Spring 2013 Lecture Series
►All lectures take place on Fridays at 12 noon in the Campus Life Building, Room 110 (Honors), unless otherwise noted.
►All lectures are free and open to the public.
►Indonesian lunches are now available. Lunches MUST be ordered online through the website, CSEAS Brown Bag Lunch Order, by 6 p.m. Thursday. Orders must be cancelled by 10 a.m. Friday online. Lunches that are not picked up and have not been cancelled must still be paid for. Cost is $6 for faculty, $5 for students. Payment may be paid by cash or check. For all inquiries, please email seabrownbag@gmail.com.
►All are welcome to bring a lunch and beverage if not ordering a lunch.
Friday, January 25
Nicole Loring and Thomas Rhoden, Ph. D. candidates, Department of Political Science, Northern Illinois University
Lecture title: The Blade and the Brahman: Deciphering a dha sword from Burma
Friday, February 1
Andi Irawan, Ph. D. candidate, Department of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lecture title: Assessing Indonesia's East Java Spatial Inequality and Convergence Process
CANCELLED - Friday, February 8
Jordan York, M. A. candidate, Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University
Lecture title: Deported Khmer Americans and Their Stories
CANCELLED - Friday, February 15
Matt Jagel, Ph. D. candidate, Department of History, Northern Illinois University
Lecture title: The First Independence: Son Ngoc Thanh and Cambodia Under Japanese Rule
CANCELLED - Friday, February 22
Prof. Mitch Hendrickson, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago
Lecture title: Tracking the Rise of Angkor from the Edge of Empire: Recent Investigations by the Industries of Angkor Project at Preah Khan of Kompong Svay (Preah Khan), Cambodia
* Special CSEAS 50th Anniversary Lecture - Please note time and venue *
Friday, March 1, 4 p.m., Pollock Ballroom, Barsema Alumni and Visitors Center
Prof. John Sidel, Sir Patrick Gillam Professor of International and Comparative Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science
Lecture title: Republicanism, Communism, Islam: Cosmopolitan Origins of Revolution in Southeast Asia
Co-sponsored by the NIU Graduate Colloquium and the Department of Political Science
Friday, March 8
No lecture - Spring Break
Friday, March 15
No lecture - Spring Break
Friday, March 22
Prof. Megan Sinnott, Institute for Women's, Gender , and Sexuality Studies, Georgia State University
Lecture title: Kumanthong: Child Spirits, Gender and Middle Class Conceptions of Childhood in Thailand
Friday, March 29
Prof. Kikue Hamayotsu, Department of Political Science, Northern Illinois University
Lecture title: Explaining Religious Violence in the Context of Democratic Consolidation: Comparative Cases from West Java, Indonesia
Friday, April 5
Prof. Emeritus Richard Cooler, Department of Art History, Northern Illinois University
Lecture title: The Emblem of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies: The Sarimonok - Hen's Teeth and a Snake Bridge to the Sun
Friday, April 12
Prof. Allen Hicken, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan
Lecture title: Late to the Party: The Development of 'Partisanship' in Thailand
(Also Keynote Speaker at SEA Studies Student Conference on April 13, 1 PM, Altgeld 315 on The Weakest Link? A Necessary Evil?: Political Parties, Growth and Development in Southeast Asia)
Friday, April 19
Prof. Ellen Rafferty, Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lecture title: The Post-Suharto Linguistic Landscape
Friday, April 26
NIU Myanmar (Burma) Initiative Update
Additional lectures will be announced as they are confirmed.