Lecture Series
2007 Lecture Series:
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Gender and
Vietnam
by Giang Han Tran, Fulbright
Scholar of Sociology at Temple University
Lecture 1: Prostitution in French Colonial Vietnam- June
19th,
4pm, 114 Van Hise
Lecture 2: Gender Equality in Contemporary Vietnam - June
20th, 4pm, 114 Van Hise
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Religion
in Southeast Asia
by Charles
Hallisey, Professor, Languages and Cultures of Asia at UW-Madison
Lecture 1. Religion in a World of Old Traditions and New
Institutions"-
June 25, 4pm, 114 Van Hise
This lecture will look at the presence of religion in Southeast
Asian public life with respect to the prominence of NGO's as vehicles
of religious aspiration and action.
Lecture 2. "Understanding 'the Crossroads of Religions'
in an Age of Globalization"- June 27, 4pm, 114 Van
Hise
In area studies scholarship, Southeast Asia has often been theorized
as a "crossroads" of cultures. This lecture will reconsider
the value of this angle of vision for understanding contemporary
Southeast Asian religious movements, such as El Shaddai in the Philippines,
which participate in and are shaped by the large-scale processes
of globalization.
Lecture 3. "The Study of Southeast Asian Religions
and Asian Humanities." - July 2, 4pm, 114 Van Hise
Most area studies scholarship about Southeast Asia takes as its
goal what we can learn ABOUT the region's cultures. But is it possible
for us to imagine a study of Southeast Asian cultures in which we
also aspire to learn FROM them? This lecture will explore this possibility,
focusing on an eighteenth century Thai Buddhist chronicle.
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Politics
in the Philippines
by Paul Hutchcroft,
Professor, Politics at UW-Madison
Lecture 1: “Reflections on a Reverse Image:
The Philippines Under Ferdinand Marcos and South Korea Under Park
Chung Hee”- July
5th, 4pm, 206 Ingraham
Lecture 2: “The Arroyo Imbroglio: Assessing the Latest
Challenge to Asia's Oldest Democracy" - July
9th, 4pm, 206 Ingraham
Lecture 3: "Time for 'Cha-Cha'?: Prospects for Political
Reform and Charter Change in the Philippines"- July
11th, 4pm, 206 Ingraham
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Special
Lecture
by Steve McKay, Professor of Sociology at UW-Milwaukee
Lecture: 'Like A Paid Prison Sentence with a Good Chance
of Drowning': Racialized
Space and Filipino Seamen Aboard a Total Institution - July
12th, 4 pm, 206 Ingraham
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Globalization
and Development in Southeast Asia
by Ian Coxhead, Professor of Applied and Agricultural Economics
at UW-Madison
Lecture 1: A decade on SE Asian economies since the crisis - July
17th, 3:30pm, 206 Ingraham
Lecture 2: Globalization, economic well-being and the environment
in SE Asia - July
19th, 3:30pm, 206 Ingraham
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Previous Lecture Series
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2006 -"Dictatorship
and Democracy in Burma" by Ian Holliday, Humanities & Social
Sciences, City University of Hong Kong; "Southeast Asian
Theater in the 21st Century" by Evan Winnet, Theater
and Dance, Macalester College
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2005 - "The
Ramayana" taught by Frank
Smith (Khmer coordinator) and Amelia Liwe (Indonesian Coordinator)
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2004 - "Islam
in Southeast Asia" taught
by Anna Gade (Religion, Oberlin College)
