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SOUTHEAST ASIA SESSIONS

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[ 6 | 7 | 26 | 27 | 46 | 47 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 87 | 88 | 105 | 106 | 125 | 126 | 127 ]

[ 145 | 146 | 165 | 166 | 185 | 186 | 205 | 206 ]


Session 6: Poetry as a Window on History and Change in Southeast Asia: Sponsored by COTSEAL

Filipinas in the Margin: Metaphorizing Women in Diaspora, Ruth Mabanglo

Recording Motion and Emotion: Poetry as History, Chiranan Prasertkul

Contemporary Vietnamese Poetry: On the Path of Transformation, Khe Iem

Trinh Công Sõn: A Songwriter and a Poet, John C. Schafer


Session 7: Individual Papers: Performance and the Politics of Representation in Southeast Asia

When the Civet Cat Catches the Rooster: Torajan Poetics and Politics, Stanislaus Sandarupa

The Four Names of a Javanese Diva: Remembering Nyi Tjondroloekito, Nancy I. Cooper

Peranakan Musical Cultures in Singapore, Tong Soon Lee

Images of Ethnic Chinese in Malaysia: A Study on History Textbooks of the Independent Chinese School, 1975–95, Chih Hsien Lee

On Display: Filipino Nationhood and Encounters with the "Native Other", Benito M. Vergara, Jr


Session 26: Crossing and Constructing Borders in Arabic: Under-Explored Sources for Indonesian Cultural History

Tracings of Southeast Asian History in Texts of Tabaqât Literature, Michael Feener

Arabic as a Vehicle for Domestication and Liberation of Indonesian Muslim Women, Nelly Van Doorn-Harder

Self and Other: Identity Construction in an Arabic-Language Indonesian Novel, Ulrike Freitag

Redefining Jawa: Shifting Arabic Understandings of Southeast Asia, Michael Laffan


Session 27: Perspectives on Indigenous Warfare: Collective Violence and Identity in Island Southeast Asia

Indigenous Warfare? How Media, Transnational Religious Networks, and Global Markets in Chocolate and Ebony Touched the Conflict in Poso, Indonesia, Lorraine V. Aragon

A Carnival of Crime: The Enigma of the Abu Sayyaf, Christopher Collier

Ethnic Riots and Ethnic Cleansing: Anti-Madurese Violence in West and Central Kalimantan, Jamie Davidson

Blood Brothers and the Enemies of God: The Impact of Early Christian Missions on Lumad Warfare and Identity in Mindanao, Oona Thommes Paredes


Session 46: Roundtable: What Became of Southeast Asia’s Liberal Moment?


Session 47: Youth and Sexuality in Southeast Asia

The Social Demography of Urban Youth in Southeast Asia Peter Xenos

Youth, Gender, and Sexuality in Malaysia: The Pink Triangle and the Struggle for Sexual Equality, Michael Peletz

More Sex in the City: Muslim Youth, Sexuality, and Moral Panic in Yogyakarta, Nancy J. Smith-Hefner

Strength of the Nation? Disciplining Female Youth and Sexuality in a Northern Thai NGO, LeeRay M. Costa


Session 67: Autonomous Histories in South Vietnam’s Republican Era: 1955–1975

Engineering Peace in the Countryside: The Rise and Fall of Land Development Projects, 1954–1960, David A. Biggs

My versus Diem: American and Vietnamese Approaches to Nation Building and Administrative Reform in South Vietnam, 1955–1963, Edward G. Miller

Saigon Diplomacy, 1968–1973 Lien-Hang, Thi Nguyen


Session 68: Trees Falling in the Forest: Theme, Tradition, and Audience in Modern Khmer Literature

Engraving Angkor: The Narration of the National Icon in Traditional and Modern Khmer Literature, Klairung Amratisha

Social Criticism in Modern Cambodian Literature: The Case of Kong Bun Chhoeurn, George Chigas

Khmer Poetry in the 2000s: Barriers to New Beginnings, Yin Luoth

Cambodia’s Culture of Song: Contemporary Lyrics and Audience, Teri Shaffer Yamada


Session 69: Islam and Popular Culture in Post-Soeharto Indonesia

Socializing Conspicuous Piety: "Love the Prophet" Videos for Indonesian Children, Benjamin G. Zimmer

Bodies That Drill: Dangdut and Islam in Indonesia, Andrew Weintraub

Gaul Tapi Islami: The Rise of Popular Islamic Youth Literature, Putut Widjanarko

Islam for the Holidays: The Shifting Roles of Religion on Indonesian Television, Gareth Barkin


Session 87: Muslim Experience in Contemporary Southeast Asia

From Karachi to Kuala Lumpur: Charting Sufi Identity across the Indian Ocean, Robert Rozehnal

Qur’anic Education and Interiority in Island and Mainland Southeast Asia, Anna M. Gade

Dzikir and the Acehnese Dead, Kenneth M. George

Esoteric Knowledge and the Indonesian Economic Crisis, Mark R. Woodward


Session 88: Reading Vietnamese Literary, Religious, and Social History through Nôm Texts: Sponsored by the Vietnamese Studies Group

Truong Hong, Truong Hat: Reciprocal Relations between Folk Legends, Cults, and Hagiography Th? An Trân

Re-Representations of Trinh Family Rule through Nôm Poetry, Khac Thuân Ðinh

Feminizing the "Orthodox": Images of Buddhist and Christian Deities in Seventeenth-Century Nôm Texts, Nhung Tuyet Tran

The Account of the Young Woman from Nam Xuong: Literary Texts and the Making of a Cult, Nam Nguyen


Session 105: Roundtable: Culture in Modern Burma: Celebrating the Career of Sarah Bekker: Sponsored by the Burma Studies Group


Session 106: Seeking Peace and Understanding: Indonesian Responses to Violence

Strong and Weak Media? On the Articulation of "Terorisme" in Contemporary Indonesia, Richard Fox

Sweeping the Unquiet Dead: Violence, Surveillance and Ritual Politics in Bali, Leslie K. Dwyer and Degung Santikarma

Cultivating "Community" in an Era of Conflict: Artistic and Expressive Strategies for Producing Peace in Two Indonesian Locales, Kathleen M. Adams

Defending the Peaceful Jihad: Indonesian Islamic Responses to Violence, Ronald Lukens-Bull


Session 125: Contending Alternative Modernities in Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam

Emergent Sexualities and the Search for the Modern in Urban Vietnam, Christophe Robert

Mien Alter-Native Modernity in Thailand, Hjorleifur R. Jonsson

Protecting the Family: Women, Modernity, and "Being Left Behind" in Indonesia, Clarissa Adamson


Session 126: Cultural Biographies of the Morally Suspect Patriot or Apostate? Debating the Life and Writings of General Tran Do Ken MacLean

Alexandre Yersin: A Misanthropic Man of the People, Sokhieng Au

Revaluing Morally Suspect Memories and Knowledge in Southern Vietnam’s Tourism Industry, Christina Schwenkel

From Colonial Prison to Minister of Culture: André Malraux, Banteay Srei, and La Voie Royale, Jennifer Foley


Session 127: Southeast Asian Regional Identities: Sponsored by the Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Studies Group

Forging an ASEAN Identity: The Challenge to Construct a Shared Destiny, Michael E. Jones

Post-Indochinese Identities, Vatthana Pholsena

Placing Singapore on the Cognitive Map: Regional and Global Identities, Eric Thompson


Session 145: Roundtable: Indonesia’s Elections: What Should We Expect? Sponsored by the Indonesia and East Timor Studies Committee


Session 146: Globalizing Vietnam: Transnational Work, Gender, and Sexuality

Diversifying Livelihood and Lifestyles under the Impact of Market Integration and Globalization, Irene Norlund

Global Changes and Local Boundaries: Female Sexuality in Rural Vietnam, Helle Rydstrom

Globalization, Work, and Daughters in Vietnam, Kate Pendakis and Danièle Bélanger

Global Assembly and Gender Negotiations: Vietnamese Garment and Vietnamese-American Electronic Workers, Angie Ngoc Tran


Session 165: A New Ethnography of East Timor: Local Cultural Dynamics and Emerging National Processes: Sponsored by the Indonesia and East Timor Studies Committee

Gender Definition and Fertility in Viqueque, David Hicks

Purchasing the Nation: Exchange, Nationalism, and Political Value in East Timor, Elizabeth Traube

Constitutional Ethnography in East Timor, Nancy M. Lutz

Harbouring Traditions in East Timor, Andrew McWilliam


Session 166: Political Learning? Understanding Student Activism in Southeast Asia

Student Activism in Indonesia: The Burden of Purity? Edward Aspinall

Multiple Identities and Collective Action: A Study of the Gradual Weakening of the All Burma Students’ Democratic Front, Kyaw Yin Hlaing

All’s Quiet on the Student Front: Campus Activism and the Political Status Quo in Singapore, Suzaina Kadir

With the People? The Checkered Path of Student Activism in Malaysia, Meredith Weiss


Session 185: Firm and Network in the Study of Southeast Asian Business History

Business Networks in Transition: Penang Trade and Shipping Firms at the Turn of the 20th Century, Wei Leng Loh

Growth and Survival for Generations: The Case of the Ayala Group of the Philippines, 1834–1996, Eric C. Batalla

Dutch and Japanese Encounters with Chinese Commercial Networks in Indonesia, 1920s–1960s: A Comparison, Peter Post

Multinational Enterprise in Provincial Thailand: The Reach of the Singer Organization on the Eve of the Pacific War, Michael J. Montesano


Session 186: The Organized Body: Medical Issues and Organizations in Vietnam and Cambodia

Traditional Vietnamese Medicine, the Viet Minh Medical Corps, and the Development of the National Healthcare System in Vietnam, Michele Thompson

The Pasteur Institutes in Vietnam: A Long History, Annick Guénel

Hospitals for Monks: The History of an Idea in Cambodia, John Marston

Ethno-Medicine and the Development of the Modern Vietnamese State, Jennifer Sowerwine


Session 205: Visions of the Malaysian State: Transnational, Domestic, and Local Perspectives

Nationalization (De-privatization) of Madrasah and Co-optation of Islamic Authority: State Capacity and Battles against (Trans)National Religious "Extremism", Kikue Hamayotsu

The Politics of Equitable Development: State Formation and Social Reforms in Malaysia and Thailand, Erik M. Kuhonta

The State as Client: Government Agencies and External Consultants in Malaysia and Indonesia, Natasha Hamilton-Hart

Living In-Between: Formation of the Thai-Malaysian Borderland from the Chinese Perspective, Kazue Takamura


Session 206: Memory, Identity, and the Cambodian Spirit in Diaspora

Effects of Cultural and Ethnic Identity on Academic Performance and Self-Esteem of Cambodian Adolescents, Phala Chea

Cambodian Deportation, Navin Moul

Refraction of Home: Exile, Memory, and Diasporic Longing, Khatharya Um

Transforming Experiences: How Host Communities Become Home Communities, Linda Silka