Bringing Southeast Asia Home workshop 2024
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Monday, May 13, 2024 FedEx Global Education Center at UNC-Chapel Hill The Carolina Asia Center is pleased to announce our second annual Bringing Southeast Asia Home workshop for scholars of Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian diasporas. Generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation and the UNC Asian American Center, this workshop will bring together scholars in North Carolina and across the US Southeast to share research interests, ideas, and resources. |
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Schedule
8 AM — Registration, breakfast, and welcome
Christian Lentz, PI, Bringing Southeast Asia Home
8:30 AM — Panel 1: Politics and investment
Chair: Eddy Malesky, Duke University
Surain Subramaniam, UNC-Asheville
The Singapore Approach to Governance: What Is It, What Are Its Strengths and Weaknesses, and Can and Should It Be Replicated?
Steven Rosefielde, UNC-Chapel Hill
Restoring Myanmar’s Democracy: Limits of Western Economic Sanctions
Angel Hsu, UNC-Chapel Hill; Evan Johnson; Diego Manya; Xuewei Wang
One Belt, Many Roads: Investigating China’s Urban Land Teleconnections and Land-use Impacts in Southeast Asia
9:45 AM — Break
10 AM — Panel 2: Perceptions and perspectives
Chair: Lorraine Aragon, UNC-Chapel Hill
Gavin Douglas, UNC-Greensboro
Creating the Sound World of Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon
Martin Johnson, UNC-Chapel Hill
The Romance of Rubber and the Cinema of Extraction
Imad Alatas, UNC-Chapel Hill
Men’s Perceptions of Gender Equality in Malaysia and Prospects for Collaboration with Women’s Movements
11:15 AM — Break
11:30 AM — Panel 3: Local Southeast Asia
Chair: Kevin Kim, UNC-Chapel Hill
Touger Vang, Montgomery Community College
From the CIA’s Secret Base of Long Cheng, Laos to the Carolinas: The North Carolina Hmong Project – A Journey Worth Sharing
Ana Sucaldito, Wake Forest School of Medicine; Htay Meh, Karenni Community of Winston-Salem, Public Health Committee; Andrew Young, Montagnard Dega Association; Sharon Morrison, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Empowering the Karenni Community by Amplifying and Enriching Karenni-Provider Connections: Results from a Community-based Participatory Research Partnership
H’Rina DeTroy, North Carolina State University
Apocalypse Never: Writing Our Origin Stories and Imaginative Futures as Montagnard Americans
12:45 PM — Lunch
1:30 PM — Panel 4: Environment and space
Chair: Christian Lentz, UNC-Chapel Hill
Adithi Reddy, UNC-Chapel Hill
Forests, fisheries, and fields: Investigating the nexus between mangrove deforestation, climate change, and modern slavery in Southeast Asia
Jarrod Brown, Berea College
Philosophers in Space: Critical Remote Sensing, Humanities & Social Science Approaches in Vietnam Mekong River Provinces
Hannah Swanton, UNC-Chapel Hill
Spaces of Protest: The Production of Legitimized Public Protest in Malaysia and Singapore
2:45 PM — Break
3 PM — Panel 5: Community Roundtable
Facilitator: Andrew Young, Montagnard Dega Association
How we respond: Southeast Asian responses to living in North Carolina (Part 1)
Participants: Ana “Nikka” Sucaldito, Wake Forest School of Medicine; Touger Vang, Montgomery Community College; Ree Ree Wei, Transplanting Traditions Community Farm; Jenny Lee, University of Alabama at Birmingham; H’Rina DeTroy, North Carolina State University
Guest commentators: Hlakapaw Byar, Karenni Community of Winston-Salem, Sel Mpang NC Asian Americans Together; Thu Neang, Khmer community of North Carolina
4:15 PM — Break
4:30 PM — Panel 6: International encounters
Chair: Christina Verano Sornito, Appalachian State University
Scott Kirsch, UNC-Chapel Hill
American Colonial Spaces in the Philippines: Insular Empire
John Turner, High Point University
The Transmission of Musical Style as Signifier: The Philippines and Cambodia 1872-1975
Kevin Fogg, UNC-Chapel Hill
How Indonesian Muslims Co-Opted an American Eugenicist