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The SEAC Music Playlist |
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This week we are featuring our very own custom playlist of Southeast Asian music with songs recommended by our own faculty, staff and students. The end of the year is approaching and finals are right around the corner. If you're feeling stressed over finals, worried about what is happening in the world or just want to get excited for the summer with some peppy jams, check out our playlist! The songs come from all over Southeast Asia and broad. There are some oldies and some newies, some classical and some hip-hop, some songs in Malay and some songs in Lahu. Just kick back and enjoy. Check out all of the songs on our blog page here. |
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Events |
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Seattle International Film Festival Thursday, May 18 - Sunday, June 11 June 3 - June 4 | 12:00 PM & 7:00 PM | Diwa Filipino Film Showcase of Seattle Sunday, June 4 | 1:00 PM | Ark Lodge Cinemas Monday, June 5 | 8:30 PM | SIFF Cinema Uptown |
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Conferences, Study Abroad & Journals |
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CFP: McGill University's IOWC Graduate Student Conference on Indian Ocean World History, October 20, Quebec, Canada - submissions due June 10 CFP: Thailand, Laos, Cambodia (TLC) Board panel for AAS, March 22 - 25, Washington, D.C. - proposals due June 15 to sdarlington@hampshire.edu Suggested themes: Changing Buddhist/Muslim relations, religious conversion & diversity, politics of the Mekong (environmental issues), ethnomusicology, popular culture, intellectual property & cultural practices/cultural heritage, exchange (symmetrical and asymmetrical) in mainland Southeast Asia, and ecological plurality Mainland Southeast Asia. Reframing the Archive: The Reuse of Film and Photographic Images in Postcolonial Southeast Asia Conference, June 22 - 23, United Kingdom CFP: Environmental Issues and Human Health in Southeast Asia - Rising Voices in Southeast Asian Studies for an AAS panel, March 22 - 25, Washington, D.C. - applications due July 1 Call for Papers: “Southeast Asian Natures: Defining Environmentalism and the Anthropocene in Southeast Asia” Sponsors: UC Riverside Center for Ideas and Society & Southeast Asia Program Organizers: David Biggs, Christina Schwenkel and Hendrik Maier Location: Palm Springs CA Date: March 12 – 14, 2018 Over one hundred fifty years ago, naturalist Alfred Russell Wallace journeyed through the islands of Southeast Asia, drawing from the region’s rich biodiversity to co-discover with Darwin the theory of natural selection. However, even at that time he noted that forests were quickly giving way to colonial clear cuts and species from one island were showing up in the markets of others. The Anthropocene, an era in which human activity has become a dominant shaping force in ecosystems, global climate and species histories, was already underway. Wallace’s environmentalism was also deeply contingent upon imperial networks of travel and communication; the ensuing wars of empire and decolonization left many eco-cultures in tatters. A critical challenge then for policymakers, intellectuals, scientists and others in the region is to articulate new notions of environmentalism that respond to these complex intersections of ecology, history, and culture. As people and governments struggle to articulate locally meaningful responses to Anthropocene problems, scholars, artists and activists can play important roles in identifying ideas of nature, ruin, sustainability and health that resonate locally or inter-regionally. As literary critic Raymond Williams once noted, the word “nature” is one of the most complex in the English vocabulary. If this is so, then how do these ideas fare in translation? “Southeast Asian Natures” asks participants to consider the complexities of nature and its changes in the many different languages and ecologies of Southeast Asia. Proposed themes of the workshop are purposefully broad, and they include: - histories, ecologies and flows - spatial practices, representations and bio-politics - nature, sustainability and health in language, ritual and performance Call for Works-in-Progress Interested participants are invited to email a ~300-word abstract and 2-page cv by July 1 2017 to dbiggs@ucr.edu with subject “SE ASIAN NATURES.” The abstract should outline a project (textual, visual, digital) that engages with the theme of environmentalism and the Anthropocene in Southeast Asia. A 3000 to 4000-word draft essay will be due February 1, 2018 and pre-circulated among the workshop’s participants. 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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European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme for the 2018 - 2019 academic year - applications due June 7 @ 4 PM GMT
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