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Thank you!

Chinese Restaurant Kiyoko Yamaguchi, a PhD student in the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, and participant in the symposium, painted this water color as a thank you. It is a representation of the dinner at Hai Hong restaurant on Friday evening April 2, 2004.

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Cornell University Southeast Asia Program's 6th Annual Graduate Student Symposium

The 2004 SEAP Graduate Symposium welcomes papers which explore the multiple meanings of "traffic" in Southeast Asian contexts. From medieval trade networks through the "Age of Commerce," and from colonialism to contemporary nation states, this symposium seeks to address both the changes and continuities in the traffic of goods, art, people, texts, sacred objects, drugs, contraband, and more. And, of course, there is the traffic itself, which has prompted many Southeast Asian metropolitan areas to grapple with mechanisms of social control. Both “trafficking” and “traffic” provide an apt metaphor for modes of governance and resistance that negotiate the contested realms of the state, society, and the individual. We invite graduate students working on Southeast Asia to submit papers that consider how different “traffic regimes” control the circulation of bodies and goods across different times and places. We encourage submissions from any and all disciplines as well as those that cross the double lines between them.

We ask that prospective presenters submit a one-page abstract and curriculum vitae by February 1, 2004 to: dcl33@cornell.edu. Papers should be in English with a reading time of no more than 20 minutes. Modest travel grants are available.