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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