Indonesia’s Kecamantan Development Project: Insights into Community Driven Development This talk will summarize my work on the effect of competition between villages in Indonesia for block grants aimed at infrastructure and microcredit. This was work I carried out … Continued
OPENING FACTORY DOORS TO GOVERNMENT REGULATION: AN EXPERIMENT ON PARTICIPATION BY FIRMS IN THE DESIGN OF LABOR PROTECTION IN VIETNAM Regulatory non-compliance by firms causes grave dangers for surrounding communities in emerging economies. This paper describes the results of a … Continued
From The Land of Shadows: Remembering Violence and the Violence of Remembering 2015 marked the 40th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge seizure of power in Cambodia on April 17, 1975 and the beginning of the country’s spiraling descent into one … Continued
Sylvain Vogel, PhD, HDR is an independent researcher who has taught languages, literature, and linguistics at a number of institutions including the University of Qaid-e-Azam, Kabul University, and the Royal University of Phnom Pehn. He is a member of the … Continued
This talk will focus on the Freedom Company, a paramilitary organization created by a group of Filipino veterans and U.S. CIA agents to wage covert, anti-communist warfare in Southeast Asia. In the 1950s and 60s, the Company moved through U.S. … Continued
Join the feminist anthropologist and filmmaker for a film screening of her film Nobel Nok Dah and discussion about the film's topic of the lives of three refugee women from Burma.
In the variegated landscape of Filipino paranormal practice, one phenomenon garnered worldwide attention in the last quarter of the twentieth century: psychic surgery. A form of spiritual healing in which the practitioner, or espiritista, usually male, operates on the body of … Continued
“Air-Conditioned Socialism” examines the transformative atmospheres of modernity in Vietnam, from the days of revolutionary struggle to the rise of market socialism. This transformation is most starkly visible during the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam War, when America’s chemical … Continued
Post-colonial, doubly post-socialist, and post-conflict, by any account, Cambodia’s recent past has been punctuated by a series of dramatic social, economic, and political ruptures. Yet, there are also remarkable continuities. For one, the same party has held power for over … Continued
Language is a central medium through which cultural systems operate. In the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Peoples’ Languages, the vast majority of these languages are at risk of losing their vitality, with some already gone to sleep. The precarity … Continued
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