2020 Lecture Series

January 22

Thongchai Winichakul, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Moments of Silence: the Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok
Free and open to the public; register in advance at bit.ly/3oS7YLq

January 29

Scott Stonington, University of Michigan
The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand
Free and open to the public; register in advance at bit.ly/39sKIiE

February 12

Sean David Christensen, Filmmaker
Film Screening of Ghost Tape #10 followed by a Q&A with the Director
Free and open to the public; register in advance at bit.ly/38nadB7

Thursday, February 18 (7:00-830 PM)

Mark VanLandingham, Tulane University; Cam-Thanh Tran, Tulane University; and Aurora Le, University of Michigan
Film Screening of “A Village Called Versailles” followed by a discussion with Mark VanLandingham, Cam-Thanh Tran, and Aurora Le
Free and open to the public; register in advance at bit.ly/2XVakxD

February 19

Diana Kim, Georgetown University
Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia
Free and open to the public; register in advance at bit.ly/3raW5lZ

March 12

Sylvia Nam, University of California-Irvine
Making Property Out of Air: Experiments in Urban Form in Phnom Penh
Free and open to the public; register in advance at bit.ly/3qqzVLl

March 19

Alexander Cannon, University of Birmingham, UK
Tradition Never Dies: “Lắng nghe,” Active Listening, and Activism in Contemporary Vietnam
Free and open to the public; register in advance at bit.ly/3lzI791

April 2

Daniel Ahlquist, Michigan State University
How Conservation-Induced Sedentarization Undermines Upland Livelihoods & Environments in Northern Thailand
Free and open to the public; register in advance at bit.ly/3q8h5sf

April 16

Hanisah Binte Abdullah Sani, University of Michigan
Stemming the Nationalist Tide: Imperial Control and the Protection of Traditional Islam in British Malaya
Free and open to the public; register in advance at bit.ly/38V5uGZ

October 09

Amanda Flaim, Michigan State University
Drawing Borders in Blood: DNA Testing, Citizenship, and Statelessness Prevention in Thailand

October 23

Ricardo Padron, University of Virginia
The Indies of the Setting Sun: Asia and the Early Modern Spanish Geopolitical Imagination
Free event; please register in advance at: myumi.ch/3qV0m

November 13

Fadzilah Yahaya, National University of Singapore
​Uprooting the Diasporic Histories of Southeast Asia
Free event; please register in advance at: myumi.ch/mnbRl

December 04

Hieu Phung, University of Michigan
What Kind of Ecological Culture Do We Need?: Drought History and Lessons from Premodern Southeast Asia
Free event; please register in advance at: myumi.ch/O4kB0