Organizer: Southeast Asia Digital Library, Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia, and the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University

Type/Location: Virtual

Description:

Join us for an online discussion on Southeast Asian Manuscript collections held by institutions around the United States, including the University of California, Berkeley and the Library of Congress. Dr. Trent Walker will share his experiences navigating the archival landscape of Southeast Asian Studies, covering how manuscript traditions from Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand appear in American libraries and the divergent approaches that researchers can take to incorporate these collections into their own scholarship. This webinar is hosted by the Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia (CORMOSEA), the Southeast Asia Program (SEAP), and the Southeast Asia Digital Library (SEADL).

About the Speaker

Trent Walker is Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor. A specialist in Buddhism, literature, and music in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, he is the author of Until Nirvana’s Time: Buddhist Songs from Cambodia and co-edited a major anthology, Out of the Shadows of Angkor: Cambodian Poetry, Prose, and Performance through the Ages. Recent publications include articles on Thai literary history, Lao and Shan exegesis, Theravada nuns, Pali-vernacular homiletics, Khmer epigraphy, and Vietnamese Buddhist translation. Trent also served as Director of Preservation and Lead Scholar for the Khmer Manuscript Heritage Project, a initiative of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center, in collaboration with the École française d'Extrême-Orient and with generous support from A Khmer Buddhist Foundation, to digitize over 1.5 million pages of Khmer, Pali, and Thai manuscripts from Cambodia.

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