Re)Making Memory in Southeast Asia is a graduate student conference and exhibition highlighting new interdisciplinary research and artistic projects focusing on issues of memory and forgetting in Southeast Asia. The one-day event culminates with a presentation by keynote speaker, Professor Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University, Department of History.

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast and registration

9:00 - 9:15 Opening remarks, UM CSEAS Director Christi-Anne Castro

9:15 - 10:30 Panel 1: Constructing Identity

“Post-conflict Construction of Memory Through Mainstream Media: The Case of the Tak Bai Incident”
Ornwara Tritrakarn, Cornell University, Department of Asian Studies,

“Old stories, new heroes: Memories of masculinity in Ambon” Michael Kirkpatrick Miller, Cornell University, Department of History,

“The Royal Gift of Thai: What the Wild Boar Incident Teaches Us”
Tyler Esch, University of Hawai’i Mānoa, Department of Southeast Asian Studies,

Moniek van Rheenen, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Discussant

10:30 - 11:45 Panel 2: Counter Narratives and Modes of Silence

“From "Asia as Method" to "Tây Sơn as Method"? Postwar historiography and the rise of counter-memories from the margins in the Vietnamese diaspora” Vinh Nguyen, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

“Gender Identity and Marginalization of Vietnamese Women's Roles: The case study of HátChèo, a folk theatre in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries” Huong Nguyen, Department of World Languages, Literature, and Culture,
Arkansas University

“Glimmers of "Pen Gan Eng": State-Sponsored Craft Fairs in Bangkok and the Aesthetics of Precarity among Silk Vendors from Surin, Thailand”
Alexandra Dalferro, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University Chao Ren, Department of History, University of Michigan, Discussant

11:45-12:45 Lunch

12:45 - 1:00 Film Screening: “Big Durian Big Apple” Azalia P. Muchransyah, SUNY Buffalo

1:15 - 2:15 Panel 3: Embodied Memory

“Temporal Emplacements Among Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong”
Lai Wo, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan

“What does it mean to remember? Cultural Memory and the Embodiment of
the Ati in the Sadsad Phenomenon”
Jemuel Jr. B. Garcia, Department of Critical Dance Studies, University of California, Riverside

Cheryl Yin, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Discussant
2:30 - 3:30 Artist Talks: Photovoice Exhibition and Performance “Nostalgia, for 30-note hand crank music box.”
Can Bilir, Department of Music, Cornell University

“If age is only a number, then gender is only a word.” Understanding the circumstances of youth navigating non-traditional sexuality and gender expression in rural areas of Northern Thailand.
Colleen Towler, School of Social Work, University of Michigan

3:30 - 5:00 Keynote: Eric Tagliacozzo, Department of History, Cornell University


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