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A.T. Steele Lecture Series - Spring 2007
This
lecture series is named in honor of Archibald T.
Steele, author of "The American People and
China," and China correspondent for United Press International, The
New York Times and The Chicago Daily News,
who reported from Asia between 1932-1950. A.T. Steele was
a strong advocate of the ASU Center for Asian Research,
and in 1994, the Center received an endowment from his
estate to support ASU Asian studies faculty research. The
A.T. Steele Faculty Travel Grants fund research trips to
Asia for the study of Asian cultures, societies, economies,
and politics. Come listen to this semester’s speakers
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Tuesday,
February 13, 2007
11:40 am to 12:30 pm, Lattie F. Coor Hall (Coor
6605)
Speaker: Juliane Schober (PhD, University
of Illinois)
Topic: "Negotiating Colonial Disjunctures:
The Young Men's Buddhist Association in Burma"
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Juliane Schober (PhD., Anthropology, Illinois) is Associate
Professor of Religious Studies. During her tenure at
ASU, Professor Schober was Principal Investigator on
Title VI grants for Southeast Asia, and others for
Ford, Luce and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
She is a former Director of the Program for Southeast
Asian Studies where she remains actively involved.
She is also affiliated with the Center for the Study
of Religion and Conflict.
Her present project traces the genealogies on modern
Buddhism in Burma during the country’s pre-colonial,
colonial and independent eras. She has contributed
to several encyclopedias, including The Encyclopedia
of Religion (MacMillan, Second Edition), The Encyclopedia
of Buddhism (MacMillan, edited by Buswell, Lopez
and Strong, 2003) and The Encyclopedia of Buddhism
(Routledge, forthcoming, edited by Prebish and Keown). |
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Tuesday,
February 27, 2007
11:40 am to 12:30 pm, Lattie F. Coor Hall (Coor
6605)
Speaker: James Eder (PhD, University
of California, Santa Barbara)
Topic: "Migration, Livelihood, and
Resource Management in the Coastal Phillipines" |
Bio:
My research interests have long concerned how the
tribal
and peasant peoples of Southeast Asia, and particularly
those of the Philippines, have experienced development
and change, broadly understood. My fieldwork in the
Philippines has centered on Palawan Island, where
my interests include demographic and subsistence
change among the Batak, a tropical forest foraging
people, and agricultural intensification and economic
diversification in San Jose, a farming community
on the outskirts of Puerto Princesa City.
In recent years I have begun to re-cast these and other longstanding research
interests around issues of natural resource management
and use, while at the same time scaling up to a broader
view of Palawan and of the Philippines as a whole.
One current research project, Migrants to the Coasts,
examines the challenges that the continued migration
to Palawan of ethnically-diverse fisherfolk from
elsewhere in Philippines pose for the establishment
of marine protected areas and other elements of successful
community-based coastal resource management programs.
Another current research project, Re-Envisioning
the Upland Philippines, aims to better capture the
ecological, economic, and social transformations
presently underway in the nation's uplands than present
models allow. This latter project will involve three
months of fieldwork in Palawan and a multi-national
research conference at the University of San Carlos
in Cebu City during summer 2005.
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Tuesday,
April 17, 2007
11:40 am to 12:30 pm, Lattie F. Coor Hall (Coor
6605)
Speaker: Ning Wang (PhD, University
of Chicago)
Topic: tba |
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My research interests lie in the interface between
law, polity, economy, and society, with a thematic
focus on international development. I was educated
at Beijing University and the University of Chicago,
both characterized by their nurturing grounds for interdisciplinary
trespassing. During my long and continent-crossing
student years, I enjoyed touring all social sciences
departments that opened their doors to me, earning
degrees in psychology, international relations, and
human development, and conducting research in sociology
and economics. Before joining the School of Global
Studies, I had the privilege to work and study with
Ronald Coase at the University of Chicago Law School
on law and economics and the new institutional economics.
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