysia into a direct military conflict, for instance, demonstrated Washington's attempts to improve its relations with Jakarta. Unfortunately, the bullets that killed the President on November 22, 1963, also destroyed Washington's initiatives to restore U.S.-Indonesian relations.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Dr. Baskara T. Wardaya, S.J. is a professor of History at Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia and serves as the Dean of the University's Graduate School. He also teaches Philosophy at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta and works as Consultant for the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Asia-Pacific in Bangkok, Thailand. Currently he is doing Fulbright Post-Doctoral research, with a focus on US-Indonesian relations during the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969).

*Thursday, January 20
Lecture: From Yakima to Harvard to the Thai Forest: The Unlikely Journey of a Former Black Buddhist Nun
Speaker: Faith Adiele, Assistant Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh
Time and Place: 3:00-4:30pm, Communications 202, University of Washington Campus
More info available at: http://www.adiele.com

In the PBS documentary, "My Journey Home," Faith Adiele traveled to Africa in search of her Nigerian/Nordic heritage.
Her new book, "Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun" (W. W. Norton) is a brave, witty account of the path she forged to f/Faith, from Washington farm girl to Harvard scholarship student, to ordination as Northern Thailand's first black Buddhist nun. "

"To say that this book is solely about either religion or race is to miss the point entirely. Faith Adiele's account of her search for self is not only beautifully written, it is also insightful and fearless." -Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, Willow Weep for Me

"Readers can and will learn from Adiele, who parses out her second stay in Thailand with a comic's timing, a novelist's keen observations about human idiosyncrasies, and an anthropologist's sensitivity to issues of race and culture." -Publisher's Weekly starred review

"In a voice that's humorous, levelheaded, and so clear as to be bewitching, Faith Adiele turns the story of a spiritual adventure into a visceral, vicarious experience." -Stuart Dybek, I Sailed with Magellan

"Adiele has written an astonishing book-part travelogue, part coming-of-age memoir-that defies easy classification because it is finally a memoir of the soul." -Richard Rodriguez, Brown

"One of the years most compelling memoirs by a Black woman, by anyone for that matter" -Sapphire, Push

Professor Adiele will sign books and speak about escaping the family farm, flunking out of Harvard, and becoming author of a travel memoir, group written novel and PBS documentary. Faith Adiele is the author of "Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun (W.W. Norton), "My Journey Home" (PBS), and "The Student Body" (Random House. Her work has appeared in O, Essence, Ms., Tricycle, Ploughshares, Transition, Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, Chronicle of Higher Education, Seattle Times and numerous anthologies. She was short-listed for Best American Essays 2002 and has received awards from UNESCO, PEN New England, Yaddo Corporation, Creative Nonfiction Foundation, Djerassi, Banff Centre for the Arts, Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, among others. A graduate of Harvard College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Adiele is currently Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.

*Friday, January 21
 Reception for Professor Adiele
Time and Place: TBA
(January 22 at Elliott Bay Books)

Tuesday, January 25
Lecture:What the U.S. Needs to Know About SE Asia (Evening Lecture/Q&A)
Speaker: Ambassador Darryl Johnson, 2002-04 U.S. Ambassador to Thailand
Time and Place: 7:00 pm, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Volunteer Park 1400 East Prospect Street Seattle, (206) 654-3100
Registration: Pre-registration is not available. Payment will be collected at the door. Register 6:00 PM Program
Cost: Members $10, Non-members $15, Students $10

Ambassador Darryl Johnson, who was in Thailand during the tsunami and has just returned to the U.S., will comment on the tsunami's aftermath and on what the U.S. needs to know about SE Asia in the post-9/11 world.

Southeast Asia is a region with vastly different countries grappling with many different issues. The relationships that the United States has with these countries have changed dramatically since September 11, 2001. Concerns about terrorism and Islamic extremism have jumped to the forefront of an agenda that was once dominated by trade and investment. But there is much more to the region than security concerns. Globalization - economic development, free trade, and foreign investment - still is a powerful shaper of the region's economies and the U.S.'s involvement in the region. Other important issues are environmental protection, trafficking in human beings, human rights, piracy, AIDS, and much more. While the U.S. remains an important player in Southeast Asian politics, its influence has waned as it focues on the war on terror. China especially has made diplomatic in-roads in the region. As with East Asian nations, Southeast Asian countries have recovered from their economic recessions of the late 1990s thanks in large part to tightening economic ties with China. Many university students who once would have studied English as their second language are now choosing to study Chinese instead. Ambassador Johnson will reflect on these issues and answer questions from the audience.

Profile of Ambassador Johnson
Darryl N. Johnson was sworn in as American Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand on December 7, 2001. He took up his post in late December and presented his credentials to King Bhumibol Adulyadej on March 29, 2002. His previous assignment was as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, responsible for China and Mongolia. Before joining the Foreign Service in 1965, Ambassador Johnson served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand, teaching English in Lamphun Province. His first Foreign Service assignment was to the U.S. Consulate General in Mumbai, India, after which he undertook Chinese language training, followed by assignment to the Consulate General in Hong Kong (1969-73). His other overseas postings have included Moscow (1974-77), Beijing (1984-87) and Warsaw (1988-91). He served as the first U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Lithuania (1991-94), and later served in Taipei as the Director of the American Institute in Taiwan (1996-99). In Washington he held a variety of positions, including Yugoslav Desk Officer (1977-79), PRC Desk Officer (1979-81), Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs (1982-84), Deputy Coordinator for Assistance to the countries of the former Soviet Union (1994-96), Deputy Director of the Bosnian Task Force (1996), and Political Adviser to the Chief of Naval Operations (1999-2000). Ambassador Johnson received his BA (cum laude) from the University of Washington and also attended the University of Puget Sound, the University of Minnesota and Princeton University. He was selected for the academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa, and for the honor societies for military science, music and literature. In addition to Thai, he speaks Chinese (Mandarin), Russian, Polish, and some Lithuanian.

*Thursday, January 27
Film: The Flor Contemplacion Movie-Part 1- Transnational Domesticity-A film series on the filipino diaspora
Moderator: Vince Rafael, History, University of Washington
Time and Place: 6:30pm Allen Auditorium, Allen Library, U.W. Campus
Dir: Joel Lamangan; Starring Nora Aunor

The execution of Flor Contemplacion in Singapore caused a rift in Singapore-Philippine relations. Released only months after the execution, The Flor Contemplacion Story features Nora Aunor as the domestic worker accused of murdering a fellow domestic worker and her Singaporean ward.


TRANSNATIONAL DOMESTICITY: A FILM SERIES ON THE FILIPINO DIASPORA

Some 7 million Filipinos abroad constitute a diasporic population that provide important foreign remittances to the Philippines. In recognition of their sacrifice and significance to the country, they have been hailed by the state as the "New Heroes" or bagong bayani of the Philippines in the era of globalization. The displacement of these Overseas Filipinos Workers create transnational families and connect the social imaginary to multiple geographic locations. The film series looks at 4 films that tackle the issues of Philippine migration, issues that resonate with conditions not only within the Philippines but outside it as well.

Jan 27: The Flor Contemplacion Story (1995)
Dir: Joel Lamangan; Starring Nora Aunor

The execution of Flor Contemplacion in Singapore caused a rift in Singapore-Philippine relations. Released only months after the execution, The Flor Contemplacion Story features Nora Aunor as the domestic worker accused of murdering a fellow domestic worker and her Singaporean ward. (Prof. Vince Rafael moderating)

Feb 10: Anak The Movie (2000)
Dir: Rory Quintos; Starring: Vilma Santos, Claudine Barretto

Vilma Santos portrays a domestic helper who returns from Hong Kong and attempts to reconnect with the children she was forced to leave behind. (Prof. Randy Bautista moderatve with him. Is it love or need that in the end binds them? (Prof. Kiko Benitez moderating)

Mar 10: The Debut (2000/2001)
Dir: Gene Cajayon; Starring Dante Basco, Tirso Cruz III, Eddie Garcia, Bernadette Balagtas.

Ben Mercado, a talented high school senior who rejects his Filipino heritage, wishes to go to art school, but his father disapproves. The long-simmering feud between Ben and his immigrant father Roland (Tirso Cruz III) threatens to boil over and ruin the 18th birthday party of Ben's sister Rose (Bernadette Balagtas). (Prof. Rick Bonus moderating)

Monday, January 31
Lecture: Aceh: Facing the Future
Speaker: Shadia Marhaban,
Time and Place: 4:00-6:00pm, 317 Thomson Hall, U.W. Seattle Campus

The topic of the discussion will be the current situation in Aceh, as Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) continue to clash, despite the recent Tsunami. How will this impact the aid distribution? What is the international reaction to Indonesia wanting all the International troops to leave Aceh by March? Where is all the aid going? How is this tragedy impacting the media and the international representation of Aceh?

Shadia Marhaban was a journalist in Aceh and an interpreter for the foreign media BBC/CNN. She has been involved with SIRA ( Sentral Informasi Referendum Aceh) as head of international network coordinator, including organizing a mass rally in 1999 and 2000 in Banda Aceh. She also works for the Srikandi Foundation as a spokeswoman for Cut Nur Asikin ( female activist who was sentenced for 13 years in prison). Additionally Shadia was involved in aid distribution during the military operation period of 2000-2002 and the first peace talks between Indonesian Goverment and GAM, representing female activists in Aceh and civil society. She has been traveling internationally campaigning for Aceh since 1999.

Tuesday, February 1
Lecture: Repoliticazion of the Masses? A New Agenda of Pro-Democratic Movements in Indonesia
Speaker: Suraya Afiff, Director of KARSA Institute, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Time and Palce: 3:30-5:00pm, 226 Communications, U.W. Seattle Campus

The International community gave high applause to Indonesia for its "success" in conducting the 2004 general elections peacefully. However, most pro-democratic activists and their allies were disappointed with the results of these elections. In their view, the 2004 general elections were a mere mechanism for the return of the New Order elites. The evidence, in fact, is quite disturbing. GOLKAR, for instance, which over more than three decades had been in power as a ruling party during the Suharto regime, has now, once again, returned to the scene by gaining the largest number of seats during the national parliament election in 2004. And when, in December this year, vice president Jusuf Kala was elected as the new GOLKAR chairman, it made this party became, once again, a ruling party. Now the party is under Susilo Bambang Yudoyono (well known in Indonesia as SBY) government. Moreover, electing SBY as the new president also depicts a return of the military (more precisely TNI/the Indonesian Army) backed onto the Indonesia political scene. Golkar and the military power, after all, were the two core symbols of the New Order era. Thus, it is fair to say that the elites of the old regime have been able to hijack the democratic processes in Indonesia.

Shocked by these results and realizing their failure to influence the mainstream political process in the Reformasi era, a number of pro-democratic groups (in this case are NGOs) are now thinking of various initiatives they need to develop in order to broaden their political arenas. They no longer see working as a pressure group from "outside the system", or focusing only on advocacy work, as enough. They see the needs to develop strategies and mechanisms to work from "inside the system" and to actively engage in the formal politics as well. So how have these major transformations have been crafted by NGOs? How are these new initiatives fundamentally different from the previous strategies developed by other pro-democratic actors? What are some challenges they will be facing? These are some questions that will be addressed. This talk will be based on the experience of WALHI (the Indonesia Environmental Forum/Friends of the Earth Indonesia), a major environmental group in Indonesia that has been discussing a systematic plan to transform their movement into politics. One of the initiatives that has been recently discussed is to develop a progressive constituent-based political party.

*Wednesday, February 2
Lecture: Offshoring: Another Side of the Story (Perspectives From Overseas)
Time and Place: 7:30-9:00am Rainier Club, 820 4th Avenue, Seattle, Wa 98104, Telephone: 206-296-6848
Speakers: Gary Hamilton, Anthony D'Costa, Ali Tarhouni
Registration Cost: $20.00 World Affairs Council Members, $25.00 non-members
Register by calling the World Affairs Council at 206-441-5910 online at: World Affairs Council

(Sponsored by the World Affairs Council, the UW Global Business Center, The East Asia Center, the South Asia Center and the Southeast Asia Center)

We know that offshoring, while not a new phenomenon, has recently created a flurry of debate about loss of U.S. jobs and the concern about the U.S. economy. While there are varying points of view on the subject from inside the U.S., what are the effects of the increased offshoring on the recipient nations? When jobs and income arrive, what economic and social changes follow?

Join us for breakfast and a panel discussion on the other side of the offshoring story in specific Asian countries. Panelists from the University of Washington will be Gary G. Hamilton, Professor of Sociology and the Jackson School of International Studies; Anthony P. D'Costa, Associate Professor in Comparative International Development and member of the International Studies and the South Asian Studies Program of the Jackson School of International Studies; and Ali Tarhouni, Senior Lecturer in Business Economics at the UW Business School.

More info at: http://depts.washington.edu/ciberweb/offshoring.shtml

*Thursday, February 3
Panel Discussion: Maternal and Child Health Issues in Asia (Pakistan, China, Philippines)
 Speakers: William Lavely, associate professor of sociology and international studies at the University of Washington. Lavely has focused his research on Chinese fertility, family, and marriage; Dr. Jabeen Abbas, Assistant Director, Pakistan Voluntary Health and Nutrition Association Pakistan, and Mr. Quilang, Program Manager, UNFPA 5th Country Programme, Project Management Office, Commission on Population Philippines.
Time and Place: 5:30-7:30 PM, University of Washington, Thomson Hall Room 317.

Co-sponsored by the East, South and Southeast Asia Centers

More Info at:
Dr. Jabeen Abbas (Evans School Population and Leadership Program Fellow)
http://www.population-leaders.washington.edu/fellows/0405-abbas.shtml
Professor William Lavely (UW Center for Demography and Ecology)
http://csde.washington.edu/who/interests.php?id=21 Atty.
Nolito Quilang (Evans School Population and Leadership Program Fellow)
http://www.population-leaders.washington.edu/fellows/0405-quilang.shtml

Co-sponsored by the East, South and Southeast Asia Centers

*Saturday, February 5
Performance and Workshop: Indonesian Dance/Theater Performance and Puppet Making Workshop
Performer and Workshop leader: Tikka Sears, Outreach Coordinator, Southeast Asia Center, University of Washington
Time and Place: 11:00-1:45pm, Seattle Asian Art Museum
Free and Open to the Public! Especially Remommended for families.

Saturday, February 5
K-8 teacher event Washington State Council for Social Studies (WSCSS)
Presents: Imagine, Inspire, Reach-out: Creative ways to meet Social Studies Standards
Southeast Asia Center Speaker: Pauli Sandjaja, Indonesian Language Instructor,(UW Asian Lang and Lit)
Time and Place: 8:30-3:30pm, Loyola Hall, Seattle University
Cost: Pre-registration $45. Walk-in registration 50$. Student and first year teachers $10.
All registrations include lunch and WSCSS membership.
Pre-registration must be postmarked by 1/28/05.

(Directions to Seattle University)
(Teacher registration)

More info at: http://www.wscss.org/default.html

*Thursday, February 10
Film: Anak the Movie-Part 2- Transnational Domesticity-A film series on the filipino diaspora
Moderator: Randy Bautista, American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington
Time and Place: 6:30pm Allen Auditorium, Allen Library, U.W. Campus
Dir: Rory Quintos; Starring: Vilma Santos, Claudine Barretto

Vilma Santos portrays a domestic helper who returns from Hong Kong and attempts to reconnect with the children she was forced to leave behind.

TRANSNATIONAL DOMESTICITY: A FILM SERIES ON THE FILIPINO DIASPORA

Some 7 million Filipinos abroad constitute a diasporic population that provide important foreign remittances to the Philippines. In recognition of their sacrifice and significance to the country, they have been hailed by the state as the "New Heroes" or bagong bayani of the Philippines in the era of globalization. The displacement of these Overseas Filipinos Workers create transnational families and connect the social imaginary to multiple geographic locations. The film series looks at 4 films that tackle the issues of Philippine migration, issues that resonate with conditions not only within the Philippines but outside it as well.

*Saturday, February 12 Through Monday, March 14
Art Exhibit: Viet Nam Now
Artists: Dang Xuan Hoa, Hoang Hong Cam, Pham An Hai, Nguyen Cong Cu, Dinh Quan
Time and Place: Exhibit runs from Feb. 12 through March 14 2005, 95 Union Street, Seattle

There will be an on-going salon in the gallery featuring students and scholars of Vietnam and the Viet Kieu community in the Puget Sound Area. Keep posted for other events associated with this exhibition!

For more info on the web: http://www.vietnamnow.info

*Thursday, February 17
Lecture: Contemporary Artists and Art In Viet nam
Speaker: Visiting Vietnamese Artists featured in Viet Nam Now Exhibition
Time and Place: 6:00-8:30pm, Seattle Asian Art Museum
For more info on the web: http://www.vietnamnow.info

Wednesday, February 23
Music Concert and Lecture: Vietnamese Classical Music
Performer and speaker: Patricia Campbell, School of Music, U.W.
Time and Place: 6:00-8:30pm, Benroya Hall, 200 University Street " Seattle, WA
For more info on the web: http://www.vietnamnow.info

*Thursday, February 24
Film: Milan-Part 3-Transnational Domesticity-A film series on the filipino diaspora
Moderator: Francisco "Kiko" Benitez, Comparative Literature, University of Washington
Time and Place: 6:30pm Allen Auditorium, Allen Library, U.W. Campus
Dir: Olivia Lamasan; Starring Claudine Barretto and Piolo Pascual

Piolo Pascual plays Lino, a na &ve and quixotic husband searching for his wife who had gone to Italy as a domestic worker. In Milan he meets street-savvy Jenny, a pillar of the local Filipino migrant workers community who helps him search for his wife and eventually falls in love with him. Is it love or need that in the end binds them?

TRANSNATIONAL DOMESTICITY: A FILM SERIES ON THE FILIPINO DIASPORA

Some 7 million Filipinos abroad constitute a diasporic population that provide important foreign remittances to the Philippines. In recognition of their sacrifice and significance to the country, they have been hailed by the state as the "New Heroes" or bagong bayani of the Philippines in the era of globalization. The displacement of these Overseas Filipinos Workers create transnational families and connect the social imaginary to multiple geographic locations. The film series looks at 4 films that tackle the issues of Philippine migration, issues that resonate with conditions not only within the Philippines but outside it as well.

Friday, March 4
UW World Languages Day

*Saturday, March 5
Mosaic: Sports and Games of the World
Time and Place: 8:30-3:30pm, Thomson Hall, University of Washington Campus

Join us for a day of games, activities, learning and fun. How do kids and adults around the world spend some of their leisure time? Learn about the games and cultures that surround some of the world s most popular sports such as tekraw, cricket and football (the kind without helmets!); popular card and board games, as well as playground and neighborhood games. You ll want to make sure to wear comfy, flexible clothes and shoes as we will be playing these games as well as learning about them. In addition to all the wonderful handouts, lesson plans, and other materials included in all of our Mosaics, the first 45 paid registrants for the Sports and Games of the World Mosaic will receive a copy of the book Children s Traditional Games: Games from 137 Countries and Cultures by Judy Sierra and Robert Kaminski. This over 200 page book contains detailed, easy to understand instructions with helpful illustrations that will have you and your students playing games from cultures all over the world.

Registration fee: $45, lunch included. Start & end time: 8:30-3:30, 7 clock hours.
To register and for more info, contact:

Keith Snodgrass
Associate Director & Outreach Coordinator South Asia Center,
Jackson School Box 353650, University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195
snodgras@u.washington.edu, Phone: (206)543-4800; Fax(206)685-0668

*Wednesday, March 9
International Update dinner/lecture: Tourism in East and Southeast Asia
Speaker: Duong Bich Hanh (UW Anthropology, Evans School)
Time and Place: 5:30-8:30pm Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall, U.W. Campus

Wednesday, March 9
Lecture/Discussion: Memory and Trauma in the Viet Kieu Community
Speaker: Maureen Feit, Anthropology, University of Washington
Time and Place: 6:00-8:30pm, Benroya Hall, 200 University Street " Seattle, WA
For more info on the web: http://www.vietnamnow.info

Thursday, March 10
Film: The Debut-Part 4-Transnational Domesticity-A film series on the filipino diaspora
Moderator: Rick Bonus, American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington
Time and Place: 6:30pm Allen Auditorium, Allen Library, U.W. Campus
Dir: Gene Cajayon; Starring Dante Basco, Tirso Cruz III, Eddie Garcia, Bernadette Balagtas.

Ben Mercado, a talented high school senior who rejects his Filipino heritage, wishes to go to art school, but his father disapproves. The long-simmering feud between Ben and his immigrant father Roland (Tirso Cruz III) threatens to boil over and ruin the 18th birthday party of Ben's sister Rose (Bernadette Balagtas).

TRANSNATIONAL DOMESTICITY: A FILM SERIES ON THE FILIPINO DIASPORA

Some 7 million Filipinos abroad constitute a diasporic population that provide important foreign remittances to the Philippines. In recognition of their sacrifice and significance to the country, they have been hailed by the state as the "New Heroes" or bagong bayani of the Philippines in the era of globalization. The displacement of these Overseas Filipinos Workers create transnational families and connect the social imaginary to multiple geographic locations. The film series looks at 4 films that tackle the issues of Philippine migration, issues that resonate with conditions not only within the Philippines but outside it as well.

*Thursday, March 24

Global Classroom: Islam and Politics in Malaysia (Part 3 of Beyond Islam: Understanding the Muslim World)
Speaker: Daniel Lev, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Washington
Time and Place: 4:15-7:15pm, Room 246, Mechanical Engineering Building, University of Washington Campus
Cost: $15.00 Includes 3 clock hours, curriculum and a light buffet dinner.
To register online contact the World Affairs Council: http://www.world-affairs.org/home.html

Daniel Lev, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and noted expert on Islam and human rights in Southeast Asia,
will give an update on Islam, politics, and ethnic tensions in Malaysia. His talk will be followed by a Q & A session with students from the region. The night will conclude with a presentation on teaching resources.

Beyond Islam: Understanding the Muslim World

The United States' interests in the Muslim world are too great to allow the chasm developing between the peoples of the Muslim and non-Muslim world to grow. While it certainly could be argued that Americans knew too little about the Muslim world before September 11, 2001, the events of that day had a profound effect, for the worse, on Americans' understanding of the Muslim world today. Americans went from having little knowledge to too much knowledge of fringe extremists. Mainstream Americans continue to lack a basic understanding about the everyday lives of mainstream Muslims living in countries like China, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, and Uzebekistan.

Thanks to a grant from the United States Institute on Peace, the World Affairs Council is partnering with the UW Jackson School of International Studies Outreach Centers, and FIUTS to provide an in-depth look at Muslim culture throughout Asia.

The programs will be held at the UW.
Other Beyond Islam programs include:
Cultural Islam in Central Asia (January 20)
Muslims in China Today (February 10)
Islam, Asia, Modernity (May 5)

Note: Teachers who complete all four sessions will receive a special certificate for their commitment to understanding the Muslim world.
UW CAMPUS MAP http://www.washington.edu/home/maps The Mechanical Engineering Building is located near the Student Union Building (HUB) on the east side of Stevens Way, next to Loew Hall. Sessions will be held in MEB Room 246.

SPRING QUARTER 2005

Monday, March 28
Gender and Migration Dynamics: Inside the Black Box of Cumulative Causation
 Sara R. Curran (Sociology, Princeton University)
Time and Place: 3:30-5:00pm Thomson Hall, Room 317

Dr. Curran is a candidate for an Associate Professor with tenure position, to be jointly held in the Jackson School and the Evans School of Public Affairs. She received her doctorate in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1994. Dr. Curran has published extensively on migration, gender, and globalization in Thailand. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University.

Tuesday, March 29
The Work of Area Studies in an Age of Pre-emptive War, Part Two:
America's Wars in Viet Nam, Central America, and Iraq
Time and Place: 2:00 - 4:00 p.m., Simpson Center Conference Room, Communications 206

Each of the following panelists will make a 15-minute presentation on these themes:

Christoph Giebel, Associate Professor of International Studies & History, UW
Angelina Godoy, Assistant Professor of International Studies & Law, Societies and Justice, UW
Resat Kasaba, Professor of International Studies, UW

Sunday, April 3
Two films about trafficking of women in SE Asia followed by a discussion
Anonymously Yours (Burma, Gayle Ferraro)
Something Between Her Hands (Cambodia, Sonya Shah)
Time and Place: 1:30 to 4:30pm University of Washington School of Social Work, 4101 15th Ave. NE. Seattle. (Please note that on Sundays the north door is open off of 15th. The movies will be shown on the 3rd floor.)

Presented by Stop Exploitation Now and the University of Washington School of Social Work International Committee

Anonymously Yours, a film by Gayle Ferraro, is a chilling account of young women and the horrors of their lives as forced prostitutes in Burma. The other film, Something Between Her Hands, made by filmmaker Sonya Shah, examines the garment industry and sex trade in Cambodia while sharing a little bit about how the profitable sex industry grew so fast there. Both do a great job showing the many horrors females face.

There is no charge for the films but AFESIP, a nonprofit organization described bellow, will accept donations to help those victimized by sex trafficking in Cambodia. Representatives of Maryknoll's program in Cambodia, whose work assists those affected by HIV, will be on hand to sell quilts. All the quilts are handmade in Cambodia by individuals with HIV. (Maryknoll has a wonderful program in Cambodia called Little Sprouts that supports HIV positive children.)

Both filmmakers are making copies of their films available for purchase at the event for private (noncommercial) showings.

A psychiatrist, who has worked with trafficked women in Cambodia, will be in attendance, as well as some educators who work in Cambodia, some social workers and counselors who work in SE Asia along with a variety of interesting individuals with a variety of ties to Burma and Cambodia all who are interested in working to help stop the exploitation of women and children.

So please join us on April 3rd for this important event. If you have any questions please e-mail mollyjester@yahoo.com.

"AFESIP is a non-governmental, non-partisan, and non-religious organization established at the grass-root level in Cambodia in 1996. The dire situations of thousands of victims forced into sex slavery are the reasons why AFESIP exists today. We are devoted to "humanly correct development" to fight against the trafficking of women and children for sex slavery."

Friday, April 8
Lecture: Aceh, Indonesia, post-Tsunami
Speaker: Michael Leigh (Chair of Contemporary Asia, Director, Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages & Societies, University of Melbourne, Australia)
Time and Place: 3:30-5:00pm, Thomson 317

The Tsunami wrought terrible havoc, causing severe human and physical destruction. It also opened the door to a deeply divided polity. This paper will discuss the lines of cleavage and contestation, external and internal, and discuss scenarios for Aceh in the post 9/11 world.

Michael Leigh has just returned from Indonesia, where he was involved in a needs analysis of the higher education sector in Aceh, and in formulating how Australian Universities could best assist the re-building of educational capacities in that devastated province. Recently he has been appointed Director of the Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies, and Professor of Contemporary Asia at the University of Melbourne. Previously he had been founding Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Head of the Department of Government, University of Sydney and Project Leader of the Social Science Development Program throughout Indonesian Universities and Islamic Institutes, based in Banda Aceh and Jakarta. His PhD is from Cornell University, and his publications are on political economy, resource politics and political change in Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Singapore and Southeast Asia.

Monday, April 11
Integrating Asian Islam into the Undergraduate Curriculum: UASI Graduate Student Pedagogy Workshop
***APPLICATIONS ARE DUE*** (See May 8 for more details.)

Monday, April 11
Lecture: AIDS in Viet Nam and Asia: Epidemiology, Challenges and Responses 
Speaker: Nancy Fee, UNAIDS Country Coordinator (Hanoi, Viet Nam)
Time and Place: Lecture 11:00  11:20, Q & A 11:20  12:00; H-670, Department of Health Services
Content of the talk

  • AIDS epidemic in Viet Nam in the context of Asia
  • National response
  • International support
  • Emerging challenges: local response; stigma and discrimination; treatment and gender issues

Tuesday, April 12
Lecture: Globalization in Laos and Cambodia: Does Faster Globalization Mean Better Development?
Speaker: Boike Rehbein, Sociology, University of Freiburg
Time and Place: 3:30-5:00pm, Communications 226

There are many similarities between Laos and Cambodia: size, socio-economic data and aspects of history - especially in relation to their neighbors. The present political system seems very different, but everybody who is somewhat familiar with both countries knows that the same patrimonial system works underneath the surface. Because of these similarities it seems likely that both countries will share the most important traits of their development within the frame of globalization. The paper is to show that this is not the case. If one looks at both countries from the perspective of universal history, the differences in their current development are of course insignificant. From this perspective it is impossible, however, to say anything about the immediate future. And if one focuses on a single factor - like the economy or the political system - one overlooks the importance of most other global, regional and local factors. The theoretical thesis of the paper is that only the whole configuration of factors, which is singular for any historical moment and locality, makes a prediction plausible. Under the conditions of globalization, the configuration has to include global and regional factors. Following Pierre Bourdieu, the factors can be analyzed into social fields, forces, and capital. Based on these concepts, the paper develops the empirical thesis that the immediate socio-economic prospects are much better for Laos than for Cambodia - depending on stability and change of certain factors in the configuration. Among the negative factors in the Cambodian configuration are the earlier and more concentrated onset of globalization, the destruction of social ties under Pol Pot, and - seemingly a paradox - the democratization of the political system. The slow development in Laos will come to a halt, however, if the leadership's reactions to globalization are too conservative. These important factors have to be understood within the framework of the current configuration. www.soziologie.uni-freiburg.de/rehbein

Wednesday, April 13
 Conversations Across Anti-Racist and Transnational Feminisms
Zakiya Adair (Women Studies, UW), Amy Bhatt (Women Studies, UW), Rick Bonus (American Ethnic Studies, UW), Serena Maurer (Women Studies, UW), Ileana Rodriguez-Silva (History, UW)
Time and Place: 3:30pm, Savery 110C

Friday, April 15
Lecture: "Preoccupation and Forgetting: A Reading of the Ibong Adarna"
Speaker: Francisco "Kiko" Benitez
Time and Place: 12:30pm, Simpson Center For the Humanities - Room 202

Wednesday, April 20
UW Extension and Jackson School lecture series: Human Rights in Southeast Asia
Speaker: Mary Callahan, Jackson School of International Studies, U.W.
Registration required. Contact UW Extensions at 897-8939 or 1-800-506-1325. For more information on the series, go to http://www.extension.washington.edu/ext/special/jackson/default.asp
Time: 7:00pm
Place: Savery 239

Thursday, April 21 (CANCELLED)
Lecture: NGO's and Civil Society in Post Doi Moi Viet Nam
Speaker: Joe Hannah (Geography, UW)
Time and Place: 3:30-5:00pm; Savery 151

The concept of civil society is contested and poorly defined, and nowhere is this more evident than in the realm of international development. Applying this concept in a very complex place such as Vietnam is even more problematic.

Under the economic and social reforms, the Vietnamese State has had to contend with an influx of new ideas, actors and process that do not fit well within their Marxist-Leninist frameworks, including the concept of civil society. International donors are promoting civil society as a means toward more efficient development, simultaneously pushing democratization. Western ideas of development and social organization have been thrown into competition with the Vietnamese status quo.

The topic of this talk is twofold: using self-described Vietnamese NGOs  as my case study, I first attempt to conceptualize " civil society"  in Vietnam. In doing so, I will reveal some of the complex relationships and conflicts between the Vietnamese State and international development actors such as the World Bank and the UN. Secondly, I look at how the Vietnamese State deals with this external pressure to develop a civil society  along Western lines while maintaining existing power structure.

While the Vietnamese State wrestles with the political, social, and political-economy aspects of this contestation over knowledge and ideas, VNGOs are like the canary in the coalmine; the State response to these civil society organizations  could indicate the viability of future forms of civil society throughout Vietnam.

Tuesday, April 26
Performance: Music of Persia and Bali
Hossein Omoumi, Persian ney (cane flute) and vocals
Balinese musician, I Wayan Sinti and the Gamelan Gambuh Padma Sari,
with dancer Cokorde Istri Nilawati
Time and Place: 7:30pm, Meany Theater
Admission: $12 general admission, $10 student/senior

Thursday, April 28
Lecture: Theaters of War: Three Defining Photographs from the Vietnam/American War
Speaker: Boreth Ly (Project for Critical Asian Studies, UW; Art and Art History, University of Utah)
Time and Place: 3:30pm; Communications 226

In this talk Dr. Ly will address three much-reproduced "documentary" photographs from the Vietnam War: Malcolm Browne's "Buddhist Monk's Suicide Protest," Saigon, 1963; Eddie Adams' "Execution in Saigon Street," Saigon, 1968; and Mick Ut's "Feeling Napalm Bomb Attack," Trangbang, 1972. The events captured in these three photographs were defining moments that led to the "Fall of Saigon" on April 30, 1975, and the "reunification" of North and South Vietnam.

Professor Ly will consider these three photographs as sites of ambiguity and collision between cultures. Moreover, he questions the very theoretical definition of "documentary" by interrogating the legibility of these three powerful images. He will provide an exmplanation as to why, after knowing their historical, religious, and political contexts, these three images stubbornly resist fixed readings. He will also argue that it is their illegibility that contributes to their replications in popular imaginations.

Last, he will discuss these images in light of performance, memory, and trauma.

Boreth Ly, Assistant Professor of Asian Art and Visual Culture in the Department of Art and Art History, University of Utah. He is currently Rockefeller Resident Fellow of the Project for Critical Asian Studies, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington. Dr. Ly is currently writing a collected volume of essays titled Mekong and Memory. This interdisciplinary book addresses issues of trauma and memory in the post-Vietnam War period as it is made manifest in the contemporary arts and visual cultures of Southeast Asia and its diasporas.

Saturday, April 30
Learn about Indonesian and South Asian Culture: Colonialism and Performance Art in Islamic Asia
Speaker: Laurie Sears (UW History)
Time and Place: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm; Simpson Center for the Humanities, Communications 206
Associated Event: UW Conference on Asian Islam, University of Washington, May 5-8, 2005

The cultural and performance practices of Islamic Asia are some of the richest traditions in the world; this seminar will focus on the impact of European rule on Islamic performance traditions in India and Indonesia. We will explore Javanese shadow theatre traditions as well as Islamic music in the Hindu courts of British India, investigating how Islamic arts reflects complex negotiations among many players: southern Asians who journeyed to Mecca; performers and musicians who served the colonial regimes; artists who drew upon India's and Java's deep village traditions; and farmers whose rituals ensured good harvests. The resulting blend of Islamic and local practices furnished new resources of sustenance, of resistance, and of adaptation under the difficult conditions of colonial rule. While unique in themselves, the processes at work in the meeting of Islam, art, and politics are quite significant for other parts of the world.

Laurie J. Sears is Professor of History at the University of Washington where she teaches Southeast Asian histories and literatures as well as critical theories. She is the author of Shadows of Empire: Colonial Discourse and Javanese Tales and the editor of Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia. She is currently writing a book on trauma, ghosts, and history in postcolonial Java.

Teachers as Scholars (TAS) is a professional development program co-sponsored by the University of Washington Simpson Center and Seattle Arts & Lectures that provides an educational environment designed to ignite and sustain the intellectual interests of K-12 teachers. Content-based seminars led by university faculty are the centerpiece of the TAS program. Ten clock hours or one university credit are available for each seminar. If you are interested in this or any other Teachers as Scholars seminar, please contact the program coordinator at tas@lectures.org or 206-621-2230 ext. 16. Find more information about the program at the Teachers as Scholars link at the Seattle Arts & Lectures website (www.lectures.org).

Sunday, May 1
Film Series: Sex and Food in the Films of Asia: Vietnam
Film: "The Vertical Ray of the Sun" by Tran Anh Hung (2000) 112 minutes
Moderator: Boreth Ly (Simpson Center for the Humanities, UW)
Time: Reception starts at 5:30pm, film starts at 6:00pm
Place: Ethnic Cultural Theatre, 3940 Brooklyn Avenue, NE

Set in Hanoi, Vietnam, "The Vertical Ray of the Sun" is a rich visual banquet overflowing with lush, artful images that unfold with the same languorous slowness with which the film's enigmatic characters and relationships develop. Three sisters, Lien (Tran Nu Yen-Khe), Khanh (Le Khanh), and Suong (Nguyen Nhu Quynh), and their brother, Hai (Ngo Quang Hai), come together to prepare a feast in remembrance of their deceased parents. They end up discovering that they each harbor important secrets.

This film series explores the delicious theme of food and sex in the films of Asia and Asian diasporas. It addresses issues of social class, gender, queer theory, sexuality, and the body in comparative and cultural perspective. In addition, it seeks to explore the ritual of cooking, eating, and sex as sites of conflict and resolution. Some of the questions the series raises are how are foods and sex represented in films of the respective Asian cultures? Who are the consumers of these films?

Various faculty, staff, and students at the University of Washington from different disciplines are interested in the poetics and politics of representation of race, gender, and sexuality in Asian films, whether from Asia or made by diasporic Asians. Moreover, this series also aims to provide a forum for discussions among not only Asian academic populations and others who are interested but also among the larger communities in Seattle-to this end, Asian activists, artists, and students from outside the University will also participate in the series in different capacities.

Each film will be introduced and followed by a discussion lead by the respective UW faculty and Graduate Students.

Sponsored by: The Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Project for Critical Asian Studies, the Division of Art History in the School of Art, the East Asia Center, the South Asia Center, the Southeast Asia Center, the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, and Trikone-Northwest and Tasveer.

Wednesday, May 4
Danz Lectureship Event
The Politics of the Governed: A Roundtable Discussion with Partha Chatterjee
Moderated by Nikhil Pal Singh (History, UW)
Roundtable Participants:
Vicente Rafael (History, UW), Tani Barlow (History and Women's Studies, UW),
K. Sivaramakrishnan (Anthropology and International Studies, UW) ,
Chandan Reddy (English, UW)
Time and Place: 3:30-5:30 pm, Parrington Hall Forum Room 309
Reception to follow

Partha Chatterjee is Professor of Political Science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India, and simultaneously Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, U.S.A. He was a founding member of the subaltern studies group of historians. The subaltern studies collective began as a group of historians of India who felt, in the early 1980s, that Indian history was limited because it adopted a nationalist perspective. While this perspective claimed to be comprehensive the collective agued that it took the perspective of an elite, the nationalist bourgeoisie. The perspectives and voices of those outside the centres of power - peasants, workers, tribal peoples and women-were neglected. The subaltern studies collective attempted to listen to these subaltern voices and utilize the radically different ways of seeing history they represented.

In this roundtable seminar we will discuss Professor Chaterjee's Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures, recently published as, Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World (2004).

Thursday, May 5
Lecture: Re-Placing Area Studies in the Age of Resurgent Imperialisms
Speaker: Gillian Hart (Geography, UC Berkeley)
Time and Place: 3:30 pm, Communications 226

May 5-7, 2005
Conference: Islam,Asia,Modernity
Sponsored by the Jackson School Southeast Asia Center, East Asia Center, Russia East Europe Central Asian Studies, South Asia Center, the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Critical Asian Studies program, and the Undergraduate Asian Studies Initiative.

Sunday, May 8
Integrating Asian Islam into the Undergraduate Curriculum: UASI Graduate Student Pedagogy Workshop

In conjunction with the symposium Asia, Islam, Modernity which will be held at the University of Washington 5-7 May 2005, the University of Washington s Jackson School of International Studies is offering a pedagogy workshop on integrating Asian Islam into the undergraduate curriculum. This half-day workshop will provide graduate students who seek expertise in the study and teaching of Islam in Asia the opportunity to develop an undergraduate teaching portfolio with a focus on teaching about Asian Islams and Muslim societies in Asia. Those who are accepted into the workshop will be invited to attend the symposium. In addition, we will provide roundtrip airfare to Seattle, shared hotel accommodations, and a modest allowance for food and airport transport for up to six U.S. based graduate students.

The Asia, Islam, Modernity symposium will bring together faculty, students, community intellectuals, and scholars from Asia, Europe, and the US to share their perspectives about the changing practices and politics of Asian Islam how these are studied, documented, taught, and represented in the academy and the media and how these practices affect society, politics, art and culture in Asia. The Pedagogy Workshop will take place from 9am-1pm on Sunday May 8, 2005, the morning after the symposium. Participants will have the opportunity to present preliminary syllabi and teaching materials that will be reviewed by the invited speakers and an experienced UW faculty facilitator.

Twelve graduate students will be chosen to participate in the workshop, with funding available for up to six. If you live in the Seattle area or will not need funding, please let us know that in your application. To apply, please submit a one paragraph abstract of a proposed course, a short description of your teaching philosophy, and one letter of recommendation. Candidates will be selected by the strength of their applications and evidence of their commitment to the project of teaching about Asian Islams. The organizers will work to ensure that we have a wide range of expertise on different regions of Asia. All participants selected for the workshop will prepare and bring a syllabus for an undergraduate class substantially integrating the study of Asia into courses on Islam, or Islam into Asian studies, to share and discuss with other participants. The anticipated product of the workshop for each participant will be a complete syllabus that can be included in a teaching portfolio.

Applications must be received by April 11, 2005. Completed applications can be submitted either in hard copy or via e-mail attachment. They should be sent to: Keith Snodgrass, JSIS Box 353650, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 or to snodgras@u.washington.edu.

For more information about the symposium, please visit the symposium website www.islamasiamodernity.org.

Sunday, May 8
Film Series: Sex and Food in the Films of Asia: South Asia

Selected shorts: "Summer in My Veins" by Nish Saran
"Pangyau" by Amir Muhammad
"The Unconsious" by Manisha Dwivedi
"Beauty Parlor" by Mehreen Jabbar
"Barefoot" and "Sum Total" by Sonali Gulati

Moderator: Dipika Nath (Women Studies, UW)
Time: Reception starts at 5:30pm, film starts at 6:00pm
Place: Ethnic Cultural Theatre, 3940 Brooklyn Avenue, NE

A gay Indian filmmaker explores the dynamics of secrecy and love that mark his very close family - every achingly intimate moment -- including coming out to his mother -- is caught on tape; a Malay-Muslim narrator reminisces about a teenage relationship between himself and an ethnic Chinese classmate; a journey with men who call themselves kothi. they are men for their families and society, but for themselves they are women, and wives of other "macho" men; Four faces, four masks: four short sketches of the lives and loves of three women and a eunuch, and more..

This film series explores the delicious theme of food and sex in the films of Asia and Asian diasporas. It addresses issues of social class, gender, queer theory, sexuality, and the body in comparative and cultural perspective. In addition, it seeks to explore the ritual of cooking, eating, and sex as sites of conflict and resolution. Some of the questions the series raises are how are foods and sex represented in films of the respective Asian cultures? Who are the consumers of these films?

Various faculty, staff, and students at the University of Washington from different disciplines are interested in the poetics and politics of representation of race, gender, and sexuality in Asian films, whether from Asia or made by diasporic Asians. Moreover, this series also aims to provide a forum for discussions among not only Asian academic populations and others who are interested but also among the larger communities in Seattle-to this end, Asian activists, artists, and students from outside the University will also participate in the series in different capacities.

Each film will be introduced and followed by a discussion lead by the respective UW faculty and Graduate Students.

Sponsored by: The Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Project for Critical Asian Studies, the Division of Art History in the School of Art, the East Asia Center, the South Asia Center, the Southeast Asia Center, the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, and Trikone-Northwest and Tasveer.

Saturday, May 14
Learn about Indonesian and South Asian Culture: Colonialism and Performance Art in Islamic Asia
Speaker: Laurie Sears (UW, History)
Time and Place: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm; Communications, Room 206, Simpson Center for the Humanities
Associated Event: UW Conference on Asian Islam, University of Washington, May 5-8, 2005

The cultural and performance practices of Islamic Asia are some of the richest traditions in the world; this seminar will focus on the impact of European rule on Islamic performance traditions in India and Indonesia. We will explore Javanese shadow theatre traditions as well as Islamic music in the Hindu courts of British India, investigating how Islamic arts reflects complex negotiations among many players: southern Asians who journeyed to Mecca; performers and musicians who served the colonial regimes; artists who drew upon India's and Java's deep village traditions; and farmers whose rituals ensured good harvests. The resulting blend of Islamic and local practices furnished new resources of sustenance, of resistance, and of adaptation under the difficult conditions of colonial rule. While unique in themselves, the processes at work in the meeting of Islam, art, and politics are quite significant for other parts of the world.

Laurie J. Sears is Professor of History at the University of Washington where she teaches Southeast Asian histories and literatures as well as critical theories. She is the author of Shadows of Empire: Colonial Discourse and Javanese Tales and the editor of Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia. She is currently writing a book on trauma, ghosts, and history in postcolonial Java.

Teachers as Scholars (TAS) is a professional development program co-sponsored by the University of Washington Simpson Center and Seattle Arts & Lectures that provides an educational environment designed to ignite and sustain the intellectual interests of K-12 teachers. Content-based seminars led by university faculty are the centerpiece of the TAS program. Ten clock hours or one university credit are available for each seminar. If you are interested in this or any other Teachers as Scholars seminar, please contact the program coordinator at tas@lectures.org or 206-621-2230 ext. 16. Find more information about the program at the Teachers as Scholars link at the Seattle Arts & Lectures website (www.lectures.org).

Sunday, May 15
Film Series: Sex and Food in the Films of Asia: China
Film: "Fish and Elephants" by Li Yi (2001)
Moderator: Tani Barlow (Women Studies, UW)
Time: Reception starts at 5:30pm, film starts at 6:00pm
Place: Ethnic Cultural Theatre, 3940 Brooklyn Avenue, NE

It's always interesting to welcome a "first" in Chinese cinema, and Fish and Elephant 's publicity material trumpets it as the first lesbian-themed mainland film. Novice director Li Yu has delivered an engaging film that successfully takes up the challenge, in a thoughtful, often humorous way, even if it doesn't transcend its trail-blazing agenda.

Li Yu is a twenty nine year old filmmaker who was famous as a TV host in China, before making her first film, the independent documentary Sisters, in 1999. Fish and Elephant is her first feature film. It is an "underground" film, which is to say neither its script nor its print was submitted to the Film Bureau for approval. Which is not surprising, given its subject matter.

This film series explores the delicious theme of food and sex in the films of Asia and Asian diasporas. It addresses issues of social class, gender, queer theory, sexuality, and the body in comparative and cultural perspective. In addition, it seeks to explore the ritual of cooking, eating, and sex as sites of conflict and resolution. Some of the questions the series raises are how are foods and sex represented in films of the respective Asian cultures? Who are the consumers of these films?

Various faculty, staff, and students at the University of Washington from different disciplines are interested in the poetics and politics of representation of race, gender, and sexuality in Asian films, whether from Asia or made by diasporic Asians. Moreover, this series also aims to provide a forum for discussions among not only Asian academic populations and others who are interested but also among the larger communities in Seattle-to this end, Asian activists, artists, and students from outside the University will also participate in the series in different capacities.

Each film will be introduced and followed by a discussion lead by the respective UW faculty and Graduate Students.

Sponsored by: The Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Project for Critical Asian Studies, the Division of Art History in the School of Art, the East Asia Center, the South Asia Center, the Southeast Asia Center, the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, and Trikone-Northwest and Tasveer.

Monday, May 16
Narrative of Contesting Views of Ecology Management: The Practice of the Karen Conservation Movement in Northern Thailand
Speaker: Prasert Trakansuphakon (Faculty of Humanities, Chiang Mai University, Thailand)
Time and Place: 3:30-5:00pm, Thomson 317

Tuesday, May 17
The Asian Mystique Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, & Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient (pdf)
Speaker: Sheridan Prasso
Time and Place: 7:00 pm, Allen Auditorium, Allen Library

The Asian Mystique (Public Affairs Books, 2005) lays out a provocative challenge to see Asia and Asians as they really are, with unclouded, deeroticized eyes. It traces the origins of Western stereotypes in history and in Hollywood, examines the phenomenon of yellow fever,' then goes on a reality tour of Asia's go-go bars, middle-class homes, college campuses, business districts, and corridors of power, providing intimate profiles of women's lives and vivid portraits of the human side of an Asia we usually mythologize too well to really understand. It strips away our misconceptions and stereotypes, revealing instead the fully dimensional human beings beyond our usual perceptions. The Asian Mystique is required reading for anyone with interest in or interaction with Asia or Asian-origin people, as well as any serious student or practicioner of East-West relations.

Sheridan Prasso has been writing about Asia for more than fifteen years, most recently as Asia Editor and a Senior News Editor for BusinessWeek. Her articles have appeared in Time, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times,and other publications. An advisor to the Asia Society's Social Issues Programs and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, Prasso currently lives in New York City.

Co-Sponsored by Southeast Asia Center, East Asian Center, and the University Book Store

Thursday, May 19
The Internationalization of Statistical Practices, A Case Study: Thailand 1827-1919
Speaker: Constance Wilson (UW Southeast Asia affiliate faculty)
Time: 3:30-5:00pm
Location: Savery 151

Older, traditional forms of non-Western accounting and statistics can be quite different from the modern, generally accepted, international ones that we are all so familiar with. A little studied and generally unknown transition had to occur in many societies before they could produce modern forms of statistics. In the case of much of Southeast Asia, there was no transition, just an abrupt change. Modern statistics arrived with the colonial powers who immediately imposed them through their own bureaucracies. As a result, earlier, local accounting practices were totally ignored. It was as if colonialism began a new age that completely obliterated previous practices.

Thailand (Siam), however, was never a colony. Nevertheless, it had to compete with the colonial regimes in order to retain its independence. This required adopting not just the administrative models and practices of the West but also its underlying information systems

This presentation will examine the transition from the older, traditional forms of accounting to international ones in Thailand. Attention will concentrate on two series of records: financial accounts and the vary limited number of partial population records that have survived into the last half of the twentieth century. Examples will be presented of sequences of documents that illustrate the process of change from local statistical accounts to the modern statistical methods and concepts that replace them.

The presentation will stress the relationship between the types of documents that a society produces and the changes that take place in that society. The adoption of international forms of record keeping had to be preceded and accompanied by changes in the ways that the Thai government perceived and regulated the Thai social order. The transformations of Thai society that occurred during the last half of the nineteenth-century affected both social and financial matters as many taxes were collected by the nai (masters) who supervised the labor services formerly required of the population.

Sunday, May 22
Film Series: Sex and Food in the Films of Asia: Japan
Film: "Tampopo" by Tran Anh Hung (2000)
Moderator: Davinder Bhowmik (Asian Languages and Literature, UW) and Sudeshna Sen (Art, UW)
Time: Reception starts at 5:30pm, film starts at 6:00pm
Place: Ethnic Cultural Theatre, 3940 Brooklyn Avenue, NE

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, the main story is about trucker Goro who rides into town like a modern Shane to help Tampopo set up the perfect fast-food noodle restaurant. Woven into this main story are a number of smaller stories about the importance of food, ranging from a gangster who mixes hot sex with food to an old lady terrorizing a shopkeeper by compulsive squeezing of his wares.

This film series explores the delicious theme of food and sex in the films of Asia and Asian diasporas. It addresses issues of social class, gender, queer theory, sexuality, and the body in comparative and cultural perspective. In addition, it seeks to explore the ritual of cooking, eating, and sex as sites of conflict and resolution. Some of the questions the series raises are how are foods and sex represented in films of the respective Asian cultures? Who are the consumers of these films?

Various faculty, staff, and students at the University of Washington from different disciplines are interested in the poetics and politics of representation of race, gender, and sexuality in Asian films, whether from Asia or made by diasporic Asians. Moreover, this series also aims to provide a forum for discussions among not only Asian academic populations and others who are interested but also among the larger communities in Seattle-to this end, Asian activists, artists, and students from outside the University will also participate in the series in different capacities.

Each film will be introduced and followed by a discussion lead by the respective UW faculty and Graduate Students.

Sponsored by: the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Project for Critical Asian Studies, the Division of Art History in the School of Art, the East Asia Center, the South Asia Center, the Southeast Asia Center, the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, and Trikone-Northwest and Tasveer.

Monday, May 23
Lecture: "In Praise of Highways and Fast Writing"
Speaker: Rudolf Mr?zek, Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan
Keynote Address, Conference on The Social Lives of Transit Networks
Time: 4:00pm
Place: Communications Hall, Room 226

Rudolf Mr?zek is Professor of History at the University of Michigan and the author of Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony (Princeton 2002) and several other books. His most recent work performs close readings of historical documents to consider the nature of technology within late colonial Netherlands East Indies. He writes about topics such as shoes, concrete, and motorcycle clubs in ways that force us to think differently not only about technology, but also about colonialism, nationalism, and revolution.

Professor Mr?zek will be speaking as part of a conference on "Mediums and Motored Ways: The Social Lives of Transit Networks." For more information on the conference, please click here.

Monday, May 23
Conference: Of Magic, Mediums, and Motorways: The Social Lives of Transit Systems
Time 8:00am - 6:30pm
Place: Communications Hall, Rooms 204 and 226

How have modern transportation networks brought together, channeled, and amplified new voices, desires and anxieties never before heard, acting as mediums for conveying certain collective images, demands and ideas while silencing others? And how can histories and ethnographies of such modern networks speak to the failures, limits and contradictions of modern states, tracing the mechanisms through which apparitions of collective imaginings like "the masses," "a national public," and "the popular will" have taken form, both as foundation for, and in opposition to the state? This conference explores the social life of transit networks by asking how sites of transport railway stations, bus and road systems, multi-lane super-highways, and subways have provided new mediums for communication, promising liberation, progress, and unification, while at the same time creating new spaces for violence, alienation, and resistance to the state.

Co-sponsors: Department of History, Department of Architecture, Department of Anthropology, Jackson School of International Studies, South Asia Center, Center for West European Studies, Southeast Asia Center, African Studies Program

Tuesday, May 24
The Crisis in the Study of History and Epigraphy of Early ("Classical") South and Southeast Asia in North American Universities
A Roundtable Discussion in Honor of Romila Thapar, Katz Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities and Professor Emeritus of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Time: 1:00-3:00 pm (Reception to follow)
Place: Communications 202

Chaired by Boreth Ly (Assistant Professor of Asian Art, University of Utah and Project for Critical Asian Studies Fellow, UW) and Laurie Sears (Professor of History, UW)

This roundtable discussion seeks to present and to analyze the crisis in the transmission and the teaching of the early or so-called "classical" history of South and Southeast Asia in North American universities. In addition, we hope to get an assessment of comparable situations in other academic contexts from different parts of the world. Scholars focusing on early South and Southeast Asian history from different disciplinary backgrounds will present short discussions about their respective fields of study, and then a distinguished panel of discussants working on East Asian and European subjects will offer their thoughts in light of comparative studies in their respective fields. Some of the questions that this roundtable seeks to raise are:

  • What implications does this "crisis" have regarding required training or well-rounded scholars of early histories?
  • Is the study of epigraphy simply one of the colonialist projects?
  • Is there room for a true interdisciplinary scholar-intellectual in North American universities?
  • Is the academic world becoming increasingly myopic?
  • What comes after the "Faustian drive"?
  • How might we bridge the gap between the past and the more immediate present?
  • What can we do to fill in the necessary lacunae?

Participants: Romila Thapar, Katz Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities; Richard Salomon, Professor of Asian Languages & Literature and Buddhist Studies; Colett Cox, Professor of Asian Languages & Literature and Buddhist Studies; Charles Keyes, Professor of Anthropology and Buddhist Studies; Peter Lape, Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Curator, Burke Museum; Vicente Rafael, Professor of History; and K. Sivaramakrishnan, Associate Professor of Anthropology

Discussants: Patricia Ebrey, Professor of Chinese History; Carol Thomas, Professor of Ancient Greek History; Robert Stacey, Professor of Medieval History; Sandra Joshel, Associate Professor of Roman History; and William Boltz, Professor of Asian Languages & Literature and Classical Chinese

Wednesday, May 25 - CANCELLED
The Social History of Modernity in rural Chiang Mai, Thailand
Speaker: Kriangsak Chetpatanavanich (Faculty of Humanities, Chiang Mai University, Thailand)
Time and Place: 3:30-5:00pm, Thomson 317

Tuesday, May 31
Area Studies in the Age of Pre-emptive War
Time and Place: 2:00 pm, Simpson Center Conference Room, Communications 202

Moderated by Professor Celia Lowe (Anthropology), this roundtable will feature graduate students leading discussions on the following topics:

Southeast Asian Studies and the Global War on Terror: New Approaches to Thinking Regions.

  1. The Continuing Relevance of Area Studies: Southeast Asia
  2. Preemptive War in Southeast Asia: Its Impact on Thailand
  3. Problems in Area Studies: Collaboration

This roundtable will take issue with critiques leveled against area studies for their collusion with economic, political, cultural, military, and other kinds of "colonialism" and ill-fated projects. Awareness of the origins of area studies does not mean that they should be abandoned, but rather should help us be more vigilant in our own research. More importantly, whatever the origins of area studies, knowledges of local languages, cultures, practices, and peoples remain crucial to those academics who desire to produce critical or emancipatory knowledge. The idea that "globalization" is the antinomy of "localization," thus making local knowledge irrelevant, is misinformed. From this position, we will discuss the specific case of Thailand and its imbrication in the Global War on Terror (GWOT). How do we understand Thailand and its transformations between the Cold War and the GWOT? We will also look at the intimacies of transnational collaboration to study the ways working together can be an antidote to the hegemony of a US-based area studies tradition.

Cheryll Alipio (Anthropology), Karen Brooks (Sociology), John Buchanan (Political Science), Sarah Haney (Ethnomusicology), Robert Ingenito (Anthropology), Larisa Lumba (Anthropology), Pat McCormick (History), Heather Owen (Nursing), Lydia Ruddy (Geography), Mia Siscawati (Anthropology), Le So Tran (Anthropology), Woonkyung Yeo (History)

Wednesday, June 1
Southeast Asia Center Spring Reception and
Launch of the Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies Book Series
Time and Place: 4:30-6:30pm, Petersen Room in the Allen Library

Join us as we celebrate this year's annual spring reception as we recognize the awards and achievements of our faculty and students. We will thank outgoing Southeast Asia Center director, Thomas Gething, and welcome incoming Southeast Asia Center director, Laurie Sears.

In conjunction with University of Washington Press, we will also announce the launch of a new book series, Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies. These new perspectives in Southeast Asian studies reconsider traditional relationships among scholars, texts, archives, field sites, and subject matter. Volumes in the series will feature inquiries into historiography, critical ethnography, colonialism and postcolonialism, nationalism and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, science and technology, politics and society, and literature, drama and film. This scholarship sheds light on shifting contexts and contests over forms of knowing and modes of action that inform cultural politics and shape histories of modernity.

Click here to see pictures from the event!

Saturday, June 4
Free Kulintang Workshop
Time and Place: 10am-12pm, University of Washington's School of Music, Room 213
For more information, please email Pamela at loowit_marikit@yahoo.com

Saturday, June 4
Performance: "Awakening the Filipino in Me" (pdf)
Filipino American Youth Center for Culture and the Arts (FAYCCA)
Featuring: Mr. Del Bermudez II, Art Documentarist, and
Mr. Danongan S. Kalanduyan, Master Kulintang Musician US National Heritage Award Recipient
Time and Place: 6:30-8:30pm, Tacoma Community College, Building #3 (College Auditorium)
Admission: $12
For more information, please call Pauline at (253) 539-2887

Tuesday, June 7
Reading: "Welcome to the Crocodile Farm"
Bill Galloway, Department of Anthropology
Bill Galloway will read excerpts from his recently defended dissertation, entitled "Welcome to the Crocodile Farm," a story about a young girl in Cambodia, who is tangled in a web of poverty, violence, and exploitation, and about Bill's journey in trying to make sense of that web while being unintentionally enmeshed within it.
Time and Place: 3:30pm, Denny Hall, Room 401

Tuesday and Wednesday, June 28-29
Mystics, Eccentrics, Vissionaries and Revolutionaries: People Who Changed the Course of History
 Place: Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room, University ofWashington, Seattle Campus

The outreach centers of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies invite you to attend the annual Summer Seminar for educators, June 28-29, 2005. This year s seminar, Mystics, Eccentrics, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries: People Who Changed the Course of History, will focus on individuals from around the world whose unique outlook changed the world. Scholars will present the lives of historical figures who were able to see the world in a different light and who took action to bring their vision to fruition. This two-day seminar is designed for middle school, high school, and community college educators. Come and be inspired!

Registration deadline: June 22, 2005

Registration Fee: $80, includes parking vouchers, coffee/tea, morning pastries, lunch and sixteen WA State clock hours. (You must attend the entire seminar to receive clock hours.) Please make checks payable to the University of Washington.  Special travel stipends are available for teachers coming from 75 miles away or more.

Registration validation: Registration can only be accepted by mail and must include payment in full.

To Register: Please complete this registration form. Send your check and completed registration form to: West European Studies, University of Washington, Box 353650, Seattle, WA 98195. You will receive a confirmation packet with a receipt, map, driving and parking directions, and program details.

Questions or inquiries, please call 206-543-1675 or contact cwes@u.washington.edu.

Thursday, July 14 - Saturday, July 16
International Batik Workshop at Islandwood on Bainbridge Island
For more information, please click here (pdf).


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Southeast Asia Center
University of Washington
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Laurie Sears, Director

Rick Bonus, Director of Graduate Studies

Sara Van Fleet, Associate Director

Tikka Sears, Outreach Coordinator

Marjorie McKinley, Program Coordinator

McKay Caruthers, Graduate Student Assistant