Spring 2008 Brown Bag Lecture Series

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 nschunem@niu.edu by noon Thursday prior to the lecture.

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

Forward, Together Forward

January 25	Coral Carlson, NIU graduate student, History “Food for Thought: Cylindrical Jars of the Bayon Bas-reliefs”
February 1	John Hartman, Presidential Teaching Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures (Thai) and Saw Tun, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures (Burmese), Northern Illinois University "A Chain of Chiang: From Kengtung, Burma to Xieng Khwang, Laos and Beyond"
February 8	Catherine Raymond, Associate Professor, Art History, Northern Illinois University "The NIU Burma Art Collection: A New Approach for Teaching Burmese Culture"
February 15	Angelene Naw, Associate Professor, History, Judson University - CANCELLED - Rescheduled to May 2, 2008 “Karen Refugees in Illinois: the Resettlement, the Challenges and Adjustment”
February 22	Andrea Molnar, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Northern Illinois University - CANCELLED "Southern Thailand's Malay Muslim Women's Political Participation: Preliminary Results"
February 29	Noel Morada, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of the Philippines, Diliman "Regionalism and Community Building in Southeast Asia: Do Non-Governmental Actors Matter?"
March 7	No lecture (Spring Break)
March 14	No lecture (Spring Break)
March 21	Alicia Turner, Visiting Instructor, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan "Defining and Confining Religion in Colonial Burma: Buddhist Protests over Religion and Respect"
March 27	7 PM, Heritage Room, Holmes Student Center Adam Knee, Assistant Professor, School of Film, Ohio University "Southeast Asia Horror Cinema: Local Specificities, Transnational Contexts"
March 28	Graduate Colloquium Speaker Adam Knee, Assistant Professor, School of Film, Ohio University “Thai Horror Cinema's Continuing Evolution"
April 4	No lecture (AAS Annual Meeting)
April 11	Kim Sedara, Doctoral candidate, Political Science, Gothenburg University and Research Fellow, Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI) “Where Decentralization Meets Democracy: Civil Society, Local Government and Accountability in Cambodia"
April 18	Gerry P. Dyck, Ethnomusicologist, University of Massachusetts "On the Trail of the Vanishing Pin Pbia"
April 25	Vasu Srivarathonbul, NIU doctoral candidate, Political Science "Controlling Migrant Workers: Thailand's Experience"
May 2	Angelene Naw, Associate Professor, History, Judson University “Karen Refugees in Illinois: the Resettlement, the Challenges and Adjustment”

Updated 3/17/08

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