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NIU Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Fall 2007 Lecture Series

Updated 10/15/07

All Friday lectures begin at 12 noon and are held in Campus Life Building, Room 110.  To order a Thai lunch for the Friday lectures, call 815/753-1771 or e-mail lmweber@niu.edu by noon Thursday prior to the lecture.

THURSDAY,
September 6
GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM SPEAKER:
Dr. Kamal Sadiq, Assistant Professor, University of California-Irvine, Department of Political Science, “Voters Across Borders: Illegal Immigrants as Citizens in South and Southeast Asia,” Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Holmes Student Center, Lincoln Room.
September 7 Dr. Kamal Sadiq, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California-Irvine, “Searching for Citizenship in Southeast Asia”
September 14 Anies Baswedan, Ph.D. (NIU-2006), Rector of Paramadina University, Jakarta Indonesia, "The Politics and Leadership of President Yudhoyono"
THURSDAY,
September 20
A free public lecture by Dr. U Nyunt Han, former Director of the Archeology Department, Yangon, Burma/Myanmar. "New Archaeological Discoveries from Suvannabhumi: the Golden Land" Thursday at 5 p.m. in the Arends Hall Amphitheatre, Room 100
September 21 Dr. U Nyunt Han, former Director of the Archeology Department, Yangon,
Burma/Myanmar, “Situation of Archeology in Myanmar and its New Discoveries”
THURSDAY,
September 27
Linh Dinh, bilingual (English-Vietnamese) poet, fiction writer, essayist and translator, will do a reading of his poetry from 7-9 p.m. in the heritage Room of the Holmes Student Center.
September 28 Linh Dinh, bilingual (English-Vietnamese) poet, fiction writer, essayist and translator, “Straddling Cultures: The Writings of Linh Dinh”
October 5 Alan Potkin, Adjunct Consultant, “Escaping Foreign Donor Nature Worship: the Debacle at Nongchanh, Vientiane” Please see this flyer for poster and information.
October 12 Shaun Levine, (M.A.- NIU), Special Advisor and Editor, Jurnal Nasional, Jakarta, Indonesia “Mass Media in a Mass Transit System: Indonesia’s Rapid Transition to Freedom of the Press”
October 19 Mark Rosenbaum, Assistant Professor, Marketing, NIU, “The Selling of Birth Control Products in Myanmar”
October 26 Leon Lim, Chair, Board of Directors, Cambodia American Heritage Museum and Killing Fields Memorial, Chicago, "The History of the Cambodian American Heritage Museum and Killing Fields Memorial, including a discussion of the current exhibit: 'Khmer Spirit: Arts and Culture of Cambodia'"
November 2 Judy Ledgerwood, Associate Professor and Chair, Anthropology, NIU, “ The Rebirth of Cambodian Buddhism”
November 9 Lu, Hsin-chun Tasaw, Ph.D. Candidate in Ethnomusicology, UCLA, “Festivalizing Thingyan, Negotiating Ethnicity: Politics and Performance in a Burmese Community in Taiwan”
November 16 Ingrid Jordt, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, "Burma and the Moral Politics of Renunciation: What 'Turning Over the Rice Bowl' Means for the Junta, the Monkhood and the Buddhist Laity"

This series is partially supported with funds from the Center's U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.


A federally funded National Resource Center since 1997, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies provides leadership, focus, and coordination for Southeast Asian studies at the university.  cseas@niu.edu