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FALL QUARTER 2005

Thursday, October 6
Southeast Asia Center Annual Fall Reception
5:00-7:00pm
Simpson Center Conference Room, Communications 202
Come and kick off the new academic year with your friends from the Southeast Asia Center! Meet new people, eat Indonesian food and engage in lively conversation.

Click here to see photos from the event!

Saturday, October 15
K-12 educator professional development
Fall-In Service: Reading and Writing with a Purpose
Southeast Asian literature and lessons to be used in the middle school and high school classroom
Presenter: Jody Granatir
Washington State Council for the Social Studies
7:30am-3:30 pm ** Registration Required
Edmonds Woodway High School
7600 212th St. S.W.
Edmonds, WA 98026
6 Clock Hours
Including sessions that:

Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Welcome Lunch for Chie Ikeya,Rockefeller Resident Fellow
12:30 pm
Faculty Club

The Project for Critical Asian Studies invites you to join us for lunch to welcome Dr. Chie Ikeya to the University of Washington!

Faculty and graduate students interested in meeting and talking with Fellows about their work are invited to join them for lunch at the Faculty Club. Please RSVP to Maureen Hickey at critasia@u.washington.edu by Monday, October 24 if you plan to attend.

This lunch is an opportunity to "get-to-know" Dr. Ikeya in an informal setting and to introduce her to university community members with similar research interests. We encourage you to distribute this invitation to other faculty and graduate students who might be interested in attending.

Chie Ikeya received her Ph.D. in History from Cornell University in 2005 for her dissertation, "Gender, History and Modernity: Representing Women in Twentieth Century Colonial Burma.” While in residence at the University of Washington, Dr. Ikeya's research, titled "Miscegenating Women, Half-Caste Children: Legacies of the Japanese Occupation of Burma during the Second World War (1942-1945)," will focus on war narratives by and about the women who consorted with or married Japanese soldiers and who bore children by these soldiers, and compare discourses of mixed unions and miscegenation in Burma during the period of British colonial rule and during the Occupation. Her project will examine the role that discourses of sexual transgressions have played in histories of Southeast and East Asia, and engage with contemporary scholarly debates about the place of the Japanese Occupation in the history of the region.

Dr. Ikeya will be in residence with the Project for Critical Asian Studies at the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities for the 2005-06 academic year. She will be leading a Round Table Discussion on the theme of "Gender & Violence/Gendered Violence" on November 28, 2005, at the Simpson Center. More information on this Round Table will be forthcoming soon.

Tuesday, October 25, 2005
No Boundaries: The Ripple Effect of Globalization
Sustainable Development: Who’s Responsible?
7:00pm
Kane Hall, Room 130

This panel of UW faculty explores shared environmental responsibility, its progress, its limitations and its relationship to economic stability and justice.

Panelists:

This series is part of an annual program sponsored and produced by the UW Alumni Association and College of Arts and Sciences. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.UWalum.com or call (206) 543-0540.

Saturday, October 29
K-12 educator event
Teachers As Scholars
The Viet Nam War: Myths and Memories
Christoph Giebel (History/JSIS)
Registration required. Please contact the Teachers as Scholars Program.
Tel. (206) 621-2230 ext. 16

Thirty years after the end of the war in Viet Nam, the conflict that dramatically defined the second half of the twentieth century continues to be the object of haunting memories, political controversies, and contradictory historical and commemorative discourses. As recent events have shown, this is particularly true in the U.S., where the complexities of the conflict remain poorly understood, while self-serving myths about the nature of the war and U.S. involvement are widespread. The deep rifts that the war caused among Vietnamese persist in radically different historical narratives of various Vietnamese communities at home and abroad. This seminar will provide a historical background to the war, explain key events, and illuminate the political, ideological, and cultural influences and issues that motivated its participants. We will focus on contemporary commemorations of the war, critically examine the stories they privilege, and explore ways to teach about the subject from multiple perspectives.

Associated Event
Oct - Dec 2005
30 Years After the Fall
The Wing Luke Asian Museum
407 Seventh Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98104
Tel: (206) 623-5124

Tuesday, November 1
No Boundaries: The Ripple Effect of Globalization
Religions Across Borders and Time
7:00pm
Kane Hall, Room 130

Faculty discuss Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism today from this perspective, sharing both local and global perspectives.

Panelists:

This series is part of an annual program sponsored and produced by the UW Alumni Association and College of Arts and Sciences. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.UWalum.com or call (206) 543-0540.

November 6-20
Visiting scholar and Walker-Ames Lecturer
Pasuk Pongphaichit (Chulalongkorn University)

Pasuk Phongpaichit was born in a village outside Bangkok. She received her BA and MA from Monash University, Australia, and her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, UK. She is now Professor in the Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University.

She has been an expert with the International Labour Organisation, a research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, and a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS in Washington and the Center of Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto. She was awarded the title of Outstanding National Researcher in 1998, and has twice received the methi wichai awuso (senior research scholar) award from the Thailand Research Fund. She was asked to give the annual Wertheim Memorial Lecture in Amsterdam in 1999, and the keynote address at the 9th International Conference on Thai Studies at Northern Illinois University in 2005. She has written widely in Thai and English on the Thai economy, Japanese investment, the sex industry, corruption, and the illegal economy.

With her Chulalongkorn University research team, she has written Corruption and Democracy in Thailand (1994); and Guns, Girls, Gambling, Ganja: Thailand's Illegal Economy and Public Policy (1998). She recently completed studies on social movements in modern Thailand, and on corruption in contract bidding, and is head of a project on changes in corporate ownership over Thailand's boom and bust. She has also co-written written Thailand: Economy and Politics which won the 1997 national research prize (for the Thai version), reappeared in a revised edition in 2002, and will shortly be published in Japanese; Thailand's Boom and Bust (1998); Thaksin: The Business of Politics in Thailand (2004); and A History of Thailand (2005).

Sponsored by: Anthropology, Asian Languages and Literature, Business School, The Graduate School, and the Southeast Asia Center at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.

Tuesday, November 8
Pasuk Pongphaichit on KUOW's "Weekday" with Steve Scher
9:00am
KUOW 94.9FM

Tune in your radios to 94.9FM KUOW and listen to Pasuk Pongphaichit on "Weekday" with Steve Scher. Ask Pasuk your questions live on the radio by calling (206) 543-KUOW or sending an email to weekday@kuow.org!

Tuesday, November 8
Walker-Ames Lecture
Corruption, Conflict of Interest, Crime:
Local Complexities and Global Connections
Pasuk Pongphaichit (Chulalongkorn University)
6:30pm
Kane Hall, Room 210

Once upon a time, corruption seemed a straightforward issue: bad people made money; better laws and institutions were needed to stop them. But over the last decade, the issue has become a lot more complex. In the new global culture of triumphant capitalism, how do we distinguish between a legitimate super-profit and crime or conflict of interest? Yes, Enron was a salutary lesson, but what about Halliburton? The way these issues evolve in the world-dominant US affects the local practices, debates, and struggles in other parts of the world.

Co-sponsors: Anthropology, Asian Languages and Literature, Business School, The Graduate School.

Wednesday, November 9
Southeast Asia Center Lecture
Understanding the troubles in Thailand's far south
Pasuk Pongphaichit (Chulalongkorn University) and Chris Baker
3:30-5:00pm
Petersen Room, 4th Floor, Allen Library

Since early 2004, there has been a downward spiral of violence in the three Muslim-majority provinces of Thailand's far south. Over a thousand people have died - some in major encounters with security authorities, some in almost daily assassinations.

What is going on? No group has come out to claim responsibility or make demands. Thailand's prime minister initially attributed the trouble to "mere bandits". Some people have tried to link the troubles to movements in international Islam or al-Qaida.

In this talk, Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker will discuss different interpretations of the violence, and the possible prospects.

Pasuk Phongpaichit is Professor of Economics at Chulalongkorn University Bangkok. Chris Baker is an independent writer. Together they have written widely on Thailand including A History of Thailand (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Thaksin: The Business of Politics in Thailand (Silkworm Books, 2004), and Thailand: Economy and Politics (Oxford University Press, 1995, 2002).

Thursday, November 10
A reading from the Thai epic, Khun Chang Khun Phaen, in English translation
Pasuk Pongphaichit (Chulalongkorn University) and Chris Baker
3:30-5:00pm
Communications 202 (Please note room change!)

Khun Chang Khun Phaen is one of the great original works of Southeast Asian literature. It was first developed by troubadours in the 17th and 18th centuries, and written down in the 19th century, with two Thai kings and the great poets of the age contributing. It is a tale of love and war stuffed with drama, heroism, sex, violence, horror, magic, comedy, farce, and ultimately tragedy on a grand scale. It is controversial. Some have called for it to be banned and burnt, while others are just as passionate in its support, specially as a unique document about ordinary people in the Thai past. Apart from the main text, the tale has been adapted to at least seven cinema films, ten television series (one running to 500 episodes), a dozen adaptations as novels, drama plays, folk performances, comic books, and cartoons. It has been hidden from the outside world by language. There is no proper translation in any language, only some excerpts and summaries. Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker are working on an English translation. In this talk, they will explain the background of the work, and read an extract of around 30 minutes.

Co-sponsors: Asian Languages and Literature, Comparative Literature, and the Simpson Center for the Humanities.

Friday, November 11-23
Film: Winter Soldier (Winterfilm Collective, USA, 1971, 16mm>BetaSP, 95 min.)
Fri-Wed at 7:00pm & 9:00pm (plus Sat, Sun at 5pm)
Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
**Ticket purchase required: $5-$9**

Chronicling the extraordinary Winter Soldier Investigation conducted by Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) in Detroit during the winter of 1971, Winterfilm Collective shot footage of more than 125 Vietnam veterans (including a very young John Kerry) that gave eyewitness testimony to war crimes and atrocities they either participated in or witnessed. Virtually unreported by the media, WINTER SOLDIER is the only record of this historic turning point in American history. Shown at the Cannes and Berlin Film Festivals and lauded throughout Europe, it only opened briefly in Manhattan, and was broadcast for a single showing on New York's WNET. Thirty-five years later, the veterans' courage in testifying and their desire to prevent further atrocities and regain their own humanity makes WINTER SOLDIER an unforgettable experience.

Saturday, November 12
K-12 educator event
Teachers As Scholars
The Viet Nam War: Myths and Memories
Christoph Giebel (History/JSIS)
Registration required. Please contact the Teachers as Scholars Program.
Tel. (206) 621-2230 ext. 16

Thirty years after the end of the war in Viet Nam, the conflict that dramatically defined the second half of the twentieth century continues to be the object of haunting memories, political controversies, and contradictory historical and commemorative discourses. As recent events have shown, this is particularly true in the U.S., where the complexities of the conflict remain poorly understood, while self-serving myths about the nature of the war and U.S. involvement are widespread. The deep rifts that the war caused among Vietnamese persist in radically different historical narratives of various Vietnamese communities at home and abroad. This seminar will provide a historical background to the war, explain key events, and illuminate the political, ideological, and cultural influences and issues that motivated its participants. We will focus on contemporary commemorations of the war, critically examine the stories they privilege, and explore ways to teach about the subject from multiple perspectives.

Associated Event
Oct - Dec 2005
30 Years After the Fall
The Wing Luke Asian Museum
407 Seventh Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98104
Tel: (206) 623-5124

Wednesday, November 16
Perfume Dreams Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora*
Andrew Lam
3:30-5:00 pm, Odegaard Undergarduate Library Room 220

Andrew Lam is an award-winning syndicated writer, an editor with the Pacific News Service, and a frequent commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. He co-founded New California Media, and his essays have appeared in dozens of newspapers and magazines across the country, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Baltimore Sun, the Atlanta Journal, the Chicago Tribune, Mother Jones, The Nation, and Earth Island Journal.

*Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora (2005) is published by Heyday Books.

Sunday, November 20
Vietnam NOW - a one-day Art Exhibit and Lecture over Brunch
12 - 3 p.m.
FenomenA
200 Roy St, Suite 104
Seattle, WA 98109

Jonathan Warren - Chair of Latin American Studies and Associate Professor of International Studies at the University of Washington will talk about his recent book project: Vietnam through Brazilian Eyes: Lessons for the Neoliberal World. Based on fieldwork in HaNoi, Prof. Warren will discuss what's particular about Viet Nam from the Brazilian point of view. He will focus upon conceptualizations of nation, class, gender, and modernity and discuss what these understandings may mean for economic development and debates about modernization. Within this context Prof. Warren will elaborate how and where the art from the exhibit fits into the cultural struggles taking place within contemporary Vietnam, and discuss the heated debate that this exhibit set off among Vietnamese Americans in the winter of 2005.

More information and to RSVP: art@fenomena.us or 206-227-8512

Admission: $18 includes the ethnic buffet brunch and lecture.

Monday, November 28
Gender & Violence/Gendered Violence: Round Table Discussion Series
Title: The Modern Girl and Her Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Ethnicity and Violence in the “Non-Violent” Nationalist Movement in Colonial Burma
3:30-5:30 pm
Communications 206 (Please note room change!)
Facilitator: Chie Ikeya, Critical Asian Studies Project Rockefeller Fellow

This roundtable will look at two key targets of the violent “anti-Indian” riots in 1930s colonial Burma, both of which concerned the modern Burmese girl, namely: her sexual relations with “foreign” (that is, “Indian”) men and her appropriation of Western fashion in defiance of the on-going anti-colonial boycott campaign. It will explore the connections among the conjugal and sartorial practices of Burmese women and the nationalist appeal for a rejection of colonial temptations that drew on Gandhi’s “ahimsaic” anti-colonial struggle. Why did Indian-Burmese unions and Burmese women’s fashion come to embody anxieties about modernization and sexuality? The roundtable will conclude with a discussion of insights that the historical case of the modern, miscegenating girl in 1930s Burma might offer in thinking about the current non-violent democratic struggle in Burma led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, focusing in particular on Suu Kyi’s renunciation of her sexuality and her uncompromising insistence on economic sanctions that underlie her claim to moral and political incorruptibility.

*Chie Ikeya* received her Ph.D. in History from Cornell University in 2005 for her dissertation, "Gender, History and Modernity: Representing Women in Twentieth Century Colonial Burma.” While in residence at the University of Washington, Dr. Ikeya's research, titled "Miscegenating Women, Half-Caste Children: Legacies of the Japanese Occupation of Burma during the Second World War (1942-1945)," will focus on war narratives by and about the women who consorted with or married Japanese soldiers and who bore children by these soldiers, and compare discourses of mixed unions and miscegenation in Burma during the period of British colonial rule and during the Occupation. Her project will examine the role that discourses of sexual transgressions have played in histories of Southeast and East Asia, and engage with contemporary scholarly debates about the place of the Japanese Occupation in the history of the region. Dr. Ikeya will be in residence at the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities for the 2005-06 Academic Year.

Presented by the Project for Critical Asian Studies and the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Roundtable Discussions are open to interested faculty and students across the University of Washington, and each session will be led by a visiting Project Fellow and/or a faculty member affiliated with the Project for Critical Asian Studies.

If you would like to receive a copy of the suggested readings beforehand, please email the Project for Critical Asian Studies with your name, department and mail box number.

Friday, December 9
'Development' revisited: A northeastern Thai village after four decades in the development era
Charles "Biff" Keyes (Anthropology & International Studies)
12:30-2:00
Parrington Hall Commons, Room 308

In 1963-64 Charles and Jane Keyes undertook field research in the village of Ban Nông Tün, Muang District, Mahasarakham Province in the central part of Northeastern Thailand, then as now the poorest region of the country. This research was carried out just as Thailand was launched into the ‘Development Era’ (samai phatthana) following the recommendations of a World Bank team in 1959 and the promulgation of Thailand’s first National Development Plan in 1962. In 1963-64, villagers in Ban Nông Tün were engaged in producing primarily for their own consumption. However, results of household and economic censuses carried out showed that many village men left the village for seasonal work primarily in Bangkok. The censuses also showed that a significant percentage of villagers were engaged in very limited cash cropping.

In 1980 Charles Keyes carried out a restudy of the village, and continued this restudy with Jane in 1983. The results of a household and economic census show that villagers by this time had significantly intensified cash-cropping with emphasis on rice, kenaf, and tobacco. Moreover, many younger women had also joined men in undertaking seasonal migration for work primarily in Bangkok. During this restudy, it was also found that most young couples had adopted birth control methods. Another major change was occurring because of electrification which had taken place in 1980.

During several visits to the village from the mid-1980s through the early years of the 21st century it was observed that the material conditions of the village were rapidly changing. Charles Keyes was also told that an increasing number of villagers – mainly men, but also women – were engaged in long-term work not only in Bangkok and other more industrialized areas of Central and Southeastern Thailand, but also overseas.

These observations were the basis for a third restudy. Charles and Jane Keyes and Suriya Smutkupt, a retired Thai anthropologist and a former student of Charles Keyes, carried out field work in early 2005. Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan, who has recently received a PhD in sociology, worked with Charles Keyes in designing a new questionnaire and in analyzing the data from the censuses from all three studies.

The results of a household and economic census carried out in 2005 revealed that villagers had almost all abandoned any type of cash cropping. Instead, almost all village households have some members who are away from the village for extended periods to work in Bangkok, elsewhere in Thailand and overseas. A very significant percentage of men in the age group from 18-35 have worked or are working for three or more in Taiwan. Many of those who have accumulated capital from work outside the village have invested it in such enterprises as shops, small restaurants, motorized vehicle repair garages, or trucking. Wealth generated from outside the village has also been used for new houses and for new buildings in the Buddhist temple-monastery. Households have significantly shrunk in size both because of the adoption of birth control and the permanent out-migration of some members.

Despite the re-orientation of villagers toward wage-labor and away from agricultural production, the village remains a viable community. Rice continues to be produced to ensure that families have basic subsistence. Monies earned from wage labor have been used to improve markedly the living conditions of most still living in the village. The village temple-monastery and a new forest monastery not only continue to be foci of a ‘moral community’ which includes both current residents of village and those who are temporary and permanent migrants.

This rather unique longitudinal research makes it possible to rethink theories of ‘development’. Contrary to some theories, rural people are neither ‘beneficiaries’ nor ‘victims’ of development initiated by others. They actively engage in articulating their local worlds with national and global ones.

WINTER QUARTER 2006

Tuesday, January 24
The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines
4:00pm
Simpson Center, Communications 206

Vicente L. Rafael (History) argues that translation was key to the emergence of Filipino nationalism in the nineteenth century. Acts of translation entailed technics from which issued the promise of nationhood. Such a promise consisted of revising the heterogeneous and violent origins of the nation by mediating one's encounter with things foreign while preserving their strangeness. Rafael examines the workings of the foreign in the Filipinos' fascination with Castilian, the language of the Spanish colonizers. In Castilian, Filipino nationalists saw the possibility of arriving at a lingua franca with which to overcome linguistic, regional, and class differences. Yet they were also keenly aware of the social limits and political hazards of this linguistic fantasy.

Wednesday, February 8
The Lost Executioner: A Journey to the Heart of the Killing Fields
Featuring Nic Dunlop
7:00 – 8:30pm
University Book Store (4326 University Way NE, Seattle 98105)

In Cambodia, between 1975 and 1979, some two million people died at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. Twenty years later, not one member had been held accountable. Haunted by the image of one of them, Comrade Duch, photographer Nic Dunlop set out to bring him to life, and thereby to account. "I needed to understand how a seemingly ordinary man from one of the poorer parts of Cambodia could turn into one of the worst mass murderers of the twentieth century." The result, The Lost Executioner, is an unforgettable, illuminating document that, by bearing witness, captivates its audience with its revelation.

Sponsored by the University Book Store and the World Affairs Council.

Wednesday, February 15
"Taxi Work: Making a Living on the Streets of Bangkok"
Maureen Hickey, PhD Candidate (UW Department of Geography)
3:00 - 4:30 pm, Smith Hall Room 40A

In Bangkok, taxi drivers have been "independent contractors" since the establishment of the modern taxi business on the streets of the Thai capital in the mid-20th century. Tight control of taxi medallions coupled with a steady stream of migrant labor from the impoverished Northeastern region of the country ensured that demand always exceeded supply, as there were always far fewer taxis on the streets than there were workers hoping to rent and drive them. In 1992, the quota system on taxis was abolished and conditions for taxi ownership were deregulated. Since that time, the number of taxis in Bangkok has more than quadrupled and continues to increase with each passing month. Because of the huge jump in the number of vehicles, coupled with the relative ease of picking up -- and dropping out of - taxi driving, this type of work has become an increasingly attractive occupation for Thai men from a wide variety of backgrounds. But even as the licensing of taxis has been effectively deregulated, the quest to establish Bangkok as a "global" city on par with its more affluent counterparts in the region, together with social changes such as a widening income gap and a growing fear of crime among urban residents, has led both to new forms of official regulation and to increased social surveillance of drivers. In this talk, I will explore the causes and consequences of this simultaneous de- and re-regulation of the Bangkok taxi trade, discuss some of the individual and collective responses of drivers seeking to gain more control over their working conditions, and consider some of the implications for thinking about the relationship between neo-liberalism, restructuring, and transportation work in other contexts.

Co-sponsored by the International Studies Center of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.

February 24-26
2nd Annual Filipino Youth Conference Sweeps Fil-Ams Nationwide to Meet in Seattle

Filipino-American youth will gather from all over the country to Seattle, Washington next month as the national Fil-Am youth organization known as Sandiwa is proud to announce its second annual Sandiwa Youth Conference to be held at the University of Washington campus in Seattle this February 24-26.

This year's conference will be themed "Can You Read the Secrets of History on My Face?", taken from the famous poem entitled "The Shadow of the Terror" by the late Filipino-American writer Carlos Bulosan.

The conference seeks to incite thoughtful exchange and challenges to young Filipinos facing the social issues of Filipinos in the US today, and linking them to their history and to their motherland.

Scheduled speakers and guests include keynote Prof. Epifanio San Juan, Jr., acclaimed author of From Exile to Diaspora, Racism and Cultural Studies, and Working Through the Contradictions, and Prof. Delia Aguilar of the University of Connecticut, Women Studies Department.

Sandiwa Conference spokesperson Mike Viola of Oregon stated, "It is only fitting that during the year of the centennial marking the migration of Filipinos to Hawaii [as well as the agricultural fields of California's Central Valley and the canneries of Seattle] that we recognize how our present is directly connected to a history of Filipino immigrants who organized and struggled for their rights as well as the opportunities of future generations. Our hope is that this conference connects our history with the ongoing struggle millions of Filipinos face today."

Amongst the workshop topics to be presented at the 2nd Annual Conference are: historical and contemporary Filipino migration, women and globalization, and the state of human rights in the Philippines.

Sandiwa, a national Filipino-American youth organization, has chapters in various major US cities. It was founded with the assistance of the Philippine Studies Program (PSP) at University of the Philippines, Diliman.

The annual program is a student exchange that not only offers US- based students progressive education in Philippine history and culture in the premiere UP campus, but challenges the students to tackle everyday Philippine social-economic realities through integration with both urban and rural communities.

Julia Camagong, US coordinator of the PSP, further explained that immersion into the program has "shaped Sandiwa into an organization that challenges and welcomes the social-awakening of the Fil-Am youth not only to Philippine reality, but the realities of Filipinos in the US, and to recognize the interconnectedness of both."

All are welcome. Registration fee is$35 for delegates, $25 for PSP alumni and NWFASA members, and $20 for high school students. For more information, or to register, visit the Sandiwa website.

Friday, February 24
Tales of Confusion and Delay: Rise and Demise of Indonesian Literature
Hendrik M.J. Maier (Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages, UC Riverside)
2:00pm (with reception immediately to follow), Petersen Room, Allen Library

Talking and writing about Indonesian literature is a difficult and challenging responsibility: it is a largely unknown and unnoticed entity outside and inside Indonesia. Indonesian literature seems to constantly unmake itself in local conversations - and it remains out of order even in recent discussions of world literature. What is happening to it? How to explain the failure and indifference? Perhaps it is a matter of confused beginnings and exuberant expectations. It certainly is a problem of language. And most of all, it is a matter of deficient translations.

Hendrik M.J. Maier received traditional training in philology and textual criticism of the languages of Indonesia at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, where he held the chair of Malay and Indonesian Language and Literature before moving to UC Riverside in 2003. His major interests have remained the same: the languages and literatures of Indonesia and Malaysia, which he now tries to understand within wider networks, in particular the socio-political and cultural interactions within the Southeast Asian region. He has published widely on Malay writing/literature and history, and combines his scholarly pursuits with translating modern and older Malay texts. Some of his secondary interests include so-called “colonial literature” and the history of printed materials in Southeast Asia.

Professor Maier is the Director of SEATRiP, the interdisciplinary Southeast Asian Studies Program at UCR that, with its focus on Text, Ritual, and Perfomance, aims at developing new forms of engagement with Southeast Asia and its diasporas. He is currently working on a book about the emergence of the concept of ‘literature’ in Southeast Asia.

Some of his major publications are In the Center of Authority – the Malay Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa (Cornell UP, 1988) and We are Playing Relatives – a Survey of Malay Writing ( Leiden, 2004). He has published a number of articles in the leading journals in his field, Indonesia and Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.

Saturday, February 25
Educator event
K-8 Arts Mosaic: Storytelling, Puppetry and Masks from around the world
8:30-3:30PM, Thomson Hall

*Pre-registration required*
Registration Fee of $45 includes 7 free WA state clock hours, an ethnic buffet lunch and all materials.
Download the registration form and the event flyer (Adobe Reader required) for more information.

K-8 teachers who love storytelling and art in their classrooms will want to put this date on their calendars right away! The Jackson School Outreach Centers have teamed up once again to offer an action-packed day of storytelling and puppetry presentations as well as fun, hands-on sessions that will leave teachers brimming with ideas to take back to the classroom. Professor and Puppeteer Kathy Foley, will kick off the program with a lecture workshop on Indonesian Puppet theater. Following the keynote, participants will select from a series of break-out sessions that explore storytelling traditions, puppetry and puppet-making crafts from various world regions.

Keynote Presentation by Kathy Foley

This lecture-workshop will introduce the storytelling techniques of the dalang (puppetmaster, narrator) of the Indo-Malay world. Showing how the solo story-teller using puppets or masked characters can encompass epic traditions from the Hindu Ramayana and Mahabhrata, to Islamic tales of Muhammed's uncle (Amir Hamzah), to indigenous epics and chronicles. Principles of character type as represented by the mask or puppet whose "types" define voice, movement and portrayal of a character. Rules regulate the interplay of music, movement, and narration, making it easy to use formulas for stories from widely different religious and narrative sources. After explaining the 'rules of the game' of wayang and its relation to cosmology, politics, and entertainments, participants will use these types, masks, movements and musical ideas to present a short episode from the Ramayana, the story of an incarnation of the god Wisnu (Wisnu) who with the help of a monkey general saves his wife from the demon kingdom. The workshop shows how a solo storyteller with a box of puppets or a narrator with up to a hundred dancers is really doing the same thing. This explains why puppetry and mask are considered older than and the model for human theatre in Southeast Asia.

Break Out Sessions Include:

Do-it-yourself Turkish Shadow Puppetry
The Northwest Puppet Center
The Manas – a Central Asian epic poem – longer than the Iliad and Odyssey combined!
The Ramayana Epic
Indonesian and Indian Puppet-making lessons and stories
Chinese Shadow Puppet-making and stories
And much more

Sunday, March 5
Puppet Performance: "The Ghostly Goddess & the Sinner Saint"
8:00pm
Kane Hall 130
This performance is free and open to the public.

Enjoy the humor, color and scintillating music and puppetry of West Java. This story, through a unique convergence of animism, Hinduism and Islam, tells the tale of The Prince of Tuban, founder of Wayang puppet theater, and The Goddess of the South Seas, who transforms into a snake at night to devour her lovers! Performed by Kathy Foley, recognized dalang (puppet master) and Professor of Theater at UCSC. Live music by Gamelan Pacifica joined by master percussionist and UCSC faculty member Undang Sumarna.

Please note that this performance will also be presented on March 3, 4 & 5 at the Northwest Puppet Center, please contact them directly for ticket purchase.

Northwest Puppet Center
9123 15th Ave. NE
Seattle, WA 98115
Tel: (206) 523-2579

Sponsored by the Northwest Puppet Center and the Southeast Asia Center.

Biographies

Kathy Foley is a Professor of Theatre at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is author of the Southeast Asia section of CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO WORLD THEATRE and editor of ASIAN THEATRE JOURNAL and her articles have appeared in TDR, MODERN DRAMA, ASIAN THEATRE JOURNAL, PUPPETRY INTERNATIONAL and other publications. She trained in mask and puppetry in the Sundanese region of Indonesia and was the first non-Indonesian invited to perform in the prestigious all Indonesia National Wayang Festival. As an actress her performance of SHATTERING THE SILENCE: BLAVATSKY, BESANT, RUUKMINI DEVI toured the U.S. and England in 2005. She performs frequently in the US and Indonesia and has curated exhibitions of South and Southeast Asian Puppets and Masks for the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta, the East-West Center in Hawaii, Northern Illinois University, Guilford College, The Frick Art Gallery in Pittsburgh and other institutions. She is currently researching typology and cosmology in Southeast Asian theatre with recent fieldwork in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma and Indonesia. Her research has been supported by Fulbright, the East-West Center, the Asian Cultural Council and other grants. She is also a Punch and Judy professor.

Undang Sumarna was born into a musical family in the city of Bandung, the capital of West Java. As a small boy he learned to play gamelan under the tutelage of his grandfather, the renowned Abah Kayat. He had already mastered the complex art of Sundanese drumming by his early twenties, when he was chosen to teach Sundanese music at the Center for World Music in San Francisco, California. Several years later, he was appointed Lecturer in Music at UC Santa Cruz, where over the past twenty years he has introduced hundreds of UC students to Sundanese music and dance and directed many ambitious music, dance, and theatre productions. Over the years, Undang has expanded his expertise to include Sundanese dance and wayang, degung, angklung, and other musical genres, as well as music and dance from Cirebon. Undang has also taught at KOKAR Bandung, UCLA, and San Jose State University; he performs regularly in the United States with Sundanese ensembles Pusaka Sunda and Sekar Asih.

Gamelan Pacifica has performed extensively in the Pacific Northwest, as well as Canada and other parts of the U.S. Originally formed in 1980, Gamelan Pacifica is among the finest ensembles devoted to the performance of music for gamelan in the U.S. It is an active and adventurous ensemble, with a reputation for creating diverse productions merging traditional and contemporary musical forms with dance, theater, puppetry, and visual media. Visiting artists have included some of the most notable artists of Indonesia, including Didik Nini Thowok, Sri Djoko Rahardja, I Made Sidia, Endo Suanda, A.W. Sutrisno, Goenawan Mohamad, and Tony Prabowo. They have been guest performers on The Smithsonian Institute's Festival of Indonesia, New Music Across America Festival, Vancouver New Music Society, On the Boards, Walker Art Center, Performing Arts Chicago, and many others. Gamelan Pacifica's CD, Trance Gong has received international acclaim and is available from O.O. Discs. In addition to sponsoring the Javanese gamelan ensemble, Gamelan Pacifica is a well-respected non-profit arts organization. Gamelan Pacifica has been the recipient of numerous grants, including support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation and Arts International. Gamelan Pacifica is currently supported in part by sustaining funds from the Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs and 4Culture. For more information or to contact Gamelan Pacifica please visit www.gamelanpacifica.org. Gamelan Pacifica is directed by noted composer and Cornish College of the Arts Professor Jarrad Powell.

Monday, March 6
Film: "Season of Guava Mùa Oi" by Dang Nhat Minh
Panelists include Christoph Giebel (UW History/JSIS) and Judith Henchy (UW Libraries)
12:30-3:30pm
Schafer Auditorium, Lemieux Library, Seattle University

"Dang Nhat Minh's films are characterized by an astute method of storytelling... Over the years, Minh has managed to portray with precision the diversity of the country's history, combining realism with poetic touches while denouncing current Vietnamese social values. Minh uses cinematography as a medium to illustrate the tragedy of war and war-time love between men and women." (CNN)

Sponsored by Seattle University's Asian Studies Program and the Institute for Human Development

Tuesday, March 14
Dissertation Colloquium:
Food-sharing in Lamalera, Indonesia: Tests of Adaptive Hypotheses
David Nolin (PhD Student in Biocultural Anthropology)
10:00am
Denny Hall, Room 401

Tuesday, March 21
Continuity and Change in Asia
Featuring: Celia Lowe (Anthropology)
4:00-8:00pm
The Seattle Times Auditorium

Don't miss a great opportunity to teach and learn about Asia! Continuity and Change in Asia offers teachers a four-hour workshop featuring talks by UW Asia experts, an 8-week article series in The Seattle Times, class sets of newspapers available at no charge for teaching the series, and an 80+ page teaching guide packed with background information and ideas for teaching the series. Continuity and Change in Asia is offered through a special collaboration between the University of Washington's Jackson School of International Studies and the Seattle Times Newspapers In Education Program.

About the Workshop
Hear UW Asia experts discuss key themes for understanding Asia today: legacies of imperialism, women's rise to power, and emerging voices. The same themes will be highlighted in the article series. Speakers for the workshop include Director of the Jackson School of International Studies, Anand Yang, who will provide an overview of major themes and explore issues in South Asia. He will be followed by Don Hellman, Professor of International Studies, Celia Lowe, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, who will discuss key issues of power and politics in East and Southeast Asia. For educators planning to teach with the article series or simply update their own knowledge, the workshop will provide important background information on issues shaping Asia today. All workshop participants will receive a free teaching guide to Continuity and Change in Asia in April, four free clock hours, and a Japanese bento dinner.

About the Article Series
 The article series will run in The Seattle Times on Wednesdays, April 19-June 7. Teachers who want to receive a free set of newspapers for their entire class should sign up for the series with Newspapers in Education. Once the series starts, every Wednesday from April 19-June 7 is an opportunity for your students to learn more about key themes for understanding Asia today using the paper. Themes for this series are legacies of imperialism, women's rise to power, and emerging voices. Articles are written at a high school reading level.

Questions?
Please contact the East Asia Resource Center at (206) 543-1921 or by email at earc@u.washington.edu.

Co-sponsored by the Jackson School of International Studies and the Seattle Times Newspapers In Education Program

SPRING QUARTER 2006

Tuesday, April 4
Transcultural Battlefields: Recent Japanese Translations of Philippine Studies
Yoshiko Nagano (Faculty of Foreign Studies Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan)
3:30-5:00pm
Thomson Hall, Room 317

This talk discusses the transcultural tensions that emerge in recent Japanese translations of studies of Philippine nationalism. It will focus particularly on an anthology of eight essays written by the historians Reynaldo C. Ileto, Vicente L. Rafael and Floro L. Quibuyen, as well as on the Japanese edition of Reynaldo C. Ileto's seminal text, Pasyon and Revolution: Popular Movements in the Philippines, 1840-1910, (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1979) both of which were edited by Prof. Nagano. By reflecting on the process of translating the works of Filipino scholars into a Japanese context, the paper will show how translation becomes a kind of transcultural intellectual battlefield, revealing the different stakes of Filipino and Japanese writers in their approach to Philippine history.

Monday, April 10
Roundtable Discussion: New Indonesian Anti-Pornography Bill or Old Santri-Abangan Debate?
With Indonesian Poet, Human Rights Activist, and Journalist Goenawan Mohamad and Dan Lev (Professor Emeritus, Political Science, University of Washington)
12:30-2:00pm
Allen Library, Peterson Room

The topic is the controversial anti-pornography bill that is now intensely contested by women, artists, writers, and other Islamic intellectuals in Indonesia. Discussion will consider whether the new conflict mirrors a long-standing divide between what scholars have called the abangan and santri Islamic cultures of Java.

Goenawan Mohamad is founder and editor of Tempo Magazine, Indonesia's most widely circulated weekly. His magazine was officially banned in 1994, but reopened in October 2003, following the ousting of Indonesian President Suharto.

Monday, April 10
Buddhist Villagers as Overseas Migrant Workers:
Southeast Asia's Contributions to an Anthropology of Labor Transnationalism
First Lecture in Alter/Native Lecture Series
Pattana Kitiarsa (Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore)
3:30-5:00pm
Denny Hall, Room 401

This talk brings together Dr. Kitiarsa's two major research interests, namely, village Buddhism and overseas labor migration. This is his first serious attempt to bring these two issues together in terms of anthropological contributions to transnationalization processes in the Southeast Asian context. Kitiarsa will resituate Buddhism as a form of local knowledge and cultural practice and place it in the global junctures of transnational labor mobilities. In and through the structuration agencies of male migrant workers from Northeastern Thailand, he will ask how can village Buddhism shape and reshape our understanding of transnationalism and globalism?

Dr. Kitiarsa currently holds a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

Co-Sponsor: Department of Anthropology

Thursday, April 20
The Anti-Marcos Movement and the Question of 'Orientation'
Augusto Espiritu (History, University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana)
3:30pm
Smith Hall, Room 211 (Please note room change!)

The 1970s and 80s was a period of rich cultural interactions for the Filipino and Filipino American communities in the USA. Opposition to martial law in the Philippines and the Marcos dictatorship provided a focal point for Filipino immigrant and second-generation activists seeking to find an "ethnic" dimension to the anti-imperialist and anti-war movements around the US-Vietnam War. In contrast to today, Philippine politics was a constant, if not at times, daily preoccupation of Filipinos in the US. Espiritu argues that this heightened consciousness of the "other" country created great tensions for a largely immigrant community attempting to grapple with more mundane questions of acculturation and assimilation that have always been the preoccupation of immigrants in the USA. This talk seeks to identify some key flashpoints that mark out this volatile duality in the Filipino activist movement, which raise the question of "orientation" -- where are one's roots? Where should Filipinos build their "community"?

Augusto Espiritu is an assistant professor in history and Asian American studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA. He is the author of Five Faces of Exile: The Nation and Filipino American Intellectuals (Stanford, 2005), an exploration of transnationalism, race, nation, and gender focusing on writers Carlos Bulosan, Jose Garcia Villa, N.V.M. Gonzalez, Bienvenido Santos, and Carlos P. Romulo. His current research interests are the legacies of 1898 for Filipino American and Spanish Caribbean intellectuals as well as the social and political history of the US-based struggle against the Marcos dictatorship.

Co-sponsored by: Department of History, the Southeast Asia Center of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, and the Race, Radicalism and Labor working group of the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies.

Monday, May 15
The Story of Sein Kyi: Remembering the Japanese Occupation of Burma (1942-1945)
Chie Ikeya (Project for Critical Asian Studies, Simpson Center for the Humanities)
3:30-5:00pm (reception immediately following)
Communications 206

Oh Sein Kyi, Sein Kyi,
You have erred, you have erred.
To Tokyo he has left, your Japanese lord.
Left you, he has, rotund with child.

The body of historical narratives on the Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia during the Second World War is marked by a contrast. In the largely Euro-American meta-narrative of the battle between the free, Allied forces and the fascist, Axis camp, Japans policies and conducts in Southeast Asia are represented through atrocities such as the infamous comfort women, the maltreatment of POWs in forced labor camps along the Death Railway, and Sookching or the purging of Chinese communities. The Japan-centric perspective, in contrast, sees the occupation of Southeast Asia during the war through the lens of pan-Asianism, with its benign familial ideology and the expressed goal of liberating fellow Asian peoples from the shackles of European colonialism. While these meta-narratives of the Second World War in Southeast Asia, articulated through the tropes of trauma and liberation, have been illustrative of the Euro-American and the Japanese interpretations of the war, they have failed to examine the reception of the war in Southeast Asia itself.

The talk examines historical narratives of the Japanese Occupation of Burma during the Second World War (1942-1945) and brings into dialogue the predominant Euro-American, Japanese, and Burmese narratives of the Occupation. Dr. Ikeya will present various visual and literary representations of the Occupation, including oral histories, and explore the varied ways in which the Occupation was received locally and within a broader context of Japans rise as a non-European, modern, imperial power, or, the light of Asia. Around what lieux de mmoire have individual and collective Burmese memories of the Occupation cohered? Which representations of the impact of the Japans emergence and defeat as an Asian imperial power and the place of WWII in the history of Southeast Asia came to be dominant and why? The talk will conclude with a discussion of one of the few memories about the Japanese Occupation that survive in the Burmese collective memory: a song that chastises a Burmese woman who is abandoned with child by a Japanese soldier. How are we to interpret this song about Sein Kyi and the symbolic role it has come to play in the historical representation of the Occupation?

Chie Ikeya received her Ph.D. in History from Cornell University in 2005 for her dissertation, "Gender, History and Modernity: Representing Women in Twentieth Century Colonial Burma, and is currently a 2005-2006 Rockefeller Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Project for Critical Asian Studies at the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington.

May 21-June 3
Visiting Scholar and College of Arts & Sciences Exchange Award Recipient
Rolando B. Tolentino

The Southeast Asia Center, together with the Jackson School of International Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of American Ethnic Studies and the Department of History successfully competed for an Arts & Sciences Exchange Award to bring award-winning creative writer and critic Rolando Tolentino to the University of Washington from May 21 to June 3.

Professor Tolentino is one of the world’s leading scholars and theorists of Philippine literature, film and popular culture and is currently acting director of the University of the Philippines Film Institute and an associate professor in U.P. Department of Film and Audiovisual Communication. His research involves media literacy with regards to subject formation, urban space, sexuality and gender, popular culture, transnationalism and nationalism, and comparisons between East Asian, Southeast Asian and Asian American film. While in residence, Professor Tolentino will be visiting classes and meeting with faculty and students.

Wednesday, May 24
Film Screening and Discussion of Pinoy Blonde
6:00-8:30pm
Ethnic Cultural Theater (3940 Brooklyn Avenue, Seattle, WA)

Thursday, May 25
Roundtable Discussion: Global Desire: Neoliberalism, Hollywood, and Asian Cinemas
3:00-5:00pm, followed by reception (5:00-7:00pm)
Student Union Building HUB, Room 310

Participants to include: Rolando Tolentino (Film and Audiovisual Communication, University of the Philippines, Diliman), Neferti Tadiar (History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz), Jonathan Beller (English and Humanities, Pratt Institute), Yomi Braester (Comparative Literature), James Tweedie (Comparative Literature), and others.

Friday, May 26
Film Screening and Discussion of La Visa Loca
7:00-9:00pm
Theater off Jackson (409 7th Ave. S., Seattle, WA) For more information, please call 206-340-1049
Co-sponsor: Wing Luke Asian Museum.

Tuesday, May 30
Vaginal Economy of Images: Philippine Cinema and Globalization in the Post-Marcos and Post-Brocka Era
3:30-5:00pm
Simpson Center for the Humanities, Communications 202

Thursday, June 1
Southeast Asia Center Lecture
Managing Diversity and Identity in Singapore: Social Engineering and its Limits
Eddie C. Y. Kuo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
3:30-5:00pm
Communications, Room 226

An immigrant society shaped by ethnic diversity and fragmentation, Singapore has faced major challenges in nation-building since its "reluctant" independence in 1965. Strong state-initiated policies are implemented to manage delicate and potentially contentious ethnic relations, while at the same time promote a new common national identity among the multiethnic population. These are most clearly manifested in policies in education, language, and mass communications. Yet the strong state-initiated social engineering programs have shown their limitations, as state paternalism has led to a population that is politically apathetic and restrained in civic involvement. It has also dampened creativity and innovation, raising concerns about the nation's ability to compete in a global economy. The PAP government is keenly aware of its predicament and has conducted substantial policy reviews with the goal of "Re-Making Singapore." It is paradoxical, indeed ironic, that, once again, it takes the State to initiate such policy reversals and adjustments.

Friday, June 02, 9:15 PM
Sunday, June 04, 11:00 AM
Film: The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros
Broadway Performance Hall
Tickets can be purchased from the Seattle International Film Festival's website.

The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros
Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros

A gay pre-teen in a Manila slum falls in love with the handsome cop next door, causing his family of petty criminals no small amount of grief. This dynamic debut transcends its indie budget with humor, gritty drama and charm.

DIRECTOR: Aureas Solito
Producer: Raymond Lee, Michiko Yamamoto
Editor: Kanakan Balintogos, Clang Sison
Screenwriter: Michiko Yamamoto, Raymond Lee
Cinematographer: Nap Jamir
Music: Pepe Smith Principal
Cast: Nathan Lopez, JR Valentin, Soliman Cruz, Neil Ryan Sese, Ping Medina
Filmography: Debut Feature Film

The film will be playing at the Seattle International Film Festival. For more information go to the SIFF website.

Monday, June 12
Film: Sentenced Home
7:00PM
Egyptian Theatre
Tickets can be purchased from the Seattle International Film Festival's website.

The film follows three young Cambodian Americans from the Seattle area. At the beginning of the film, all three men, in their mid-twenties, are eligible for deportation to Cambodia because of crimes they committed as teenagers. The film follows their heart-breaking sagas full circle-- from birth in the killing fields to an unwilling return decades later -- and explores the social, historical, and political reasons for their fate. The film has recently screened at the NY Museum of Modern Art, and won the audience award for best documentary at the SF Asian American International Film Festival. It will play as part of the PBS series "Independent Lens" in 2006.

Many Uch, one of the young men in the film, (the only one who has not yet been deported) will be at the screening, along with Jay Stansell, a federal public defender from Seattle who has been active in trying to stop the deportation of refugees from Southeast Asia.

Raised as Americans in inner-city Seattle, three Cambodian teenagers each made a rash decision that irrevocably shaped their destiny. Now as adults 20 years later, they find themselves caught between a tragic past and an uncertain future by a system that doesn’t offer any second chances. *SENTENCED HOME* puts a human face on U.S. deportation policy, following the heart-breaking sagas of these three Cambodian-Americans full-circle. The film reflects with them about their birth in the Killing Fields, their youth on America’s mean streets, and their struggles in courtrooms and prisons, and follows them through their unwilling return to Cambodia decades later.

Told in first-person narration, through the voices of the three deportees, their families and their friends, SENTENCED HOME interweaves their dramatic cinema-verité stories. Kim Ho Ma struggles to feel safe in a foreign country he doesn’t understand. Family man Loeun Lun fights to do the best he can for his kids and keep his marriage together from behind bars and across oceans. And an introspective Many Uch seeks to redeem himself, taking advantage of what time he has left in the U.S. before being deported to try and save today’s Cambodian-American youth from suffering his fate.

More than 1,500 Cambodians are waiting to be deported back to Cambodia. Like the men portrayed in SENTENCED HOME, they arrived in the U.S. as young children, part of a flood of Cambodian refugees admitted in the early 1980’s. Given permanent resident status and resettled in inner-city public housing projects, they grew up as Americans. Many committed gang-related crimes as teenagers, and served time in jail, afterwards trying to move on and make something of their lives. Although they never became U.S. citizens, they were not afraid of being deported. They were, after all, “permanent residents”, and Cambodia refused to accept deportees. But after September 11th, everything changed. The U.S. pressured Cambodia, and the first planeload of deportees arrived in Phnom Penh in March 2002.

Filmed over the course of three years, filmmakers David Grabias and Nicole Newnham have captured intimate moments that crystallize the raw emotion and human impact of deportation: Loeun Lun saying a painful farewell to his wife and two young daughters the day of his deportation; Kim Ho Ma turning to alcohol and drugs in Phnom Penh as a way to deal with his anger and hopelessness; and Many Uch proudly pledging allegiance to the United States during a baseball game, even as he waits for his turn to be deported.

SENTENCED HOME raises timely questions about immigration, civil rights, and cultural identity. America prides itself on the stories of immigrants who arrived on these shores with nothing but the shirt on their backs and made good. But what about the immigrants who fall between the cracks? Do they deserve a second chance? And how do we define what makes an American?

The film will be playing at the Seattle International Film Festival

Tuesday, June 13
Indonesian Shadow Puppet Performance by world renowned Master Dhalang Purbo Asmoro
8:00-10:00 pm
UW Ethnic Cultural Center Theater (3940 Brooklyn Ave NE Seattle, WA)
Tel: 206-543-4635

Purbo Asmoro, one of Java, Indonesia's most renowned and dynamic dhalang (shadow puppet master), performing a 2-hour wayang kulit (shadow puppet play), accompanied by a full, traditional Javanese gamelan (a 15-20 piece orchestra of mostly bronze percussion instruments). Wakidi Dwidjomartono, world-renowned gamelan musician and teacher, is also visiting from Java to serve as musical director and drummer for the performance, which will be translated into English on a projected screen by Kitsie Emerson and Seattle's own Gamelan Pacifica.

Tickets cost $17.39 and can be purchased online from Brown Paper Tickets
Please contact Jesse Snyder for more information (206) 354-2312.

Tue-Wed, June 27-28
Open a Book, Open Your World: Exploring International Literature A Workshop for Social Studies, Humanities and Other Educators
Kane Hall, Room 110
University of Washington, 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 27-28, 2006. This year's seminar, Open a Book, Open Your World: Exploring International Literature will bring together scholars, authors and master teachers to examine international literature and the ways it can be used to teach about our world. This two-day seminar is designed for middle school, high school, and community college educators in all subject areas. Please visit http://jsis.washington.edu/seac/06-ss-registration-form.pdf for the registration form. For more information contact Kristi Roundtree at the East Asia Center.

 

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