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SOUTHEAST ASIA SESSIONS

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[ 4 | 5 | 6 | 25 | 26 | 44 | 45 | 65 | 66 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 105 | 106 | 123 | 124 ]

[ 144 | 145 | 161 | 162 | 182 | 183 | 184 | 200 | 201 ]


Session 4: Communicating across Cultures: Southeast Asian Language, Art, and Music in a Global Context (Sponsored by COTSEAL)

Dance Discourse in the Philippines Context, Basilio E. S. Villaruz

Performing Community, Performing Culture: Khmer Music and Dance in a Washington Diaspora, Joanna Pecore

Thai Language in the New Age and Technology, Yuphaphann Hoonchamlong

Preserving Old Memories through Painting with Contemporary Techniques: The Case of Lao Painting in the U.S., Kingsavanh Pathammavong


Session 5: Women, Gender, and Islamization in Muslim Southeast Asia

Women and Islamization: Combating the Forces of Globalization, Nelly Van Doorn-Harder

Islamic Fundamentalism and Its Impact on Women: A Case Study from Indonesia’s Regions, Lily Zakiyah Munir

The New Romance: Courtship and Marriage among Muslim Javanese, Nancy Smith-Hefner

Islamic Courts, Modernity, and Civil Society in Malaysia, Michael Peletz


Session 6: Individual Papers: Spirits, Charisma, and Exchange in Southeast Asia

Spiritual Parents of the Viet, Hien Thi Nguyen

Giving and Keeping: Commodity, Value, and Power in Burmese Society, Naoko Kumada

Spirit Mediumship and the Symbolic Construction of Self and Society in Modern Vietnam, Kirsten W. Endres

Globalizing Prosperity: The El Shaddai Movement of the Philippines, Katharine L. Wiegele


Session 25: Female Desires in Movement: Longings, Acts, and Policies in Contemporary Vietnam

Between Memory and Desire: Gender, State, and Market in Doi Moi Viet Nam, Jayne Werner

Desiring to Forget the Past and Move into the Future: Females and Wars in Rural Vietnam, Helle Rydstrom

Longing for Elsewhere: Workers and Class Femininities in Vietnam and the Diaspora, Thu-huong Nguyen-vo

Spatializing Desire: Womanhood between Policy and Practice in Public Space, Lisa B. W. Drummond


Session 26: Individual Papers: Refiguring Indonesian History and Society

Happy Birthday Bung Karno: A Musical Gift, Jennifer H. Munger

Toward Re-inventing Indonesian Nationalist Historiography: A Critical Reflection on the Ongoing "Silent Revolution" in Indonesian Historiography, Rommel A. Curaming

Released Pages and Rupiah Bills: Sisingamangaradja XII in Indonesian History, Julia Byl

New Patterns of Political Life in Post-Soeharto Indonesia: Money Politics and Political Vigilantism in Yogyakarta, Nankyung Choi

Unwelcome Guests: Tension, Strife, and Ethnic Conflict between Locals and Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, Christopher R. Duncan

The Politics of Gender and Democratic Participation in Indonesia, Etin Anwar


Session 44: Global Temp Work: Overseas Contract Labor in and from Southeast Asia (Sponsored by the Southeast Asia Council)

The Migrant Anthropos in Asia Aihwa Ong

Shifting Gender in the Family: The Effects of Overseas Contract Work on Filipino Migrant Families, Rhacel Parennas

Bringing into the House a Stranger Far More Foreign: Human Rights and the Global Traffic in Domestic Labor, Pheng Cheah

How to Hire Filipinos: The Philippine State and the Global Production of Filipino Migrant Workers, Robyn M. Rodriguez


Session 45: De-mystifying the Woman: Gender in Vietnamese History and Historiography

Sex in the Village: Local Authority and the Regulation of Women’s Sexuality in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century An Nam, Nhung Tuyet Tran

That Other Vietnamese Woman: Doan Thi Diem and the Truyen Ky Tan Pha, Liam C. Kelley

Vietnamese Women in the Marketplace: A Historical Overview, George Dutton

Woman as Wholesome National Culture: Configurations of Desire and Identity in "The Western Vietnamese," Wynn Wilcox


Session 65: Towards a New Understanding of "Chinese" and "Filipino" Identities

Chinese Merchant-Elites and the Making of Chinese Identity in Late Colonial Manila, Andrew R. Wilson

Ambiguous Selves, Shifting Identities, and Multiple Loyalties: The Case of the Chinese and Mestizos in Late-Nineteenth-Century Manila, Richard T. Chu

Making Sense of Present-Day Chinese and Chinese Mestizo Identities, Irene C. Limpe


Session 66: Ways of Dying, Ways of Living: Life, Death, and Morality in Mainland Southeast Asia

Consequences of "Good" and "Bad" Deaths among the Hmong: Showing the Way Back to the Ancestors, Patricia V. Symonds

"Bathed in Blood": Karma, Power-Protection, and Death, Nicola Tannenbaum

The Prostitute Whose Fate Expired: Media, Morality, and Society in Thailand, Hjorleifur R. Jonsson


Session 85: Literature, Political Ideology, and State Power in Twentieth-Century Vietnam

Hai Van, The Storm, and Vietnamese Communism in the Interwar Imagination, Peter Zinoman

Revolutionary Deconstructions of Colonial Cultural Narratives in Early Twentieth-Century Viet Nam, Judith A. N. Henchy

Spy Fiction and Southern Vietnamese Identity: The Case of Z–28, Cam N. Nguyen

Hundred Flowers in North Vietnam, 1955–1957, Heinz Schutte


Session 86: The Role of Media in the Construction and Contestation of an Indonesian Islamic Public Sphere

Ushering in a New Generation: Islamic Book Publishing and the Islamic Public Sphere in Indonesia, Putut Widjanarko

Fifteen Quranic Proofs That Soeharto Will Go to Hell, Mark R. Woodward

Islamic Media and Contention over Indonesia’s Islamic Public Sphere, Rick Kraince

The Place of Bumper Stickers in the (Attemped) Creation and Maintenance of an Indonesian Islamic Public Sphere, Ronald Lukens-Bull


Session 87: Roundtable: Malaysia in Transition: Reviewing the Mahathir Years


Session 105: New Questions in Philippine Economic History

Refocusing Business: European Entrepreneurs and American Colonialism in the Philippines, 1898–1918, Wigan Salazar

Provisioning Metropolitan Manila as a Set of Issues in Economic History, Daniel F. Doeppers

Crop Loans: The Role of the Philippine National Bank during the American Colonial Period, Yoshiko Nagano

Government Intervention in Philippine Rice Production: Credit Schemes, Price Controls, and Imports, 1900–1980s, Willem Wolters


Session 106: Navigators, Mercenaries, Witnesses: New Histories of Indonesia

Suing for History in Indonesia, Jean Gelman Taylor

Navigating Communities: Distance, Place, and Travel in the Indonesian Archipelago, Eric Tagliacozzo

Fissures of Reformasi: Riot Narratives and the Writing of Indonesian History, Fadjar Thufail

Freeman, Mercenaries, and Nationalists in Indonesia, Loren S. Ryter


Session 123: Rural Collectives and Cooperatives in Vietnam during the 1960s–1980s (Sponsored by the Vietnam Studies Group)

Undercurrents of Resistance: Hydraulics and Collectivization in the Red River Delta, 1960–1980, S. Andrew Smith

We Musn’t Be Too Afraid: Coming to Terms with the Private Sector in Northern Vietnam, 1954–1986, Regina Abrami

The "Team" (Doi) and Us: Social Conflicts during the High Time of Collectivization (1975–1981) in the Red River Delta Chi, Huyen Truong

Dismantling the Collectives while Expanding the Family Farms: Agrarian Politics in Vietnam’s Red River Delta, 1979–1988, Ben Kerkvliet


Session 124: In and Out of Southeast Asia: Local Narratives and the Movement of Precious Goods

Heroes and Heroines of Southeast Asian Silk, Sandra Cate

Tracing Back a Lost Lulik Figure from East Timor, Jill Forshee

Tales of Fashion and Trade: Recontextualizing Secondhand Clothing in the Upland Philippines, B. Lynne Milgram

Plotting and Scheming: Toba Batak Carvers and Their Narratives of Wood, Andrew Causey


Session 144: Communities, Institutions and the Politics of Resource Use in the Philippines

Coastal Resource Management for Whom? Social Differences and the Burdens of Conservation in the Rural Philippines, James F. Eder, Jr

State and Local Conflicts in Philippine Maritime Conservation, Susan D. Russell

Environmental Politics and Wood Fuel Production in the Uplands of Cebu Province, Philippines, Terence Bensel

Institutions, Cultures, and Incentives: Some Examples from Philippine Sugar, Michael Billig


Session 145: Media and History-Making in Indonesia Reformasi

Massa Amok: Representation of Fanatic Muslims and Collective Violence in Indonesian Media, Leena Avonius

Zines and Zones of Desire: Gay Indonesians and the Romance of National Belonging, Tom Boellstorff

Radio Journalism and the Making of History in the Era of Reform, Edwin Jurriens

"Reformasi through Our Eyes": Children as Witnesses of History in Post-Suharto Indonesia, Karen Strassler


Session 161: Islam in Southeast Asia: The Next Generation

Autonomous Islamic (Madrasah) Education in Singapore: Sites of Resistance or the Protection of Islamic Tradition, Suzaina Kadir

The Changing Shape of Islamic Politics in Malaysia, Meredith Weiss

A Plural Society Revisited: Why Muslims Are Misunderstood by Buddhist and Christian Burmese, Kyaw Yin Hlaing

Dakwah and Democracy: The Significance of KAMMI and Partai Keadilan, Elizabeth F. Collins


Session 162: The Social Lives of Vietnam’s Iconic Practices: The Spiritual and Symbolic

The Rise of Female Spirits in Vietnam and the Burdens of Collectivity, History, and Occult Sociality, Philip Kenneth Taylor

Remembering the Source: Affirming Identities in the Icon of a Patron Saint, Michael DiGregorio

The Vietnamese Artist in the Age of Globalization, Nora A. Taylor

Revisiting the Tale of Kieu (Truyen Kieu) in the Vietnamese Diaspora: On the Hermeneutics of Reclaiming the Past in the Present, Van Pham


Session 182: Tradition and Change in Cambodia

Patron-Clientism and Reform in Contemporary Cambodia, Caroline Hughes

Angkor and the Politics of Culture, Penny Edwards

Death, Memory, and Building: The Non-Cremation of a Cambodian Monk, John Marston

The Foreign "Other" and "Khmerness": Violence, Legitimacy, and Power in Cambodian Political Discourse, Alex Hinton


Session 183: Conflict and Unity in Southeast Asian Islam

Abangan and Putihan: The Emergence of Contending Religious Identities in Java, Merle C. Ricklefs

Sufis and Anti-Sufis in the Jawi Public Sphere, Michael Laffan

"The Munafikin Are More Dangerous than Kafirs . . .": The Discursive Shift toward Takfir in PAS Politics from the 1980s to the Present, Farish A. Noor


Session 184: Roundtable: Performing the State: Images of State Power and National Identity in Southeast Asia, Japan, and the Pacific


Session 200: Dynamics and Dimensions of Inter-Religious Contacts in Southeast Asia: Examining Buddhist-Muslim Relations in Thailand

Religious Identity and the Body at Death: Dynamics of Muslim-Buddhist Relations in a Southern Thai Village, Ryoko Nishii

Chinese Fish, Thai Fish, Malay Fish: Inter-Ethnic Relations in Fish Markets in Southern Thailand, Saroja Dorairajoo

Debating Morality and the Nation in Southern Thailand, Alexander Horstmann

Muslim Identity and Nationalism in Thailand, Raymond Scupin


Session 201: Confucianism in Twentieth-Century Vietnam

Confucianism and Its Discontents in Late Colonial Vietnam, Shawn F. McHale

Creating a Confucian Vietnam: Cultural Nationalism, Social Conservatism, and Pseudo-Neo-Neo-Confucianism in the Colonial Period, Sarah Womack

Confucianism and "Confucian Learning" in South Vietnam during the Ðiem Years, 1954–1963, Edward Miller