Brown Bag Schedule-Spring 1999

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Dear Burma netters,
If you want to attend the Brown Bag meeting at Corenll, please let me know.
I will pick up you from the Bus station or airport.  

	Prof: John's "The seeds of Facism in Burmese Socialism" will be good and
*Tuesday* March 2nd, Arief Budiman, Professor of Indonesian, Head of the
Indonesia Program, University of Melbourne, "The Half-Way Reformation:
Indonesia: 1998" will be very interesting topic.


with regards

Htun



>Here is the Spring Brown Bag schedule, so that you all know what talks 
>are coming up this semester:
>
>February 4th, John Badgley, Former Curator of the J.M. Echols Collection 
>on Southeast asia, Krock Library, Cornell University, "The Seeds of 
>Fascism in Burmese Socialism"
>February 11th, Shawn McHale, Assistant Professor of History and 
>International Relations, George Washington University, SEAP Alumnus, 
>"Vietnam, Forgotten Marxisms, and the Politics of Memory: Tran Duc Thao 
>1946-1993"
>
>February 18th, Richard Baxstrom, Ph.D. Candidate, New School of Social 
>Research, International Student and Scholar Advisor, University of 
>Pennsylvania, "'Learning' to 'Labor': Discourses of Population and the 
>Tamil Migration to Colonial Malaysia"
>
>*Monday* February 22nd, Venerable Santikaro, Abbot of te Dawn Kiam Forest 
>Monastery, Southern Thailand, "Sangha from the Bottom Up: An Alternative 
>to State Budhism in Thailand"
>
>February 25th, Janet Hoskins, Professor of Anthropolgy, University of 
>Southern California, "Biographical Subjects and Objects: Lives and 
>Histories in the Field"
>
>*Tuesday* March 2nd, Arief Budiman, Professor of Indonesian, Head of the 
>Indonesia Program, Universityof Melbourne, "The Half-Way Reformation: 
>Indonesia: 1998"
>
>March 4th, Heng-Chee Chan, Singaproean Ambasador to the US, Talk Title to 
>Be announced
>
>*Tuesday* March 9th, Megan Sinnott, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, 
>University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Representations of Homosexuality in 
>the Thai Print Media"
>
>March 11th, Erick White, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, Cornell 
>University, "Magazines, Television and Professional Spirit Mediums in the 
>Bangkok Metropolis: Mass Media and the Constitution of the Heterodox Thai 
>Religious Subculture"
>
>*Tuesday* March 16th, Steve Graw, Ph.D. Candidate in Rural Sociology, 
>Cornell University, "Everyday Forms of Peasant Remittance: Is Overseas 

>Work Really Changing Filipino Rice Farmers?"
>
>March 18th, Marla Asis, Professor of Sociology, University of the 
>Philippines, Diliman, "For Richer or Poorer: Family Ties and Migration 
>Options in the Philippines"
>
>April 1st, Benny Widyono, Advisor to the Permanent Representitive of 
>Indonesia to the United Nations, Chairman of the Group of 77, Former U.N. 
>Secretary General's Representitive in Cambodia, "Cambodia: Is it Finally 
>at Peace?"
>
>April 8th, Sarosh Kuruvilla, Associate Professor, Cornell University 
>School of Industrial and Labor Relations, "Financial Crisis and Labor 
>Relations in Asia"
>
>April 15th, Arndt Graf, Visiting Lecturer in Indonesian, Cornell 
>University, "Commenting on the Father Figure in the Media of New Order 
>Indonesia: A Case Study of Goenawan Mohamed's 'Catatan Pinggir'"
>
>April 22nd, Lene Pedersen, Adjunct Professor of Anthropology and 
>Sociology, Alfred University, "Spinning the World: Indonesian Politics 
>and Ancestral Time in Bali"
>
>April 29th, Toni Samantha Pim, Research Affiliate for the Cambodia 
>Genocide Program at Yale University, SEAP Alumnus, "The Extended Family 
>of Pol Pot"
>
>David Chandler, Professor Emeritus of History, Monash University, 
>Australia, Author, "Requiem for the Khmer Rouge"
>
>Brown Bags are held on Thursdays (unless otherwise noted) throughout the 
>semester at the Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Avenue. Th talks start at 
>12:20pm.
>
>Hope to see you all there!
>Jennifer  
>