CSEAS Faculty:
News
Prof. Ben
Brinner participated in a festival of Southeast Asian music,
theater, and dance at the Cowell Theater at Fort Mason, San Francisco
in October 2005, in his capacity as co-director (with Midiyanto)
of Berkeley's Javanese gamelan group, Gamelan Sari Raras.
Prof. Pheng
Cheah is an invited panelist at the Modern Language Association
Conference on Human Rights and the Humanities at the City University
of New York in October 2005. He will present a paper entitled, "Humanity
within the Field of Instrumentality" on a panel with Lila Abu-Lughod,
Kwame Anthony Appiah, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Prof. Cheah's
other invited lectures this year include at the International Conference
on Chinese Diasporic and Exile Experience in Zürich in August
2005, at the Summer Institute on American Studies at Dartmouth College
in June 2005, at the Diacritics conference on Derrida, Literature
and Democracy at Cornell University in April 2005, and for the Depts.
of English and Comparative Literature at UC Riverside in March 2005.
Prof. Cheah was also a participant at the Project for Critical Asian
Studies Conference on War, Capital, Trauma, held at the University
of Washington in May 2005.
Prof. Catherine
Choy's book, Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino
American History, received the History Book Award at the 2005
annual meeting of the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS)
in Los Angeles. In Spring 2005, Prof. Choy was the Edith Kreeger
Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor at Northwestern University
where she delivered the keynote lecture, "Towards Trans-Pacific
Social Justice: Women and Protest in Filipino American History."
Prof. Choy has also been supervising an Undergraduate Research Apprentice
Program (URAP) in 2005 on the Berkeley campus entitled "Colonial
Encounters: A History of U.S. Imperialism and Racial Formation in
the Philippines".
Prof. Jeffrey
Hadler is on leave for 2005-06.
Prof. Aihwa
Ong presented a lecture on "Neoliberalism as a Global Form,"
at the School of Social Medicine, Harvard University, in March 2005.
Other invited lectures included "Experiments with Freedom:
Milieus of the Human," at the American Literary History Conference,
also in March 2005; and "Constellations: Problem Spaces of
the Global,"
at the World-Scale Ambitions Workshop at Stanford University in
April 2005.
Prof. Dara
O'Rourke's book, Community-Driven Regulation: Balancing Development
and the Environment in Vietnam received the Outstanding Publication
Award from the Environment and Technology Section of the American
Sociological Association in 2005.
Prof. Nancy
Lee Peluso received a Pacific Rim Research Program mini-grant
in May 2005 to support the publication of selected papers presented
at the 22nd CSEAS Annual Conference, "Producing People and
Nature as Commodities in Southeast Asia". Prof. Peluso is editing
the book with the conference's co-chair, Prof. Joseph Nevins (Vassar).
Prof. Ashley
Thompson resigned from the Department of South & Southeast
Asian Studies in 2005. She has taken a new position as Lecturer
in the School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies
at the University of Leeds.
Prof. Peter
Zinoman delivered a keynote address at the conference, "30
Years Beyond the War: Vietnamese, Southeast Asian, and Asian/American
Studies" at UC Riverside in April 2005.
Bac Hoai
Tran, Vietnamese language lecturer and language coordinator
for the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, has been
elected President of the Consortium of Teachers of Southeast Asian
Languages (COTSEAL). COTSEAL is a national professional interest
group whose primary purpose is to promote language teaching for
Southeast Asian languages on all levels: teaching, materials development,
and research. It meets at the Association of Asian Studies annual
meeting and holds one conference in July.
CSEAS Faculty:
Publications
Pheng Cheah
(Rhetoric): Spectral Nationality: Passages of Freedom from Kant
to Postcolonial Literatures of Liberation (Columbia University
Press, 2003); Grounds
of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson, co-editor
with Jonathan Culler (Routledge, 2003).
Catherine
Choy (Ethnic Studies): "Asian American History: Reflections
on Imperialism, Immigration, and 'The Body'". In Pinay Power:
Peminist Critical Theory, Melinda de Jesus, ed. (Routledge,
2005); Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American
History (Duke University Press, 2003)
Colleen Lye
(English): America's
Asia: Racial Form and American Literature (Princeton University
Press, 2005)
James Matisoff
(Linguistics): Handbook
of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and Philosophy of Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction,
UC Publications in Linguistics, 135 (University of California
Press, 2003)
Aihwa Ong
(Anthropology): Global
Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological
Problems. Co-editor with Stephen Collier (Blackwell, 2004);
Buddha
Is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, and the New America (University
of California Press, 2003).
Dara O'Rourke
(Environmental Science, Policy & Management): Community-Driven
Regulation: Balancing Development and the Environment in Vietnam
(MIT Press, 2003).
Nancy Peluso
(Environmental Science, Policy & Management): "Passing
the Red Bowl: Tracking Threads of Blood in West Kalimantan."
In Violent Conflicts in Indonesia, Charles Coppel, ed. (RoutledgeCurzon,
2005); "Territorializing Local Struggles for Resource Control"
In Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South
and Southeast Asia, Paul Greenough and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing,
eds. (Duke University Press, 2003)
Susan Kepner
(Thai language lecturer): Married
to the Demon King: Sri Daoruang and Her Demon Folk (Silkworm
Books, 2004); Child of the Northeast, translation of a novel
by Kampoon Boontawee (reissue, Paiboon Publishing, 2003)
Cam Nguyet
Nguyen (Vietnamese language lecturer): Crossing
the River: Short Fiction by Nguyen Huy Thiep, co-translator
with Dana Sachs (Curbstone Press, 2003); Two
Cakes Fit for a King: Folktales from Vietnam, co-translator
with Dana Sachs (University of Hawaii Press, 2003)
|
