Conference Schedule
| Friday, March 11th | ||
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| 4:00pm | Registration | |
| 4:30pm | Opening Remarks, Keynote Lecture | “(Re)Producing Knowledge: Gamelan and Southeast Asian Music within and without Academe” by Senior Lecturer, Christopher J. Miller, Department of Music |
| 6:00pm | Reception |
| Saturday, March 12th | ||
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| 8:30am | Breakfast | |
| 9:00am | Panel 1: The Stuff of History |
"Melaka is Minangkabau: Malay Oral Historical Poetics in the Hikayat Anggun Cik Tunggal and the Making of an Early Malay Regionalism," by Nicole Yow Wei, Chulalongkorn University “Feeling Strange, Feeling Home: An Annotation of Indonesian History,” by Eunike Setiadarma, Northwestern University “Conflicts and Negotiations: The Representation of the National Revolution in Indonesian History Textbooks,” by Indah Wahyu Puji Utami, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| 10:30am | Break | |
| 10:45am | Panel 2: Southeast Asia America |
“An American Samleing: Music and Multivocality in the Poetry of Sokunthary Svay,” by Bradley DeMatteo, University of Toronto “Playing Kaa: Memory Work, Music, and Song-Speaking,” by Sokunthary Svay, CUNY “Transnational Asian America: Vietnamese International Student Activism and the Asian American Movement (1968-1975),” by Cai Gabrielle Barias, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 12:15pm | Lunch | |
| 1:45pm | Panel 3: Contesting Power |
“Surveillance-Disinformation’ Assemblage and The Politics of Tech-Driven Counterinsurgency in Thailand's Southern Border Conflict,” by Chanatip Tatiyakaroonwong, Cambridge University "Legal Engagements: Buddhist Law and the Construction of Chinese-BurmeseFamilies in Colonial Burma,” by Matthew Venker, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Yankees on the Irrawaddy: Race, Migration, and Plural Society in a Burmese Oilfield, 1921-27,” by Chao Ren, University of Michigan |
| 3:15pm | Break | |
| 3:30pm | Panel 4: Politics and Identity |
“Itineraries of Self-Respect: Urban Sociality and Tamil Reform in Interwar Malaya, 1929–1940,” by Kelvin Ng, Yale University “Colonial Beasts and Where to Find Them: Constructs of Sex Tourism in Olongapo, Zambales Philippines,” by Jonalyn Paz, Ankara Haci Bayram Veli University |
| 5:00pm | Dinner | |
| 6:00pm | Film Screening | "A for Augustin," by Grace Simbulan, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Sunday, March 13th | ||
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| 8:30am | Breakfast | |
| 9:00am | Panel 5: Futures of Study |
“Despot on the Spotlight: Consequences of Tactical Securitization Against Pro-Democracy Protestors by Thai Government,” by Bunkueanun "Francis" Paothong, Mahidol University International College “Catholic Identification as a mode of Protection for Asian Indios Across Time and Space in the Early Modern Spanish Empire,” by Dexter Lin, Yale University “Đây là Viet Rap?”: Contesting Americanization and Internal Colonialism in Vietnamese rap,” by Minh-Tiến Nguyễn, Fulbright University of Vietnam |
| 10:30am | Break | |
| 10:45am | Panel 6: Colonial Makes |
“Emiria Sunassa: Archipelagic Painter,” by Harry Burke, Yale University "From “Civilizing Mission” to “Heroic Railway”: Railroad Colonialism and Infrastructural Meaning-Making in Vietnam,” by Linh Mueller, Freie Universität Berlin “Deconstructing the Colony: Filipinization of Urban Spaces and Manila’s role in the 20th Century Global History,” by Jefferson R. Mendez, Central European University |
| 12:15pm | Lunch | |
| 1:45pm | Panel 7: Embodiment |
““If we don’t use our bodies, how can we show love?”: Embodied Sociality and Subjectivity in Cambodian Indie Cinema,” by Andrew Hollister, University of Washington “Girl with the Sak Yon Tattoo,” by Amira Noeuv, University of California-San Diego “Cannibalism, Madness, (Tw)incest, and Death: Mobilizing theVietnamese Diasporic Body in Linda Lê’s Works,” by Nam Nguyen, Yale University |
| 3:30pm | Closing Remarks | Brian Sengdala |