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Aloha from the Director

Aloha and greetings. I am very Several films won prizes, the most notable pleased to report on the recent achieve- being the festival’s Golden Orchid for ments of the Center for Southeast Asian Best Feature, which went to Berbagi Suami Studies. (Love for Share), from Indonesia. INSIDE THIS ISSUE The jewel in our crown for the Director Nia Dinata and actress Jajang academic year 2006-07 was undoubtedly C. Noer were our guests. Another signifi- 1 the initiation of an ambitious subtitling cant film was Gubra (Anxiety), written and FACULTY project for Southeast Asian film, which directed by Yasmin Ahmad. Producer Aloha and Welcome, Conferences was conceived during our weekly Elyna Shukri and actress Sharifah and Papers, Research and Travel, screenings of Southeast Asian films on Amani attended the festival, and last Awards and Fellowships, Publica- campus. The workshop was held last April the Center organized a retrospec- tions, etc. summer, and the special class conducted tive of all of Ahmad’s films at the by John McGlynn (who came from Ja- Honolulu Academy of Arts. We were 2 karta) resulted in the subtitling of ten honored that Yasmin herself found time STUDENTS films from Southeast Asia which have in her busy schedule to come to this retro- Awards and Fellowships, Research never been viewed overseas. In the first spective, and the large audiences who and Travel, Conferences, etc. stages of this project we see the distribu- attended very much appreciated her gra- tion of these films to universities and cious and open responses to their ques- 3 colleges as an important addition to the tions. Among our plans for future initia- OUTREACH teaching of Southeast Asian languages tives is the streaming of interviews and Brown Bag Series, Film Series, and societies. We envisage, for example, podcasts of talks with Southeast Asian Photograph Exhibition, Film students and teachers becoming engaged filmmakers on our revamped website, Festival Partnership, Malaysian in electronically-conveyed conversations which should be up and running this Fall. Cinema at the Honolulu Academy about alternative translations or the Despite the enormous amount of of Arts, etc. cultural significance of a particular scene work involved in putting this ambitious and so forth. program together, we did not neglect our A second aspect of this project was other academic programs. The Center is in terms of Outreach, for by making new working hard to build connections with films available we hope to literally “reach the professional schools, and in that re- out” to the community and attract spect a new venture was a Fall 2006 individuals who may not otherwise have seminar on natural disasters in Southeast any knowledge or interest in Southeast Asia, conducted by the Department of Asia. In this context, a highlight was the Urban and Regional Planning under the showing of more than a dozen films from direction of Michael Douglass and Southeast Asia at the Hawaii James Spencer. It was truly amazing to International Film Festival in October see how much expertise and experience 2006. Supported by its NRC funding, the we had on campus related to all aspects of Center was able to bring in ten directors, earthquakes, hurricanes, and epidemics. producers and actors, and through ar- Greg Bankoff, from the University of rangements with the festival, to host Auckland, a historian who has worked panel discussions after the film showings. extensively on Natural Disasters,

CSEAS BULLETIN, SPRING 2007 www.hawaii.edu/cseas CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT MĀNOA cially in the Philippines, was a valuable around to various schools on Oahu. We including a Balinese adaptation of Shake- guest, delivering several lectures and con- are most grateful to Punahou School and speare’s The Tempest, by resident guest tributing to our ongoing Brown Bag lun- Terrina Wong, Program Coordinator at artist Larry Reed, who uses a giant screen chtime talks. the Wo International Center, for their and live performers to create a shadow If anything, the Spring semester was support in this endeavor. theater performance. This will be man- even busier than the Fall, for we had nu- We are also grateful to Terrina, the aged under the direction of Kirstin merous visitors. The course on Literature Freeman Foundation and the State Pauka, who will also be serving as Acting in Translation (IP 361) in Southeast Asia, Department of Education for providing Director while I am away on sabbatical for instance, brought in several overseas opportunities for myself and Muham- (until July 2008). Indeed, when I looked mad Ali, who has just completed at the list of events for the coming twelve his Ph.D. in history, to conduct a months, I was almost (not quite) tempted workshop for school teachers to to cancel my leave! learn more about Islam in In closing, I wish to express my Southeast Asia so that they feel heartfelt appreciation to the Executive comfortable in teaching the new Board of our Center, which continues to standards and benchmarks. offer invaluable advice and support. I I would also like to comment on a would like to record my gratitude to the further development in relation to Center staff – of course, Paul Rausch, the award of FLAS grants. The and Anthony Medrano (to whom we bid Center for Southeast Asian a fond farewell as he settles into his new Studies at the University of Ha- position with Ohio University’s Southeast Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi euismod. Ut consequat felis sit amet. wai‘i continues to support the Asia program), but especially to Helen concept of a Summer Institute for Lee, our long-suffering secretary – and to guests; Alam Payind, Director of the Southeast Asian Studies, which, over the the School’s fiscal officers, Myra Ya- Center for Middle Eastern Studies at last twenty years, has made a significant mamoto and Joyce Morikuni, whose Ohio State University, gave several pres- contribution to teaching about this part of patience and advice has made it possible entations; Jonathan Rigg, from the the world. However, we also believe that to bring our ambitious plans to fruition. University of Durham, spent a week on there are now enhanced opportunities for To all those who helped make the campus during which time he gave sev- students to spend their summer in- past year such a success, I again offer my eral lectures, including the third in a spe- country at approved language schools sincere thanks. cial School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pa- where they can also benefit from living in cific Studies lecture series. Because of the the relevant culture. In summer 2007, we BARBARA WATSON ANDAYA prominence of the Ilokano program at therefore used the equivalent of three the University of Hawai‘i, the Center FLAS grants to support language also contributed to the 2007 Nakem study for five students (two in Conference, this year held at Mariano Indonesia, one in Malaysia, two Marcos State University in the in Thailand). Philippines Finally, I should express our One of the developments of which delight that two new faculty we are especially proud is the initiative of members, Ehito (Political our graduate students, including our Science) and Aya Kimura FLAS recipients. This year we have is- (Sociology/Women’s Studies), sued two volumes of Explorations, our will be joining us in the Fall. As student journal, which is available in hard Indonesian specialists, they will copy and on line. In addition, the enhance our program considera- Center’s Graduate Assistant, Anthony bly and will be of special benefit Medrano, was successful in obtaining a to the growing number of grant from the Hawai‘i Council for the Indonesian students on our Humanities which enabled him (with the campus. support of Punahou School as a home The schedule for the new base) to mount a traveling exhibition of academic year is already filling photos on Muslim Asia, which was taken up with a list of exciting projects, Barbara Watson Andaya, Professor of Asian Atudies and Director

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Belinda Aquino presented papers at of Interpretation.” Professor Aung- Faculty News and Activities several institutions and universities in Thwin was invited to give a lecture on Barbara Watson Andaya, Director the Philippines including the University his latest book, titled The Mists of Ra- of the Center for Southeast Asian of the Philippines, University of North- manna: the Legend that was Lower Burma, Studies and Professor of Asian Studies, ern Philippines, St. Louis College, Cebu at Harvard University’s Center for the has had a full year of activities and Normal University, and the Department Study of World Religions. commitments. She participated in three of Foreign Affairs. conferences in Washington, Finland, and Hawai‘i, respectively. In Washington, she Aside from her teaching and lecturing, J a c k B i l m e s , P r o f e s s o r o f presented a paper at the NRC Directors Professor Aquino also edited One Hun- Anthropology, has an article coming out Conference entitled, “Challenges and dred Years and Beyond and authored an entitled, “Kinship Categories in a North- Rewards of Administering an NRC article entitled, “The Filipino Century in ern Thai Narrative.” It will appear in the grant.” In Finland, Professor Andaya read Hawaii: Out of the Crucible.” Moreover, edited book, Conversation Analysis: Cross- a paper titled, “Oceans Connect? Asian she chaired and presented a paper at the Linguistic Perspectives. Jack Bilmes will Studies in a Globalizing Era.” In Hawai‘i, A s s o c i a t i o n f o r A s i a n S t u d i e s present an abbreviated version of this she presented a paper at the 2007 Conference in Boston. The title of the paper at the 2007 meeting of the Indonesian Conference and Cultural panel was “Constitutional Change in the International Pragmatics Association in Event entitled, “Diversity and State Pol- P h i l i p p i n e s : I s F e d e r a l i s m - Gothenburg. icy: Placing Indonesia in a Global Frame- Parliamentarism the Answer?” Professor work.” In addition, Professor Andaya Aquino also presented a paper at the Robert Blust, Professor of Linguistics, recently published The Flaming Womb: First National Philippine Studies has several published works for 2006, Repositioning Women in Southeast Asian Conference in Japan. In her administra- including “Whence the Malays?” in James History through University of Hawai‘i tive role, she is on the steering commit- T. Collins and Awang Sariyan, eds., Bor- Press. She also had an article entitled, tee for the 2008 International Philippine neo and the Homeland of the Malays: Four “Oceans Unbounded: Transversing Asia Essays. across ‘Area Studies’” in the Journal of Asian Studies and “Studying Women and Gender in Southeast Asia: A William Chapman, Professor of ‘State of the Art’ Essay” in the American Studies, has had a productive International Journal of Asian Studies. academic year. To begin, he received a Fulbright Senior Specialist Award in Aside from her teaching, she main- 2006 for research in Thailand. He also tains a busy administrative schedule authored several chapters related to as well as hosting guests and oversee- Southeast Asia, including two for the ing campus activities related to Encyclopedia of the Modern World, one Southeast Asia. She continues to titled, “Architecture: Southeast Asia,” work with colleagues and with the and the other chapter entitled, “Art: Asia Society on developing a curricu- Southeast Asia.” Professor Chapman lum for teaching Islam in Southeast presented a paper at the International Asia to schools. She has made three Conference, Architecture in the Land trips to Thailand in her role as chair of Suvarnabhumi. He also read a paper of a committee evaluating the Asian entitled, “Genrification, Conservation Scholarship Fellowship foundation, and Economic Development: What Can which will now come under the pa- We Learn for Rattanakosin’s Future?” tronage of Princess Maha Chakri at the International Symposium on Sirindhorn of Thailand. She has been Architecture and Human Rights, held in invited to become Raffles Chair in Bangkok. Over the course of the the Department of History, National academic year, Professor Chapman also University of Singapore, August to gave lectures on Conservation and D e c e m b e r 2 0 0 7 . D u r i n g h e r Architecture in Southeast Asia at the sabbatical leave from August 2007 to University of Oxford, England, the July 2008 she will be working on a University of York, England, and Kaset- history of Early Modern Southeast sart University, Thailand. Asia and researching her current project, a history of minority Michael Douglass, Director of the Christian communities in Southeast Globalization Research Center and Asia. Professor of Urban and Planning, or- ganized several panels in 2006, Belinda Aquino, Director of the including “Globalization and Livable Center for Philippine Studies and Cities in Pacific Asia: The Rise of Civil Professor of Asian Studies, has had a Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. 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The theme of the in Manila. at the International Symposium on conference was “The Filipino Century Michael Aung-Thwin, Professor of “ P l a n n i n g f o r L i v a b l e C i t i e s : Beyond Hawaii.” Belinda Aquino also Asian Studies, presented a paper at the International Comparative Perspectives organized the panel, “Revisiting Ha- A s s o c i a t i o n f o r A s i a n S t u d i e s on Vietnam” held at the Institute of napepe” and presented a paper entitled, Conference on the Burmese Studies Economic Research in Ho Chi Minh City, “Understanding the Hanapepe Massa- Group Panel entitled “In the Eyes of the Vietnam. Professor Douglass has also cre.” In addition, she was invited by the Beholder.” He also gave a paper at the edited a special issue of International Commission on Filipinos Overseas, Ma- Burma Studies Colloquium in Singapore Development Planning Review, with arti- nila, to deliver a series of lectures based on the Plenary Session on an aspect of cles on ‘Global Householding in East and on the Hawaii Filipino Centennial. the Colloquium’s theme “Communities Southeast Asia’. He has several chapters

CSEAS BULLETIN, SPRING 2007 www.hawaii.edu/cseas CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT MĀNOA in G. Jones and M. Douglass, eds., The series at the Musee de l’Homme in Paris West Center on a project with Rise of Mega-Urban Regions in Pacific and continuing laboratory analysis of Professor Andrew Mason. He present a Asia--Urban Dynamics in a Global Era. human skeletal remains from Angkor paper entitled “The New Order, Priyayi Professor Douglass also published an Borei in Cambodia. Culture and Capitalist Class in article entitled, “The Globalization of Indonesia” at the American Sociological Householding and Social Reproduction Peter Xenos, EWC and Professor of Association meeting in New York. in Pacific Asia,” in Philippine Studies. As Sociology, is coordinating with Michael director of the GRC, Michael Douglass Douglass (GRC) a summer seminar on Nathan Camp, Asian Studies ’02, is has secured several grants for research “Livable Cities in Pacific Asia: Research working for Volunteers in Asia in San concerning community and civic space in Methods for Policy Analysis.” The par- Francisco as the Indonesia Program Southeast Asia. ticipants will mostly be drawn from Director. Nathan helps recruit, train, Southeast Asia and Vietnam, in particular place, and support volunteers for two Uli Kozok, Coordinator of the in-country programs. As part of his Indonesian Language Program and work, Nathan travels to Thailand to help Professor of Indonesian, presented a Student and Alumni News run training and to Indonesia to visit paper entitled, “Two Malay Legal Codes M a r g a r e t B . B o d e m e r , volunteers, investigate new partnerships from the 14th and 18th Centuries” at Anthropology, received a Fulbright Hays and assess various elements of the the ASEAUK 2006 Conference in Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad programs. Nathan lives happily in Oak- Oxford. He also participated in an Award, November 2006-2007, in Hanoi, land with Kalindi Vora (Anthropology international workshop on archaeology Vietnam. Her research is being con- ‘02) and their two cats. and ethnohistory in the highlands of ducted at the Vietnam Museum of Eth- Sumatra. His paper was titled, “The Arri- nology. In 2006, Maggie attended SEASSI Pandit Chanrochanakit, Ph.D. in val of Islam and its Implementations for to study Vietnamese as a FLAS fellow. Political Science ’06, works as a lecturer the Legal System in Kerinci.” As the in the faculty of Political Science at coordinator of the Indonesian language Herman Kelen, Asian Studies ’06, is Ramkhamhaeng University in Bangkok. program, Professor Kozok read a paper working for PIKUL, a local NGO based He teaches Research and Methods and at the annual COTIM meeting in Madi- in Kupang, Indonesia. As PIKUL’s Hu- Political Theory. Pandit is also an editor son. His paper titled was “Online and manitarian Coordinator, Herman is re- for Vibhasa Magazine, which publishes Offline: Newly Developed Teaching Ma- sponsible for not only coordinating articles in the fields of cultural studies, terials for Advanced Indonesian.” emergency relief efforts but also manag- the humanities, and the social sciences. Moreover, he was appointed Senior Fel- ing projects related to disaster prepar- low at the Asia Research Institute, edness. In the meantime, Herman is Dan Brown, Second Language Studies, National University of Singapore, for the continuing to conduct research on food received a FLAS fellowship for the study months of July to December 2007. security and drought in two districts in of Thai in 2006-07. He co-presented a East Nusa Tenggara Province. paper entitled “Local Resources for a Will C. McClatchey, Professor of Local Context: Challenges to English Botany, presented a paper at the Botany Sean Blundon, Asian Studies ’06, is Language Teaching Policy in Thailand” at Symposium Series (UHM) entitled, currently the Theater Security Coopera- t h e S H A P S G r a d u a t e S t u d e n t “Biodiversity and Biocognosy of Phutai tion Program Manager for Southeast Conference in 2007. He also read the in Northeastern Thailand. He also was Asia at Headquarters, U.S. Army Pacific, same paper at the International Society the keynote speaker at Khon Kaen Fort Shafter. Since September 2006, He for Language Studies Conference in University in Thailand, where he spoke has made five trips to the region, coor- Honolulu. In Sunner 2007, Dan will on natural pharm. In Chiang Mai, dinating exercises and meetings in the taught English in Thailand at Ubon Professor McClatchey was an invited Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore , Rajathanee University in northeastern organizer and presenter at the annual Malaysia, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Thailand. meeting of the Society for Economic Botany. He has recently conducted Shawn Fehrenbach, Anthropology, Adam Young-Knowlton, Asian research in Thailand as a Fulbright Fel- received a 2006-07 and a 2007-08 FLAS Studies ‘04, was awarded a research low. fellowship for the study of Khmer. He grant in 2004-05 to edit his M.A. thesis recently presented a paper at the 2007 at the International Institute of Asian Michael Pietrusewsky, Professor of SHAPS Graduate Student Conference. Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands. With Anthropology, presented a paper in Ma- During the 06-07 year, Shawn was also a the support of Mark Valencia, former nila at the 18th Congress of the Indo- member of the Explorations editorial Senior Research Fellow at the East West Pacific Prehistory Association. He also board. Center and IIAS this manuscript was published two chapters, one in Bioar- recently published by ISEAS (Institute chaeology of Southeast Asia and the other for Southeast Asian Studies) in T u r r o S e l r i t s W o n g k a r e n , in Austronesian Diaspora and the Ethno- Sociology, is writing his M.A. thesis on Singapore: Contemporary Maritime Piracy gensis of People in Indonesian Archipelago. Indonesian economic visions, while com- in Southeast Asia: History, Cause and P ro f e s s o r P i e t r u s ew s k y ’s re c e n t pleting coursework for the Ph.D. in Remedies. It is available for sale at research includes the metric study of Sociology. Turro also works at the East http://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/. He now Negrito and Southeast Asian cranial works in dispute resolution at North Shore Community Mediation in Beverly, MA.

LeeRay Costa, Ph.D. in Anthropology ’01, is currently a professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies at Hollins University, in Roanoke, Viginia. In February, LeeRay co-published with her partner, Andrew Matzner (UH Mānoa 1994, 1997), Male Bodies, Women’s Souls: Personal Narratives of Thailand’s Transgen- dered Youth. It focuses on the lives and personal narratives of Thai sao braphet Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi euismod. Ut consequat felis sit amet.

CSEAS BULLETIN, SPRING 2007 www.hawaii.edu/cseas CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT MĀNOA by Asian Studies Review entitled “Gen- international organization, international Graduate Student Conference titled “On der, Sexuality and Nationalism in a law, and the politics of Asia. This summer the Margins of Nationhood: the Orang Northern Thai Non-Governmental Or- he will continue his research in Laut and Sama-Bajau of Southeast Asia.” ganization. LeeRay also just earned ten- Southeast Asia, observing the parliamen- Lance also served on the editorial board ure and was promoted to Associate tary elections in East Timor and visiting of Explorations. Professor in 2007. Indonesia. S t e p h e n “ P o g i ” A c a b a d o , Ashton Udall, Asian Studies ’04, is a Lance “P.B.” Nolde, History, was Anthropology, received several awards partner in the product development and awarded the Moscotti Travel Grant for and fellowships this academic year, sourcing firm, Global Sourcing Special- field research in Southeast Sulawesi and including a National Science Foundation ists. He lives in San Francisco and at- a 2007-08 FLAS fellowship for the study Dissertation Improvement Grant, an tends MBA classes at Santa Clara of Indonesian. He presented a paper ACLS/Luce Foundation Dissertation University. entitled “Fluid Cartographies: Orang Fellowship, and a UH Arts and Sciences Laut and Sama-Bajau Conceptions of Advisory Council Award. Stephen also Tu Anh T. Vu, Anthropology, will Space and Territoriality” at the SHAPS co-organized the session “Trade, Social present a paper entitled “Traditional Graduate Student Conference in 2007. Interaction, and Political Economy in Ritual made Modern: Paper Money Burn- He also read a paper at the 2007 EWC Southeast Asian Archaeology” at the ing (Vang Ma) in Hanoi, Vietnam” at Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association the 16th Annual Harvard Project for Meeting in Manila. At the conference, Asian and International Relations he presented a paper entitled “Land- Conference in Beijing. Among other scape and Social Organization: The conferences, she also published an Social Organization of the Ifugao, article titled “The Mother Goddess: Northern Luzon, Philippines.” Ste- The Dao Mau Movement in North- phen will be conducting fieldwork ern Vietnam” in the journal Explora- this summer at the rice terraces in tions. Tu was awarded a GSO travel Ifugao province, Philippines. grant to present a paper in Singapore, as well as a scholarship Steve Rehermann, Asian Studies from the Government of Vietnam ’03, is currently Country Program (2006-2010). She also served as Director for Sub-Saharan Africa at president of the Vietnamese Student the Defense Security Cooperation Association of Hawaii. Agency, Office of the Secretary of Defense. He also acquired a second James Rae, Ph.D. in Political m a s t e r ’s d e g re e f ro m Tu f t s Science ’06, is an assistant professor University. of Government at California State University at Sacramento, teaching Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi c o u r s e s o n w o r l d p o l i t i c s , euismod. Ut consequat felis sit amet.

Awards Fellowships The Center for Southeast Asia Foreign Language and Area Paper Prize is awarded for the best S t u d i e s Fe l low s h i p s ( F LA S ) paper on a Southeast Asian theme pre- Southeast Asia, 2006-2007 FLAS sented at the SHAPS Graduate Student Fellowships for 2006-2007 provide sti- Conference held each spring semester. pend and tuition for full time, UHM The 2007 paper prize of $100 was registered, U.S. citizen or permanent awarded to Noah Viernes (Ph.D resident graduate students enrolled in a program, Department of Political formal program of intensive Southeast Science) for his paper titled “Life Trans- Asian language study in the country of mission: New Thai Cinema and the Poli- their language focus. tics of Aesthetics. CSEAS awarded academic year FLAS to: The Albert Moscotti Graduate Student Travel Award is presented Cy Calugay, Anthropology, Filipino annually to a top graduate student in a Bryce Beemer, History, Thai Southeast Asian related field of study to Shawn Fehrenbach assist with travel costs associated with Anthropology,, Khmer field work or language study in Lance Nolde Southeast Asia. The year’s award of History, Indonesian $1,000 was presented to Lance Nolde Mary Conran, Anthropology, Thai (MA program, Asian Studies), for his field Erwin Legaspi, work in Indonesia in Summer 2007. Asian Studies. Filipino Trinh Nguyen Theatre, Vietnamese The Nguyen Dang Liem Prize in Julie Osborn Vietnamese Studies is awarded History, Vietnamese annually to the best paper on Vietnam at Noah Viernes either undergraduate or graduate level. Political Science, Thai The 2007 prize of $100 was awarded to Dan Labarca, Asian Studies, Filipino Leon Potter (MA program, Asian Geoff Ashton, Philosophy, Thai Studies) for his paper on the Cham Dan Brown Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. language. Second Language Studies, Thai Morbi euismod. Ut consequat felis sit amet.

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Outreach News and Activities Apa Dengan Cinta? (Indonesia, Rudy Soedjarwo), Boso (Philippines, Jon Red), SEA Film Series and Spinning Gasing (Malaysia, Teck The Center’s Southeast Asian Film Tan). Series continued to attract movie viewers This semester, we plan to screen to the university and exposed them to the Mekong Full Moon Party (Thailand, Jira dynamic landscapes of Southeast Asian Maligool), the epic film Courtesan cinema. Attendance of the Wednesday (Indonesia, Nia Dinata), Indio Nacional night event averaged about forty people, (Philippines, Raya Martin), Me Myself with members of the faculty, student (Thailand, Pongpat Wachirabunjong) and body, and community sitting side-by-side. Tiga Hari (Indonesia, Unknown) in addi- Building on last year’s achievement, the tion to films from Malaysia, Vietnam and SEA Film Series has showcased, often for Cambodia! the first time in Hawai’i, a grand total of Join us at the Korean Studeis build- thirty-six films, including Bangkok for Poster for Spinning Gasing from the ing, qwedbesdays’ for the films! Sale (Thailand, Oxide Pang Chun), Ada Spring 2007 Film Series.

SEA Brown Bags October 20: Scripture and ‘Literature’ in Upcoming Brown Bags Indonesian Islam: Some Modern Debates The Center’s series of Brown Bag by Michael Feener (History, NUS) September 14: Balinese Dance by Nyo- discussions continued to act as a forum man Sumandhi (Theater, Indonesian October 27: Winds of Colonization: The Institute of the Arts) for current research and intellectual ex- Meteorological Contours of Spain’s Im- change. In 2006, we had a compelling perium in the Pacific, 1521-1898 by Greg September 28: Vietnam Spirit Cultures and diverse array of presenters ranging Bankoff (History, University of Auckland) by Liam C. Kelley (History, UHM) from a Khmer music performance to a November 17: Off the Market? Missing October 5: Tai Rice Culture by John visual history of Indonesia during the Links in Community-Based Sustainable Hartman (Thai, Northern Illinois Development Initiatives by Carol Warren University) Soeharto years. A complete list has been (Anthropology, University of Western provided below: Australia) October 26: Indian Ocean Trade Net- working by Kenneth R. Hall (History, Ball January 26: Slavery as a Vector for State University) September 15: An Afternoon of Tradi- Cultural Exchange: The Case of Pre- tional Khmer Music with Rina Deth colonial Burma and Thailand by Bryce (Cambodia Association of Hawaii) November 2: History, Memory, and Beemer (History, UHM) Cultural Change in Bajo Communities of September 29: Bio-fuel and Food Secu- Southeast Sulawesi in Indonesia by Lance February 9: Introducing Islam to School Nolde (History, UHM) rity in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Children through Music: Examples from Indonesia by Herman Kelen (Asian Palestine, Turkey, Persia, and Southeast Studies, UHM) November 16: Unspecified Title by Asia by Chet-Yeng Loong (Music, UHM) Philippe M.F. Peycam (Center for Khmer October 13: A Personal Experience of Studies, Siem Riep. Traveling to Egypt and Researching the February 23: From Tsunamis to Coups: Muslim Brotherhood by Mefi Herma- Covering Southeast Asia for the Associ- wanti (Political Science, UHM) ated Press by David Briscoe (AP Honolulu Bureau)

March 14: Library of Congress Holdings Pertaining to Southeast Asia by Kathryn Wellen (Library of Congress)

March 20: Indonesia in the Soeharto Years: Issues, Incidents and Images by John H. McGlynn (Lontar Foundation, Jakarta)

April 18: The Making of Wealth and Pov- erty in Laos by Jonathan Rigg (Geogra- phy, University of Durham, UK)

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Malaysian Retrospective This rare weekend provided the opportunity to engage the filmmaker in a Hawai`i community with a fantastic series of informal discussions ranging The Center for Southeast Asian from her experiences as a Muslim women Studies hosted Malaysian director and making film to her philosophy on film- master storyteller Yasmin Ahmad for a making and storytelling that encourages retrospective of her films, which screened dialog and reflection not so much on the at the Honolulu Academy of Arts in differences we have as human beings, but April 2007. The films featured included those shared experiences that hopefully Rabun, Sepet, Gubra, and the North build bridges of understanding between American premiere of Mukhsin, which people. won the grand prize of the Deutsche Kin- The retrospective was supported by derhilfswerk (German Child Support Or- a grant from the US Department of ganisation) for Best Feature Film in the Yasmin Ahmad (l) is interviewed by UHM Professor Education as part of the Center’s educa- Kplus category competition at the 57th Wimal Dissanayake at the Honolulu Design Center. tional outreach mission. Berlin International Film Festival earlier in 2007.

Center Launches program was a new partnership Film Festival Program with the Hawaii International Film Festival that was designed to With a mandate to provide access to highlight the cinema of resources that highlight the dynamic re- Southeast Asia. gion of Southeast Asia in schools and The partnership was devel- communities across the country, the oped in the belief that film pro- vides an engaging form of com- municating culture across bor- ders, and as the very nature of a CSEAS Associate Director Paul Rausch, HIFF Film Pro- grammer Christian Razukas, Indonesia Director Noa Dinata film festival is to provide the and Bee Thiam Tan of the Sinapore Film Archive. venue for this type of educational activity, the partnership with the captured the Golden Orchid for Best Hawaii International Film Festival was Feature Film. The film tells three loosely seen as a way to help position both the connected stories about polygamy in Center and HIFF as leaders in bringing modern Indonesia. Other award winners new and engaging film and film industry with Southeast Asia roots included 4:30, leaders from Southeast Asia into focus in (Singapore, Royston Tan) about a latch- the US. key kid who steals from his family's ten- Over the course of the festival the ant. which took home the NETPAC Center hosted a number of directors, Award for Best Asian Film. Majidee actors, producers, archivists, and film critics who engaged in educational forums following selected films. All told there were 23 films with Southeast Asia themes, 15 of which Director Romeo Candido and Actress Phoemela were feature films from Southeast Baranada from the Filipino horror film ANG Asia. PAMANA: THE INHERITANCE. Much to the great joy of Southeast Asian film fans at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies festival, films from the region launched a new initiative to develop a garnered three of the top festival Southeast Asian film program at the awards, including Love For Share Indonesian Actress Jajang C. Noer with Hawaii Gover- University of Hawai`i beginning in fall (Indonesia, Nia Dinata) which nor Kinda Lingle at the Governor’s Official Residence. 2006. The starting point for this fledgling

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The Flaming Womb: Erudite, Nuanced, and Accessible Repositioning Women Deemed a “masterful” and in Southeast Asian “tightly-argued” work by Choice and a History. Honolulu: “must read for Southeast Asianists” by Pacific Affairs, Professor Andaya’s book University of Hawai‘i considers such contradictions while Press, 2006 offering a thought-provoking view of Southeast Asian history that focuses on Center Director and Professor Bar- women’s roles and perceptions. She bara Watson Andaya published The explores the broad themes of the early Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Early modern era (1500–1800)—the intro- Modern Southeast Asia. duction of new religions, major "The Princess of the Flaming economic shifts, changing patterns of Womb," the Javanese legend that intro- state control, the impact of elite life- duces this pioneering study, symbolizes styles and behaviors—drawing on an the ambiguities attached to femaleness in extraordinary range of sources and Southeast Asian societies. Despite these citing numerous examples from Thai, ambiguities, the relatively egalitarian Vietnamese, Burmese, Philippine and nature of male-female relations in Malay societies. In the process, she Southeast Asia is central to arguments provides a timely and innovative model claiming a coherent identity for the re- for putting women back into world gion. history.

Southeast Asian The writers’ panel was followed by a Explorations published two issues in Literature Week Filipino Writers Summit. Featured writers included Maria Josephine Barrios, R. 2007. Under the capable guidance of its editors, Bryce Beemer and Kelli In April, CSEAS and the Zamora Linmark, Ninotchka Rosca, Swazey, Explorations published a record Department of Hawaiian and Indo- Michelle Cruz Skinner, Francis number of articles addressing themes as Pacific Languages and Literature pre- Tanglao-Aguas, Marianne Vil- diverse as architecture in Singapore to the sented a week of activities and events lanueva, as well as local Hawai’i writers politics of ethnicity in southern Thailand. focused on Southeast Asian Literature. and Katipunan Literary Journal contribu- tors. Shifting from writing to In addition to the hard work put performance, the third event forth by its editors, Explorations also had was entitled ‘The Sarimanok a committed editorial staff. Members Travels: An Epic Filipino included Shawn Fehrenbach, An- American Experience’ by thony Medrano, Lance Nolde, and Francis Tanglao-Aguas. The final event was an engaging lecture by Trisilpa Boonkhachorn of Chula- longkorn University titled ‘Thailand’s Southern Fire: A Thai Literary Perspective’. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi euismod. Ut consequat felis sit amet. Explorations: A Graduate The literary week began with a Southeast Student Journal of Asian Writers’ Panel on ‘History as Lit- Southeast Asian erature, Literature as History’. Studies Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing

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developed a course to provide advanced produced time coded English subtitles on Subtitling language students with another skill set to dialogue sheets that were then applied to Southeast Asian Film take with them after graduation while the films during an intensive end-of-the- producing subtitled films for use in a vari- semester workshop using specialized Spring 2007 saw the introduction of ety of outreach activities. subtitling software. an innovative course designed to train Seminar Class Brining Film to the World advanced language students in the art of The course began with a 10-week The final subtitled films will be subtitling film from Southeast Asia. With seminar on translation for film subtitling available for classroom use, ongoing Hawaii’s community language strength in taught by accomplished translator John community outreach efforts, and to add McGlynn, Editor-in- to the library collection of Southeast Chief of the Jakarta- Asian films both in Hawai`i and on the based Lontar Founda- Mainland. Aside from its value as profes- tion. For the length of sional skill development, one of the long the 17-week course over term goals of the project is to build coop- a dozen students erative relationships with Southeast Asian students were paired in filmmakers and film archivists. Adding teams comprised of a subtitles to their feature films, documen- native speaker of a film's taries, and television programs will extend S o u t h e a s t A s i a n the range of their screenings to U.S. film language and an festivals and educational centers around advanced language the country in order to fulfill the Center’s student in the film mission as a National Resource Center Leon Potter (M.A., Asian Studies) and Hoa Le (Second Language language (who is also a for Southeast Asia. Studies) subtitling the Vietnamese film The Passarine Bird. native English speaker). This program is the first of its kind The teams successfully in the nation and is supported by funds Thai, Lao, Indonesian, Malay, Khmer, translated film scripts from five languages from the U.S. Department of Education. Filipino, Burmese, and Vietnamese, and (Burmese, Thai, Vietnamese, Tagalog, with an increasing amount of film being Malay and Indonesian) and then produced in Southeast Asia, the Center

A Balinese Tempest forms in the traditional style, but he has Ph.D. in 1989 at STSI after performing also created his own company, Shadow- Arja opera in the form of shadow theater This unusual adaptation of Shake- Light Productions, a changing ensemble and its script "Luh Martalangu." In 2002, speare’s most musical and magical play is of actors and puppeteers who create Sedana completed a Ph.D. in drama and about a sorcerer and dethroned Milanese modern shadow puppet works on a cine- theater at the University of Georgia, with duke, Prospero, who has been banished matic scale with scene changes, lighting a dissertation titled "Kawi Dalang: Crea- with his daughter Miranda to an en- cues and a larger music ensemble. tivity in Wayang Theatre." chanted island. Guest artist Larry Reed The production will also feature will fuse Balinese and Elizabethan ele- live musical accompaniment by the ments with his hallmark shadowcasting UH Balinese Gamelan Ensemble method, which utilizes a giant screen and under the direction of guest artist I. live performers to create a magical Nyoman Sumandhi, shadow theatre performance. Topeng mask artist and Wayang Introduced to shadow plays in the Kulit puppet performer I Nyoman '70s while in Bali, Reed found himself Sedana is a faculty member and drawn to the complex spiritual and an- chair of the Pedalangan Theatre cient tradition and the powerful ephem- Department at the Indonesian eral nature of shadows. Reed spent the Institute of the Arts (ISI) in Den- next 10 years learning the art form in the pasar. Born in 1962, Sedana com- The Balinese Tempest is rehearsing now and is scheduled for traditional manner, apprenticing himself pleted his B.A. in 1986 in puppet performance in late January and early February 2008.. with shadowmasters. Today, Reed per- theater at ASTI Denpasar and his

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Fall 2007, Volume 11, No. 1 Aloha from the Director

Aloha and greetings. I am very Several SEA films won prizes, the most pleased to report on the recent achieve- notable being the festival’s Golden Or- ments of the Center for Southeast Asian chid for Best Feature, which went to Studies. Berbagi Suami (Love for Share), from INSIDE THIS ISSUE The jewel in our crown for the Indonesia. Director Nia Dinata and academic year 2006-07 was undoubtedly actress Jajang C. Noer were our guests. 1 the initiation of an ambitious subtitling Another significant film was Gubra (Anxi- UPDATES Aloha and Welcome. Conferences project for Southeast Asian film, which ety), from Malaysia, written and directed and Papers, Research and Travel, was conceived during our weekly by Yasmin Ahmad. Producer Elyna Awards and Fellowships for UHM screenings of Southeast Asian films on Shukri and actress Sharifah Amani Faculty and Students. campus. The workshop was held last attended the festival, and last April the summer, and the special class conducted Center organized a retrospective of all of by John McGlynn (who came from Ja- Ahmad’s films at the Honolulu Academy II OUTREACH karta) resulted in the subtitling of ten of Arts. We were honored that Ahmad SEA Film Series and Brown Bags, films from Southeast Asia which have herself found time in her busy schedule to Malaysian Film Retrospective and never been viewed overseas. In the first come to this retrospective, and the large a Film Festival Partnership. stages of this project we see the distribu- audiences who attended very much ap- tion of these films to universities and preciated her gracious and open re- III colleges as an important addition to the sponses to their questions. Among our PUBLICATIONS teaching of Southeast Asian languages plans for future initiatives is the streaming The Flaming Womb Is Published, and societies. We envisage, for example, of interviews and podcasts of talks with Southeast Asian Literature Week, students and teachers becoming engaged Southeast Asian filmmakers on our re- Explorations. in electronically-conveyed conversations vamped website, which should be up and about alternative translations or the running this Fall. IV cultural significance of a particular scene Despite the enormous amount of INITATIVES and so forth. work involved in putting this ambitious Subtitling Southeast Asian Film, A A second aspect of this project was program together, we did not neglect our Balinese Tempest, “Islam and Asia” in terms of outreach, for by making new other academic programs. The Center is Photographic Series. films available we hope to literally “reach working hard to build connections with out” to the community and attract the professional schools, and in that re- individuals who may not otherwise have spect a new venture was a Fall 2006 any knowledge or interest in Southeast seminar on natural disasters in Southeast Asia. In this context, a highlight was the Asia, conducted by UHM’s Department screening of more than a dozen films of Urban and Regional Planning under from Southeast Asia at the Hawaii the direction of Michael Douglass and International Film Festival in October James Spencer. It was truly amazing to 2006. Supported by its NRC funding, the see how much expertise and experience Center was able to bring in ten directors, we had on campus related to all aspects of producers and actors, and through ar- earthquakes, hurricanes, and epidemics. rangements with the festival, to host Greg Bankoff, from the University of panel discussions after the film showings. Auckland, a historian who has worked

CSEAS BULLETIN, SPRING 2007 www.hawaii.edu/cseas CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT MĀNOA extensively on natural disasters, especially Philippines. Finally, I should express our delight in the Philippines, was a valuable guest, One of the developments of which that two new faculty members, Ehito delivering several lectures and contribut- we are especially proud is the initiative of (Political Science) and Aya Kimura ing to our ongoing brown bag lunchtime our graduate students, including our (Sociology/Women’s Studies), will be talks. FLAS recipients. This year we have is- joining us in the Fall. As Indonesian spe- If anything, the Spring semester was sued two volumes of Explorations, our cialists, they will enhance our program even busier than the Fall, for we had nu- student journal, which is available on- considerably and will be of special benefit merous visitors. The course on Literature line. In addition, the Center’s graduate to the growing number of Indonesian in Translation in Southeast Asia (IP 361), assistant, Anthony Medrano, was suc- students on our campus. cessful in obtaining a grant from The schedule for the new academic the Hawai‘i Council for the Hu- year is already filling up with a list of manities which enabled him (with exciting projects, including a Balinese the support of Punahou School as adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, a home base) to mount a traveling by resident guest artist Larry Reed, who exhibition of photos on Muslim uses a giant screen and live performers to Asia, which toured various create a shadow theater performance. schools on Oahu. We are most This will be managed under the direction grateful to Punahou School and of Kirstin Pauka, who will also be serv- Terrina Wong, Program Coor- ing as Acting Director while I am away dinator at the Wo International on sabbatical (until July 2008). Indeed, Center, for their support in this when I looked at the list of events for the Alam Payind, Director of the Center for Middle Eastern endeavor. coming twelve months, I was almost (not Studies at Ohio State University. We are also grateful to Terrina, quite) tempted to cancel my leave! the Freeman Foundation and the In closing, I wish to express my for instance, brought in several overseas State Department of Education for pro- heartfelt appreciation to the Executive guests; Alam Payind, Director of the viding opportunities for myself and Mu- Board of our Center, which continues to Center for Middle Eastern Studies at hammad Ali, who has just completed offer invaluable advice and support. I The Ohio State University, gave several his Ph.D. in history, to conduct a work- would like to record my gratitude to the presentations; Jonathan Rigg, from the shop on Islam in Southeast Asia for Center staff – of course, Paul Rausch, University of Durham, spent a week on schoolteachers so that they feel confident and Anthony Medrano (to whom we campus during which time he gave sev- when teaching the new standards and bid a fond farewell as he settles into his eral lectures, including the third in a spe- benchmarks. new position with Ohio University’s cial School of Hawai‘ian, Asian and Pa- I would also like to comment on a Southeast Asia program), but especially to cific Studies lecture series. Because of the further development in relation to the Helen Lee, our long-suffering secretary prominence of the Ilokano program at award of FLAS grants. The Center con- – and to the School’s fiscal officers, Myra the University of Hawai‘i, the Center tinues to support the concept of a Sum- Yamamoto and Joyce Morikuni, also contributed to the 2007 Nakem mer Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, whose patience and advice has made it Conference, this year held at Mariano which, over the last twenty years, has possible to bring our ambitious plans to Marcos State University in the made a significant contribution to teach- fruition. ing about this part of the world. To all those who helped make the However, we also believe that past year such a success, I again offer my there are now enhanced sincere thanks. opportunities for students to spend their summer in-country at BARBARA WATSON ANDAYA approved language schools where they can also benefit from living in the relevant culture. In Sum- mer 2007, we therefore used the equivalent of three FLAS grants to support language study for five Sapril Akmady and Anthony Medrano, co-curators of the students (two in Indonesia, one in Islamic Cultures Photo Exhibit. Malaysia, two in Thailand).

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Philippines including the University of to give a lecture on his latest book, Faculty News and Activities the Philippines, University of Northern titled The Mists of Ramanna: the Legend Barbara Watson Andaya, Director Philippines, St. Louis College, Cebu that was Lower Burma, at Harvard Uni- of the Center for Southeast Asian Normal University, and the Department versity’s Center for the Study of World Studies and Professor of Asian Studies, of Foreign Affairs. Religions. has had a full year of activities and commitments. She participated in three Aside from her teaching and lecturing, J a c k B i l m e s , P r o f e s s o r o f conferences in Washington, Finland, and Aquino also edited One Hundred Years Anthropology, has an article coming out Hawai‘i, respectively. In Washington, she and Beyond and authored an article enti- entitled, “Kinship Categories in a North- presented a paper at the NRC Directors tled, “The Filipino Century in Hawaii: ern Thai Narrative.” It will appear in the Conference entitled, “Challenges and Out of the Crucible.” Moreover, she edited book, Conversation Analysis: Cross- Rewards of Administering an NRC chaired and presented a paper at the Linguistic Perspectives. Bilmes will present grant.” In Finland, Professor Andaya read A s s o c i a t i o n f o r A s i a n S t u d i e s an abbreviated version of this paper at a paper titled, “Oceans Connect? Asian Conference in Boston. The title of the the 2007 meeting of the International Studies in a Globalizing Era.” In Hawai‘i, panel was “Constitutional Change in the Pragmatics Association in Gothenburg. she presented a paper at the 2007 P h i l i p p i n e s : I s F e d e r a l i s m - Indonesian Conference and Cultural Parliamentarism the Answer?” Aquino Robert Blust, Professor of Linguistics, Event entitled, “Diversity and State Pol- also presented a paper at the First recently published several works, icy: Placing Indonesia in a Global Frame- National Philippine Studies Conference including “Whence the Malays?” in James work.” In addition, Andaya recently in Japan. In her administrative role, she T. Collins and Awang Sariyan, eds., Bor- published The Flaming Womb: Reposition- is on the steering committee for the neo and the Homeland of the Malays: Four ing Women in Southeast Asian History 2008 International Philippine Studies Essays. through University of Hawai‘i Press. She Conference, which will be held in Ma- also had an article entitled, “Oceans nila. Unbounded: Transversing Asia across William Chapman, Professor of ‘Area Studies’” in the Journal of Asian American Studies, has had a productive Studies and “Studying Women and academic year. To begin, he received a Gender in Southeast Asia: A ‘State of Fulbright Senior Specialist Award in the Art’ Essay” in the International 2006 for research in Thailand. He also Journal of Asian Studies. authored several chapters related to Southeast Asia, including two for the Aside from her teaching, she main- Encyclopedia of the Modern World, one tains a busy administrative schedule titled, “Architecture: Southeast Asia,” as well as hosting guests and oversee- and the other chapter entitled, “Art: ing campus activities related to Southeast Asia.” Chapman presented a Southeast Asia. She continues to paper at the International Conference, work with colleagues and with the Architecture in the Land of Suvarnab- Asia Society on developing a curricu- humi. He also read a paper entitled, lum for teaching Islam in Southeast “Genrification, Conservation and Asia to schools. She has made three Economic Development: What Can We trips to Thailand in her role as chair Learn for Rattanakosin’s Future?” at of a committee evaluating the Asian the International Symposium on Archi- Scholarship Fellowship foundation, tecture and Human Rights, held in which will now come under the pa- Bangkok. Over the course of the tronage of HRH Princess Maha academic year, Chapman also gave Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand. lectures on Conservation and Archi- Andaya is currently the Raffles Chair tecture in Southeast Asia at the in the Department of History. During University of Oxford, England, the her sabbatical leave from August 2007 University of York, England, and Kaset- to July 2008 she will be working on a sart University, Thailand. history of Early Modern Southeast Asia and researching her current Michael Douglass, Director of the project, a history of minority Globalization Research Center and Christian communities in Southeast Professor of Urban and Planning, or- Asia. ganized several panels in 2006, including “Globalization and Livable Belinda Aquino, Director of the Cities in Pacific Asia: The Rise of Civil Center for Philippine Studies and Society and the Social Production of Professor of Asian Studies, has had a Civic Space” at the Third International busy year serving as a member of the Conference of the Globalization Filipino Celebration Centennial Michael Gardner (History, UHM) and Professor Belinda Studies Network held in Kuala Lumpur, C o m m i s s i o n . S h e c h a i re d a n Aquino. Malaysia. He was also the keynote International Conference on the speaker at the International Sympo- Hawaii Filipino Centennial. The theme sium on “Planning for Livable Cities: of the conference was “The Filipino International Comparative Perspectives Century Beyond Hawaii.” Aquino also Michael Aung-Thwin, Professor of on Vietnam” held at the Institute of organized the panel, “Revisiting Ha- Asian Studies, presented a paper at the Economic Research in Ho Chi Minh City, napepe” and presented a paper entitled, A s s o c i a t i o n f o r A s i a n S t u d i e s Vietnam. Douglass has also edited a “Understanding the Hanapepe Massa- Conference on the Burmese Studies special issue of International Development cre.” In addition, she was invited by the Group Panel entitled “In the Eyes of the Planning Review with articles on global Commission on Filipinos Overseas, Ma- Beholder.” He also gave a paper at the householding in East and Southeast Asia. nila, to deliver a series of lectures based Burma Studies Colloquium in Singapore He has several chapters coming out in on the Hawaii Filipino Centennial. on the Plenary Session on an aspect of 2007, including “The Livability of Mega- Aquino presented papers at several the colloquium’s theme “Communities of Urban Regions in Southeast Asia” in G. institutions and universities in the Interpretation.” Aung-Thwin was invited Jones and M. Douglass, eds., The Rise of

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Globalization of Householding and Social Peter Xenos, EWC and Professor of Nathan Camp, Asian Studies ’02, is Reproduction in Pacific Asia,” in Philip- Sociology, is coordinating with Michael working for Volunteers in Asia in San pine Studies. As director of the GRC, Douglass (GRC) a summer seminar on Francisco as the Indonesia Program Douglass has secured several grants for “Livable Cities in Pacific Asia: Research Director. Camp helps recruit, train, research concerning community and Methods for Policy Analysis.” The par- place, and support volunteers for two civic space in Southeast Asia. ticipants will mostly be drawn from in-country programs. As part of his Southeast Asia and Vietnam, in particular. work, Camp travelled to Thailand to help Uli Kozok, Coordinator of the run training and to Indonesia to visit Indonesian Language Program and volunteers, investigate new partnerships Professor of Indonesian, presented a Student and Alumni News and assess various elements of the paper entitled, “Two Malay Legal Codes Margaret B. Bodemer, programs. Camp can be contacted at from the 14th and 18th Centuries” at Anthropology, received a Fulbright Hays viaprograms.org. the ASEAUK 2006 Conference in Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Oxford. He also participated in an Award, 2006-2007, in Hanoi, Vietnam. Pandit Chanrochanakit, Ph.D. in international workshop on archaeology Her research is being conducted at the Political Science ’06, works as a lecturer and ethnohistory in the highlands of Vietnam Museum of Ethnology. In 2006, in the faculty of Political Science at Sumatra. His paper was titled, “The Arri- Bodemer attended SEASSI to study Ramkhamhaeng University in Bangkok. val of Islam and its Implementations for Vietnamese as a FLAS fellow. He teaches Research and Methods and the Legal System in Kerinci.” As the Political Theory. He is also an editor for coordinator of the Indonesian language Herman Kelen, Asian Studies ’06, is Vibhasa magazine, which publishes arti- program, Kozok read a paper at the working for PIKUL, a local NGO based cles in the fields of cultural studies, the annual COTIM meeting in Madison. His in Kupang, Indonesia. As PIKUL’s Hu- humanities, and the social sciences. paper titled was “Online and Offline: manitarian Coordinator, Kelen is respon- Newly Developed Teaching Materials for sible for not only coordinating emer- Dan Brown, Second Language Studies, Advanced Indonesian.” Moreover, he was gency relief efforts but also managing received a FLAS fellowship for the study appointed Senior Fellow at the Asia projects related to disaster prepared- of Thai in 2006-2007. He co-presented a Research Institute, National University ness. In the meantime, Kelen is continu- paper entitled “Local Resources for a of Singapore, for the months of July to ing to conduct research on food security Local Context: Challenges to English December 2007. and drought in two districts in East Language Teaching Policy in Thailand” at Nusa Tenggara Province. t h e S H A P S G r a d u a t e S t u d e n t Will C. McClatchey, Professor of Conference in 2007. He also read the Botany, presented a paper at the Botany Sean Blundon, Asian Studies ’06, is same paper at the International Society Symposium Series (UHM) entitled, currently the Theater Security Coopera- for Language Studies Conference in “Biodiversity and Biocognosy of Phutai tion Program Manager for Southeast Honolulu. In Summer 2007, Dan taught in Northeastern Thailand. He also was Asia at Headquarters, U.S. Army Pacific, English in Thailand at Ubon Rajathanee the keynote speaker at Khon Kaen Fort Shafter. Since September 2006, he University in northeastern Thailand. University in Thailand, where he spoke has made five trips to the region, coor- on natural pharm. In Chiang Mai, dinating exercises and meetings in the Adam Young-Knowlton, Asian McClatchey was an invited organizer and Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore , Studies ‘04, was awarded a research presenter at the annual meeting of the Malaysia, Vietnam, and Cambodia. grant in 2004-05 to edit his MAMA the- Society for Economic Botany. He has sis at the International Institute of Asian recently conducted research in Thailand Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands. With , Anthropology, as a Fulbright Fellow. Shawn Fehrenbach the support of Mark Valencia, former received a 2006-07 and a 2007-08 FLAS Senior Research Fellow at the East West fellowship for the study of Khmer. Michael Pietrusewsky, Professor of Center and IIAS this manuscript was Anthropology, presented a paper in Ma- Fehrenbach recently presented a recently published by ISEAS (Institute nila at the 18th Congress of the Indo- paper at the 2007 SHAPS Graduate for Southeast Asian Studies) in Pacific Prehistory Association. He also Student Conference and was also a Singapore: Contemporary Maritime Piracy published two chapters, one in Bioar- member of the Explorations editorial in Southeast Asia: History, Cause and chaeology of Southeast Asia and the other board. Remedies. He now works in dispute in Austronesian Diaspora and the Ethno- resolution at North Shore Community gensis of People in the Indonesian Archipel- T u r r o S e l r i t s W o n g k a r e n , Mediation in Beverly, MA. Sociology, is writing his MA thesis on ago. Indonesian economic visions, while com- LeeRay Costa, Ph.D. in Anthropology Pietrusewsky’s recent research includes pleting coursework for the Ph.D. in ’01, is currently a professor of the metric study of Negrito and Sociology. Wongkaren also works at Anthropology and Women’s Studies at Southeast Asian cranial series at the the East West Center on a project with Hollins University, in Roanoke, VA. In Musee de l’Homme in Paris and continu- Professor Andrew Mason. He pre- February, LeeRay co-published Male ing laboratory analysis of human skeletal sented a paper entitled “The New Or- Bodies, Women’s Souls: Personal Narratives remains from Angkor Borei in Cambodia. der, Priyayi Culture and Capitalist Class of Thailand’s Transgendered Youth. It fo- in Indonesia” at the American Sociologi- cuses on the lives and personal narra- cal Association meeting in New York. tives of Thai sao braphet song (also known as kathoey). She also had an arti- cle accepted for publication by Asian Studies Review entitled “Gender, Sexual- ity and Nationalism in a Northern Thai N o n - G o ve r n m e n t a l O r g a n i z a t i o n . LeeRay earned tenure and was pro- moted to Associate Professor in 2007.

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Mother Goddess: The Dao Graduate Student Conference titled “On Mau Movement in Northern the Margins of Nationhood: the Orang Vietnam” in the journal Ex- Laut and Sama-Bajau of Southeast Asia.” plorations. Tu was awarded a Nolde also served on the editorial GSO travel grant to present board of Explorations. a paper in Singapore, as well as a scholarship from the Stephen Acabado, Anthropology, Government of Vietnam received several awards and fellowships (2006-2010). She also served this academic year, including a National a s p r e s i d e n t o f t h e Science Foundation Dissertation Im- Vietnamese Student Associa- provement Grant, an ACLS/Luce Founda- tion of Hawaii. tion Dissertation Fellowship, and a UH Arts and Sciences Advisory Council James Rae, Ph.D. in Politi- Award. Acabado also co-organized the cal Science ’06, is an assistant session “Trade, Social Interaction, and professor of Government at Political Economy in Southeast Asian California State University at Archaeology” at the Indo-Pacific Prehis- Sacramento, teaching courses tory Association Meeting in Manila. At Barbara Andaya Watson meets with HRH Princess Maha Chakri o n w o r l d p o l i t i c s , the conference, he presented a paper Sirindhorn of Thailand. international organization, entitled “Landscape and Social Organiza- international law, and the tion: The Social Organization of the Ashton Udall, Asian Studies ’04, is a politics of Asia. This summer Ifugao, Northern Luzon, Philippines.” partner in the product development and he will continue his research in Acabado will be conducting fieldwork sourcing firm Global Sourcing Special- Southeast Asia, observing the parliamen- this summer at the rice terraces in Ifu- ists. He lives in San Francisco and at- tary elections in East Timor and visiting gao province, Philippines. tends MBA classes at Santa Clara Indonesia. University. Steve Rehermann, Asian Studies ’03, Lance Nolde, History, was awarded is currently Country Program Director Tu Anh T. Vu, Anthropology, will the Moscotti Travel Grant for field for Sub-Saharan Africa at the Defense present a paper entitled “Traditional research in Southeast Sulawesi and a Security Cooperation Agency, Office of Ritual Made Modern: Paper Money Burn- 2007-08 FLAS fellowship for the study the Secretary of Defense. He also ac- ing (Vang Ma) in Hanoi, Vietnam” at the of Indonesian. He presented a paper quired a second master’s degree from 16th Annual Harvard Project for Asian entitled “Fluid Cartographies: Orang Tufts University. and International Relations Conference Laut and Sama-Bajau Conceptions of in Beijing. Among other conferences, she Space and Territoriality” at the SHAPS also published an article titled “The Graduate Student Conference in 2007. He also read a paper at the 2007 EWC

Awards Fellowships CSEAS awarded Summer 2007 FLAS to: The Center for Southeast Asia Foreign Language and Area Paper Prize is awarded for the best S t u d i e s Fe l low s h i p s ( F LA S ) paper on a Southeast Asian theme pre- Southeast Asia, 2006-2007 FLAS Andrea Bertoli, sented at the SHAPS Graduate Student Fellowships for 2006-2007 provided Political Science/Women’s Studies, Conference held each spring semester. stipend and tuition for full time, UHM Indonesian The 2007 paper prize of $100 was registered, U.S. citizen or permanent Mary Conran, Anthropology, Thai awarded to Noah Viernes (Ph.D. resident graduate students enrolled in a Michael Gardner, program, Department of Political formal program of intensive Southeast Asian Studies, Indonesian Science) for his paper titled “Life Trans- Asian language study in the country of Anthony Medrano, mission: New Thai Cinema and the Poli- their language focus. Asian Studies, Malay tics of Aesthetics”. Noah Viernes, Political Science, Thai CSEAS awarded academic year FLAS to: The Albert Moscotti Graduate Student Travel Award is presented Cy Calugay, Anthropology, Filipino annually to a top graduate student in a Bryce Beemer, History, Thai Southeast Asian related field of study to Shawn Fehrenbach assist with travel costs associated with Anthropology, Khmer field work or language study in Lance Nolde Southeast Asia. The year’s award of History, Indonesian $1,000 was presented to Lance Nolde Mary Conran, Anthropology, Thai (MA program, Asian Studies), for his field Erwin Legaspi, work in Indonesia in Summer 2007. Asian Studies. Filipino Trinh Nguyen Theatre, Vietnamese The Nguyen Dang Liem Prize in Julie Osborn Vietnamese Studies is awarded History, Vietnamese annually to the best paper on Vietnam at Noah Viernes either undergraduate or graduate level. Political Science, Thai The 2007 prize of $100 was awarded to Dan Labarca, Asian Studies, Filipino Dr. Jonathon Rigg, Reader, Department of Geography at Leon Potter (Asian Studies) for his Geoff Ashton, Philosophy, Thai paper on the Cham language. Dan Brown University of Durham (UK), gave the SHAPS Public Second Language Studies, Thai Lecture “An Everyday Geography of the Global South.”

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Outreach News and Activities

SEA Film Series This fall, the program of film will Now in its fourth year, the Center's include The Story of Po (Vietnam, Quang popular Southeast Asian Film Series con- Hai Ngo), Mekong Full Moon Party (Thai- tinues to build a loyal following of regular land, Jira Maligool), the epic film Cour- film attendees from both the university tesan (Indonesia, Nia Dinata), Indio Na- and local communities The series has cional (Philippines, Raya Martin), showcased, often for the first time in Ha- Me...Myself (Thailand, Pongpat Wa- wai‘i, more than seventy-five subtitled chirabunjong) in addition to films from Join us at the Korean Studies Building on Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Vietnam films which span the diverse and dynamic Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. for the films! landscape of cinema in Southeast Asia. and Cambodia!

SEA Brown Bags October 20: Scripture and ‘Literature’ in Upcoming Brown Bags Indonesian Islam: Some Modern Debates The Center’s series of brown bag by Michael Feener (History, NUS) September 14: Balinese Dance by Nyo- discussions continued to act as a forum man Sumandhi (Theater, Indonesian October 27: Winds of Colonization: The Institute of the Arts) for current research and intellectual ex- Meteorological Contours of Spain’s Im- change. In 2006, we had a compelling perium in the Pacific, 1521-1898 by Greg September 28: Vietnam Spirit Cultures and diverse array of presenters ranging Bankoff (History, University of Auckland) by Liam C. Kelley (History, UHM) from a Khmer music performance to a November 17: Off the Market? Missing October 5: Tai Rice Culture by John visual history of Indonesia during the Links in Community-Based Sustainable Hartman (Thai, Northern Illinois Development Initiatives by Carol Warren University) Soeharto years. A complete list has been (Anthropology, University of Western provided below: Australia) October 26: Indian Ocean Trade Net- working by Kenneth R. Hall (History, Ball January 26: Slavery as a Vector for State University) September 15: An Afternoon of Tradi- Cultural Exchange: The Case of Pre- tional Khmer Music with Rina Deth colonial Burma and Thailand by Bryce (Cambodia Association of Hawaii) November 2: History, Memory, and Beemer (History, UHM) Cultural Change in Bajo Communities of September 29: Bio-fuel and Food Secu- Southeast Sulawesi in Indonesia by Lance February 9: Introducing Islam to School Nolde (History, UHM) rity in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Children through Music: Examples from Indonesia by Herman Kelen (Asian Palestine, Turkey, Persia, and Southeast Studies, UHM) November 16: Philippe M.F. Peycam Asia by Chet-Yeng Loong (Music, UHM) (Center for Khmer Studies, Siem Riep). October 13: A Personal Experience of Traveling to Egypt and Researching the February 23: From Tsunamis to Coups: Muslim Brotherhood by Mefi Herma- Covering Southeast Asia for the Associ- wanti (Political Science, UHM) ated Press by David Briscoe (AP Honolulu Bureau)

March 14: Library of Congress Holdings Pertaining to Southeast Asia by Kathryn Wellen (Library of Congress)

March 20: Indonesia in the Soeharto Years: Issues, Incidents and Images by John H. McGlynn (Lontar Foundation, Jakarta)

April 18: The Making of Wealth and Pov- erty in Laos by Jonathon Rigg (Geogra- phy, University of Durham, UK)

April 27: Understanding Dynamic From the Center’s special series “Islamic Resource Management Systems and Land Cultures in Reflection: A Southeast Asia Cover Transitions in Montane Mainland Professor Chet-Yeng Loong (Music, UHM) pre- Photograph Exhibition.” Southeast Asia by Jefferson Fox sented a brown bag entitled “Introducing Islam to (Environmental Studies Program, EWC) School Children through Music: Examples from Palestine, Turkey, Persia, and Southeast Asia.”

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Malaysian Retrospective This rare weekend provided the opportunity to engage the filmmaker in a Hawai‘i community with a fantastic series of informal discussions ranging The Center for Southeast Asian from her experiences as a Muslim woman Studies hosted Malaysian director and making film to her philosophy on film- master storyteller Yasmin Ahmad for a making and storytelling that encourages retrospective of her films, which screened dialog and reflection not so much on the at the Honolulu Academy of Arts in differences we have as human beings, but April 2007. The films featured included those shared experiences that hopefully Rabun, Sepet, Gubra, and the North build bridges of understanding between American premiere of Mukhsin, which people. won the grand prize of the Deutsche Kin- The retrospective was supported by derhilfswerk (German Child Support Or- a grant from the US Department of ganisation) for Best Feature Film in the Yasmin Ahmad (r) is interviewed by UHM Professor Education as part of the Center’s educa- Kplus category competition at the 57th Wimal Dissanayake at the Honolulu Design Center. tional outreach mission. Berlin International Film Festival earlier in 2007.

Center Launches program was a new partnership Film Festival Program with the Hawaii International Film Festival that was designed to With a mandate to provide access to highlight the cinema of resources that highlight the dynamic re- Southeast Asia. gion of Southeast Asia in schools and The partnership was devel- communities across the country, the oped in the belief that film pro- vides an engaging form of com- municating culture across bor- ders, and as the very nature of a CSEAS Associate Director Paul Rausch, Indonesian Director Nia Dinata, HIFF Film Programmer Christian Razukas, film festival is to provide the and Bee Thiam Tan of the Singapore Film Archive. venue for this type of educational activity, the partnership with the captured the Golden Orchid for Best Hawaii International Film Festival was Feature Film. The film tells three loosely seen as a way to help position both the connected stories about polygamy in Center and HIFF as leaders in bringing modern Indonesia. Other award winners new and engaging film and film industry with Southeast Asia roots included 4:30, leaders from Southeast Asia into focus in (Singapore, Royston Tan) about a latch- the US. key kid who steals from his family's ten- Over the course of the festival the ant. which took home the NETPAC Center hosted a number of directors, Award for Best Asian Film. Majidee actors, producers, archivists, and film critics who engaged in educational forums following selected films. All told there were 23 films with Southeast Asian themes, 15 of which Director Romeo Candido and Actress Phoemela were feature films from Southeast Baranda from the Filipino horror film ANG Asia. PAMANA: THE INHERITANCE. Much to the great joy of Southeast Asian film fans at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies festival, films from the region launched a new initiative to develop a garnered three of the top festival Southeast Asian film program at the awards, including Love For Share University of Hawai‘i beginning in fall (Indonesia, Nia Dinata) which Indonesian Actress Jajang C. Noer (r) with Hawai‘i Governor 2006. The starting point for this fledgling Linda Lingle at the Governor’s Official Residence.

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The Flaming Womb: Erudite, Nuanced, and Accessible Repositioning Women Deemed a “masterful” and in Southeast Asian “tightly-argued” work by Choice and a History. Honolulu: “must read for Southeast Asianists” by Pacific Affairs, Andaya’s book considers University of Hawai‘i such contradictions while offering a Press, 2006 thought-provoking view of Southeast Asian history that focuses on women’s Center Director and Professor Bar- roles and perceptions. She explores the bara Watson Andaya published The broad themes of the early modern era Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Early (1500–1800)—the introduction of new Modern Southeast Asia. religions, major economic shifts, chang- "The Princess of the Flaming ing patterns of state control, the impact Womb," the Javanese legend that intro- of elite lifestyles and behaviors—draw- duces this pioneering study, symbolizes ing on an extraordinary range of the ambiguities attached to femaleness in sources and citing numerous examples Southeast Asian societies. Despite these from Thai, Vietnamese, Burmese, Phil- ambiguities, the relatively egalitarian ippine and Malay societies. In the nature of male-female relations in process, she provides a timely and inno- Southeast Asia is central to arguments vative model for putting women back claiming a coherent identity for the re- into world history. gion.

Southeast Asian The writers’ panel was followed by a Explorations published a record number of Literature Week Filipino Writers Summit. Featured writers articles addressing themes as diverse as included Maria Josephine Barrios, R. architecture in Singapore to the politics of In April, the Center and the Zamora Linmark, Ninotchka Rosca, ethnicity in southern Thailand. Department of Hawaiian and Indo- Michelle Cruz Skinner, Francis In addition to the hard work put Pacific Languages and Literature pre- Tanglao-Aguas, Marianne Vil- forth by its editors, Explorations also had a sented a week of activities and events lanueva, as well as local Hawai’i writers committed editorial staff. Members focused on Southeast Asian Literature. and Katipunan Literary Journal contributors. included Shawn Fehrenbach, An- The literary week began with a Southeast Shifting from writing to performance, the thony Medrano, Lance Nolde, and Asian Writers’ Panel on ‘History as Lit- third event was entitled ‘The Sarimanok Elise Thomasson. Faculty advisors erature, Literature as History’. Travels: An Epic Filipino American Ex- were Barbara Watson Andaya and perience’ by Francis Tanglao-Aguas. Liam Kelley. The CSEAS coordinator The final event was an was Paul Rausch. engaging lecture by Trisilpa Boonkhachorn of Chula- longkorn University titled ‘Thailand’s Southern Fire: A Thai Literary Perspective’.

Explorations: A Graduate Student Journal of Southeast Asian Studies SEA Literature in Translation Conference participants (front) Explorations published two issues Ruth Mabonglo, Barbara Watson Andaya, Yuphaphann Hoon- in 2007. Under the capable chamlong and (back) Chhany Sak-Humphry, Maria Josephine guidance of its editors, Bryce Back issues of Explorations are available for down- Barrios, George Chigas, U Sam Oeur and Trisilpa Boonkhachorn. Beemer and Kelli Swazey, load on the CSEAS website.

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Subtitling developed a course to provide advanced produced time-coded English subtitles on Southeast Asian Film language students with another skill set to dialogue sheets that were then applied to take with them after graduation and to the films during an intensive end-of-the- Spring 2007 saw the introduction of produce subtitled films for use in a variety semester workshop using specialized an innovative course designed to train of outreach activities. subtitling software. advanced language students in the art of Seminar Class Bringing Film to the World subtitling film from Southeast Asia. With The course began with a ten week The final subtitled films will be Hawai‘i’s community language strength seminar on translation for film subtitling available for classroom use, ongoing in Thai, Lao, Indonesian, Malay, Khmer, taught by accomplished community outreach efforts, and to add t r a n s l a t o r J o h n to the library collection of Southeast McGlynn, Editor-in- Asian films both in Hawai‘i and on the Chief of the Jakarta- Mainland. Aside from its value as profes- based Lontar Founda- sional skill development, one of the long tion. For the length of term goals of the project is to build coop- the 17-week course erative relationships with Southeast Asian students were paired in filmmakers and film archivists. Adding teams comprised of a subtitles to their feature films, documen- native speaker of a film's taries, and television programs will extend S o u t h e a s t A s i a n the range of their screenings to American language and an film festivals and educational centers advanced language around the country in order to fulfill the student in the film’s Center’s mission as a National Resource Leon Potter (Asian Studies, Second Language Studies) and Hoa Le (Sec- language (who is also a Center for Southeast Asia. ond Language Studies) subtitling the Vietnamese film The Passarine Bird. native English speaker). This program is the first of its kind The teams successfully in the nation and is supported by funds Filipino, Burmese, and Vietnamese, and translated film scripts from five languages from the US Department of Education. with an increasing amount of film being (Burmese, Thai, Vietnamese, Filipino, produced in Southeast Asia, the Center Malay and Indonesian) and then

A Balinese Tempest forms in the traditional style, but he has Wesleyan University and studied of also created his own company, Shadow- ethnomusicology at the University of This unusual adaptation of Shake- Light Productions, a changing ensemble California, Los Angeles under grant from speare’s most musical and magical play is of actors and puppeteers who create the John D. Rockefeller 3rd Fund. about a sorcerer and dethroned Milanese modern shadow puppet works on a cine- Sumandhi has served as Principal, duke, Prospero, who has been banished matic scale with scene changes, lighting S.M.K.I., High School of Performing with his daughter Miranda to an en- cues and a larger music ensemble. Arts in Denpasar and Instructor of Bali- chanted island. Guest artist Larry Reed The production will also feature live nese music and dance at the Naropa will fuse Balinese and Elizabethan ele- musical accompaniment by the UH Bali- Institute Summer Program in Ubud. ments with his hallmark shadowcasting nese Gamelan Ensemble under the method, which utilizes a giant screen and direction of guest artist I. Nyoman live performers to create a magical Sumandhi. Born into a family of shadow theatre performance. dalangs, or traditional Balinese puppet Introduced to shadow plays in the masters, Sumandhi relates that becom- '70s while in Bali, Reed found himself ing a dalang involves a mastery of tradi- drawn to the complex spiritual and an- tional Balinese music, dance, and cient tradition and the powerful ephem- choreography, as well as the repertoire eral nature of shadows. Reed spent the and theatrical techniques associated next 10 years learning the art form in the with the wayang kulit or shadow puppet traditional manner, apprenticing himself theater, which is regarded as the pinna- The Balinese Tempest is rehearsing now and is scheduled for with shadowmasters. Today, Reed per- cle of the arts in Bali. Sumandhi performance in late January and early February 2008. earned an MA in Theater from

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A Special Photographic Series Islam and Asia CSEAS BULLETIN VOL I1, NO 1 In response to the public’s growing “The people,” notes Barbara Wat- The CSEAS Bulletin reports on interest in Islam, the Center for Southeast son Andaya, Director of the Center for the achievements and activities Asian Studies at the University of Southeast Asian Studies, “were able to of the faculty and students of the Hawai‘i-Mānoa has organized “Islamic contribute to a process that was to give Center for Southeast Asian Cultures in Reflection: A Southeast Asia Southeast Asian Islam a distinctive char- Studies at the University of Ha- Photograph Exhibition.” Organized by acter which it has retained to the present wai‘i at Mānoa, as well as related graduate students Anthony Medrano day.” It is this “distinctive character” that events, research, scholarships and Sapril Akhmady, the mission of has inspired the exhibition, and energized and overseas programs. the exhibition was to visually and sub- individuals to submit their photographs stantially address the cultural diversity of from places as distant as Aceh and Ithaca. CONTACT Islam in the region. This is an important The exhibit travelled to several classroom CSEAS Bulletin Editor effort, in itself, given the dominant image throughout the state of Hawai‘i. The c/o CSEAS exhibition was sponsored by a grant from and narrative of Islam in American 1890 East-West Road the Hawaii Council for the Humanities. society. Whether it is a Bugis wedding Moore Hall 416 where the bride is beautifully adorned in University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa gold or a colorful classroom full of public school teachers playing games in Honolulu, HI 96822 Mindanao, the hope of this exhibition is to enrich the public’s knowledge of Islam. e [email protected] t +1 808 956 2688 f +1 808 956 2682 w www.hawaii.edu/cseas

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