Lecture Series 2021
Spring 2021 Schedule:
January 27, Wednesday, 2:00pm – 3:30pm HST
Roundtable: Markets for Mekong Commodities
Panelists: Ian Baird (Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison); Ben Belton (Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University); Nathan Green (Geography, National University of Singapore); & Patrick Slack (Geography, McGill University, Montreal)
Moderator: Jefferson Fox (East-West Center)
Watch recording of webinar here.
Part of the Mekong, China & Southeast Asian Transitions Series
February 24, Wednesday, 2:00pm – 3:30pm HST
Roundtable: Migration, Mobility and the Mekong
Panelists: Nga Dao (York University); Heather Peters (Ophidian Research Institute;, Phanwin Yokying (East-West Center); & Ore Huiying (Independent Photographer)
Moderator: Amanda Flaim (Michigan State University)
Watch recording of webinar here.
Part of the Mekong, China & Southeast Asian Transitions Series
March 3, Wednesday, 12:00pm – 1:30pm HST
Civilizing the South: Colonialism and Cultural Change in Ancient East/Southeast Asia
Speaker: Erica Brindley (History, Pennsylvania State University), with Wensheng Wang (History, University of Hawai‘i)
Co-sponsored with the University of Hawai‘i‘s Department of History, Center for Chinese Studies and International Cultural Studies Certificate Program
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March 10, Wednesday, 12:00pm – 1:30pm HST
Sinophone Literary Articulations Across the Borderlands
Panelists: Ming-Bao Yue (UH Department of East Asian Languages & Literature); Brian Bernards (U.S.-China Institute, University of Southern California); and E.K. Tan (Department of English, Stony Brook University).
Co-sponsored with the UH Center for Chinese Studies and Dept. of East Asian Languages & Literature; the Department of Asian & Asian American Studies of Stony Brook University; and the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures of the University of Southern California
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April 7, Wednesday, 2:00pm – 3:30pm HST
Roundtable: The Spirits and Spiritual Life of the Mekong
Panelists: ; Andrew Alan Johnson (University of California, Berkeley); Hieu Phung (University of Michigan); Holly High (University of Sydney); Benjamin Beaumann (Universität Heidelberg, Berlin)
Moderator: Courtney Work (National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan)
Part of the Mekong, China & Southeast Asian Transitions Series
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April 22, Thursday, 3:00pm – 4:00pm
An Archaeology of Religious Change: Community Response in 14th-18th Century CE Angkor
Speaker: Heng Piphal (Anthropology Dept. Affiliate, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa)
Co-sponsored with the UH Mānoa Department of Anthropology
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April 28, Wednesday, 2:00pm – 3:30pm HST
Roundtable: Mekong Dams: Debates and the Politics of Evidence
Panelists: Brian Eyler (Stimson Center); Carl Middleton (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok); Pon Souvannaseng (Bentley University); Tarek Ketelsen
Moderator: Sam Beall (China Dialogue, Chatham House, University of Sussex)
Part of the Mekong, China & Southeast Asian Transitions Series
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The Mekong, China & Southeast Asian Transitions Series is made possible through funding from the Henry Luce Foundation and is co-organized by University of Hawai’i-Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawai’i at Manoa-Center for Chinese Studies, East-West Center, Michigan State University-James Madison College and Asian Studies Center, and Chiang Mai University-Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development.