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[ 130 | 147 | 153 | 154 | 178 | 179 | 180 | 203 | 204 | 205 | 221 | 222 ]

Session 6: The Contribution of Pop Culture to Foreign Language and Culture Competency: Examples from Thailand and Cambodia - Sponsored by COTSEAL
Ninjas, Ladyboys, and Seven-word Meter Using Western Pop Culture and Khmer Popular Theater to Teach the Modern Cambodian Novel, Frank J. Smith
Thai Pop Songs and Tools to Manage Them for Language and Culture Competency, Theodora H. Bofman
Integrating Pop Culture and Digital Media in Language Learning for Gen-Y, the "Digital Natives", Yuphaphann Hoonchamlong
Thai Comics: Pop Culture Themes for Learner Competency, Payungsak Kaenchan
The Korean Craze among Thai Urban Youth: Thai Culture in Transition, Piyathida Sereebenjapol

Session 7: The Lotus in the Sea of Fire: The Burning Monk Thich Quang Duc
The Roots of Thich Quang Duc’s Self-immolation and Buddhist Movements in the Early 1960s, That Manh Le
The Awakened Flame: A Study of Thich Quang Duc’s Self-immolation Event and his Written Documents, Trian Nguyen
Dia linh sanh nhon kiet, "Extraordinary Places Engender Outstanding People": The Buddhist Heritage of Thich Quang Duc, Elise Anne DeVido
A Terrible Beauty: A Western Buddhist’s Perspective on Quang Duc’s Final Act, Devamitra

Session 8: Individual Papers: South and Southeast Asia in International Context
Why Was Asia So Slow to Negotiate FTAs?, Alisa DiCaprio
Examining ASEAN-Myanmar Relation in the Case of the Creation of the ASEAN Human Rights Commission, Sarinna Areethamsirikul
The Future of Security Relations between the United States and Southeast Asia, William C Thomas
How Can We Be More Productive? A Study of the Garments and Textiles Industry in Bangladesh, Sanchita B. Saxena
Seeking Parity with India: An Explanation of Pakistans US policy, Aparna Pande

Session 28: Life Stories of Women from Burma
From Peguyoma to IT Entrepreneur, Khin Maung Nyo
Ael-Myao: The Story of a Yunnanese Migrant Woman from Burma, Wen-Chin Chang
A Woman of Mediation, Benedicte Brac de la Perriere
Constructing Diasporic Identities in Personal Narratives: A Burmese Migrant Woman in Taiwan, Hsin-chun Lu

Session 29: Islam, Cultural Psychology, and National Cinema in Indonesia: Papers Honoring the Legacies of James Peacock and Karl Heider
Ahead of His Time: James Peacock and the Study of Muslim Subjectivities, Nancy J. Smith-Hefner
Managing the Muslim Heart: Understanding Islamic Psychology in Contemporary Indonesia through the Work of James Peacock and
Karl Heider, James B. Hoesterey
The Making of a Violent Death: Emotions and the Rashomon Effect, M. Cameron Hay-Rollins
Film, Ethnography, Nation: Reflections on the Legacy of Karl Heider, Richard Baxstrom

Session 30: Faith, Family and Nation in the House of Ngô: New Assessments of South Vietnam's Founding Dynasty
Political Pilgrim: Ngô Ðình Thuc, Rome and the Origins of Ngô Family Internationalism, Charles P. Keith
Family, Feminism and Revolution: The Making of Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, Monique B. Demery
Vanguard of the “Personalist Revolution”: Ngô Ðình Diem, Ngô Ðình Nhu and the Rise of the Can Lao Party, Edward G. Miller

Session 54: Monastic Labor: Thinking about the Activities of Monastics in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Theravada Societies
The Politics of Monastic Labor in Thailand, Michael Jerryson
Working for the Revolution, Neglecting the Dhamma? The Ambiguitites of Monastic Labour in Post-revolutionary Lao Buddhism, Patrice Ladwig
Rational or Apotropaic? The Politics of Buddhist Missionizing in Peninsular Malaysia, Jeffrey Samuels
Monastic Labor and Lay Support in a Chinese Theravada Society, Thomas A. Borchert

Session 55: Reconsidering Biographical Representation in Vietnamese History
Narrating Vietnamese Piety: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century European and Vietnamese (Auto)/Biographies of Vietnamese
Catholics, Nhung Tuyet Tran
Loyal Servant, Numinous Deity, National Hero: The Biographical Transformations of Tran Hung Dao, Liam C. Kelley
Pham Dinh Ho and the Vietnamese Biographical Tradition, George Dutton

Session 56: Roundtable: Ten Years of Indonesian Electoral Democracy. Sponsored by the Indonesia and East Timor Studies Committee

Session 79: Truth and Prestige in Southeast Asia: Status, Authority and Knowledge from Indonesia to Vietnam
The Power behind Midwives: Competing Systems of Obstetrical Knowledge In Rural Sumbawa, Indonesia, Vanessa M. Hildebrand
Teach Them No Latin: Curriculum Formation at Batavia Rechtshogeschool 1924, Upik Djalins
Playing by the Numbers: Toba Musical History in a North Sumatran Perspective, Julia Byl
Mining the Indonesian Mass Mediascape: Case Studies in the Production of Television Conventions, Gareth Barkin
The Price of Integration: Constructing Inflation in Vietnam, Allison Truitt

Session 80: The Scholarship of Roxanna Brown and Its Implications for Future Research on the Ceramics, Art, and Trade of Southeast Asia. Sponsored by the Thailand, Laos, Cambodia Studies Group
Roxanna Brown's Scholarship and Southeast Asia in the 15th and 16th Centuries, Robert L. Brown
Ming Gap, Pot Shards and Dating of Temples, Pattaratorn Chirapravati
The Role of Maritime Trade in Ceramic Studies: Recent Evidence from Shipwreck Cargoes in the Java Sea, John Guy
Bringing Ceramics into the Study of Southeast Asia - Where Do We Go from Here?, Louise Cort

Session 81: Adoption in Vietnam, Past and Present - Sponsored by the Vietnam Studies Group
Trading Children in Indochina (1860-1940): Rereading Andre Baudrit’s Betail Humain, Rapt, Vente, Infanticide dans l’Indochine Francaise et dans la Chine du Sud, Nicolas Lainez
Reconceptualizing the Narratives of Vietnamese Birthmothers: Relinquishment, Coping, and Searching, Ling Song
The Lure of Blood: Risking Reproduction, Eschewing Adoption at the Advent of Doi Moi, Harriet M. Phinney
Family Making: Reticence to Adopt among Infertile Women in Vietnam, Melissa J. Pashigian
Normalizing Privilege by Narrating Class Others: Middle-class Accounts of Infant Abandonment and Transnational Adoption, Ann Marie Leshkowich

Session 103: Roundtable: Malaysia's New Politics: From Hegemony to Pluralism? Sponsored by Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei Stueies Group

Session 104: Alternative Histories, Multiple Modernities: Reimagining the Colonial Divide in Burma. Sponsored by the Burma Studies Group
Arakan in the Early Ninetennth Century: From Burmese Subjection to British Exploitation, Jacques P. Leider
Mon Historical Narratives and Local Historigraphical Frameworks, Patrick A. McCormick
What's in the Name? The Evolution of Nomenclature and Scope of Lordship in Indigenous Burmese Discourse, Alexey Kirichenko
Reconsidering Colonial Modernity: Women and the Modernization Debate in Burma, Chie Ikeya
The Intricacies of “Modernity”: The Burmese Economy before, after, and across Colonization, Joerg Schendel

Session 105: The City in Motion: Fluid Dynamics of Culture and Power in Urban Southeast Asia
Power and Motion in the Four Faces: A Colonial Aesthetics of Fluidity in Phnom Penh, Sarah Womack
Cars and Carts: Marketing, Circulation, and Fluidity in Bangkok's CBD, Claudio Sopranzetti
Removing People and Keeping Things Moving in the Demolition and Reconstruction of Vietnamese Cities, Erik L. Harms
Hotels in the Colonial City: Empire, Architecture and Travel, Maurizio Peleggi

Session 128: Beyond Sacred and Secular: Islam and Political Mobilization in Muslim Southeast Asia
Militant Islam, Shari‘a Bylaws and Democracy in Indonesia, Noorhaidi Hasan
Why do Religion-based Movements Fail in Elections in Indonesia? An Analysis of the Preparatory Committee for the Implementation of
Shari’a Law’s Failure in the 2007 Gubernatorial Elections, Michael Buehler
The Political Economy of Islamist Mobilization: Political Ascendancy of PKS in a Democratic Indonesia, Kikue Hamayotsu
Muslim Organizations and Partisan Politics in a Muslim Majority Country: The Case of Indonesia, Eunsook Jung

Session 129: Orality, Culture and Philippine History
An Inquiry into Fascist Predilections: Ways of Distancing from the Past, Florentino Rodao
Feminist Encounters: Life Stories and the Women of the Huk Rebellion in the Philippines, Vina A. Lanzona
"Native Informants": Interviews as Transformative Experiences in the Process of Philippine Field Work, Alfred W. McCoy

Session 130: Individual Papers: Contemporary Issues in Thailand and Laos
Negotiating the Meaning of Gender Equality within Bangkok Marriages, Pilapa Esara
The New City and Its Shadows: Past and Present City Planning, Anxiety and Fear in Northern Thailand, Andrew Johnson
Thai Nationalism and Cinematic Superheroes in the Time of Thaksin, Adam Knee
Agrarian Land Use Transformation in Northern Laos, Yayoi Fujita Lagerqvist
Religious Welfare Activism and State Social Security in Thailand, Manuel Litalien

Session 147: Subnational Governance in Post-Suharto Indonesia - Ten Years after Decentralization
Regional Development in Indonesia: The Soeharto Legacy and Post-1998 Developments, Anne Booth
Local Leaders and Voices in Transition – Subnational Governance in Post-Suharto Indonesia, Christian von Luebke
Decentralization in Comparative Perspective: Subnational Economic Governance in Indonesia and Vietnam, Alasdair Bowie
Subnational Territoriality in Post-Suharto Indonesia, Ehito Kimura

Session 153: Exiles and Identities: Leveraged Marginality on Imperial Frontiers in Indochina and China
Everything Old is New Again: Hardships and Opportunities among "Exiles" in 1960s Xinjiang, Amy P. Kardos
Indochinese Colonial Exiles: Political Deportation, Systems of Surveillance and Mistranslated “Miscreants”, Lorraine M. Paterson
Enemies of the Fatherland: The Politics of Deportation and Repatriation in Colonial Tonkin, 1900–1911, Tracy C. Barrett

Session 154: Food, Markets and Culture in Southeast Asia
You Are What You Eat: The Changing Relationships among Food, Ethnicity, and Identity in Northwestern Thailand, Nicola Tannenbaum
Organic, Artisinal, Fancy, Salty: How Balinese Sea Salt Is Marketed, Packaged, and Understood by Consumers in the US and
Indonesia, Amy E. Singer
Makan – Singapore’s National Pastime: Nation-building and the Construction of a National Food Industry, Janine Chi
Cookbooks and Food Markets in Colonial Vietnam, Erica J. Peters

Session 178: Sources of Solidarity in Open-aggregated Communities
Personnel Morale and Fellowship: Two Diverging Southeast Asian Societal Models, Charles J-H Macdonald
Kinship and the Dialectics of Autonomy and Solidarity among the Bentian of Borneo, Kenneth Sillander
Communal Commiseration and Social Solidarity among the Punan Malinau, Lars Kaskija
Sources of Solidarity and Reputation in Saribas Iban Society, Clifford Sather
Some Challenges to the Egalitarian Ethos: Chewong, Peninsular Malaysia, Signe Howell
Batek Sociality: Personal Autonomy and Group Solidarity in a Hunting and Gathering Society of Malaysia, Kirk M. Endicott

Session 179: Towards an Anatomy of Thailand: Modern Sub-Cultures
"Interbreeding” among Thai Elite Groups, Michelle Tan
The World of Thai Judges: Some Preliminary Thoughts, Duncan J. McCargo
"Khahabodi" as a Thai Socio-political Category, Michael J. Montesano

Session 180: ASEAN/Southeast Asian Literature: Contemporary Trends and Translations
Contemporary Trends in Thai Short Fiction, Suradech Chotiudompant
Indonesian Literature and Translation After 1998, Harry Aveling
Filipino Literature: Contemporary Trends, Marianne Villanueva
Contemporary Trends in Burmese Literature, Jennifer Leehey
Current trends in Vietnamese Literature and Translation, Bac Hoai Tran

Session 203: Southeast Asian Grotesques: Wonder, Curiosity, and Horror in Perceptions of Southeast Asia
From the Netherlands to Java: What is Strange about "Strange Stories"? Ronit Ricci
Return with a Vengeance: The Feminine Grotesque in Indonesian Horror Films, Veronica Kusumaryati
Syncretism, Blasphemy and the Grotesque: Colonial Reactions to the Eclectic Architecture of the Caodai Holy See, Janet Hoskins
Siamese Wonders of the World: Chang and Eng in the Age of Global Celebrity, Richard A. Ruth

Session 204: The Quality of Democracy in Southeast Asia
Shallow Democracies: Inequality in the Philippines and Thailand, Erik M. Kuhonta
Assessing the Quality of Democracy in Indonesia, Paige Johnson Tan
Democratization in a Beleaguered State: Challenges and Prospects for the Philippines, Aries A. Arugay
Oscillating Thailand, Sliding Malaysia, and Democracy's Quality, William F. Case

Session 205: Roundtable: Early Southeast Asian History: The Legacy of O. W. Wolters. Sponsored by the Southeast Asia Council

Session 221: The Arts and National Identity in the Twenty-First Century
Voicing the Nation, Negotiating the Tradition: Popular Music Influences on Traditional Balinese Vocal Styles, Made M. Hood
Eschewing National Cultural Policy: Realizing Multicultural Trajectories for Malaysian Arts, Mohd. Anis Md. Nor
Managing National Identity for the (Performing) Arts in the Philippines, Ricardo D. Trimillos

Session 222: Individual Papers: Culture and Politics in Insular Southeast Asia
This is Wild, Wild East: Crafting Culture and Power in the Balinese Handicrafts and Souvenir Market, Jennifer S. Esperanza
Redefining Womanhood through Male Dance in Malang, East Java: Gender Transgression in Reformation Era Indonesia, Christina Sunardi
Family, State, and Development: A Genealogy of Kekeluargaan (Family-ness) in Twentieth-Century Indonesia, Akiko Sugiyama
Windows of Opportunity: Decentralisation and Conflict Resolution in Aceh and Papua, Michelle A. Miller
Electoral Politics in Post-conflict Maluku: The 2008 Pilkada and Its Implications for Democratization and Reconciliation, Dirk Tomsa
Colonial-Metropolitan Impetus in the Philippine Constitution Making of 1934-1935, Maria Elena P. Rivera-Beckstrom