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Notable Events: 2004 – 2005

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Conferences

April 22-23, 2005
Teach-in & Conference: "Nation, Culture, New Economy in East Asia"
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May 5-7, 2005
Conference: Islam,Asia,Modernity
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May 9-10, 2005
Conference: ”War, Capital, Trauma”
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Conferences & Special Events

Roundtables & Panel Discussions

September 22, 2004
Fadjar Thufail (Rockefeller Fellow, Project for Critical Asian Studies), with David Bachman, Virginia Van Dyke, Robert Pekkanen, Don Hellmann, Clark Sorensen, Christoph Giebel (Jackson School; Project for Critical Asian Studies Advisory Board):
“Elections in Asia & U.S. Elections: Implications for Asia"
January 25, 2005
Roundtable on the Future of Critical Asian Studies
Transcript of Roundtable Discussion

Project for Critical Asian Studies Roundtable Series:
The Work of Area Studies in an Age of Pre-emptive War
- February 22, 2005
  The Work of Area Studies in an Age of Pre-emptive War, Part One
  Danny Hoffman, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, UW
  "Building the Barracks: Local Warriors and Global Militaries"
  Arzoo Osanloo, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Law, Societies and
  Justice Program, UW
  "Righting Wrongs: Liberal Strategies for Pre-empting War in Iran and Beyond"
- March 29, 2005
  The Work of Area Studies in an Age of Pre-emptive War, Part Two: America's Wars in Viet Nam, Central America, and Iraq
  Christoph Giebel, Associate Professor of International Studies & History, UW
  Angelina Godoy, Assistant Professor of Intern'l Studies & Law, Societies and Justice, UW
  Resat Kasaba, Professor of International Studies, UW
- May 31, 2005
  The Work of Area Studies in an Age of Pre-emptive War, Part Three: Re-thinking Southeast Asia Area Studies
  Chaired by Professor Celia Lowe

Roundtables & Workshops

Film & Lecture Series

Mourning the Past: Violence and Public Sphere in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia

November 2, 2004
Film: "Shadow Play"
November 9, 2004
Film: "Mass Grave"
November 16, 2004
Film: "Flowers and the Wall"
Dec 3, 2004
Lecture by John Roosa, Ph.D. (History, University of British Columbia)
”The Afterlife of Violence: Stories of Balinese Women Widowed by the 1965-66 Mass Killings"

Transnational Domesticity: A Film Series on the Filipino Diaspora

January 27, 2005
Film: The Flor Contemplacion Story (1995)
February 10, 2005
Film: Anak the Movie (2000)
February 24, 2004
Film: Milan (2004)
March 10, 2005
Film: The Debut (2000/2001)

Film Series: Sex and Food in the Films of Asia: Vietnam

May 1, 2005
Film: "The Vertical Ray of the Sun" (2000)
May 8, 2005
Selected shorts: "Summer in My Veins" by Nish Saran; "Pangyau" by Amir Muhammad;
"The Unconsious" by Manisha Dwivedi; "Beauty Parlor" by Mehreen Jabbar
May 15, 2005
Film: "Fish and Elephants" (2001)
May 22, 2005
Film: "Tampopo"

Film & Lecture Series

Critical Asian Studies Talks

October 4, 2004
Celia Lowe (Anthropology; Project for Critical Asian Studies Advisory Board Member, UW),
”Making the Monkey: Narrating Science, Nation, and Biodiversity Conservation in an Indonesian Archipelago"
October 11, 2004
Vicente l. Rafael (History; Project for Critical Asian Studies Advisory Board, UW),
“Castilian, or the Colonial Uncanny: Translation and the Vernacular Theater in the Spanish Philippines"
October 14, 2004
Severyns-Ravenholt Lecture
Zainah Anwar, Executive Director, Sisters in Islam
“Islam and Women's Rights"
Oct 18, 2004
Charlene Makley (Reed College),
”'Speaking Bitterness': Autobiography,History and Mnemonic Politics on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier"
Dec 6, 2004
Joseph Errington, (Yale University)
”Shapes of Change in Javanese Indonesia(n): Language and Identity in Troubled Times"

February 1, 2005
Claudia Pozzana, University of Bologna
“Thinking Poetry. Figures of Thought in Two Contemporary Chinese Poets: Bei Dao and Yang Lian”
March 10, 2005
Walton Look Lai, History, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad
“The Other Asian American: Labor Migration to the Caribbean Region After 1838”
April 13, 2006
Ramnarayan S. Rawat (Rockefeller Project for Critical Asian Studies Fellow, UW)
”Contesting Identities: Untouchable Histories and Politics in Colonial North India"
April 28, 2005
Boreth Ly (Rockefeller Project for Critical Asian Studies Fellow, UW),
“Theaters of War: Three Defining Photographs from the Vietnam/American War"