Fall 2020 Newsletter In This Issue About the Center Dear CSEAS Community,

2 CSEAS seeks to promote a broader and Library Update deeper understanding of Southeast Asia, its people, histories, practices, and languages. 4 Founded in 1961, the Center for Southeast hat an extraordinary first year I have had as director! Fulbright FLTAs Asian Studies (CSEAS) at the International LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR The 2019–2020 year was marked by COVID-19’s Institute is one of the oldest centers in the 5 disruption of our daily and normal lives, regardless of U.S. devoted to the study of the region. Student Group Spotlight geographic location, institutional rank, and disciplinary Designated a National Resource Center by focus. Beginning in March, we cancelled our programming the U.S. Department of Education, CSEAS 6 for the safety of all community constituents. Our students supports the teaching of several languages CSEAS Students and faculty quickly pivoted to online remote learning and less commonly taught, critical to areas of teaching, and some researchers prematurely left Southeast 8 national need, and increasingly important Asia, their fieldwork interrupted. In the face of continuing Faculty News in today’s workforce. From its inception, restrictions, students have adjusted their thesis work and the Center has been committed to creating language training, and faculty have sought ways to continue 11 a supportive environment where scholars, projects while supporting students’ success. I remain impressed CSEAS Outreach educators, students, and community by how CSEAS faculty and students have figured out how to members engage in dialogue related to 14 thrive in this unprecedented and singular age. CSEAS Events Southeast Asia and interact with peoples of the region. We kick off the 2020–2021 academic year by welcoming Mary Gallagher, the new International Institute director, and our We support students in the field, with second cohort of Masters in Regional Studies students. The resources for study, research, service, and “new normal” mode of remote and virtual presents an opportunity employment; we are especially pleased to connect in innovative ways with our partners in Southeast to support PhD students’ field research Asia and at other institutions. Despite the turbulence, in this related to dissertations. Some of our prospective year, CSEAS will still offer the usual regional, national, awards include the Judith Becker Award for and international programming that you have come to expect, Outstanding Graduate Student Research on taking advantage of our community’s resilience and boundless Southeast Asia, the Thai Studies Awards for spirit and of the rapid development of remote technology. Undergraduate and Graduate Research, SEA Language Scholarships, and Fulbright and On the following pages, we proudly highlight our 2019-2020 FLAS Fellowships. We also support faculty faculty and student accomplishments and our academic and research grants and bring scholars based in cultural programming, including the Friday Lecture Series, the Southeast Asia to the University of Michigan. Gamelan performance, the MENA-SEA Teacher Program, and the public discussion of the Washtenaw Reads book choice, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen.

Our times are marked by loss of varying kinds. In the grip of this pandemic, one thing is certain: we are all in this together. COVID-19 has reminded us of the interconnectedness of our lives and the shared responsibilities toward wellbeing. Throughout the year, we will keep you informed about how our students, faculty, and stakeholders are making sense of and responding dynamically to our new and fraught times. Stay engaged with us, reach out, and “lean into” these uncertain times. LAURA ROZEK Director, Center for Southeast Asian Studies Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, Global Public Health and Nutrition

2 1 Si capʻ mraṅʻ nhaṃ ʹ = Independent Journal of Tao sheng yi jiu : Huai Ying shi ji / author, Huai A Glimpse of Burmese Scholarship / published in 2016 Ying; published in 2013. Literature and poems of Singaporean author. Southeast Asia Titles Ma Ma ʼEʺ tuiʹ teʺ u yyāñʻ / authors, Taṅʻʹ ʼOṅʻ, Builʻ ka leʺ [and 9 others]; published in 2013. Shopping for antique & collectibles: Singapore LIBRARY UPDATE Acquired Before COVID-19 & Malaysia 2003/4 Biography of Burmese singers. / published in 2003. Directories of antique dealers in Singapore & VIETNAMESE BOOKS INDONESIAN BOOKS Malaysia. Độc nhãn tướng quân Nguyễn Bình - như Aristo-modernis dari Timur : Paku Alam V, Imperial creatures : humans and other animals một huyền thoại / author, Nguyễn Ngọc Bích; westernisasi, dan paradoks Kebudayaan / in colonial Singapore, 1819–1942 / author, published in 2017. Biography of general Nguyễn authors, Sudibyo [and 4 others]; published in Timothy P. Barnard; published in 2019. History of Bình of Vietnam (Democratic Republic) in the 2018. Account of Paku Alam V, prince and ruler of human ecology in Singapore. Indochinese War, 1946–1954. Kingdom of Pakualaman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Uncovering Seletar / authors, Eugene Cộng đồng người Hoa, Hoa kiều ở châu Á Ahok : Akal politik sehat / author, Meicky Wijeysingha [and others]; published in 2018. = Ethnic Chinese and sojourner Chinese Shoreamis Panggabean; published in 2016. Pictorial works about the history of Seletar community in Asia / author, Trần Khánh; Biography and public opinion about Basuki (Singapore). published in 2018. Tjahaja Purnama, Governor of Special Capital Ca khúc Hà Noi thế kỷ XX và những năm đầu Region of Jakarta, Indonesia. MALAYSIAN BOOKS The Faces of the Southeast Asia Unit thế kỷ XXI / many authors; published in 2010. Jokowi Memimpin dengan Hati / author, Keen Keteneʼ : cerita lisan etnik Kenyah / author, Juna in the Library Collection of Vietnamese popular songs on Achroni; published in 2017. Biography of Joko Liau; published in 2019. Folk literature of Kenyah Hanoi capital, Vietnam, and biography of Widodo, the 7th president of the Republic of (Southeast Asian people) in Sarawak (Malaysia). Vietnamese composers. Indonesia. Community press and its revolutionary tradition Neofeudal UMNO : politik dan pembangunan / author, Georgina R. Encanto; published by While Susan Go is the public face for the Library’s Southeast Asia Unit, it would Cẩm nang nghi lễ truyền thống Chăm Ninh 41 Warisan Kebesaran Gus Dur / author, luar bandar / authors, Mazli Bidu & Dr. Jamaie University of the Philippines Press in 2019. not be possible for her to run the unit efficiently without the cadre of people that is Thuận = A guide of Cham traditional rituals in M. Hanif Dhakiri; published in 2010. Thoughts Hamil; published in 2018. Political, social behind the scene. Ninh Thuận province, Vietnam / author, Quảng of Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur), a Muslim conditions, and rural development in Malaysia. THAI BOOKS Văn Đại; published in 2016. scholar and the 4th president of the Republic Corruption and crime in Malaysia : perception or of Indonesia. Nakhō̜n rat Thai bon phǣndin Suwannaphūm Sujira Meesanga Prayoonhong (Noi) Hery Budiman was born in Purwokerto Viết và đối thoại / author, Trần Mai Hạnh; reality? / author, Akhbar Satar; published in 2018. = Glorious Thai kingdoms since 13th century published in 2019. Collection of articles on Pak Harto, Saya dan Kontainer medik received her BA degree in Architecture in Central Java, Indonesia. He moved Boria : from passion play to Malay-Jawi / published in 2019. History and civilization of Vietnamese society, and interview of journalist udara / authors, Raman Ramayana Saman, from Sinlapakorn University, to Yogyakarta to pursue his BA at Peranakan parody / author, Wazir Jahan Karim; Thailand. Trần Mai Hạnh. and Imelda Bachtiar, published in 2017. published in 2018. History of Malay theater, Bangkok,Thailand. After practicing Sanata Dharma University in the English Biography of Marsma TNI (Purn.) Dr. H. Raman Pax homonibus : A history of the mission of Siam Kha Vạng Cân : chủ tịch đầu tiên của thành phố drama, songs in George Town (Pulau Pinang), architecture for a number of years, she Education Study Program. Since 2017, Ramayana Saman, SpM. He is a military doctor and Laos / author, Robert Costet; published in Sài Gòn - Gia Định / author, Diệu Ân; published Malaysia. came to Eastern Michigan University he has worked in the Southeast Asia in 2018. Biography of politician of Vietnam in Indonesian Air Force who initiated and 2019 . History of Catholic church mission of Siam embodied human surgical efforts in the air. and Laos. (EMU) for both BS and MA degrees in Program, International Studies, as an (Democratic Republic) in Vietnam history PHILIPPINE BOOKS computer science. She began to apply Indonesian language informant. 1945–1975. Tan Malaka, Pergulatan menuju Republik 400 pī tai thalē Čhanthabūn : lǣng Kulto ni Santiago / author, Kristian Sendon Miền Đông Nam Bộ từ khởi thủy đến đầu thế 1925–1945 / author, Harry A. Poeze; published in bōrānnakhadī tai nam Rư̄ a Bāng Kachai 2 = her technical knowledge to the library Cordero; published in 2018. Filipino and Bikol kỷ XXI / editor, Hồ Sơn Đài; published in 2018. 2000. Biography of Tan Malaka, an Indonesian 400 years beneath the Chanthaboon sea : when she received an NEH grant to Alyssa Chua comes from Kuala short stories. Lumpur, Malaysia, and is a student of History, civilization and society of Southern, hero, who had an idea about the Republic of Bangkachai II wreck site / author, ʻŒ̄pprēm catalog the Thai Gedney Collection of Vietnam. Indonesia for the first time. English-Bahasa Sūg dictionary = Anggalis- Watcharāngkūn; published in 2017. Antiquities, computational cognitive science in the Underwater archaeology in Chanthaburi books in 1987. She provided the unit Why Aceh opposed Indonesia : a short Bahasa Sūg kitab-maana / author, Benj. S. province, Thailand. with the most professional service in College of Literature, Sciences, and BURMESE BOOKS biography of founder of ASNLF, Hasan Tiro Bangahan; published in 2015. the Arts. She is our Malay expert and / author, Murizal Hamzah; published in Kakanyahan ng Malolos : pamana ng bayan ng Thai pidok : prawattisāt kānmư̄ ang sangkhom this project. She has continued to do so Sikkhā toʻ cha rā toʻ" U Joʻ ʼOṅʻ e* ʼAtthuppatti : 2018. Biography Tiro, Hasan Muhammad, a Malolos sa mga Pilipino / authors, Christian rūam samai khō̜ng Phutthasātsanā Thai / for over three decades in a wide variety handles material primarily originating The Biography of Rev. Dr. U Zau Awng / author, revolutionary in Aceh (Indonesia). Natividad, King Cortez; published in 2019. author, Phinyaphan Photčhanalāwan; published from Malaysia, Indonesia, and Moṅʻ ʼAṁ’ O (Toʻ Vaṅʻ Rvhe Manʻ”); published in of much-needed support regarding History of Malolos (Philippines). in 2019. History of Buddhism in Thailand. Thailand, Laos, and Southeast Asia Singapore. She is the person who knows 2018. Biography of Christian scholars. SINGAPOREAN BOOKS Cebuano folk song (Pakitong-kitong); Thūt farang ton Krung Rattanakōsin / author, the ins and outs of the library computer Mranʻ mā nuiṅʻ naṃ e* da sa ma mrokʻ samma broadly—quite an accomplishment. Maguindanao folk song (Kaisa-isa niyan); Ifugao Sathāpat Sahathēwakān; published in 2019. system and makes sure that the titles are ta krīʺ Ūʺ Vaṅʻʺ Mraṅʻʹ / author, Sanʻʺ Thvanʻʺ Qing qian shi dao, xin xi min jiang = Ubin-our Folk song (Ed-Eddoy) / edited by Felicidad A. History of Thailand and the impact of foreign (Lhaññʻʺ Kūʺ); published in 2018. A biography of heart and soul / editor, Xiao Sunxi; published in Lien Dang hails from Hanoi via Belgium inputted correctly and sent to labeling. Prudente; published by Tahanan Books in 2019. relations with the West during the early Myanmar’s tenth president U Van Myint. 2018. Biography and social life and customs of and France. She is a graduate of the Chinese and Malays (Asian people) living in Ubin Various folk songs from the Philippines. nineteenth century. Robert Aung is a junior student Sū tuiʹ mraṅʻ so Maṅʻʺ Su Vaṇʻ (Cha rā krīʺ Maṅʻʺ Academy of Finance in Hanoi, Vietnam, Island (Singapore). War: the memoir of a Spanish soldier wounded Lang 6 Tulā ... : wādūai khwāmkhatyǣng thāng Su Vaṇʻ nhacʻ 110 praññʻʹ ʼa mhatʻ ta ra cā myāʺ) studying computer science. He has in the Philippines /author, Burguete, Ricardo; khwāmkhit rawāng khabūankān naksưksā kap and did her U.S. schooling at EMU in / published in 2019. History and criticism of Xue ni fang zong : Zhuang Xuefang / authors, Su published in 2020. Phak Khō̜mmiunit hǣng Prathēt Thai / author, Ypsilanti, Michigan. She has been our been working at the Southeast Asian Burmese literature in 20th century. Zhangkai, Yang Minghui, Du Hanbin; published Thikān Sīnārā; published in 2019. After the department at the library for over one in 2017. Biography of singers, actress Zhuang Southeast Asia politics : issues of the past Vietnamese language cataloger for the Pyū hū saññʿ mhā / author, Mānʿ Sacʿ Ṅrimʿʺ; event of October 6th, 1976 and the political Xuefang in Singapore. defining the challenges of the present / edited last five years. year. His work consists of transliterating published in 2019. Sources of history, antiquities conditions of Thailand between the students by Noel Ma. Morada and Teresa S. Encarnacion Burmese book titles to English and of Sagaing (Burma : Division) and Pyu (Burma). Xiao chi / author, Huang Zhuolun; published in and the Communist Party of Thailand during Tadem; published by Manila : Third World summarizing the books to input 2018. Singaporean essays (Chinese) of food in 1976–1982. literature. Perspectives in Politics in 2019 (On its way). information into the database.

2 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES | FALL 2020 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES | FALL 2020 3 FULBRIGHT FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING ASSISTANTS STUDENT GROUP SPOTLIGHT

An-Hien Doan Lidya Pawestri The Vietnamese

An-Hien Doan has been an English Ayuningtyas Student Association instructor at the Department of Foreign Lidya Pawestri Ayuningtyas is from Jakarta, CSEAS is proud to feature one of the Languages at Quy Nhon University (Quy Indonesia. She has taught English and university’s Southeast Asian student groups, Nhon City, Vietnam) since 2012. Her Indonesian to foreigners at State Polytechnic the Vietnamese Student Association (VSA), academic interest is Multiple Intelligences in of Jakarta since 2015, from which she which celebrates and shares Vietnamese English Language Teaching, which is her major graduated in 2011. She then continued her culture with the U-M community. To learn for her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. studies at the University of Indonesia for a more about this engaging student org, we Currently, An-Hien assists Vietnamese bachelor’s degree and University College spoke with Jason Ngo, one of VSA’s public classes at the Department of Asian London for a master’s degree. She loves relations representatives, and Marilyn Padua, Languages and Cultures as a Fulbright going to cultural events at U-M which she a recent U-M graduate and VSA alumna. Foreign Language Teaching Assistant. thinks are unparalleled. In Ann Arbor, people VSA hosts a variety of events that focus on She also enjoys participating in plenty are exceptionally kind and fun to be around. culture, community service and advocacy, of workshops related to multicultural The lectures are inspiring and the lecturers and interaction between members of the communication, feminism and climate are so passionate about what they teach. organization. For instance, VSA members, change on the campus. Throughout the After completing the FLTA Program, she as well as other students outside of the Fulbright program, the workplace culture of hopes to continue her career as a lecturer organization, can participate in and/ FROM TOP TO BOTTOM: VSA’s Fall 2019 Mass Meeting; the Southeast Asian Language Program gives and continue to study at a doctoral level in VSA’s annual culture show, Đêm Việt Nam (courtesy of or watch the annual culture show, Đêm Brian Lin photography); VSA’s “Paint the Rock” event. An-Hien a strong impression. She thinks her another continent. Việt Nam (A Night in Vietnam, or DVN supervisor and coworkers are remarkably for short). Historically, VSA has held its professional, supportive and caring. After show at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, the FLTA Program, she plans to resume her but in 2020 was fortunate to perform at teaching career in Vietnam. An-Hien hopes the Power Center. According to Marilyn, campus spaces is highly competitive, some of her best friends through VSA at U-M to apply and share the insights gained at DVN is a way for members “to showcase, VSA strives to create a timeline at the and even friends from VSA in other states, the University of Michigan (U-M) with her with the performing arts, the beauty and beginning of each semester to reserve such as Indiana and Illinois. students in her hometown. transformation of Vietnamese culture over rooms well in advance. time, from traditional Vietnamese songs to Both Jason and Marilyn explained that VSA the modern-day V-pop. Through the skit Overall, VSA offers students the opportunity positively shaped their experiences at U-M. that is incorporated throughout the culture to come together and share their cultural VSA helped Jason grow as an individual and show, we try to showcase the experiences of backgrounds and experiences. Jason joined “has helped me find a second family away Vietnamese Americans to shed light on the VSA because he came from an area where from home.” He’s been happier on campus common struggles that many of us face in Vietnamese representation was very low and because of it. This year will be his second our day to day lives. The skit is a way for us to he wanted “to interact with other people who year on the executive board, which “has open up dialogue and bring the community shared a similar heritage.” Interaction within helped me grow as a leader.” Meanwhile, closer together.” the VSA community not only promotes an to Marilyn, VSA was a community that embrace of Vietnamese culture but often made her “become comfortable with being Considerable planning and preparation go results in strong and lasting friendships. uncomfortable”: it pushed her to the limit, into VSA events. The process for planning Marilyn will remember most the belonging made sure to support her throughout her DVN is year-long, starting as soon as the and joy whenever she spent time with VSA journey, and offered a safe space for her new DVN executive board members are members. “From pulling all-nighters in the to be vulnerable. She also noted that she elected. Smaller events, such as Pho Night, UGLI, to running around frantically trying loved “seeing friendships develop at our fundraising events, and collaborative events to serve pho as fast as we could during Pho events” and was happy that she made with other student organizations, usually take Night, the memories I’ve made with the VSA people feel welcomed and appreciated in the 3–4 weeks of active planning. Since reserving community are unforgettable.” She also made community, just like she had been welcomed.

4 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES | FALL 2020 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES | FALL 2020 5 remembrance, and perhaps mine is an attempt to remember my own saints, inscribe Carillon and FLAS Fellows CSEAS STUDENTS my own heroes. Mentorship Defining 2019–2020 What kind of research did you do Experiences at U-M for your book? Congratulations to our 2019–2020 Much of it came about organically from academic year Foreign Language Area Nee Chucherdwatanasak is a PhD candidate research in both Indonesia and U-M’s Studies (FLAS) Fellows. Through the in historical musicology. Her research examines Hatcher Library! I’d received funding in my support of U.S. Department of Education the current scene of classical music in the undergraduate studies—thanks to some Title VI funding, CSEAS was able to United States. She is also interested in cross- lobbying by amazing professors—to do provide tuition support and stipends to cultural approaches that Asian composers, research in Ann Arbor about Hikayat Hang undergraduate and graduate students “Unneat” Histories of Malaysia: particularly those from Southeast Asia, have Tuah, the iconic Malay epic, and that work studying beginning, intermediate, adopted in their compositional process. Ms. Josh Chun Wah Kam Remembers certainly has inspired many of the characters or advanced level training in the less Chucherdwatanasak recently wrote to CSEAS and discussions in the novel. commonly taught languages of Southeast Saints, Inscribes Heroes about some of her defining experiences at U-M. Asia. Our Center’s fellows studied How long did it take you to write the “My most memorable experience was when I Burmese, Indonesian, Tagalog, Thai, novel? How did you balance responsibili- performed one of the compositions written and Vietnamese. Congratulations ties while working on this book? by King Bhumibol (Thailand’s previous king) to our students on obtaining this Four months writing, eight months editing. on the carillon in commemoration of the first prestigious award! I actually had a brief summer between grad- anniversary of his death in October 2017. uating and the Fulbright award, so it worked Jasmine An SEAS student Josh Chun Wah out perfectly to write daily for that period. I plan to graduate in the spring of 2021. Tamara Bingham Kam was born in Montana, but Then, my husband and I, as well as our toddler, You are the youngest winner of the Chantal Croteau grew up in Kuala Lumpur to will move back to Thailand and teach at a Epigram Books Fiction Prize, one of Malaysian parents. He spent his university. U-M has equipped me with valuable Maria Cristina Guytingco Singapore’s largest literary prizes. How undergraduate years at Hope experiences and an exceptional education to does that feel? What was your reaction Cole Howe College in Holland, Michigan, and in be a successful educator. The mentorship that when you won it? Joshua Kam C2019 conducted research in Indonesia under I have received in particular from my advisor, More shock than anything. It’s a lot to take the Fulbright Program. Besides Javanese Charles Garrett, professor of musicology at the Tiffany Lee in. I’m honored, but glad the ancestors get a literature at U-M, he studies the ways School of Music, Theatre & Dance, has greatly chance to speak (I hope!) through me. Courtney Liss Southeast Asian classical literary traditions thrived villages full of artists and others we’d inspired me to be not only an instructor who push back at boundaries of gender, sexuality, probably call non-binary or trans today. It’s provides great insight into musical topics, but Paige Newhouse and faith, subverting both indigenous and not neat history, and a great deal of the ways Your book concerns itself with the communist and LGBT communities of a mentor who cares deeply about students’ Eitan Paul colonial aristocracy. Here, Josh shares about I understand those ancestral ties comes from well-being.” his personal and academic experiences. the study I do. Malaysia. Why was this focus important Jennifer Rollison to you? Megan Ryan Tell us a little about yourself. What inspired you to write your novel, Who else should I speak of if not the people That’s a big question! A lot of my work as a How the Man in Green Saved Pahang, and who did—and do—see the links between Thu Tran scholar, at least, is tied to the ways I’ve had Possibly the World? homophobia, transphobia, capitalism, and Moniek van Rheenan to engage with my own identity, and have Reading about these alternative heroes of western imperialism? I’m not looking just to Mai Ze Vang had to challenge myself to build solidarities where intersecting communities interact Malaysian history moved me deeply. I think write of “niche” intersections, but to write bigger than my own “niche” of identities. beyond colonialism’s net. Outside of my something about Sufi literature and Maoist of what happens when those seemingly Lai Wo Malaysian Chinese and gay, I am from a direct areas of expertise, I have spent a lot of women’s memoirs from 1950s Malaysia niche identities spill over, overlap and grow country where corporal punishment and jail time trying to get a fuller sense of ancestry were also incredibly influential. I’m from a solidarity. I wanted to write something that time are frequently wielded against LGBT and place. [I have learned that], alongside Christian tradition that dwells very deeply was big enough for a whole lot of Malaysians. people, but I am also very much navigating Chinese Singaporeans and Malaysians who on the saints—on the idea that the human Do you plan to continue writing other the privileges of class, color, and legality that were “industrious” and “loyal to England,” body and human actions matter enormously similar books? permit me to be where I am and do what I do. were robust communities of anti-capitalist and deserve to be inscribed as models Yes! One’s in the works; it is set in eastern My scholarship, then, reflects this attempt women and freedom fighters. Against the and sources of hope. Orthodox Christians Michigan and explores imperial academia. to connect marginalized histories and see staid images of traditional Malay society dwell on iconography as a way of hopeful

6 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES | FALL 2020 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES | FALL 2020 7 Visiting Batu Caves in Malaysia BELOW: Attendants and participants in the symposium was a student, and Universiti Tunku Abdul “Infectious disease updates: From molecular to public health” at Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, Rahman (UTAR), where Dr. Rajamoorthy Indonesia, February 20, 2020. MIDDLE: Presenting at is currently on faculty in the Department of FACULTY NEWS UPM, Serdang, Malaysia, on February 21, 2020. Economics. At UPM, I presented on the “Effectiveness of influenza vaccine and Tamiflu” and on “Constructing epidemiology studies during outbreaks.” And at UTAR, I presented on “Degradation of maternal antibodies in infants.” For both sets of presentations, there was an audience of faculty and students from the university.

I appreciate CSEAS for funding this trip with support from their Title VI National Resource Center grant. It was my first time in this corner Collaborating about Vaccines of the world. The hospitality of my hosts across Cultures and Institutions and the food and culture of this region were wonderful, and I hope to visit again after the current COVID-19 pandemic passes. By Abram Wagner Research Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology at U-M In the meantime, I am continuing my research work with collaborators from these regions. Currently, I am engaged in an internet-based survey of attitudes towards n February 2020, prior to COVID-19’s potential future research projects and vaccination in several countries, including freeze on international travel, I had the grant opportunities. A large focus would Malaysia and Indonesia. My collaborators I opportunity to visit three institutions in be on religious barriers to vaccination. from these regions are consultants on this two different countries in Southeast Asia. Aceh Province is an autonomous region project, funded through the National Science The purpose of the trip was to visit with in Indonesia that has sharia law, and many Foundation. Additionally, I am seeking funds different researchers whom I had only met Muslims in the area believe that some from the Fulbright Foundation to continue electronically but with whom I had already vaccines contain haram (i.e., forbidden) (remote) work on the relationship between started working on joint research projects. material. religion and vaccination in Indonesia, My trip itinerary included: Presenting at UTAR, Kampar, Malaysia, On the second day, Syiah Kuala University on February 21, 2020. which may become more important as February 19–20 convened a mini-symposium entitled the COVID-19 vaccine is introduced in the near future. Banda Aceh, Indonesia “Infectious Disease Updates: From Molecular Banda —Syiah Kuala University to Public Health.” Several individuals from Aceh Syiah Kuala University Syiah Kuala University presented on their February 21–24 own research areas—from arboviruses to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia vaccine-preventable diseases in Indonesia— —Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and I gave a talk entitled, “Vaccination: —Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) Struggles Worldwide.” The talk was attended Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman by faculty and students from the medical In Banda Aceh, Indonesia, I met with two school. Medan colleagues (Dr. Harapan and Dr. Amanda MALAYSIA Yufika) with whom I’ve previously published I then flew to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to visit Kuala Lumpur research on vaccine decision-making in a researcher, Dr. Yogambigai Rajamoorthy. I Pematangsiantar Universiti Indonesia. On the first day in Indonesia, we made presentations at two universities in the Putra Malaysia discussed, along with a group convened by Greater Kuala Lumpur area—Universiti Putra INDONESIA the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Malaysia (UPM), where Dr. Rajamoorthy Visiting a marketplace in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

8 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES | FALL 2020 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES | FALL 2020 9 perspectives’ mere descriptiveness about the talk at Kalamazoo Valley Community College. snowflakes and dainty spring blossoms. Since Hughes Fellow Mia Guardias de Honor, I make use of the concept With all of the facilities closed, it has been I grew up in a tropical climate, experiencing CSEAS OUTREACH of mimesis in order to explain how localized such a regret not to research at the archives. negative-degree weather felt surreal (luckily, Baguisi’s Archival (“Filipinized”) religion born from syncretism In spite of this, I am thankful and satisfied that this year had a “milder” winter)! Regrettably, Research in the Time of Pre-Hispanic religion and Catholicism, I had the chance to review the contents of [when] things went haywire, my exposure to Vulnerability in Curricula of COVID-19 which the Guardias de Honor embodied, the aforementioned collections. As a history the city became limited. functioned as subversion to imposed student/researcher, it also feels quite unreal across Disciplines colonial culture and religion. Through my to be living through a pandemic; such events Now I consult digital sources while holed reinterpretation of this movement, I show are deemed “historical moments” because up in my apartment, try to keep myself and Regions expertise in digital and open-access primary aria Margarita (Mia) Mercado the wide range of measures that Filipinos they deeply affect and change societies. This healthy, and take the occasional stroll/jog and secondary source materials served the Baguisi is a graduate student in history, used to actually empower and maintain their all the more puts into focus what we can learn around the neighborhood with a mask, of workshop participants in real-time and helped working on her master’s thesis at De La indigenous belief system/traditions while from past pandemics in order to be better course. Vulnerability to the virus and its high maintain the workshop’s momentum. M mortality rate have made me terribly anxious Salle University in Manila, Philippines. During adhering to Christian doctrines and rituals. prepared for whatever lies ahead. This workshop built on previous iterations Winter 2020, she spent several months at U-M and afraid. However, I’ve been incredibly n March 5–6, 2020, CSEAS’ to expand its interactive and collaborative as a CSEAS Hughes Fellow, conducting archival What has been your experience at the It has been certainly challenging for me lucky to call IHAA my shelter throughout NRC funding supported the components, increasing our relevance and research. This interview occurred in May. Bentley Historical Library? to move forward with my research since this ordeal. Despite being a thousand miles For researchers and scholars interested most historical source material can only away from home, I never felt alone because U-M/UPR Pedogagical reach among Puerto Rican K–16 educators. What is your research about? in the Philippines, a visit to the Bentley be accessed through microfilm or archival I have been surrounded by exceptionally Workshop (previously the U-M/ We were delighted by the results. Though My research is about the Guardias de Honor Historical Library is an absolute must. There repositories. However, I was able to carry out kind, caring, and open-minded people from UPR Outreach Collaboration it is extremely difficult for Puerto Rican de Maria, a confraternity that was established are vast amounts of source material relating more than half of my data-gathering before all over the world who looked out for each Symposium) for K–16 in-service teachers to take off two consecutive school by the Dominicans in the Philippines during to the Philippines and Southeast Asia. I the closure. I’m glad that I was able to plan other. Although my time here has honestly Oand pre-service educators at the Rio Piedras days to attend this workshop in full, we the colonial era and turned into a religious had the opportunity to explore documents well ahead and prioritize acquiring relevant been a mix of both pleasant surprises and campus of the University of Puerto Rico, the counted the highest attendance of K-12 movement between the late 19th and early of high-ranking colonial officials of the primary sources from the rare collections unexpected twists and turns, it has been very only public institution of higher education on teachers in the history of this collaboration. 20th centuries, at the height of political Philippines in the Joseph Ralston Hayden housed in the Hatcher Graduate Library, memorable in a largely positive way. the island and a minority-serving-institution. The in-person audience boasted more turmoil in the Philippines and across Papers, Harry Hill Bandholtz Papers, James particularly the U-M Special Collections This year’s theme, “Integrating the Concept than 40 educators, scholars, students, and Southeast Asia. To address the problem of Alfred LeRoy Papers, and the Dean C. Research Center, and in the Bentley What have you enjoyed the most about of Vulnerability into the Classroom,” saw educational administrators, not counting live- the historiographical literature and current Worcester Collection, among many others. Historical Library. For the most part, I have the Hughes Fellowship? some 14 cross-disciplinary presentations stream attendees. One attendee wrote, “The The [library’s] excellent been continuously working by shifting to My experience as a Hughes Fellow this year from scholars at U-M and UPR, as well as a participation of local teachers discussing staff and archivists were digital sources in online repositories. Apart strengthened my motivation and inspired series of interactive pedagogical workshops current challenges and ideas was perfect.” always accommodating from that, the most I can do to handle this me to push forward with some of my and curriculum design studios led by Sheykirisabel Cucuta Gonzalez, Director and contributed to the situation and remain productive is to organize future career goals. I’ve also gained a lot of Darin Stockdill of the Center for Education of the Social Studies Program in the Puerto supportive atmosphere. previously collected data, translate needed perspective about the historical research Design, Evaluation and Research at U-M’s Rican Department of Education, expressed My experience at Bentley documents, and constantly revise my work. I want to pursue in the near future. If not School of Education. One of these panels— to our staff her deep support for this event also defined the research for this fellowship, I would not have gained “Vulnerability and World History”—featured and its restructured mission. Gonzalez is I want to pursue and How have you enjoyed your time in Ann enough insight on how to improve, but Puerto Rican teachers who had participated looking forward to future collaborations with undertake in the future. Arbor and at the International House also overall knowledge and capacity for in the NRC-funded U-M World History and even more Puerto Rican educators. CSEAS Ann Arbor (IHAA)? historical research and writing. I cannot thank Literature Initiative in December 2019. also saw increased interest in Southeast What has it been like I was ecstatic to conduct historical research enough the U-M, CSEAS, and everyone else Asian education too with some 92% of to do research during in one of the most distinguished universities who supports this program for providing Our center funded the talk of U-M area interviewed attendees expressing a high COVID-19? in the U.S.! There are a lot of things to love Southeast Asian scholars the opportunity to specialist Jennifer Rollison, titled “The Secret likelihood of incorporating Southeast Asian The COVID-19 outbreak about Ann Arbor, IHAA, and, especially, conduct research at the Bentley Historical Legacy of War: Integration, Acceptance, and content into their future teaching. About severely limited my access the U-M! One of the most fascinating things Library, Hatcher Graduate Library, and all Belonging. Challenges for First and Second 71% reported a strong likelihood of using the to the archival repositories. about Ann Arbor is that you get exposed the other repositories. Thank you so much Generation Southeast Asian-American curriculum toolkits specifically designed in When it was announced to people from around the world. I found for believing in me and for having me at your Immigrants.” CSEAS also contributed this workshop. 86% of those interviewed during the second week of it enjoyable to interact with a wide range institution. significant funding to the travel of U-M Latin made new professional contacts. March that the university of people and learn about their culture, American and Caribbean Studies Librarian had cancelled in-person history, and individual talents. Throughout Edras Rodriguez-Torres, who offered In summation, the symposium was hugely classes and closed most my four months spent here, I have also resources and suggestions to teachers and successful, and we look forward to of its facilities, such as the been extremely fortunate to experience two graduate students throughout the symposium strengthening the ties between U-M and libraries, I was in disbelief. In absolutely beautiful seasons: winter and as they tuned curriculum modules and UPR, and the larger community of Puerto fact, I was slated to deliver a spring. I saw both the intricately shaped brainstormed new ideas. Rodriguez-Torres’ Rican educators.

10 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES | FALL 2020 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES | FALL 2020 11 January 30, 2020. To celebrate the program enrich and revitalize their teaching together session, one teacher exclaimed: “Pick of Mary (mother of Jesus) had direct CSEAS Hosts Public and to increase local engagement with this Michigan Teachers around the topics of religious and cultural one? Any and all! Each has been dynamic, connections to concepts I address in my book and national debates about migration, diversity in the Middle East and North Africa thought-provoking, and exceptional.” The World Mythology class. Connecting the ideas Discussion of Dear CSEAS hosted its own public discussion “Journey” to (MENA) and in Southeast Asia (SEA). question of choosing a favorite, Perkins Dr. de la Cruz presented, such as the imagery America on the 27th, with Marlon James Sales, Southeast Asia Together they participated in workshops protested, was “like asking a Catholic mother and meaning of Our Lady of Caysasay postdoctoral fellow in Critical Translation and the Middle East with U-M faculty and graduate students who to pick her favorite child. I can’t pick. … and Our Lady of Guada, to Babylonian By Rima Hassoneh Studies at U-M, and Rima Hassouneh, were area specialists, engaged with readings Honestly, I can’t tell you the number of times priestesses and Greek oracles means that my CSEAS’ outreach coordinator. and multi-media resources, toured the Arab our Saturday sessions and assigned reading students can expand their world view of these Outreach Coordinator By Rima Hassouneh American National Museum in Dearborn, have directly impacted my weekly instruction. concepts in addition to seeing that these Forty-five people from all walks of life Outreach Coordinator and visited Yemeni- and Hmong-owned It’s also worth noting that the entire ideas are universal: important to humans packed the room in Weiser Hall on that family businesses. The Center for Education experience has energized me intellectually 5,000 years ago and today.” ilipino-American and Pulitzer Prize- Monday evening. After refreshments and Design, Evaluation and Research at the in a way that seems to have affected and winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas pastries from the central-campus restaurant School of Education also partnered with the inspired my students as well.” And about The eighth session on May 30th focussed has been regarded as the “most famous F Silvio’s, everyone settled in for the collective program to lead pedagogical discussions October’s session with Burmese human- on graphic literature about the two regions. undocumented immigrant in America.” conversation. The two hosts offered with the teachers about how to integrate the rights advocate Wai Wai Nu, Dykhouse The teachers met with Leila Abdelrazaq, But his story, he writes, is merely “one of overarching questions before leading the he MENA-SEA Teacher Program new content knowledge and skills into their wrote, “I thank you for the wonderful day… Palestinian author and artist born in Chicago an estimated 11 million here in the United audience in a lively one-hour conversation is a teacher-outreach collaboration teaching while meeting state standards. By to consider together some challenging and and currently living in Detroit. The group States.” Part memoir, part reportage, Dear about the book’s themes and main concerns. funded largely by a Title VI National the end of the program on June 26th, the problematic material. As I reflected yesterday discussed her debut graphic novel, Baddawi, America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen Dear America’s description of what it Resource Grant awarded from the cohort had 25 trainings by scholars, artists, on Wai Wai Nu and her Women’s Peace which is about a boy raised in a refugee camp portrays the author’s “lying,” “passing,” and means to be Filipino—to “fit everywhere U.S. Department of Education. and community leaders, and qualified for Network, I continued to be impressed with in northern Lebanon after his Palestinian “hiding” in America, experiences shared, he and nowhere at all”—resonated deeply To recruit from across the state 22 State Continuing Education Clock Hours initiatives taken by young people around the family, like thousands of others, fled their argues, by all undocumented people. (Vargas for members of that community and for and region, the program usually pays for from the Michigan Department of Education. world. I intend to share her story with my homeland in 1948 after the establishment learned that his green card was fake and that many others in the crowd. Calling the book T of the state of Israel. On that day Maya the overnight lodgings of cohort teachers students.” he had been smuggled into the United States “gorgeous,” Sales emphasized the multiple traveling long-distance. In its inaugural year An invaluable component of the program was Barzilai also presented about how she from the Philippines, during another teenage losses that the author and countless others the program revolved around a dedicated world-class artistic performances. In January, In March, COVID-19 disrupted the full range teaches Baddawi and graphic literacy. She is rite of passage: applying for a driver’s permit.) have suffered in the pursuit of life in the U.S. and passionate cohort of six Grade 6–12 for instance, cohort teachers experienced of the program, including the in-person, Associate Director at the Frankel Center for Filipinos, Vargas points out in the memoir, “As Far as My Fingertips Take Me,” a one- cultural, and artistic activities. Nevertheless, Judaic Studies and Associate Professor at Dear America epitomizes Washtenaw educators admitted in a competitive have a long history of service to and sacrifice on-one encounter through a gallery wall with the academic presentations continued online the Department of Middle Eastern Studies. Reads’ 2020 theme of “Everybody Counts.” application process. for the U.S. “With the promise of U.S. Barzilai’s research focuses on twentieth- (For more information about Washtenaw citizenship and full veteran benefits, more The teachers were: Greg Dykhouse (History, century postwar Hebrew and Yiddish Reads, visit: Washtenaw Reads.) The seven than 250,000 Filipino soldiers fought under Black River Public School, Holland), Kiersten literature, German Jewish thought, translation participating communities and libraries “I am the only teacher who teaches my topics at a very small school. the American flag [against the Japanese], Gawronski (English, Saline High School, theory, and visual culture. invited Vargas to speak at Washtenaw playing a crucial role in achieving victory,” Saline), Colleen Kalisieski (English, All Saints … I am very excited to network and learn with like-minded, Community College on the evening of he writes. However, “the Rescission Act of Catholic School, Canton), Amy Perkins dedicated educators and experts in two fast-growing and very The program also equipped each teacher with The Best We Could Do, a memoir that 1946 retroactively took away these soldiers’ (A.P. World and A.P. U.S. History, Lakeshore important regions of the world.” status as U.S. veterans. … It took more High School, Stevensville), Gabrielle Popp visually documents author Thi Bui’s family’s escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the than sixty years to rectify the injustice.” (Special Education English, Beacon Day KYMBERLI WREGGLESWORTH Onaway Secondary School One of Vargas’ own sacrifices was a full Treatment, Southgate), and Alison Sullivan 1970s and their painful new lives as refugees relationship with his mother, with whom, (World Geography and World History, in the U.S. Teaching with graphics can 26 years later, he had not yet been Traverse City East Middle School, artist Basel Zaraa, born a Palestinian refugee entirely. April’s session was dedicated to promote empathy and understanding of the reunited. Traverse City). in Syria, their arms touching without seeing gender norms; U-M Professor of History experiences of migration, and Popp was eager each other. These performances enriched the Deirdre de la Cruz addressed gender and to do so with both texts. “Immigration is a As part of its Title VI educational outreach The program gave Kalisieski “the opportunity teachers’ instruction. “My students were so power before and since Spanish colonization topic that comes up often in my classroom related to the “Everybody Counts” event, as a teacher to step back into the role of engaged to hear about my experience with of the Philippines. “While listening to through my students’ personal stories as well CSEAS distributed 60 free copies of learner, reflect upon my teaching practice, the interactive art performance,” reported [her] fascinating presentation,” remarked as the literature we are reading,” she noted. Dear America to Grade 6-12 libraries, and incorporate the experiences and Sullivan. “They were fascinated!” Gawronski, “I had several ‘A-ha’ moments “I am looking forward to the session because teachers, as well as to members in that perspectives of my fellow educators as I think (which, frankly, occurs constantly with the we will be delving more into resources my evening’s audience. Some of those copies of ways to bring this new knowledge back to Each of the nine sessions had a different MENA-SEA Program) that I could apply to students can directly use.” were autographed by Vargas later that my classroom.” Starting in September 2019, focus or theme, including genocide, art my lessons. Her presentation on the icons

week at Washtenaw Reads’s main event, every month on a Saturday, the teachers as protest, and religious minorities under and practices in the Filipino veneration which drew over 400 persons. assembled on U-M’s Ann Arbor campus to colonial rule. Prompted to identify a favorite > continues on page 14

12 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES | FALL 2020 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES | FALL 2020 13 Plans for an afternoon walking tour of Co-Sponsored Events Hamtramck with Detroit-based documentary Thai Studies Summer Khon Kaen University photographer and filmmaker Razi Jafri were OCTOBER 16 obviously suspended, though not cancelled Roundtable on Current Events in Thailand Grant Symposium Delegation Visits U-M (in the works—Inshallah—are a Spring 2021 SPEAKERS: Dr. Peerasit Kamnuansilpa, Dr. in-person reunion and tour of this Michigan CSEAS EVENTS Supawatanakorn Wongthanavasu, Dr. Sirisak Funded by the Amnuay-Samonsri Viravan CSEAS and the Gerald R. Ford School of city’s thriving immigrant character). Instead, Laochankham, Mr. Narong Kiettikunwong, Endowment, the 2019 Thai Studies grants Public Policy jointly hosted a high-ranking Video recordings of some of these the cohort virtually discussed with Jafri Khon Kaen University were awarded to ten students and faculty for delegation from the College of Local events are now available to watch. and Justin Feltman their documentary film, NOVEMBER 8 summer research and work in Thailand. The Administration at Khon Kaen University of “Hamtramck, USA.” The film is about life PLEASE VISIT The Vietnam War: What Happened awardees and their affiliations (as of 2019) Thailand in October 2019. The delegates and democracy in the U.S.’s first Muslim- ii.umich.edu/cseas/news-events/events/videos.html and Why It Still Matters were: Kristen Gilley (global health epidemi- were: Dr. Peerasit Kamnuansilpa (Founding majority city. A number of Sullivan’s students SPEAKERS: Professors Keith W. Taylor and ology MPH candidate); Lena Benjakul (un- Dean), Dr. Supawatanakorn Wongthanavasu joined the conversation with the filmmakers, Olga Dror, University of Michigan dergraduate student majoring in economics (Dean), Dr. Sirisak Laochankham (Assistant who were keen to hear their impressions, NOVEMBER 20 and minoring in Asian/Pacific Island Studies); Dean for Research and Academic Services), Yuxiao Lei (research assistant at the School of and Mr. Narong Kiettikunwong (Assistant particularly since they hope to produce CSEAS Friday Lecture Series Why Are Buddha Statues So Big? accompanying educational resources. The Space, Time, and Unusual Human Public Health); Alexander Atkinson (under- Dean for Academic Affairs). On October MENA-SEA Teacher Program looks forward SEPTEMBER 20 FEBRUARY 21 Bodies in Buddhism graduate student in civil engineering); Lauren 16th, at a roundtable event that was opened Bacans-Grounds (graduate student at the to the general public and to center faculty to more collaboration with Feltman and Beyond the East-West Encounter: Becoming Brokers: Explaining Thailand’s SPEAKER: Reiko Ohnuma, Chair and Jafri, who will in Fall 2020 begin an M.F.A. Inter-Asian Intimacies and Estrangements Growing Brand in Global Health. Professor of Religion, Dartmouth College School of Public Health, specializing in health and students, the delegation discussed program at the Penny W. Stamps School in Colonial and Postcolonial Burma, SPEAKER: Joseph Harris, Boston University management and policy); Erin McAuliffe with U-M Professor Allen Hicken (Political DECEMBER 6–7, DECEMBER 14 (doctoral student in the Department of Science) current events in Thailand and of Art & Design. 1850–1950 2019 World History and Literature Sociology); Madeline Bernard (global health their impact on higher education. The event SPEAKER: Chie Ikeya, Rutgers University Initiative: Empire, Decolonization & Both CSEAS and CMENAS are federally Thai Movie Night epidemiology MPH candidate); Chantal included a Q&A session, followed by a light OCTOBER 25 Independence in Global History & designated National Resource Centers Croteau (PhD candidate in sociocultural lunch. On the following day, the delegation Last Flight to Bangkok: Reflections on 60 SEPTEMBER 26 Literature (NRCs). At the close of the program, each anthropology); Jasdeep Kler (global health met with representatives from the Ford Years in Southeast Asia Ploy / ‘พลอย’ SPEAKER: Jessica Hill Riggs, CSEAS academic member created educational resources epidemiology MPH candidate); and Catherine School: John Ciorciari (Director, International SPEAKER: Gayl D. Ness, University of Michigan DIRECTOR: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang program specialist, University of Michigan about both regions based on their year-long Walker (clinical associate professor of music, Policy Center), Daniel Ellis (Global experiences; these resources will be shared NOVEMBER 8 OCTOBER 24 JANUARY 27 School of Music, Theatre & Dance). Engagement Program Manager), and Tricia publicly and freely with teachers across the ‘Why should I keep loving you when I The Blue Hour / ‘อนธการ’ Book Discussion of Dear America: Notes Schryer (Recruiting and PPIA Coordinator). nation via the NRC websites. Each participant know that you’re not true?’ A Cinema of DIRECTOR: Anucha Boonyawatana of an Undocumented Citizen by Filipino- To an audience of fellow faculty and students, also received a $1000 honorarium. The Hiraeth NOVEMBER 21 American journalist Jose Antonio Vargas a number of these awardees shared their program would have culminated in GEEO SPEAKER: Gerald Sim, Florida Atlantic How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) / SPEAKERS: Marlon James Sales, postdoctoral experiences and photographs at the sympo- (Global Exploration for Educators) trips to University ‘พี่ชาย My Hero’ fellow in critical translation studies, sium on the afternoon of September 27 in Morocco and Bangkok-Hanoi but, due to NOVEMBER 15 DIRECTOR: Josh Kim Comparative Literature; and Rima Hassouneh, Weiser Hall, to an audience of fellow faculty and students. COVID-19, they have been postponed until Crafting Theravada Buddhism: Touch and JANUARY 30 CSEAS outreach coordinator July 2021. Material in the lives of Thai Buddhists By The Time It Gets Dark / ดาวคะนอง FEBRUARY 5 Professor Walker, for instance, told the audi- SPEAKER: Anthony Lovenheim Irwin, DIRECTOR: Anocha Suwichakornpong PICS Film Screening. Becoming Labrador ence about her experience teaching voice in a The program has grown, to admit in 2020- University of Michigan FEBRUARY 27 DIRECTOR: Rohan Fernando, Tamara Segura, school setting to teachers and youth. Croteau 2021 eight teachers from Interlochen, JANUARY 31 Censor Must Die and Justin Simms reported about her research on food belong- Onaway, Hartland, and Dearborn, to name The Deep Constitution: Militant DIRECTOR: Ing Kanjanavanit FEBRUARY 13 ing and the social politics of commensality a few towns across our state. Kymberli Constitutional Identity and the Afterlife of The Rohingya Crisis and in southern Thailand. And Atkinson spoke Wregglesworth of Onaway Secondary Martial Law in Thailand Future of Democracy in Myanmar about his team’s work in the BLUElab project, School sums up the immense value and Gamelan Events SPEAKER: Eugénie Mérieau, Harvard Law SPEAKER: Wai Wai Nu, Women Peace which collaborates with U-M’s Center for impact of the MENA-SEA Teacher Program School Network, Yangon Youth Leadership Center Socially Engaged Design and with Chiang Mai for educators: “I am the only teacher who OCTOBER 9 FEBRUARY 7 University on flood mitigation technologies in teaches my topics at a very small school. Indonesian Gamelan Festival FEBRUARY 24 Decomposing a National Language: the partner district of Mae Chan, Thailand. … I am very excited to network and learn DECEMBER 8 International Institute Conference Pluralism and the Origins of the on Migration with like-minded, dedicated educators Javanese Gamelan Concert In a sign of radically different yet not distant Vietnamese Language SPEAKER: Cheryl Yin, Anthropology Doctoral and experts in two fast-growing and very times, CSEAS afterwards hosted a light SPEAKER: John Phan, Columbia University Candidate, University of Michigan important regions of the world.” reception for guests to mingle, without consideration of masks or six feet of distance!

14 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES | FALL 2020 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CENTER FOR SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES | FALL 2020 15 Indonesian Diplomats visit U-M and attend Gamelan GIVE TO CSEAS

n October 9th, 2019, an esteemed delegation from the CSEAS not only serves the U-M community Indonesian Embassy in Chicago visited U-M Ann Arbor, to by funding research, but also the wider commemorate 70 years of formal diplomatic partnership between Indonesia and the U.S. The diplomats were Southeast Michigan community. Programs Rosmalawati Chalid, Consul General, and Miranda Ekawaty such as the MENA-SEA Teacher Program Mukhlis, Consul for Information, Social and Cultural Affairs. (pp. 12–13) exemplify the center’s OAmongst the activities was a luncheon hosted at the Stephen M. outreach. While CSEAS is among a small Ross School of Business and attended by 20, who included: Laura number of centers with the status of Title Rozek; CSEAS director and associate professor of environmental VI National Resource Center, it still relies health sciences; Pak Widodo, gamelan instructor appointed by the Indonesian government; Henry Rahardja, president of the U-M Alumni on the generosity of donors to sustain Association of Indonesia; Bu Agustini, Indonesian language instructor its programming. Currently, the center and director of the Southeast Asian Language Program; John Ciorciari, is planning a weekend of lectures and associate professor of public policy and director of International Policy; and Allen Hicken, professor of political science and research professor performances exploring the theme of at the Center for Political Studies. sustainability in Southeast Asia; the center especially needs your support to host an After lunch, Bu Rosmalawati, Bu Miranda, Director Rozek, Professor Susan Pratt Walton (ethnomusicologist at the Residential College expert gamelan musician to provide artistic and director of the U-M Gamelan), and Mr. Rahardja met with LSA direction for this event. Dean Anne Curzan. The focus of the conversation was the renewed commitment to robust relations between the College and Indonesian alumni and to support for the gamelan ensemble at U-M. How to Give Later that evening, the diplomatic guests attended a performance by the gamelan, a traditional instrumental ensemble featuring bronze II.UMICH.EDU/CSEAS/DONATE percussion instruments and the angklung, a bamboo instrument varying in size and producing different resonances and pitch. About Or mail a check made out to the 185 people packed the Stern Auditorium of the Museum of Art University of Michigan to: to enjoy the performance, which was directed by Widodo. Three traditional dances were performed for their delight: (1) The Giring- Center for Southeast Asian Studies Giring, from the Dayak tribe in Kalimantan. Expressing joy, its dancers Weiser Hall, 500 Church St., Ste. 400 carry one or two pieces of grain-filled bamboo sticks. (2) TheLenggang Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1106 Nyai Dance, from the Betawi ethnic group in Jakarta. It was inspired by the legend of Nyai Dasimah, famous for her beauty and grace. (3) The Peafowl, from West Java. It is performed by female dancers to illustrate the beauty in appearance and movement of peacocks. Donations are sought in the CSEAS Strategic Fund (365095), the Javanese Gamelan Endowment (731164), and the Indonesian Alumni Student Support Fund (700174).

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