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CSEAS Faculty:
News
Pheng Cheah gave a paper at an international conference on “Hong Kong Culture: Word and Image” at the University of Hong Kong in December 2007. He was a keynote speaker at the conference, “Postcolonialism and the Hit of the Real” at New York University in March 2008. In June 2008, he gave a lecture and led a master class at the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures at Manchester University as part of their conference on “Multiplicities: World Cinema, Globalised Media and Cosmopolitan Cultures”. Prof. Cheah also presented talks at McGill University in October 2007, at the University of Pennsylvania in April 2008, and at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London in June 2008.
Penny Edwards is the new Chair of the Center for Southeast Asia Studies at UC Berkeley. She joined the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies in January 2007, where she teaches courses on mainland Southeast Asia and on Buddhism. Her book, Cambodge: The Cultivation of a Nation, 1860-1945, was published by the University of Hawaii Press in 2007.
Jeffrey Hadler has authored an article appearing in the Journal of Asian Studies (August 2008) issue: “A Historiography of Violence and the Secular State in Indonesia: Tuanku
Imam Bondjol and the Uses of History”. His book, Muslims and Matriarchs: Cultural Resilience in Indonesia through Jihad and Colonialism, is forthcoming from Cornell University Press.
Aihwa Ong was the co-organizer of the SSRC conference, “Inter-Referencing Asia: Urban Experiments and the Art of Being Global” held in Dubai in February 2008. She gave a talk at the World Bank in Washington D.C. as part of their Social Science and Policy Seminar Series in October 2007, and was a special guest speaker at the University of Heidelberg in May 2008. Prof. Ong is co-editor of the volume, Privatizing China, Socialism from Afar, with Li Zhang (Cornell, 2008). She published the article, “Scales of Exception: Experiments with Knowledge and Sheer Life in Tropical Southeast Asia,” in the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 29 (July 2008). She has a chapter on urban cities in the Globalization Handbook (Vienna, 2008), edited by Andre Gingrich and Sven Hartwig and the chapter, “Please Stay: Pied-a-Terre Subjects in the Megacity,” in Citizenship between Past and Future, edited by E.F. Isin, P. Nyers and B.S. Turner (Routledge, 2008).
Nancy Lee Peluso is co-editor, with Prof. Joseph Nevins (Vassar), of the edited volume, Taking Southeast Asia to Market: Commodities, People and Nature in the Neoliberal Age. The book is drawn from papers presented at the 2005 CSEAS Annual Conference and includes chapters by Anna Tsing, Paul Gellert, Angie Ngoc Tran, Daromir Rudnjckyj, Keith Barney, David Biggs, Tania Li, Ken MacLean, Dorian Fougères, Lesley Potter, Sandra Smeltzer, and Peter Vandergeest.
Peter Zinoman participated in a workshop on Vietnamese biography at Harvard University in May 2008. He will be on sabbatical leave in Vietnam for 2008-2009.
CSEAS Faculty:
Publications
Benjamin Brinner
(Music): The Music of Central Java: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Oxford, 2007)
Pheng Cheah
(Rhetoric): Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and
Human Rights
Penny Edwards (South & Southeast Asian Studies): Cambodge:
The Cultivation of a Nation, 1860-1945 (University of Hawaii Press, 2007)
Jeffrey Hadler (South & Southeast Asian Studies): Muslims and Matriarchs: Cultural Resilience in Indonesia through Jihad and Colonialism (Cornell, 2008)
Aihwa Ong
(Anthropology): Privatizing China, Socialism from Afar, co-editor with Li Zhang (Cornell, 2008); Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty (Duke, 2006)
Dara O'Rourke
(Environmental Science, Policy & Management): Community-Driven
Regulation: Balancing Development and the Environment in Vietnam
(MIT Press, 2003).
Nancy Peluso
(Environmental Science, Policy & Management): Taking Southeast Asia to Market: Commodities, People and Nature in the Neoliberal Age, co-editor with Joseph Nevins (Cornell, 2008)
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