CSEAS Film Screening. Thai Movie Night: Pop Aye
Kirsten Tan, Director
On a chance encounter, a disenchanted architect bumps into his long-lost elephant on the streets of Bangkok. Excited, he takes his elephant...
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. The Return to authoritarianism in Cambodia
Kheang Un, Northern Illinois University
In 2017, the Cambodian government dismantled the Cambodian National Rescue Party, clamped down on civil liberties and organized elections in...
International Institute. How to Build a Competitive PhD Program Application: A Faculty Panel Discussion
Paroma Chatterjee, Associate Professor (History of Art); Allen Hicken, Professor (Political Science); Reginald Jackson, Assistant Professor (Asian Languages and Cultures); Rob Jansen, Associate Professor (Sociology)
Are you interested in pursuing doctoral studies, now or in the future? This interactive panel discussion features four faculty admissions...
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. On filthy nouns and dirty verbs: Translating sex in Tagalog missionary linguistics
Marlon James Sales, Postdoctoral Fellow in Critical Translation Studies, University of Michigan
Some of the oldest specimens of indigenous literacies in the Philippines are found in the linguistic texts written by Catholic missionaries...
International Institute Globally Engaged Career Panel
Fernando Snowden-Lorence, JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Courtney Meyer, International Food Policy Research Institute; Amber Forbes, Inter-American Foundation
Students and community members interested in globally-engaged career paths will gain new perspectives and job search insights from this...
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...
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 Film Series. “Yanan,” a film by Mae Caralde. Film screening followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.
Mae Caralde, filmmaker and current Fulbright scholar
Ka Yanan, a member of the Philippine revolutionary movement, died during an encounter with government troops in 2012, and is survived by a...
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 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...
