Gatty Lecture Series

The Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture Series (formerly known as the Brown Bags) is a weekly lecture series featuring advanced SEAP graduate students as well as academics, diplomats, researchers, and others who have expertise in Southeast Asia. A history of the series and its origins is available in the Fall 2021 SEAP bulletin. 

These talks are typically held at the Kahin Center at 12:30pm, though during Spring 2023 people are welcome to participate by Zoom. Several of this year's lectures will take place only on Zoom, or on a different day - please see the notes below for each talk. 

In accordance with SEAP tradition, lunch will be served.

• January 26: Jeremy Ladd, Cornell University - The Unintended Consequences of Repression in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes in the Social Media Era

• February 2: Juan Fernandez, Cornell University - Sex and Gender in the Ethnographic Encounter in the Highlands of the American Colonial Philippines
• February 9: Sophie Chao, University of Sydney - We are (not) Monkeys: Raciality, Animality, and Cosmopolitical Struggles in Indonesian West Papua
  • **NOTE: This talk will be held VIRTUALLY at 6pm.
• February 16: MK Long, Cornell University - Buddhist Women and Biographical Time in Burma
  • **NOTE: This talk will be held VIRTUALLY at 12:30pm.
• March 3: Alyssa Paredes, University of Michigan - Plantation Liberalism: Personhood and Property between Philippine Mindanao and the Black Atlantic
  • **NOTE: This talk will be held outside the usual Gatty time, taking place on FRIDAY March 3 at 3pm in MANN LIBRARY 160.
• March 9: Joseph Scalice, Nanyang Technological University - Rehabilitating Dictatorship: The Marcos Martial Law Regime and the Election of Ferdinand Marcos Jr
• March 13: Khatharya Um, UC Berkeley - Crossroads, Crossings, and Transgressions: Deconstructing Borders and Barriers in Southeast Asian/American Studies
  • **NOTE: This talk will be held outside the usual Gatty time, taking place on MONDAY March 13 at 12:30pm.
• March 23: Trent Walker, Stanford University - Songs of Love and Loss: Crafting Buddhist Poetry in Early Modern Cambodia
• March 30: Sean Fear, University of Leeds - Assessing Saigon’s “Year of Sand”: The 1968 Tet Offensive and Rise and Fall of South Vietnam’s Second Republic 1967-1975
  • **NOTE: This talk will be held outside the usual Gatty time, taking place VIRTUALLY on Thursday March 30 at 11:25-12:40pm.
• April 20: Risa Toha, Wake Forest University - Can National Identity Trump Ethnic Favoritism? Experimental Evidence from Singapore
• April 27: Lina Chhun, University of Texas at Austin - Walking with the Ghost: On Autoethnography and the Study of Familial and Historical Violence
• May 4: Phi Hong Su, Williams College - The Border Within: Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Berlin

Recordings for some of our previous virtual Gatty lectures are available on the Global Cornell YouTube channel.