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All events (unless noted) take place on Fridays from 12-1 PM EST at Weiser 110.
Winter 2023
January 20: Jittapim Yamprai, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Register at: https://myumi.ch/P1yWg
Western Cultures as Thailand’s Strategy for Independence
February 3: Realisa Masardi, Universitas Gadjah Mada and University of Michigan
Register at: https://myumi.ch/29V6E
Refugee Youth Agency in Flux: Active and Passive Waiting in Transit Country Indonesia
February 10: Antoni Slodkowski, Reuters News Agency
Register at: https://myumi.ch/G1m9n
Massacre in Myanmar: How two reporters uncovered a Rohingya mass grave—and the price they paid for it.
March 10: Ambeth R. Ocampo, University of Michigan/Ateneo de Manila University
Register at: http://myumi.ch/AwANn
Fruit of the Poisonous Tree: The Marcos Diaries
March 24: Teren Sevea, Harvard Divinity School
Register at: https://myumi.ch/DJdyj
History in Ruins: Keramat and Stories of Singapore Islam
March 31: Ben Tran, Vanderbilt University
Register at: https://myumi.ch/RWDJ6
Reincarnation and Recursivity as Politics of Atmosphere
April 7: Kathrina Daud, Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Register at: https://myumi.ch/84pgZ
From the “Bloody Crown” to space travel: Comparing the social imaginaries of Malay and English language novels in Brunei Darussalam
Fall 2022
September 2: Miriam Stark, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Register at: https://myumi.ch/48Pnn
Living with the Mekong: Archaeological Perspectives and Alternative Futures
Watch the recording here.
September 9: Soksamphoas Im, Center for Khmer Studies
Register at: https://myumi.ch/5W2NA
Welfare Politics in Cambodia: An Examination of the National Ageing Policy 2017-2030
Watch the recording here.
October 4: Adrian de Leon, University of Southern California
Register at: https://myumi.ch/Z6ERZ
The Filipino Subjunctive: A Transpacific Counterhistory of Filipinization
October 21: Jane Ferguson, Australia National University
Register at: https://myumi.ch/xd4pd
Four of the Thirteen Lives Are Stateless: The Cave Rescue, Hollywood Heroism and Ethnonational Traps at the Thai-Burma Border
Watch the recording here.
November 4: Ismail Fajrie Alatas, New York University
Register at: https://myumi.ch/qA48G
Beyond Center and Periphery: Locating Southeast Asia in the Muslim World
December 2: Davorn Sisavath, California State University, Fullerton
Register at: https://myumi.ch/pZ48k