Northern Illinois University

Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Speaker Series

All Friday lectures begin at 12 noon and are held in Campus Life Building, Room 110. To order a Thai lunch for the Friday lectures, call 753-1771 by noon the Thursday prior to the lecture.

Fall 2009 schedule (doc)

September 17 Dr. Dede Oetomo, Founder & Trustee, GAYa Nusantara Foundation
"Reclaiming Our Past, Constructing Our Future: The Struggle for LGBT Rights in Indonesia"
THURSDAY 5PM, Heritage Room, Holmes Student Center
Sponsored in collaboration with the LGBT Resource Center and the Presidential Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Equality
September 18 Dr. Dede Oetomo, Founder & Trustee, GAYa Nusantara Foundation
"The LGBTIQ Movement in Indonesia"
September 25 Tracy Wood, Documentation Center of Cambodia, Phnom Penh
“An exercise in futility or justice served: Will the outcome of the Khmer Rouge tribunals justify the costs?”
October 2 Trudy Jacobsen, Associate Professor of History, NIU
"Being broh: Masculinities in 21st Century Cambodia"
October 9 Dr. Kheang Un, Assistant Professor of Political Science, NIU
"The Cambodian People’s Party’s Performance Based Legitimacy and the Decline of Political Violence in Cambodia’s Cambodia"
October 16 Dr. Nora Taylor, Alsdorf Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
“Running the Earth: Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba’s ‘Breathing is Free’ Project and the Condition of the Global Artist”
October 23 John J. Brandon, Director, International Relations, Associate Director, The Asia Foundation, Washington D.C.
TBA
October 30 Dr. Timo Kaartinen, Lecturer, Cultural Anthropology, University of Helsinki
“A Question of Scale: State, Community and Representation in Eastern Indonesia”
November 6 Jessica Marchetti, Master’s Candidate, Anthropology, NIU
"From Housewives to Ministers: Negotiating Gender Ideology and Sexual Division of Labor in Contemporary Indonesia"
November 13 Sean Dolan, Master’s Candidate, Anthropology, NIU
"Globalizing Halal: Formation of a Social Concept of Halal”
November 20 Dr. Danny Unger, Associate Professor of Political Science, NIU
TBA-in collaboration with NIU’s International Week
11:45AM-1:30PM, Sky Room, Holmes Student Center

This series is partially supported with funds from the Center's U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.