Islamic Peace Studies Conference. The Abode of Peace: Spirituality and Harmony in Islam
Irfan Omar, Juan Cole, Valerie Hoffman, Alexander Knysh, Jennifer Nourse
This conference explores the spiritual dimension of peace in Islam. Negative peace has been defined as the absence of violent conflict and...
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. Neither Mahāyāna Nor Theravāda: Ashin Jinarakkhita and the Indonesian Buddhayāna Movement
Jack Meng-Tat Chia, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
Widely regarded as the first Indonesian-born Buddhist monk (biksu pertama putra Indonesia), Ashin Jinarakkhita took it as his mission to...
CSEAS Film Screening. Thai Movie Night: Railway Sleepers
Directed by Sompot Chidgasornpongse
The first railway line in Thailand was inaugurated in 1893 - a sign of progress and prosperity. Shot over eight years on every active line...
CSEAS Film Screening. Thai Movie Night: Railway Sleepers
2016 ‧ Documentary ‧ 1h 42m / Director: Sompot Chidgasornpongse
The first railway line in Thailand was inaugurated in 1893 - a sign of progress and prosperity. Shot over eight years on every active line...
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. The Thousand Year Old Stolen Burmese Buddha Who Traveled The World And The Saga Of Its Return
Catherine Raymond, Associate Professor of Art History, Northern Illinois University
This presentation will profile the return of a rare Buddha image that was stolen from a remote temple in Bagan in 1988 and would travel...
CSEAS Graduate Student Conference. (Re)Making Memory in Southeast Asia
The one-day event culminates with a presentation by keynote speaker, Professor Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University, Department of History.
Re)Making Memory in Southeast Asia is a graduate student conference and exhibition highlighting new interdisciplinary research and artistic...
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. German and Vietnamese Refugees: Interactions and Comparisons
Peter van der Veer, Professor of Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen
This paper examines Germany as a country of and for refugees by focusing on two waves of refugees. The first is the influx of German...
