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Session 9, Culture, Literature, & Language in Southeast Asian Studies - Sponsored by COTSEAL
Cultural Politics in Southeast Asian Language Instruction, Mariam Beevi Lam
South Vietnam Literature: 1954-1975 Period, Quyen Di Chuc Bui
Day of the Dead in the Philippines, Halloween in America, Nenita Pambid Domingo
The Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) On Tagalog/Filipino Language Instruction: A Preliminary Report, Maria Monita Manalo
Session 10, Individual Papers: Religion, Civil Society and Nation in Southeast Asia
Reconsidering Civil Society and the Political in Recent Anthropologies of Islam in Southeast Asia, Carlo Bonura
Islamic Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism: Spiritual Economy in Reformasi Indonesia, Daromir Rudnyckyj
Muslim Opposition and the New Order , Mirjam Kunkler
"Biculturalism: in Singapore"
The Indonesian Chinese Problem under the Home Affairs, Nobuhiro Aizawa
Session 30, Using Climate Forecasts in Southeast Asia: "New" Science, Institutions, and Development
Climate Risk Management in Southeast Asia: Contextualizing Theories and Institutions, Shiv Someshwar
Managing Climate Risks in the Context of Rural-Urban Competition for Water Resources: Bulacan, Phillipines, Dulce Elazegui
Food Security and Livelihood Coping Strategies: Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia, Johan Kieft
Institutions and Climate Forecasts: A Review of Experiences to Date, Esther Ebrahimian
Panel Cancelled
Session 49, Governing Reproduction: Women’s Bodies in Vietnamese Society, 1600-2005
Goodwives versus Dangerous Nuns: Problems with the "Chaste" in Early Modern Vietnam, Nhung Tuyet Tran
The Natural Laws of Reproduction and Inheritance in Nguyen Vietnam, C. Michele Thompson
The 1986 Law on Marriage and the Family: Codifying a New Reproductive Space, Harriet M. Phinney
Codifying Reproduction: Uterine Identity and New Reproductive Technologies in Contemporary Vietnam, Melissa J. Pashigian
International Development Organizations and the Politics of Decentralization: Indonesia and Southeast Asia, Vedi Hadiz
Economic Ideology and the Mismeasurement of Poverty: The Case of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey, Jonathan Pincus
'Terrorism Experts' and the Production of Knowledge about Religious Violence in Southeast Asia, John Sidel
Session 72, Bodies in Motion: New Paths into Vietnam's Past
The Changing Motions of Meals in Vietnam, 1820-1920, Erica J. Peters
Locating and Re-locating Children: Vietnamese Feminists and the Colonial Orphanage System in the 1930s, Christina E. Firpo
The Bac Hung Hai Irrigation Project: Making Socialism Manifest in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, Ken MacLean
Motor-Powered Mekong: The Vietnamese - "Kohler" Revolution in the Delta, David A. Biggs
Session 73, Contestable Histories and Spectacles of Body in Philippine State Violence
Fascism’s Filipina Face: Viewing "Imelda: Power, Myth, Illusion," Nerissa Balce
Fascist Philippine Masculinity: Heteronormative Patriarchal Violence in the Queer Filipino Writings of Bino A. Realuyo and R. Zamora Linmark, Jeffrey Santa Ana
Macho Dancing, Feminization of Labor, and Neoliberalism in the Philippines, Roland B. Tolentino
Institutional Innovation and the Politics of Devolution in the Philippines, Brian S. Wiley
Feeding-Forward Policy Innovation: New Roles for Intermediary Organizations in Decentralizing Indonesia, Teresa M. Reimers
Innovating Economic Governance in Provincial Vietnam: Luring the Private Sector in North Central and Southern Regions, Alasdair Bowie
Session 118, Southeast Asia's Changing Security Environment: New and Conflicting Views from Within
Bending ASEAN Norms to Secure the Straits of Malacca: New Forms of Multilateral Security Cooperation in Southeast Asia, Michael S. Malley
Toward the Creation of a Jakarta-Beijing Axis?, Ignatius W. Wibisono
Fighting the Yankees Again? Vietnamese Security Perceptions, Military Planning and the Role of Psychology and Ideology, Tuong H. Vu
Explaining Thai Alignment Behavior: Balancing, Bandwagoning or Bending with the Wind?, Ann Marie Murphy
Session 138, Communities of Interpretation and the Idea of Modern Burma
An Overview of the Anthropology of Burma and its Historical Trajectory, F. K. Lehman
Burma in the Eyes of the Beholder: Colonial Constructs and their Desired Consequences, Michael Aung-Thwin
Genealogies in the Study of Burmese Religion, Juliane Schober
Constructing the Political: Interpreting Burma/Myanmar, R. H. Taylor
Session 139, The Literary Culture of South Vietnam
Tangible Objects: Materiality in South Vietnamese and Diasporic Writings, Thu-huong Nguyen-vo
Poisoned Waters: Vietnamese Youth in the Works of Duong Nghiem Mau, Jason A. Picard
Espionage and Responses to the "Foreign" in the Literature of South Vietnam, Duy Nguyen
Death, Buddhism and Existentialism in the Lyrics of Trinh Cong Son, John C. Schafer
Session 140, Cultural Commodities, Production and Power in Southeast Asia
Foreign Yet Local: Silk Entrepreneurs and National Identity in Southeast Asia, Sandra Cate
Food and Textiles as Fluid Markers of Identity in Lao PDR, Penelope Van Esterik
Reclaimed, Reused, Recycled: Developing Fair(er) Alternatives in Work in the Philippines, B. Lynne Milgram
New Trades in Old Textiles: Commodity Flows in Northern Vietnam, Sarah Turner
Struggles in the Nation: Views of the US in the Filipino Press before 1898, Megan C. Thomas
Constructing a Nation, Effacing a Race: The Ethno-genesis of "Chinese" and "Filipino" Identities in the Philippines, Richard T. Chu
Colonial and Modern Subjects: Filipino Migrants, Surveillance, and Nationalism in California, Arleen de Vera
The Persecution of the Boticas de China in 19th-century Manila, Raquel Reyes
Session 160, Vertical Linkages and Multi-level Politics in Decentralized Indonesia
Regional Splitting in Post-decentralization Indonesia, Ehito Kimura
Regional Divergence of Poverty Alleviation: The Politics of Decentralization, Eunsook Jung
State-making, Citizenship, and Democracy: Does Indonesia's Democratic Decentralization Harm the People?, Takeshi Ito
Decentralization and Commodity Chain Politics in Indonesian Agriculture, Erick M. Danzer
Session 161, Individual Papers: Modern Developments and Popular Culture
Risky Business: Gambling in Flores, Jayne Curnow
Artisans of Resistance: Cambodian Sex Workers Re-examine the Ethical Subject in International AIDS Drug Trials, Margery Lazarus
Ghostly Desires: The Aesthetics and Politics of Femininity and Loss in New Thai Cinema, Arnika Fuhrmann
Doing Their Duty, Achievement Motivation in Vietnamese Children and Teenager, Kathleen Carlin
Call Centres: Engines of Social Change in New Delhi, Papia Raj
Capturing Change: On the Methodological Challenges and the Rewards of Long-term Ethnographic Relationships with One’s "Field," Marjorie A. Muecke
Cultural Urbanism, Cosmopolitan Chauvinism, and Rural Identities in Malaysia, Eric Thompson
Village Man/Taxi Man: Bangkok Taxi Drivers and Rural to Urban Migration in a Globalizing Thailand Maureen H. Hickey
The Romance of Overseas Migrant Workers: Thailand, Pattana Kitiarsa
Session 184, "Blessed are the Peacemakers": Opportunities and Obstacles to Religion as a Solution to Internal Conflicts in Southeast Asia — PANEL CANCELLED
From Friend to Enemy: Relations between Cambodian and South Vietnamese Armed Forces during the Second Indochina War, Lien-Hang Thi Nguyen
The Value of "Local Knowledge": Assessing the Historical and Cultural Contribution of Thailand’s Forces in South Vietnam, 1967–1972, Richard A. Ruth
Journeys of Reconciliation through Landscapes of Memory in Vietnam, Christina Schwenkel
"The Fight against Social Evils is Every Family’s Responsibility": Old Keywords, New Politics in Contemporary Vietnam, Christophe Robert
Marital Infidelity through the Metaphor of Com (Rice) and Pho (Noodle): Social Practice versus State Policy, Binh Ngo
The Petrified Motion of "hoa:" On "Becoming Urban", and "Becoming Culture" in the Vietnamese Sense, Erik Harms
Grassroots Democracy + Transparency = Growth?: A Critical Inquiry into Keywords used in Vietnam ’s Campaign for Poverty Reduction, Hong T. Bui
Session 208, Explaining Party Institutionalization in Southeast Asia (CANCELLED)
Identities of Culture, Identities of Nation: Peace and the Bangsamoro Struggle, Paul A. Rodell
Creole Awakening and the Formation of Filipino Political Consciousness in the 18th and 19th Centuries, Ruth De Llobet
"Filipinos Can Imitate Any Sound": Strategies of Improvisation among Filipino Overseas Performing Artists, Benito M. Vergara, Jr.
Narratives of Belonging: Modernization and Identity in Lumad Millenarianism, Oona Thommes Paredes
Divinations of Conflict: Media Representations of Violence and Peace in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Ann E. Shoemake
Life Aftermath: Women’s Experience of Violent Conflict in Poso, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, Endah Agustiana
Constituencies for Peace: The Politics of Peacebuilding in Kashmir, Haley Duschinski
Session 228, Party Politics in Southeast Asia
Political Parties and Elections in Malaysia : The Contingent Roots of an "Inevitable" Order, Meredith Weiss
Popular Leadership, Party Institutionalization and the Prospect for National Reconciliation in Myanmar, Kyaw Yin Hlaing
Legacies of Authoritarianism: The New Order State and the Institutionalization of Indonesia’s Party System, Suzaina Kadir
Party Politics in Thailand, Nara Ganesan