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CSEAS Faculty:
News
Benjamin Brinner is the author of a new book on traditional music in Indonesia, The Music of Central Java: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Oxford, 2007), published as part of Oxford’s Global Music Series.
Pheng Cheah gave two lectures at the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at the University of Western Ontario in September 2007. In Spring 2007, he was an Initiative Fellow at the Townsend Center for the Humanities with the project: “What Is a World? Flows of Money and the Possibility of World Literature”
Catherine Ceniza Choy was interviewed in March 2007 for a podcast by the San Francisco Chronicle about the immigration of Filipino nurses into the U.S. Her recent publications include the essay, “Philippines,” in The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965, eds. Mary C. Waters and Reed Ueda with Helen B. Marrow (Harvard, 2007), and the article, “Filipinos,” in The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, eds. Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, and Andrew Cayton (Indiana, 2007). Prof. Choy was an Initiative Fellow at the Townsend Center for the Humanities in Spring 2007 working on the project: “Global Families: A History of Asian International and Transracial Adoption in America”.
Penny Edwards joined the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies in January 2007. Her book, Cambodge: The Cultivation of a Nation, 1860-1945, was published by the University of Hawaii Press in 2007. She also serves on the board of directors of the Center for Khmer Studies in Cambodia, which is a member institution of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.
Jeffrey Hadler was co-organizer of a workshop in September 2007, with Hendrik Maier from UC Riverside, at which a group of scholars met at Berkeley for two days to initiate a new bibliography project on Southeast Asian literature in translation. The workshop was supported by a UCOP Pacific Rim Research Program mini-grant. Participants included Joi Barrios (Michigan), Francisco Benitez (Washington), Nenita Domingo (UCLA), Thomas Hudak (Arizona State), Mariam Beevi Lam (UC Riverside), Susan Rodgers (Holy Cross) and Teri Shaffer Yamada (CSU Long Beach), as well as UCB faculty Penny Edwards, Susan Kepner, Cam Nguyet Nguyen, Sylvia Tiwon and Peter Zinoman.
Colleen Lye received the Cultural Studies Award from the Association of Asian American Studies at their annual conference in 2007 for her book, America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature.
Aihwa Ong is co-editor of the volume, Privatizing China, Socialism from Afar, forthcoming from Cornell University Press.
Nancy Lee Peluso is co-editor, with Prof. Joseph Nevins (Vassar), of a new edited volume drawn from papers presented at the CSEAS Annual Conference held in 2005. The book, forthcoming from Cornell University Press, is tentatively titled Taking Southeast Asia to Market: Commodities, People and Nature in a Neoliberal Age, and includes chapters by Anna Tsing, Paul Gellert, Angie Ngoc Tran, Daromir Rudnjckyj, Keith Barney, David Biggs, Tania Li, Ken MacLean, Dorian Fougères, Lesley Potter, Sandra Smeltzer, and Peter Vandergeest.
Peter Zinoman (History) was interviewed by National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation in November 2006 as part of NPR’s coverage on President Bush’s trip to Vietnam. The interview can be heard at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6492347
CSEAS Faculty:
Publications
Benjamin Brinner
(Music): The Music of Central Java: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Oxford, 2007)
Pheng Cheah
(Rhetoric): Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and
Human Rights (forthcoming, Harvard, 2007) 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)
Penny Edwards (South & Southeast Asian Studies): Cambodge:
The Cultivation of a Nation, 1860-1945 (University of Hawaii Press, 2007)
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): Neoliberalism
as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty (Duke,
2006);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 (Universityof Hawaii Press,
2003)
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