ACADEMIC YEAR 2007-2008
Saturday, May 3, 10:00 am & Sunday, May 04, 2008, 1:00 pm
Hosted by Leverett House & Int'l Silat Federation of America
“Indonesian Dance of West Sumatra”
In West Sumatra, Indonesia, the traditional theater, music, arts, dance, and natural healing methods are intimately connected and combined. Join Leverett House and the International Silat Federation of America for an introduction to this unique style of cultural dance. The session will allow participants to try the movements themselves, and will include visual and video displays, as well as some tastes of the region...
Tickets: Free and available at: silatusa@gmail.com or 508-596-0683
Leverett Old Library, Mill St, McKinlock Hall, between Plympton Street and DeWolfe Street, Cambridge
Thursday, May 1, 4:00-6:00 pm
South Asia Initiative
South Asia Seminar
“Tamils and Others in the Bay of Bengal, 1800-1950”
Dr. Sunil Amrith, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London
chaired by Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of History, Harvard University
Dr. Sunil Amrith's research focuses on the connections between modern Indian and Southeast Asian history. His current research is on the history of south Indian migration to Southeast Asia (particularly Burma, Malaysia and Singapore), from the 18th to the 20th centuries. He is interested in Tamil-speaking migrants' circulation across the Bay of Bengal, and particularly in how Tamils' engagement with others—Chinese, Malay, Burmese, and other South Asians—shaped their political ideas and cultural practices. His work also looks at how the changing notions of citizenship and nationality that accompanied decolonization produced very different experiences for Tamils in different parts of the region. He has been awarded a Large Research Grant by the British Academy to support the project, which is entitled ‘Cosmopolitanism and Race in Tamil Southeast Asia'. On a related but broader subject, he is currently writing a general history of Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia for Cambridge University Press.
Dr. Amrith's earlier work was on the history of public health in South and Southeast Asia. His book Decolonizing International Health: India and Southeast Asia, 1930-65 (Palgrave, 2006) examined the role played by ideas about health, in broader debates about the post-colonial order, and looked especially at the role of international organizations as a forum for such debates. He maintains an active research interest in the history of public health, and especially in the history of hunger and nutrition in the rice-eating regions of South and Southeast Asia. In the future, he plans to work on the history of humanitarian thought and practice in the region.
Robinson Hall Lower Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Monday, April 28, 6:30 pm
Harvard University Asia Center
Screening of Kala. Indonesia, 2007. Directed by Joko Anwar
Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Friday, April 18th, 2008, 4:00-6:00 pm
South Asia Initiative
South Asia Seminar
“Threads That Bind: South and South-East Asia”
Sudhir Devare, Former Indian Ambassador to Indonesia and Hema Devare Producer, "Threads That Bind"
Chaired by Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of History, Harvard University
Robinson Hall Lower Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
Thursday, April 17, 2008, 2:30-4:00 pm
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
“Three Writing Systems in the Vietnamese Literary History”
Prof. Nguyen, Quang Hong, Hanoi National University
Translation and slide assistance: Dr. Ngô, Thanh Nhàn, NYU
There are three writing systems that have had sweeping influence on and have contributed to the formation of the literary culture of Vietnam. They are the Classical Chinese script (from the beginning of A.D., and esp. from the 10th century onwards), the Nôm script (the ideo-phonographic script modeling the Classical Chinese characters, from the 11th century onwards), and finally the Romanized script (the Latin phonemic script, from the 17th century onwards). The Classical Chinese, Nôm, and Romanized scripts are different in their appearance and use in history; different in script type and script characteristics, and play different roles in the national culture of Vietnam. They also complement each other in their function in the Vietnamese society. Not only the modern Romanized, but also the traditional Classical Chinese and Nôm scripts, are present at different shades in the spiritual life of the Vietnamese.
CGIS S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, April 16, Thursday, April 17, and Friday, April 18, 2008, 4:00 pm
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Harvard Project on Asian and International Relations (HPAIR)
Reischauer Lectures
“Population in the Rise of Global China and Vietnam”
Susan Greenhalgh, Professor of Anthropology, University of California Irvine
Wednesday, April 16
“From Quantity to Quality: Population Governance in China and Vietnam”
Chair: Martin Whyte, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University and Acting Director, Fairbank Center
Discussant: Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Professor of History, Harvard University
CGIS South Building, Room S020, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, April 17
“Transforming Society: Making Global Persons and Families”
Chair: Rubie Watson, Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
Discussant: Daniele Belanger, Professor of Sociology, University of Western Ontario
CGIS South Building, Room S020, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Friday, April 18
“Vital Politics: Remaking Party, State, and Nation”
Chair: James Watson, Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
Discussant: Tony Saich, Kennedy School of Government, and Director, Harvard University Asia Center
CGIS South Building, Room S020, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Friday, April 11, 2008, 4:00-6:00 pm
Southeast Asia Seminar
"The EFEO, Angkor, and the Official Construction of Cultural Knowledge in Cambodia"
Philippe Peycam, Director, Center for Khmer Studies, Siem Reap, Cambodia
CGIS South, Room 040, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
January 9, 2008, 8:00 pm-2:00 am
"Harvard's First Gamelanathan"
Dont miss a one of a kind opportunity to learn what gamelan is and how to play in a gamelan ensemble, eat delicious food, and take a study break!
NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED! What is a gamelan?A gamelan is an orchestra of metallophones, xylophones, drums, and gongs, flutes, bowed and plucked strings, and vocalists, originating in the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali. There are now over twenty other countries that have gamelan instruments with nearly 100 active groups in North America alone.Harvard's first gamelan is a large set of instruments built by the American composer Lou Harrison. His close colleague and teacher, Jody Diamond, an Artist-in-Residence in the Harvard Music Department, will be on hand to offer instruction in the instruments, as well as an introduction to Harrison's work.
Basement of SOCH (Hilles) in the Gamelan room across from the cinema
Wednesday, December 12,2007, 5:00 pm
“Venturing into "Barbarous" Regions: Trans-border Trade among Migrant Yunnanese between Thailand and Burma, 1960s – 1980s”
Wen-Chin Chang, Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Visiting Scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, 2007-8
CGIS South, Room S-153
Friday, December 7, 2007, 12:30 pm
"Panel Presentation: Revisiting the Aceh Peace Process"
Byron Good, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Mary Steedly, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
CGIS South Building, Room S050, 1730 Cambridge St.
Friday, November 16, 2007, 12:30 pm
Harvard University Asia Center Modern Asia Series
“China and Vietnam: Scope and Limitations of Reform”
The Honorable Börje Ljunggren, Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; former Swedish Ambassador to China (2002-2006); former Swedish Ambassador to Vietnam (1994-1997)
CGIS South Building, Room S153, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge
For more information, contact (617) 496-6273
Tuesday, November 6, 2007, 5:30-6:30 pm
“Vietnam: Dragon Rising”
Nguyen Anh Tuan, Chairman of VietnamNet Media Group
Room 202, Hawes, Harvard Business School
October 25, 2007 4:15-6:30pm
Film on Reconciliation: Facing the Truth
Film of encounters between victims and former perpetrators of the Northern Ireland violence, facilitated by Bishop Desmond Tutu and Donna Hicks. Discussion led by Donna Hicks
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street
October 24, 2007 4:15-6:30 pm
Public Screening and Discussion of the 1999 Documentary Film about Tiro, Aceh: Village Goat Takes the Beating,
by Aryo Danusiri
Moderated by Prof. Byron Good, Harvard Medical School
Commentators: Aguswandi, Aceh Peace Resource Center
Prof. Mary Steedly, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
Mr. Meidyatama Suryodiningrat, Managing Editor, Jakarta Post,
and Fellow, Weatherhead Center, Harvard University
Prof. Jay Rosengard, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
October 24-25, 2007
"The Peace Process in Aceh: The Remainders of Violence and the Future of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Visualizing Pre- and Post-Conflict Aceh"
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street
Thursday, October 4, 2007, 4:30- 6:00 pm
Southeast Asia Workshop Series
"The Crown Property Bureau in Thailand"
Porphant Ouyyanont, Department of Economics, Sukhothai University
CGIS South S153, 1730 Cambridge Street
Monday, October 1, 2007, 4:15 pm
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum, Humanities Center and the Asia Center
"Bringing Together Intuition and Law: Linguistic Relevance and Moral Creativity in Theravada Buddhist Ethics"
Charles Hallisey, Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Studies, Harvard Divinity School
Barker Center 133
Friday, September 14, 2007, 12:00-2:00 pm
Co-sponsored by the WCFIA Seminar on Southeast Asian International Affairs, the Olin Institute, and the Asia Center
WCFIA–Rajaratnam School of International Studies Seminar on Southeast Asia International Affairs
"The Role of Nuclear Weapons in Asia in the 21st Century"
Dr. Muthiah Alagappa, Distinguished Senior Fellow, East-West Center
1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS S153
Thursday, April 19, 2007, 7:00-8:30 pm
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions
World Religions Cafe Series
"Christian Prayer Practice in Indonesian Urban Context: Toward an Anthropology of Christianity"
Kimura Toshiaki, Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute; Professor of the History of Religion, Tohoku University, Japan
Center for the Study of World Religions, 42 Francis Ave., Common Room
Thursday, April 12, 2007, 4:00-6:30 pm
Sponsored by the Harvard Provost's Fund for Art and Culture, the Harvard Department of English and American Literature and Language, the Harvard Foundation, and the Harvard Graduate Program in the History of American Civilization
"Perfume Dreams, Elevator/Sex, Dust and Conscience: Three Vietnamese American Writers"
Andrew Lam, Writer
Lan Tran, Performer
Truong Tran, Poet
Moderators:
Werner Sollors, Professor of English Literature, Harvard University
Gish Jen, Writer
Reception to follow the reading
Boylston Hall, Ticknor Lounge
Tuesday, April 3, 2007, 2:30-4:00 pm
Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies and the Child Advocacy Program
"Parental Authority in the Modernizing Asian Family: Adolescent Reproductive Rights in the Philippines "
Elizabeth Aguiling-Pangalangan (Associate Professor, College of Law , University of the Philippines ; EALS Research Fellow)
HLS, Pound Hall, Room 419
Friday, March 9, 2007, 4:00 pm
Sponsored by the Fairbank Center
Fairbank Center Director's Seminar
"The Legacies of Danger: Varieties of Socialism and its Consequences for Private Sector Development in Vietnam and China"
Regina Abrami, Harvard Business School
1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS S153
Friday, March 9, 2007, 12:30 pm
Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center
Modern Asia Seminar Series
"The Course of Avian Flu in Indonesia : Implications and Possibilities"
Professor James Fox, Visiting Professor of Australian Studies, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University ; Professor, Resource Management in the Asia-Pacific Program, Australian National University
1730 Cambridge Street , CGIS S050
Thursday, February 15, 2007, 7:00 pm
Sponsored by Porter Square Books
"Fourth Uncle in the Mountain: The Remarkable Legacy of a Buddhist Itinerant Doctor in Vietnam"
Documentary Slide Show with Marjorie Pivar, Coauthor
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge
Tuesday, February 13, 2007, 5:00-6:30 pm
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions and the Harvard Buddhist Community
"Two Cheers for the Ego"
Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Theravada Monk, Thai Forest Tradition; Abbot, Metta Forest Monastery
42 Francis Ave., Common Room
ACADEMIC YEAR 2006-2007
Monday, December 18, 2006, 4:15 pm
Sponsored by Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum
Harvard Buddhist Studies Lecture
"Battling Ghosts in the Buddha's Armor: National Protection, the Production of Nostalgia, and the Undead in Bangkok"
Justin McDaniel, UC-Riverside
Barker Center, Room 133
Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 4:15 pm
Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center
"Toxic Art & Political Subjectivity: A Conversation with Indonesian Artist Entang Wiharso"
Speaker: Entang Wiharso, Indonesian Artist
Moderator: Professor Mary-Jo Good, Department of Social Medicine and Department of Sociology, Harvard University
Discussants:
Christine Cocca, American Artist; Co-founder (with Entang Wiharso) of Antena Projects
Professor Mary Steedly, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
Reception to follow the talk
1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS S153
Thursday, October 26, 2006, 4:00 pm
Sponsored by the Fairbank Center
The 15th Annual Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture
"The Asias I Have Known: Changing Policy Perspectives"
Morton Abramowitz, Former Ambassador to Thailand (1978-1981) and to Turkey (1989-1991;
President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1991-1997); Senior Fellow at the Century Foundation
Reception to follow
1730 Cambridge St., CGIS S020, Belfer Case Study Room (020)
Tuesday, October 24, 2006, 4:15 pm
Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center
Second Annual Tsai Lecture
"Reflections on the Acehnese Peace Process"
Dr. Hafid Abbas, Director for Research, Ministry of Law and Human Rights, Indonesia;
Former Director General for Human Rights Protection, Republic of Indonesia
1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS S020, Belfer Case Study Room
Monday, October 23, 2006, 6:30-8:30 pm
Sponsored by the GSAS Culture, History and Society of Southeast Asia Workshop
"Thailand's Coup: A Step Forward in the Dangerous Direction"
Thongchai Winichakul, Professor of History, University of Wisconson
William James Hall, Room 1550
Monday, October 23, 2006, 12:00-2:00 pm
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions
"The Problematics of Buddhism, Society, and the State in Thailand"
Panelists:
Donald Swearer, CSWR Director
Thongchai Winichakul, University of Wisconsin
Sulak Sivaraksa, Thai Buddhist activist
CSWR, 42 Francis Ave., Common Room
Friday, October 13, 2006, 3:30-6:00 pm
Co-sponsored by the CSWR, Asia Center, and Southeast Asia Workshop
"The Mists of Ramanna: The Legend That Was Lower Burma"
Lecture, Reception and Book Signing
Michael Aung-Thwin, Professor of Asian Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa
CSWR, 42 Francis Ave., Common Room
Thursday, October 12, 2006, 4:00-5:30 pm
Co-sponsored by the Asian Centers Undergraduate Council and the Harvard Thai Society
Panel: "After the Coup: The Future of Democracy in Thailand"
Presented by a panel of Thai professionals and students
1730 Cambridge St., CGIS S020
Thursday, October 12, 2006, 1:00-2:30 pm
Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies
"The Khmer Rouge and East Timor Tribunals: Global Justice, Native Peace"
Raul C. Pangalangan, S.J.D. '90; Professor of Law, University of the Philippines; HLS Visiting Professor, Spring 2007
Harvard Law School, Pound Hall, Room 419
Monday, October 2, 2006, 4:15 pm
Sponsored by the Department of Social Anthropology
"The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility Across the Indian Ocean"
Engseng Ho, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
William James Hall, Room 1150
ACADEMIC YEAR 2005-2006
December 6, 2005
Sponsored by the Program on East Asian Legal Studies
EALS Lunchtime Talk
"Indonesia's New Constitutional Court : A Preliminary Appraisal"
Mark Cammack, Professor, Southwestern Law School
November 15, 2005
Co-sponsored by the Culture, History and Society in Southeast Asia Workshop and the Asia Center
"Re-thinking Anthropological Concepts: Reflections on Teaching about Ethnicity and Religion in Vietnam and Thailand"
Charles Keyes, Professor of Anthropology and International Studies, University of Washington
November 15, 2005
Sponsored by the Program on East Asian Legal Studies
EALS Documentary Film Presentation
"Hidden Warriors: Women on the Ho Chi Minh Trail"
Karen Turner, Film-maker; Professor of Chinese History & Brooks Professor in the Humanities, College of the Holy Cross;
East Asian Legal Studies Research Fellow, Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School
October 14, 2005
Sponsored by the South Asia Initiative
South Asia without Borders Seminar
"Burma, India and the Decolonization of Asia"
C.A. Bayly (University of Cambridge)
October 11, 2005
Sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies Program
"Success and (Mainly) Failure in Foreign Assisted Legal Reform: The Indonesian Experience"
Dan Lev, Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, University of Washington)
Harvard Law School
September 27, 2005
Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies
"Irresistible Forces and Immovable Objects: The Fate of Thailand 's Constitutional Reforms”
Andrew J. Harding, Professor of Asia-Pacific Legal Relations, University of Victoria
Harvard Law School
September 23, 2005
Sponsored by MIT
"An Evening of Vietnamese Guitar"
Dang Vu, List Foundation Fellow, MIT
MIT Coffeehouse
ACADEMIC YEAR 2004-2005
April 30, 2005
Sponsored by the Asia Center, the Peabody Museum, and organized by the Anthropology Department
Signs of Crisis Workshop
"Inadvertent Documents: New (and Old) Forms of Political and Historical Mediation in Southern Asia"
Film Screening: "Land of Wandering Souls" (Cambodia)
April 26, 2005
East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Speaker Series
"Writing True Crime / Writing Asia"
Joel Tesoro, former Asiaweek correspondent and Author of The Invisible Palace: The True Story of a Journalist's Murder in Java
April 25, 2005
Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum
"Presencing the Buddha in Northern Thailand: Perspectives from Ritual and Narrative"
Donald Swearer, Acting Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School
April 23, 2005
Sponsored by the Asia Center, in association with the Peabody Museum
Signs of Crisis Lecture Series
"Freedom = Death: Signatures, Secrecy, and Revolution in the Spanish Philippines"
Vicente Rafael, History, University of Washington
April 12, 2005
Sponsored by Weatherhead Center
"Remembering Devotion: Oral History and the Pilgrimage to Mecca from Southeast Asia"
Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University
March 16, 2005
International History Seminar
"The Blood of Government: Race and Empire between the United States and the Philippines"
Paul Kramer, Johns Hopkins University
March 9, 2005
East Asian Legal Studies Lunchtime Talk
"The Rights of the Defendant: Comparing Vietnamese Law with US Practice"
Tai Van Ta, Research Fellow, East Asian Legal Studies
March 9, 2005
Sponsored by the Religion, Political Economy and Society research group, WCFIA
"The Rhetorical Native: Moral Propaganda and its Publics in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines"
Smita Lahiri, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
Respondent: Michael Puett
March 7, 2005
Sponsored by the Asia Center, in association with the Peabody Museum
Signs of Crisis Lecture Series and Social Anthropology Seminar Series
"Transparent Proofs and Internet Frauds: Visuality, Media, and the Chinese-Indonesian Rapes of 1998"
Karen Strassler, Hrdy Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
March 4, 2005
Sponsored by the Asia Center
Modern Asia Series
"The Global War Against Baby Girls: An Update on the Asian Front"
Nicholas Eberstadt, Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
March 1, 2005
Rama S. Mehta Lecture Series
"Thailand in Crisis: Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Politics"
Cholthira Satyawadhna, director of the Rangsit Research Institute and director of the Thai-Asian Studies Center,
Rangsit University, Thailand, Radcliffe Institute fellow
February 4, 2005
Sponsored by the Burma Action Movement
Film Screening "Inside Burma: Land of Fear" (1996)
February 3, 2005
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions
"The Tradition of Forest Monks in Thailand: Customs of the Noble Ones"
Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Author, Teacher, and Abbot of the Metta Forest Monastery, San Diego, California
Moderator: Professor Donald Swearer, CSWR director
January 7, 2005
Co-sponsored by Harvard Law School 's East Asian Legal Studies Program, Graduate Program, and International Legal Studies
"The Impact of the Recent Tsunami Disaster in Southeast Asia"
Panelists:
Andal Radhakrishnan, LLM student at Harvard Law School; from Sri Lanka and has worked in the Sri Lankan Ministry of Finance
Mary Steedly, Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University, has conducted ethnographic research in Indonesia since 1983, mainly in the province of North Sumatra
Amal Bass, 2nd year JD student at Harvard Law School; from Sri Lanka
Shihani DeSilva, 2nd year JD student at Harvard Law School; from Sri Lanka
Moderater:
William Alford, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies, Director, East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School
December 3, 2004
Sponsored by Harvard University Asia Center
Modern Asia Series
"Development from the Grounds Up: Coffee for Schools in Rural Cambodia"
Professor Merry White, Professor of Anthropology, Boston University; Associate, Reischauer Institute
November 12, 2004
Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies
"Surveillance State: American Empire, Philippine Police, and the Politics of Scandal"
Professor Alfred McCoy, J.R.W. Smail Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
November 5, 2004
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions
Religion in Politics: Complexity and Conflict Series
"Religion and Politics in Contemporary Thailand: King Mongkut's Legacy"
Common Room, Center for the Study of World Religions, 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge
Sulak Sivaraksa, Thai Buddhist Activist
Discussant: Charles Hallisey, University of Wisconsin
October 7, 2004
East Asian Legal Studies Speaker Series
"A Tale of Two Deltas: U.S.-Vietnam Trade Relations at Risk"
Sungjoon Cho, S.J.D. 02, Assistant Professor, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
ACADEMIC YEARS 2003-2004
May 3, 2004
Sponsored by the Asia Center, in association with the Peabody Museum
Signs of Crisis Lecture Series and Harvard University Anthropology Department Social Anthropology Seminar
"Here's Looking at You Kid! Democratization and Representations of Women on Indonesian Television"
Dr. Mark Hobart, Senior Lecturer and Director of Media Studies Program, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS, University of London
April 30, 2004
Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Department of Anthropology
"Islam and the West: Whence the Animosity came, Wherein the Reconciliation?"
Surin Pitsuwan, Member of the Royal Thai Parliament, Former Foreign Minister of Thailand
April 6 - 8, 2004
Harvard Asia Center and EALS
HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand Visit
Harvard law School
April 6, 2004
Sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA)
International History Seminar
"The Maritime Nature of the Wars for Vietnam, 1945-1975"
Christopher Goscha, Assistant Professor of History, University of Lyon II, France
December 3, 2003
Sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA)
Religion, Political Economy and Society Seminar
"Economic Distress and Group Identity: Evidence from Islamic Resurgence during the Indonesian Financial Crisis"
Daniel Chen, MIT
November 23, 2003
Organized by the Harvard Vietnamese Association
"The Last Romantic: A Conversation with Nguyen Thi Minh Ngoc"
Nguyen Thi Minh Ngoc, Internationally acclaimed playwright, theater director, actress, writer and Asian Cultural Council Fellow
October 22, 2003
Sponsored by the Peabody Museum
"The Origins of Angkor: Research on the Cambodian Iron Age"
Dougald O'Reilly, Lecturer, Faculty of Archaeology, Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Haller Hall, 1st floor, Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge
ACADEMIC YEAR 2002-2003
June 6, 2003
Sponsored by the Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR)
"Challenges for Reform in Indonesia: Reformasi's Fifth Anniversary"
Kevin O'Rourke, Consultant for Partner Relations, BP Indonesia Tangguh LNG Project; Author of Reformasi: The Struggle for Power in Post-Soeharto Indonesia (Allen & Urwin, 2002)
May 8-9, 2003
Sponsored in part by the Freeman Foundation Chinese and Southeast Asian Fellowship and Exchange Program, and the International Clinical, Operational and Health Services Research and Training Award of the Fogarty International Center
"The 6th Annual Conference on Health and Social Change in Asia: Global Psychiatry: Innovative Services, Research, and Policy"
Presented by the Harvard Medical School Department of Social Medicine
Keynotes by:
Dr. Paul Appelbaum, President, American Psychiatric Association (Roger Allan Moore Lecture)
Dr. Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Professor of Medical Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Gerald T. Keusch, Director, Fogarty International Center , National Institutes of Health
Dr. Vikram Patel, Senior Lecturer, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Chairperson, Sangath Society, India
Benjamin Waterhouse Room, Gordon Hall, Harvard Medical School, Longwood Medical Area
April 21, 2003
Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies
"Another Quiet American: Stories of Life in Laos"
Brett Dakin, Graduate Student at the Harvard Law School, author of the forthcoming book, 'Another Quiet American'
April 18, 2003
Sponsored by the Asia Center
Modern Asia Seminar Series
"Conceptualizing from Within: Theories and Representations of Modernist Religion in India and Vietnam"
Dr. Susan Bayly, Centre of South Asian Studies and Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University
March 10, 2003
Sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute
"Buddhist Education for Peace in the Contemporary World"
Sulak Sivaraksa, Thai Social Activist and Public Intellectual and Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute
December 10, 2002
Sponsored by the Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government
"Asia Since 1997: From Financial Crisis to Recovery?"
A Panel Discussion with:
Tarrin Nimmanahaeminda, Member of Parliament, Thailand (Minister of Finance 1997-98)
Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister of State, Singapore Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Director, Independent Evaluation Office, International Monetary Fund
Lawrence Summers, President, Harvard University; Secretary, U.S. Department of Treasury (1999-2001)
Moderator: Dwight Perkins, Director, Harvard Asia Center
November 8, 2002
Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies
"Constitutionalism in the Shadow of Flexible Production: The Case of Thailand"
Michael Dowdle, Visiting Scholar, NYU Institute for Law and Society and Columbia University East Asian Institute