Notable Events: 2005 – 2006

For more detailed descriptions of events, please follow the links to the appropriate category page.

May 8, 2006
INSIDE-OUT: Temporality, Comparability, and Dislocation
A Special Symposium of the Project for Critical Asian Studies

October 24, 2005
Tanika Sarkar, Rockefeller Resident Fellow, Project for Critical Asian Studies, UW
“Mobilising A Female Will to Violence: Uses of the Feminine in Hindu Right Discourses”
November 28, 2005
Chie Ikeya, Rockefeller Resident Fellow, Project for Critical Asian Studies, UW
“The Modern Girl and Her Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Ethnicity and Violence in the ‘Non-Violent’ Nationalist Movement in Colonial Burma”
April 26, 2006
Hwa Shin Lee, Rockefeller Resident Fellow, Project for Critical Asian Studies, UW
“An Ethics of Facing: Unsettling Others, Interrupted Subjects”

February 13, 2006
Hwa Shin Lee, Rockefeller Resident Fellow, Project for Critical Asian Studies, UW
"What Nationality is Your Suffering?: Korean Comfort Women's Han Through a Transnational Perspective"
May 15, 2006
Chie Ikeya, Rockefeller Resident Fellow, Project for Critical Asian Studies, UW
“The Story of Sein Kyi: Remembering the Japanese Occupation of Burma (1942-1945)”

December 2, 2005
Fredrick Cooper, Professor of History, New York University
"Empire and Inclusion: Citizenship, Nationality, and Difference in Post-War French Africa"
February 24, 2006
Henk Maier, Professor of Asian Languages and Literature, University of California (Riverside)
"Tales of Confusion and Delay: Rise and Demise of Indonesian Literature"
February 23 – 26, 2006
Is a History of the Cultural Revolution Possible?
A Workshop organized by Tani E. Barlow (History and Women Studies)
March 9, 2006
Angelika von Wahl, Department of Political Science and International Relations, San Francisco State University
"Getting Away With Murder? The Struggle over Reparations in Germany and Japan after 1945 "
April 21, 2006
Workshop: "Truth and Rights in Times of Terror: The Politics of Violence in Contemporary Latin America"
April 27, 2006
Michael Hardt, English, Duke University
"Love in the Multitude"
May 3, 2006
Andrew Ross, American Studies, New York University
"Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade"
May 30, 2006
Rolando B. Tolentino, Film Institute and Department of Film and Audiovisual Communication, University of the Philippines Diliman
"Vaginal Economy of Images: Philippine Cinema and Globalization in the Post-Marcos and Post-Brocka Era"