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SOUTHEAST ASIA SESSIONS

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Session 5. Social Change in the Red River Delta: Results from the Vietnam Longitudinal Survey

Mortality Decline in Northern Vietnam following Independence, M. Giovanna Merli and Jonathan London

From Traditional to Modern Marriage and Mate Selection, Huu Minh Nguyen

Educational Opportunity and Stratification in Socialist Vietnam, Lan Phuong Nguyen

The Impact of Social Origins, Human Capital and Political Capital on Occupational Attainment: A Test of the Market Transition Hypothesis, Kim Korinek


Session 6. Individual Papers: Political Issues in Southeast Asia

State, Appropriation of Cultural Symbols, and Peasant Resistance Movements to the Timber Industry in East and West Kalimantan, Indonesia, Mariko Urano

The Political Economy of Dencentralization in Thailand and the Philippines, Gavin Shatkin

Humour as a Tool of Political Marketing in Reformasi Indonesia: A Case Study of President Wahid’s First Appearance in a Variety Show, Arndt Graf

National Investigations into Human Rights Violations in East Timor: 1999–2001, Kumiko Mizuno


Session 26. Relations of Power, Local-Global Tensions, and Non-Governmental Organizations: Contextualizations from/in Thailand (Sponsored by the Southeast Asia Council)

People Politics in Mediascape: The Assembly of the Poor and Media Contestation in Thailand, Rungrawee Chalermsripinyorat

Operating at the Center and the Margins: Analyzing the Geography of NGOs in Northern Thailand, Vincent J. Del Casino, Jr.

Particularizing NGO Development Practice and Outcomes: A Case from Northern Thailand, LeeRay M. Costa

Time Crunch: The Pull of Multiple Field Sites in the Study of Asian NGOs, Henry D. Delcore


Session 27. Roundtable: Center-Periphery in Burma/Myanmar: The Enduring Minority Dilemma: A Panel in Honor of Professor Emeritus Josef Silverstein (Sponsored by the Burma Studies Group)


Session 28. Individual Papers: Identity Matters in Southeast Asia

Intermarriage, Benefits, and Identity in Melaka, Malaysia, Timothy P. Daniels

On the Historicity of the Vietnamese Goddess Princess Lieu Hanh: A Prostitute or a Saint? Olga Dror

The Problems of Kadazan Cultural Identity: Implications for National Development in Sabah, Malaysia, James F. Ongkili

‘Centre and Periphery’: The Ambiguous Life of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom in Postcolonial Southeast Asia, Marc Askew


Session 42. AAS Presidential Panel: Abortions, Agent Orange, and AIDS: Social Suffering in Vietnam and Thailand

Second Trimester Abortion in Contemporary Vietnam: Social Vulnerability and Moral Responsibility, Tine Gammeltoft

Agent Orange and Narratives of Suffering in Viet Nam, Diane Fox

Suffering, Community, and Self-Governance: HIV/AIDS Self-Help Groups in Northern Thailand, Shigeharu Tanabe


Session 48. Roundtable: Is the Philippines a Democracy, or Not?


Session 67. Roundtable: What is Indonesia?

If you expect to attend this panel, please plan on downloading and reading in advance the brief answers to this question by roundtable members Robert Cribb, Don Emmerson, A. Malik Gismar, Mohamad Ihsan Alief, Lesley McCulloch, and Goenawan Mohamad. These statements, each no more than two pages long, are accessible at http://aparc.stanford.edu/roundtable


Session 68. Crossing Borders, Changing Life: Vietnamese Diaspora in 20th-Century France

World War I and the Developments of Indochinese Colonies in France: A Historical Perspective, Kimloan Hill

Indochinese Soldiers in Europe, 1920–1939, Henri Eckert

Vietnamese Immigrants’ Associations in France: A Tool for Shaping Identity, Marie-Eve Blanc

Strands and Contexts in Vietnamese Identity in the Diaspora: Vietnamese Literature in Libraries and Bookstores in Paris, Dan Duffy


Session 69. Censorship and Culture in Modern Southeast Asia

The Pen, the Press, and Politics: Censorship in Suharto’s Indonesia, John H. McGlynn

Open Secrets, Hidden Meanings: Censorship and Contemporary Literature in Burma, Jennifer Leehey

Denial and Re-Invention: Censorship and Thai Literature, Susan F. Kepner

Violence and Ideology: The Censorship of Literary Arts in Modern Cambodia, Teri Yamada


Session 87. Apakabar 1990–2002: Pluralism on the Internet (Sponsored by the Indonesian Studies Committee)

From the Inside Out: The Public Discourse of Apakabar, Elizabeth Coville

The Economic Crisis of 1997–98, Journalism, and the Internet, Andreas Harsono

The Internet Factor in Indonesia: Was that All? Waruno Mahdi

East Timor, Aceh, and the Cybermedia, Aboeprijadi Santoso

Internet Literature: A Way Out for Wandering Writers, Sobron Aidit


Session 88. Representing Ethnicity in Vietnam

Other Attractions in Vietnam, Hjorleifur R. Jonsson and Nora A. Taylor

Lonely Planet Comes to Sa Pa: Seeing the Hmong Through Others’ Eyes and Their Own, Duong Bich Hanh

French Military and Missionary Ethnography in Upper Tonkin, 1885–1925: A Critical Assessment, Jean Michaud

The Predicament of Local Cultures in the Mekong Delta: Representing Colonialism and Ethnicity, Philip Kenneth Taylor


Session 107. Beyond Ethnicity: Identity and Culture in Contemporary Malaysia and Singapore (Sponsored by the Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei Studies Group)

The Politics of Heritage: New Identities and New Strategies for Social Transformation in Malaysia, Judith Nagata

Strategic Ecumenism or Dialogic Process (?): Boundary Crossing and Hindu Reformism in Malaysia, Andrew Willford

The Impact of Transnational Chinese Media on Chinese Malaysia Identities, Sharon A. Carstens

Operation World: Singaporean and Malaysian Christian Evangelists at the Millennium, Jean E. DeBernardi


Session 108. Learning Southeast Asian Scripts: Problems and Approaches (Sponsored by COTSEAL)

Sight Words and Captured Birds: Multi-Methodologies in the Teaching of Khmer Literacy, Frank Smith

Reading and Writing Thai at Michigan, Montatip Krishnamra

Decoding the Dying: Scholarly Resources for Minority Tai Scripts, John F. Hartmann

Syllable Structure Interference: Persuading Learners of Burmese Not to Read What They See, Justin W. Watkins


Session 109. Locality and Practice: Reinterpreting Vietnamese Christianity (Sponsored by the Vietnam Studies Group)

Reassessing Vietnamese Christianity in the Tay Son Period, 1771–1802, George Dutton

The Bishop and the Prince: A New Look at an Overblown Relationship, Wynn Wilcox

The Outlook of Native Catechists in Jesuit-Led Christian Communities in Vietnam, 1629–1665, Brian Ostrowski


Session 127. (Re)organizing Labor in Globalizing Southeast Asia: Looking Beyond the Trade Union Model

The Squeaky Wheel’s Dilemma: New Forms of Labor Organizing in the Philippines, Steven McKay

The Place of NGOs in the Organized Labor Movements of Indonesia and Malaysia, Michele T. Ford

Cambodia: At the Edge of the Global Economy, Bama Athreya

Transnational Labor Activism Before and After Suharto, Teri L. Caraway


Session 128. Ethnic Dynamics and Policies in Vietnam (Sponsored by the Vietnam Studies Group)

Pan-Colonial Roots of Ethnic Balancing in the Colonial Army of Indochina, Sarah Womack

Ethnic Counting: Growth, Distribution and Change Among Vietnam’s Ethnic Populations Since 1979, Daniel Goodkind

Becoming Socialist or Becoming Vietnamese: Ethnic Minorities in the Doi Moi Period in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Pamela McElwee

Changing Land Rights and Land Use Histories: The Role of Forests in Ethnic Communities in Dak Lak Province, Central Highlands, Huu Nghi Tran


Session 129. Transgender Practices in Southeast Asia in Comparative Historical Perspective

Gender Pluralism, Transgender Practices, and the Long Dureé in Indonesia and Malaysia, Michael Peletz

Amazons, Female Nakleng, and Other Gender Nonconformists in Siam’s History, Tamara Loos

An Unremarkable History: Transgendered Females in Colonial and Post-Colonial Indonesia, Evelyn Blackwood

A Queer History? Bakla and the Quest for Modernity, Martin F. Manalansan IV


Session 149. Aspects of Warfare in Premodern Southeast Asia

Precolonial Indigenous Warfare: Alternative Readings of the Burmese Chronicle Accounts, Michael W. Charney

Juan de Salcedo Joins the Native Game of Raiding, "Pangangayao," Felice Noelle Rodriguez

Warfare in Early Modern Amboina (Maluku), Gerrit Knaap


Session 150. Possible Publics, Old, New, and Never Happened: Questions of Mediation in Indonesia

Public Speaking: On Indonesian as the Language of the Nation, Webb Keane

Media and Sounding Native in Banyuwangi, Ben Arps

Documentary Acts and Documentary Fetishes: Invoking Participatory Futures in Reformasi Indonesia , Karen Strassler

Media of Violence in War-Torn Maluku (Indonesia), Patricia Spyer


Session 172. Islam in Southeast Asia: Changing Contexts and Configurations (Sponsored by the Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei Study Group)

Transition or Breakdown? Islam and Stalled Democracy in Indonesia, Robert William Hefner

NU and Civil Society: A Discourse of Opposition or Expedience? Robin Bush

Political Islam in Malaysia: Perceptions and Realities, Patricia Martinez

Crafting Selves: Minority Muslims and Islam in Modern, Secular Singapore, Hussin Mutalib

Contested Visions of an Islamic State in the Southern Philippines, Vivienne S. M. Angeles


Session 173. The Vietnamese Body: Memory, Myth, and Geo-Politics in Viet Nam and the Diaspora

Incorporated Warfare Memories and Sexuality: Vietnamese Adolescents’ Construction of Identities, Helle Rydstrom

State Mythical Projection of Embodied Womanhoods: Mother-Daughter-in-Law Relations in the Red River Delta in Viet Nam, Jayne Werner

Class Geographies: Vietnamese Garment Workers’ Consumption of Body Products, Thu-huong Nguyen-vo

The Geo-Politics of Bodies: Defining East and West on the Aberrant Bodies of the Vietnamese Diaspora, Allaine Cerwonka


Session 193. "We Knew You Would Come Back": A Celebration of May Ebihara’s Ethnographic Work in Cambodia, 1959–1996

She Knew My Parents and She Knew Me in the Time Before: May Ebihara and the People of Svay, Judy Ledgerwood

Peasant Culture and the Khmer Rouge: A View from the Work of May Ebihara, Alex Hinton

Gender and Revolution: A Reflection on the Work of May Ebihara, Kate Frieson

May Ebihara and Village-Level Social Organization, John Marston


Session 194. Looking Toward the Future: Education in Indonesia

Styles of Learning and Teaching in Kindergartens in West Sumatra and South Carolina, Karl G. Heider

Negotiating Modernity and Tradition in Pesantren Education, Ronald Lukens-Bull

Re-Shaping NU Gender Discourse by Re-reading the Holy Texts, Nelly Van Doorn-Harder

Islam and Democratization in Indonesia: The Instutionalization of Civic Education in Islamic Universities, Richard G. Kraince


Session 212. Communication and Control: The Impact of New Information Technologies in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia’s Information Technology Policies: Stressing Technology while Downplaying Information, Drew McDaniel

Information Warfare: New Information Technologies and the Burmese Response, Lisa Brooten

Democratization and Freedom of Information in the Transition to Civil Society in Thailand, Busakorn Suriyasarn

The Knowledge Economy and the Impact of the Net on Politics in Southeast Asia, Shyam Tekwani


Session 213. Foreign Military Transfers in Mainland Southeast Asian Wars: Adaptations and Rejections

Transfer of Military Technology from Ming China to Northern Mainland Southeast Asia (c. 1390s–1526), Laichen Sun

Military Technology Transfers from Europe to Lower Mainland Southeast Asia (c. 16th–19th Centuries), Frédéric Mantienne

The Asian Context of Mainland Military Science: Japanese, Chinese, and Vietnamese Military Transfers during the Vietnamese Resistance to the French, Christopher E. Goscha