Student Conference
SEASSI
2007 Student Conference
July 28, 2007 - Pyle Center
Please click here for Registration
Form (The first 50 people to sign up for the conference will
be fed free lunch!)
Please click here for Conference Schedule
SEASSI 2007 features five panels concerning various topics within
Southeast Asia and its communities abroad. In addition to 18 different
presentations,
we will also be hearing from
Keynote
Speaker
Patricia
Pelley, who will
be giving
a
talk entitled: “The
politics of redemption: A Catholic Community in Vietnam 1925-1975”.
Patricia Pelley is a professor at Texas Tech University’s History
Department. She has published a study on Vietnamese historiography
entitled Postcolonial Vietnam: Visions of the Present and Past (2002).
We are also delighted to have Garrett Field performing three pieces
on the electric mandolin: A varnam in ata tala in the raga Kamboji,
an alapana in the raga Todi and the composition "Enduku Dayaradura" composed
by Thyagaraja.
Garrett is studying Tamil this summer at Wisconsin's South Asian Summer
Language Institute to complete an MA in ethnomusicology at Weslyean
University where he is studying South Indian Carnatic classical music
under Balraj Balasubrahmaniyan and David Nelson.
For complete conference schedule, please see below. Also available
in pdf
version. **Conference Schedule is subject to change so
please check regularly.**
Again, please sign up on the attached sheet for free
lunch!
Please contact Jessi Lusardi at seassi@intl-institute.wisc.edu with
any further questions.
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Conference Schedule
8:30-9:00 AM: Registration—Lobby of Pyle Center
9:00 – 10:30 AM
Conference Room #1: Room 112, Pyle Center
Panel 1: Perspectives on Vietnam
Jared Cahners: Misunderstanding and Misdirection in the Highlands:
FURLO Negotiations with the Republic of Vietnam in the Early 1970’s
Chong Moua: Vietnamese Women during the French and American Liberation
Movements
Sarah Grant: Forgotten Foodways? Searching for “Home” in
Vietnamese Diasporic Cuisine
Discussant: Patricia Pelley, Professor of History, Texas Tech University
Conference Room #2: Room 121, Pyle Center
Panel 2: Issues in Environment and Conservation
Breck A. McCollum: US Consumer Perspectives on the Web of Causality
within the Philippine Based Marine Aquarium Fish Trade
Sarah Besky: A political Ecology of Tea Plantations: Colonialism,
Labor Law and the Prospects for Fair Trade-Organic Agriculture
Kim Marion Suiseeya: Research Proposal: Implementing Effective Participatory
Management in Protected Areas
Candice Carr Kelman: Indigenous Cultures, ethnic cleansing, and
the discourse of development in Malaysia’s dwindling rainforests:
an ethical perspective
Discussant: TO BE ANNOUNCED
10:30 – 10:45 AM Break
10:45 – 12:00 PM
Conference Room #1: Room 112, Pyle Center
Panel 3: Perspectives on Two Minority Communities
Francis Bradley: Smuggling, Piracy and trade in the Rise of the Patani
Sultante, 1490-1600
Chika Watanabe: The Karen of Burma: An Imagined Moral Community
Discussant: Thongchai Winichakul, Professor of History, UW Madison
Conference Room #2: Room 121, Pyle Center
Panel 4: Southeast Asian Linguistics
Daniel Wood: Towards a Reconstruction of the Proto-Bodo-Garo Classifier
System
Justin Watkins: Wa Dictionary Project
Discussant: Marlys Macken, Professor of Linguistics, UW Madison
12:00 – 12:30 PM
Conference Room #2: Room 121, Pyle Center
– Lunch box is served
– Garrett Field on Carnatic Guitar
12:30-1:45: Room 121, Pyle Center
Keynote Address – Professor Patricia Pelley: “The
Politics of Redemption: A Catholic Community in Vietnam 1925-1975”
1:45 – 2:00 PM Break
2:00 – 3:30 PM
Conference Room #1: Room 112, Pyle Center
Panel 5: Southeast Asian Encounters with America
Roberto Ang: The Seduction-A Dichotomy of the Citizen and the Immigrant
Joel Pickford: The Hmong of Central California A Culture in Transition
Tani Sebro: Making Merit in San Francisco: Reciprocity in Southeast
Asian Buddhist Cosmology
Rebekah Moore: A Brief Biography of a Balinese Musician in America
Discussant: Larry Ashmun, Southeast Asian Bibliographer, UW Madison
3:30 – 3:45 PM Break
3:45 – 5:00 PM
Conference Room #1: Room 112, Pyle Center
Panel 6: Reproductive Rights and Sexuality
Tani Sebro: Burma: Reproductive Rights in a State of Violence
Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk: Is East to West as Communitarianism is to Individualism?
Lessons from Thai and American Approaches to Medical Ethics
Mirabelle Yang: The Sarong Party Girl: Post?-colonial desire and ‘love
crisis’ in Singapore
Danielle Hidalgo: Racializing Sexuality: Pheet/Performativity In and
Through Bangkok
Discussant: Katherine Bowie, Professor of Anthropology, UW Madison
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