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. 

All talks will be held at the Kahin Center (640 Stewart Avenue) at 12:15pm. In accordance with SEAP tradition, lunch will be served. At this time all Gatty Lectures are taking place in-person only, with no hybrid or virtual option.

If you miss a talk, or would like to hear more from one of our speakers, many can also be found on the Gatty Lecture Rewind Podcast after their lecture. Recordings for some of our previous virtual and hybrid Gatty lectures are available on the Global Cornell YouTube channel.

• January 30: Joshua Babcock, Brown University - Desiring Distinctions: Totalizing Images and Coercions of Community in Multiracial, Multilingual Singapore
• February 6: Emi Donald, Cornell University - Bodies that (Un)Bind: The Production of Tomboy and Transgender Knowledge in Thailand
• February 13: Benjamin Tausig, SUNY-Stony Brook University - Heading Into Bangkok: Transnational Dialectics of Queerness and Race in Cold War Thailand
• February 20: Ivan V. Small, Northern Illinois University - Worlding Ethno-burbs: 50 Years of Southeast Asian American (dis)placemaking
• February 27: Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit, Washington University-St. Louis - Tuning to Colonial Approval: Anxieties for Musical Knowledge Production in Siam
• March 20: Kristian Saguin, University of the Philippines-Diliman - Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila's Resource Frontier
• March 27: Elissa “E” Domingo Badiqué, Cornell University - Do You Copy? The Racialized Masquerade of K-pop and Filipino Variety Show Cover Dance
  • *Note: This talk will take place in Rockefeller Hall 374. It will also be available for virtual audiences at the link here.
• April 10: Martina Thucnhi Nguyen, Baruch College (City University of New York) - Writing in Drag: Nguyễn Văn Vĩnh, Gender, Patriarchy, and Speaking for Vietnamese Women, 1907-1917
• April 17: Michael Kirkpatrick Miller, Cornell University - "Very Strong But Also Extremely Fair”: Masculinity and Football in the Dutch East Indies, 1870-1942
• April 24: Andrew Mertha, Johns Hopkins SAIS - Bad Lieutenants: The Khmer Rouge, United Front, and Class Struggle, 1970–1997
• May 1: Rachel Leow, University of Cambridge - The Names of Water: China’s Nanyang Project and other Vernacular Imaginaries of the Southern Seas
  • *Note: This talk will take place on Zoom, but will only be open to current Cornell students, faculty, and staff. Please register using your Cornell email address. It will be held at 6pm Eastern Time, not the usual 12:15pm.