CSEAS Weekly Bulletin
Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University • Week of August 22, 2016
Thursday’s the day for food, fun and friends old and new at this year’s International Area Studies Open House. The first CSEAS
event of the year runs from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. outside the Center at 520 College View Court. Details below.
Think globally at Area Studies Open House
1. Eat locally, think globally at Area Studies Open House
2. Fall lecture series starts Sept. 2: Statecraft and State Capacity in PostColonial States
3. Still time to register for fall SEAS courses
4. Center associates update: Back from a busy summer
5. Student news: New faces at CSEAS, summer research, FLTAs
6. Notes from all over: Southeast Asia Chicago
7. Enlarge your world: Campus deadline for Fulbrights Sept. 9
8. Money for study
9. Job/internship opportunities
10. Conferences, calls for papers, workshops
11. Area cultural opportunities:
Burnish your resume
Add a Southeast Asian Studies
minor or a graduate certificate
and pull your resumé to the
top of the pile. To learn more,
visit the CSEAS website or
stop by CSEAS at 520 College
View Court. Undergraduates
may make an appointment
with advisor Maria “Rai” Nihei
at [email protected].
Graduate students should
contact Assistant Director Eric
Jones at [email protected].
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1. Eat locally, think globally at Area Studies Open House NEW
Join CSEAS and the centers for Burma Studies, Black Studies, and Latino and Latin American
Studies for the annual International Area Studies Open House this Thursday, Aug. 25, from 11:30
a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the shady confines of College View Court. There will be food and music from all
three parts of the globe, and information on Southeast Asian, Latin American and Black studies at
NIU. Student clubs affiliated with the centers will also be on hand. “Come one, come all!” said
CSEAS Director Judy Ledgerwood. “Enjoy free food, great music and learn about all of the area
studies here on campus. Learn about student clubs, scholarship opportunities, study abroad
programs and great classes, too.” Weather permitting, the event will be held on the street between
CSEAS and the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies (in case of rain, the event will be held
in the Campus Life Building atrium). “Our faculty and staff are looking forward to connecting
with students on campus and introducing them to these fields,” said Assistant CLLAS Director
Sandy Lopez, noting an extra bonus of her center’s location. “At this Pokemon Go stop, you are
sure to pick up more than just Pokestop rewards, you may pick up a minor or two.”
2. Fall lecture series starts Sept. 2: Statecraft and State Capacity in Post-Colonial States NEW
The Center’s fall 2016 lecture series kicks off at noon Friday, Sept. 2, in Room 100
Campus Life. University of Missouri-Columbia PhD candidate and NIU alumnus
Tiffanesha Williams (MA political science, 2014) will present “Heirlooms of the Past:
Historical Statecraft and State Capacity in Post-Colonial States.” Williams will
explore how colonial statecraft (e.g., extraction and institutional praxis) can explain
the variance in state capacity across post-colonial states. She’ll reassess current
Williams
scholarship on state capacity and its relevance for the argument that the divergence
of economic development in post-colonial states is a function of colonial extraction
levels. To order an Indonesian lunch, submit an online request by 6 p.m. Thursday at CSEAS Brown
Bag Order. Orders must be cancelled online by 10 a.m. Friday. Cost is $5 for students and $6 for
faculty, staff and others. Payments may be made in cash or by check. For lunch details, e-mail
[email protected].
3. Still time to register for fall SEAS courses
The clock’s ticking to register for fall Southeast Asian Studies classes. Five SEA language and
literature classes are being offered: Burmese, Indonesian, Khmer, Tagalog and Thai. The Center’s
undergraduate and graduate Southeast Asia survey courses are both being taught in the fall. The
undergraduate class, SEAS 225, Southeast Asia: Crossroads of the World (instructor of record is Eric
Jones), is offered from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. The graduate class, SEAS 625
(also cross-listed as HIST 660-3), Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Perspective, will be taught by
Eric Jones from 6 to 8:40 p.m. Thursdays.
Other fall courses include: ANTH 304/790, Muslim Cultures in Anthropological Perspective
(Andrea Molnar); ANTH 491/628, Religion and Cosmology in Southeast Asia (Andrea Molnar);
ARTH 350/570, Studies in Asian Art (Catherine Raymond); FCNS 384, Asian American Families
(Florensia Surjadi); HIST 660-1, Readings in the History of American Foreign Relations (Kenton
Clymer); POLS 371, Politics in Southeast Asia (Kheang Un), and POLS 378, Political Islam (Kikue
Hamayotsu). Students interested in learning to play gamelan may sign up for MUSE 370/670,
Gamelan I (Ngurah Kertayuda). All of these courses can be applied toward SEA Studies
minors/contract majors or graduate certificates.
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4. Center associates update: Back from a busy summer NEW
 Kenton Clymer (History) is hosting Chinese scholar Christine Rongmei Zhang from Yunnan
University during 2016-17; she will be working on her doctoral research, a study of Burma’s
relations with the US and China from 2009. During the summer, Clymer taught a course on a
historical perspective on the US and Asia at Renmin University in Beijing.
 Rhodalyne Gallo-Crail (Foreign Languages & Literatures) traveled to the Philippines over the
summer to discuss possible memoranda of understanding with Philippine Normal and Palawan
State universities. She also worked on a translation dictionary for the northern Philippines
indigenous languages Ifugao and Ibanag.
 Kikue Hamayotsu (Political Science) was in Indonesia conducting field
research over the summer.
 Trude Jacobsen (History) is on sabbatical for fall semester. Her book Sex
Trafficking in Southeast Asia: A History of Desire, Duty and Debt is forthcoming
from Routledge in November.
 Kheang Leang (Foreign Languages & Literatures) taught Khmer at the 2016
Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) at the University of
Khmer-Madison.
 Judy Ledgerwood (Anthropology) has two book reviews in press. Her
review of Deathpower: Buddhism’s Ritual Imagination in Cambodia by Erik W. Davis will appear in the
Journal of Religion and Violence and her review of Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the NYC Hyperghetto
by Eric Tang will appear in Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees. During the summer, Ledgerwood
took three community college educators to Cambodia in June on a three-week study tour focused on
curriculum internationalization and study abroad development.
 Andrea Molnar (Anthropology) was in Thailand over the summer to discuss future academic and
research collaborations at Chulalongkorn and Thammasat
universities. She also conducted workshops at Prince of
Songkla University and traveled to Indonesia to participate
in the 6th International Conference of Jurnal Antropologi in
July.
 Hao Phan (University Libraries) traveled to Myanmar
during the summer to conduct librarian-training workshops
at Yangon and Yadanabon universities.
 Tomoyuki Shibata (Public Health) led a team of students
to Myanmar in July to conduct a month-long field research
project involving water quality and public health.
 Tharaphi Than (Foreign Languages & Literatures) was in
Myanmar during the summer to pursue research on
censorship and print media in Burma.
 Kanjana Thepboriruk (Foreign Languages & Literatures)
gave a workshop at the Thai Language and Culture
Teaching Promotion Center at Chulalongkorn University,
met with faculty at Chiang Mai University to discuss future
exchange programs and did some archival research at the
Thai language professor Kanjana Thepboriruk
National Library.
at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.
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 Welcome back to Kheang Un (Political Science), who has returned from
sabbatical during which he published “The Evolution of Rule of Law in
Cambodia” with Stephen McCarthy in Democratization (2015), presented
“Cambodia’s Politics” with Jae Shin in April at the Bridging State Strategy
workshop sponsored by Korea University/University of Puthisastra, and
published “The Rule of Law in Illiberal Contexts” with Stephen McCarthy in
Politics and Constitutions in Southeast Asia, edited by Bune Marco and Bjorn
Dressel (Routledge, 2016).
Un
5. Student news: New faces at CSEAS, summer research, FLTAs
 CSEAS welcomes four new graduate assistants for 2016–17. First-year law student Dan Wade
will be the teaching assistant for SEAS 225 Southeast Asia: Crossroads of the World, assisting
Assistant CSEAS Director Eric Jones. Amanda Spradling (MA student, art history) and
Michael McSweeney (MM student, music) will be working on outreach activities and
projects, assisting Southeast Asia Youth Leadership Program (SEAYLP) Administrative
Director Maria “Rai” Nihei and Young Southeast Asia Leadership Initiative (YSEALI)
Administrative Colleen Gray, who will be coordinating outreach and undergraduate
advising. Testriono (PhD student, political science) will be working with SEAYLP.
Azriansyah Agoes (PhD student, political science) returns for his third year as coordinator of
the fall PKPI fellowship program for Indonesian students. He has received a $3,000 grant
from the American Indonesian Exchange Foundation (AICEF).
 Nicole Loring (PhD candidate, political science) spent the summer in
Myanmar doing archival research and conducting field research for her
dissertation proposal about the transition to democracy in that country.
She will be teaching POLS 285 Introduction to International Relations in
2016–17. Loring won her department’s prestigious Maryanov Award in
spring, which is awarded for intellectual capacity, commitment and
Loring
character, qualities of the award’s namesake, Gerald S. Maryanov.
 History doctoral student JoAnn LoSavio presented “Elite Thai-U.S.
Migration: Higher Education, the Peace Corps, and Networking at Northern Illinois
University 1965–68” in June at the 2016
SEASSI/SASLI/CESSI joint student conference at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied
Burmese over the summer. Earlier in the month, she
attended the Oral History Summer School in Chicago,
a cross-disciplinary training program for students who
want to use oral history as an ethical interview
practice.
 Undergraduate SEAYLP Scholar Hnin Eaindray Lin
(mechanical engineering) spent the summer doing an
internship at the Japan Amgen Scholars Program at
University of Tokyo where she studied the
Undergraduate mechanical
measurement, modeling and analysis of human body
engineering student Hnin Lin presents
motion.
at the University of Tokyo.
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Chilling at the Bean: 2016–17 Foreign
Language Teaching Assistants, from left,
Nyein Ma Ma (Burmese), Kultilda Asa
(Thai), Edel Villanueva (Tagalog) and
Intan Hamzah (Indonesian) visit
Millennium Park in Chicago. They will be
working with language faculty Tharaphi
Than, Kanjana Thepboriruk, Rhodalyne
Gallo-Crail and Rahmi Hartati respectively.
(Photo/ Kanjana Thepboriruk)
6. Notes from all over: Southeast Asia Chicago
Several hundred people took in the intrepid NIU Gamelan Ensemble performing with Indonesia
Dance Illinois at Wrigley Square Sunday, Aug. 14, in Chicago’s Millennium Park under the watchful
eye of gamelan instructor and Indonesian
dance master Ngurah Kertayuda. Music
professor Jui-Ching Wang, soon to depart
for a Fulbright year in Yogyakarta, new
CSEAS GA Michael McSweeney, and
several alumni were among the
performers. . . . Anthonie Tumpag (MA
anthropology, 2016) was invited to talk
Aug. 20 at the Field Museum of Natural
History in Chicago about the similarities in
Philippine and Indonesian accessories and
Gamelan in Chicago, yes!
how various people and ethnic groups are
recovering, revitalizing and maintaining their ancestor’s jewelry traditions. Tumpag’s talk is part of
the museum’s Pamanang Pinoy series, part of the museum’s Philippine co-curation programming.
Earlier in the series in June, he discussed gendered objects. In July, Tumpag and anthropology
graduate student Shannon Thomas spent four weeks in Washington, DC as anthropology interns in
the Smithsonian Summer Institute in Museum program.
7. Enlarge your world: Campus deadline for Fulbrights Sept. 9
This year, NIU anthropology graduate student Shannon Thomas will spend nine months on
Palawan island in the Philippines conducting research as a Fulbright scholar with the indigenous
Filipino Tagbanua people. Since 1946, the US Department of State’s Fulbright U.S. Student Program
has provided fully funded opportunities to study, conduct research, or to serve as English teaching
assistants in more than 70 countries. The campus deadline to apply for a 2017–18 Fulbright
fellowship or English Teaching Assistantship is Sept. 9. Applicants must have a letter of affiliation
or indication of academic admission (if enrolling somewhere) by Sept. 12. NIU’s Fulbright adviser is
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Associate History Professor Valerie Garver ([email protected]). Interviews with the Campus
Fulbright Committee will take place in late September. For details, contact either Garver or Sarah
Lindell with the Division of International Affairs ([email protected] or phone 815-753-9526).
8. Money for study
Center for Khmer Studies
 Fellowships: Open to US and Cambodian PhD candidates and scholars in social sciences and
humanities to pursue research in Cambodia and elsewhere in mainland SEA. Short-term and
long-term awards. Funded by American Council of American Overseas Research Centers.
Deadline to apply: Nov. 15. See website. NEW
Institute of International Education
 Boren awards: Undergraduate scholarships ($20,000) and graduate fellowships ($30,000) for
study or research abroad of less commonly taught languages, including SEA languages.
Fellowship deadline: Jan. 31. Scholarship deadline: Feb. 9. See website. NEW
Rotary International
 Rotary Peace Fellowships: Fully paid fellowships for master’s degree study offered at six
universities worldwide, including Duke University and the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill in the US. Applications for 2018–19 fellowships available in mid-December. See
website. NEW
9. Job/internship opportunities
Globaljobs.org
 Job/internship opportunities: Turn area studies into an internship or a career. See job
listings at NGOs, think tanks, government, and private-sector employers. See website.
Chinese Mutual Aid Association
 Interns: Pan-Asian social service organization accepting candidates for interns for business
development, grant writing and workforce development and outreach liaison duties. Contact
Michelle White at [email protected] or 773-784-2900. See website.
US Department of State
 Student internship program: Internship opportunities for undergraduate and graduate
students at Washington headquarters and US embassies, consulates and missions
worldwide. See program website.
Room to Read
 Positions open: San Francisco-based organization that helps develop literacy skills among
primary and secondary school students. See website.
Asia Society
 Career opportunities: Internships and jobs posted regularly on website.
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
 Jobs listed under Opportunities tab of ASEAN website.
Devex: Do Good. Do It Well
 International aid and development jobs in 1,000 agencies, companies and NGOs in 100
countries. See website.
DevMetJOBS.org
 International development jobs and consulting opportunities. See website.
Hess International Educational Group
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
Teach English across Asia: Taiwan-based organization offers free training, benefits, and flex
scheduling. Email NIU alum Derek Wright at [email protected] or see website.
Idealist.org
 Privately funded website offers searchable database of nonprofit international jobs and
volunteer opportunities. See the Idealist website.
ReliefWeb
 Specialized digital service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
that posts jobs regularly. See website.
World Health Organization
 Global health agency in the United Nations system encourages online applications for
potential employment. See WHO website.
10. Conferences, calls for papers and workshops
 Association for Southeast Asian Studies in the UK, Sept. 16–18, SOAS, University of
London. See website.
 Thailand in Comparative Perspective: An International Symposium, Sept. 26–27,
University of Sydney. Also, one-day workshop for postgrad and early-career researchers
Sept. 28. See conference website.
 Asia Pacific Sociological Association Conference, Sept. 24–25, Royal University of Phnom
Penh. Theme: Globalization, Mobility and Borders: Challenges and Opportunities in the Asia
Pacific.” See conference website.
 International Burma Studies Conference, Oct. 9–16, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb,
IL. See conference website.
 Council on Thai Studies 2016, Oct. 28–29, Northern Illinois University. See conference
website. NEW
 4th Hmong Studies Consortium International Conference, Jan. 4–5, Chiang Mai University,
Thailand. Theme: Memories, Networks and Identities of Transnational Hmong. See website.
 International Graduate Student Conference on the Asia-Pacific Region, Feb. 16–18, 2017
East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. Call for papers. Some travel funding available.
Deadline to submit abstracts and travel grant applications: Sept. 12. See website.
 9th Annual History Graduate Student Conference, Nov. 4, Northern Illinois University.
Theme: Producing History. Call for papers. Deadline to submit abstracts: Aug. 22. Email
abstracts or send questions to JoAnn LoSavio at [email protected]. NEW
 On Borders and Borderlands: Negotiating the ‘Margins’ under Globalization, Feb. 7–8,
Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, India. Deadline to submit abstracts: Aug. 31. See
details. NEW
 Vietnam and Korea as ‘Longue Duree’ Subjects: Negotiating Tributary and Colonial
Positions, March 3–4, 2017, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. Two-part international
conference coordinated by International Institute for Asian Studies and others. Deadline to
submit abstracts: July 5. See website.
 13th International Conference on Thai Studies, July 15–18, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Theme:
Globalized Thailand? Connectivity, Conflict and Conundrums of Thai Studies. Deadline to
submit abstracts: Aug. 21. See website. NEW
 International Convention of Asia Scholars, July 20–23, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Co-sponsored
by International Institute for Asian Studies and Chiang Mai University. Some funding
available. Deadline to submit abstracts: Oct. 10. See website. NEW
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11. Area cultural opportunities
 Go behind the scenes of the Philippine Collections at the Field Museum. Contact the
museum’s co-curation team to make arrangements at
[email protected]. To learn more about the museum’s Philippines
work, see the co-curation team’s newsletter.
 Thai Cultural and Fine Arts Institute of Chicago offers classes in Thai language, dance and
music among other programs. See website for details or phone 312-725-0640.
 “Remembering the Killing Fields” exhibit on display at the Cambodian American Heritage
Museum and Killing Fields Memorial, 2831 W. Lawrence Ave., Chicago. The Cambodian
Association of Illinois also holds free Cambodian music and dance lessons.
 The Indonesian consulate in Chicago offers free Saturday classes: Indonesian language
classes at 10:30 a.m. (intermediate) and 1 p.m. (children’s class); Indonesian traditional
dance, 2 to 4 p.m.; and Javanese gamelan, 4 to 6 p.m. All classes held at the Indonesian
Cultural Center, 711 W. Grand Avenue. Call 312-920-1880, ext. 104/105, or email
[email protected]. Also see the consulate’s Facebook page.
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