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Fall 2007 Research Symposium Schedule
The Center for Asian Research is pleased to announce our
fall Research Symposium schedule. It is an exciting group
of scholars representing diverse disciplines and areas.
We hope that you will join us in welcoming each speaker
as we work to support ASU’s growing community of
scholars doing research related to Asia.
Papers will be made available to interested faculty and
students at least two weeks ahead of each presentation.
Each presentation will be followed by comments from a discussant
and ample time will be set aside for questions and commentary.
Unless otherwise noted, talks will take place on Friday
afternoons from 4:00 to 6:00 PM in Coor 5536. Specific
dates and times may be subject to change.
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Friday,
September 28, 2007
Speaker: Dr.
Stephen H. West, Director of the ASU Center
for Asian Research and Foundation Professor of
Chinese,
School
of International Letters and Cultures/School of
Global Studies; Louis Agassiz Professor of Chinese,
Emeritus, UC Berkeley
Discussant:
Dr. Robert Joe Cutter, Chair and Professor, ASU
School of International
Letters and Cultures
Topic:
"Poetics of the Garden: Subjectivity and Imagination"
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Dr. West has long been interested in the urban culture
of mediaeval China, particularly in the relationship
between urban culture and violence at that time. Other
interests include early Chinese performing literature
and Chinese landscape and garden studies. Dr. West
has lived and taught in China and in Taiwan, where
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Friday,
October 12, 2007
Speaker: Dr.
Don Emmerson, Director,
Southeast Asian Forum; Senior
Fellow, FSI; Affiliated Scholar, Abbasi Program
of Islamic
Studies,
Stanford University
Discussant: Dr. Sheldon Simon, ASU
Department of Political Science
Topic: "Re-Imagining Indonesia:
NKRI, Nusantara, and the Enigma
Of National Identity" |
Bio:
Dr. Emmerson is director of the Southeast Asia
Forum (SEAF) at Shorenstein APARC, a senior fellow
at FSI, and an affiliated scholar with the Abbasi
Program in Islamic Studies. He has taught courses
on Southeast Asia in International Relations and
International Policy Studies and for the Bing Overseas
Studies Program. Publications by Emmerson in 2005-2006
include: "Shocks of Recognition: Leifer, Realism,
and Regionalism in Southeast Asia" in Order
and Security in Southeast Asia (2006); "Garuda
and Eagle: Do Birds of A (Democratic) Feather Fly
Together?" The Indonesian Quarterly (2006); "One
Nation under God? History, Faith, and Identity in
Indonesia" in Religion and Religiosity in the
Philippines and Indonesia (2006); "Security,
Community, and Democracy in Southeast Asia: Analyzing
ASEAN," Japanese Journal of Political Science
(August 2005); "What Do the Blind-sided See?
Reapproaching Regionalism in Southeast Asia," The
Pacific Review (March 2005); and "What Is Indonesia?" in
Indonesia: The Great Transition (2005). Earlier publications,
authored or edited, include upwards of a dozen monographs
and a hundred articles or book chapters. For more
information please click here.
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Friday,
November 9, 2007
Speaker:
Dr.
Gerry van Klinken, Research Fellow, Royal Netherlands
Institute of Southeast Asia and Caribbean Studies
Discussant: Dr. Christopher Duncan, ASU Department of Religious Studies
Topic: Religion and Violence
in Indonesia
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Gerry van Klinken (1952) is researcher at the KITLV/Royal
Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean
Studies (www.kitlv.nl), involved with several collaborative
research programs on post-New Order Indonesia. He co-edited
a volume on changes in the regions ("Renegotiating
boundaries: local politics in Post-Suharto Indonesia",
KITLV Press, in press), and is sole author of a book
on ethnic conflict ("Communal violence and democratization
in Indonesia: Small town wars", Routledge, in
press). His recent Indonesianist research has been
on the nature of the state, human rights, ethnicity,
post-authoritarian transition, and historical memory.
For more information click here.
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Friday,
November 30, 2007
Speaker:
Dr. Jiwon Shin, Assistant Professor, Department of
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Discussant: Dr. Stephen H. West,
ASU Center for Asian Research
Topic: tba |
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Jiwon Shin, Assistant Professor, received her Ph.D.
from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
at Harvard University in 2003. She specializes in Korean
literature and culture from the late Chosôn period
through the modern era, focusing on issues of space
and identity. Her research interests include: intersection
of literature and cartographic imagination; conceptions
of urban culture and literary coteries; early modern
print culture; nationalist aesthetics. She is working
on a book manuscript on late 18th and 19th century
literary culture in Seoul. She also translates cultural
theories and feminist criticisms as well as literary
works from contemporary South Korea. |
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