CSEAS Past Events

CSEAS Past Events

Fall 2018 - Spring 2022

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2018-19

• September 18

LECTURE by Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, San Francisco State University

“Together but Apart: Care Work in Filipino Transnational Families in the Digital Age”

• October 10

BOOK TALK by Katya Cengel, journalist

“From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back”

• October 17

PANEL DISCUSSION with artists from the Clarion Alley Mural Project (San Francisco) and from Yogyakarta, Indonesia

• October 23

LECTURE by Sebastian Dettman, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University

“A New Malaysia? Elite Defectors and Opposition Success in Malaysia’s 2018 Elections”

• November 7

LECTURE by Juno Salazar Parrenas, Ohio State University

“Facing the Limits of Decoloniality from a Southeast Asian Peri-urban Forest”

• January 31

LECTURE by Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns, UCLA

“The ‘Manananggal’: On the Labor of Difference”

• February 26

LECTURE by David Gilbert, Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley

“Counter-Trajectories of Agrarian Change: Agroecology and Politics in a Sumatran Plantation Zone”

• March 4

LECTURE by Ma Vang, UC Merced

“History on the Run: Hmong Refugees and Knowledge Formation”

• March 19

LECTURE by Dr. Ping Tjin Thum, Managing Director, New Naratif

“The Specter Haunting Singapore: Why the People's Action Party Cannot Get Over Operation Coldstore”

• April 9

LECTURE by Henry Spiller, UC Davis

“Heavy Metal Bamboo: Making Archaic Bamboo Instruments Modern in Bandung, Indonesia”

• April 15

LECTURE by John Sidel, London School of Economics and Political Science

“From ‘Daang Matuwid’ Gone Crooked to ‘Build Build Build’: The Politics of Transport Infrastructure in the Philippines, 2010 to the Present”

• February 14

VIRTUAL BOOK TALK with Christina Firpo, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

“Black Market Business: Selling Sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920–1945”

• March 3

WEBINAR with Joseph Scalice, Postdoctoral Fellow, Nanyang Technological University

“Three Grenades in August: Fifty Years since the Bombing of Plaza Miranda in the Philippines”

• March 9

VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM on Myanmar

Panel 1: Tyrell Haberkorn (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Joey Siu (Hong Kong Watch), Jasnea Sharma (National University of Singapore)

“Scholar Activism and the Myanmar Resistance - Roundtable on Insights from Comparative Contexts”

Panel 2: Tharaphi Than (NIU), Ingrid Jordt (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Kevin Woods (University of Hawaii), Myat The Thitsar (EMReF), Hilary Faxon (UC Berkeley)

“Scholar Activism and the Myanmar Resistance - Analysis from Myanmar Scholar-Activists”

• March 17

WEBINAR with Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz, Cambridge University

“Asian Place, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution”

• March 18

WEBINAR with Patrick Jory, University of Queensland

“Republicanism in Thailand, Then and Now”

Organized by the Association for Thai Democracy

• April 5

WEBINAR with Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit (Progressive Movement, Thailand) and Parit Wacharasindhu (CONLAB, Thailand)

“Struggles for Thai Democracy: Politicians' Points of View”

Organized by the Association for Thai Democracy

• April 7

VIRTUAL BOOK TALK with Dorothy Fujita-Rony, UC Irvine

“The Memorykeepers: Gendered Knowledges, Empires, and Indonesian American History”

• April 21

VIRTUAL BOOK TALK with Leslie Castro-Woodhouse, independent scholar

“Concubines and Crypto-Colonialism: Dara Rasami and the Making of Modern Thailand”

• May 5

UC Berkeley-UCLA WEBINAR with Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard, UCLA

“Everyday Speculation in the Remaking of Peri-urban Jakarta”

• May 14

UC Berkeley-UCLA WEBINAR with Andrew M. Jefferson and Tomas Martin (Danish Institute Against Torture); Liv Gaborit (Lund University); and Nay Tin Myint (former political prisoner; Myanmar)

“Legacies of Political Detention and the Burmese Democracy Movement”

2021-22

• September 24

WEBINAR with author Sunisa Manning

“Writing Taboo: The Art in Political Subjects”

• October 6

VIRTUAL BOOK TALK with Puangchon Unchanam, Naresuan University

“Royal Capitalism: Wealth, Class, and Monarchy in Thailand”

Organized by the Association for Thai Democracy

• October 20

WEBINAR with Sirabhob “Raptor” Attohi and Prof. Tamara Loos (Cornell University)

“Queer & Feminist Movements against Dictatorship in Thailand”

Organized by the Association for Thai Democracy

• October 25

FILM SCREENING & Discussion

‘Padauk: Myanmar Spring’

• November 2

WEBINAR with Elliott Prasse-Freeman, National University of Singapore

“Cartoons, Curses, and Coups: Interpellation from Below in a Rights-less Myanmar”

• November 15

UC Berkeley-UCLA WEBINAR with Cesi Cruz, UCLA

“Making Policies Matter: Campaign Promises in the Philippines”

• February 2

LECTURE by Shae Frydenlund, postdoctoral fellow, University of Pennsylvania

“Theatre of Women Workers: Burmese Refugee Resettlement and Low-Wage Jobs”

• March 1

WEBINAR with Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang, Chulalongkorn University

Discussant: Penchan Phoborisut, CSU Fullerton

“Judges at War: The Politics of the Thai Judiciary”

Organized by the Association for Thai Democracy

• March 2

LECTURE by Suraya Afiff, University of Indonesia

“Contextualizing Patterns of Labor Migration in North Sumatra’s Plantation Zone”

• March 14

WEBINAR by Allan Lumba, Virginia Tech University

“Counter-Decolonization: Policing Money and Race during the Long Philippine American War”

• April 20

VIRTUAL BOOK TALK with Christopher Goscha, University of Quebec at Montreal

“The Road to Dien Bien Phu”