Organizer: Harvard University Asia Center and Yale University Council on Southeast Asia Studies
Type/Location: Hybrid / Cambridge, MA
Description:
Join the Harvard University Asia Center and the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University for a series of panel discussions by current graduate students on various SEA topics.
10.10–11.30 a.m.
Keynote Address
“Making Property at the Edge of the Anthropocene," Professor Anna Tsing, University of California, Santa Cruz
Moderators: Marcus Yee/Nicole Yow Wei
1.00–2.45 p.m.
Maintaining and Challenging Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia
“Forging a revolutionary coalition: Legacies of violent conflict and autocratic nation building in Laos," Shourya Sen, PhD Candidate, Princeton University
“Between Openness and Opacity: The Transformation of Policy Responsiveness in the 1980s Singapore,” Viktoria Zlomanova, Masters Graduate, University of British Columbia
“Seeing Counterinsurgency: The Limits of Witness in the Philippine Drug War,” Patrick Peralta, PhD Student, University of Michigan & Qian Qian Ng, PhD Student, University of Michigan
Faculty Respondent: Professor Mattias E. Fibiger, Harvard Business School
Moderator: Daniel Lowery, PhD Candidate, Harvard University
2.45–4.15 p.m.
Rethinking Agrarian Southeast Asia
“De-Farming in Myanmar after the 2011 opening: Case Study of Six Mile Village Area in Taunggyi Township,” Peng Ni-Ni, PhD Candidate, National Chinan University
“From dissolution to preservation: The state and the persistence of Indonesian small-scale farming,” Colum Graham, PhD Candidate, Australian National University
“Progress is a Grain of Rice: A History of Scientific Nationalism in the Postcolonial Philippines,” Orven Froie A. Mallari, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
Faculty Respondent: Professor Sugata Bose, Harvard University
Moderator: Marcus Yee, PhD Student, Yale University
4.45-6.15 p.m.
Resisting Purity, Localizing Religion
“Monstrous Returns: Superstition, Religion and Climate Change,” Kai Ngu, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
“A Bridge in the Land below the Winds: Exploring Religious Moderation in Teleological Exegesis of Quraish Shihab,”Muhammad Abdul Aziz, PhD Candidate, University of PTIQ - PKUMI Jakarta, Indonesia University
“Monumentalizing Sāsana: The Figuration of Buddhist Luminaries and Longevity in Northern Thailand and Beyond,” Napakadol Kittisenee, PhD Candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Faculty Respondent: Professor David Moe, Yale University
Moderator: Charissa Lee Yi Zhen, Masters Candidate, Yale Divinity School
Saturday, March 30
8.30-10.15 a.m.
Urban Rhythms and Temporalities
“Built Memories and Commemoration in Southeast Asia: Unforgetting Typhoon Washi in the Philippines,” Ma. Rhea Gretchen A. Abuso, Masters/PhD Candidate, University of the Philippines, Diliman
“Urban Futures Suspended on the Outskirts: Spatialized Ambivalence and an Asynchronous Modernity in the New Urban Areas of Hanoi, Vietnam,” Olivier Jacques, PhD Candidate, McGill University
“Rental Biopolitics: Housing Financialization and the Production of the Queer Subject,” Gao Ding, Masters Candidate, National University of Singapore
Faculty Respondent: Professor Erik Harms, Yale University
Moderator: Robin Albrecht, Masters Candidate, Harvard University
1.30-3.00 p.m.
Politics of Narratives: The State, Frictions, and Resistances
"After Friction: Dissecting Media and Academic Narratives on Indigenous Meratus' Eco-Religious Life," Khalilah Nur ‘Azmy, Lecturer, UIN Antasari
“Films of Resistance: Art Activism and Political Narratives in Burmese Borderlands,” Zar Ti Nwe Nu Aung, Master of Social Sciences Student, Chiang Mai University
“Biopolitics of Indonesia’s Population Resettlement Program,” Made Adityanandana, PhD Student, Cornell University
Faculty Respondent: Professor Josh Babcock, Brown University
Moderator: Nicole Yow Wei, PhD Student, Yale University, Department of History
3.15-5.00 p.m.
Appositions: Deformalizing, Destructuring and Decolonizing Southeast Asian Cultural Production
“Bangungot: Dreams, Nightmares, and Tsismis in R. Zamora Linmark’s Leche,” David Siglos Jr., PhD Candidate, University of California, Riverside
“South to South Translation, from El Llano en Llamas to ท่งกุลาลุกไหม้: Notes on Language Politics in Crypto Colonial Thailand,” Jittawat Kunyamoon, PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin
“Losing Sight of the Subaltern in Priyageetha Dia's TURBINE TROPICS (2023),” Clara Lee, PhD Candidate, Northwestern University
Faculty Respondent: Professor Annette Lienau, Harvard University
Moderator: Lara Norgaard, PhD Candidate, Harvard University
5.15-6.45 p.m.
Ethnographies of Myanmar (in-person only)
Faculty Respondent: Courtney Wittekind, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Purdue University; Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University in the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies
Moderator: Saly Sirothphiphat, MDiv Candidate, Harvard Divinity School and Al Lim, PhD Candidate, Yale University
Registration:
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