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SEAS BROWN BAG SEMINAR SERIES*

WEDNESDAYS, 12:00 NOON DURING ACADEMIC SEMESTER
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue (Other events as indicated)


January 13
4:00 P.M.
YVSG Workshop
on the Vietnam Collection of Sterling Memorial Library
Richard Richie, SEAS Curator, Yale University
See Yale Vietnamese Studies Group>>
January 27
12:00 Noon
Brown Bag Seminar

"Indonesia's Democracy: Which Direction is it Moving?"
Baladas Ghoshal, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi and honorary Distinguished Fellow at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies
abstract >>

January 27
4:30 P.M.
YVSG Workshop
"In Search for Meaning: Skepticism and Despair in Hai Thuong Lan Ong's Thuong Kinh Ky Su (Journey to the Capital-A Memoir)"
Quang Phu Van, Vietnamese Studies, Yale University
See Yale Vietnamese Studies Group>>

January 27
7:00 P.M.
Jonathan Edwards
68 High Street

OPERA JAWA
Film Screening with composer, Rahayu Supanggah
synopsis and information links >>
January 30
10:00 A.M.
Rm 203, Luce Hall
Roundtable Discussion with Rahayu Supanggah
Hosted by the Yale Indonesia Forum
See Yale Indonesia Forum >>
February 10
4:30 P.M.
YVSG Workshop
"A Holy Childhood: An Orphan's Story"
Haydon Cherry, Department of History, Yale University
See Yale Vietnamese Studies Group>>
February 14
2:00 - 5:00 P.M.
2nd Floor, Luce Hall
Tet Celebration: Vietnamese New Year Pot-Luck
Featuring the YALE LION DANCE TROUPE, Dragon Dance and other entertainment
February 20
10:00 am. - 5:00 pm
Luce Hall, Room 202
Cornell-Yale Fourth Northeastern Conference on Indonesia
Participants: Cornell Indonesia Association (CIA) and Yale Indonesia Forum (YIF) See Yale Indonesia Forum
Contact Indriyo Sukmono for information
February 24
12:00 Noon
Brown Bag Seminar
"Situated Agency: Contextualizing Experiences and Perceptions of Ethnicity of Children in the Multi-Ethnic Highlands of Vietnam"
Truong Huyen Chi, Independent Scholar; PhD University of Toronto
abstract >>
February 24
4:30 P.M.
YVSG Workshop
"The Development of Dapsone as an Anti-Malarial in the Vietnam War"
Justin Barr, History of Medicine, Yale University
See Yale Vietnamese Studies Group>>
February 25
7:00 P.M.
Luce Hall Auditorium
SECRET WARS
Film screening and discussion with Director Rob Gosbee,
Artistic Director, Sidney Pinchback, and lead film advisor and musical director,
Chong Moua Thao
synopsis and information links>>
February 26
5:30 P.M.
Luce Hall 2nd Floor Common Room
SOUTHEAST ASIA CULTURAL FESTIVAL
Hosted by the SEAS Language and Literature Faculty
program information >>
March 3
12:00 Noon
Brown Bag Seminar
CANCELLED: "The Mother Tongue and Sinophone Writing in Southeast Asia"
Jing Tsu, East Asian Language and Liturature, Yale University
abstract forthcoming >>
March 3
4:30 P.M.
YVSG Workshop
"Intercultural Communication and Community Building from the Ethnic Media Perspective" (focusing on overseas Vietnamese media)
Julie Pham, Managing Editor, Nguoi Viet Tay Bac / Northwest Vietnamese News
Co-sponsor: Yale Poynter Fellowship
See Yale Vietnamese Studies Group>>
**March 24
12:00 Noon
Luce Room 202
SEAS Council Faculty Meeting
Closed to public
March 24
4:30 P.M.
YVSG Workshop
on the Changing Children's Lives Mission in Nha Trang
Morgan Regan, Plastic Surgery Department, Yale Medical School
See Yale Vietnamese Studies Group>>
March 31
12:00 Noon
Brown Bag Seminar
Luce Room 202
"The Life We Were Given: Operation Babylift, International Adoption, and the Children of War in Vietnam"
Dana Sachs, UNC Wilmington
abstract >>
April 6
7:00 P.M.
Luce Hall Auditorium
THE OWL AND THE SPARROW ("Cu va chim se se" )
Film screening and discussion with Director Stephane Gauger
synopsis and trailer >>
April 7
4:30 P.M.
YVSG Workshop
"tba"
Michelle Thompson, Department of History, Southern Connecticut University
See Yale Vietnamese Studies Group>>

April 12
4:30 P.M.
Ezra Stiles College

EZRA STILES MASTERS TEA
"title tba"
Mariam Beevi Lam, UC Riverside
co-sponsored by YVSG and ViSA
April 14
12:00 Noon
Brown Bag Seminar
"Anticipations on a Social History of the Vietnam War"
David Hunt, U.Mass Boston
abstract >>
April 21
12:00 Noon
Brown Bag Seminar
"Modern Emotion: A political economy of affect in post-reform Ho Chi Minh City"
Allen Tran, Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego
abstract forthcoming >>
April 21
4:30 P.M.
YVSG Workshop
"tba"
Allen Tran, University of California, San Diego
See Yale Vietnamese Studies Group>>
April 23-24
Room 105
10 Sachem Street

Workshop / book project
"Figures of Modernity in Southeast Asia"
Erik Harms, Organizer
information and workshop schedule >>

   

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*Tea, coffee, juice & cookies provided at all Wednesday Brown Bag Seminars
B.Y.O. bag lunches welcome