SEAP Weekly Newsletter - 04-22-15

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Weekly Announcements
Spring 2015
April 22, 2015
SEAP
SEAP Weekly Lunchtime Lecture Series
APRIL 23, 2015, 12-1:30pm,
Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave, Ithaca, NY
Rebakah Daro Minarchek, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, Cornell University
and Associate Director of the American institute for Indonesian Studies
"Negotiating Customary and Statutory Laws: Indonesian Adat Communities and the
Struggle for Land Rights."
APRIL 30, 2015, 12-1:30pm,
Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave, Ithaca, NY
Gabriel Fauveaud, Post-Doctoral Fellow and Lecturer, University of Montreal, Montreal,
Canada "Phnom Penh : the production of urban spaces in an emerging metropolis"
Check out the full list of speakers for Spring 2015 here.
The spring e-bulletin from SEAP is going to dazzle you
The "unfolding foment and richness of the program" is captured in stories such as Professor
Arnika Furhmann’s feature on the course/study trip “Flux Navigations: Envisioning the
Southeast Asian City” and in articles on Indonesian and Cambodian art by Anissa
Rahadiningtyas and Pamela Corey. New partnerships with community colleges and the Center
for Khmer Studies are highlighted in articles about the new winter session CU in Cambodia
program. And you can get glimpses of the emerging Myanmar Initiative, along with updates on
language programs, Publications, outreach, and more.
Events
Weekly Language Conversation Tables
Indonesian Conversation Hour
Every Thursday, 4:30PM - 5:30pm, Big Red Barn
Topics discussed: Indonesia, SEAP, Cornell relations, Singapore, and immigration
Come join Cornell Indonesian Association in informal casual conversations in Indonesian! This
is a great way for Indonesian language learners to practice with native speakers and learn
more about each other! If you can't find the table with a mini Indonesian flag, text or call Bagas
at: (607) 379-3274. Free coffee, tea, biscuits and snacks! Ngobi, yuk!
Burmese Conversation Hour
Tuesday conversation tables by request
Friday, 11:30am-12:30pm at Physical Sciences Atrium
For more information, contact Hein Tun at: [email protected]
Vietnamese Conversation Hour
Every other Thursday, 4:00pm-5:00pm, Big Red Barn
Next conversation hour: May 7
For more information, contact Yen Vu: [email protected]
Alvin W. Yeo: “Engaged Learning in ICT [information and communications technology]
for Development in Malaysian Borneo: Reflections and Lessons Learnt Employing a
Systemic, Holistic, Interdisciplinary and Participatory (SHIP) Approach”
Date: Friday, April 24, 2015, 12 - 2 pm
Location: Room 423 Mann Library
The State of Vietnam: 40 Years After the Vietnam War
In inauguration of the series, we invite you to join TWO LEADING EXPERTS, Professors Keith
W. Taylor and Fredrik Logevall, who will share their latest research and thoughts on the current
state and future prospects of the VIETNAM HISTORY field.
Date and Time: Wednesday, April 29th, 2015, 12pm
Location: 374 Rockefeller Hall
For more information: [email protected]
Movie Screening: Journey from the Fall
Date: Wednesday, April 29th, 2015, 6 - 9pm
Location: Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave, Ithaca, NY
For more information, contact: Yen Vu ([email protected])
Cornell Gamelan Ensemble
Saturday, May 9, 2:00pm, Barnes Hall
Director: Christopher Miller
Job Opportunities and Funding
Apply Today! Global Environmental Community-Based Research Opportunity, Malaysia!
Interested in community-based research? Want to gain real-world knowledge of global
environmental issues around climate change?
Application Due: Monday, May 4, 2015.
Contact: Professor Shorna Allred at [email protected] or Amy K. Somchanhmavong
at [email protected]
Translator-Interpreter Program
Translator-Interpreter Program (TIP) is a program of the Cornell University Public Service
Center. TIP provides volunteer translators and interpreters to community agencies in
emergency and non-emergency situations.
In particular, volunteers for Thai, Indonesian, Khmer, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Burmese
are needed. If you are interested in becoming a volunteer or you want to learn more about the
program.
Contact: 100 Barnes Hall or email: [email protected].
LOOKING FOR SUMMER WORK EXPERIENCE TO GAIN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE and
COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH SKILLS?
Department of Natural Resources and Public Service Center are looking for dedicated students
that are interested in community-based research and working together with visiting students
and faculty members from Mahidol University, Thailand.
Helpful Resources
International Students and Scholars Office Mailing List
The ISSO has three different electronic mailing lists, each with a distinctly different purpose:
ISSO-NEWS-L requires all current international students to register. The ISSO uses this list to
send students important immigration-related updates and reminders, as well as our monthly
electronic newsletter.
iPrograms-L - Join this e-list if you are interested in receiving announcements specifically
about ISSO trips, programs, and non-immigration services.
International-L - This list has been established by the International Students and Scholars
Office (ISSO) to facilitate communication and camaraderie within the international community
at Cornell.
For more information on how to join the list, please visit:
http://www.isso.cornell.edu/about/interl.php
Beyond Cornell
Events
3rd Global Academic Meeting: "Health, Climate Change and Environment-Global
Societal Challenges"
Location: Manhattan, New York
Date: 17-19 September 2015
Contact: [email protected]
Full Paper Submission Deadline: 1 September, 2015
New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS) 2015
October 16 – 17, 2015 at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
“Global Asia: Social, Cultural, and Political Spaces.”
Deadline for Proposal Submission: May 1, 2015
Groups of Universities for the Advancement of Vietnamese in America (GUAVA)
Workshop
Date: May 15-16, 2015
Location: University of California - Los Angeles
We invite abstracts for a 20-minute presentation on any issues related to researching and
teaching Vietnamese language. Topics of interests are, but not limited to, language structure,
acquisition, teaching, methodology, curriculum, issues on heritage language learners and
identity, and language teaching in the digital age. Submit abstracts to:
[email protected]
Funding and Job Opportunities
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant Competition
Deadline: Tuesday, April 28th, 2015
The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship Program
provides opportunities to doctoral candidates to engage in full-time dissertation research
abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies.
Careers at Pew Research Center
Applicants should send a complete resume, cover letter (indicating where you learned of the
opening) and salary expectations to: Human Resources Department, Pew Research Center
1615 L Street, NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20036. Responses can also be e-mailed to
[email protected].
Institute for Southeast Asian Archaeology Early Career Award
ISEAA announces establishment of a new award of $1000 for early career Southeast Asian
archaeologist. Nominees must have defended their dissertations and received their Ph.D.
degree within the five year period from August 31, 2010 to September 1, 2015. For more
information, please visit http://www.iseaarchaeology.org/award-committee-announcement
Submission Deadline: December 1st, 2015
Asian American International Film Festival 2015: Call for Interns
Are you looking for that summer in the city experience? Asian CineVision (ACV) is seeking
spring and summer interns to help organize the 38th Asian American International Film Festival
(AAIFF) in New York City. AAIFF'15 is scheduled for July 23 - August 1, 2015.
For more information about AAIFF, visit the ACV website or contact
[email protected].
Beyond United States
Call for Papers/Conferences
Chinese Natural Resource Extraction in Southeast Asia: Cooperation or Conflict?
Date: May 25-26th, 2015
Location: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), 30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace,
Singapore
ISEAS will convene a Writers’ Workshop with a view to developing a set of high quality
research papers for joint publication in a relevant peer-reviewed journal and/or an ISEAS book
volume. The main purpose of the Workshop will be for participating writers to discuss and
provide constructive feedback on each other’s paper.
Myanmar (Burma) Update 2015: Making Sense of Conflict
Date: 5-6 June, 2015
Location: Australian National University, Canberra
The Myanmar (Burma) Update conference aims to address the breadth and depth of conflicts
in Myanmar from a range of angles, offering perspectives of people working on the ground and
those studying the country abroad. It presents an opportunity for scholars and practitioners to
draw on their research and work in studying and addressing conflict in Myanmar to probe its
many layers, and consider the means by which conflict might be resolved.
Symposium: "The Emergence of Theravada Buddhism in Cambodia: Southeast Asian
Perspectives"
Date: July 3, 2015
Location: SOAS University of London, England
SOAS will be bringing together scholars from across the region, and across disciplines, to
break new ground on early Cambodian Theravada and, in turn, shed light on mainland
developments as a whole.
1st International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies - Burma/Myanmar in
Transition: Connectivity, Changes and Challenges
Date: July 24-25, 2015
Location: Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Abstracts and panel proposals should be sent by 15 April 2015 to [email protected].
Details of the papers accepted will be announced on 20 May, and the deadline for submission
of full papers is 20 June.
5th Congress of Asian and the Pacific Studies: Transition and margin(s) in
Burma/Myanmar
Date: September 9-11, 2015
Location: Paris, France
Our panel is an invitation to elucidate and to work on this question of margins: territories of
margins at all scales; social groups who undergo fights or claim their marginality; emerging or
declining cultural and religious practices, etc. Our panel aims to take a view as large and
multidisciplinary as possible at this transition including the country's borders so as to grasp the
quick mutations of Burma as best we can.
Fifth International Conference on Lao Studies: Lao PDR in the ASEAN Context
Dates: Friday, July 8, 2016 to Sunday, July 10, 2016
Location: Thammasat University; Bangkok, Thailand
The Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University and the Center for Lao Studies (CLS) are
pleased to announce that the Fifth International Conference on Lao Studies (ICLS V) will be
held from July 8 to 10, 2016 on the Tha Phrachan campus in Bangkok, Thailand. The main
objective of the conference is to promote Lao studies, broadly defined, by providing an
international forum for scholars to present and discuss various aspects of Lao Studies.
Political participation in Asia: Defining and deploying political space
We invite papers from across disciplines, focused on these and related questions in the context
of East, Southeast, and South Asia, for a conference to be held at Stockholm University on 2224 November 2015.
Abstracts are due to Eva Hansson via email, [email protected], by 1 June 2015.
Decisions on acceptance will be announced by 1 July 2015. Full papers (6-8,000 words) will
be due by 1 November 2015.
Funding/Fellowship/Job Opportunities
Charles Wallace Trust Visiting Fellowship for Burma
If you would like to apply for the Charles Wallace Trust Visiting Fellowship for Burma please
complete the application form and send it, along with a current copy of your Curriculum Vitae,
to Matthew Kennedy at [email protected] by Friday 10th April 2015.
New Summer Program with ISDSI: Culture and Ecology of Northern Thailand
Date: June 1 to July 10, 2015 (6 weeks)
Summer Course at the Ifugao Archaeological Project
Date: June 15 - August 7, 2015
Location: Philippines
To determine the impacts of Spanish colonialism on Philippine highland populations, the 2015
and 2016 field seasons of the Ifugao Archaeological Project (IAP) focus on the Old Kiyyangan
Village, an abandoned settlement in the town of Kiangan, Ifugao. The field site is a fascinating
part of the Philippines and the field school would appeal to those interested in archaeology, ecology
and agrohistory, health and food, Asian studies, and more.
Deadline: April 18, 2015
Southeast Asia Analyst Vacancy
Allan & Associates is recruiting a postgraduate candidate with expertise on Southeast Asia
seeking a career in the private security sector.
Indonesia Overseas Program
Indonesia Overseas Program provides an intensive semester or academic year overseas
immersion experience in Malang, Indonesia at the Universitas Negeri Malang (University of
Malang). The program is open to undergraduate and graduate students as well as working
professionals.
Rebuilding Civil Society in Cambodia
As a volunteer in Cambodia, you’ll be met with unending warmth, generosity and kindness – a
national character that has endured through decades of brutal civil war and genocide. For more
information, visit http://globalservicecorps.org/site/cambodia-service-learning-programs/
Join GSC in Cambodia for your Service-Learning Semester Program of a Lifetime
In collaboration with the State University of New York (SUNY) and Pāññāsastra University of
Cambodia (PUC), GSC’s 15-credit Cambodia Semester Program focuses on social
development in post-conflict societies, Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Buddhism, and supporting
the Cambodian NGO and civil society. This program combines an intensive three-week
foundations course, nine weeks of field work, and a final three-week Capstone project.
Careers at RECOFTC - The Center for People and Forests
There are a number of positions available in Southeast Asia with RECOFTC - The Center for
People and Forests. For the listing of opportunities, please visit:
http://www.recoftc.org/basic-page/careers.
CGIAR RTB-University Gender Integration Partnership
The CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) invites graduate
students and researchers in the social sciences to conduct gender analysis research on a postharvest cassava project in Vietnam. The agricultural project is titled, "Driving livelihood
improvements through demand-oriented interventions for competitive production and
processing of RTBs."
Contact Catherine (Kayte) Meola at [email protected] for more information.
Southeast Asia Program
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Ithaca, NY 14853
http://seap.einaudi.cornell.edu/