Events and Programs

CSEAS offers an average of 3-4 events weekly, from formal lectures and performing arts events to informal language discussion groups and community gatherings.

A full list of current events and an archive of all events back to 2001 can be found here.

Highlights from Fall 2006 events include:

Friday-at-Noon Lecture Series:

Friday, September 15
Christian truth in a Javanese classic
Bernard Arps
Chair, Dept. of Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania, Leiden University
Netherlands Visiting Professor, University of Michigan
Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies

Friday, September 22
Frontier Monks and the Royal Center: the Role of Buddhist Literati and Regionalism in the Reshaping of Pre-colonial Burma
Michael Charney
Department of History, University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies
Co-sponsored by the Department of History

Friday, September 29
Authenticity in the Age of Global Markets: The Case of Thai Handicrafts
Frederick Wherry
Department of Sociology, University of Michigan

Friday, October 6
Reports from the Field: Undergraduate Research Symposium
CSEAS Undergraduate Research Fellows

Friday, October 27
Both Symptom and Salve: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Lipa, the Philippines (1948-present)
Deirdre de la Cruz
Post-doctoral Scholar, Michigan Society of Fellows

Friday, November 3
Who Was Rama in Siam?
Forrest McGill
Chief Curator & Wattis Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art History

Friday, December 1
Muslim Communities in Cambodia
Anna Gade, Department of Religion, Oberlin College

Thursday Evening Introduction to Southeast Asia Series

September
14        Carla Sinopoli, Archeology: A Hands-on Approach (Ruthven Museum Building)
21        Michael Charney, Pre-modern History: Competing Approaches
28        John Whitmore, Nationalist Histories: How to Get Away From them – Regions, Elites, Literatis in Vietnam

October
5          Linda Lim, Economic Development: Are There Any Lessons?
12        Allen Hicken, Political Science: Thaksinization and the Future of Thai Democracy
19        Pat Pranke, Deirdre de la Cruz, Bernard Arps: Religion in Southeast Asia Round Table
26        Rudolf Mrázek, Modern History: Some Problems of Writing in Indonesia

November
2          Forrest McGill, Art History
9          Webb Keane, Anthropology; Frederick Wherry, Sociology: Alleys, Hangouts and the Backcountry
16        Bernard Arps, Language and Literature: Language, Media, and Locality: Recent Developments in Indonesia
30        Gavin Shatkin, Urban Planning; Arun Agrawal, Natural Resources: Privatization and the Public Sector

December
7          Christi-Anne Castro, Ethnomusicology: Music and the Cosmopolitan Native in the Philippines

Asian Film Friday Series

Recent Asian films on youth and youth culture.
Beginning at noon, 1636 SSWB/International Institute
October 13 and 20 (China and Japan)
November 10 and 17 (South Asia. 17th: CSEAS film. Ada Apa Dengan Cinta?)
December 8 (Korea)

Monthly Indonesian Potlucks and Philippine Study Group meetings.