This lecture is presented by Jamie Anderson, Associate Professor of History at UNC-Greensboro. The “Dong World,” as John Whitmore and I suggested in our recent edited volume, consists of numerous mountain valley communities (C. dong 洞, V. dộng) which operated … Read more
The Southeast Asian Approaches Faculty Working Group presents this documentary, directed by Joshua Oppenheimer. This film screening is free and open to the public. Through Joshua Oppenheimer's work filming perpetrators of the Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how … Read more
SPEAKER: Ara Wilson, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Cultural Anthropology, Duke University TITLE: The Geography of Standards and Transnational Medicine in Thailand ABSTRACT: In the 21st century, medical care is characterized by heightened global flows of patients, doctors, and … Read more
This talk examines consumption patterns in Vietnam’s shifting transportation market and considers them within broader design and marketing infrastructures shaping emerging markets in the region. First I explore the strategies and histories of Vietnamese buyers and sellers participating in the transportation … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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