Windows on the World Every Summer, UW-Madison offers an Interdisciplinary course under the heading "Windows on the World". Over the years, there have been several Southeast Asian offerings. SEASSI students can attend for free, but will not receive credit. SEASSI 2008 - "Gender and Development in Southeast Asia" This course is designed to introduce students to issues of gender and development in Southeast Asia in comparative context. Development debates are currently in flux with important implications for the practice and analysis of gender and development.  Some argue for market-driven, neo-liberal solutions to gender equality, while others believe that equitable gender relations will only come when women (and men) are empowered to understand their predicaments and work together to find local solutions to improve their lives.  Empowerment and human rights approaches are popular among development practitioners, particularly those concerned with gender equity.  This course uses the context of development in Southeast Asia to critically engage with these debates in the belief that theoretical understandings have important implications for policy and action and therefore matter to those interested in issues of gender equity, development policy and Southeast Asia.  Taught by Kristy E. Kelly, dissertator in the UW-Madison Department of Educational Policy Studies.     SEASSI 2006 - "Identity and Power in Southeast Asia" This course examines issues of identity, pluralism, nationalism, democratization, globalization and authoritarianism. Taught by Brian Wiley, dissertator in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. SEASSI 2005 - "Police, State and Society in Southeast Asia" This three-credit class addresses issues on colonialism and regional policing, drug suppression and narco-trafficking, global policing and international law enforcement, terrorism and counter-terrorism, and media and the technologies of the state. Taught by Eric Hanstaad who lived in Thailand for two years, conducting ethnographic research with the Royal Thai Police. He specializes in the anthropology of the police, the state and violence. SEASSI 2004 - "Looking into Island Southeast Asia" Subtitled "Films as Windows to Understanding," the course had weekly films several focus issues: Colonialism, Gender, Islam, Violence, and Globalization. The course was centered on certain areas, spanning 3,000 miles across the Indonesian archipelago, from the Mentawai Islands in the Indian Ocean through West Sumatra and on to Java, Madura, Bali, East Timor, and West Papua. Taught by Jim Hoesterey, documentary filmmaker and UW-Madison Ph.D. student in Anthropology.

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