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Ben Brinner is the new chair of UC Berkeley’s Department of Music. His recent book chapter, “Interaction in Gendhing Performance: The Panerusan,” in Virtual Gamelan Graz: Rules - Grammars - Modeling, edited by Gerd Grupe (Shaker Verlag, 2008), derives from Prof. Brinner’s participation in an international symposium on the gamelan held in Graz, Austria, where he was one of three gamelan experts invited from the U.S.
Catherine Ceniza Choy is the organizer of a panel on Filipino/a Diasporas in Historical Perspective for the 2010 annual meeting of the American Historical Association, where she will also present a paper on the Filipina businesswoman Apolonia Dangzalan. Prof. Choy recently published an article on Philippines historian Encarnacion Alzona in Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 3 (Fall 2006), and has an article in press on the life history of Ines Cayaban, a Filipina American public health nurse in Hawaii. The article will appear in Nursing History Review in 2010.
Pheng Cheah is co-editor, with Suzanne Guerlac, of the new book, Derrida and the Time of the Political (Duke, 2009). Prof. Cheah gave the keynote address to the North American Taiwan Studies Association in June 2008; was a presenter at an international conference at Beijing Foreign Studies University in October 2008 and at a special symposium at the University of Bergen in May 2009; gave the 2009 Dunbar Lecture at Millsaps College in March; and was a keynote speaker on the topic “Of Other Worlds To Come” at an international conference hosted by the University of Zurich in September 2009. Prof. Cheah also gave talks at Stanford University in November 2008 and at the University of Hong Kong in July 2009, and was a discussant at UC Berkeley for the conference, “China Transformed: Artscape/Cityscape” in October 2008, and for the Townsend Center for the Humanities lecture by political theorist Wang Hui in April 2009.
Prof. Cheah has a number of articles and book chapters currently in press, including “Female Subjects of Globalization” in Genre et Postcolonialité. Approches transnationales contemporaines (Editions des Archives Contemporaines, forthcoming 2010), edited by Anne-Emmanuelle Berger and Eleni Varikas; “The Material World of Comparison” in a special issue of New Literary History (Fall 2009) edited by Rita Felski and Susan Stanford Friedman; “Global Dreams and Nightmares: The Underside of Hong Kong as a Global City in Fruit Chan's Hollywood, Hong Kong,” in Hong Kong Culture: Word and Image (Hong Kong University Press, forthcoming), edited by Kam Louie; and “Necessary Strangers: Law’s Hospitality in the Age of Global Migration,” in Law and the Stranger (Stanford University Press, forthcoming 2010) edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas and Martha Umphrey.
Penny Edwards was the winner of the Harry J. Benda Prize awarded at the Association of Asian Studies annual meeting in 2009 for her book, Cambodge: The Cultivation of a Nation, 1860-1945 (Hawaii, 2007). The Benda Prize is given annually by the AAS Southeast Asia Council to an outstanding newer scholar for a first book in the field of Southeast Asian Studies. In making the award, the prize committee, which is composed of senior faculty in the field of Southeast Asian Studies, noted:
“… In a narrative that is elegantly crafted and ultimately gripping, Edwards links the colonial world of schools, research institutes, and print culture and of museums, monuments, and tourism to the post-colonial nation-building projects of Sihanouk, Lon Nol, and Pol Pot. In doing so, she brings legibility to highly theorized subjects such as hybridity, authenticity, and nationalism and both complicates and enriches our understanding of the colonial era and its legacies in modern Southeast Asia—demonstrating, as Harry J. Benda did, how rigorous historical scholarship can expose surprising ways in which the past is complicit in the present.”
Prof. Edwards has been invited to give the Morrison Lecture at UC Berkeley in November 2009. This lecture series is sponsored by the UC Berkeley Library and is designed to provide a campus-wide forum for new Berkeley faculty to present their research. Prof. Edwards joined the Berkeley faculty in 2007.
Jeffrey Hadler received tenure in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies in 2009. His book, Muslims and Matriarchs: Cultural Resilience in Indonesia through Jihad and Colonialism (Cornell, 2008), was recently released in paperback by the National University of Singapore Press. Prof. Hadler gave an invited lecture on “Antisemitism, Syncretism, and the Definition of ‘Indonesia’” at a special workshop on Jews in Southeast Asia at the National University of Singapore in June 2009. He also gave an invited lecture at Yale University on “The Roots of Islamic Radicalism in Indonesia” for the Yale Indonesia Forum on Interreligious Relations in Indonesia in April 2009.
Aihwa Ong has been invited by the Anthropological Research Unit of the Austrian Academy of Sciences to give the Eric Wolf Lecture in Vienna this November, where she will give a talk entitled “What Marco Polo Forgot: Asian Art Projects Negotiate the Global.” She is President-elect of the Society for East Asian Anthropologists of the American Anthropological Association, and has also been nominated by the Board on International Scientific Organizations of the National Academies, to serve on the U.S. National Committee for the Pacific Science Association, under the National Research Council. Prof. Ong will be a Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore in spring 2010.
Prof. Ong’s recent publications include three new book chapters: “Intelligent City: From Ethnic Governmentality to Ethnic Evolution,” in The Other Global City (Routledge, 2009), edited by Shail Marayam; “A Bio-Cartography: Maids, Neoslavery, and NGOs” in Migrations & Mobilities (NYU Press, 2009), edited by Seyla Benhabib and Judith Resnik; and “The Human and Ethical Living” in Globalizing the Research Imagination (Routledge, 2008), edited by Jane Kenway and Johannah Fahey.
Nancy Lee Peluso is Society and Environment Division Chair in UC Berkeley’s Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management in the College of Natural Resources. She 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 (Cornell, 2008).
Peter Zinoman was a Fulbright-Hays Senior Scholar while on sabbatical leave in Vietnam in 2008-2009. His new research is focused on intellectual histories in northern Vietnam in the 1950s.
CSEAS Faculty: Recent Publications
Benjamin Brinner (Music) The Music of Central Java: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Oxford, 2007)
Pheng Cheah (Rhetoric): Derrida and the Time of the Political, co-editor with Suzanne Guerlac (Duke, 2009)
Penny Edwards (South & Southeast Asian Studies): Cambodge: The Cultivation of a Nation, 1860-1945 (Hawaii, 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)
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) |
