Volume 5, Issue 1 Southeast Asia Center News March 2006

Southeast Asia Center Jackson School of International Studies Letter from the Director - Laurie J. Sears (History) The Southeast languages, UW will continue to offer more/dialogues/index.cfm) for a Asia Center staff Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and project entitled Engaging Southeast spent the rainy fall Tagalog/Filipino, and hopes to con- Asian-American Pluralism in Seattle months writing the tinue the self-study of Burmese lan- described on page 2. forty-page renewal guage that the Center has been over- grant for Depart- seeing for the past few years. The Center events over the past year ment of Education Center’s expansion into the Southeast included a major conference Islam, Title VI funds that Asian humanities also complements Asia, Modernity held at the Univer- support most of increased collaboration with the UW sity last spring . This event was co- the Center’s aca- Simpson Center for the Humanities, sponsored by the South, East, and demic program and especially the Rockefeller funded Russian and Central Asian Centers and activities. The Critical Asian Studies program which of the Jackson School. It was a two- process of informa- has supported SEAC over the past day event that brought scholars of tion gathering and several years through their granting of Islamic Asia from all over the world grant-writing made us residential fellowships for Bobby Gar- to Seattle. The UW Asia Centers doubly aware of the UW’s cia of the Philippines, Fadjar Thufail of plan to have a DVD of the confer- markedly increased com- Indonesia, Boreth Ly, originally from ence presentations available this mitment to Southeast Asian Cambodia, and Chie Ikeya, originally spring. New events coming up in Studies at UW over the past five from Burma, all of who came to UW winter and spring include visits by years. This commitment is re- over the past few years as Critical literary scholar Henk Maier of the flected in the recent offers of ten- Asian Studies fellows. University of California-Riverside, a ure-track positions to Wayang Golek performance with Francisco “Kiko” Benitez Inside this issue: Other SEAC plans for puppeteer Kathy Foley and Sun- (Comp Lit) and Peter Lape the future include a danese musician Undang Sumarna Welcome Sara Curran 2 (Anthropology/Burke Mu- Engaging Southeast Asian new MA program in joining Cornish College’s Gamelan seum), and the new senior American Pluralism in Seattle Southeast Asian Stud- Pacifica lead by Jarrad Powell and hire of Thai specialist Sara ies in the Jackson the Northwest Puppet Center. This Curran in JSIS/Evans School Asia Law Center 3 School in response to event will take place on March 5th in of Public Affairs. In the last Welcome Chie Ikeya increased faculty Kane 130. In the spring, SEAC is grant cycle, expansion into Malaysia Study Tour 4 strength and expertise excited to host noted Philippine the Southeast Asian humani- and increased student film critic Rolando Tolentino ties, assisted by a DOE seed- Faculty and Graduate Student Asian 5 demand. Center fac- who will give several public funded position, was matched Tour, 2005 ulty Christoph Giebel lectures at the University by increased institutional and Judith Henchy and in the community. support for coverage of the Rolando Tolentino visits UW 6 plan to establish a We hope to see lots Engaging Southeast Asian Philippines and of the Islamic American Pluralism in Seattle new research program of old and new societies of SEA, as well as by (cont.) entitled “Alternative faces at these increased funding to support Congratulations FLAS Recipients Voices in Modern Viet- exciting advanced Tagalog and Indo- namese History and events in nesian language instruction. “The Ghostly Goddess & the Sinner 7 Historiography.” Cen- the near Saint” Overwhelming student and ter faculty are also future. community response to public Winter 2006 Course List 8 planning major confer- arts and humanities program- Southeast Asian Discretionary Fund ences, workshops, ming offered by SEAC over the and new courses on past five years demonstrates Calendar of Events 9 issues of human traf- that the humanities are an ficking in women and excellent way to attract students into the field children and transnational labor mi- and into advanced language study. For this gration in Southeast Asia. Kiko reason we made the expansion into the musi- Benitez and I are very pleased to have cal and performing traditions of Islamic SEA been awarded one of the Ford Foun- one primary goal for the new 2006-2010 dation’s Difficult Dialogues grants (see grant cycle. In the area of Southeast Asian http://www.fordfound.org/news/

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Engaging Southeast Asian American Pluralism in Seattle: Welcome Sara Curran! Faculty-Student Conversations on Religion, Politics and Identity by Laurie Sears (History) and Francisco Benitez (Comparative Literature)

“Engaging Southeast Asian American Plural- pedagogical techniques after the quarter ism in Seattle: University of Washington’s they teach. Undergraduate Student-Teacher Conversa- tions on Religion, Politics and Identity” was The project has funding for 5 pedagogical awarded a 2 year grant by the Ford Founda- workshops and the development of 6 tion as part of its Difficult Dialogues initia- courses (1 each quarter over the 2 year tive designed “to understand and combat period). Half of the classes will be smaller anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and other (around 25 students), 1 of which will in- forms of bigotry.” The project is housed in corporate an international video- the Simpson Center of the Humanities. conferencing component. Half of the courses will be larger (around 100). Each The project focuses on Southeast Asian of the large classes will have 2 assigned American communities in Seattle, but is teaching assistants. All will be team- open to courses that deal with wider issues taught with faculty ideally from different or comparative frameworks which link this departments. The large classes selected Sara Curran community to other communities, to larger should have added pedagogical dimen- Associate Professor of concerns, and to the various postcolonial sions—service learning or an oral history International Studies and nations of Southeast Asia. It seeks to ex- project, for example—that will connect Public Affairs plore what diversity and pluralism might students with the local Southeast Asian mean across cultures, traditions and nation- American communities in Seattle. It is The Southeast Asia Center welcomes Sara states—as well as across various social posi- hoped that the oral history projects will be Curran, who joined the faculty of the Jack- tions and locations within the U.S.—while archived and exhibited in the library, the son School and the Evans School of Public finding innovative pedagogy that can effec- Burke Museum and/or the Wing Luke Affairs as associate professor in 2005. Dr. tively articulate them. The project seeks to Asian Museum. Curran's research and teaching interests establish new courses for the Diversity Mi- encompass social demography, develop- nor, as well as explore pedagogical ap- ment and globalization, the environment, proaches that would sustain “campus envi- Continued on page 6. and gender. Her most recent work, Shifting ronments where sensitive subjects can be boundaries, transforming lives: Globaliza- discussed in a spirit of open scholarly in- tion, gender, and family dynamics in Thai- quiry, academic free- land, is forthcoming from Princeton Univer- dom and with respect sity Press. The book examines ways in for different view- which migration and education trans- points.” formed Thai society between 1984- 2000. Dr. Curran is continuing her work in The project seeks pro- Thailand with studies in Kanchanaburi posals for team-taught Province and an ongoing project on social undergraduate courses capital, migration and development, pertinent to its investi- funded by the National Science Founda- gation into pluralism, tion. In addition, Dr. Curran and colleagues religion, politics and at Bowdoin College and Wellesley College identity, and its explora- were recently awarded a prestigious grant tion of pedagogical from the Templeton Foundation for a pro- approaches that facili- ject entitled: Comparing Spiritual and Other tate academic freedom. Forms of Social Capital: Lessons from the [The list of possible Immigrant Experience. The project exam- course ideas that fol- ines how social capital in both the origin lows suggests some and destination contexts shapes immi- rubrics and frameworks grants' integration experiences and endur- that would support the ing homeland ties. It also has a unique particular and compara- focus on the role played by spiritual capital tive investigations of -- the presence and role played by relig- this project.] Faculty iously based organizations, and the individ- whose courses are se- ual's religious beliefs, practices, and net- lected are asked to works. The study will focus on three small attend a pedagogical cities, one of them being in the state of workshop before the Washington. She is joined by her husband quarter they teach, and Ralph Coolman (UW Urban Planning), son to present an assess- Noah (age 7) and daughter Claire (age 5). ment of their class and Above: Francisco “Kiko” Benitez, 02/02/2006.

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Asia Law Center & Comparative Law Graduate Students Welcome Chie Ikeya!

The UW Asian Law Center welcomed profes- Dean. His research interests are comparative sor Jonathan Eddy to its faculty in July 2005. study of land law, competition law, bankruptcy Professor Eddy is working on a project for law, and law and society. His dissertation, titled USAID in Indonesia and the Philippines, fo- Land Law Reform in Indonesia: Study on the cusing on anti-money laundering efforts, and Recognition of Communal Land Rights in Indo- for a U.S. Department of Commerce project nesia, examines the Indonesian government's on commercial law reform in the Arabian Gulf. policy and regulation on land tenure, especially on communal land right. Despite lack of govern- The ALC is also involved in a diagnostic sur- mental effort to solve the problem, there have vey of commercial legal and institutional re- been enormous conflicts on communal land form in SE Asia, an evaluative study for USAID rights across Indonesia involving the state, on commercial law and trade facilitation envi- tribes/people, and companies. The study, to be ronments in Indonesia, Vietnam, Lao PDR, held at West Papua, Lampung, and West Java, Cambodia and Thailand. The project will cul- will examine the experience of the U.S. and minate in a regional conference in 2006 on Australia and will try to find solutions for these best practice in building a business-friendly problems. Chie Ikeya regulatory environment Rockefeller Resident Fellow Tomi Suryo Utomo holds Project for Critical Asian Studies Hendrianto Hendrianto an S.H. (LL.B.) from the Simpson Center for the Humanities joined the Ph.D. pro- University of Gadjah Mada gram in 2004, having Yogyakarta, Indonesia graduated from Gadjah (1993) and an LL.M. from Mada University, Indo- the University of Mel- Chie Ikeya is a Rockefeller Fellow at nesia (1997) and re- bourne, Australia (1998). the Center for the Humanities at the ceiving a LLM degree, The focus of his research University of Washington (Seattle) cum laude, from is on the protection of for the 2005-06 academic year. She Utrecht University, pharmaceutical patents in recently received a PhD degree in Netherlands in Com- Indonesia and its impact modern Southeast Asian history parative Public Law on the public health sec- with a minor field in Asian religions (2003). Hendrianto’s research interest in- tor. Since 1994, he has been a lecturer in the from the Department of History at cludes the relationship between constitution faculty of law at the University of Janabadra in Cornell University. Her dissertation, and economic system, the role of the courts Yogyakarta, Indonesia with a specialty in intel- "Gender, History and Modernity: in transition economy, and comparative con- lectual property, international trade law and Representing Women in Twentieth stitutional law. Consequently, his dissertation international organization law. Century Colonial Burma" (January studies the relation between constitutional 2006), is the first social history of transformation and economic reform in Indo- Melda Kamil Ariadno is a lecturer in interna- twentieth century colonial Burma to nesia during a transition period (1999-2004). tional law at the Faculty of Law University of analyze the central role gender Indonesia. She holds an LL.B. from UI (1992) played in discourses of colonialism, Yoichi Shio received his and obtained her LL.M. from the University of modernity, and nationalism. While LL.B from the University Washington School of Law in 1995. She has a in residence at the University of of Tokyo and his LL.M great interest in the field of international law, Washington, Dr. Ikeya's research, in Law and Sustainable especially in the Law of the Sea and the Law titled "Miscegenating Women, Half- International Develop- of Treaties. Caste Children: Legacies of the ment from the Univer- Japanese Occupation of Burma sity of Washington Kanaphon Chanhom graduated LL.B. and LL.M. during the Second World War School of Law. His re- degrees from Chulalongkorn University, Bang- (1942-1945)," will focus on war search interests lie in kok, Thailand in 1996 and 2003. He also narratives by and about the women legal reform and devel- earned a B.Econ. from Sukhothai Thammatirat who consorted with or married Japa- opment, and assis- Open University in 2002. Kanaphon is a law nese soldiers and who bore children tance by international donor agencies. His lecturer at Chulalongkorn University, teaching by these soldiers, and compare doctoral research looks at the Vietnamese Thai Legal History and Criminal Law. He is inter- discourses of mixed unions and legal system reform and international assis- ested in Thai culture such as Thai history, Thai miscegenation in Burma during the tance. The dissertation focuses on legal re- language and Thai classical music. period of British colonial rule and form assistance by international organiza- during the Occupation. Her project tions and western industrialized countries Hendronoto Soesabdo received a Sarjana Hu- examines the role that discourses of since the 1990’s and the resulting reform kum (equivalent to LL.B.) from Diponegoro Uni- sexual transgressions have played and development of laws and legal institution versity in Semarang-Indonesia in 1997. He has in histories of Southeast and East in Vietnam. been an attorney at law with the Jakarta Office Asia, and engage with contemporary of Baker & McKenzie Law Offices from 1999 up scholarly debates about the place of Kurnia Toha is a Ph.D. candidate as well as a to the present. the Japanese Occupation in the Lecturer at the University of Indonesia Faculty history of the region. of Law where he was previously Associate

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Malaysia Study Tour by Pauline T. Newton

In June 2005 the Southeast Asia Center trip. Enclosed is an excerpt from my log hosted 12 U.S. high school and college that shares some of the sights and educators for a three day Fulbright Orien- sounds that I particularly recall: tation preceding the groups Singapore and Malaysia Study Tour . Three members After a Malaysian lunch at a way station of of the Malaysian Fulbright Commission sorts, where we ate our rice, chicken and also attended the workshop. SEAC fac- anchovies with our fingers, we saw— ulty members Kiko Benitez, Carlo Bonura rather, smelled—a rubber plantation. This and Charlie Hirschman gave invaluable was the biggest plantation we visited for- lecture presentation to the group. mally. Our guide introduced us to a friend of his who showed us how to tap a rubber After I left the August winds of Hungry tree. You make a diagonal slice about 10 Ghosts Month in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia inches along the tree, and the white liquid and landed in Dallas, TX, a city as hot but surely flows out. I did not expect rubber to not as smoky, two American students smell so badly, nor did I expect the sap to from Singapore greeted me in my English flow so freely. I picked at the old slices on classroom at Southern Methodist Univer- the tree, surprised at the elasticity of sity. This surprise was the first of many hardened rubber along the edges of old that revealed to me the lifelong learning cut strips. The free-flowing sap tapped by process that stems from traveling for six our guide’s friend dripped into a large weeks along the rivers of Borneo, the cup. After I stepped back from the tree, I island of Singapore and the asked the woman if she had worked on a streets of Kuala Lumpur. To plantation as a child, for she had cut the propel my knowledge of their tree so deftly. She confessed, shyly, “Yes.” countries, friendly Malaysians She then said, “The best time to tap the 1 and Singaporeans tapped rub- trees is in the morning. It is cooler and the ber trees, showed me probos- heat rises slowly. The tree is good for sap cis monkeys, introduced me to for about five years.” She added, “One of Form V students in drama, the earlier methods was to tap the rubber shared sharksfin soup and nasi in a v-position so that the sap trickled lemak (a coconut-flavored rice together into one bucket from both ends. dish) and explained the proper Today, the other half of the v is missing. way to greet a Muslim Malay. This way, the tree lives longer. We’ll even- Although I developed a project tually use the tree to make furniture. (lesson plans on literature I Many of these trees make floorboards. Or discovered) as per the custom cutting boards and knife holders.” for all Fulbright-Hays atten- dees, I continue to find myself Once the rubber itself fills its cup, a steeped in notes from my inter- worker dumps the rubber (now somewhat view with Marie Fernando, wife hardened) into a pan. In the pan, the rub- of Lloyd Fernando, Malaysian ber is combed and mixed with purifying author of Scorpion Orchid and chemicals, which turns it into a liquid Green is the Colour, engaged in again. It is then put through a wringer to an email correspondence from squeeze it from its 1.5 cm thickness size a student in Ipoh or immersed to a 1 mm size. The workers then smoke 2 in an article about the use of the squeezed rubber in a wooden lean-to Singlish (Singapore- smokehouse to get the rest of the water English) words. I also out. After explaining this procedure, our have been compiling my guide led us to a model house made en- personal notes on the tirely from a rubber tree. The wood is dark and resounds with a strong, beautiful 1. Kuala Lumpur, sound under your feet. Malaysia, 7/2/2005 Pauline T. Newton is a lecturer in rheto- 2. Pauline Newton in ric/English at Southern Methodist Univer- Sarawak, Malaysia, sity in Dallas, TX. She is teaching a “Travel 7/8/2005 Narratives” rhetoric course this semester which includes short stories and poems 3. Ipoh, Malaysia, from Malaysia and Singapore. 3 7/28/2005

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Faculty and Graduate Student Asian Tour, 2005 by Vicente L. Rafael

Some months ago, I was fortunate Sorensen (UW JSIS) who specializes in Ko- enough to join a group of six other UW rea, along with his spouse, Susan Way, Asian Studies faculty and three gradu- found a North Korean restaurant in down- ate students on a whirlwind tour town Siem Reap (for Cambodia has long had through China, Thailand, Cambodia relations with North Korea) which had a and India from August 23 to Septem- dinner show featuring singing and dancing ber 15, 2005. Funded by the Free- waiters extolling the virtues of Kim Il Jung man Foundation as part of an on- and the Communist Party. going effort to develop undergraduate education in Asia, our trip was meant From Cambodia, we flew to Kolkatta, a In- to encourage participating faculty to dian city of over 13 million, and then made consider teaching comparative our way to Bhubaneweshwar, the capital of courses that reached beyond their Orissa in West Bengal. Bhubanewshwar and areas of specialization. We agreed to its surrounding towns contained some of the visit a mix of modern urban centers oldest and most revered Hindu temples in and ancient temple and when possi- India. There is so much more to say about ble meet with scholars based at local these sites, about the people we encoun- universities. tered, and about the astounding temples we visited, but this would have to wait for an- After a wonderful tour of China, the other time. It was an exhilarating group landed in Bangkok. Our hotel and in many ways a transforma- on Silom street was centrally located, tive trip. It made a deep impres- and we lost little time in exploring the sion on everyone, as was clear night markets and sampling the city’s from the after-dinner reflections wonderful street food. Through some we engaged in throughout the trip. friends at Thammasat University, we Through four countries in less 1 were lucky enough to connect with than four weeks, we also man- Prof. Songyote Waeohongsa who very aged to forge fast friendships. And generously gave us a tour of the city considering the array of food and where we saw the spectacular Royal environments we traveled Palace and took an extended river through, it was surprising that no tour, affording us fleeting glimpses of one really got sick (except for the everyday life among people who lived occasional bad stomach and at along the river bank. The following least two minor scrapes with tem- day, we took the bus to Ayudhya to ple monkeys). No doubt, the myr- see the ancient capital now com- iad deities whose many images posed of magnificent ruins. and temples we saw along the way, saw fit to guide us through From Bangkok we took a short flight this most memorable trip. to Siem Reap to see the fabled Ang- kor Wat. The temple complex was Vicente Rafael is a professor in nothing short of astounding, surpass- the department of history. His ing everything we had expected. Prof. most recent book, The Promise of Vikram Prakash (UW Dept. of Archi- the Foreign (2005) is published by tecture) and his friend and co-author Duke University Press. of a book on global architecture, Prof. 2 Mark Jarzombek (MIT) who had joined us for the trip, were particularly en- 1. Sun Temple, thusiastic about the temples and Konrak, India, pointed out the more important fea- 9/11/2005 tures of each complex. We had time, unfortunately, to see only some of the 2. Buddhist Caves in major structures. Later that evening, Da Tong, China, we had dinner with Dr. Thina Ollie, a 8/28/2005 member of the Khmer Studies Center who answered many of our questions 3. Angkor Wat, Siem about ancient and modern Cambodia, Reap, Cambodia, as well as other aspects of Khmer 9/3/2005 culture and politics. Prof. Clarke

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Rolando B. Tolentino Engaging Southeast Asian American Pluralism in Seattle: visits UW Faculty-Student Conversations on Religion, Politics and Identity By Laurie Sears (History) and Francisco Benitez (Comparative Literature)

Continued from page 2. Please include a recent CV—limited to 4 pages—for each faculty member that in- Possible course ideas include but are not cludes a list of courses that you have limited to: taught over the past 5 years.

♦ Pluralism, Religious Identity, and Civil Some reminders: Society in the U.S. and in Southeast Asia. We fund only projects that have the poten- ♦ Religion and Civil Rights in the U.S. tial to become regular parts of our curricu- and Southeast Asia, Pre- and Post- lum. We therefore cannot accept proposals 9/11. from faculty on visiting appointments, nor ♦ Secularism, Religion, Academic Free- ones that involve teaching a course with dom, and the State in Comparative visiting or adjunct faculty. In other words, Perspective. we can assist only tenure-track or tenured ♦ Migration, Diversity and Community faculty members and Lecturers. Proposals ♦ Building Transnational Communities: are encouraged from graduate students or Rolando Tolentino History, Literature, Performance. from faculty who wish to team-teach with a ♦ Ethnographies of the Many Seattles graduate student as long as there is a plan ♦ Nation, Religion, Ethnicity and the for making the course a permanent one. The Southeast Asia Center, together with Genealogies of the Politics of Identity the Jackson School of International Stud- Stipends ies, the Department of Comparative Lit- To submit a proposal, write a one- or two- erature, the Department of American page course proposal, describing the Each faculty team will receive an award of Ethnic Studies and the Department of course, the sources you will use, and the $5,000 ($2,500 each) to be taken as sum- History successfully competed for an Arts interdisciplinary and diversity issues you mer salary or a research fund to support & Sciences Exchange award to bring will address. Be as specific as possible. research and conference-related activities. award-winning creative writer and critic Rolando Tolentino to the UW from May 21 – June 3, 2006. Professor Tolentino is one of the world’s leading scholars Congratulations to the following and theorists of Philippine literature, film and popular culture and is currently act- 2005-06 Southeast Asian ing director of the University of the Philip- Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellows! pines Film Institute and an associate professor in U.P. Department of Film and Audiovisual Communication. His re- search involves media literacy with re- gards to subject formation, urban space, Name College, Department, or Program Language Award sexuality and gender, popular culture, Cheryll Alipio Anthropology Filipino transnationalism and nationalism, and comparisons between East Asian, South- Karen Brooks Sociology Thai east Asian and Asian American film. Jodi Charles International Studies/Public Affairs Vietnamese While in residence, Professor Tolentino will be visiting classes and meeting with Rachel Devitt Ethnomusicology Filipino faculty and students. In addition to a Julie Fields Law and Marine Affairs Thai public lecture and a film screening, Pro- fessor Tolentino will also be leading a Linda Owens Museology Thai roundtable discussion that will address contemporary global filmic cultures. Patrick McCormick History Thai Participants will include Neferti Tadiar (History of Consciousness, UC Santa Emily Peterson Archeology Indonesian Cruz), Jonathan Beller (English and Hu- Lydia Ruddy Geography and Law Indonesian manities, Pratt Institute), Yomi Braester (UW Comp Lit), and James Tweedie (UW Comp Lit). Look for event details at our website: http://jsis.washington.edu/ seac/calendar

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"The Ghostly Goddess and the Sinner Saint" by Kathy Foley

On Sunday, March 5, “The Ghostly Goddess Indonesian island of Java. The mountain- and the Sinner Saint” will be performed in ous region of Priangan ("abode of the 1 Kane Hall. The performance tells the history gods") with its capital of Bandung is cur- of the birth of wayang as is recounted in rently a major industrial and economic area West Java. It tells how the young prince of of Indonesia. It is inhabited by ethnic Sun- Tuban becomes the wali (saint), Sunan Kali- danese who are culturally and linguistically jaga, and creates puppetry. differentiated from the Javanese who live in other parts of the island. As the story opens he has heard of the beau- tiful Princess Lara Kidul, the goddess of the Wayang puppetry and gamelan, as they are South Seas and goes to woo her though his currently performed in Sunda are influ- clown-servants fear the worst. This powerful enced by the older Cirebonese traditions, sea goddess has a habit of turning into a but all the arts are re-interpreted with the snake at night and devours all her lovers, more democratic and down-to-earth world- but, entranced by the young prince, she view of the highlands. Modern times have becomes a dutiful wife. However, like many, seen great artistic resurgence and creativ- she has heard of the Islamic saints who are ity in Sunda, especially around the city of teaching a new religion in Cirebon. She Bandung. The lively percussion of the goes north to study religion and her aban- drum. The smaller gamelan ensemble us- doned spouse wreaks his anger on the peo- ing a slendro scale for the Hindu-based ple until an Islamic wise man overpowers stories, and humorous approach to the him and becomes his teacher. The prince material reflect a Sun- agrees to be buried beneath the earth as a danese world. meditative lesson, but the teacher then 2 goes to Mecca, forgetting about his acolyte. Written and performed by Kathy Foley, recognized Years later when the holy man passes by the "dalang" (puppet master) prince’s burial site, he remembers and re- and professor of theater leases his student. The Prince goes now to at UCSC joined by master the Islamic north where he studies with the of Sundanese percussion nine wali who are arguing about the unortho- and UCSC music faculty dox teachings of one of their number, Seh Undang Sumarna. Live Siti Jenar. music by Seattle's Gam- elan Pacifica, led by noted Though Seh Siti Jenar is condemned to the composer and Cornish flame, the prince understands his Sufi College of the Arts profes- teaching and decides to spread it. He cre- sor Jarrad Powell. This ates the wayang puppet theatre, the gam- performance is co- elan orchestra, and other Indonesian arts. sponsored by the North- west Puppet Center. As Sunan Kalijaga travels with his puppets teaching Islam, he comes to the Dieng Pla- teau. Here he meets Yudistira, the hero of 1. Wayang golek the Indian Mahabharata who has been u from Kebumen, 3 able to die, though he is now a thousand Central Java. years old. He cannot understand the mean- 2/12/2006. ing of a great heirloom manuscript that de- scended from heaven and was entrusted to 2. Kathy Foley, him. Sunan Kalijaga reads the inscription, recognizing that it is none other than the professor of Kalimah Sahadat, the Islamic avowal of theater arts at faith. The Hindu Yudistira embraces the UCSC. teachings of dalang (puppetmaster) Sunan 2/12/2006. Kalijaga and can finally die. The ruwatan, the ritual exorcism of puppet theatre frees 3. Undang his soul. Sumarna, lec- turer of music Regional Notes: Sunda at UCSC , . Sunda is the culturally rich region of West 2/28/2006. Java which covers the western third of the

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Winter 2006 Course List

American Ethnic Studies VIET 496 Program on the Environment AAS 307 (5 cr) Special Studies in Vietnamese ENVIR 433 / SIS 433 / SMA 433 (5 cr) Basic Tagalog Kim O. Nguyen Special Topics: Environmental Degradation in Randolf Bautista the Tropics Center for the Humanities Patrick Christie AAS 417 (5 cr) HUM 202 (5 cr) Intermediate Tagalog Themes in Humanities: Violence, Myth & Southeast Asian Studies Randolf Bautista Memory: Asia as a Crossroads of Modernity SISSE 314/ANTH 314 (5 cr) Laurie Sears & Francisco Benitez Culture, Environment & Identity in Island SE Asia AAS 427 (5 cr) Celia Lowe Advanced Tagalog Comparative Literature Randolf Bautista SISSE 490B (1 cr) C LIT 315/SISSE 490 A (5 cr) Special Topics: Introductory Burmese National Cinemas: Filipino Film: Melodrama & Thomas Gething Anthropology History

ANTH 314 / SISSE 314 (5 cr) Francisco Benitez SISSE 490C (1 cr) Culture, Environment & Identity in Island SE Asia Celia Lowe Special Topics: Advanced Burmese History Thomas Gething HIST 205 (5 cr) ARCHY 324/525 (5 cr) Filipino Histories SISSE 499 (1-5 cr, max 15 cr) Archaeology of Island SE Asia & the Pacific Vicente L. Rafael Undergraduate Research Peter Lape

HIST 504 (5 cr) Art History Ethnicity & Nationalism ART H 204 (5 cr) Vicente L. Rafael Survey of Asian Art Cynthea Bogel HIST 530 (5 cr) Comparative Colonialism Asian Languages and Literature Laurie Sears INDON 112 (5 cr) Elementary Indonesian International Desiana Pauli Sandjaja Studies SIS 201 (5 cr) INDON 212 (5 cr) Introduction to Interna- Intermediate Indonesian tional Political Economy Desiana Pauli Sandjaja Mary Callahan Jackson School of International Studies

INDON 312 (5 cr) SIS 406 / POL S 432 Southeast Asian Discretionary Fund Advanced Indonesian (5 cr) The Southeast Asia Center is great not just Desiana Pauli Sandjaja Political Islam Robinson because it has successful students and INDON 499 (3-5 cr, max 25 cr) award-winning faculty but because it Undergraduate Research SIS 433/ENVIR 433/ SMA 433 (5 cr) changes the lives of people across the Desiana Pauli Sandjaja Special Topics: Environmental Degradation in street, across the state, and across the the Tropics world. THAI 302 (5 cr) Patrick Christie Beginning Thai Wiworn Kesavatana-Dohrs As you consider making a donation to the Music University of Washington, please consider THAI 402 (5 cr) MUSIC 316 (5 cr) designating a contribution to the Southeast Intermediate Thai Music Cultures of the World Asia Center. Each gift, no matter what its Wiworn Kesavatana-Dohrs Ellingson size, does make a difference!

THAI 412 (5 cr) MUSIC 533 (5 cr) Gifts and contributions to the Jackson Readings in Thai Preceptorial Readings School of International Studies Southeast Wiworn Kesavatana-Dohrs Ellingson Asian Discretionary Fund provide unre- THAI 499 (3-5 cr, max 25 cr) MUSAP 389C (2-3 cr) stricted resources for research activities Undergraduate Research World Music: Balinese Gambuh and sponsored events. Wiworn Kesavatana-Dohrs Sinti For your convenience, you can make your VIET 112 (5 cr) MUSAP 589C (2-3 cr) contribution online at: First-Year Vietnamese World Music Lab: Balinese Gambuh Kim O. Nguyen Sinti 1. Go to: http://jsis.washington.edu/seac 2. Click “Giving” VIET 212 (5 cr) Political Science Second-Year Vietnamese POL S 432 / SIS 406 (5 cr) All contributions are tax deductible. Kim O. Nguyen Political Islam Robinson

Volume 5, Issue 1 Southeast Asia Center News

2005-2006 Calendar of Events

Autumn Quarter Pasuk Pongphaichit Streets of Bangkok" (Chulalongkorn University) and Maureen Hickey (Geography) Thursday, October 6 Chris Baker Southeast Asia Center Friday, February 24 Annual Fall Reception Thursday, November 10 Tales of Confusion and Delay: A reading from the Thai epic, Rise and Demise of Indonesian Literature Saturday, October 15 Khun Chang Khun Phaen, Hendrik M.J. Maier (Comparative Literature K-12 educator professional development in English translation and Foreign Languages, UC Riverside) Fall-In Service: Reading and Writing Pasuk Pongphaichit with a Purpose (Chulalongkorn University) February 24-25 Southeast Asian literature and lessons to and Chris Baker 2nd Annual Filipino Youth Conference be used in the middle school and high in Seattle school classroom. Presenter: Jody Granatir Friday, November 11-23 Film: Winter Soldier Saturday, February 25 Tuesday, October 25, 2005 (Winterfilm Collective, USA, 1971, Educator event Welcome Lunch for Chie Ikeya, 16mm>BetaSP, 95 min.) K-8 Arts Mosaic: Storytelling, Puppetry and Rockefeller Resident Fellow Northwest Film Forum Masks from around the world (Simpson Center for the Humanities) Wednesday, November 16 Sunday, March 5 Tuesday, October 25, 2005 Perfume Dreams Puppet Performance: No Boundaries: The Ripple Effect of Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora "The Ghostly Goddess & the Sinner Saint" Globalization - Sustainable Development: Andrew Lam Who’s Responsible? Spring Quarter (Tentative) Sunday, November 20 Saturday, October 29 and Vietnam NOW - a one-day Art Exhibit and Tuesday, March 21 Saturday, November 12 Lecture over Brunch Continuity and Change in Asia K-12 educator event Jonathan Warren Celia Lowe (Anthropology) Teachers As Scholars FenomenA Seattle Times Auditorium The Viet Nam War: Myths and Memories Christoph Giebel (History/JSIS) Monday, November 28 Tuesday, April 4 Gender & Violence/Gendered Violence: Transcultural Battlefields: Recent Japanese Associated Event: Round Table Discussion Series Translations of Philippine Studies Oct - Dec 2005 Title: The Modern Girl and Her Danger- Yoshiko Nagano (Faculty of Foreign Studies 30 Years After the Fall ous Liaisons: Gender, Ethnicity and Vio- Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan) The Wing Luke Asian Museum lence in the “Non-Violent” Nationalist Movement in Colonial Burma Wednesday, May 24 Tuesday, November 1 Chie Ikeya Film Screening and Discussion No Boundaries: The Ripple Effect of Global- (Simpson Center for the Humanities) with Rolando B. Tolentino ization - Religions Across Borders and Time Friday, December 9 Thursday May 25 November 6-20 'Development' revisited: A northeastern Roundtable Panel Discussion with Visiting scholar and Thai village after four decades in the Rolando B. Tolentino, Jonathan Beller, Walker-Ames Lecturer development era Neferti Tadiar, and others. Pasuk Pongphaichit Charles "Biff" Keyes (Chulalongkorn University) (Anthropology & International Studies) Friday, May 26 Film Screening and Discussion Tuesday, November 8 Winter Quarter with Rolando B. Tolentino Pasuk Pongphaichit on KUOW's "Weekday" Wing Luke Museum with Steve Scher Tuesday, January 24 The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism Tuesday, May 30 Tuesday, November 8 and the Technics of Translation in the Lecture and Reception with Walker-Ames Lecture Spanish Philippines Rolando B. Tolentino Corruption, Conflict of Interest, Crime: Vicente L. Rafael (History) Local Complexities and For more information, please visit Global Connections Wednesday, February 8 jsis.washington.edu/seac Pasuk Pongphaichit The Lost Executioner: A Journey to the (Chulalongkorn University) Heart of the Killing Fields Nic Dunlop Wednesday, November 9 University Book Store Southeast Asia Center Lecture Understanding the troubles in Wednesday, February 15 Thailand's far south "Taxi Work: Making a Living on the

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Farewell Robert! We are sad to say goodbye to Robert In- genito, our student assistant. For the past two years, Robert has provided invaluable assistance with our website, newsletters, and has become a trusted colleague and friend. Robert will leave the UW in May for New York after receiving his master's de- gree in cultural anthropology . Congratula- tions and good luck Robert!

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