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 Fall 2022 people are welcome to participate by Zoom. Several of this year's lectures will take place at 8pm on Thursday evenings, or on a different day - please see the notes below for each talk. 

In accordance with SEAP tradition, lunch will be served.

• August 25: Charnvit Kasetsiri, Thammasat University - Amnat and Barami: Chulalongkorn and Bhumibol: The Two Longest Reigns in Siam and Thailand

• September 1: Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, UCLA - Toward an Archipelagic Southeast Asian Studies: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and the Decolonial Politics of Nước
• September 15: Ruth Toulson, Maryland Institute College of Art - The Gift of a Corpse: Notes from a Singaporean Mortuary on the Necropolitics of the Ordinary
• September 22: Nicholas Kuipers, National University of Singapore - Meritocracy Reconsidered: Bureaucratic Selection and Nation-Building in Indonesia
• September 29: Meredith Talusan, Condé Nast - Unbecoming: Exploring Filipinx Trans Identity Through Literary Fiction
• October 14: Victoria Reyes, University of California, Riverside - Academic Outsider
  • **NOTE: This talk will be held outside the usual Gatty time, taking place on FRIDAY October 14 at 3pm. It will take place at Warren Hall B73, not the Kahin Center.
• October 20: Hitomi Fujimura, York University - Claiming Karen as National Identity: Transnational Experiences of Karen Baptists in Nineteenth-Century America and British Burma
• October 27: Eddy Malesky, Duke University - Who Wants to Learn about Globalization? A Field Experiment in Vietnam
• November 3: Tania Li (University of Toronto) and Pujo Samedi (Universitas Gadjah Mada) - Plantation Life: Corporate Occupation in Indonesia’s Plantation Zone
  • **NOTE: This talk will be held outside the usual Gatty time, taking place on November 3 at 8pm.
• November 7: Sunisa Manning, writer - Translated History: Thai Revolution Reborn in Fiction
  • **NOTE: This talk will be held outside the usual Gatty time, taking place on MONDAY November 7 at 12:30pm.
• November 17: Miles Kenney-Lazar, National University of Singapore - The Future of Land in Myanmar
  • **NOTE: This talk will be held outside the usual Gatty time, taking place on November 17 at 8pm. It will be held entirely on Zoom.

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