SEAP Weekly Newsletter - 03-18-15

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Spring 2015
March 18, 2015
SEAP
SEAP Weekly Lunchtime Lecture Series
THIS WEEK: FRIDAY, March 20, 2015, 12-1:30pm,
Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave, Ithaca, NY
John N. Miksic, Associate Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, National University of
Singapore
Goh Geok Yian, Assistant Professor of History, School of Humanities and Social
Sciences, Nanyang Technological University.
"The Palace Sites, Bagan: Tales Told by Potsherds"
Check out the full list of speakers for Spring 2015 here.
Events
Weekly Language Conversation Tables
Indonesian Conversation Hour
Every Thursday, 4:30PM - 5:30pm, Big Red Barn
Topics discussed: Indonesia, SEAP, Cornell relations, Singapore, and immigration
Come join Cornell Indonesian Association in informal casual conversations in Indonesian!
This is a great way for Indonesian language learners to practice with native speakers and
learn more about each other! If you can't find the table with a mini Indonesian flag, text or call
Bagas at: (607) 379-3274. Free coffee, tea, biscuits and snacks! Ngobi, yuk!
Burmese Conversation Hour
Tuesday conversation tables by request
Friday, 11:30am-12:30pm at Physical Sciences Atrium
For more information, contact Hein Tun at: tt478@cornell.edu
Vietnamese Conversation Hour
Every other Thursday, 4:00pm-5:00pm, Big Red Barn
Next conversation hour: March 19 For more information, contact Yen Vu at: ynv2@cornell.edu Fulbright Information Session (Undergraduate Students)
DATE: Wednesday, March 18th, 4:30pm at G08 Uris
CONTACT: fulbright@einaudi.cornell.edu
Saving the Most Endangered Rhinos in the World Through Storytelling (and book
signing)
Thursday, March 19, 4:30pm – 5:30pm, Becker House, Isaac Kramnick Seminar Room
Keeton-Becker House Conversations on Southeast Asia presents: Robin Radcliffe, DVM,
DIPLOMATE ACZM Adjunct Assistant Professor of Wildlife and Conservation Medicine,
Department of Clinical Sciences, Cornell University Burma/Myanmar Initiative Series: Informal Urbanization in Myanmar and Indonesia
Tuesday, April 7th , 4:30pm – 6:00pm, 115 Sibley Hall
Eben Forbes, Rajawali Fellow, Harvard University
John Taylor, Founder, Director, Our City Foundation
Asian Studies Honors Thesis Information Session
Monday, April 7th, 7:30pm, Rockefeller Hall 374
Vietnamese Ceramics: Objects at the Crossroads Symposium
Friday, April 10th, 9am - 5pm, Johnson Museum of Art
In dialogue with recent developments in scholarship on Vietnamese art, culture, and history,
this symposium will bring together established and emerging international specialists
to present insights and inquiries.
Registration is free but seating is limited; please contact Elizabeth Saggese at
eas8@cornell.edu or 607 254-4642 to reserve a space by April 3.
Cornell Vietnamese Association: Café Saigon
April 11, 7:00pm - 10:00pm, Willard Straight Memorial Room
Join the Cornell Vietnamese Association for their annual culture night event: Café Saigon.
Contact Kimmi Pham (kp346@cornell.edu) for more details.
Graduate Student Information Session on the Fulbright U.S. Student Program and the
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program DATE: Tuesday, April 14th, 4:30pm at G08 Uris For more information: fulbright@einaudi.cornell.edu
14 Strings! Cornell Filipino Rondalla's Annual Spring Concert
April 18, 6:00pm, Barnes Hall
Cornell Gamelan Ensemble
Saturday, May 9, 2:00pm, Barnes Hall
Director: Christopher Miller Job Opportunities and Funding
SEAP Funding for an Undergraduate to Attend the Southeast Asian Studies Summer
Institute (SEASSI), University of Madison-Wisconsin - June 15 - August 17, 2015
The Southeast Asia Program is offering one undergraduate student a fellowship (tuition and
stipend) to begin learning a Southeast Asian language at the Southeast Asian Studies
Summer Institute (SEASSI) from June 15-August 17 at University of Madison-Wisconsin.
How to Apply
Deadline: April 1, 2015
Go to http://seap.einaudi.cornell.edu or click here to apply. You must also apply to attend
the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI).
Go to: http://seassi.wisc.edu/index.htm for more information and click here to apply to
SEASSI.
Questions? Email: seap@cornell.edu.
Translator-Interpreter Program
Translator-Interpreter Program (TIP) is a program of the Cornell University Public Service
Center. TIP provides volunteer translators and interpreters to community agencies in
emergency and non-emergency situations.
In particular, volunteers for Thai, Indonesian, Khmer, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Burmese
are needed. If you are interested in becoming a volunteer or you want to learn more about
the program. Contact: 100 Barnes Hall or email: translator@cornell.edu.
The Cornell Prison Education Program
The Cornell Prison Education Program is now accepting course proposals and applications
from prospective instructors, as well as applications from potential teaching assistants, for the
upcoming Fall 2015 semester at Auburn and Cayuga Correctional Facilities.
March 20, 2015: Course Proposals/Applications are due from prospective instructors
For more information contact Rob Scott (robscott@cornell.edu) or visit the CPEP website.
Helpful Resources
International Students and Scholars Office Mailing List
The ISSO has three different electronic mailing lists, each with a distinctly different purpose:
ISSO-NEWS-L requires all current international students to register. The ISSO uses this list
to send students important immigration-related updates and reminders, as well as our
monthly electronic newsletter.
iPrograms-L - Join this e-list if you are interested in receiving announcements specifically
about ISSO trips, programs, and non-immigration services.
International-L - This list has been established by the International Students and Scholars
Office (ISSO) to facilitate communication and camaraderie within the international community
at Cornell.
For more information on how to join the list, please visit:
http://www.isso.cornell.edu/about/interl.php Beyond Cornell
Events
AAS/SSRC Dissertation Workshop: “Religion and the State in Asia”
Date: March 23-26, 2015
Location: Chicago, IL
This workshop is intended to bring together doctoral students, regardless of citizenship, in the
humanities and social sciences who are (1) developing dissertation proposals or are in early
phases of research or dissertation writing; and who are (2) planning, conducting, or are in the
early phases of writing up dissertation research the dynamics of religion, community, and the
state in Asia and who sense the substantive and theoretical value of locating their project in a
comparative geographical and historical context.
New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS) 2015
“Global Asia: Social, Cultural, and Political Spaces,” October 16 – 17, 2015 at Vassar
College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Deadline for Proposal Submission: May 1, 2015
Call for Papers
YIF Conference 2015: "70 Years and Counting: Emerging Voices in the Indonesian
Landscape"
Location: Yale University
Date: April 10-11th, 2015
Contact: necatyale@gmail.com
The Yale Indonesia Forum (YIF), in collaboration with Cornell Indonesian Association (CIA)
will convene the 13th Northeastern Conference on Indonesia at Yale University on April 11,
2015.YIF welcomes submissions from undergraduates and graduate students whose
research engage with unique features of Indonesia that have not been sufficiently examined.
Proposal Submission Deadline: March 21, 2015 at 12 a.m. EST
Groups of Universities for the Advancement of Vietnamese in America (GUAVA)
Workshop
Date: May 15-16, 2015
Location: University of California - Los Angeles
We invite abstracts for a 20-minute presentation on any issues related to researching and
teaching Vietnamese language. Topics of interests are, but not limited to, language structure,
acquisition, teaching, methodology, curriculum, issues on heritage language learners and
identity, and language teaching in the digital age. Submit abstracts to:
guavamerica2015@gmail.com
Notification of Acceptance: March 30, 2015
Funding and Job Opportunities
Careers at Pew Research Center
Applicants should send a complete resume, cover letter (indicating where you learned of the
opening) and salary expectations to: Human Resources Department, Pew Research Center
1615 L Street, NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20036. Responses can also be e-mailed to
careers@pewresearch.org.
Institute for Southeast Asian Archaeology Early Career Award
ISEAA announces establishment of a new award of $1000 for early career Southeast Asian
archaeologist. Nominees must have defended their dissertations and received their Ph.D.
degree within the five year period from August 31, 2010 to September 1, 2015. For more
information, please visit http://www.iseaarchaeology.org/award-committeeannouncement
Submission Deadline: December 1st, 2015
Asian American International Film Festival 2015: Call for Interns
Are you looking for that summer in the city experience? Asian CineVision (ACV) is seeking
spring and summer interns to help organize the 38th Asian American International Film
Festival (AAIFF) in New York City. AAIFF'15 is scheduled for July 23 - August 1, 2015.
For more information about AAIFF, visit the ACV website or contact
info@asiancinevision.org.
Beyond United States
Call for Papers/Conferences
SEA Studies Symposium 2015: “The Year of ASEAN: Integrating Southeast Asia” Date: March 20 – 24, 2015
Location: Sunway University, Malaysia
The Southeast Asian Studies Symposium aims to present interdisciplinary and transnational
solutions to contemporary Southeast Asian issues; to provide opportunities for dialogue and
networking among academic, business, political, and civil society leaders from Europe and
Southeast Asia; and to provide a platform for emerging and established scholars to
demonstrate their latest research on Southeast Asia.
Chinese Natural Resource Extraction in Southeast Asia: Cooperation or Conflict?
Date: May 25-26th, 2015
Location: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), 30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace,
Singapore
ISEAS will convene a Writers’ Workshop with a view to developing a set of high quality
research papers for joint publication in a relevant peer-reviewed journal and/or an ISEAS
book volume. The main purpose of the Workshop will be for participating writers to discuss
and provide constructive feedback on each other’s paper. Symposium: "The Emergence of Theravada Buddhism in Cambodia: Southeast Asian
Perspectives"
Date: July 3, 2015
Location: SOAS University of London, England
SOAS will be bringing together scholars from across the region, and across disciplines, to
break new ground on early Cambodian Theravada and, in turn, shed light on mainland
developments as a whole.
Abstracts of 150-200 words, as well as questions and expressions of interest, should be sent
to: sg74@soas.ac.uk and at50@soas.ac.uk
Deadline: March 15, 2015
1st International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies - Burma/Myanmar in
Transition: Connectivity, Changes and Challenges
Date: July 24-25, 2015
Location: Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Abstracts and panel proposals should be sent by 15 April 2015 to icbms.cas@gmail.com.
Details of the papers accepted will be announced on 20 May, and the deadline for submission
of full papers is 20 June.
5th Congress of Asian and the Pacific Studies: Transition and margin(s) in
Burma/Myanmar
Date: September 9-11, 2015
Location: Paris, France
Our panel is an invitation to elucidate and to work on this question of margins: territories of
margins at all scales; social groups who undergo fights or claim their marginality; emerging or
declining cultural and religious practices, etc. Our panel aims to take a view as large and
multidisciplinary as possible at this transition including the country's borders so as to grasp
the quick mutations of Burma as best we can.
Fifth International Conference on Lao Studies: Lao PDR in the ASEAN Context
Dates: Friday, July 8, 2016 to Sunday, July 10, 2016
Location: Thammasat University; Bangkok, Thailand
The Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University and the Center for Lao Studies (CLS) are
pleased to announce that the Fifth International Conference on Lao Studies (ICLS V) will
be held from July 8 to 10, 2016 on the Tha Phrachan campus in Bangkok, Thailand. The
main objective of the conference is to promote Lao studies, broadly defined, by providing an
international forum for scholars to present and discuss various aspects of Lao Studies.
Political participation in Asia: Defining and deploying political space
We invite papers from across disciplines, focused on these and related questions in the
context of East, Southeast, and South Asia, for a conference to be held at Stockholm
University on 22-24 November 2015. Abstracts are due to Eva Hansson via email, eva.hansson@statsvet.su.se, by 1 June 2015.
Decisions on acceptance will be announced by 1 July 2015. Full papers (6-8,000 words) will
be due by 1 November 2015.
Funding/Fellowship/Job Opportunities
Charles Wallace Trust Visiting Fellowship for Burma
If you would like to apply for the Charles Wallace Trust Visiting Fellowship for Burma please
complete the application form and send it, along with a current copy of your Curriculum Vitae,
to Matthew Kennedy at matthew.kennedy@politics.ox.ac.uk by Friday 10th April 2015.
New Summer Program with ISDSI: Culture and Ecology of Northern Thailand
Date: June 1 to July 10, 2015 (6 weeks)
USINDO's Summer Language Study (Summer Studies) Program
USINDO runs an intensive ten-week language and general studies program from June to
August held at Gadjah Mada University for U.S. students and recent graduates selected in a
competitive application process. Deadline: March 31, 2015 Filipino Language and Culture Curriculum Development Project
Date: July 11 - August 8, 2015
Location: University of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines
The Filipino Language and Culture Curriculum Development (FLCCD) Project is a four-week
summer program specifically designed for K-12 teachers, community college instructors,
college professors or Ph.D. candidates, who are committed to the improvement of the
teaching of Filipino and Philippine culture. It will be held at the University of the PhilippinesDiliman campus in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Online application form available here. Deadline: March 31, 2015.
Summer Course at the Ifugao Archaeological Project
Date: June 15 - August 7, 2015
Location: Philippines
To determine the impacts of Spanish colonialism on Philippine highland populations, the 2015
and 2016 field seasons of the Ifugao Archaeological Project (IAP) focus on the Old Kiyyangan
Village, an abandoned settlement in the town of Kiangan, Ifugao. The field site is a fascinating
part of the Philippines and the field school would appeal to those interested in archaeology,
ecology and agrohistory, health and food, Asian studies, and more.
Deadline: April 18, 2015
Summer Study Abroad in Laos (SAIL)
Program Dates: June 27 - July 31, 2015
Application deadline: April 1, 2015
The Center for Lao Studies is sponsoring its annual Summer Study Abroad in Laos program
(SAIL) in the summer of 2015. Students will partake in language and cultural lessons at the
Lao-American College (LAC), with private instruction by professors from the National
University of Laos.
Southeast Asia Analyst Vacancy
Allan & Associates is recruiting a postgraduate candidate with expertise on Southeast Asia
seeking a career in the private security sector.
Indonesia Overseas Program
Indonesia Overseas Program provides an intensive semester or academic year overseas
immersion experience in Malang, Indonesia at the Universitas Negeri Malang (University of
Malang). The program is open to undergraduate and graduate students as well as working
professionals.
Rebuilding Civil Society in Cambodia
As a volunteer in Cambodia, you’ll be met with unending warmth, generosity and kindness – a
national character that has endured through decades of brutal civil war and genocide. For
more information, visit http://globalservicecorps.org/site/cambodia-service-learningprograms/
Join GSC in Cambodia for your Service-Learning Semester Program of a Lifetime In collaboration with the State University of New York (SUNY) and Pāññāsastra University of
Cambodia (PUC), GSC’s 15-credit Cambodia Semester Program focuses on social
development in post-conflict societies, Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Buddhism, and supporting
the Cambodian NGO and civil society. This program combines an intensive three-week
foundations course, nine weeks of field work, and a final three-week Capstone project.
Careers at RECOFTC - The Center for People and Forests
There are a number of positions available in Southeast Asia with RECOFTC - The Center for
People and Forests. For the listing of opportunities, please visit:
http://www.recoftc.org/basic-page/careers.
CGIAR RTB-University Gender Integration Partnership
The CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) invites graduate
students and researchers in the social sciences to conduct gender analysis research on a
post-harvest cassava project in Vietnam. The agricultural project is titled, "Driving livelihood
improvements through demand-oriented interventions for competitive production and
processing of RTBs."
Contact Catherine (Kayte) Meola at c.meoloa@cgiar.com for more information.
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