SEASSI - Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute

2011 Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute Student Conference

Saturday, July 16, 2011
University of Wisconsin-Madison
the Pyle Center
702 Langdon St
Madison, WI 53706

Conference Schedule

Room 325/326 Room 313

Perspectives on Southeast Asian Musical Traditions

9:00-10:15am

Chair: Richard Miller-Associate Director Center for East Asian Studies, UW-Madison

“Defining Vietnamese Yellow Music”
-Minh X. Nguyen-Doctoral Student-Comparative Lit & SE Asian Studies, University of California-Riverside

“In Search of Refinement: Manifestation of Alus-ness in the Performance of Pathetan on Javanese Gendér”

-Maho Ishiguro- MA Student, Ethnomusicology, Wesleyan University

“ ‘Bonnie Lanceran’ : Musical Dialog Between Javanese Gamelan and Scottish Small Pipes”
-Heather Strohschein – Doctoral Student – Ethnomusicology, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Topics in Modern Philippine Political History

9:00-10:15am

Chair: Michael Cullinane- Associate Director Center for Southeast Asian Studies, UW-Madison

“Tracing Manila's Revolutionary Labyrinth : A Preliminary Analysis of the Katipunan”

-Maureen Justiniano-Doctoral Student-History, UW-Madison

“The Reluctant Colonialists: America and the Philippines and the Start of the Philippine War”

-Robert Kollas- MA Student-Political Science & International Relations, Northern Illinois University

"The Anti-Marcos Resistance in the United States, 1981-1983"

- Mark Sanchez- MA Student- History- California State University, Fullerton

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Ethnographic Films : Two Offerings on Southeast Asia

10:30-11:50am

Chair: Frank Smith- Lecturer in Khmer, UC-Berkeley, SEASSI Coordinator of Khmer

"Khmer Dancers: A Basaac Story"

2010 MFA documentary thesis

-Phally Chroy- MA student-Anthropology, Columbia University, MFA Film and Media Arts, Temple University

“Convert: An Exploration into the Effects of Mormon Missionary Work in Thailand”

MFA Thesis Film, (rough cut)

-Scott Christopherson, Doctoral Student-Anthropology, UW-Madison, MFA, San Francisco State University

Environmental Issues in Southeast Asia

10:30-11:50am

Chair: Daniel Doeppers- Professor Emeritus Geography, UW-Madison

"An Environmental Life Cycle Comparison of Crystalline and Thin-Film Solar Photovoltaic Systems in Thailand."

- Noah Kittner- BS Environmental Science, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

“Knowledge Production in Southeast Asian Waterscapes: Pak Mun Dam, Nam Theun II Dam, and the World Bank”

-Nicholas Zeller- MA Student-Sociology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

“Environmental Migration in the Philippines”

-Christine Gibb-Doctoral Student-Geography, University of Montreal

Room 325/326

Keynote and Alumni Lecture / Luncheon

(All conference attendees are welcome to pick up a box lunch outside room 325/326.)

Noon-1:30pm

Introduction: Robert Bickner- Professor of Thai Language and Literature, UW-Madison

“Besmirched with Blood: an Emotional History of Transnational Romance in Colonial Singapore.”

-Tamara Loos, PhD, Associate Professor, History and Director Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University

In 1900, in the British colony of Singapore a Siamese man, Manit, shot his beloved British wife, Maude, and allegedly attempted suicide. Several competing interpretations of the incident exist. In one, Manit is considered a deranged and treacherous fraud; in another, he is a pitiable cuckold; in the third, he is a respectable gentleman suffering from unrequited love. Surprisingly, given the racialized context of high imperialism in Southeast Asia, the British in Singapore came to empathize with the Asian Manit as a lovelorn gentleman and to disavow their own countrywoman. The court ultimately acquitted him of any wrongdoing. The case cuts across racial divisions and enables a focus, through emotional discourse, on a broader racial, sexual, and gendered organization of power in late colonial Southeast Asia.

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Selected Papers on Southeast Asia

1:30-3:00pm

Chair: Tamara Loos- Associate Professor, History and Director Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University

"Buddhism as a Legitimizing Agent during Phetracha's Reign"

- Michael Solomon - MA Student, Southeast Asian Studies, UW-Madison

“Translating Hollywood: Unofficial Transnationalism in Siam”

-Rebecca Townsend-Doctoral Student- History, Cornell University

“ ‘Colonial’ Architecture from a Vietnamese Perspective”

-Caroline Herbelin- Assistant Professor, University of Toulouse II-le Mirail; Honorary Fellow, UW-Madison

"Pha Lak Pha Lam in Popular Practice: How the Ramayana is Lived in Laos"

-Amy Bowers-BS Student- Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies, UW-Madison

Contemporary Issues in Southeast Asia

1:30-2:45pm

Chair: Anastasia Hudgins- Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

"The Changing of Family Planning Policy in Indonesia"

-Suryadewi Nugraheni - MA student - Southeast Asian Studies, UW-Madison

“Acting Globally, Thinking Locally : International Discourses and Union Organizing in Indonesia”

-Steve Beers-MA Student-Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan

“What a Judge Wants: The Impact of Elite-Judicial Consensus on Judicial Empowerment in Southeast Asia”

-Dominic Nardi Jr.-Doctoral Student- Political Science, University of Michigan

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Perspectives on Southeast Asian Religions

3:15-5:00pm

Chair: Denise C. Lewis- Assistant Professor, College of Family and Consumer Sciences, Institute of Gerontology, University of Georgia

"Abidhamma Recitation and Continuity in Burmese Buddhist Practice "

-Andrew Dicks, MA Student Anthropology / Information Science,

UW – Milwaukee

"Mary for the Vietnamese: Cross-Border Network of Marian Exchanges Among Vietnamese Catholics in Vietnam, the U.S., and Cambodia"

- Thien-Huong T. Ninh, Doctoral Student- Sociology, USC

"Tempted By Other Selves: Islam, Gender, and Ethical Subject Formation in Indonesian Islamic Boarding Schools "

-Claire-Marie Hefner- Doctoral Candidate Cultural Anthropology, Emory University

Topics in Linguistic Analysis in Thai & Filipino

3:00-3:45pm

Chair: Sheila Zamar- Lecturer in Filipino, UW-Madison, SEASSI Filipino Coordinator

“A Comparative Look at Noun Categorization Systems, Specifically in Spanish and Thai”

-Matthew Griffin - MA student - English, Concentration in Linguistics,

East Carolina University

“Code-switching as Embodiment of the Other: Evidence from Two Filipino Novels”

-Marilola Perez,-ABD-Linguistics, UC-Berkeley

Topics in Cambodia’s Past

4:00-5:00pm

Chair: The Rev. Susan Hagood Lee- Senior Lecturer, Social Sciences, College of General Studies, Boston University

“Understanding Duch and his Impact: Reaching Toward National Reconciliation in Cambodia”

-Kym Cole- BA-Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

“Looking to the Past to Destroy the Present: A Comparative Analysis of Two Leaders’ Uses of Atavism in Maoist China and Democratic Kampuchea.”

-Matthew Galway-Doctoral Student-History, Concordia University & University of British Columbia

"Paleobotany and Archaeology in Cambodia: Angkor and Beyond"

- Phoebe France, MA-University of Chicago