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 Nội 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