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-The Philippines and America's War on International Terrorism by oel~.~orada

America's war against international terrorism Public opinion in the Philippines is generally following September 11,200I reached its upportive ofAmerican military pre ence in econd pha e early this year when Pre ident the country in the context of the joint military George W. Bu h announced in hi State of exerci e with the .S.-called Balikatan-02-1. Inside This Issue the Union address the deployment of a mall Yet a numberof Filipino politician, non­ COntingent of U.S. forces in the Philippines. government organizations, and media people The action was primarily aimed at providing have expressed opposition to allowing U.S. Brown Bag Lecture Series training to Filipino soldiers who are fighting troop in the combat zone and allowing them 3 the Abbu Sayyaf, a notorious band of to be indirectly involved in the Philippine Mu lim rebel reported to have link with the armed forces' military operation again t the New Facu lty Al Qaeda. The Abbu Sayyaf gained Abbu Sayyaf. Some Filipino oppo ition 3-4 International notoriety in the late 1990s when legi lators have que tioned the legality of U.S. it began to engage in kidnap-for-ransom troop deployment in Mindanao and the activities involving Filipinos and foreign wisdom ofholding the joint military exerci e Faculty in Vietnam national. In May 200 I, the group struck in that part of the country. For their part, 5-8 again and kidnapped three Americans (one opinion-maker in the local media oppo ed to of Whom they later beheaded) and a number the Balikatan exerci e have played up the Positions Open of Filipino from a beach resort in Palawan risk of having American troop indirectlj 8 island. Abbu Sayyaf has since been involved in the military operation. again t the pursued by the Philippine military for the Abbu Sayyaf. They argue that the Philippine Other Faculty News and Updates pa t eleven months with no success. The might uffer the same fate as Vietnam in the 9-11 d.ep)oyment of orne 600 American oldiers I960s, especially if U.S. force come under Ince mid-February ha caused quite a stir in attack not only from the Abbu Sayyaf but al 0 FLAS and Student News the Philippine becau e. for the first time, the from the renegade upporter of I 'ur Mi uari' annual joint military exerci e. between the faction in the Moro Iational Liberation Front 11-13 U.S. Armed Force and the Philippine (M LF) or from the Moro I lamic Liberation military are taking place in an area of Front (MILF) guerrillas. If . uch event occur, In Memorium Mindanao clo e to the combat zone. In fact, the United States would be drawn into an 13 ome 160 American special forces have been es entially domestic conflict. It mu t be noted deployed in Ba ilan i land since the end of that both the M LF and MILF have force Outreach Update February, where the Abbu Sayyaf are holed scattered all over Ba ilan. 14 u~ with the remaining kidnapped American nu Sionary couple and a Filipino nurse. Continued 011 Page 2 Donations 15

Recent Publications 15 - 16 oel M. Morada is A i tam Profe or of Political Science, University ofthe Philippine, Dilirnan, Quezon City and received hi Ph.D. degree in Political Science from orthern Illinois University. Continued from Page I Balikatan exercise . Fir t, Filipino defen e and Instead. an item on "legal liai on" wa added military official have been reluctant to give in under the administration and logi tic ection Meanwhile. non-government organizations. to .5. demand. to call the joint military ofthe final TOR (Zamora 2(02). r • • official particularly the militant nationali t and anti­ exerci e "operation ." which would justify a rejected the fir t draft of the TOR be au e American group • have portrayed the prolonged and expensive American pre ence they objected to the provi ion placing pre ence of .5. troop in the Philippine a in the Philippine . In read, Philippine officials American troops under the command of another "irnperiali t" comeback, and have have insisted on calling it "training". Second, Filipino unit commander during the exerci e. tarted to make allegation of human right the Philippine government want U.S. force violation in Ba ilan in the ongoing joint in Ba ilan to be placed under the control of From a trategic per pective, the Philippine military operation again t the Abbu Sayyaf. Filipino commander. which i . unacceptable to government appear divided on what to make Within the Mu lim and Chri tian the .5. force. However. Filipino defen e and of the long-term agenda of the .5. in communitie in Mindanao. opinion on military official ' are willing to give in to the conducting joint military exerci e in the American military deployment is at be t .5. demand for parallel and eparate com­ outhern Philippine . Filipino defen e and vacillating if not divided. Parouk Hus in. the mand tructure: for both American and military official are fully . upportive of newly elected governor of the Autonomou Filipino troops in Basilan. Third. the America's war on international terrori m. Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), was Macapagal-Arroyo admini tration insists that They do not ee any problem with allov ing initially oppo. ed to the deployment of .5. U.S. troops be confined to the tactical the deployment of U.S. force in area of troop close to Ba ilan but later on became command poet. while American soldiers expect conflict, such a tho e in Mindanao. In a convinced that American military a istance that they will join their Filipino counterpart in meeting ofthe Philippine- .5. Mutual was needed in dealing with the Abbu Sayyaf. combat operations in Basilan (Mogato 2002a). Defense Board in 200I. Admiral Denni Blair. Although he recognized that the Abbu the commander-in-chiefofthe U. . Pacific Sayyaf might have orne linkages with the AI There were two drafts of the 'Terms of Command. suggested to Philippine defen e Qaeda, he al 0 argued that equating the Reference" (TOR) for the Balikatan 02-1 official that the Armed Force of the former with the latter i a bit of an exerci es that were negotiated between the Philippines set up training ba e near area of exaggeration. For hi part. Email Kiram, the Philippine and the United State. Both of conflict where both American and Filipino Sultan of Sulu, expres d upport for the the e versions attempted to iron out the troop can conduct training exerci e . He .S.-Philippine joint military exerci e in contentiou is ues mentioned above. reportedly offered to provide .. a i tan e Mindanao and condemned the terrori t Wherea the fir t draft of the TOR. dated in building uch training facilitie . ac ivitie of the Abbu ayyaf, which aloha February 7. called the joint exercise "a ba e in the ulu i sland . In general. both counter-terrorism training relative to Philippine However. orne admini tration official . Chri tian and Mu lim re ident . local effort against the ASG (Abbu Sayyaf Group), particularly from the foreign affair government official . and trader in and will be conducted in the i land of department, have privately expre ed Mindanao are upportive of the joint Basilan.' the final draft of the TOR. dated concerns over the real trategi and tactical Balikatan exerci e . They are tired of the February 14, states that the exercise "is a intere ts of the United State in holding violence perpetrated by Muslim terrorist mutual counter-terrorism advising, assisting, training exercise in "conflict area .. of group and the inefficiency of the Philippine and training Exerci e relative to Philippine Mindanao. Some of them believe that the military in tracking down a mall band of efforts against the ASG, and will be conducted U.S. is attempting to gain greater acces to Abbu Sayyaf bandits. They welcome the in the island of Basilan." Whereas the the" outhern backdoor" of the Philippine. pre ence of U.S. force and the a i tance authority of Filipino unit commanders appears ostensibly to monitor development in they can provide to the Filipino oldier -if to be absolute in the previou draft C" othing Southeast Asia' more volatile pot . A it i s, only becau e thi may finally put an end to hall infringe on the AFP Unit Commander's the U.S. does not enjoy clo e military tie with the threat po ed by the Abbu Sayyaf. authority"), the final draft was explicit with Indone ia and Malay ia, and ha been regard to the eparate chain of command watching clo ely the political development in Iotwith tanding the upport of the general ("[Armed Force ofthe Philippines] and .5. Indone ia and the ri e of I lamic revivali min public in the Philippine for the American Unit Commander will retain command over the region. Although Singapore ha an military pre ence in Mindanao. a number of their re pective force under the overall acce arrangement with the United tate. it contentiou i. ues have emerged with regard authority ofthe Exerci e Co-Director "). remains reluctant to provide an intermediate to the operational a pect of the Balikatan Finally. wherea the first draft contained an raging area for American force be au e of joint military exercise . Basically. while explicit provi ion on human right violations limited pace. Thu . the Philippine "strategi Philippine troop imply want to be trained ("Human rights violation. committed by location make it an appropriate taging area and equipped, their American counterpart Philippine and .5. participant hall be for contingencie in the outhea t A ian are aid to be eager to ee action in Basilan everely sanctioned and hall be directly region. The .5. military al 0 need the ju t like in Afghani tan. More importantly. proce sed by the Department of Ju tice Public Philippine in order to enhance it limited three pecific problem divide the Philippine Attorney's Office (DOJ-PAO) Human Rights infrastructure for refueling and logi tic to and American military command in the Action Center established in the area"), this support its operation in the Gulf region a provi ion wa deleted in the final version. well as in the Western Pacific area (Mogato 2 Spring 2002 2002b). Continued on Pa e-' Continued from Page 2 New Faculty Ba ed on the foregoing di cu sion, it is Thomas Barone Education Re earch Centre. 200I. He ha apparent that the ecurity intere t of the Educational Psychology and Foundations al 0 publi hed article related to thi re earch Philippine and the .S. have somehow tudy in Thresholds in Education and converged where fighting international Thoma '. Barone i an A i. tant Profe or Educational Practice and Theory. In the terrori m is concerned. For the Philippines. in the Department of Educational P ychology February 200 I issue of the Comparative the pre ence of American troop in the and Foundation and teache clas e in Education Review, he reviewed Ingrid Glad's country provide both tactical and morale Foundation of Education and Comparati e/ book. An Identity Dilemma: A Comparative boo ter to the otherwi e inefficient and ill­ International Education. He received hi ' Study ofPrimary Education for Ethnic eqUipped Philippine military. which has been Ph.D. in Social Foundation of Education Chinese in the Context ofNational Identity fighting to overcome the threat po ed by (with a pecialization in Comparative and 'ation-building in Malay ia and Mu lim in urgent group , including the Education) from the State University of 1 lew Singapore. Hi current re earch intere t notoriou Abbu Sayyaf. To orne extent. York at Buffalo. Dr. Barone al 0 taught focu on examining the differing perception America' war again t international terrori m Engli h as a Second Language in the Buffalo ofcitizen hip education and democratization follOWingSeptember I 1,2001was a "ble sing and iagara Falls. chools and Engli h at the by major actor in ide and out ide of the in di gui e" for the Philippine because the MARA Institute of Technology in Malay ia. Malay ian education y tern. Data collection U.S. began to take eriously the reality of His re earch has centered on critical is ue in for this study will take place during the next international terrori t networks that have Malay ian education. Thi empha i began academic year. In April 2002 he pre ented a been operating in Southea t Asia. and which with his dis ertation entitled A Comparative paper related to thi research focu "Civic have maintained link with the Abbu Sayyaf Study ofNonnative Rule Compliance and Education and Citizen hip in Malay ian and other Mu lim in urgent group in the Value Perceptions ofMalaysian and Education" at the American Educational

COUntry. It mu t be recalled that. following American Secondary School Students. R earch . ociation in 1 ew Orlean . LA . the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center Subsequently. he wa a member of a Finally. he i co-editor (with Diann Mu ial & in 1 lew York. the Philippine warned the U.S. Malaysian re earch team for a multi-country Brenda Love) of an undergraduate textbook of terrorist plot to use hijacked plane as study examining the perception of being publi .hed in summer 2002entitled bomb in attacking American facilitie . based international policymaker regarding value Change/Education: Issues in Perspective (3 nl On Confession made by foreign terrorists education. The Malay ian re ults were Ed.), Educational Studie Press, which Operating in the Philippine who were published (with Ibrahim Ahmad Bajunid) in a focu e on educational change from a arre ted in Manila in 1995. For its part. the chapter "Malay ia: trengthening religiou. multicultural perspective. .S. once again ee the trategic importance and moral value " in Values Education for of the Philippine in Southea t A ia, a it can Dynamic Societies: Individualism or playa key role in the evolving po t­ Collectivism, William Cumming .Maria Continued on Page 4 September II trategy ofthe U.S. Air Force to Tere a Tatto and John Hawkin ,ed . gain temporary logistic ba e to upport Comparative -COntingencie in critical regions of the globe. Spring 2002 Brown Bag Lecture Series February 15 April 12 January 31 Prof. Paul Hutch roft, Political cien e. Prof. Geoffrey Robin on. Hi tory, CLA Prof. Robert Hefner. Anthropology, Bo ton University of Wi .consin- Madi on "State .. iolence in East Timor: The Problem of niversity"Religiou Violence and the Future Formation, State Reformation: Deciphering of Indone ia" Re pon ibility and Ju rice" Decentralization in the Philippine and Thailand" February I April 19 Prof.• Ielly van Doom-Harder. Theology. Prof. Robert Hefner. Anthropology. Bo ton February 22 Valparai 0 Univer ity "Muhammadiyah and niver ity vl,a kar Jihad and the Problem of Prof. Dominik Gue .P ychology. Iahdlatul Ulama: Advocacy for Women' Indone ian Governance" "Cultural Influence on Disaster Right" Management: Ten Year After the 10unt February 8 Pinatubo Eruption" ~rof. Lany Johanne en. Engli h. IU April 26 Bonnie Brereton. Program A ociate, Center COming ofAge: The Vietnam Experience in March 22 for outheast A ian Studie. niver ity of the Combat arrative of the Vietnam War" Prof. Cynthia Plue, Literacy Edu ation.. 'I Mi higan "Out ide the Canon: The Buddhi t "Advocacy Right for Deaf People in Imagination in outhea t A ia" Southea t A ia"

3 pring2002 Continuedfrom Page 3 the arts of Burma and Southeast Asia: for Faculty in Vietnam example, "Repre entation ofthe Earth nn Wright-Parso Godde s in Burma and Arakan": "Religious Anthropology Relations between Sri Lanka and Arakan from Reflectionson Contemporary ietnam the XII to the XVII centuries"; "Mural by Daniel Unger, Assistant Profes or in Ann Wright-Parsons i the new Director of Frescoes of Prah Lak-Prah lam at Vat Ou Political Science the Anthropology Mu eum at 1 orthern Mong, Vientiane"; "Arakanese Perspectives Illinois University. She moved here from ew form the Dutch Sources"; and "100 Years of Hanoi's new airport is some 30 mile away York City where she worked in the Vientiane Cartography." Dr. Raymond has from the city. Driving through the Anthropology Department of the American had extensive experience with art museums. countryside and coming in on a divided Museum of atural History from 1994-200I. At present she is in Vientiane, Laos, where highway, you eventually cro a large bridge. She worked with the collection .both he is leading a team in the creation of a data built with assistance from the former Soviet ethnographic and archaeological. a well as ba e and catalogue of the item hou ed in the Union, and then tum offonto a much maIler with the permanent and temporary ational Collection, Vat Si aket. In February road that runs parallel to a thou and year-old anthropological exhibit . Her other duties 2002, he hosted an international conference dike along the Red River. Along thi tretch linked anthropology with other department in Vientiane on conservation and interpretive you see an eclectic as ortment of new in the museum--exhibitions, education, public materials associated with art objects. She has dwellings, some of them partially bulldozed programming, member hip, development, and been a key member of at least seven because they were built, illegally, too clo e to communications. Before ettling in New York archaeological teams and has excavated a the dike. City, he lived continuou Iy eighteen years in wide variety ofsites from France to Sri Lanka Thailand, Indone ia and Bangladesh. Her to Laos. They have uncovered city walls, When I arrived in early February 2002. thi pa ion for mu eums and de ire for a career in monasteries, habitation sites, and sacred stretch of road was filled with bicycle . thi field tarted with work a a volunteer at interments. motorcycles, cart and car. laden with peach Mu eum Pu at in Jakarta and the ational and kumquat tree . On either ide of the road. Mu eum in Bangkok. Her long experience in nur eries blazed in pink. green. and orange Asia tarted after college when he taught with these trees. Hanoi' re ident in tall the English for two year in Hue. Vietnam with the Larry Johannessen trees at home, in hops and office . during International Voluntary Services, Inc. She English Tet, the Vietname e New Year. Tet i a very earned her M.A. degree in anthropology with big deal in Vietnam as almo t everything a focus on Southeast A ian studies at Larry Johannessen joined the English closes down for three or four day to allow orthern Illinois Univer ity. She ha Department at IV as a specialist in Engli h families to gather and celebrate the lunar­ publi hed numerou article, and has a education and as As ociate Professor. He is based ew Year. Long before the fe tivitie forthcoming publication on "The Puppet especially intere ted in preparing pre ervice begin, preparation produce crowded hop Collection ofthe AM TH". co-authored with teacher for the clas room and in modem war and market . One colleague at my ho t Kathy Foley, Department ofTheatre Arts, UC literature, including the literature of the organization, the In titute of World Economy, SantaCruz. Vietnam War. In addition to chapters in remarked that days before work actually books, he has contributed over fifty articles cea ed, the giddine of anticipation to scholarly journals. Two of his most recent Catherine Raymond distracted her and made productive \ ork articles are "When History Talks Back: Art History and 'ew Director ofthe Center difficult. Teaching onfiction Literature ofthe Vietnam for Burma tudies War," English Journal (March 2002, 91.4: 39­ The drive into town from the airport intro­ 47) and "Teaching Thinking and Writing for a Catherine Raymond earned a Ph.D. in Art and duced me to feature of the country that ew Century," English Journal (July 200 I. Archaeology and Burma Studie from La would preoccupy me over the following 90.6: 38-46). He i co-author of In Case YOII Sorbonne, Pari III in 19 7 with "mention tre week. From the Soviet-built bridge aero Teach English: An Interactive Casebook for bien". While at The Sorbonne he studied the Red River, it was po ible to ee the old Preservice and Practicing Teachers (Merrill, with a number of out tanding art hi torians. French-built bridge that the nited tate 2002), author of Illumination Rounds: many of whom are members of the French bombed repeatedly during Vietnam' Ameri­ Teaching the Literature ofthe Vietnam War School of the Far East (EFEO)-such as Prof. can War. The countryside. manner of dre (NCTE, 1992), and co-author of two popular M. Guiteau and Prof. J. Boi elier. She also architecture, and people' manneri m all NCTE publications: Writing abo lit Literature earned a D.R.E.A.(equivalent to an MA) in echoed image ofChina more readily than (1984) and Designing and Sequencing Burme e from the In titute ational de those of Southea t Asia. Almo t immediately. Prewriting Activities (1982). He holds a Langue et Civilization Orientale (INaLCO) I perceived the challenge of urviving either Ph.D. and M.A.T. in English education from in 1984 where he tudied with Prof. Denise on foot or on motorcycle in a city with the University of Chicago. Bernot. She ha publi hed article and CD unfamiliar traffic rules. on a wide variety of ubject concerned with Continued on Pa e 5 4 Spring 2002 Comillued from Page 4 becau e of the communi t party' dominance. co ts in occupying Cambodia. in a bloody there i a tendency for ietname e tudie in border war with China. and in the evere A grant from the San Franci co-based A .ia most di cipline to be a on of appendage to economic hard hip that followed the Foundation. and supplementary support from China studie '. This bent wa reinforced by country' reunification. Amid 0 much . orthern Illinoi. Univer ity,are enabling me broad imilaritie in pattern of economic and truggle, the American War stand out to pend the pring erne ter 2002 in Hanoi. political change in the two countrie over omewhat Ie prominently than many The grant aims to encourage professors in the the last couple of decades. In both countrie . Americans expect. It al. 0 i true, however. United State to offer more cour es on authoritarian politic mean that it i irtually that Vietname e downplay the war and it Vietnam by giving tho e with little previou impo ible to carry out many type of lega ie becau e they feel the nece ity of expo ure to the country an opportunity to political research. As a re ult, political being pragmatic. They are de perately poor live there and do re earch. True to the pirit scientist tend to drift to political economy and hope to use enhanced economic ties to of the grant. in the fall ernester 2002. I will be tudie that focu more on policie and Ie the world economy to build wealth rapidly. teaching a course on Vietnarne e politic. on the political proce e that produce them. Tho e tie depend on better relation with the nited State. uch a tho e provided for by The Center for Southea t A ian Studie ha Mo t American have heard little of Vietnam the Bilateral Trade Agreement approved at relatively few cour e that cover Vietnam. We since U.S. helicopter flew off from Saigon to the end of200 I. do not offer cour e in Vietname e language. the safety of the Seventh Fleet in 197 -. They If reoource make it po ible, I hope that the tend to think of the country largely in term of While the Vietname e leader hip give Ie s attention we devote to Vietnam will increa e. the war that ended that year. Out ide my prominence to memorie of the war again t A Stronger et of Vietnam-related courses are apartment window in Hanoi I ee American the nited State ' than a true in the past. needed for a few reasons. First. while soon to strolling along True Bach Lake to view the the communist' ucce in unifying the be ovenaken by the Philippine in population. water into which John , 1 Cain plunged in country and gaining independence remain Vietnam will remain the region' third large t 1967 when hi plane wa hot down by lorth central to their a ertion of the legitimacy of COUntry. Second. in political terms. its Vietname e guns. When American vi it their rule. Former Pre ident Ho Chi Minh imponance will grow through its membership Vietnam. they tend to be urpri ed that the fam ou Iy commented. a recorded at the in the A ociation of Southea t A ian Vietnamese are not more preoccupied with entrance to hi mau oleum in Ba Dinh Square. • 'ation . both becau e of rapid economic their American War. After all, the co t borne that .., othing i 0 preciou a freedom and ~rowth and becau e of it trong continuing by the Vietname e. including the independence." The acrifice required to Influence with the neighboring countrie of extraordinary tonnage of bombs dropped. the achieve that independence. however. tend ~ambodia and Lao. Third. historically and lingering effect of Agent Orange. and the today to exacerbate a generational divide in Intellectually. Vietnam is important because it three million Vietname e dead and 300.000 Vietnam. The old sacrificed ' 0 much that the halted the outhward expan ion of China into mi sing produced b) that conflict. were far young cannot po ibly match their elder' outhea t A ia and mark the boundary greater than tho c uffered by American . heroi m. And yet. among the young are between Chinese- and Indian-influenced parts Today. tank and aircraft are Ie evident in tho . e who a. k, "For what hould we be of the region. There is con iderable public park and quare. and mu . eum grateful?" They under. rand that the irony in the fact that it wa the .S. military dedicated to the war offer a Ie trident anti­ Vietname e are \ ell-educated. hard working. and pOlitical truggle again t northern American tone than wa the ca e in the pa t. and enterpri ing. But their country remain Vietnam that induced the U.S. government to very poor. far more 0 than other Southeast sUppon and trenzthen Southea t A ian Ofcour e. well over halfof all Vietname e A ian countrie uch a Thailand and tUdie . Enhanced re ource gave rise to our were born after their parent prevailed in their Malay ia. Center at lorthern IlIinoi. University and truggle against the nited State to unify other around the country. While cholar hip their country. It al 0 i true that ietnam' Should we approa h the tudy of Vietnam On other part of the region expanded. very co tly truggle with the lnited tate todaj through the conceptual apparatu however. .S. scholar hip on ietnam tended was preceded by a millennium ofChine e developed to under tand Lenini t ysterns? to tagnate. nfortunately, much the arne control and. following independen e in the I Vietnam. like China (and in contra ·t to most can be aid of the country' economy and the lOth century. ub equent Chine e effort: to of the former ociali t tate in Europe). a °pponunitie available to individual reimpo. e control over Vietnam. That que t cae of e onomic reform carried out without Vietname e relative to their neighbor . ended only when Vietnam came under French political changes? Certainly. Vietnarne e colonial control. The Japane e occupied the leaders are under great pre ure to make their AI noted above. for tho e \ ho e idea of country briefly during World War II: economy more efficient. The pre. ure terns "SOUthea t A ia" developed through afterwards. the Vietname e battled for eight from foreign donor' uch a the A ian expo ure to the "Indianized tate" of the years again t French effort to reimpo e Development Bank and the World Bank. It region. Vietnam. and particularly Hanoi and colonial rule. Even after the United tate al 0 flow from the need to create well 0 er a the Red River delta. eem more Chine ethan abandoned its war against the ietname e million new job a year to ab orb new SOU thea t A. ian. For this reason. and communists. the Vietname. e incurred heavy Continued 0/1 Pa ie 6 5 pring 2002 Continued from Page 5 developments on the ground in the provinces rural cooperatives and industrial enterpri es. entrant into the labor force. to ay nothing that are later acknowledged and ratified in With the dismantling of these part of the ofthe exi ting widespread underemployment. Hanoi . I am particularly interested in the role economy over the past fifteen year • evidence China's accession to the World Trade of voluntary associations in both rural and is mounting of increased burdens on poor Organization adds further pres sure on urban Vietnam. Abundant anecdotal households to pay for these ervices. Vietnamese enterpri e to enhance their evidence suggest that such associations Among poor familie . girls in particular are abilitie to compete in global markets. expanded rapidly with the demise ofrural now apt to be pulled out of chool ooner to state-run cooperatives and state-owned diminish the economic costs entailed in Three facets ofVietname e economic reform industrial enterpri es. Organizations such as providing kids with uniform. texts. and processes are of particular interest to me and farmers', youth, workers' and women's miscellaneous fees. The challenge in Vietnam are the focus of my research in Vietnam. The groups organized under the communist is to achieve the efficiency and wealth­ first issue concerns the high level of party's Fatherland Front also appear to be producing gains associated with freer market coordination evident among external donors playing more active roles in representing their without sacrificing the social ervice , broad of economic assi tance. Thi coordination constituents' interests rather than serving social equity. and solidarity once a ociated encompasses, at least to ome degree. the simply as channels through which central with its socialist economy. global multilateral institutions uch a the directives are communicated. Unfortunately. International Monetary Fund, bilateral donors hard information concerning the extent and (of which Japan is by far the most important). significance of associational activity is The Social Science Research Council and a large number ofcharitable organizations carce. My early hopes of doing survey Training Program in Vietnam working in the country. Convergence in research to generate data of this kind ran up by Ron Provencher, Professor Emeritus in thinking about economic development around against insufficient resources of time and, in Anthropology the world and greater collaboration among aid particular, money. donor have been evident over the past I had read about Vietnam. taught cour e several year, but for a ariety of rea ons this What then of the political side of the reform about it, and in the pa t had done my be t to process seems particularly well-developed in process? On the one hand, it is true that the keep my students from going there during the Vietnam. communist party retains its Leninist organiza­ war. I had even written about Vietnam. But. I tional feature that facilitate authoritarian had never been there! This occurred to me a A second i ue of intere t to me is that, political control. On the other hand, that I read a Social Science Re earch Council de pite the convergence noted above. control is far less heavy handed than it was in advertisement announcing teaching po ition significant differences in thinking remain the past. It now allows far more scope for in a new year-long social cience re earch evident between Japane e donor and individual freedoms and, to a far lesser training program in Hanoi for advanced Washington-ba ed institutions such as the degree, associational activities and even Vietnamese students. Moreover. the program World Bank. In the mid-1990s a prominent opposition to government policies expressed would last through three cycle (3 year ). group of Japane e cholars carried out out ide the party's apparatus of institutions. research that underlined area in which their Since the late 1980s, the ational Assernbly. . Later, I received a telephone call a king me ifl policy pre criptions diverged from those of the country's legislature, has begun to would like to attend a cour e planning assume real significance. It is the site of often conference in 1 ew York City. Others who the "orthodox" World Bank policie . Mo t ignificant. perhaps. are differences on how heated debates. fully reported by the press, were invited would eventually become part of to reform the tate-owned enterpri e sector. that sometimes result in important policy the teaching team participating in that Some Vietnamese official . with con iderable changes and, on occasion. defeat of meeting during the fir t week ofSeptember. official Japane e sympathy. are re i ting government policy initiative. Voting within We completed a rough draft of the ixteen "equitization' (privatization) ofthe e firms the Assembly is now by ecret ballot. Last week first semester schedule. developing the 1h and look to Korea and elsewhere in East A ia year's 9 Party Congres selected a new basic lecture themes and reading a ignments for alternative models for managing these Secretary General. ong Due Manh, who for each week. and everaI po ible field state firms. Significantly. state enterprise lacks strong ties to the military. They also research exerci e for the forty tuden who equitization i the one issue on which the embraced a "Grassroots Democracy" decree had been accepted into the cour e. The World Bankjudges Vietnamese adherence to that at least nominally commits the backgrounds and intere t of tudents were reform commitments to be weak. government to engage local communities in quite varied, which made the ta k of policy discussions on issues that directly developing a cour e relevant 10 every tudent A third area in which I am doing research and affect those groups. very complex. A a committee, we met again that relates to Vietname e economic reforms in Hanoi during December to make final concerns the degree to which the reform Despite its dismal economic record after 1975, changes in the first (sixteen week) eme ter ' proce s ha been driven by policies Vietnam managed to share poverty relatively curriculum. That wa the fir t time I had ever pronounced in Hanoi, as oppo ed to equitably and to expand the provision of been to Vietnam, and I al 0 vi ited Ho Chi education, health. and other services. These Minh City for several day . Hanoi and Ho services were provided through the state-run Chi Minh City obviou Iy differ. not onlj 6 Spring 2002 Continued on Page 7 Continued from Page 6 of the many beautiful lake in Hanoi. It i The ituation i remini cent of Kuala Lumpur the lake (Hoan Kiem) where the giant turtle and Bangkok in the early and mid-1960s. But becau e of marked differences in their dialect lives who centurie ago aved the country different. too . Many re idents who have ( orth and South). but al 0 because of the from foreign (Chine "e) conque t. The turtle enclo ed space at treet level u e it for both more noticeable pre ence of Chinese and provided the emperor with a magic word re idential and bu sines purpo e. When the Mu lims in Ho Chi Minh City. Hanoi, as far from the depth of the lake. and the emperor 'overhead garage door' i rai ed in the early as [ could tell, had only one mo que and it won the war. After the victory. according to morning, the ca ual ob erver can ee that the eerned not to have a regular congregation. the folktale, the turtle took the word back to ground floor space has been a living room, the bottom of the lake. where the giant turtle dining room/kitchen or bedroom after In mid-February, I arrived in Hanoi to begin still guard it... ju t in ca e! Local re ident bu sine s hour . The e paces are quickly my job as one of the anthropology professor who repeated the tale claim to have een the tran formed into retail and ervice-oriented for the fir t halfof the erne ter (8 weeks). huge turtle in the lake many time . bu ine e that often come to occupy The profe or included: (l ) portion ofthe idewalk. Vietname e eat a lot amhropo[ogi t -myself, John Kleinen [V. of The Old Quarter i wonderfully old and new of vegetable oup with rice noodle . broth Am terdam]. Vu Thi Thanh Huong [Inst. of at the arne time. Several four lane treet of and ometime a little meat. "Sidewalk cafe. " Linguistics. Hanoi], Chi Huyen Troung); (2) the modem city run through it. But even appear magically every morning, noon and economi t -Vu Quoc Huy [V DP & Hanoi these have traditional name. For example. early evening in many parts of the Old 'ationa[ Economic V.]: (3) sociologists­ the main street near my hotel i named Silk Quarter and other areas of the city where Fadzilah Cooke [A. .V], Rukmalie Jayakody Street (Hang Gai ). It is still the main locale of ordinary people live. V ually, a ground floor [Penn. St. u.j, Vu Manh Loi [In t. ofSoc.], the traditional ilk industry. which (incl uding 'pace erve a the kitchen and the adjacent , Iguyen Huu Minh [Inst. of Soc.]. And we the retail ilk hop ) occupie everal block . idewalk, upplied with tiny tool for the were a igned a cadre of hard-\ orking Other traditional indu trie and trade are till cu tomers. erve a the eating place. Vietname e teaching a si tant and on-going and are located in adjacent area of Cu torner of good idewalk cafe that ell tran lator . The focus of the cour e wa the Old Quaner. Ofcour e. there i a huge really ta ty and inexpen ive food u ually fill imerdi sciplinary ocial science research traditional wet market. more than two blocks the width of the idewalk. forcing pede trian methodologies and their appropriate wide and three block long. with all thing to walk in the treet, where bicycle , applications to particular social and economic edible for sale (including durian), and e en motorbikes, automobiles and trucks al 0 problem: relevant to Vietnam. Our clothes and other artifacts of Vietname e compete for pace. Often. the vehicular traffic Vietname e colleagues in the ational Center civilization. Tourists. maybe halfof whom are is already beyond the "normal" capacity of for Social Science and Hurnanitie are Australian , visit thi ection of the city. of the treet, so that the normally two-way street particularly interested in examples of cour e. And to feed the touri t (and the ha become a one-way treet in the direction methodologie that have been used local ) there are many re tau rant . For favored by an overwhelming majority of effectively in ocial science research in other example. "Mama Ro a' "i an Italian of drivers at that hour. But it i more gentle SOUthea t A ian countries (they eem to be re taurant: the "Tandour" i Indian: La than the 'old day . in Kuala Lumpur and very in intere ted in Malaysian and Philippine Brique is French-Algerian: and the Bangkok. Although vehicular and pedestrian examples). "Kangaroo Cafe" i Au tralian. traffic compete, no one seem to follow the formal rules. and orne vehicle and persons I Spent a lot of time trying to do my job. Five Particularly in the Old Quarter of Hanoi there even attempt to go again. t the tide of traffic. day a week I awoke at 5:30 am, prepared and are many street people, especially young onethele , there are very few casualtie . ate breakfa r, read through my preparation boy who ell thing to touri t , but a[ 0 Thi may be becau e almo t no one i for teaching that day, walked about a half mile handicapped and aged adult . who beg. traveling very fa t and the Vietnarne e are to the place where the SSRC car picked me up, Among the handicapped are man. phy ically generally very courteou , even to trangers. and arrived at the institute (quite far south of deformed individual ... orne. perhap . victim But when an accident occur. there may be a th . e clly and through thick low traffic) before of agent orange. The city authoritie do not fi t-fight. A ietname e colleague noted that 8:30 am. when cia ses began. We lectured in allow them to leep in the treet or on the the anger and phy ical combat was probably the mornings, took an hour and a half for sidewalk . Tho e I knew lept in the quarters related to the fact that alrno t nobody has any lunch, and led structured question and of relative or friend or shared cheap kind of accident insurance; and that the an wer ses ions or held office hours in the quarters with other poor people. At fin, I police. who are unarmed. u ually avoid afternoon ... u ually until about 4 pm. We thought of them as "street people:' but involvement with people who are fighting had to continually adju t what we were doing. decided that even many of the regular each other. Apparently, an important a pect and we did that during the Monday afternoon re ident of that and other poor and of Vietname e culture i the complex faculty meeting . traditional pan of the city were in their own ub y tern of manner that involve level of way" idewalk and treet people." peech, po ture and ge ture that vary \ eekend were pent exploring the city of according to difference of rank and different HanOi. My hotel (r'Ihe Lucky Hotel") in the Old Quaner wa about a half-block from one Continued 011 Page 8 7 Spring 2002 Southeast A ian Library Curator Continued from Page 7 Tho. e of you who read this may be intere ted in applying to the Social Science Re earch kind of beha ioral euing ; in many waj it Council for a teaching position in the cour e. The IV Librarie i earching for an ener­ i like Malay y tem of manner . One of my which will have a life ofat least three years. getic. forward-looking Southeast A ia Curator colleague in the cour 'e. Profe or Vu Thi Write me. [email protected]. for more to take charge of one of the five be t outh­ Thanh Huong (Director of the In titute of information. east Asia Collection in the United tate . The Lingui tic ) had read ome my early succe sful applicant will participate in publication on Malay courte y and noted collection development and management in the many imilaritie with Vietname e Southeast A ia Studie ; conduct biblio­ courte y. which he ha re earched in great P ositions O pen graphic in truction at undergraduate and depth, She agreed with me that when Research A ociatelEditor graduate level ; provide reference and courte y break down in communitie where research service to graduate and under­ it i very important. ocial relation hip break The Center for outheast A ian Studie at bzraduate in outhea t ia tudies: and down more or Ie completely. orthern Illinoi University eek an editor for administer a collection of ome 100.000 Sou thea t Asia Publications. Re ponsible for volume . 50% of which are in the vema ular Vi tname e ociety con i t of a mas of very all tages of production. including olicitation language. The ucce . ful applicant w ill be poor people. a mall middle cla . and a of manu cript . corre pondence with author . active in grant writing. promotional a tivitie much mailer upper clas . People who are and copy-editing. Evidence of experience in for the collection. and outreach to holars all de cendant of mandarin are not nece arily writing and editing in good. tandard Engli h: over the world. Report to A ociate Dan. powerful and are ometime stigmatized a excellent interper onal communication kills; Collections and Technical ervice. Fulfill de cendants of a privileged cl . Mo 't of and a Ma ter' degree or equivalent experience requirement of faculty tatu in are of the large expen i e automobile and hou e required. Experience in academic publi hing: contribution to librarian hip. cholarly eem to be owned by higher official of the familiarity with formatting. lay-out. and other activitie . and ervice; participate in profe - Communi t Party. The party i not formally editorial tasks; and a background in Southea t ional activitie . profe ional de elopment, the government. but mo t of the members of Asian studie or languages are preferred. Send cholarly re earch and publication; erve on the government are member of the party... application letter. current re urne, and the name library. university. and/or profe ional think of it in term of orne of the one party of three reference to Su an Rus ell. Director, committee . 12-month. full-time. tenure-tra . tate in the SA.. The only national Center for Southeast A ian Studies, orthern faculty appointment. A ademic ran . b ed on Engli h language new paper in ietnam, The Illinoi niversity, DeKalb. IL 60115. Review of relevant experien e and educational ba k­ Vietnam News. i owned and publi hed by complete applications will begin on June 1.2002. ground. Required: An earned m ter ' degree the Communi t Party. It read pretty much ike and will continue until the po ition i filled. Fax from an ALA-accredited program or equiva­ any liberal Democratic newspaper in the 815-753-1776; Phone 815-753-1771. AA/EEO lent. Additional rna ter' degree or equivalent nited tate. I read it cover-to-cover In titution. in a di cipline related to outhe t A ia everyday I wa in Vietnam. It eemed more tudie . Ability to communicate effectivef rea onable to me than any of the daily with faculty. staff. tudents, and general new papers in the Seattle area. public. Preferred: Language proficien in one or more Sou thea t A ian languag . Some intere ting and piau ible re earch Profe ional experience in an a demic library. topic that oc urred to me while in Hanoi preferably in a outhea t A ia olle tion, included: courte y and ocial relation in including teaching and library in truction: public place ( ith apologie to Goffman). general competen e in u ing omputerized craft communitie in the Old Quarter. tudie information re ource and network . .alary of the "traditional" public markets. the and Benefits: Salary i very ompetiti e and economic of idewalk cafe . touri m begin at 40.000. Benefit pa age in lude communitie . and variou aspects of the live 24 day of paid vacation annuall . i leave. of treet children (life hi torie . attachment tate retirement plan. and a fle ible ele tion land detachment to natal familie . medical. life. dental and vi ion in uran e. involvement in pro titution. recruitment and Send cover letter. re ume, and th nameJ organization ale agent for variou. addre Iphone numbers of three referen e to product. etc. ). Al o. it i a "gold mine" for Mary Munroe. A ociate Dean for Collections re earch on gender i ue. Like alay and Technical S rvi e . Univ e it) Librari . women. letname e women eem to be the orthem Illinoi niversitv, DeKaib. IL 60 II -. real bo e in their familie . e en though their 2 6 . 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Rhodalyne Gallo-Crail i continuing her Jim Henry and Bob Zerwekh are currently Judy Ledgerwood ha received a Fulbright­ re earch on the vocabulary stra tegie u ed in continuing work on SEA ite Hay re earch and teaching fellow hip for learning Tagalog as a foreign language on the (www. ea ite.niu.edu ). the \ eb-ba ed ne t year. he will teach anthropology at the Web. Preliminary findings will be part ofa re ource for Sou thea t A ian language and Royal niver ity of Fine rt in Phnom Penh, technology re earch collection publi hed by culture . Recent addition include an ever­ Cambodia and conduct re earch on the the , lationa! ecurity Education Program growing keyword- earchable database of ree tabli hment of Buddhi m in rural area . through the niversity of Hawaii Pre . She picture of Sou thea t ia: picture are then Thi re ear h i a continuation of a related al 0 i re earching the heritage language u e available for downloading and are copyright­ project on Buddhi t prophetic te t funded

of Filipino American immigrant children. free . Other a ti itie includ u e of the \ eb by the j Iational Endowment for the in luding their parents' language perception a a medium for conducting language learning Humanitie • and conducted in collaboration and language u e. Thi re earch is in reoearch as well a the addition (over the pa t with Anne Han en at the niver ity of cOllaboration with other language year or 0) of three ne language for \: is on in-Milwaukee. he al 0 ha a new

profe ionals from the Univer ityof SEA ite: Khmer. Lao. and Burme e. In the edited volume out from the j IV Center for ~ ary l an d. niversity of Manitoba. and near future. exten ive material on Burme e outhea t A ian tudie publication California State niver ity in Fullerton. The Art Hi tory (with hundred of high-quality program. Cambodia Emerges/rom the Past: paper will be publi hed in the TE L Journal in picture ) by Dr. Richard Cooler will beadded. Eight Es ays. Canada. She al 0 participated in a Fulbright as well as a Web-ba ed learning module on Hay -funded wo rkshop for Filipino language recent and current Cambodian politic and dreaM Inar teacher in America held at Los Bano . culture by Dr. Judy Ledgerwood. Drs. Henry Anthropoogy Philippin . in January 2002. Her recent and Zerwekh have co-authored an article on conferen e pape include I) 'T agalog SEA ite that will appear in a C LICO Journal Andrea Molnar i the new Chair of the Learning on the Web: j ew Innovation and pecial i ue on ian language . and Dr. Indone ian tudie Committee of A a of Limitation ,'. CO T EAL Co nfere nce. Zerwekh has co-authored an article with March 200I. The AA meeting in niversity of Wi con in in Mad i. on. July Rhodalyne Gallo-Crail on language learning Wa hington, D.C. propo ed changing the 200I. and 2) "Minority L I Ma intenanc e and and the Internet that will appear in a name ofthe committee to include EastTimor. Lo ." TESOLIntern ational Conference at fort hcoming edi ted volume from the a it will be an independent nation. La t alt Lake City. tah. April 2002. niversity ofHawaii Pre umrner, from June 2 -- ugu. t 6. 200 I. he erved a a Long Term International Db erver J ohn Hartmann Dwight King for the Carter Center in Ea t Timor for Foreign Languag and Literatures Political cience Con titutional A emblyelection . he al 0 wa a reviewer of graduate fellow hip for JOhn Hartman n "pent two week in March Dwigh t King publi hed the article. 'The EP (Bo ren Fellow hips) in March 2002 and ~OO2 doing lingui tic fieldwork on Tai Lue Conduct ofthe 1999 Election in lernan, OJ. organized the Ea t Timor onference at IU. In 'ip ongpanna. Yunnan. China. He and Dr. Yogyakarta: ACe rudy (with ting On 1a)' I. 2002 he will be lecturing on East Pingwen Huang. vi iting Luce cholar Re ult )." Asian Studie Review, 01. 2-. Timor in the 1 otable Lecture. erie for the from the Central ni er ity for ationalitie In Iumber-l, De ember 2001. pp. ·H9-97 ( 0­ LA program ofe. ten ion. n 'I ummer Beijing. ga e a pre entation at author i aptopo B. lIkodar). He al 0 Re earch Grant is upporting her new ~~e 2002 mee ting on the top ic of presented paper at two can eren ial re earch proje t among the Kemak people of DeCoding the Dying: cholarly Re ource Influence on Voting in the 2001 Con tituent t abe. Ermera. East Timor ( ummer 2(02). for , Hnority Tai crip ." n article entitled A embly Election in East Timor" at the Thi ummer he al 0 will be attending an "Ta] That Bind". which d al with conference on Ea. t Timor in Tran ition: P t. organized panel on Ea tern Ind ne ia for the ~ai Origin and the emergence ofTai irrigated Pre ent and Future. CE ., IC. pril 12-13 rd International yrnpo ium ofJurnal ri e agri ulture technolog and and "Political Reform. Oem rati Con olida­ Antropologi Indone ia pon ored by ~ulture. ha been publi: hed on the A A tion, and Decentralization:' at the onferen e ni ersit Udyana in Bali.Jul 16-19.2002 anhwatch web ite. It i a summary of on Can Decentralization Rebuild Ind ne ia? ( o-coordinators Dr. ils Bubandt, Dr. Tom ~ ear h finding on hi ..-China at Georgia tate Unive it)'. tlanta.: lay _. Therik ). ooperative Re earch program funded by the Henl) R. Lu e Foundation. Continued 011 PagelO

9 pring2002 Continued from Page 9 Susan Russell OtherCSEAS FacuitylStaffAwards Anthropology Clark eher Profes or Ladd Thoma . Political Science. Political Science Su an Russell. Director, Center for Southeast and Kuo-Huang Han, Music, were each Asian Studies. received a $10,000 grant from awarded the Out tanding International Clark Neher i in the mid t of a writing a the Illinois Humanities Council to sponsor an Educator Award by the Director of textbook tentatively entitled Politics in Asia international conference and fair on the International Program at j I '. Profe or (to be publi hed in 2003 by College Ramayana epic in South and Southeast Asia. Robert Zerwekh. Computer Science. received Publications). The book encompas e Her chapter "Labor discipline, debt and effort the Award for Out tanding Acqui ition of analy is of contemporary politic in China, in a Philippine fishing community" also is External Grant . and was nominated for the Japan. orth and South Korea. Vietnam. forthcoming in an edited volume by E. P. second time by the College of Liberal Art ­ Thailand. Indonesia. India. and Paki tan. He Durrenberger and J. Marti. In the summer of and Sciences for an Excellence in Teaching published (2002) a chapter in Sheldon Simon, 200 I, she spent five weeks in the Philippines Award. Nancy Schuneman. StaffSecretary of editor, The Many Faces ofAsian Security. conducting re earch on new maritime laws, CSEAS, received the Out tanding Service The chapter is entitled "Democracy. Human decentralization. and their impact on Award. The Tagalog ite of SEA ite Rights, and Security in A ia." He al 0 indigenous forms of marine resource (www.seasite.niu.edu/tagalogl) al 0 received presented a paper at The John Hopkin management and coastal community the Multilingual Leamer Award for 2002 from University, SAIS, entitled "Thailand: The Next relationships in six communities of Batangas. the National Agency for Education. Stage" and a paper at The A ia Foundation' Last June 200 I she served as a reviewer of Stockholm. Sweden. Thi international award conference in Wa hington D.C. on "Thailand: NSEP institutional proposals on 'Asia and is for achievements in Web-ba ed multilingual The Next Stage", March 2002. Technology'. She i a new member of the educational creativity. Southeast Asia Council and the new Chair of BarbaraM. Posadas the Philippine Studies Group of AAS. History Danny Unger ew Faculty Exchange Program with Barbara M. Posadas delivered "

DUring the summer of 200I, the Center hosted The theme for thi year's annual Southeast Pre ident: Jessica Rinehart Dr. Wajuppa To a from Maha arakham Asia Student Conference was Identity and Internal Vice President: Britta Schiller University, Mahasarakham, Thailand through Change in Southeast Asia. Held on March 2. External Vice President: 'urliah 'urdin Title VI grant fund from the US Department 2002. twenty two student repre enting Secretary: Amycla Webb of Education. IEGPS. Dr. Tossa, who is ethnic thirteen universitie pre ented paper . Panel Treasury: David Bell Lao. is a profes or in the Western Languages topics included Southeast A ian Mu ic, Conference Coordinator: Anies Baswedan and Lingui tics Department at Religions, Environment and Literature. PAISA Repre sentative: Rey Ty Maha arakham and director of the Globalization, Public Policy and Law. and Mahasarakham niver ity Storytelling Identity in Southea. t Asia. Keynote Speaker. Project. While at Northern Illinois Rita Smith Kipp, Profe sor of Anthropology Univer ity, Profe .sor Tossa developed an on­ at Kenyon College in Ohio spoke on line Lao Folk Literature course that may he "Regional Separatism and Religious Identitie found at the Lao ite on SEAsite in Indonesia". A faculty panel de ignated (www. ea ite.niu.edullaolLao Folklore/ three submi sions for outstanding tudent lao_folklore_course.htm). She also paper awards: Ehito Kimura (UW-Madi on) developed a paper on Jataka Tales and "Nationalism and Identity Formation in Ea t Storytelling. which can be found at Timor: The Ca e for Submerged etworks": www, ea ite.niu.edu/lao/culture/ Wynn Wilcox (Cornell niversity) "Allegoric jakarta_fp.htm . The Center also hosted ofthe U.S.-Vietnam War: 'The Unification Profes or Athith Outhay, ational University Debate ' in Vietname e. French, and Engli h. of Laos, for six weeks in May and June 2002. 1958-1975"; and Katy Tribuzzo (Ohio His tay at IU i an exten. ion of his Hube rt University) "Sarawak versu The State: An Humphrey Fellowship this past year and Analysis of Media. Tourism and enable him to acquire additional training in Commodification in Rural Malaysia". teacher certification. curriculum development for middle and high school tudent s, and to con ult on the Lao site on SEA ite. - FellOWShip News The Center for Southea t A ian Studies at IU awards Foreign Language and Area Studie (FLAS) Fellow hips each academic year for the tudy of Burme e, Indonesian, Tagalog or Thai language. Student mu t be accepted by I . Graduate School in a full- time master's or doc tora l degree program. The award competition i open to US citizen or perma nent residents in any degree program. Funded by a grant awarded by the US Department of Education. this fellowship Pays a tipend of 14.000 each academic year, plu payment of tuition, fee and in urance. Application form are available frOm the Center or on the Ce nter'Web ite, and the application deadline is March I. Contact the Center to learn more detail about this fellow hip opportunity.

FLAS Fellowship Recipients 200212003 DaVid Bell , Depart ment of Anthro pology, Thai eha Trivedi, Department of Anthropology. Thai

AmYcla Webb, Department of Politi cal Science, Burme e Jennifer Weidmann, Department of Anthropology, Thai

'icholas Wile . Department of Polit ical Science, Thai Carlynne Wor ham. Department of Political Science, Burme e

Jason Conerly, Department of Anthropology. Thai Michael John on. Department of Anthropology, Thai Je . Sica Rinehart, Department of Anthropology, Indone ian

11 Spring 2002 Student News Paul Chambers JeffPetersen Political Science Anthropology (This year a number ofour student received Paul Chambers has been in Thailand thi la t Currently, I am working on i. ue of prestigious fellowships for research in year conducting interviews and collecting syncreti m and the interaction that take Southeast Asia or for advanced graduate data with the upport of a Fulbright-Hay liE place between religiou world when they and language training. We list a few ofour award for dissertation research. His come into contact. Specifically. I am foeu ing students' accomplishments and comments dissertation examines the impact ofmultiple my attention on traditional religiou healer in here.) political partie and multiple faction within the Philippine. Recently I had the political partie on cabinet durability in opportunity to erve a the graduate Ellen King Thailand over the la t twenty year. He i as. i tant forthe 2000-200 I. TIt.; .1aui Anthropology ndergraduate putting particular emphasi on the effect of ethnographic field choo\. While in Maui. I Ellen King. enior in anthropology and a factional contlicts on Thailand' helped tudent work with the Filipino Sou thea t Asian tudie minor. will pend parliamentary y tern. ext fall erne ter he community in Hawaii. I al 0 o-authored the next year tudying abroad in Khon Kaen. will be teaching the cour e "The Politic of Tagalog grammar page on EA ite. devoting Thailand. A member ofthe Golden Key Southeast A ia" at IV. much ofmy attention to clarifying difficult International Honor Society. her tudy abroad concepts and developing new approa he to program i supported by a David L. Boren Ryan Davenportand Christopher Drysdale learning the grammar. During the 2000-200 I Scholar 'hip admini tered by the ! ational Anthropology chool year, I erved a the ecretary for the ecurity Education Program. a Freeman-ASIA Ryan Davenport and Christopher Dry dale Southea t Asia Club. I have al 0 participated Scholar hip. the Benjamin A. Gilman both pent la 't ummer in Sulawesi tudying on everal occa ion. on the planning International cholarship. a John E. Bowman in the COTIM Advanced Indone ian Abroad committee for the J TIV Philippine .Tight and Travel Grant. and an liE Midwe t Scholar hip. program, which i funded by Fulbright-Hay . for the 2000 event pre ented the paper: 'The Ryan erved a the Southeast A ian Student Ibanag of the Cagayan alley". Conference organizer thi spring, while Eric Digman Christopher wa Pre ident of the Southeast Je sica Rinehart Political Science Asia Club. Both are completing their M.A. Anthropology Being rai ed in a culturally mixed family ha these in cultural anthropology. Jessica Rinehart. the new Pre ident of the aided me greatly in pur uing intere ts of an Southeast Asia Club. will pend thi ummer international nature a an adult. Due to the Christopher filIer studying her third year of Indone ian indirect influence of both my Brazilian-born Music language at the .S.-Indone ian Society German moth r and my Bolivian wife. my Chri topher Miller i currently working program in Yogyakarta. Indone ia. Her intere t had alway previou Iy been focu ed toward the completion of hi Master's of ummer program i :upported b) a ummer on Latin America. However. my excitement Music degree. Over the pa t year, FLASaward. and familiarity with Southea t A ia grew Christopher ha pre ented hi re earch on quickly with every erne ter at 'I . the West Javanese kendang penca ensemble ehaTrivedi Specifically. the poly-ethnicity and truly at the America's Shrine to Music Museum Anthropology ancient culture of Indone ia, along with it and the annual meeting of the American The FLAS fellow hip I received thi year ha truggle for a legitimate political regime, Musical Instrument Society. from whom he enhanced my academic tudie and captured my attention and imagination alike. received the William E. Gribbon Award. profes ional development in everal way . In Thi wa the core rea on for my pur uing a Chri topher has al 0 conducted Central the past year I have held the po ition of FLAS to tudy the Indone ian language. I am Javane e gamelan work .hop at ! I. ecretary in the outh a t A ia Club. which nov. fini hing my fifth year here at ' IV and We tern Carolina niver. ity, and the ha allowed me to work with the re t of the have completed both a Ma ter of Art degree niver ity ofSouth Dakota. Currently, he i officer to provide the , TIV omrnunity with in political cience and a Ma ter of Public re earching, editing. and reformatting Muriel an appreciation for the ulture of outhea t dmini tration degree with an empha i in William on' collection of field recordings A ia through variou activ itie and even . I comparative and developmental made in Burma in the 1960. , which wa. was also given the opportunitj to work with admini. tration. In addition to my work in recently donated to the Center for Burma the CSEAS to promote event and Latin America. when I complete my PhD in Studie . Following graduation in August. conferences such a the International political cien e I plan to apply both the Christopher will undertake a year of Ramayana Conference and the Council of Indone ian language that I have learned a advanced Burme. e language study at the Thai Studie conference. I pre ented a paper well a my knowledge of it hi tory and niver ity of Foreign Language in at the International Ramayana Conferen eon politic to tudie on political decentralization Rangoon. Myanmar. which ha been made teaching the Rarnaj ana in the la room. and democratization. in addition to teaching po sible by a Blakemore Freeman Foundation During the ummer month of2002. I will the e ubject at the college level. Fellow hip. conduct re earch in Thailand on the formation ofidentity among immigrant population . pecifically Indian ( outh 12 Spring 2002 Asians) in Thailand. Continu ed all Po e I.; COntinuedfrom Page /2 Rey also received the Graduate Student Thomas Rutherford ReyTy Leadership award for 200 I-2002. He also is Political Science Graduate currently working on hi di ertation on Thoma Rutherford is employed a an Political cience human right in Southea t A ia. a ociate re earcher at the Social Re earch Rey Ty, Outreach A i rant at the CSEAS. In titute at Chiang Mai niver ity,Thailand. Wonfir t prize for the following es ays: Jennifer Quincey He is completing a report for the United "Experiencing the University through Unity in Anthropology Graduate ations Food and Agriculture A sociation Diver ity: Many Cultures. One Humanity:' Jennifer Quincey will be tarting her PhD in entitled "Cro - ector Linkage in Mountain awarded by nity in Diversity ( ID) and the anthropology at Wa hington niver ity in St. Development: the Ca e of I 'orthern Thailand" International Student and Faculty Office Loui , where he will pur ue her intere t in (co-authored with Dr. Ming am Kao a-ard, (lSFO), 2002; Be t Graduate Paper, "The Indone ian society and religion. he ha Director of the In. titute). He al '0 is helping Concept of Power and the Relative Equality of been elected to receive an Olin Fellow hip. to edit a Rockefeller Foundation-funded Women and Men in Southeast Asia:' which include tuition and a tipend for four publication on ocial challenge in the Greater awarded by the Women' Studie Program, year of rudy. Her fifth and final year on Mekong Subregion. In addition, he is 2002; and "Ea t Wind, We t Wind: Likt:: campus will be covered by a Di ertation teaching a cla . called "Cri e of Democracy Water and Oil:' awarded by UID and ISFO. Fellow hip from the Department of in Southea t A ia" for the International 200 I. He also won second prize for Anthropology. Institute for Su tainable Development, a "Religions, Spirituality. and Identity: A tudy abroad program of Kalamazoo College. Per onal Journey", A ian and A ian American Es ay Conte t, 2002. In addition, - In emory of ay Kyi Win The alacrity with which she a i ted in The tudent will become familiar with A ian Curator, Donn V. Hart Southeast finding any item in the library. not ju t Bibliographie in general, how they are Southeast Asian material . wa at fir t created, downloaded, and publi hed . Asia Collection surprising, because it i wa 0 rare. but Creating and publi hing the bibliography will always memorable, beeau e it wa genuine. provide the student with a rare credential A ociate Profe or Daw May Kyi Win, our The library that he 0 loved and now ha left when eeking employment. n additional beloved curator of the Southea t A ian behind will never be the arne without her: her re ult will be a po itive learning experience, Bibliographic Collection, Founders Memorial expert assistance, her warm pre ence, and her which, hopefully, will prompt interested Library, left thi life for another early Saturday charitable spirit. She will be long remembered individual to take up a career path a a mOrning, February 23. 2002. She will be long with adne by all tho e who knev her. librarian, with a pecialty in outhea t Asia. remembered for her elfle service to others Such a re ult would be globally efficaciou and for how well her life embodied the for Burma Studie . To make a donation or for BUddhi t value that she so earnestly May Kyi Win served continuou Iy for ix further information, plea e contact the Center profes ed. A many will recall. her deep sen e year as editor of The Bulletin ofthe Burma for Burma Studie ,410 Adam ' Hall, j orthern of charity extended to all things, both great Studies Group. One of her innovation a Illinoi niversity, DeKalb. IL 60 115. and mall. She adopted her niece and nephew editor wa to compile the nnual and brought them to America for chooling. Bibliography of Burma tudie s for publication She freely provided lodging in her home for in the Bulletin. A modest May Kyi Win panicipant in the Burma Studie Conference Memorial Endowment ha been e tabli hed and on more than one occasion, had to be that will allow u to appoint an individual to Convinced that providing food for all confer­ continue May Kyi Win' important work of ence Participants wa more than anyone compiling the annual Engli h language monal could accompli h. Even 0, at the bibliography of academic publication on conclu ion of ea h conference, he supplied a Burma. It i anticipated that the propo .ed free Bunne e lunch to all who left on late endowment will provide one month of urnmer flight. income (coupled importantly with a ummer chool tuition waiver) for a graduate tudent in Library Science or Southeast Asian Studie who will continue to produce the annual bibliography.

13 Spring 2002 Outreach Update East Timor in Transition: Past, Present and outheast Asia . laster Teacher Program Future Conference, Spring 2002 International Ramayana Conference and Fair, Center faculty and taff have been working Fall 2001 On April 12-13.2002. the CSEAS hosted a with a group of K-12 teacher from conference on Ea t Timor, which was throughout northern IIlinoi who will become The CSEAS received a grant from the lIIinoi coordinated by Andrea Molnar, profe or of outhea t A ia Ma ter Teache . In addition Humanitie Council to hold an international anthropology. The conference opened with to bringing Southeast A ia into the cla room conference and fair on the Ramayana in South the howing of the video entitled Viva Timor curriculum. SEA Ma ter tea her will erve a and Southea t A ia on eptember 21-23, 200I. Lorosae: The Untold Story of East Timor's an advi ory group to the Center in Additional funding for K-12 teachers to Struggle for Independence. Keynote developing curricula and material on participate in the educational work hop peeche were delivered by Geoffrey Southeast A ia for the elementary and Robin on (UCLA). Elizabeth Traube econdary level cla room. A weeklona accompanying the conference wa provided for~June by the College of Liberal Art and Science (We leyan Univer ity). and ancy M. Lutz institute for the teachers i planned (SIV Edward ville). Robin on addres ed the 10-14, 2002. Any tea her or hool di tri t and the Office of the Pre ident of j orthern IlIinoi niversity, Over 20 different peaker i. ue of violence and the problem of intere ted in thi program hould contact re ponsibility and justice. Traube's ~rom half a dozen countrie pre ented paper, Julia Lamb. Outreach Coordinator for the including Patricia Henry and U aw Tun. pre 'entation focu. ed on the dynamic Center for Southea t A sian Studie at relation hip between local culture and [email protected]. profe or of Foreign Language at j IU. The keynote peaker were Dr. Philip Lutgendorf. popular nationalism. Politics and the new Ea t Timore e con titution were the focu of niver ity of Iowa. and Dr. Robert Goldman, Council on Thai tudi Conference. Fall Lutz' talk. After the pre entation of paper ' in University ofCalifornia. Berkeley. 2001 International peaker included Dr. Satya Vat three panel entitled Reconciliation and Civil Society. Ju tice and Law in East Timor, and Sha tri. University of Delhi. Dr. Budya The CSEAS ho ted the 200I Council on Thai East Timor Society in Tran ition, participants Pradipta, Univer ity of Indone ia. Mr. Kyaw Studies Conference at DeKalb. TO ember 2-3. from the U.S., Australia and Germany had the Zwa. niver ity of Culture. Myanmar. to name 200I. Pasuk Phongpaichit. profe or of opportunity to exchange ideas about the a few. Dance and mu ical performance that economic at Chulalongkorn University. current problem facing A ia's newe t nation. highlighted the variou Ramayana tradition opened the conference with a paper including the ignificant i ue of language. throughout the region were performed by Dr. presentation on "Good Governan e.. 10ney The Anthropology Mu eum at I al 0 held Kuo-Huang Han, Department of Music; Politic and Hone t Mi take:' Pa uk a TimorTextile Exhibit in conjunction with the Sangeeta I varan from the A ia Fellows Phongpaichit and Chri Baker al 0 gave the conference. A Ii t of presenters and papers at Program; The nila inha Foundation, conference keynote pre entation on "Money the conference can be found at www.niu.edu/ Chicago; ariou performers from the Society, Community Culture. or Theme Park: c easlETprogram.htm. Indone ian Emba y in Chicago. the Thai Four Debate on the Future:' Both paper Fine An In titute, the International may be found at outheast sia yrnposium: Human Rights Ramayana In titute of 1 orth America, and the http://pioneer.neterv.chula.a.th/-ppa uk! and Current Issues, Spring 2002 Indian Student A ociation of IV. paper .htm. For a Ii t of pre enter and email .see The CSEAS at I and the International EALS II Conference, pring 2002 www.niu.edu/ceas/cot200lupdate.htm. Education Office at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, lIIinoi co-ho ted a ympo ium on The CSEAS ho ted the 12th annual Southea t Asian Film F thal A ia Lingui tic Society ( EALS) Conference outheast Asia, May 14-15. 2002 at the College of DuPage. Thi Sympo ium wa free from May 15-17, 2002. The conference, which Thi pring erne ter the C EA , the to the public and partially funded by the S i coordinated by John Hartmann, Profe or Southeast A ia Club, and other tudent lu • Department ofEducation Title VI Grant ofThai at I , featured keynote speaker. sponsored an A ian and A ian merican Filn Program. IV faculty. taffand graduate Theraphan L. Thongkham from Fe tival that featured i teen movie. For tudents were featured pre enters and Chulalongkorn University. Thailand. Special A ian American Heritage Month in April. the performers at the Symposium. AI 0 featured work hop were held on: SEA ite as a Tool Southea t A ia Club pon ored three m \ ie at the Sympo ium were Lui a Igloria, for Teaching outhea t A ian Language and 'The Split Hom: Life ofa Hmong haman in profe or of Engli h and Creative Writing Culture; Heritage Language and Culture: Lo . America" (Lao/Hrnong mericanj.vA mart from Old Dominion University, orfolk, VA. and Maintenance; Cros ing the Klong: Lady" (Burme e) and" ertical Rav ofthe More information on thi Symposium may be Learning In ide and Out ide the Clas room. Sun" (Vietnarne e). • For information on the conference. vi it our found at www.niu.edu/c east web ite at www.niu.edu/c eas! ea ympo ium.htm. EALSXII2 _.htrn.

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