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CSEAS:
Updates
Advanced Filipino through Distance Learning
Advanced Filipino [Tagalog] is being offered in 2007-08 as a Distance Learning course at Berkeley, as sent from UCLA by videoconferencing. The instructor is Dr. Nenita Domingo, a lecturer in UCLA's Department of Asian Languages and Culture. The course is meeting on a different calendar from Berkeley's because of UCLA's quarter system, and so will start in late September when UCLA's fall quarter begins. Cal students will meet during class time at the same time as the UCLA class in a special classroom in Dwinelle Hall equipped for videoconferencing. Cal students will be able to see the instructor and students at UCLA and interact directly with the class, as if they were in the actual UCLA classroom. The course is officially a UCLA course that Cal students can enroll in through established methods for Intercampus Exchange. Interested students should contact CSEAS for enrollment procedures.
UCB-UCLA Distinguished Visitor, 2007
Zainah Anwar, the Executive Director of Sisters in Islam in Malaysia, will be the UC Berkeley-UCLA Distinguished Visitor from Southeast Asia in 2007. Ms. Anwar will visit Berkeley and UCLA in early October 2007 to meet with students and faculty and to present a public lecture at each campus. Ms. Anwar is a prominent feminist and public intellectual in Malaysia, whose primary advocacy focus is to protect the rights of women, and in particular the rights of Muslim women. She received a postgraduate degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and is a former member of Malaysia's Human Rights Commission.
CSEAS hosts Fulbright pre-departure orientation on Vietnam and Thailand
CSEAS served as the host for a two-day pre-departure orientation for a group of K-12 teachers heading to Thailand and Vietnam under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Seminar Abroad program in June 2007. During the orientation, UC Berkeley faculty and area experts gave presentations on different aspects of literature, history, religion, politics, and culture in Thailand and Vietnam to the fifteen teachers selected from schools from all over the U.S. for the program. Special guest speakers included Paul Handley, a journalist with many years' experience in Thailand and the author of the controversial book, The King Never Smiles, and the writer and radio commentator Andrew Lam. The group also toured the Southeast Asian collection at the Asian Art Museum, and had dinner in Little Saigon before their departure for their five-week trip.
Indochina Center materials on the move
Selected materials from the Indochina Center are in the process of being transferred to Berkeley's main library for cataloguing and archival storage. The materials being moved have been chosen following consultations with senior library staff in Gardner/Doe, with Virginia Shih, the Southeast Asia Librarian in Doe Library, and with CSEAS Chair, Prof. Peter Zinoman. These materials are expected to augment the library's already strong holdings on Vietnam and also form a core collection relating to the period of U.S. involvement in Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s.
The Indochina Center was originally established at Berkeley by former Foreign Service officer Douglas Pike. Although sections of the archive went with Mr. Pike when he moved to Texas Tech University in the 1990s, many materials remained here at UC Berkeley but became unavailable to researchers after the archive was closed due to funding constraints. Materials currently being processed for transfer include extensive interviews conducted by U.S. Embassy officials and military contractors with captured North Vietnamese soldiers and guerrillas.
CSEAS is also discussing the transfer to the main library of a separate set of documents held in the archive which includes correspondence and other materials from the Indochina Resource Center. The Indochina Resource Center was formed to provide expert information about Vietnam and the U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia in the 1970s, and was based for some time in Berkeley. The documents held here highlight the work of this organization which focused specifically on anti-war activities during this period.
Grants-in-Aid Award deadlines for 2007-08
CSEAS manages a grants program, made possible by external foundation funding, for UC Berkeley graduate students who are pursuing humanities or social science research relating to Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos. These grants are awarded on a competitive basis to support recipients to undertake short-term research or to travel to conferences where they are scheduled to present scholarly papers. The maximum grant amount is $1,600. Applications are accepted for 2007-08 on the following schedule: September 10, 2007; December 10, 2007; and March 10, 2008. Interested students should contact CSEAS for more information.
The following students received grants-in-aid for research work on Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in 2006-07:
Rebekah Collins (Southeast Asian Studies), Andrew Hao (Anthropology), Alfred Montoya (Anthropology), Jason Morris (ESPM), Marguerite Nguyen (English), Aaron Sorenson (Southeast Asian Studies), Ben Tran (Comparative Literature), Nu-Anh Tran (History), and Jerome Whitington (Anthropology).
FLAS Awards, 2007-08
The following graduate students received Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship awards for 2007-08:
Indonesian: Shawn Callanan, Isabel Esterman, Rheana Parrenas
Khmer: Sylvia Nam
Thai: Jia Ching Chen, Arjun Subrahmanyan
Vietnamese: Va Cun
Graduate Student News
Bauni Hamid (Architecture) and Jason Morris-Jung (Environmental Science, Policy and Management) were awarded summer fellowships from Berkeley's Human Rights Center in 2007. Bauni's work with the Indonesian Institute of Architects' North Sumatra Chapter studied the post-tsunami reconstruction process in Aceh province. Jason's work was affiliated with International Centre for Environmental Management in Vietnam.
Christina Sunardi (Music) received a mini-grant from the UCOP Pacific Rim Research Program to continue her research on dance performance in East Java, Indonesia in 2007. She joins the faculty at the University of Washington in Fall 2007 as an assistant professor in ethnomusicology.
The following students received Fulbright awards for dissertation research in 2007-08: Ian Lowman (Southeast Asian Studies), Jason Picard (History), Nu-Anh Tran (History) and Alec Holcombe (History).
Michael Dwyer (Geography) is continuing his field research on economic integration in Laos, in which he is examining how development institutions use geographic information to understand, plan and regulate agrarian change in northern Laos. He will finish his fieldwork in 2008.
IN MEMORIAM
Stephanie Kim, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of City and Regional Planning, died suddenly in June 2007 while on vacation in Mexico. Stephanie had recently completed her Ph.D. qualifying examination and was preparing to leave for dissertation fieldwork in Hawaii. Stephanie wrote her M.A. thesis on microfinance and the politics of development in Vietnam. A memorial fund has been established in her name and the prize in her name will be given in 2007-08 to a UC Berkeley graduate student whose work supports issues of social and environmental justice. Those interested in donating to this fund should contact Malla Hadley in the Department of City and Regional Planning. A blogspot has been set up by her friends to post pictures and remembrances: http://stephanieyeunkim.blogspot.com.
Nathaniel Gerhart, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, was killed in a motorcycle accident near Berau in Kalimantan, Indonesia, in August 2007. He had been conducting fieldwork research in Kalimantan sponsored by the Center for Social Forestry in Samarinda and by AMINEF, the Fulbright program in Indonesia. A blog has been created to collect and share stories and reflections at www.nathanielgerhart.blogspot.com, and a photo archive at http://www.flickr.com/photos/natgerhart. His family has established a fund from which they hope to support some of his longer term life goals, especially the people of the villages where he worked in Peru and Indonesia. CSEAS has further contact information for those interested in donating to this fund.
Recent Ph.D. Dissertations
Agricultural and Resource Economics
Tomoki Fujii, "Three essays on poverty mapping and targeting (Vietnam, Cambodia)", 2005
Assistant Professor, Economics, Singapore Management University
Jason Scorse, "The effects of social and environmental information on firm behavior (Indonesia)", 2005
Assistant Professor, International Policy Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies
Anthropology
Daromir Rudnyckyj, "Islamic ethics and spiritual economy in contemporary Indonesia", 2006
Assistant Professor, Southeast Asian Studies, University of Victoria
Architecture
Chee Kien Lai, "Concrete/concentric nationalism: The architecture of independence in Malaysia, 1945-1969", 2005
Assistant Professor, Architecture, National University of Singapore
Art History
Jinah Kim, "Unorthodox practice: Rethinking the cult of illustrated Buddhist books in South Asia", 2006
Assistant Professor, Art History, Vanderbilt University
Environmental Science, Policy & Management
Dorian Fougeres, "Aquarian capitalism and transition in Indonesia", 2005
California Sea Grant Fellow
Diana Pei Wu, "Multiracial and multiethnic coalitions in scaling up environmental politics: The U.S. environmental justice movement," 2006
Program Director, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Ethnic Studies
Maria Villasenor, "Literature of the Chicano/a borderlands and the Filipino/a diaspora", 2006
History
Sokhieng Au, "Medicine and modernity in colonial Cambodia", 2005
Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University
Linguistics
David Mortensen, "Logical and substantial scales in phonology", 2006
Assistant Professor, Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh
Kenneth Van Bik, "Proto-Kuki-Chin", 2006
Researcher, Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT), UC Berkeley
Political Science
Sophal Ear, "The political economy of aid, governance and policy-making: Cambodia in global, national and sectoral perspectives", 2006
Postdoctoral fellow, Maxwell School, Syracuse University
Sociology
Youyenn Teo, "No economy, no Singapore: Weddings, babies, and the development project", 2005
Postdoctoral Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
South & Southeast Asian Studies
Elizabeth Chandra, "National fictions: Chinese-Malay literature and the politics of forgetting", 2006
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