UC Berkeley-UCLA Southeast Asia Studies Virtual Conference Program // Registration is now open. All events are in Pacific Time.

The conference is free and open to the public.

Conference Music:

• “Lao Duang Duean” performed by Supeena Insee Adler (UCLA) and Christopher Adler (University of San Diego)
• “Auk Sum Lao Phaen” performed by Supeena Insee Adler (UCLA) and Christopher Adler (University of San Diego)
• “Phuthai Saam Phao” performed by Supeena Insee Adler (UCLA) and Christopher Adler (University of San Diego)

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2021

10:15AM to 10:30AM

Welcome and Opening Remarks 

• George Dutton (Director, UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies)
• Nancy Peluso (Director, UC Berkeley Center for Southeast Asia Studies)

10:30AM to 12:00PM

Panel 1: Intersections of Religious Devotion and Community Identity in the Philippines and Vietnam

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• The Archaeology and Iconography of Marian Devotion in Naga City, Bicol, Philippines – Madeleine Yakal (UCLA)
• Vietnamese Marianism in the Twentieth Century – Tuan Hoang (Pepperdine University)
• Cham Bani Religious Practice & Identity Discourse in South-Central Vietnam – William Noseworthy (McNeese State University)

Q&A

Moderator: Oona Paredes (UCLA) 

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2021

11:00AM to 12:30PM

Panel 2: Indonesian Identity at Play: Gender, Religious, and Ethnic Divides in Music and Dance

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• The Tuka Archive: Illuminating Historical and Contemporary Church Music Practices and Interreligious Relations in Indonesia – Dustin Wiebe (UC Davis)
• Chinese Indonesians and Indonesian Jazz: Identities and Histories – Otto Stuparitz (UCLA)
• Queering Indonesian Dance: Disrupting Normative Representations of Identity through Lengger Performance – Triwi Harjito (UCLA) 

Q&A

Moderator: Henry Spiller (UC Davis)

1:30PM to 2:30PM

Keynote: Identity Politics in Myanmar: Studying “minorities” from the perspective of a “minority scholar” – Ardeth Thawnghmung (UMass Lowell)

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Q&A 

Moderator: George Dutton (UCLA)

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2021

12:00PM to 1:30PM

Burma/Myanmar After the Coup: Berkeley Roundtable

• Seinenu Thein-Lemelson (UCLA)
• Hilary Faxon (UC Berkeley)
• Kenneth Wong (UC Berkeley)

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 Moderator: Penny Edwards (UC Berkeley)

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2021

11:00AM to 12:30PM

Panel 3: Reimagined Identities and Histories: Strategies of Ethnic Placemaking and Nation-building

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• Asymptotic Approximations and Tactical Takeovers: The Struggle to Visually Represent a Global Filipino Identity – Zachary Frial (UCLA)
• “The Fateful Land of the Hundred Viets”: A South Vietnamese Lieutenant Colonel’s Racial Vision for a Unified Southeast Asia – Anthony Morreale (UC Berkeley)
• The Ritual Transformation and Cross-Cultural Communication between the Chinese and the Vietnamese in Camau, Vietnam: A Case Study of the Tian Hou Cult – Tho N. Nguyen (The University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University) 

Q&A

Moderator: Helga Leitner (UCLA)

2:30PM to 4:00PM

Panel 4: Displaced Livelihoods: Implications of State Policies on Gender Roles, Labor, and Migration

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• When All the Fish are Dead: The Catholic Peasantry’s Response to an Environmental Disaster in Vietnam – Andrew Le (UCLA)
• Masculine Distinction: Family Formation and the Emergence of Class Identities Among Vietnamese Men – Phung Su (UC Berkeley)
• “And so I rallied the women”: Performing home and community in the Philippines – Stephanie Santos (Metropolitan State University of Denver)

Q&A

Moderator: Sarah Grant (CSU Fullerton)

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2021 

4:30PM to 6:00PM

Panel 5: Navigating the Politics of Ethnic Identification, Subjectivity, and Exclusion

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• Negotiating multiple identities: Becoming and un-becoming “Thai” Muslims – Ornwara Tritrakarn (Cornell University)
• Crafting a Categorical Ayutthaya: Ethnic Labeling, Administrative Reforms, and the Social Reorganization of an Early Modern Entrepôt – Matthew Reeder (Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore)
• The Han-ness of the Nguyễn: Ethno-cultural and political-administrative transformations in early Nguyễn Nam Hà – Dan Thuy Nguyen (Columbia University) 

Q&A

Moderator: William Shattuck (El Camino College / Bakersfield College)

6:00PM to 6:30PM

Closing Remarks

Contact: cseas@international.ucla.edu

The Center for Southeast Asia Studies at UC Berkeley and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA are a consortium U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Funding for this conference is provided by our Title VI grant.