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Events |
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Saturday, May 13 | 5:30 PM - 10:30 PM | Red Square Documentary Screening: Angkor Awakens followed by Q&A with Director Robert H. Lieberman Friday, May 26 - Thursday, June 1 | Landmark Seven Gables Theater Seattle International Film Festival Thursday, May 18 - Sunday, June 11 Sunday, June 4 | 1:00 PM | Ark Lodge Cinemas Monday, June 5 | 8:30 PM | SIFF Cinema Uptown Saturday, June 3 | 12:30 PM | SIFF Film Center Monday, June 5 | 8:45 PM | Ark Lodge Cinemas Tuesday, June 6 | 9:45 PM | SIFF Cinema Uptown |
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Summer 2017 Southeast Asian Class Opportunity |
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Looking for a class to take this summer? Evi Sutrisno is offering a class on Southeast Asian Civilization (JSIS A 315). The class counts for I&S and DIV credit requirements. Taught daily 9:40 AM - 11:50 AM during A-term in Denny 303. The SSN for the class is 14535. This course will provide students with a broad introduction to the rich variety of civilizations in Southeast Asia with special emphasis on Asian religions and politics. The time coverage will be pre-history, colonialism, nationalism and contemporary post-colonial periods. The class will discuss in some details the flows of (religious) ideas, migration, political and cultural representations as the results of interconnectivity among India, China, Arabia and Southeast Asia, such as Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore. The primary goals of this course are: 1) to gain an understanding of the general narrative of Southeast Asia civilization history; 2) to explore how encounters with other societies, as well as the interactions of people with their environment, influenced and shaped their values, cultures and institutions; 3) to understand the civilizations of Buddhist, Hindu, and Islamic societies in several Southeast Asian countries and their influences in contemporary situation; 4) to improve analytical and critical thinking skills through class discussions, readings and writing assignments |
Fall 2017 Seminar Opportunity |
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HUM 597B Missing Pictures: History and Poetic Imagination in the Cinema of Rithy Panh (1 credit, C/NC) Instructor: Jenna Grant (Anthropology) “As a filmmaker, you don’t wait for reality; you call it to the camera.” —Rithy Panh This microseminar frames the October 2017 visit of filmmaker Rithy Panh to the University of Washington as a Walker-Ames Scholar. Panh is known for his innovative practice that includes reenactments, animation, and improvisation in addition to more traditional techniques of documentary and narrative cinema. His films deal with genocide and its effects, memory, living at the margins of Cambodia’s present modernity, and French colonialism in Indochina and in Africa. His 2013 Film The Missing Picture won the Jury prize in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, and was nominated for an Oscar. Rithy Panh is also an archivist and educator. He co-founded the Bophana Center, which is dedicated to repatriating and preserving film, photography, and audio materials related to Cambodian history. The microseminar provides the opportunity for Masters and PhD students from multiple disciplines to think with each other and Rithy Panh about key themes in his work. Students are required to read in preparation for seminars; participate in screenings and colloquia during Panh’s visit; and complete a two-page paper or one-minute film. Questions? Contact Jenna Grant (jmgrant@uw.edu). |
Conferences, Study Abroad & Journals |
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National Human Rights Institutions in Southeast Asia: Challenges of Protection Conference, July 13 - July 14, Bangkok, Thailand - abstracts and posters due May 15 2nd Studia Islamika International Conference 2017: "Southeast Asian Islam: Religious Radicalism, Democracy, and Global Trends," August 8 - August 10, Jakarta, Indonesia - abstracts due May 15 European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) Conference 2017, August 16 - August 18, University of Oxford - abstracts due May 15 CFP: McGill University's IOWC Graduate Student Conference on Indian Ocean World History, October 20, Quebec, Canada - submissions due June 10 CFP: Buddhist Studies Graduate Student Conference at Florida State University, November 3 - November 5, Florida - abstracts due August 15 |
Funding & Fellowships |
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UW Multicultural Alumni Partnership (MAP) Scholarship - applications due May 12 UW Asian Studies Development Grant (for community college faculty) - applications due May 15 ANU Indonesia Project Research Fellowship (Postdoctoral) - applications due May 15 Info Session: Luce Scholars Program Tuesday, May 16 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Allen Library (ALB) 181L Info Session: Fulbright U.S. Student Program Thursday, May 18 | 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM | Cherry Parkers, Tacoma campus |
Jobs |
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PhD candidate "The formation of an Indonesian postcolonial academia," Faculty of Humanities - Amsterdam School of Historical Studies - application due May 18 Jane Emison Assistant/Associate Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art - application due May 19 |
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