CSEASPANORAMA2008

A (Balinese) Tempest Ian Falconer (MA, Asian Studies) starred as Prospero in the Department of Theatre and Dance’s version of the Bard’s lauded comedy, a performance infused with Balinese and gamelan and Larry Reed’s famed shadowcasting.

Center for Southeast Asian Studies University of Hawai‘i By Director Barbara Watson Andaya Dear friends and including the highlight of the Prospero, Miranda, Ariel and year, the Balinese shadow-play Caliban were given a new life as colleagues... version of Shakespeare’s The the shadows of human “puppets” In late July 2008, when I re- Tempest. Under the auspices of wearing specially made masks turned from twelve months’ the Department of Theatre and were projected onto a large sabbatical leave, I began to ask Dance, Kirstin invited Larry screen. And the “Southeast myself if my presence as director Reed, founder and artistic Asian” content was not merely was really necessary. So much had director of Shadowlight Produc- visual, for an important feature of CSEAS Panorama (Vol. XII) is published been accomplished in my absence tions and one of the few the production was the music annually by the Center Americans trained in , provided by the University of for Southeast Asian that I really felt quite dispensable! Studies at the or shadow puppetry, to spend a Hawai‘i Balinese Gamelan University of Hawai‘i. I would like to express my deep gratitude to Acting Director semester in Hawai‘i. Larry and Ensemble directed by a second For more information about the program, Kirstin Pauka (Professor, Asian Kirstin worked with students in artist-in-residence, Balinese please visit the Theatre and Dance to produce a puppet master, I Nyoman Center’s website at Theatre), Associate Director Paul www.hawaii.edu/cseas Rausch, and our graduate assis- memorable and innovative Sumandhi. Although I was not Director tants Hoa Le, Leon Potter, and performance that completely en- able to be present at the final Barbara Watson Andaya Christian Razukas for their gaged local audiences. Shake- performances, I was in Honolulu Editor speare’s dramatic verse and the briefly in January and had the Paul Rausch efficiency in overseeing the Production completion of various projects, complex relationship between opportunity to see a dress Christian Razukas

1 rehearsal. I was amazed at the host of other UH departments in Studies encourages cooperation dexterity with which the cast co- supporting the international where possible, and we were

2008 ordinated their words and move- conference Beyond Tsunami: The therefore pleased that two of ments with the music and other Aceh Experience and International these meetings (on migrant audio effects, and the skill with Applications in October. The two- Southeast Asian workers in Japan, which they handled their day conference organized by Ari and on ancient Japan-Java elaborate masks so that the shad- Palawi (MA, Asian Studies) high- connections) were co-sponsored panorama ows were projected to full effect. I lighted the research of younger by the Center for Japanese was not at all surprised to hear scholars and activists from Ha- Studies. Our effort to strengthen that the production played to full wai‘i, the mainland United States, our campus connections was also houses, or that the reception was Europe, Australia and . evident in our collaboration with overwhelmingly enthusiastic. The Paper topics covered such issues Public Administration in sponsor- cseashawaii week-long performance run as disaster management, peace ing a visit by five Thai academics garnered mainstream press cover- building and conflict resolution, from Kaen University and age with previews and reviews in Islam and democracy, ethnic five local leaders – a mayor, a both major Honolulu papers, plus identity and culture, and Aceh’s school principal, the head of a coverage and reviews from two post-tsunami recovery and woman’s group, a doctor, and the local TV news stations. The out- development. The province of director of an environmental reach component of this project Aceh was presented by Mr. Mu- NGO. The goal of the visit was to included school performances at hammad Nazar, the vice gov- meet local government officials in the Maui Arts and Culture Center ernor. It is hoped that the Honolulu, and to develop the for approximately 600 K-12 connections developed during this framework for future collabora- children. You can see a period as well as a Memorandum tion with local leaders in performance of A (Balinese) Tem- of Understanding signed by the Cambodia and Laos. However, pest streamed on our website. Chancellor, Virginia Hinshaw, the Thai visit also coincided with will provide the basis for a con- the political turmoil in Bangkok, Aceh Conference nectionstinuing relationship with and it was not surprising that a In collaboration with the our Acehnese colleagues. talk on Thai politics attracted an East-West Center, the Hawai‘i overflow audience. chapter of the Indonesian Brown Bags Students Association (PERMIAS), Our efforts to provide a Publications the Indonesian Club at the regular forum where UH col- As always, the goal of the University of Hawai‘i, the leagues and visitors can share Center for Southeast Asian Southeast Asia Program at their current research with Studies is to operate as a truly Cornell University, the Provincial interested academic audiences has National Resource Center, despite Government of Aceh, the flourished via our Brown Bag Hawai‘i’s geographical separation Indonesian Embassy and Lunch Series. The typically well from the United States mainland. Consulate in the United States, attended presentations have An important initiative in this the National Oceanic and covered topics ranging from direction has been the digitization Atmospheric Administration Burmese films to conservation of more than 10,000 pages of (NOAA), and the Aceh Relief issues along the Mekong River. educational materials produced Fund, joined the Center and a The School of Pacific and Asian by the previous Associate

Anne Kumar, Professor of Asian Studies and Director of the International Centre of Excellence for Asia at the Australian National University, chats with Professor Barbara Watson Andaya, Director of UH’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Kumar’s provocative brown bag lecture on Java and Japan: A New View of the Yayoi Revolution com- manded an overflow crowd of students and scholars alike.

2 Director, Florence K. voices, Chronicles of Chiang Khaeng is related to Muslim societies in Lamoureux, during her 26 years an important new resource for South Asia and in China as well.

2008 with the Center. To this collection our understanding of the history we have added all issues of of this little-known region. We New Director Cakalele, the journal focused on thank our publications chair, While we have all been Maluku that was published by the Kennon Breazeale, for his energized by the possibilities of Center from 1990 to 2004. untiring dedication to editing and developing and expanding our panorama Cakalele can now be accessed in its preparing the manuscript for Southeast Asia program, we also entirety via the UH Hamilton publication. face challenges. Like the rest of Library’s ScholarSpace on-line the nation, Hawai‘i has been hard resource collection. The Florence Film Programs hit by the current recession and K. Lamoureux Archive will be Our goal of providing the financial situation for the im- cseashawaii available on ScholarSpace some- resources on Southeast Asia is mediate future is bleak. As a state time in the Spring 2009 semester. most visible in our Southeast Asia institution, the University of Ha- The most recent addition to our Film Project, which continues wai‘i will inevitably be affected by publication list is the Chronicles of under the able leadership of Paul the economic downturn. The Chiang Khaeng: A Tai Lü Principality Rausch. The weekly screening of major concern for the Center is of the Upper Mekong. Volker Southeast films drew more than the protection of our unique Grabowsky and Renoo 1,000 film aficionados and Southeast Asia program, Wichasin have produced an newcomers alike to the UH especially in regard to the main- annotated translation and campus over the course of the tenance of language instruction description of five texts that is a year. The Center again sponsored for our FLAS students. Thus far testimony to their scholarship and a collection of Southeast Asian we have been heartened by the their dedication to the field. The films and hosted a number of cooperation between the Center, translations are accompanied by filmmakers and industry people the School of Pacific and Asian Thai inscriptions, an essay that from Southeast Asia in a series of Studies, the Department of Indo- provides a detailed historical post-screening Q&A at the 2008 Pacific Languages and the background, and maps and other Hawaii International Film Festival College of Languages, Linguistics illustrations. Providing in October. In April 2009, Paul and Literatures here on our unprecedented access to local will travel to a number of main- campus, but we must also prepare land universities and colleges to for a worsening situation. The screen selected Southeast Asian election of Stephen O’Harrow films in conjunction with the (Professor, Vietnamese) as University of Hawai‘i’s Asian incoming Director (from July 31, Studies Program Freeman Foun- 2010) is therefore fortunate. He dation Grant for resource sharing will be responsible for developing with Minority Serving the academic content of the 2009 Institutions. NRC proposal, and as a former director and a key member of the Muslim Societies in Asia Department of Indo-Pacific An important development Languages, has a special

Filipino Film at UH for Spring 2009 concerns the knowledge of the creative strate- Director Ellen strengthening of our Muslim gies that will be necessary to help Ongkeko-Marfil from the Philippines, seen Societies in Asia initiative. With us through these difficult times. I here introducing her the support of the State of Ha- have no doubt, however, that our film Boses at the Dole Cannery wai‘i Legislature and some of our long history as a major Center for Theatres during the own funds, we have been able to Southeast Asian Studies and the 2008 Hawaii International Film appoint two coordinators, Azti collegial cooperation I see all Festival. Nezia Suriyanti binti Azmi around me will ensure that the

Ongkeko-Marfil was (MA student, Asian Studies) and Center will emerge more united one of eight Mohamed Effendy bin Abdul and committed than ever before. Southeast Asian filmmakers – Hamid (PhD student, History) including directors who will develop a new educa- With my best wishes, I extend from Thailand, Indonesia, , tional website. This website will a warm Aloha to everyone in our Viet Nam and the provide resource access points for community. Philippines – brought to Hawai‘i for the film topics primarily related to festival by the Center Muslim societies in Southeast Barbara Watson Andaya for Southeast Asian Asia, but will also explore topics Director, Center for Southeast Asian Studies Studies. University of Hawai‘i

3 “Becoming a dalang involves a mastery of 2008 traditional Balinese music, dance, and choreography, as well as the repertoire and theatrical techniques associated with the wayang kulit or shadow puppet theater, panorama which is regarded as the pinnacle of the arts in .”

Renowned dalang I Nyoman Sumandhi cseashawaii

A (Balinese) Tempest Shakespeare, shadowcasting and wayang

With support from the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, utilized a giant screen and live performers to create a magical the UH Department of Theatre & Dance presented A (Balinese) shadow theatre performance. The production also featured live Tempest at Kennedy Theatre from January 25 - February 3, musical accompaniment by the UH Balinese Gamelan 2008. In preparation for this production, 52 students ensemble under the direction of visiting artist and musical participated in six months of intensive training in Balinese director I Nyoman Sumandhi, an internationally known music (gamelan), dance, and shadow theatre during the Fall of dalang (a Balinese puppet master) and master of traditional Ba- 2007. The training and rehearsal period culminated in six pub- linese music, dance and choreography. lic performances that drew an audience totaling 2,376 people. The week-long performance run garnered mainstream The production combined shadow theatre with live press coverage with previews and reviews in both major dancers to create a cross-cultural staging of Shakespeare's Honolulu papers, plus coverage and reviews from two local TV Tempest, using a style pioneered by visiting artist Larry Reed. news stations. The outreach component of this project This innovative adaptation of Shakespeare's most musical and included school performances at the Maui Arts and Culture magical play is about a sorcerer and dethroned Milanese duke Center for approximately 600 K-12 school children. The (Prospero), who has been banished with his daughter Miranda project was organized and produced by Kirstin Pauka to an enchanted island. Reed fused Balinese and Elizabethan (Professor, Asian Theatre) and Acting Director of CSEAS elements with his hallmark shadow-casting method, which during the period of the course and performance.

4 Faculty Updates 2008 Faculty updates

panorama In July 2008, Director Barbara Watson Asian Theatre to Urban Planning to Law Andaya returned from a year’s sabbatical leave. In to Marketing to Women’s Studies to Fall 2007, Watson Andaya was invited to the Ethnomusicology to Peace Studies to National University of Singapore as Raffles Geography to History to Anthropology Professor in the History Department, where she taught a graduate seminar focused on A Social History Over 70 faculty in 21 departments are affiliated with the cseashawaii of the Sea in Pre-twentieth Century Southeast Asia. She Center for Southeast Asian Studies gave a Departmental Seminar entitled, Thinking about “The Theatre of Death” in the Southeast Asian Context and a public Raffles Lecture, In the Shadow of Olivia and Watson Andaya continues to be active in the Sophia: “Temporary Wives” in Premodern Southeast Asia. Association for Asian Studies, is a member of the Kahin Prize Committee, and is on the board of sev- Watson Andaya continued her sabbatical leave eral specialist journals as well as the University of in the spring semester of 2008 in eastern Indonesia, Hawai‘i Press. where she was carrying out research for her current project on the localization of Christianity in pre- Watson Andaya also published chapters in 2008 20th century Southeast Asia. During the summer Women and the Performance of Power in Early Modern she held an affiliate fellowship at the International Southeast Asia in Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden, The Netherlands, World History, ed. Anne Walthall. Berkeley: where she gave a public lecture entitled Bunda Maria, University of California Press, 2008, Challenging Queen of Larantuka: A Case Study in the Role of Religion in World Area Divisions: The Asia-Pacific Community in Sus- Identity Formation. taining a Resilient Asia Pacific Community, eds. Wilmar Salim and Kiran Sagoo. Newcastle: Cambridge In September 2008, she attended the Scholars Publishing, 2008. Watson Andaya’s The conference on Empires and Emporia: The Orient in Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Southeast Asian World-Historical Space and Time, held to celebrate the History. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press (2006) 45th anniversary of the Journal of the Social and was reprinted in 2008 as a paperback. Economic History of the Orient, held at Leiden University. The paper she gave was Between Empires For the academic year 2008-2009, Michael and Emporia: The Economics of Christianization in Early Aung-Thwin (Professor, Asian Studies) will be on Modern Southeast Asia.

Faculty Updates Aya Kimura (Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies) spoke on the Problematization of Healthy Body and Good Food: Nutritionalization in Indonesia.

Leonard Andaya (Professor, History) and Barbara Watson Andaya (Professor, Asian Studies) both lectured at the Department of History of Vietnam National University in Hanoi.

5 sabbatical and completing two manuscripts. The area of what is today northern Viet Nam, which was first work, a sequel of sorts to Aung-Thwin's Pagan: then followed by 1,000 years of Chinese rule. These

2008 The Origins of Modern Burma (1985), is entitled Ava and translated texts will be of particular benefit to Pegu: A Tale of Two Kingdoms, about the polities which historians and archaeologists interested in the early followed Pagan and were the product of its legacy. It histories of Viet Nam, China, or the world which is, according to Aung-Thwin, a history of Burma in existed in the region of what is today southern the 15th century. Aung-Thwin will teach a seminar China and northern Viet Nam. panorama on Burma during Spring 2009 term as a visiting scholar in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in the In September 2008, Kirstin Pauka (Professor, Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the Asian Theater) was invited by Victoria University in National University of Singapore and hopes to Wellington and the New Zealand School of Music complete a second book, a modern history of to conduct workshops for gradate students in cseashawaii Burma targeted at the general reading public, with their ethnomusicology program. Pauka gave a ten- his son, Maitrii, an assistant professor of Southeast day intensive workshop and master's classes on randai Asian History at NUS to be published by Reaktion movement and dance in collaboration with Press in the United Kingdom. Aung-Thwin recently ethnomusicology professor Megan Collins. The published Myanma Pran: When Context Encounters Notion project culminated in a public performance of a in the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies and a review of short randai play, presented in the Adams Concert Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Burma in Pacific Affairs. Hall at Victoria University, featuring 12 of the participating student performers. Aung-Thwin also attended a workshop/ conference at the University of Alberta, where he Several of the specifically developed dance served as a member of the Board of Editors for segments were also incorporated into a modern pan- Oxford University Press’ planned five volume work Indonesian dance-drama entitled The 7 Ages of Man tentatively titled Globalizing the History of Historical featuring Balinese master artist I Nyoman Suk- Writing. erta, directed by Lilicherie McGregor and produced by Jack Body. In addition to the randai Liam Kelley (Associate Professor, History) has workshops, Pauka also gave a public lecture on her received a Translation Grant under the Henry Luce current research on randai theatre and a graduate Foundation/ACLS Grants to Individuals in East seminar on field research methods. and Southeast Asian Archaeology. Kelley is translating the opening chapters of two important Teresita Ramos (Professor Emeritus, Filipino premodern Vietnamese chronicles: the 15th century Language and Literature) led a Southeast Asian Dai Viet su ky toan thu and the 19th century Kham dinh Language Teachers’ Workshop on proficiency- Viet su thong giam cuong muc. The initial chapters of oriented speaking and writing skills at the University these two texts cover a period of history from the of Hawai‘i in March 2008 with 35 faculty partici- third millennium BCE to the 10th century CE. This pants representing 28 universities and two period witnessed the emergence of polities in the community colleges. Ramos also presented

Randai Down Under Kirstin Pauka (Professor, Asian Theatre and fourth from right) was invited by Victoria University in Wellington and the New Zealand School of Music to conduct randai workshops for graduate students in their ethnomusicology program.

6 Integrating Culture with Language at the International was published by the University of Hawai‘i Press in Conference on Filipino as a Global Language at the February 2008.

2008 University of Hawai‘i and was invited as a keynote speaker at the University of the Philippines’ Miriam Stark (Professor, Anthropology) is centennial celebration, speaking on A Pathway to currently working on her Lower Mekong Filipino as a Global Language. This speech was part of Archaeological project with help from a NASA the University of the Philippines’ centennial Space Archaeology grant received in July 2008, and panorama celebration. About 250 alumni members attended. will return to southern Cambodia for fieldwork Ramos was also conferred the “Outstanding Award during summer 2009 with some of her students. in Academic Leadership” from the University of the The first year of the Luce Asian Archaeology Philippines. Program also began in July 2008 with one Cambodian participant. Funded by the Luce cseashawaii While on sabbatical, Leonard Andaya Initiative in East and Southeast Asian Archaeology (Professor, History) gave lectures on early modern and Early History, this training program is Southeast Asia at the University of Malaya (Kuala structured to help working archaeologists from East Lumpur, Malaysia) and on Aceh’s Role in Promoting and Southeast Asia gain valuable professional skills Islam as an Integral Part of Malay Identity at the during a one-year non-degree program based at the Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris in Telok Anson, University of Hawai‘i. With help from the East-West Perak, Malaysia. Andaya also gave the Bukit Timah Center, training participants live on campus and Lecture at the National University of Singapore and enroll in 10 months of intensive English-language spoke at the Asia Research Centre, National and archaeological training, including research University of Singapore on Interlocking Regional and design; the on-campus training is followed by a 4-6 Local Socio-Economic Networks in Eastern Indonesia, week field training program in Asia. c. 1400-1800. Stark has also been actively publishing. In Andaya also worked as a visiting professor at 2007, she co-authored a Quaternary Geochronology arti- the University of Malaya and as Senior Visiting cle on her Cambodian research with colleagues and Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University published an edited volume on archaeological of Singapore. He was one of four international method and theory that also includes a co-authored academics appointed to review the Southeast Asia paper on the history of the Kalinga Program and the Malay Studies Department at the Ethnoarchaeological Project entitled Archaeological National University of Singapore. Andaya received Anthropology: Perspectives on Method and Theory. a Fulbright-Hays Senior Scholar Fellowship to (University of Arizona Press, Tucson). A second undertake research in Indonesia and The edited volume through the University of Arizona Netherlands, and was an Affiliated Fellow at the Press is scheduled to appear in late 2008, entitled International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, Cultural Transmission and Material Culture: Breaking Down The Netherlands. Andaya’s latest book, Leaves of the Boundaries. Same Tree: Trade and Ethnicity in the Straits of Melaka,

Aceh in Hawai‘i The Aceh Experience and International Applications Conference invited a troupe of eighteen dancers from Aceh to Hawai‘i to present traditional dances from the area of devastated by the earthquake and tsu- nami of 2004.

7 Brown Bag Lectures Fifteen talks From the media practices 2008 spanning the region of gun-toting revolutionary soldiers in the mountainous Thai-Burma The lushly-appointed Tokioka Room high atop Moore Hall hosts the Center’s border to love triangles in panorama Southeast Asian Brown Bag Series Burmese cinema. Friday afternoons each spring and fall. In its 2008 iteration, academics, ..all detailed in the brown bag on the Burmese film industry, delivered by professionals, ambassadors and graduate Jane M. Ferguson, Ph.D., Lecturer, students alike spoke on topics ranging Australian National University cseashawaii from cinema in Burma to the ecology of the Mekong River. Aya Kimura (Associate Professor, Women’s Studies) gave a lecture on the politics of food production in Indonesia which ran on the front page of Kaleo, UH’s student newspaper. Anne Kumar’s (Australian National University) provocative brown bag on a potential Javanese origins for Van – Southeast Asian Digital Library Collec- Brown Bags Online Japanese culture was standing room only, tions, Tillinghast, et. al. (Hawai‘i). The Center has partnered with the with a host of scholars in attendance. University of Hawai‘i Library System to Spring 2008 Series host, in perpetuity, audio recordings from Nutritionalization in Indonesia, the lectures on ScholarSpace, the Fall 2008 Series Aya Java, Japan and the Yayoi Revolution, Kimura (Hawai‘i) – Murder, Bigamy, Pedo- Library’s digital repository. Downloads philia and Betrayal in Nias, are free and available to a global Ann Kumar (Australian National Jerome Feld- man (Hawaii Pacific University) – Per- audience. Visit the CSEAS website for University) – Burmese Film Industry, Jane forming Arts in Thailand, Surapone info on how you can download the Ferguson (Australian National brownbags as .mp3 audio files playable University) – Thai Public Administration Virulrak (Chulalongkorn University) Conference (Khon Kaen University) – Pre- – Hanoi’s Revolutionary Strategy, Pierre on computers and iPods. (Chaminade University) – Biodi- Angkorian Sculpture, Paul Lavy (Hawai‘i) Asselin versity in a Hotspot, Brown bags will return in early 2009 – Mekong Ethnobotany and Conservation, Han Will McClatchey (University of Hawai‘i) – Convergence in the with a dozen lectures scheduled on topics Lau (Hawai‘i) – Business in the New Viet Global Philippines, ranging from a panel discussion on Nam, David Day, Esq. – Politics and Deirdre de la Cruz Movie Making in Southeast Asia, filmmakers (University of Michigan) – U.S./Vietnam Southeast Asian politics to the art of film Relations, Ambassador Raymond subtitling to an examination of the Pampika Towria, Wee Li Lin, Ellen Burghardt. Vietnamese Museum of Ethnology. Ongkeko-Marfil and Nguyen Thanh

Explorations website, ScholarSpace, the institutional Graduate student journal repository of the University of Hawai‘i’s Library System, affords Explorations a Explorations, a Graduate Journal permanent digital home, complete with of Southeast Asian Studies, for the last free downloads and permanent URLs to decade has been the only student-edited make easier citations. All twelve volumes journal on Southeast Asian Studies in are now available from the link on the the United States – and one of the few CSEAS website. peer-reviewed, freely-accessible journals on the region published today. Incoming editors Deanna Ramsay (PhD student, History) and Rachel In 2008, outgoing editors Hoerman (MA student, Archeology) are Margaret Bodemer (PhD candidate, actively planning the 2009 issue, featur- Anthropology) and Kelli Swazey (PhD ing special articles on Muhammad Ali, candidate, Anthropology) championed Ferdinand Marcos and the Thrilla in Explorations, Volume 8 (2008) the transition of dozens of Explorations Manila, and also a history of space and Featuring articles on in Singapore, articles from ink-and-paper to an online identity in regards to the Sama sea- and the social complexities of Thai mural gypsies of Southwest Sulawesi. painting. format on ScholarSpace. No simple

8 2008 panorama cseashawaii

Aceh Conference “laboratory” for conflict resolution and Intervention, Indonesia) and Saiful disaster relief, highlighting the construc- Mahdi (President, Aceh Relief Fund; The Aceh Experience + tive value of scientific, technological and PhD student in Regional Science, City International Application cultural perspectives on Aceh, as well as and Regional Planning, Cornell The Autonomous Territory of Aceh on cultivated the potential and skills of University). the northern tip of Indonesia’s Sumatra people in Aceh in future development. Island is today considered a remarkable A seminar on Islam and Democracy recovery story after coming though dec- Opening remarks were delivered by, featured Saiful Umam (PhD candidate, ades of political strife and the devastation among others, Nazar, Vice Governor, History), Mai Dar (Universal of the 2004 earthquake and tsunami. Province of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, Historian/Encyclopedist, Russia), Indonesia. Andri Hadi, the General Nevzat Soguk (Professor, Political The rich history and contemporary Director of Information and Public Science). challenges of this extraordinary region Diplomacy, , Indonesia spoke on were the focus of an international Peace Building and Conflict Resolution along The conference was hosted by a conference and cultural event from with Professor Ehito Kimura (Associate collaboration of more than 10 October 21 to 23, 2008 at the Hawai‘i Professor, Political Science) and Yusni international Acehnese student Imin International Conference Center. Saby (President, Ar-Raniry Islamic State associations, in cooperation with the The conference theme was Beyond Tsu- Institute, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, Hawai‘i chapter of the Indonesian nami: The Aceh Experience and International Indonesia). Students Association (PERMIAS), the Applications, with sessions covering such East-West Center Arts and Education issues as disaster management, peace The issue of Recovery and Development programs, the Southeast Asia Program at building and conflict resolution, Islam was explored in a seminar by Craig Cornell University, the Center for and democracy, ethnic identity and Thorburn (Senior Lecturer, Southeast Asian Studies at the University culture, and Aceh’s recovery and International Development and of Hawai‘i, the Provincial Government development. Environmental Analysis, Monash of Aceh and the Indonesian Embassy University), along with Livia Iskandar and Consulate in the United States. Through these issues, the conference (co-founder of PULIH, Centre for focused on Aceh as an international Trauma Recovery and Psychosocial

Acehnese Dancers “The group is from Sumatra Island Indonesia and they did a couple of Visit Hawai‘i’s schools dances for our school. It was really fun to An eighteen-strong dance troupe took a learn all of the different music,” 4th break from the academic setting of the grader Austin Horio said. The dancers Aceh Experience to visit a local also taught the kids how to dance, Aceh- elementary school in Hawai‘i and style. performed as a gesture of thanks for help following the 2004 tsunami. As reported “In their first dance we learned one by local television station KHNL: “We of the moves that they did,” Windnagle did recycling drives and we donated cans said. “It was really fun to do the dance and then the money that we got we so I could learn some dance moves from donated to Sumatra Island,” 4th grader different places,” said 4th grader Zoe Skylar Windnagle said. Sano.

9 The Southeast Asian Silver Screen 2008 The Center’s film programs

panorama October 2008 marked the third year that the SINGAPORE indonesia THAILAND the Center was an active partner with the Hawaii philippines VIET NAM five countries International Film Festival (HIFF) in working to FIVE DAYS six directors SEVEN FILMS screen contemporary films from Southeast Asia. This year’s screenings were held on the UH campus The CSEAS-sponsored Hawaii International Film in an effort to make the films and the guest speakers Festival at the University of Hawai‘i cseashawaii more accessible to the greater university community. This new approach proved very successful as more Lotus (Nia Di Nata, Upi, Lasja F. Susatyo, and than 600 people attended the campus screenings, Fatimah Tobing Rony, Indonesia), The Photograph panel discussion, and post-screening Q&A with (Nan T. Achnas), and Boses (Ellen Ongkeko- guest directors, producers, and screenwriters from Marfil, Philippines). Southeast Asia. Over the course of the festival the Center hosted a The partnership with HIFF was developed in panel discussion on the theme of censorship in the belief that film provides an engaging form of Southeast Asian film with Thai director and communicating culture across borders. As the very producer Pimpaka Towira, Filipino director and nature of a film festival is to provide the venue for writer Ellen Ongkeko-Marfil, Indonesian screen- this type of educational activity, the partnership with writer Melissa Karim, and Singapore director and HIFF has successfully helped position both the producer Wee Li Lin. Center and HIFF as leaders in bringing new and engaging film and film industry leaders from The panel was moderated by Christian Southeast Asia into focus in the United States. Razukas (MA student, Asian Studies and former HIFF Film Programmer). Each of the visitors also This year’s films included Gone Shopping appeared for Q&A following the screenings of their (Wee Li Lin, Singapore), A Little Heart (Nguyen respective films. This provided the audience with the Van Thanh, Viet Nam), Brutus (Tara Illenberger, opportunity to engage in a lively discussion with Philippines), The Truth Be Told: The Case Against creative and dynamic film industry people from Supinya Klangnarong (Pimpaka Towira, Thailand), across Southeast Asia. Kantata Takwa (Eros Djarot, Gotot Prakosa and Slamet Rahardjo Djarot, Indonesia), Chants of

Yuphaphann Hoon- chamlong (Professor, Thai), filmmaker Pimpaka Towira, Matt Reeder (MA student, Asian Studies) and Noah Viernes (PhD student, Political Science) outside the School of Architec- ture.

CSEAS Associate Director Paul Rausch flanked by Filipino director Bobby Suarez and his lovely and talented wife Gene at the Southeast Asian Cinema Studies Conference in Manlia.

10 Subtitled Films Premiere! Subtitled by students “Have the spirits cursed this 2008 couple? Or are more terres- Three feature films from Myanmar, trial forces working to keep Viet Nam and Malaysia – never before them apart?” seen in the West – premiered on movie

panorama screens in America and Asia in 2008. The Hawai‘i connection? The films The Legend of Lady Hill were all subtitled by alumni of the A Yee Myint Production Center’s innovative Southeast Asian film Myanmar, 2005, 133 minutes subtitling course, designed to train Burmese with English Subtitles advanced language students in the art of cseashawaii subtitling film from Southeast Asia.

The Legend of Lady Hill from Myanmar is a soap opera love story transfused with Buddhist ethics and Myanmar’s rich religious culture. Bryce Beemer (PhD candidate, History) and San Tun Aung (PhD candidate, This rarely seen film – one of the slack key guitar and stand-up bass – and Sociology) subtitled Legend, which, says last made in Algeria before all film opens a fantastic musical window to the Beemer, “is the only subtitled feature film production ended during that nation's transmission of Hawaiian music forms from Burma available in the West.” tumultuous “invisible war” in the 1990s - into Southeast Asia. has been translated and subtitled by Hoa The film Bong Sen is a remarkable co- Le (MA student, Second Language Paul Rausch, Associate Director of production between Algeria and Viet Studies) and Leon Potter (PhD student, the Center, brought the subtitled version Nam. The film won Third Prize at the Education). of Aloha to Manila for its Pacific premiere Seventh Festival of African Cinema in at the Southeast Asian Cinema Studies Morocco. The film also marks the first Aloha, a recently discovered classic Conference before hundreds of excited collaboration between the luminous Malaysian film from 1950, showcases the cineastes, academics and students. Vietnamese actresses Nguyen An early artistic talents of a then 21 year-old Rausch and Rohayati Paseng, UH’s Chinh and Le Khanh, both of whom P. Ramlee, who later became the titan Southeast Asia Librarian, subtitled the later appeared together in the 2000 film of Malay cinema. Shot in Singapore, the film. festival favorite, Vertical Ray of the Sun. film uses a Hawai‘i theme to tell the story Bong Sen was helmed by Tran Dac of a young woman named Aloha who The Center’s other film projects are (director of August Star, winner of the falls into the clutches of a local gangster. still under wraps, but Rausch offers Golden Lotus Prize) and Belgrade- The soundtrack features eight songs CSEAS Panorama readers a tantalizing trained Algerian filmmaker Amar Laskri played by master Filipino, Indonesian hint: “Look for a Vietnamese spy movie (Patrol in the East). and Malay musicians trained on ukulele, in 2009.”

SEA Film Series “The audiences come from everywhere – Sayew (Thailand), Endo (Philippines), and from people who’ve travelled throughout Ayat Ayat Cinta (Indonesia). 100 films in five years! the region to lonely expatriates to From blockbuster Indonesian students to retirees to people who just In the Fall 2008 semester the SEA comedies to Malaysian indie political have an interest in the region,” notes Wednesday Night Movie featured Love thrillers to Filipino melodramas, nearly Paul Rausch, the Center’s Associate Story (Singapore), Magdalena: The Unholy 1,000 people in Hawai‘i watched thirty- Director. Saint (Philippines), The Owl and the Sparrow four movies from Southeast Asia under (Viet Nam), After This Our Exile (Hong the aegis of the Center’s 2008 Southeast Spring 2008 saw premiere Kong/Malaysia), Turns 2 Asian Wednesday Night Movie Series. screenings of London Caregiver (Indonesia), Monday Morning Glory (Philippines), Saint Jack (USA/Singapore), (Malaysia), Maskot (Indonesia), Mukhsin The Wednesday Night Movie has been One Night Husband (Thailand), Kubrador (Malaysia), Bikini Open (Philippines), Bong screening films for the last five years in (Philippines), (Indonesia), I- Sen (Viet Nam), The Legend of Lady Hill the Korean Studies Building in the San Special (Thailand), Muro Ami (Myanmar), One More Chance (Singapore), Manoa Valley on campus at the (Philippines), Three Days Until Forever and Long Road to Heaven (Indonesia). University of Hawai‘i. (Indonesia), (Indonesia), Talking Cock (Singapore), Kala (Indonesia),

11 Muslim Societies in Asia 2008 ...and Islamic cultures in reflection

Ask an average American about “Muslim Southeast Asia and creating a one-stop website for

panorama society” and you’ll get an answer which revolves announcements of programs, events and student/ around the Middle East – even though the world's research exchange opportunities related to the study largest populations of Muslims reside in Asia, of Muslim societies in Southeast Asia. MSIA is an specifically Southeast Asia. UH’s newly-inaugurated initiative of UH’s School of Pacific and Asian Muslim Societies in Asia Program (MSIA) Studies and is funded in part by the State of Hawai‘i seeks to remedy that bias in understanding between Legislature. cseashawaii regions and religions by building a national resource center to educate the American public on Islam and Photo Exhibition Odyssey society throughout Asia. The “Southeast Asia Islamic Cultures in Reflection,” an exhibition of 75 photographs and The program’s coordinators, graduate students accompanying text that originated as an outreach Azti Nezia Suriyanti binti Azmi (MA student, project in Hawai‘i in 2007, continued its travels Asian Studies) and Mohamed Effendy bin Abdul throughout the Southeastern United States in 2008 Hamid are working with Professor Barbara and 2009. Andaya and CSEAS Associate Director Paul Rausch to build MSIA into a resource center for The exhibition – developed by Anthony both academics and the general public. Medrano (MA, Asian Studies) and Sapril Akhmady (PhD, Political Science) – left Hawai‘i for “A strong and more positive relationship Atlanta, Georgia for “Spiritual Awareness Week” in between academics, policy makers and the general April 2008 at Morehouse College and then public in America and Southeast Asia must be traveled to Bethune-Cookman College in July. fostered,” noted Effendy. “Our program therefore The exhibition was so popular that the college seeks to close the divide and establish and maintain requested the exhibition be held over until Decem- a healthy conduit for information and knowledge ber of 2008. SEA:ICR is now at Winston-Salem sharing.” University in North Carolina and will be on display from March through April 2009. Both Nezia and Effendy are developing a Philander Smith College in Little Rock, communication hub and forum for exchange Arkansas and Central State University in Ohio between American and Southeast Asian individuals, requested the exhibition for Fall 2009. communities and institutions; building knowledge bases on topics reflecting the diversity of Islam in

Photo Exhibit: Islamic Cultures in Reflection

“The people,” according to CSEAS Director Barbara Watson Andaya, “were able to contribute to a process that was to give Southeast Asian Islam a distinctive character which it has retained to the present day.”

It is this “distinctive character” that inspired the exhibition, and energized individuals to submit their photographs from places as distant as Aceh and Ithaca.

12 Student Updates 2008 Notes from the field

panorama Under the aegis of Foreign Language Area The Center also provided Summer FLAS Studies Fellowships (FLAS), funded in part by Fellowships in 2008 to Geoffrey Ashton, PhD the United States Department of Education and student, Philosophy, Thai, Advanced Study of Thai intended to promote research in areas of great Program – Bryce Beemer, PhD student, History, importance of the United States, the Center for Thai, Chulalongkorn University – Keith Southeast Asian Studies provided funding for over Bettinger, PhD student, Geography, Indonesian, cseashawaii two dozen students in 2008. The student fellowship Wisma Bahasa, Jogjakarta – Heidi Burkhart, MA recipients came from disciplines as diverse as student, Asian Studies, Khmer, Advanced Study of English, Library Science, and Education to Asian Khmer Program – Phillip Drake, PhD student, Studies, History and Anthropology and study English, Javanese, Universitas Sebelas Maret, languages including Khmer, Thai, Filipino, – Ryan Koo, PhD student, History, Indonesian, Vietnamese and Javanese. Khmer, Khmer School of Language – Jason Lobel, PhD student, Linguistics, Indonesian, Full year 2008 FLAS Fellowships, which UNSRAT Manado – Jesica McDonough, MA cover tuition and provide a $15,000 stipend, were student, Asian Studies, Thai, SEASSI – Leon awarded to Andrea Bertoli, MA student, Political Potter, PhD student, Education, Thai, Ubon Science, Indonesian – Brett Bodemer, MLISC Rajathanee University – Deanna Ramsay, PhD student, Library and Information Science, student, History, Javanese, Universitas Sebelas Vietnamese – Phillip Drake, PhD student, Maret, Surakarta – Christian Razukas, MA English, Indonesian – Bernard Ellorin, MA student, Asian Studies, Indonesian, Wisma Bahasa, student, Music, Filipino – Shawn Fehrenbach, Jogjakarta, and to Matthew Reeder, MA student, MA student, Anthropology, Khmer – Rachel Asian Studies, Thai, Advanced Study of Thai Hoerman, MA student, Anthropology, Khmer Program. – Deanna Ramsay, PhD student, History, Indonesian – Matthew Reeder, MA student, Deanna Ramsay (PhD student, History) and Asian Studies, Thai – Anna Reynolds, MA Phillip Drake (PhD student, English) studied student, Asian Studies, Indonesian – Peyton at Universitas Sebelas Maret, Standefer, MA student, Asian Studies, Khmer, and Solo, and attended rehearsals for two female dalang, to Martin Thiry, PhD student, History, visited the Yayasan Sastra (an organization that is Indonesian. romanizing and digitizing Javanese texts from Solonese personal collections), saw a “few dozen”

Deanna Ramsay and Phillip Drake took time from their studies of Javanese language to meet with Mr. and Ms. Solo in Surakarta (Solo), Indonesia.

Heidi Burkhardt (far right) and her classmates from the Fulbright-Hayes Advanced Study of Khmer Program at the opening of Club Chao in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

13 wayang kulit and gamelan performances, toured the Missouri Research Reactor Archaeometry Sidoarjo mud flow in , visited Candi Lab, on an internship conducting chemical

2008 on the slopes of Mount Lawu, and had a compositional analysis of ceramics from Angkor personalized tour of the manuscript library of the Borei, Cambodia using neutron activation. Solo Kraton. Fehrenbach is also co-president of the Anthropology Graduate Student Association. Christian Razukas (MA student, Asian panorama Studies) studied Indonesian at Wisma Bahasa in Kelli Swazey (PhD candidate, Anthropology), Jogjakarta and dined inside the Jogjakarta Kraton as completed her MA and finished her thesis entitled a guest of Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X Carrying Culture and (Re)creating Nation Through along with autuer Indonesian Film Director Garin Christianity: Minahasan Culture and Identity in Nugroho and Indonesian screen siren Jajang C. Transnational Indonesian Churches in New England. cseashawaii Noer as an invited guest of the Jogjakarta Asian Swazey will soon return to Minahasa on a NETPAC Film Festival. Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to further her research on how Christianity structures representa- Heidi Burkhart (MA student, Asian Studies) tion of Minahasan ethnic identity and influences the went to Phnom Penh for eight weeks this summer as politics of representation in Muslim-Christian part of the Advanced Study of Khmer Program relations in the North Sulawesi region. Swazey administered by Chhany Sak-Humphry hopes to be working with local government officials (Professor, Khmer). “It was,” says Burkhardt, “the and BKSAUA (Bekerja Sama Antar Umat Agama), experience of a lifetime! Not only was I able to founded by the Indonesian government in 1969 to learn from amazing language professors, but I had foster inter-religious dialogue and cooperation. the opportunity to network with professionals in my field and visit with multiple NGOs to get a better Jesica McDonough (MA student, Asian grasp on what humanitarian efforts are being done Studies) went to SEASSI in Madison, Wisconsin to in Cambodia. I was also able to experience study Advanced Thai, saw the Dali Lama’s public Cambodian culture like I never had before. From lecture in Madison, led the Thai/Indonesian intra- riding bikes in the rice fields with local village kids mural volleyball team to victory and won SEASSI’s during a home-stay experience to learning the art of Usha Maha Jani Award for Thai language study! traditional Khmer cooking, the ASK program enabled me to gain more than just a stronger Lance Nolde (MA student, History) presented a language proficiency.” paper entitled Exploring History, Memory, and Identity among Sama Fishers in Southeast Sulawesi at the 2008 Sean Fehrenbach (MA student, Anthropology), East-West Center Graduate Student Conference. received a Graduate Student Organization grant to Nolde also won the 2008 Taraknath Das Prize for study the compositional analysis of ceramics and Best Paper in Asian History at the University of spent the summer of 2008 at the University of Hawai‘i for a paper entitled, Fluidity of Gender Roles

Keith Bettinger posing with hamburgers cooked for his instructors at the Wisma Bahasa Language School in Jogjakarta, Indonesia.

Jesica McDonough (lower row, first from left) led the Thai/ Indonesian intramural volleyball team to victory in Madison, Wisconsin as part of the Southeast Asian Summer Studies Institute.

14 among the Sea-centered Sama of Southeast Sulawesi. Two The 2008 Yuchengco Fellowship in Philip- further papers – a summary of Nolde’s research and pine Studies – funded by a donation to the Center a second paper entitled “Great is Our Relationship with for Philippine Studies from Ambassador Alfonso

2008 the Sea”: Charting the Maritime Realm of the Southeast Yuchengco, a prominent Filipino-Chinese Sulawesi Sama are under review for publication by industrialist, philanthropist and diplomat, was given Baruga: Sulawesi Research Bulletin (KITLV, The this year to Michael Gardner (MA student, Asian Netherlands) and UH’s own Explorations: A Graduate Studies).

panorama Student Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. As a Yuchengco scholar, Gardner traveled to the Bryce Beemer (PhD candidate, History), Philippines in Summer 2008 to research winner of the 2008 Albert D. Moscotti Grant, international non-government organizations and known informally as the “Scotty,” travelled to the community-based partner organizations in Burma Studies Center at Northern Illinois Mindanao, conducting several interviews with cseashawaii University for the 8th International Burma Studies INGO and community organization members and Conference in October 2008 for a premiere visiting a number of community-based development screening of The Legend of Lady Hill, the film he projects. Gardner returned to Mindanao in subtitled under the aegis of the Center’s SEA January 2009 to study the networks at work among subtitling program. Beemer gave separate talks on these community organizations. the film, the Burmese film industry and using film translation as an educational tool for the study of Martin Thiry (PhD student, History) travelled Southeast Asia. Beemer also presented Southeast deck class on a Pelni liner to one of the more remote Asian Slavery and Slave Gathering Warfare as a Vector for areas of South Maluku in 2008, studying colonial Cultural Transmission: The Case of Burma and Thailand‚ policing in the Dutch East Indies on a year-long which won the 2008 Sarah Bekker Burma Essay Boren Scholarship, funded by the National Security Prize for original research on Burma. Education Program.

Beemer, recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Fellow- ship, will spend 2009 in the field, shuttling between Thailand and Burma, investigating slavery and cultural development in pre-colonial Southeast Asia.

Martin Thiry posing with children in Maluku, Indonesia, where he spent one year researching under the aegis of a Boren Scholarship.

Nezia Azmi (MA student, Asian Studies) and Desiree Seguritan performed traditional at Hale Manoa as part of the East- West Center’s Cultural Evening.

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