2007-2008 CSEAS Annual Report

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CSEAS Bulletin

Aloha from the Director

Aloha and greetings. I am very

pleased to report on the recent achieve-

ments of the Center for Southeast Asian

Studies.

The jewel in our crown for the

academic year 2006-07 was undoubtedly

the initiation of an ambitious subtitling

project for Southeast Asian film, which

was conceived during our weekly

screenings of Southeast Asian films on

campus. The workshop was held last

summer, and the special class conducted

by John McGlynn (who came from Ja-

karta) resulted in the subtitling of ten

films from Southeast Asia which have

never been viewed overseas. In the first

stages of this project we see the distribu-

tion of these films to universities and

colleges as an important addition to the

teaching of Southeast Asian languages

and societies. We envisage, for example,

students and teachers becoming engaged

in electronically-conveyed conversations

about alternative translations or the

cultural significance of a particular scene

and so forth.

A second aspect of this project was

in terms of Outreach, for by making new

films available we hope to literally reach

out to the community and attract

individuals who may not otherwise have

any knowledge or interest in SoutheastAsia. In this context, a highlight was the

showing of more than a dozen films from

Southeast Asia at the Hawaii

International Film Festival in October

2006. Supported by its NRC funding, the

Center was able to bring in ten directors,

producers and actors, and through ar-

rangements with the festival, to host

panel discussions after the film showings.

Several films won prizes, the most notable

being the festivals Golden Orchid for

Best Feature, which went to Berbagi Suami

(Love for Share), from Indonesia.

Director Nia Dinata and actressJajang

C. Noer were our guests. Another signifi-

cant film was Gubra (Anxiety), written and

directed by Yasmin Ahmad. Producer

Elyna Shukri and actress Sharifah

Amani attended the festival, and last

April the Center organized a retrospec-

tive of all of Ahmads films at the

Honolulu Academy of Arts. We were

honored that Yasmin herself found time

in her busy schedule to come to this retro-

spective, and the large audiences who

attended very much appreciated her gra-

cious and open responses to their ques-

tions. Among our plans for future initia-

tives is the streaming of interviews and

podcasts of talks with Southeast Asian

filmmakers on our revamped website,

which should be up and running this Fall.

Despite the enormous amount of

work involved in putting this ambitious

program together, we did not neglect our

other academic programs. The Center is

working hard to build connections with

the professional schools, and in that re-

spect a new venture was a Fall 2006

seminar on natural disasters in Southeast

Asia, conducted by the Department ofUrban and Regional Planning under the

direction of Michael Douglass and

James Spencer. It was truly amazing to

see how much expertise and experience

we had on campus related to all aspects of

earthquakes, hurricanes, and epidemics.

Greg Bankoff, from the University of

Auckland, a historian who has worked

extensively on Natural Disasters,

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE

1FACULTY

Aloha and Welcome, Conferencesand Papers, Research and Travel,

Awards and Fellowships, Publica-

tions, etc.

2STUDENTSAwards and Fellowships, Research

and Travel, Conferences, etc.

3OUTREACH

Brown Bag Series, Film Series,Photograph Exhibition, Film

Festival Partnership, Malaysian

Cinema at the Honolulu Academy

of Arts, etc.
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cially in the Philippines, was a valuable

guest, delivering several lectures and con-

tributing to our ongoing Brown Bag lun-

chtime talks.

If anything, the Spring semester was

even busier than the Fall, for we had nu-

merous visitors. The course on Literature

in Translation (IP 361) in Southeast Asia,

for instance, brought in several overseas

guests; Alam Payind, Director of the

Center for Middle Eastern Studies at

Ohio State University, gave several pres-

entations; Jonathan Rigg, from the

University of Durham, spent a week on

campus during which time he gave sev-

eral lectures, including the third in a spe-

cial School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pa-cific Studies lecture series. Because of the

prominence of the Ilokano program at

the University of Hawaii, the Center

also contributed to the 2007 Nakem

Conference, this year held at Mariano

Marcos State University in the

Philippines

One of the developments of which

we are especially proud is the initiative of

our graduate students, including our

FLAS recipients. This year we have is-

sued two volumes of Explorations, our

student journal, which is available in hard

copy and on line. In addition, the

Centers Graduate Assistant, Anthony

Medrano, was successful in obtaining a

grant from the Hawaii Council for the

Humanities which enabled him (with the

support of Punahou School as a home

base) to mount a traveling exhibition of

photos on Muslim Asia, which was taken

around to various schools on Oahu. We

are most grateful to Punahou School and

Terrina Wong, Program Coordinator at

the Wo International Center, for their

support in this endeavor.

We are also grateful to Terrina, the

Freeman Foundation and the State

Department of Education for providing

opportunities for myself and Muham-

mad Ali, who has just completed

his Ph.D. in history, to conduct a

workshop for school teachers to

learn more about Islam in

Southeast Asia so that they feel

comfortable in teaching the new

standards and benchmarks.

I would also like to comment on a

further development in relation to

the award of FLAS grants. TheCenter for Southeast Asian

Studies at the University of Ha-

waii continues to support the

concept of a Summer Institute for

Southeast Asian Studies, which, over the

last twenty years, has made a significant

contribution to teaching about this part of

the world. However, we also believe that

there are now enhanced opportunities for

students to spend their summer in-

country at approved language schools

where they can also benefit from living inthe relevant culture. In summer 2007, we

therefore used the equivalent of three

FLAS grants to support language

study for five students (two in

Indonesia, one in Malaysia, two

in Thailand).

Finally, I should express our

delight that two new faculty

members, Ehito (Political

Science) and Aya Kimura

(Sociology/Womens Studies),

will be joining us in the Fall. As

Indonesian specialists, they will

enhance our program considera-

bly and will be of special benefit

to the growing number of

Indonesian students on our

campus.

The schedule for the new

academic year is already filling

up with a list of exciting projects,

including a Balinese adaptation of Shake-

speares The Tempest, by resident guest

artist Larry Reed, who uses a giant screen

and live performers to create a shadow

theater performance. This will be man-

aged under the direction of Kirstin

Pauka, who will also be serving as Acting

Director while I am away on sabbatical

(until July 2008). Indeed, when I looked

at the list of events for the coming twelve

months, I was almost (not quite) tempted

to cancel my leave!

In closing, I wish to express my

heartfelt appreciation to the Executive

Board of our Center, which continues to

offer invaluable advice and support. I

would like to record my gratitude to the

Center staff of course, Paul Rausch,

and Anthony Medrano (to whom we bida fond farewell as he settles into his new

position with Ohio Universitys Southeast

Asia program), but especially to Helen

Lee, our long-suffering secretary and to

the Schools fiscal officers, Myra Ya-

mamoto and Joyce Morikuni, whose

patience and advice has made it possible

to bring our ambitious plans to fruition.

To all those who helped make the

past year such a success, I again offer my

sincere thanks.

BARBARA WATSON ANDAYA



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Faculty News and ActivitiesBarbara Watson Andaya, Directorof the Center for Southeast AsianStudies and Professor of Asian Studies,has had a full year of activities andcommitments. She participated in threeconferences in Washington, Finland, andHawaii, respectively. In Washington, shepresented a paper at the NRC Directors

Confe rence entitled, Cha llen ges andRewards of Administering an NRCgrant. In Finland, Professor Andaya reada paper titled, Oceans Connect? AsianStudies in a Globalizing Era. In Hawaii,she presented a paper at the 2007Indonesian Conference and CulturalEvent enti tled , Dive rsit y and State Pol-icy: Placing Indonesia in a Global Frame-work. In addition, Professor Andayarecently published The Flaming Womb:Repositioning Women in Southeast AsianHistory through University of HawaiiPress. She also had an article entitled,Oceans Unbounded: Transversing Asiaacross Area Studies in the Journa lof Asian Studies and Studying Women

and Gender in Southeast Asia: AState of the Art Essay in theInternational Journal of Asian Studies.

Aside from her teaching, she main-tain s a busy administr ative schedul eas well as hosting guests and oversee-ing campus activities related toSoutheast Asia. She continues towork with colleagues and with theAsia Society on developing a curricu-lum for teaching Islam in SoutheastAsia to schools. She has made threetrips to Thailand in her role as chairof a committee evaluating the AsianScholarship Fellowship foundation,which will now come under the pa-

tronage of Princess Maha ChakriSiri ndhorn of Thai land. She has beeninvited to become Raffles Chair inthe Department of History, NationalUniversity of Singapore, August toDec emb er 2007 . Dur ing hersabbatical leave from August 2007 toJu ly 2008 she wi ll be wor king on ahistory of Early Modern SoutheastAsia and researching her currentproject, a history of minorityChristian communities in SoutheastAsia.

Belinda Aquino, Director of theCenter for Philippine Studies andProfessor of Asian Studies, has had a

busy year serving as a member of theFi l ip ino Celebration CentennialComm iss i on . She chaire d anInternational Conference on the HawaiiFilipino Centennial. The theme of theconference was The Filipino CenturyBeyond Hawaii. Belinda Aquino alsoorga nized the panel, Revi sitin g Ha-napepe and presented a paper entitled,Understanding the Hanapepe Massa-cre. In addition, she was invited by theCommission on Filipinos Overseas, Ma-nila, to deliver a series of lectures basedon the Hawaii Filipino Centennial.

Belinda Aquino presented papers atseveral institutions and universities inthe Philippines including the Universityof the Philippines, University of North-ern Philippines, St. Louis College, CebuNormal University, and the Departmentof Foreign Affairs.

Aside from her teaching and lecturing,Professor Aquino also edited

One Hun-dred Years and Beyond and authored anarticle entitled, The Filipino Century inHawaii: Out of the Crucible. Moreover,she chaired and presented a paper at theA s soc i a t i o n f o r A s i a n S t u d i e sConfe rence in Bos ton. The titl e of thepane l was Con stitu tiona l Chang e in theP h i l i p p i n e s : I s F e d e r a l i s m -Parliamenta rism the Answer? ProfessorAquino also presented a paper at theFirst National Phi l ippine StudiesConfe rence in Japan. In her administr a-tive role, she is on the steering commit-tee for the 2008 Inte rnati onal Philipp ine

Stud ies Conferen ce, which will be heldin Manila.Michael Aung-Thwin, Professor ofAsian Studies, presented a paper at theA s soc i a t i o n f o r A s i a n S t u d i e sConfe rence on the Burmese StudiesGroup Pane l entitle d In the Eyes of theBeholder. He also gave a paper at theBurma Studies Colloquium in Singaporeon the Plenary Session on an aspect ofthe Colloquiums theme Communities

of Interpretation. Professor Aung-Thwin was invited to give a lecture onhis latest book, titled The Mists of Ra-manna: the Legend that was Lower Burma ,at Harvard Universitys Center for theStudy of World Rel igions.

J a c k B i l m e s , P r o f e s s o r o f Anthropology, has an article coming outentitled, Kinship Categor ies in a Nor th-ern Thai Narr ative . It will appea r in theedited book, Conversation Analysis: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives. Jack Bilmes willpresent an abbreviated version of thispaper at the 2007 meeting of theInternational Pragmatics Association inGothenburg.

Robert Blust, Professor of Linguistics,has several publis hed works for 2006,including Whence the Malays? in JamesT. Collins and Awang Sariyan, eds., Bor-neo and the Homeland of the Malays: Four

Essays .

William Chapman, Professor ofAmerican Studies, has had a productiveacademic year. To begin, he received aFulbright Senior Specialist Award in2006 for research in Thailand. He alsoauthored several chapters related toSoutheast Asia, including two for theEncyclopedia of the Modern World, onetitled, Architecture: Southeast Asia,and the other chapter entit led, Art :Southeast Asia. Professor Chapmanpresented a paper at the InternationalConference, Architecture in the Landof Suvarnabhumi. He also read a paperentitled, Genrification, Conservationand Economic Development: What CanWe Learn for Rattanakosins Future?

at the International Symposium onArchitecture and Human Rights, held inBangkok. Over the course of theacademic year, Professor Chapman alsogave lect ures on Conserva tion andArchitecture in Southeast Asia at theUniversity of Oxford, England, theUniversity of York, England, and Kaset-sart University, Thailand.Michael Douglass, Director of theGlobalization Research Center andProfessor of Urban and Planning, or-ganized several panels in 2006,including Globalization and LivableCities in Pacific Asia: The Rise of CivilSociety and the Social Production of

Civic Space at the Third InternationalConfere nce of the Globalizati onStudies Network held in Kuala Lumpur,

Malaysia. He was also the keynote speakat the Inter national Symposiu m on P l a n n i n g f o r L i v a b l e C i t i e s :International Comparative Perspectiveson Vietn am held at the Institu te ofEconomic Research in Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam. Professor Douglass has alsoedited a special issue of InternationalDevelopment Planning Review, with arti-cles on Global Householding in East andSoutheast Asia. He has several chapters



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in G. Jones and M. Douglass, eds., TheRise of Mega-Urban Regions in Pacific

As ia --Urban Dynamics in a Global Era.Professor Douglass also published anarticle entitled, The Globalization ofHouseholding and Social Reproductionin Pacific Asia, in Philippine Studies. Asdirector of the GRC, Michael Douglasshas secured several grants for researchconcerning community and civic space inSoutheast Asia.Uli Kozok, Coordinator of theIndonesian Language Program andProfessor of Indonesian, presented apaper entitled, Two Malay Legal Codesfrom the 14th and 18th Centuries atthe ASEAUK 2006 Conference inOxford. He also participated in aninternational workshop on archaeologyand ethnohistory in the highlands ofSumatra. His paper was titled, The Arri-val of Islam and its Implementations forthe Legal System in Kerinci. As thecoordinator of the Indonesian languageprogr am, Profe ssor Kozok read a paper

at the annual COTIM meeting in Madi-son. His paper tit led was Onli ne andOffline: Newly Developed Teaching Ma-terials for Advanced Indonesian.Moreover, he was appointed Senior Fel-low at the Asia Research Institute,National University of Singapore, for themonths of July to December 2007.

Will C. McClatchey, Professor ofBotany, presented a paper at the BotanySymposium Series (UHM) entitled,Biodiversity and Biocognosy of Phutaiin Northeaste rn Thail and. He also wasthe keynote speaker at Khon KaenUnive rsit y in Thail and, where he spokeon natural pharm. In Chiang Mai,

Professor McClatchey was an invitedorganizer and presenter at the annualmeeting of the Society for EconomicBotany. He has recently conductedresearch in Thailand as a Fulbright Fel-low.

Michael Pietrusewsky, Professor ofAnthropology, presented a paper in Ma-nila at the 18th Congress of the Indo-Paci fic Prehistor y Assoc iati on. He alsopublished two chapters, one in Bioar-chaeology of Southeast Asia and the otherin Aust ron es ian Diaspora and the Ethno-

gens is of Peo ple in Indonesian A rc hipe lago .Pro fes sor P ie t rusewsky s recen tresearch includes the metric study of

Negrito and Southeast Asian cranial

series at the Musee de lHomme in Parisand continuing laboratory analysis ofhuman skele tal remains from AngkorBorei in Cambodia.

Peter Xenos, EWC and Professor ofSociology, is coordinating with MichaelDouglass (GRC) a summer seminar onLivable Cities in Pacific Asia: ResearchMethods for Policy Analysis. The par-ticipants will mostly be drawn fromSoutheast Asia and Vietnam, in particular

Student and Alumni NewsM a r g a r e t B . B o d e m e r ,Anthropology, received a Fulbright HaysDoctoral Dissertation Research AbroadAward, November 2006-2007, in Hanoi,Vietnam. Her research is being con-ducted at the Vietnam Museum of Eth-nology. In 2006, Maggie attended SEASSIto study Vietnamese as a FLAS fellow.

Herman Kelen, Asian Studies 06, isworking for PIKUL, a local NGO basedin Kupang, Indonesia. As PIKULs Hu-manitarian Coordinator, Herman is re-sponsible for not only coordinatingemergency relief efforts but also manag-ing projects related to disaster prepar-edne ss. In the meantime , Herman iscontinuing to conduct research on foodsecurity and drought in two districts inEast Nusa Tenggara Province.

Sean Blundon, Asian Studies 06, iscurrently the Theater Security Coopera-tion Program Manager for SoutheastAsia at Headquarters, U.S. Army Pacific,Fort Shafter. Since September 2006, Hehas made five trips to the region, coor-dinating exercises and meetings in thePh i l ipp ines , Indones ia , S ingapore,Malaysia, Vietnam, and Cambodia.

Shawn Fehrenbach, Anthropology,received a 2006-07 and a 2007-08 FLASfellowship for the study of Khmer. Herecently presented a paper at the 2007SHAPS Graduate Student Conference.During the 06-07 year, Shawn was also amember of the Explorations editorialboard.

Tur ro Se l r i t s Wong ka ren ,Sociology, is writing his M.A. thesis onIndonesian economic visions, while com-pleting coursework for the Ph.D. inSoci ology. Turro also wor ks at the Eas t

West Center on a project withProfe ssor Andrew Mason. He presen t apaper ent itled The New Order, Priy ayiCulture and Capitalist Class inIndonesia at the American SociologicalAssociation meeting in New York.

Nathan Camp, Asian Studies 02, isworking for Volunteers in Asia in SanFrancisco as the Indonesia ProgramDirector. Nathan helps recruit, train,place, and support volunteers for twoin-country programs. As part of hiswork, Nathan travels to Thailand to helprun training and to Indonesia to visitvolunteers, investigate new partnershipsand assess various elements of theprograms. Nathan lives happily in Oak-land with Kalindi Vora (Anthropology02) and their two cats.

Pandit Chanrochanakit, Ph.D. inPolitical Science 06, works as a lecturerin the faculty of Political Science atRamkhamhaeng University in Bangkok.He teaches Research and Methods and

Political Theory. Pandit is also an editorfor Vibhasa Magazine, which publishesarticles in the fields of cultural studies,the humanities, and the social sciences.

Dan Brown, Second Language Studies,received a FLAS fellowship for the studyof Thai in 2006- 07. He co-pre sente d apaper entitled Local Resources for aLocal Context: Challenges to EnglishLanguage Teach ing Policy in Thail and att h e SHA PS Gra du a t e S t u den tConfe rence in 2007. He also read thesame paper at the International Societyfor Language Studies Conference inHonolulu. In Sunner 2007, Dan willtaught English in Thailand at Ubon

Rajathanee University in northeasternThailand.

Adam Young-Knowl ton , AsianStudies 04, was awarded a researchgrant in 2004-05 to edit his M.A. thesisat the International Institute of AsianStud ies in Leiden, the Nether land s. Withthe support of Mark Valencia, formerSenior Research Fellow at the East WestCenter and IIAS this manuscript wasrecently published by ISEAS (Institutefor Southeas t Asian Studie s) inSingapore: Contemporary Maritime Piracyin Southeast Asia: History, Cause andRemedies . It is available for sale athttp://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg /. He now

works in dispute resolution at NorthShore Community Mediation in Beverly,MA .

LeeRay Costa, Ph.D. in Anthropology01, is currently a professor ofAnthropology and Womens Studies atHollins University, in Roanoke, Viginia. InFebruary, LeeRay co-published with her

partner, Andrew Matzner (UH Mnoa

1994, 1997), Mal e Bodies , Womens Souls:Perso nal Narrati ves of Thai lands Transgen-dered Youth. It focuses on the lives andpersonal narra tives of Thai sao braphet


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by Asian Studies Review entitled Gen-der, Sexuality and Nationalism in aNorthern Thai Non-Governmental Or-ganization. LeeRay also just earned ten-ure and was promoted to AssociateProfessor in 2007.

Ashton Udall, Asian Studies 04, is apartner in the product development andsourcing firm, Global Sourcing Special-ists . He lives in San Fran cisco and at-tends MBA classes at Santa ClaraUniversity.

Tu Anh T. Vu , Anthropology, willpresent a paper entitled TraditionalRitual made Modern: Paper Money Burn-ing (Vang Ma) in Han oi, Viet nam atthe 16th Annual Harvard Project forAsian and International RelationsConfe rence in Beijin g. Among otherconferences, she also published anarticle title d The Mother Goddess:The Dao Mau Movement in North-ern Vietn am in the journal Explora-tions . Tu was awarded a GSO travel

grant to present a paper inSingapore, as well as a scholarshipfrom the Governme nt of Viet nam(2006-2010). She also served aspresident of the Vietnamese StudentAssociation of Hawaii.

James Rae, Ph.D. in PoliticalScience 06, is an assistant professorof Government at California StateUniversity at Sacramento, teachingcou r s e s on w or l d p o l i t i c s ,

international organization, internationallaw, and the politics of Asia. This summerhe will continue his research inSoutheast Asia, observing the parliamen-tary elections in East Timor and visitingIndonesia.

Lance P.B. Nolde , History, wasawarded the Moscotti Travel Grant forfield research in Southeast Sulawesi anda 2007-08 FLAS fellowsh ip for the studyof Indonesian. He presented a paperentitled Fluid Cartographies: OrangLaut and Sama-Bajau Conceptions ofSpace and Territoriality at the SHAPSGraduate Student Conference in 2007.He also read a paper at the 2007 EWC

Graduate Student Conference titled Onthe Margins of Nationhood: the OrangLaut and Sama-Bajau of Southeast Asia.Lance also served on the editorial boardof Explorations .

S t e p h e n P o g i A c a b a d o ,Anthropology, received several awardsand fellowships this academic year,incl uding a Nati onal Science Founda tionDissertation Improvement Grant, anACLS/Luce Foundation DissertationFellowship, and a UH Arts and SciencesAdvisory Council Award. Stephen alsoco-organized the session Trade, SocialInteraction, and Political Economy inSoutheast Asian Archaeology at the

Indo-Pacific Prehistory AssociationMeet ing in Manila. At the confe rence ,he presente d a paper enti tled Land-scape and S ocial Orga nization: TheSocial Organization of the Ifugao,Northern Luzon, Philippines. Ste-phen will be conducting fieldworkthis summer at the rice terraces inIfugao province, Philippines.

Steve Rehermann, Asian Studies03, is currently Country ProgramDirector for Sub-Saharan Africa atthe Defense Security CooperationAgency, Office of the Secretary ofDefense. He also acquired a secondmas t er s degre e f rom Tu f t sUniversity.

AwardsThe Center for Southeast AsiaPaper Prize is awarded for the best

paper on a Southeast Asian theme pre-sented at the SHAPS Graduate StudentConfe rence held each spring semeste r.The 2007 paper pri ze of $100 wasawarded to Noah Viernes (Ph.Dprogra m, Depar tment of Politica lScience) for his paper titled Life Trans-missi on: New Thai Cine ma and the Poli-tics of Aesthetics.

The Albert Moscotti GraduateStudent Travel Award is presentedannually to a top graduate student in aSoutheast Asian related field of study toassist with travel costs associated withfield work or language study inSoutheast Asia. The years award of$1,000 was presented to Lance Nolde(MA program, Asian Studies), for his fieldwork in Indonesia in Summer 2007.

The Nguyen Dang Liem Prize inVietnamese Studies is awardedannually to the best paper on Vietnam ateith er under grad uate or graduate level.The 2007 prize of $100 was awarded toLeon Potter (MA program, AsianStudies) for his paper on the Chamlanguage.

FellowshipsForeign Langua ge and AreaStu dies Fello wshi ps (FLA S)

Southeast Asia, 2006-2007 FLASFellowships for 2006-2007 provide sti-pend and tuition for full time, UHMregistered, U.S. citizen or permanentresident graduate students enrolled in aformal program of intensive SoutheastAsian langu age study in the countr y oftheir language focus.

CSEAS awarded academic year FLAS to:

Cy Calugay, Anthropology, FilipinoBryce Beemer, History, ThaiShawn Fehrenbach Anthropology,, KhmerLance Nolde

History, Indonesian

Mary Conran, Anthropology, ThaiErwin Legaspi,

Asian Studies. FilipinoTrinh Nguyen Theatre, Vietnamese

Ju lie Osborn History, Vietnamese

Noah ViernesPolitical S cience, Thai

Dan Labarca, Asian S tudies, FilipinoGeoff Ashton, Philosophy, ThaiDan Brown

Second Lang uage Studie s, Thai





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Outreach News and Activities

SEA Film SeriesThe Centers Southeast Asian Film

Series continued to attract movie viewers

to the university and exposed them to the

dynamic landscapes of Southeast Asian

cinema. Attendance of the Wednesday

night event averaged about forty people,

with members of the faculty, student

body, and community sitting side-by-side.

Building on last years achievement, the

SEA Film Series has showcased, often for

the first time in Hawaii, a grand total of

thirty-six films, including Bangkok for

Sale (Thailand, Oxide Pang Chun), Ada

Apa Dengan Cinta? (Indonesia, Rudy

Soedjarwo), Boso (Philippines, Jon Red),

and Spinning Gasing (Malaysia, Teck

Tan).

This semester, we plan to screen

Mekong Full Moon Party (Thailand, Jira

Maligool), the epic film Courtesan

(Indonesia, Nia Dinata), Indio Nacional

(Philippines, Raya Martin), Me Myself

(Thailand, Pongpat Wachirabunjong) and

Tiga Hari (Indonesia, Unknown) in addi-

tion to films from Malaysia, Vietnam and

Cambodia!

Join us at the Korean Studeis build-

ing, qwedbesdays for the films!

SEA Brown BagsThe Centers series of Brown Bag

discussions continued to act as a forum

for current research and intellectual ex-

change. In 2006, we had a compelling

and diverse array of presenters ranging

from a Khmer music performance to a

visual history of Indonesia during the

Soeharto years. A complete list has been

provided below:

September 15: An Afternoon of Tradi-tional Khmer Music with Rina Deth(Cambodia Association of Hawaii)

September 29: Bio-fuel and Food Secu-rity in East Nusa Tenggara Province,Indonesia by Herman Kelen (AsianStudies, UHM)

Octob er 13: A Personal Experien ce ofTraveling to Egypt and Researching theMuslim Brotherhood by Mefi Herma-wanti (Political Science, UHM)

October 20: Scripture and Literature in

Indonesian Islam: Some Modern Debatesby Michael Feener (History, NUS)

October 27: Winds of Colonization: TheMeteorological Contours of Spains Im-perium in the Pacific, 1521-1898 by GregBankoff (History, University of Auckland)

November 17: Off the Market? MissingLinks in Community-Based SustainableDevelopment Initiatives by Carol Warren(Anthropology, University of WesternAustralia)

Januar y 26 : Sl avery as a Vect or forCultu ral Excha nge: The Case of Pre-colonial Burma and Thailand by Bryce

Beemer (History, UHM)

February 9: Introducing Islam to SchoolChildren through Music: Examples fromPalestine, Turkey, Persia, and SoutheastAsia by Chet-Yeng Loong (Music, UHM)

Febru ary 23: From Tsuna mis to Coups:Covering Southeast Asia for the Associ-ated Press by David Briscoe (APHonolulu Bureau)

March 14: Library of Congress HoldingsPertaining to Southeast Asia by KathrynWellen (Library of Congress)

March 20: Indon esia in the Soeha rto

Years: Issues, Incidents and Images byJohn H. McGlynn (Lontar Foundation ,Jaka rt a)

Apr il 18: The Makin g of Wealth and Pov-erty in Laos by Jonathan Rigg (Geogra-phy, University of Durham, UK)

Apri l 27: Understanding Dynami cResource Management Systems and LandCover Transitions in Montane MainlandSoutheast Asia by Jefferson Fox(Environmental Studies Program, EWC)

Upcoming Brown Bags

Sept ember 14: Bali nese Dance by Nyo-man Sumandhi (Theater, IndonesianInstitute of the Arts)

September 28: Vietnam Spirit Culturesby Liam C. Kelley (Hi story, UHM)

Oct ober 5: Tai Ric e Cul ture by JohnHartman (Thai , Northern I l l inoisUniversity)

October 26: Indian Ocean Trade Net-working by Kenneth R. Hall (History, BallState University)

Novemb er 2: Histo ry, Memor y, and

Cultural Change in Bajo Communities ofSoutheast Sulawesi in Indonesia by LanceNolde (History, UHM)

November 16: Unspecified Title byPhilippe M.F. Peycam (Center for KhmerStudies, Siem Riep.



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Malaysian Retrospective

The Center for Southeast Asian

Studies hosted Malaysian director and

master storyteller Yasmin Ahmad for a

retrospective of her films, which screened

at the Honolulu Academy of Arts in

April 2007. The films featured included

Rabun, Sepet, Gubra, and the North

American premiere of Mukhsin, which

won the grand prize of the Deutsche Kin-

derhilfswerk (German Child Support Or-

ganisation) for Best Feature Film in the

Kplus category competition at the 57th

Berlin International Film Festival earlier

in 2007.

This rare weekend provided the

Hawai`i community with a fantastic

opportunity to engage the filmmaker in a

series of informal discussions ranging

from her experiences as a Muslim women

making film to her philosophy on film-

making and storytelling that encourages

dialog and reflection not so much on the

differences we have as human beings, but

those shared experiences that hopefully

build bridges of understanding between

people.

The retrospective was supported by

a grant from the US Department of

Education as part of the Centers educa-

tional outreach mission.

Center Launches

Film Festival Program

With a mandate to provide access to

resources that highlight the dynamic re-

gion of Southeast Asia in schools and

communities across the country, the

Center for Southeast Asian Studies

launched a new initiative to develop a

Southeast Asian film program at the

University of Hawai`i beginning in fall

2006. The starting point for this fledgling

program was a new partnership

with the Hawaii InternationalFilm Festival that was designed to

highlight the cinema of

Southeast Asia.

The partnership was devel-

oped in the belief that film pro-

vides an engaging form of com-

municating culture across bor-

ders, and as the very nature of a

film festival is to provide the

venue for this type of educational

activity, the partnership with the

Hawaii International Film Festival was

seen as a way to help position both the

Center and HIFF as leaders in bringing

new and engaging film and film industry

leaders from Southeast Asia into focus in

the US.

Over the course of the festival the

Center hosted a number of directors,

actors, producers, archivists, and film

critics who engaged in educational

forums following selected films. All

told there were 23 films with

Southeast Asia themes, 15 of which

were feature films from Southeast

Asia.

Much to the great joy of

Southeast Asian film fans at the

festival, films from the region

garnered three of the top festival

awards, including Love For Share

(Indonesia, Nia Dinata) which

captured the Golden Orchid for Best

Feature Film. The film tells three loosely

connected stories about polygamy in

modern Indonesia. Other award winners

with Southeast Asia roots included 4:30,

(Singapore, Royston Tan) about a latch-

key kid who steals from his family's ten-

ant. which took home the NETPAC

Award for Best Asian Film. Majidee



Yasmin Ahmad (l) is inter viewed by UHM Professor

Wimal Dissanayake at the Honolulu Design Center.

Director Romeo Candido and Actress Phoemela

Baranada from the Filipino horror film ANG

PAMANA: THE INHERITANCE.

CSEAS Associate Director Paul Rausch, HIFF Film Pro-

grammer Christian Razukas, Indonesia Director Noa Dinata

and Bee Thiam Tan of the Sinapore Film Archive.

Indonesian Actress Jajang C. Noer with Hawaii Gover-

nor Kinda Lingle at the Governors Official Residence.


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The Flaming Womb:

Repositioning Women

in Southeast Asian

History. Honolulu:

University of Hawaii

Press, 2006

Center Director and Professor Bar-

bara Watson Andaya published The

Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Early

Modern Southeast Asia.

"The Princess of the Flaming

Womb," the Javanese legend that intro-

duces this pioneering study, symbolizes

the ambiguities attached to femaleness in

Southeast Asian societies. Despite these

ambiguities, the relatively egalitarian

nature of male-female relations in

Southeast Asia is central to arguments

claiming a coherent identity for the re-

gion.

Erudite, Nuanced, and Accessible

Deemed a masterful and

tightly-argued work by Choice and a

must read for Southeast Asianists by

Pacific Affairs, Professor Andayas book

considers such contradictions while

offering a thought-provoking view of

Southeast Asian history that focuses on

womens roles and perceptions. She

explores the broad themes of the early

modern era (15001800)the intro-

duction of new religions, major

economic shifts, changing patterns of

state control, the impact of elite life-

styles and behaviorsdrawing on an

extraordinary range of sources and

citing numerous examples from Thai,

Vietnamese, Burmese, Philippine and

Malay societies. In the process, sheprovides a timely and innovative model

for putting women back into world

history.

Southeast Asian

Literature Week

In April, CSEAS and the

Department of Hawaiian and Indo-

Pacific Languages and Literature pre-

sented a week of activities and events

focused on Southeast Asian Literature.

The literary week began with a Southeast

Asian Writers Panel on History as Lit-

erature, Literature as History.

The writers panel was followed by a

Filipino Writers Summit. Featured writers

included Maria Josephine Barrios, R.

Zamora Linmark, Ninotchka Rosca,

Michelle Cruz Skinner, Francis

Tanglao-Aguas, Marianne Vil-

lanueva, as well as local Hawaii writers

and Katipunan Literary Journal contribu-

tors. Shifting from writing to

performance, the third event

was entitled The Sarimanok

Travels: An Epic Filipino

American Experience by

Francis Tanglao-Aguas.

The final event was an

engaging lecture by Trisilpa

Boonkhachorn of Chula-

longkorn University titled

Thailands Southern Fire: A

Thai Literary Perspective.

Explorations: A

Graduate

Student Journal of

Southeast Asian

Studies

Explorations published two issues in

2007. Under the capable guidance of its

editors, Bryce Beemer and Kelli

Swazey, Explorations published a record

number of articles addressing themes as

diverse as architecture in Singapore to the

politics of ethnicity in southern Thailand.In addition to the hard work put

forth by its editors, Explorations also had

a committed editorial staff. Members

included Shawn Fehrenbach, An-

thony Medrano, Lance Nolde, and





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Subtitling

Southeast Asian Film

Spring 2007 saw the introduction of

an innovative course designed to train

advanced language students in the art ofsubtitling film from Southeast Asia. With

Hawaiis community language strength in

Thai, Lao, Indonesian, Malay, Khmer,

Filipino, Burmese, and Vietnamese, and

with an increasing amount of film being

produced in Southeast Asia, the Center

developed a course to provide advanced

language students with another skill set to

take with them after graduation while

producing subtitled films for use in a vari-

ety of outreach activities.

Seminar Class

The course began with a 10-week

seminar on translation for film subtitling

taught by accomplished translator John

McGlynn, Editor-in-

Chief of the Jakarta-

based Lontar Founda-

tion. For the length of

the 17-week course over

a dozen students

students were paired in

teams comprised of a

native speaker of a film's

S o u t h e a s t A s i a n

language and an

advanced language

student in the film

language (who is also a

native English speaker).

The teams successfully

translated film scripts from five languages

(Burmese, Thai, Vietnamese, Tagalog,

Malay and Indonesian) and then

produced time coded English subtitles on

dialogue sheets that were then applied to

the films during an intensive end-of-the-

semester workshop using specialized

subtitling software.

Brining Film to the World

The final subtitled films will be

available for classroom use, ongoing

community outreach efforts, and to add

to the library collection of Southeast

Asian films both in Hawai`i and on the

Mainland. Aside from its value as profes-

sional skill development, one of the long

term goals of the project is to build coop-

erative relationships with Southeast Asian

filmmakers and film archivists. Adding

subtitles to their feature films, documen-

taries, and television programs will extend

the range of their screenings to U.S. film

festivals and educational centers around

the country in order to fulfill the Centers

mission as a National Resource Center

for Southeast Asia.

This program is the first of its kind

in the nation and is supported by funds

from the U.S. Department of Education.

A Balinese Tempest

This unusual adaptation of Shake-

speares most musical and magical play is

about a sorcerer and dethroned Milanese

duke, Prospero, who has been banished

with his daughter Miranda to an en-

chanted island. Guest artist Larry Reed

will fuse Balinese and Elizabethan ele-

ments with his hallmark shadowcasting

method, which utilizes a giant screen and

live performers to create a magicalshadow theatre performance.

Introduced to shadow plays in the

'70s while in Bali, Reed found himself

drawn to the complex spiritual and an-

cient tradition and the powerful ephem-

eral nature of shadows. Reed spent the

next 10 years learning the art form in the

traditional manner, apprenticing himself

with shadowmasters. Today, Reed per-

forms in the traditional style, but he has

also created his own company, Shadow-

Light Productions, a changing ensemble

of actors and puppeteers who create

modern shadow puppet works on a cine-

matic scale with scene changes, lighting

cues and a larger music ensemble.

The production will also feature

live musical accompaniment by the

UH Balinese Gamelan Ensemble

under the direction of guest artist I.

Nyoman Sumandhi,Topeng mask artist and Wayang

Kulit puppet performer I Nyoman

Sedana is a faculty member and

chair of the Pedalangan Theatre

Department at the Indonesian

Institute of the Arts (ISI) in Den-

pasar. Born in 1962, Sedana com-

pleted his B.A. in 1986 in puppet

theater at ASTI Denpasar and his

Ph.D. in 1989 at STSI after performing

Arja opera in the form of shadow theater

and its script "Luh Martalangu." In 2002,

Sedana completed a Ph.D. in drama and

theater at the University of Georgia, with

a dissertation titled "Kawi Dalang: Crea-

tivity in Wayang Theatre."



Leon Potter (M.A., Asian Studies) and Hoa Le (Second Language

Studies) subtitling the Vietnamese film The Passarine Bird.

The Balinese Tempest is rehearsing now and is scheduled for

performance in late January and early February 2008..


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CSEAS Bulletin

Aloha from the Director

Aloha and greetings. I am very

pleased to report on the recent achieve-

ments of the Center for Southeast Asian

Studies.

The jewel in our crown for the

academic year 2006-07 was undoubtedly

the initiation of an ambitious subtitling

project for Southeast Asian film, whichwas conceived during our weekly

screenings of Southeast Asian films on

campus. The workshop was held last

summer, and the special class conducted

by John McGlynn (who came from Ja-

karta) resulted in the subtitling of ten

films from Southeast Asia which have

never been viewed overseas. In the first

stages of this project we see the distribu-

tion of these films to universities and

colleges as an important addition to the

teaching of Southeast Asian languagesand societies. We envisage, for example,

students and teachers becoming engaged

in electronically-conveyed conversations

about alternative translations or the

cultural significance of a particular scene

and so forth.

A second aspect of this project was

in terms of outreach, for by making new

films available we hope to literally reach

out to the community and attract

individuals who may not otherwise have

any knowledge or interest in Southeast

Asia. In this context, a highlight was the

screening of more than a dozen films

from Southeast Asia at the Hawaii

International Film Festival in October

2006. Supported by its NRC funding, the

Center was able to bring in ten directors,

producers and actors, and through ar-

rangements with the festival, to host

panel discussions after the film showings.

Several SEA films won prizes, the most

notable being the festivals Golden Or-

chid for Best Feature, which went to

Berbagi Suami (Love for Share), from

Indonesia. Director Nia Dinata and

actressJajang C. Noer were our guests.

Another significant film was Gubra (Anxi-

ety), from Malaysia, written and directedby Yasmin Ahmad. Producer Elyna

Shukri and actress Sharifah Amani

attended the festival, and last April the

Center organized a retrospective of all of

Ahmads films at the Honolulu Academy

of Arts. We were honored that Ahmad

herself found time in her busy schedule to

come to this retrospective, and the large

audiences who attended very much ap-

preciated her gracious and open re-

sponses to their questions. Among our

plans for future initiatives is the streamingof interviews and podcasts of talks with

Southeast Asian filmmakers on our re-

vamped website, which should be up and

running this Fall.

Despite the enormous amount of

work involved in putting this ambitious

program together, we did not neglect our

other academic programs. The Center is

working hard to build connections with

the professional schools, and in that re-

spect a new venture was a Fall 2006

seminar on natural disasters in Southeast

Asia, conducted by UHMs Department

of Urban and Regional Planning under

the direction of Michael Douglassand

James Spencer. It was truly amazing to

see how much expertise and experience

we had on campus related to all aspects of

earthquakes, hurricanes, and epidemics.

Greg Bankoff, from the University of

Auckland, a historian who has worked



INSIDE THIS ISSUE

1UPDATES

Aloha and Welcome. Conferencesand Papers, Research and Travel,

Awards and Fellowships for UHM

Faculty and Students.

IIOUTREACHSEA Film Series and Brown Bags,

Malaysian Film Retrospective and

a Film Festival Partnership.

III

PUBLICATIONSThe Flaming Womb Is Published,

Southeast Asian Literature Week,

Explorations.

IVINITATIVES

Subtitling Southeast Asian Film, A

Balinese Tempest, Islam and Asia

Photographic Series.

Fall 2007, Volume 11, No. 1


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extensively on natural disasters, especially

in the Philippines, was a valuable guest,

delivering several lectures and contribut-

ing to our ongoing brown bag lunchtime

talks.

If anything, the Spring semester was

even busier than the Fall, for we had nu-

merous visitors. The course on Literature

in Translation in Southeast Asia (IP 361),

for instance, brought in several overseas

guests; Alam Payind, Director of the

Center for Middle Eastern Studies at

The Ohio State University, gave several

presentations; Jonathan Rigg, from the

University of Durham, spent a week on

campus during which time he gave sev-

eral lectures, including the third in a spe-

cial School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pa-

cific Studies lecture series. Because of the

prominence of the Ilokano program at

the University of Hawaii, the Center

also contributed to the 2007 Nakem

Conference, this year held at Mariano

Marcos State University in the

Philippines.

One of the developments of which

we are especially proud is the initiative of

our graduate students, including our

FLAS recipients. This year we have is-

sued two volumes of Explorations, our

student journal, which is available on-

line. In addition, the Centers graduate

assistant, Anthony Medrano, was suc-

cessful in obtaining a grant from

the Hawaii Council for the Hu-

manities which enabled him (with

the support of Punahou School as

a home base) to mount a traveling

exhibition of photos on Muslim

Asia, which toured various

schools on Oahu. We are most

grateful to Punahou School and

Terrina Wong, Program Coor-dinator at the Wo International

Center, for their support in this

endeavor.

We are also grateful to Terrina,

the Freeman Foundation and the

State Department of Education for pro-

viding opportunities for myself and Mu-

hammad Ali, who has just completed

his Ph.D. in history, to conduct a work-

shop on Islam in Southeast Asia for

schoolteachers so that they feel confident

when teaching the new standards andbenchmarks.

I would also like to comment on a

further development in relation to the

award of FLAS grants. The Center con-

tinues to support the concept of a Sum-

mer Institute for Southeast Asian Studies,

which, over the last twenty years, has

made a significant contribution to teach-

ing about this part of the world.

However, we also believe that

there are now enhanced

opportunities for students to

spend their summer in-country at

approved language schools where

they can also benefit from living

in the relevant culture. In Sum-

mer 2007, we therefore used the

equivalent of three FLAS grants

to support language study for five

students (two in Indonesia, one in

Malaysia, two in Thailand).

Finally, I should express our delight

that two new faculty members, Ehito

(Political Science) and Aya Kimura

(Sociology/Womens Studies), will be

joining us in the Fall. As Indonesian spe-

cialists, they will enhance our program

considerably and will be of special benefit

to the growing number of Indonesian

students on our campus.

The schedule for the new academic

year is already filling up with a list of

exciting projects, including a Balinese

adaptation of Shakespeares The Tempest,

by resident guest artist Larry Reed, who

uses a giant screen and live performers to

create a shadow theater performance.

This will be managed under the direction

of Kirstin Pauka, who will also be serv-

ing as Acting Director while I am awayon sabbatical (until July 2008). Indeed,

when I looked at the list of events for the

coming twelve months, I was almost (not

quite) tempted to cancel my leave!

In closing, I wish to express my

heartfelt appreciation to the Executive

Board of our Center, which continues to

offer invaluable advice and support. I

would like to record my gratitude to the

Center staff of course, Paul Rausch,

and Anthony Medrano (to whom we

bid a fond farewell as he settles into hisnew position with Ohio Universitys

Southeast Asia program), but especially to

Helen Lee, our long-suffering secretary

and to the Schools fiscal officers, Myra

Yamamoto and Joyce Morikuni,

whose patience and advice has made it

possible to bring our ambitious plans to

fruition.

To all those who helped make the

past year such a success, I again offer my

sincere thanks.

BARBARA WATSON ANDAYA



Alam Payind, Director of the Center for Middle Eastern

Studies at Ohio State University.

Sapril Akmady and Anthony Medrano, co-curators of the

Islamic Cultures Photo Exhibit.


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Faculty News and ActivitiesBarbara Watson Andaya, Directorof the Center for Southeast AsianStudies and Professor of Asian Studies,has had a full year of activities andcommitments. She participated in threeconferences in Washington, Finland, andHawaii, respectively. In Washington, shepresented a paper at the NRC Directors

Confe rence entitled, Cha llen ges andRewards of Administering an NRCgrant. In Finland, Professor Andaya reada paper titled, Oceans Connect? AsianStudies in a Globalizing Era. In Hawaii,she presented a paper at the 2007Indonesian Conference and CulturalEvent enti tled , Dive rsit y and State Pol-icy: Placing Indonesia in a Global Frame-work. In addition, Andaya recentlypublished The Flaming Womb: Reposition-ing Women in Southeast Asian Histor ythrough University of Hawaii Press. Shealso had an article entitled, OceansUnbounded: Transversing Asia acrossArea Studies in the Journa l of As ianStudies and Studying Women and

Gender in Southeast Asia: A State ofthe Art Essay in the International

Journa l of A si an Stud ie s.

Aside from her teaching, she main-tain s a busy administr ative schedul eas well as hosting guests and oversee-ing campus activities related toSoutheast Asia. She continues towork with colleagues and with theAsia Society on developing a curricu-lum for teaching Islam in SoutheastAsia to schools. She has made threetrips to Thailand in her role as chairof a committee evaluating the AsianScholarship Fellowship foundation,which will now come under the pa-

tronage of HRH Princess MahaChakri Sirin dhorn of Thaila nd.Andaya is currently the Raff les Chai rin the Department of Hist ory. Durin gher sabbatical leave from August 2007to July 2008 she will be working on ahistory of Early Modern SoutheastAsia and researching her currentproject, a history of minorityChristian communities in SoutheastAsia.

Belinda Aquino, Director of theCenter for Philippine Studies andProfessor of Asian Studies, has had abusy year serving as a member of theFi l ip ino Celebration Centennial

Comm iss i on . She chaire d anInte rnati onal Confe rence on theHawai i Filipino Centennial . The themeof the conference was The FilipinoCentury Beyond Hawaii. Aquino alsoorga nized the panel, Revi sitin g Ha-napepe and presented a paper entitled,Understanding the Hanapepe Massa-cre. In addition, she was invited by theCommission on Filipinos Overseas, Ma-nila, to deliver a series of lectures basedon the Hawaii Filipino Centennial.Aquino presented papers at severalinstitutions and universities in the

Philippines including the University ofthe Philippines, University of NorthernPhilippines, St. Louis College, CebuNormal University, and the Departmentof Foreign Affairs.

Aside from her teaching and lecturing,Aquino also edited One Hundred Yearsand Beyon d and authored an articl e enti-tled, The Filipino Century in Hawaii:Out of the Crucible. Moreover, shechaired and presented a paper at theA s soc i a t i o n f o r A s i a n S t u d i e sConfe rence in Bos ton. The titl e of thepane l was Con stitu tiona l Chang e in theP h i l i p p i n e s : I s F e d e r a l i s m -Parliamentarism the Answer? Aquinoalso presented a paper at the FirstNational Philippine Studies Conferencein Japan. In her adminis trati ve role, sheis on the steering committee for the2008 International Philippine StudiesConference, which will be held in Ma-nila.

Michael Aung-Thwin, Professor ofAsian Studies, presented a paper at theA s soc i a t i o n f o r A s i a n S t u d i e sConfe rence on the Burmese StudiesGroup Pane l entitle d In the Eyes of theBeholder. He also gave a paper at theBurma Studies Colloquium in Singaporeon the Plenary Session on an aspect ofthe colloquiums theme Communities ofInterpretation. Aung-Thwin was invited

to give a lecture on his latest book,titled The Mists of Ramanna: the Legendthat was Lower Burma , at Harvard Uni-versitys Center for the Study of WorldReligions.

J a c k B i l m e s , P r o f e s s o r o f Anthropology, has an article coming outentitled, Kinship Categor ies in a Nor th-ern Thai Narr ative . It will appea r in theedited book, Conversation Analysis: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives. Bilmes will presentan abbreviated version of this paper atthe 2007 meeting of the InternationalPragmatics Association in Gothenburg.

Robert Blust, Professor of Linguistics,recently published several works,including Whence the Malays? in JamesT. Collins and Awang Sariyan, eds., Bor-neo and the Homeland of the Malays: FourEssays.

William Chapman, Professor ofAmerican Studies, has had a productiveacademic year. To begin, he received a

Fulbright Senior Specialist Award in2006 for research in Thailand. He alsoauthored several chapters related toSoutheast Asia, including two for theEncyclopedia of the Modern World, onetitled, Architecture: Southeast Asia,and the other chapter entit led, Art :Southeast Asia. Chapman presented apaper at the International Conference,Architecture in the Land of Suvarnab-humi. He also read a paper enti tled ,Genrif icat ion, Conservation andEconomic Development: What Can WeLearn for Rattanakosins Future? atthe International Symposium on Archi-tecture and Human Rights, held inBangkok. Over the course of the

academic year, Chapman also gavelectures on Conservation and Archi-tecture in Southeast Asia at theUniversity of Oxford, England, theUniversity of York, England, and Kaset-sart University, Thailand.Michael Douglass, Director of theGlobalization Research Center andProfessor of Urban and Planning, or-ganized several panels in 2006,including Globalization and LivableCities in Pacific Asia: The Rise of CivilSociety and the Social Production ofCivic Space at the Third InternationalConfere nce of the Globalizati onStudies Network held in Kuala Lumpur,

Malaysia. He was also the keynotespeaker at the International Sympo-sium on Planning for Livable Cities:

International Comparative Perspectiveson Vietn am held at the Institu te ofEconomic Research in Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam. Douglass has also edited aspecial issue of International DevelopmentPlanning Review with articles on globalhouseholding in East and Southeast Asia.He has several chapters coming out in2007, including The Livability of Mega-Urban Regions in Southeast Asia in G.Jon es and M. Doug lass , ed s. , The Rise of



Michael Gardner (History, UHM) and Professor Belinda

Aquino.


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Globalization of Householding and SocialReproduction in Pacific Asia, in Philip-pine Studies. As director of the GRC,Douglass has secured several grants forresearch concerning community andcivic space in Southeast Asia.Uli Kozok, Coordinator of theIndonesian Language Program andProfessor of Indonesian, presented apaper entitled, Two Malay Legal Codesfrom the 14th and 18th Centuries atthe ASEAUK 2006 Conference inOxford. He also participated in aninternational workshop on archaeologyand ethnohistory in the highlands ofSumatra. His paper was titled, The Arri-val of Islam and its Implementations forthe Legal System in Kerinci. As thecoordinator of the Indonesian languageprogram, Kozok read a paper at theannual COTIM meeting in Madison. Hispaper titled was Online and Offline:Newly Developed Teachi ng Materi als forAdvanced Indonesian. Moreover, he wasappointed Senior Fellow at the Asia

Research Institute, National Universityof Singapore, for the months of July toDecember 2007.

Will C. McClatchey, Professor ofBotany, presented a paper at the BotanySymposium Series (UHM) entitled,Biodiversity and Biocognosy of Phutaiin Northeaste rn Thail and. He also wasthe keynote speaker at Khon KaenUnive rsit y in Thail and, where he spokeon natural pharm. In Chiang Mai,McClatchey was an invited organizer andprese nter at the annual meeting of theSociety for Economic Botany. He hasrecently conducted research in Thailandas a Fulbright Fellow.

Michael Pietrusewsky, Professor ofAnthropology, presented a paper in Ma-nila at the 18th Congress of the Indo-Paci fic Prehistor y Assoc iati on. He alsopublished two chapters, one in Bioar-chaeology of Southeast Asia and the otherin Aust ron es ian Diaspora and the Ethno-

gens is of Peo ple in the Indonesian Arch ipel-ago.

Pietrusewskys recent research includesthe metric study of Negrito andSoutheast Asian cranial series at theMusee de lHomme in Paris and continu-ing laboratory analysis of human skeletalremains from Angkor Borei in Cambodia.

Peter Xenos, EWC and Professor ofSociology, is coordinating with MichaelDouglass (GRC) a summer seminar onLivable Cities in Pacific Asia: ResearchMethods for Policy Analysis. The par-ticipants will mostly be drawn fromSoutheast Asia and Vietnam, in part icular.

Student and Alumni NewsMargaret B. Bodemer,Anthropology, received a Fulbright HaysDoctoral Dissertation Research AbroadAward, 2006-2007, in H anoi, Vietnam.Her research is being conducted at theVietnam Museum of Ethnology. In 2006,Bodemer attended SEASSI to studyVietnamese as a FLAS fellow.

Herman Kelen, Asian Studies 06, isworking for PIKUL, a local NGO basedin Kupang, Indonesia. As PIKULs Hu-manitarian Coordinator, Kelen is respon-sible for not only coordinating emer-gency relief efforts but also managingprojects related to disaster prepared-

ness. In the meantime, Kelen is continu-ing to conduct research on food securityand drought in two districts in EastNusa Tenggara Province.

Sean Blundon, Asian Studies 06, iscurrently the Theater Security Coopera-tion Program Manager for SoutheastAsia at Headquarters, U.S. Army Pacific,Fort Shafter. Since September 2006, hehas made five trips to the region, coor-dinating exercises and meetings in thePh i l ipp ines , Indones ia , S ingapore,Malaysia, Vietnam, and Cambodia.

Shawn Fehrenbach, Anthropology,received a 2006-07 and a 2007-08 FLAS

fellowship for the study of Khmer.Fehrenbach recently presented apaper at the 2007 SHAPS GraduateStudent Conference and was also amember of the Explorations editorialboard.

Tur ro Se l r i t s Wong ka ren ,Sociology, is writing his MA thesis onIndonesian economic visions, while com-pleting coursework for the Ph.D. inSociology. Wongkaren also works atthe East West Center on a project withProfessor Andrew Mason. He pre-sented a paper entitled The New Or-der, Priyayi Culture and Capitalist Classin Indonesi a at the Ameri can Sociolo gi-

cal Association mee ting in New York.

Nathan Camp, Asian Studies 02, isworking for Volunteers in Asia in SanFrancisco as the Indonesia ProgramDirector. Camp helps recruit, train,place, and support volunteers for twoin-country programs. As part of hiswork, Camp travelled to Thailand to helprun training and to Indonesia to visitvolunteers, investigate new partnershipsand assess various elements of theprograms. Camp can be conta cted atviaprograms.org.

Pandit Chanrochanakit, Ph.D. inPolitical Science 06, works as a lecturerin the faculty of Political Science atRamkhamhaeng University in Bangkok.He teaches Research and Methods andPolitical Theory. He is also an editor forVibhasa magazine, which publishes arti-cles in the fields of cultu ral studies , thehumanities, and the social sciences.

Dan Brown, Second Language Studies,received a FLAS fellowship for the studyof Thai in 2006-2 007. He co-pre sente d a

paper entitled Local Resources for aLocal Context: Challenges to EnglishLanguage Teach ing Policy in Thail and att h e SHA PS Gra du a t e S t u den tConfe rence in 2007. He also read thesame paper at the International Societyfor Language Studies Conference inHonolulu. In Summer 2007, Dan taughtEnglish in Thailand at Ubon RajathaneeUniversity in northeastern Thailand.

Adam Young-Knowl ton , AsianStudies 04, was awarded a researchgrant in 2004-05 to edit his MAMA the-sis at the International Institute of AsianStud ies in Leiden, the Nether land s. Withthe support ofMark Valencia, former

Senior Research Fellow at the East WestCenter and IIAS this manuscript wasrecently published by ISEAS (Institutefor Southeas t Asian Studie s) inSingapore: Contemporary Maritime Piracyin Southeast Asia: History, Cause andRemedies . He now works in dispu teresolution at North Shore CommunityMediation in Beverly, MA.

LeeRay Costa, Ph.D. in Anthropology01, is currently a professor ofAnthropology and Womens Studies atHoll ins Universi ty, in Roanoke, VA. InFebruary, LeeRay co-published Mal eBodies, Womens Souls: Personal Narrativesof Thailands Transgendered Youth. It fo-

cuses on the lives and personal narra-tives of Thai sao braphet song (alsoknown as kathoey). She also had an arti-cle accepted for publication by AsianStudies Review entitled Gender, Sexual-ity and Nationalism in a Northern ThaiNon -Govern men t a l Organ i z a t i on .LeeRay earned tenure and was pro-moted to Associate Professor in 2007.


CSEASBULLETIN,SPRING 2007 www.hawaii.edu/cseasFaculty, students and staff at a brown bag lunch presentation for Islamic Cultures in Reflection: A

Southeast Asia Photograph Exhibition.


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Ashton Udall, Asian Studies 04, is apartner in the product development andsourcing firm Global Sourcing Special-ists . He lives in San Fran cisco and at-tends MBA classes at Santa Clara

University.

Tu Anh T. Vu , Anthropology, willpresent a paper entitled TraditionalRitual Made Modern: Paper Money Burn-ing (Vang Ma) in Hanoi, Vietn am at the16th Annual Harvard Project for Asianand International Relations Conferencein Beijing. Among other conferences, shealso published an article titled The

Mothe r Goddes s: The DaoMau Movement in NorthernVietnam in the journal Ex-plorations. Tu was awarded aGSO travel grant to presenta paper in Singapore, as wellas a scholarship from theGovernme nt of Vietna m(2006-2010). She also serveda s p r e s i d e n t o f t h eVietnamese Student Associa-tion of Hawaii.

James Rae, Ph.D. in Politi-cal Science 06, is an assistantprofessor of Government atCalifornia State University atSacramento, teaching courseso n w o r l d p o l i t i c s ,international organization,international law, and thepolitics of Asia. This summer

he will continue his research inSoutheast Asia, observing the parliamen-tary elections in East Timor and visitingIndonesia.

Lance Nolde, History, was awardedthe Moscotti Travel Grant for fieldresearch in Southeast Sulawesi and a2007-08 FLAS fellowship for the studyof Indonesian. He presented a paperentitled Fluid Cartographies: OrangLaut and Sama-Bajau Conceptions ofSpace and Territoriality at the SHAPSGraduate Student Conference in 2007.He also read a paper at the 2007 EWC

Graduate Student Conference titled Onthe Margins of Nationhood: the OrangLaut and Sama-Bajau of Southeast Asia.Nolde also served on the editorialboard ofExplorations .

Stephen Acabado, Anthropology,received several awards and fellowshipsthis academic year, including a NationalScience Foundation Dissertation Im-proveme nt Grant, an ACLS/Lu ce Founda-tion Dissertation Fellowship, and a UHArts and Sciences Advisory CouncilAward. Acabado also co-organized thesession Trade, Social Interaction, andPolitical Economy in Southeast AsianArchaeology at the Indo-Pacific Prehis-tory Association Meeting in Manila. Atthe conference, he presented a paperentitled Landscape and Social Organiza-tion: The Socia l Organi zation of theIfugao, Northern Luzon, Philippines.Acabado will be conducting fieldworkthis summer at the rice terraces in Ifu-gao province, Philippines.

Steve Rehermann, Asian Studies 03,is currently Country Program Directorfor Sub-Saharan Africa at the DefenseSecu rity Cooper ation Agenc y, Offic e ofthe Secretary of Defense. He also ac-quired a second masters degree fromTufts University.

AwardsThe Center for Southeast AsiaPaper Prize is awarded for the bestpaper on a Southeast Asian theme pre-

sented at the SHAPS Graduate StudentConfe rence held each spring semeste r.The 2007 paper pri ze of $100 wasawarded to Noah Viernes (Ph.D.progra m, Depar tment of Politica lScience) for his paper titled Life Trans-missi on: New Thai Cine ma and the Poli-tics of Aesthetics.

The Albert Moscotti GraduateStudent Travel Award is presentedannually to a top graduate student in aSoutheast Asian related field of study toassist with travel costs associated withfield work or language study inSoutheast Asia. The years award of$1,000 was presented to Lance Nolde(MA program, Asian Studies), for his fieldwork in Indonesia in Summer 2007.

The Nguyen Dang Liem Prize inVietnamese Studies is awardedannually to the best paper on Vietnam ateith er under grad uate or graduate level.The 2007 prize of $100 was awarded toLeon Potter (Asian Studies) for hispaper on the Cham language.

FellowshipsForeign Langua ge and AreaStu dies Fello wshi ps (FLA S)Southeast Asia, 2006-2007 FLAS

Fellowships for 2006-2007 providedstipend and tuition for full time, UHMregistered, U.S. citizen or permanentresident graduate students enrolled in aformal program of intensive SoutheastAsian langu age study in the countr y oftheir language focus.

CSEAS awarded academic year FLAS to:

Cy Calugay, Anthropology, FilipinoBryce Beemer, History, ThaiShawn Fehrenbach Anthropology, KhmerLance Nolde

History, IndonesianMary Conran, Anthropology, Thai

Erwin Legaspi,Asian Studies. Filipino

Trinh Nguyen Theatre, Vietnamese

Ju lie Osborn History, Vietnamese

Noah ViernesPolitical S cience, Thai

Dan Labarca, Asian S tudies, FilipinoGeoff Ashton, Philosophy, ThaiDan Brown

Second Lang uage Studie s, Thai

CSEAS awarded Summer 2007 FLAS to:

Andrea Bertoli,

Political Science/Womens Studies,IndonesianMary Conran, Anthropology, ThaiMichael Gardner,

Asian Studies, IndonesianAnthony Medrano,

Asian Studies, MalayNoah Viernes, Political S cience, Thai



Barbara Andaya Watson meets with HRH Princess Maha Chakri

Sirindhorn of Thailand.

Dr. Jonathon Rigg, Reader, Department of Geography at

University of Durham (UK), gave the SHAPS Public

Lecture An Everyday Geography of the Global South.


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Outreach News and Activities

SEA Film SeriesNow in its fourth year, the Center's

popular Southeast Asian Film Series con-

tinues to build a loyal following of regular

film attendees from both the universityand local communities The series has

showcased, often for the first time in Ha-

waii, more than seventy-five subtitled

films which span the diverse and dynamic

landscape of cinema in Southeast Asia.

This fall, the program of film will

include The Story of Po (Vietnam, Quang

Hai Ngo),Mekong Full Moon Party (Thai-

land,Jira Maligool), the epic film Cour-

tesan (Indonesia, Nia Dinata),Indio Na-cional(Philippines, Raya Martin),

Me...Myself (Thailand, Pongpat Wa-

chirabunjong) in addition to films from

Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Vietnam

and Cambodia!

SEA Brown BagsThe Centers series of brown bag

discussions continued to act as a forum

for current research and intellectual ex-

change. In 2006, we had a compelling

and diverse array of presenters ranging

from a Khmer music performance to a

visual history of Indonesia during the

Soeharto years. A complete list has been

provided below:

September 15: An Afternoon of Tradi-tional Khmer Music with Rina Deth(Cambodia Association of Hawaii)

September 29: Bio-fuel and Food Secu-rity in East Nusa Tenggara Province,Indonesia by Herman Kelen (AsianStudies, UHM)

Octob er 13: A Personal Experien ce ofTraveling to Egypt and Researching theMuslim Brotherhood by Mefi Herma-wanti (Political Science, UHM)

October 20: Scripture and Literature in

Indonesian Islam: Some Modern Debatesby Michael Feener (History, NUS)

October 27: Winds of Colonization: TheMeteorological Contours of Spains Im-perium in the Pacific, 1521-1898 by GregBankoff (History, University of Auckland)

November 17: Off the Market? MissingLinks in Community-Based SustainableDevelopment Initiatives by Carol Warren(Anthropology, University of WesternAustralia)

Januar y 26 : Sl avery as a Vect or forCultu ral Excha nge: The Case of Pre-colonial Burma and Thailand by Bryce

Beemer (History, UHM)

February 9: Introducing Islam to SchoolChildren through Music: Examples fromPalestine, Turkey, Persia, and SoutheastAsia by Chet-Yeng Loong (Music, UHM)

Febru ary 23: From Tsuna mis to Coups:Covering Southeast Asia for the Associ-ated Press by David Briscoe (APHonolulu Bureau)

March 14: Library of Congress HoldingsPertaining to Southeast Asia by KathrynWellen (Library of Congress)

March 20: Indon esia in the Soeha rto

Years: Issues, Incidents and Images byJohn H. McGlynn (Lontar Foundation ,Jaka rt a)

Apr il 18: The Makin g of Wealth and Pov-erty in Laos by Jonathon Rigg (Geogra-phy, University of Durham, UK)

Apri l 27: Understanding Dynami cResource Management Systems and LandCover Transitions in Montane MainlandSoutheast Asia by Jefferson Fox(Environmental Studies Program, EWC)

Upcoming Brown Bags

Sept ember 14: Bali nese Dance by Nyo-man Sumandhi (Theater, IndonesianInstitute of the Arts)

September 28: Vietnam Spirit Culturesby Liam C. Kelley (Hi story, UHM)

Oct ober 5: Tai Ric e Cul ture by JohnHartman (Thai , Northern I l l inoisUniversity)

October 26: Indian Ocean Trade Net-working by Kenneth R. Hall (History, BallState University)

Novemb er 2: Histo ry, Memor y, and

Cultural Change in Bajo Communities ofSoutheast Sulawesi in Indonesia by LanceNolde (History, UHM)

November 16: Philippe M.F. Peycam(Center for Khmer Studies, Siem Riep).



From the Centers special series Islamic

Cultures in Reflection: A Southeast Asia

Photograph Exhibition.

Professor Chet-Yeng Loong (Music, UHM) pre-

sented a brown bag entitled Introducing Islam to

School Children through Music: Examples from

Palestine, Turkey, Persia, and Southeast Asia.

Join us at the Korean Studies Building on

Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. for the films!


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Malaysian Retrospective

The Center for Southeast Asian

Studies hosted Malaysian director and

master storyteller Yasmin Ahmad for a

retrospective of her films, which screened

at the Honolulu Academy of Arts in

April 2007. The films featured included

Rabun, Sepet, Gubra, and the North

American premiere of Mukhsin, which

won the grand prize of the Deutsche Kin-

derhilfswerk (German Child Support Or-

ganisation) for Best Feature Film in the

Kplus category competition at the 57th

Berlin International Film Festival earlier

in 2007.

This rare weekend provided the

Hawaii community with a fantastic

opportunity to engage the filmmaker in a

series of informal discussions ranging

from her experiences as a Muslim woman

making film to her philosophy on film-

making and storytelling that encourages

dialog and reflection not so much on the

differences we have as human beings, but

those shared experiences that hopefully

build bridges of understanding between

people.

The retrospective was supported by

a grant from the US Department of

Education as part of the Centers educa-

tional outreach mission.

Center Launches

Film Festival Program

With a mandate to provide access to

resources that highlight the dynamic re-

gion of Southeast Asia in schools and

communities across the country, the

Center for Southeast Asian Studies

launched a new initiative to develop a

Southeast Asian film program at the

University of Hawaii beginning in fall

2006. The starting point for this fledgling

program was a new partnership

with the Hawaii InternationalFilm Festival that was designed to

highlight the cinema of

Southeast Asia.

The partnership was devel-

oped in the belief that film pro-

vides an engaging form of com-

municating culture across bor-

ders, and as the very nature of a

film festival is to provide the

venue for this type of educational

activity, the partnership with the

Hawaii International Film Festival was

seen as a way to help position both the

Center and HIFF as leaders in bringing

new and engaging film and film industry

leaders from Southeast Asia into focus in

the US.

Over the course of the festival the

Center hosted a number of directors,

actors, producers, archivists, and film

critics who engaged in educational

forums following selected films. All

told there were 23 films with

Southeast Asian themes, 15 of which

were feature films from Southeast

Asia.

Much to the great joy of

Southeast Asian film fans at the

festival, films from the region

garnered three of the top festival

awards, including Love For Share

(Indonesia, Nia Dinata) which

captured the Golden Orchid for Best

Feature Film. The film tells three loosely

connected stories about polygamy in

modern Indonesia. Other award winners

with Southeast Asia roots included 4:30,

(Singapore, Royston Tan) about a latch-

key kid who steals from his family's ten-

ant. which took home the NETPAC

Award for Best Asian Film. Majidee



Yasmin Ahmad (r) is interviewed by UHM Professor

Wimal Dissanayake at the Honolulu Design Center.

Director Romeo Candido and Actress Phoemela

Baranda from the Filipino horror film ANG

PAMANA: THE INHERITANCE.

CSEAS Associate Director Paul Rausch, Indonesian Director

Nia Dinata, HIFF Film Programmer Christian Razukas,

and Bee Thiam Tan of the Singapore Film Archive.

Indonesian Actress Jajang C. Noer (r) with Hawaii Governor

Linda Lingle at the Governors Official Residence.


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The Flaming Womb:

Repositioning Women

in Southeast Asian

History. Honolulu:

University of Hawaii

Press, 2006

Center Director and Professor Bar-

bara Watson Andaya published The

Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Early

Modern Southeast Asia.

"The Princess of the Flaming

Womb," the Javanese legend that intro-

duces this pioneering study, symbolizes

the ambiguities attached to femaleness in

Southeast Asian societies. Despite these

ambiguities, the relatively egalitarian

nature of male-female relations in

Southeast Asia is central to arguments

claiming a coherent identity for the re-

gion.

Erudite, Nuanced, and Accessible

Deemed a masterful and

tightly-argued work by Choice and a

must read for Southeast Asianists by

Pacific Affairs, Andayas book considers

such contradictions while offering a

thought-provoking view of Southeast

Asian history that focuses on womens

roles and perceptions. She explores the

broad themes of the early modern era

(15001800)the introduction of new

religions, major economic shifts, chang-

ing patterns of state control, the impact

of elite lifestyles and behaviorsdraw-

ing on an extraordinary range of

sources and citing numerous examples

from Thai, Vietnamese, Burmese, Phil-

ippine and Malay societies. In the

process, she provides a timely and inno-vative model for putting women back

into world history.

Southeast Asian

Literature Week

In April, the Center and the

Department of Hawaiian and Indo-

Pacific Languages and Literature pre-

sented a week of activities and events

focused on Southeast Asian Literature.The literary week began with a Southeast

Asian Writers Panel on History as Lit-

erature, Literature as History.

The writers panel was followed by a

Filipino Writers Summit. Featured writers

included Maria Josephine Barrios, R.

Zamora Linmark, Ninotchka Rosca,

Michelle Cruz Skinner, Francis

Tanglao-Aguas, Marianne Vil-

lanueva, as well as local Hawaii writers

andKatipunan Literary Journalcontributors.Shifting from writing to performance, the

third event was entitled The Sarimanok

Travels: An Epic Filipino American Ex-

perience by Francis Tanglao-Aguas.

The final event was an

engaging lecture by Trisilpa

Boonkhachorn of Chula-

longkorn University titled

Thailands Southern Fire: A

Thai Literary Perspective.

Explorations: AGraduate

Student Journal

of Southeast

Asian Studies

Explorations published two issues

in 2007. Under the capable

guidance of its editors, Bryce

Beemer and Kelli Swazey,

Explorations published a record number of

articles addressing themes as diverse as

architecture in Singapore to the politics of

ethnicity in southern Thailand.

In addition to the hard work put

forth by its editors, Explorations also had a

committed editorial staff. Members

included Shawn Fehrenbach, An-thony Medrano, Lance Nolde, and

Elise Thomasson. Faculty advisors

were Barbara Watson Andaya and

Liam Kelley. The CSEAS coordinator

was Paul Rausch.



SEA Literature in Translation Conference participants (front)

Ruth Mabonglo, Barbara Watson Andaya, Yuphaphann Hoon-

chamlong and (back) Chhany Sak-Humphry, Maria Josephine

Barrios, George Chigas, U Sam Oeur and Trisilpa Boonkhachorn.Back issues of Explorations are available for down-

load on the CSEAS website.


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Subtitling

Southeast Asian Film

Spring 2007 saw the introduction of

an innovative course designed to train

advanced language students in the art of

subtitling film from Southeast Asia. WithHawaiis community language strength

in Thai, Lao, Indonesian, Malay, Khmer,

Filipino, Burmese, and Vietnamese, and

with an increasing amount of film being

produced in Southeast Asia, the Center

developed a course to provide advanced

language students with another skill set to

take with them after graduation and to

produce subtitled films for use in a variety

of outreach activities.

Seminar Class

The course began with a ten week

seminar on translation for film subtitling

taught by accomplished

t r a n s l a t o r J o h n

McGlynn, Editor-in-

Chief of the Jakarta-

based Lontar Founda-

tion. For the length of

the 17-week course

students were paired in

teams comprised of a

native speaker of a film's

S o u t h e a s t A s i a n

language and an

advanced language

student in the films

language (who is also a

native English speaker).

The teams successfully

translated film scripts from five languages

(Burmese, Thai, Vietnamese, Filipino,

Malay and Indonesian) and then

produced time-coded English subtitles on

dialogue sheets that were then applied to

the films during an intensive end-of-the-

semester workshop using specialized

subtitling software.

Bringing Film to the World

The final subtitled films will be

available for classroom use, ongoing

community outreach efforts, and to add

to the library collection of Southeast

Asian films both in Hawaii and on the

Mainland. Aside from its value as profes-

sional skill development, one of the long

term goals of the project is to build coop-

erative relationships with Southeast Asian

filmmakers and film archivists. Adding

subtitles to their feature films, docu

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