The UCB-UCLA National Resource Center consortium aims to build an informal network of SEAS scholars in California by developing new linkages with SEAS faculty and graduate students within the University of California and California State University systems through faculty exchanges, graduate student workshops and conferences.
One of our consortium’s main goal for 2018-2022 is to build an informal network of SEAS scholars in the state of California by developing new linkages with SEAS faculty and graduate students within the University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU) systems through faculty exchanges, graduate student workshops and conferences.
UCB-UCLA Southeast Asian Studies Conferences and Workshops
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UC/CSU Faculty Lectures at UCLA
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Returns of War: South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory: Book talk with Long T. Bui (UC Irvine)
READ: U.S. archives on Vietnamese refugees fail to tell a balanced history
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Global Borderlands: Book talk with Victoria Reyes (UC Riverside)
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The History of the Srivijaya Kingdom in Maritime Southeast Asia: Sites of Encounter K-12 Teacher Workshop lecture with Lance Nolde (CSU Channel Islands)
READ: New workshop series encourages K-12 teachers to explore historical sites around the world
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Making Life in the Aftermath of War in Lao PDR: Colloquium with Davorn Sisavath (CSU Fresno)
READ: U.S. War in Laos - How Communities Sustain Life Today
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The Romance of Magno Rubio: Virtual screening followed by panel discussion with Dr. Joi Barrios (UC Berkeley) and actors Jojo Gonzalez and Ron Domingo
WATCH VIDEO // READ: Explorations of Filipino identity and belonging in the theater
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Hmong Refugee Epistemologies: Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Refusal: Virtual Colloquium with Ma Vang (UC Merced)
READ: A Critical Approach to Understanding Hmong Refugee Realities
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Indigenous Musical Responses to U.S. Colonization: The Philippine Constabulary Band and the Continuity of Filipino Tradition: Virtual Colloquium with Mary Talusan Lacanlale (CSU Dominguez Hills)
WATCH VIDEO // READ: Reclaiming Filipino musical identity and tradition against U.S. empire
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Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora: Virtual Panel with Isabelle Thuy Pelaud (SFSU), Lan Duong (USC), Mariam B. Lam (UC Riverside) and writer Kathy L. Nguyen
READ: Complicating ideas of identity and gender through the art by Southeast Asian women
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Southeast Asia Climate in the Last Millennium: Virtual Panel with Kathleen Johnson (UC Irvine), Carlos Primo David (University of the Philippines), Mick Griffiths (William Paterson University) and Riovie Ramos (Nanyang Technological University) WATCH VIDEO
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Southeast Asia and the State Governance of Migrant Domestic Workers: Virtual Colloquium with Rhacel Salazar Parreñas (University of Southern California)
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Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine: Book Talk with Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi (UCLA) and Discussants Keith Camacho (UCLA), Thu-Huong Nguyen-Vo (UCLA), and Loubna Qutami (UCLA) WATCH VIDEO
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Virtual Panel on the Philippine Election - Myrla Baldonado, Pilipino Workers Center (Los Angeles), Riya Ortiz, Damayan (New York), Josen Diaz (University of San Diego), and Mark Sanchez (Vanderbilt University)
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The Twilight of Philippine Democracy?: A Primer on Philippine Elections: Panel Discussion with Lisandro Claudio (UC Berkeley), Patricio Abinales (University of Hawaii-Manoa), and Cesi Cruz (UCLA) WATCH VIDEO
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Beauty and the Nation: Women's Physique in Vietnam, 1920-1940: Colloquium with Christina Firpo (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo)
UC/CSU Faculty Lectures at UC Berkeley
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Together But Apart: Care Work in Filipino Transnational Families in the Digital Age: Lecture with Valerie Francisco-Menchavez (SFSU)
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The "Manananggal": On the Labor of Difference: Lecture with Lucy Burns (UCLA)
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History on the Run: Hmong Refugees and Knowledge Formation: Lecture with Ma Vang (UC Merced)
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Heavy Metal Bamboo: Making Archaic Bamboo Instruments Modern in Bandung, Indonesia: Lecture with Henry Spiller (UC Davis)
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Cultural Expertise on Southeast Asia and Asylum Expert Witnessing: Lecture with ChorSwang Ngin (CSU Los Angeles)
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Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines: Lecture with Victoria Reyes (UC Riverside)
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Archipelagic Vietnam: Rethinking Nationalism and Trans-Pacific Regionalism at the Shoreline: Lecture with David Biggs (UC Riverside)
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Reimagining the Practice of Citizenship: The Visuals of the Unruly Youth in Thailand: Webinar with Penchan Phoborisut (CSU Fullerton)
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Poison Cure?: Arts. Trauma. Healing: Webinar with Boreth Ly (UC Santa Cruz) WATCH VIDEO
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Black Market Business: Selling Sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920–1945: Webinar with Christina Firpo (CalPoly San Luis Obispo)
WATCH VIDEO // READ: Sex worker agency and state rule in colonial Vietnam
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The Memorykeepers: Gendered Knowledges, Empires, and Indonesian American History: Webinar with Dorothy Fujita-Rony (UC Irvine)
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Everyday Speculation in the Remaking of Peri-urban Jakarta: Webinar with Helga Leitner (UCLA) and Eric Sheppard (UCLA)
READ: Everyday speculation and resistance among peri-urban spaces in Jakarta
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Legacies of Political Detention and the Burmese Democracy Movement - Webinar with Andrew M. Jefferson, Tomas Martin and Liv Gaborit (Danish Institute Against Torture) and Nay Tin Myint (National League for Democracy Supporting Organization), Kenneth Wong (UC Berkeley) and Seinenu Thein-Lemelson (UCLA) WATCH VIDEO
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Unfree Labor in the Vietnamese Sex Industry, 1920-1945 - ORIAS Community College Summer Institute lecture with Christina Firpo (CalPoly San Luis Obispo)
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Making Policies Matter: Campaign Promises in the Philippines - Cesi Cruz (UCLA) WATCH VIDEO