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[ 6 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 87 | 88 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 123 | 129 | 130 | 150 | 151 |

| 169 | 170 | 189 | 190 | 209 ]

Session 6
Roundtable: Paths to Translation into and out of Asian Languages: Interpreting the Long Way and Learning the Cyber Way - Sponsored by the Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages (COTSEAL)

Session 26
Contemporary Scales and Shapes of Resistance in Rural Southeast Asia
Selective Market Diversification and Resistance amongst the Hmong in Northern Vietnam, Sarah Turner
Advocating Social Change Transnationally: When Civil Society Organization Globalize Local Claims in Southeast Asia, Dominique Caouette
The Closing Windows of Cyberspace Resistance, Francois Fortier
Keeping Tranquility: Unrests and Legitimacy in Rural Vietnam, Tran Thi Thu Trang

Session 27
State and Non-state Actors in the RP-ROK Relations: Tracing Its Roots and Future Prospects
Korea and the Philippines: Expanding the Frontiers of Cooperation (1997-2006), Wennie Berganio
Crossing Borders: Korean Presbyterian and Methodist Missions in the Philippines (1977-2000), Raymond A. Abejo
An Assessment of the Economic Impacts of Korean Tourists in the Philippines: The Korean Community in Clarkfiled, Angeles City, Joyce Ann Dela Cruz
An Assessment of the Economic Impacts of Korean Tourists in Makati City, Philippines, Emie Baylon

Session 28
Social Change, Gender Renegotiation, and Lao Textiles in the Twenty-First Century
Coming of Age: Phuthai Women and Textile Production in Laos, Linda McIntosh
Changing Expressions, Steadfast Merit in the Banners of Northwestern Laos, Rebecca S. Hall
Fashioning the Iu Mien, Sandra Cate
Lao Women Weaving Well-Being: Standing the Test of Time, Kristin Lundberg

Session 46
Roundtable: Looking Behind and Beyond Unrest and Violence in the Malay Muslim South of Thailand

Session 47
Sex and Intimacy in Colonial Southeast Asia
“The Good Being Done to Them”: Women's Rights, Racial Honor, and Globalism in the Re-Framing of Prostitution Policy in the Netherlands East Indies and American Philippines, 1914-1940, Andrew J. Abalahin
Women in the Torrid Zone: José de Vera’s ‘Vida genital de la mujer filipina’, Raquel Reyes
Forbidden Sex: Intermarriage and the Politics of Race and Religion in Colonial Burma, Chie Ikeya

Session 48
Neoliberalism and Its Contested Forms of Knowledge in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Enduring Empire: Neoliberalism and the Historical Politics of Reform in Vietnam, Christina Schwenkel
Bottom's Up to Neoliberalism, Saigon-Style: The Thrill of Consumption and the Trouble with Bottom-Up Ethnography, Erik Harms
Benchmarking Transparency: The Emergence of Audit Culture in Vietnam, Ken MacLean
Counting One’s Way onto the Global Stage: Enumeration, Accountability, and (Reproductive) Success in Contemporary Vietnam, Melissa J. Pashigian

Session 66
The Forgotten Decade: The 1930s in Southeast Asian History
Forgotten Spaces: The Singaporean Kitchen, Nicole T. Tarulevicz
Objectivity, Morality, and Forgetting: The Academic Quest to "Know" Indonesia Today, Jemma Purdey
Forgotten Rebels: Ethnologies of Nostalgia and Peasant Resistance in Colonial Burma (1930-1932), Maitrii Aung-Thwin
The Forgotten Decade: Malaysia in the 1930s, Mark V. Emmanuel

Session 67
The Politics of Access: Evolving Conceptions of "Justice" and "Equity" in Contemporary Vietnam
Brewing Development: From State Forest to Private Coffee, Land Legalization, and Social Marginalization, Giang T. Phan
Whatever Happened to "Comrade"? Teaching and Learning Gendered Citizenship in Post-socialist Vietnam, Kristy Kelly
Sweat Equity: Justice, Interpreted Locally in the Allocation of Forest Land Use Rights in Vietnam, Cari A. Coe

Session 68
You Don't Only Go Around Once: Rebirth and the Recycling of Souls/Selves in Mainland Southeast
Asia Possession and Rebirth in Burma, Benedicte Brac de la Perriere
Kinship beyond Death: Ambiguous Relations and Autonomous Children in Cambodian Buddhism, Erik W. Davis
Continuity and Transformation: Rebirth, Power-Protection, and Community, Nicola Tannenbaum
Coming and Going: The Cycle of Life and Death for Hmong in Thailand, Patricia V. Symonds

Session 87
Postwar Vietnamese Cinema: History, Genre, and the Construction of the Gendered Subject
Bawdy Humor: The Carnivalesque Body and the City
in Contemporary Vietnamese Comedies, Lan P. Duong
Subjectivity in Dang Nhat Minh’s When the Tenth Month Comes: The Rise of the Individual and the Problem of Audience in Modern Vietnamese Film and Culture, Louis A. Schwartz
Magical Socialism: State-Funded Commercial Films in WTO-Partner Vietnam, Kim Worthy
Le Hoang's (Fallen) Angel: Women, Gender, and Power in Bargirls (2003), Street Cinderella (2004) and Thieves of Heart (2005), Tess Do

Session 88
Race and Civilization in Philippine Histories
Opium Fiends, Hardworking Coolies, and Astute Businessmen: Newspaper Representations of the Chinese in the Philippines during the Early American Colonial Period, Richard T. Chu
Ancestors, Civilizations, and History of the Philippines, as Written in the 1880s, Megan C. Thomas
Hottentot Hispanists: Fernando Guerrero’s Cosmopolitan Nationalism, Courtney Johnson

Session 108
The New Terrain of Islamist Activism in Southeast Asia
The Transnational Activism of Hizbut Tahrir, Mohamed Nawab Mohamed Osman
Islam and Netizen Politics in Malaysia: The Emergence of Alternative Discourses of Islamism, Joseph Chinyong Liow
Changing Patterns of Islamic Resurgence in Malaysia, Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid
PKS and the Islamist Dilemma: Electoral Success versus Ideological Purity in Indonesia, Greg Fealy

Session 109
Saigon: Civil Society and the Politics of Contestation, 1920-1975 - Sponsored by the Vietnam Studies Group
Anti-communist and Bourgeois Values in Saigon, 1955-1960, Tuan Hoang
Tran Van Giau and Revolutionary Saigon, Julie Pham
Saigon's Anti-war Movement and Culture of Journalism, 1963-1975, Sophia Whitney Quinn-Judge
1920s Saigon, the Birthplace of a Vietnamese Public Culture of Diversity (Trinh tri da dang), Philippe Peycam

Session 110
Individual Papers: Gender and Religion in Southeast Asia
I Speak in the Third Person: Vietnamese Modernization and the Language of Self in Kha´i Hung’s In the Midst of Spring, Ben Tran
A Comparative Study on Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation in Taiwan and Singapore: Religious Humanism and Syncretism, Cheryl Shiling Tan
The Color of Affects: Embarrassment, Shame, and Indonesian Women’s Skin-Whitening Practices, L. Ayu Saraswati P.
A Foreign Princess in the Siamese "Harem": Princess Dara Rasami and Intersections of Gender Politics, Imperialism, and Nation-Building in 19th-Century Thailand, Leslie A. Woodhouse
Transnationalism and the Use of Privileged Power in the Three Waves of Bhikkhuni Activism in Thailand, Sandra Avila

Session 123
Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis
Southeast Asia in Political Science: Terms of Enlistment, Donald K. Emmerson
The Contributions of Southeast Asian Political Studies, Dan Slater
Civil Society and Close Approximations Thereof, Meredith Weiss
Southeast Asia and the Political Economy of Development, Regina Abrami
The Contributions of Southeast Asian Political Studies, Erik M. Kuhonta

Session 129
Spiritual Landscapes in Southeast Asia: Changing Geographies of Potency and the Sacred
Moving Mountains: Re-enchantment and Christian Identity in a Northern Philippine Congregation, Brian Howell
Static Crosses and Working Spirits: Rituals, Fertility, and the Landscape in West Flores, Catherine Allerton
Religious Conversion and Geographies of Power in Highland Borneo, Matthew Amster
Spirited Places and the Politics of Islamic Ritual in Central Lombok, Indonesia, Kari Telle

Session 130
Buddhism in Burma and Beyond: Religion as a Lens for the Study of Southeast Asia- Sponsored by the Burma Studies Group
The Rise of the Laity and the Origins of Insight Meditation, Erik Braun
Buddhist Tradition and Ritual Excess: Anthropology, Religious Studies, and a Shan Puay Sang Long, Jane M. Ferguson
"Bodawpaya's Madness": Monastic Accounts of King Bodawpaya's Conflict with the Burmese Sangha, Patrick Pranke
Shoes and Shikhos: Buddhism, Rituals, and Boundaries of Religion, Alicia M. Turner

Session 150
The Politics of Syariah in Muslim Southeast Asia - Sponsored by the Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei Group
Islamist Parties and Democracy: The Indonesian Case, Saiful Mujani
Islamist Parties and Democracy: The Indonesian Case, R. William Liddle
The Implementation of Shari’a Laws in Indonesia’s South Sulawesi Province, Michael Buehler
In Whose Interest Is Syariah-nization? Explaining the Institutionalization of Syariah in Contemporary Malaysia, Kikue Hamayotsu
The Making of Islamic Law: Local Politics and Transnational Struggles, Iza Hussin

Session 151
Critiquing Re-studies: Reflections by Authors of Re-studies in Northern Thailand - Sponsored by the Thailand/Laos/Cambodia Group
Transformation of a Rural Northern Thai Society: From Agricultural Village to Suburb, Anchalee Singhanetra-Renard
Moving Subjects: Studying People and Place over Time, Marjorie A. Muecke
Ku Daeng: Thailand’s Most Studied Village, Konrad Kingshill
Stepping in the Same River Twice? Re-studies of a Shan Community in Northern Thailand, Nancy Eberhardt

Session 169
Roundtable: Local versus National Politics in Indonesia: The Evolving Political Landscape at the Local Level - Sponsored by the Indonesia East Timor Studies Committee

Session 170
Scandalous Hypotheses: New Approaches to Studies of the Thai State in the Shadow of the Coup
The Culture of Leadership: Det khat and Its Contribution to State Violence, Thak Chaloemtiarana
The “Sufficiency Economy” as Neo-liberalism: Notes from Thailand, Jim Glassman
Guns and Rumors: Crime News and State Murder, Samson Lim
Violence without Law: Assassination, Chaos, and the Missing State in Thailand, Tyrell C. Haberkorn

Session 189
Spectacles of Identity: Public Marginality in Thailand
Spectacles of Loss and Gain: Queerness in Contemporary Thai Film and Politics, Arninka Fuhrmann
Shan State, Amporn Jirattikorn
Commemoration as Reenacted Spectacle: Forgetting 1970s Thai, Sudarat Musikawong

Session 190
Remembering in a Time of Forgetting: Individual and Community Re-constructions Following the Mass Killings in Indonesia in 1965-66
Nine Brave Hearts Defying the Sun: Collective Memory of the Martyrs of Banyuwangi, Juliana Wijaya
Days of Uncertainty, Nights of Terror: Anti-Communist Violence in Surabaya, 1965-66, Dahlia Gratia Setiyawan
Forty Years of Silence: 1965 and Four Indonesian Families, Robert Lemelson

Session 209
Individual Papers: Center-Periphery Relations in Southeast Asia
Institutional Choices in the Shadow of History: Decentralization in Indonesia, Takeshi Ito
Good Governance or gotong royong? Mediating Eastern and Western Principles in Islamic Party Platform in Indonesia, Mathias Diederich
Rebellion and Reform in Indonesia: Jakarta's Aceh Policy Before and After the Tsunami, Michelle A. Miller
Vietnamese Agricultural Reforms during the Doi Moi Period: Land Reforms 1986-2002, John H. Barnett
Customary Land Claims in Malaysia: Suing the State for Land and Rights, Rusaslina Idrus