
June 2019
SEASSI Lecture Series: Neeranooch Malangpoo
Thep Thanchai: Thai pilgrimage to Myanmar and religious acceleration in Thailand by Neeranooch Malangpoo, PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Thep Thanchai means a responsive god who grants a…
Find out more »SEASSI Lecture Series: Dr. Kanjana Hubik Thepboriruk
Mothering the Thai Nation: Patriarchic Patriotism and Gendered Nationalism in New Thailand, 1938 – 1944 by Dr. Kanjana Hubik Thepboriruk, Department of World Languages and Cultures, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University …
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SEASSI Lecture Series: Catriona Miller
Tracing the Gendered State: Women, Education, and Modern Cambodia by Catriona Miller, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison What were elite gendered responses to new forms of education and knowledge exchange in colonial…
Find out more »SEASSI Lecture Series: Dr. George E. Dutton
Why Zomia Matters: Reflections on Upland Southeast Asia by Dr. George E. Dutton, Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Director, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles The uplands of Asia…
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SEASSI Lecture Series: Chong Moua
Title and abstract coming soon! Chong Moua is a lecturer and advisory board member in the Asian American Studies Program and a dissertator in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This event…
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Nam’s U.S. Army Vintage Uniform, Insignia, and Their Afterlife Resurrections By Chaiyaporn Singdee
The economic power and global appeal of the second-hand clothing industry has skyrocketed since the 1990s. Before the 1990s, secondhand clothing was primarily consumed because of its affordability. A sharp increase in the appeal of…
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Consuming Coconuts: The Philippine Coconut Administration and Industrialization of Coconut By-Products, 1955-1971 by Philip J. Cerepak
From the late-nineteenth to the late-twentieth century, coconut oil was the premier vegetable oil material in world trade. Before the emergence of palm, soy, or corn oil industries, copra, the dried meat of the coconut,…
Find out more »Lives in Limbo: Precarious Migrant Workers Between Migration, Labor, and Criminal Law by Kurt Kuehne
A remarkable statistic about Singapore is that 1 in 9 residents of the city-state is a low-wage, temporary migrant worker—authorized on a tenuous two-year contract to perform either construction/marine work (if a man), or live-in…
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