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September 20, 2007
History: Regions, Elites, and Literatis, the Formation of Vietnam in a Southeast Asian Context
John K. Whitmore, Department of History, U-M
In conjunction with SEAS 501, our graduate student introduction to Southeast Asian Studies, this public lecture series on the "state of the field" in Southeast Asian Studies features talks by members of the U-M faculty and distinguished visitors.
7:00-8:30pm, 2609 SSWB

September 21, 2007
AIDS Activism in Thailand: Voices from the struggle over access to treatment
Paisan Suwannawong, Thai AIDS Treatment Action Group (TTAG), Bangkok
Karyn Kaplan, Thai AIDS Treatment Action Group (TTAG), Bangkok
People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA's) in Thailand face challenges from both outside the country and from within Thai society. The Thai Ministry of Health has famously exercised its rights under the World Trade Organization treaty to issue compulsory licenses allowing Thailand to produce generic HIV/AIDS medications. Yet multinational pharmaceutical companies have chosen to withdraw promising treatments from the market rather than comply with these licenses, limiting access to treatment for Thai PLWHA's. At the same time, with over 50% of Thailand's PLWHA community coming from among injection drug users, Thai government "get tough" on drugs policies and Thai cultural attitudes to drug use create formidable barriers to accessing treatment as well. AIDS activists and co-founders of the Thai AIDS Treatment Action Group (TTAG) Paisan Suwannawong and Karyn Kaplan will discuss their efforts on AIDS activism that has led them from Thai villages to the streets of Bangkok to the podium at the International AIDS Conferences in Thailand and Canada.
12:00pm, 1636 SSWB

September 27, 2007
Economics: Southeast Asia, Inside and Out
Linda Lim, Ross School of Business, CSEAS Director
Dean Yang, Gerald Ford School of Public Policy
In conjunction with SEAS 501, our graduate student introduction to Southeast Asian Studies, this public lecture series on the "state of the field" in Southeast Asian Studies features talks by members of the U-M faculty and distinguished visitors.
7:00-8:30pm, 2609 SSWB

September 28, 2007
Mystical Transfers, Spanish and Filipino: A Heretical Version of Globalization
Smita Lahiri, Harvard University
Anthropological critiques of the local/global binary have primarily been elaborated in relation to recent instances of political-economic integration across world areas. My talk makes use of critical insights from the anthropology of globalization to illuminate a rather far-removed instance of cultural transmission: the appropriation of a sixteenth-century Spanish nun's heterodox visions by a millenarian sect in the twentieth-century Philippines. Drawing on my research at the famously sacred Mt. Banahaw in Southern Luzon, I will suggest that the mystical phenomenon of "bilocation" offers an apt metaphor for analyzing Christianity's world-historical articulation at various times and places, and one that offers some advantages over a more prevalent strategy employed by anthropologists of reason, namely that of identifying local responses to global religious forms.
12:00pm, 1636 SSWB

October 4, 2007
Politics and Planning: Bangkok and Manila
Allen Hicken, Department of Political Science, U-M
Gavin Shatkin, School of Urban Planning, U-M
In conjunction with SEAS 501, our graduate student introduction to Southeast Asian Studies, this public lecture series on the "state of the field" in Southeast Asian Studies features talks by members of the U-M faculty and distinguished visitors.
7:00-8:30pm, 2609 SSWB

October 11, 2007
Researching the Religious: Roman Catholicism and Theravada Buddhism
Deirdre de la Cruz, Michigan Society of Fellows
Erik Davis, University of Chicago
In conjunction with SEAS 501, our graduate student introduction to Southeast Asian Studies, this public lecture series on the "state of the field" in Southeast Asian Studies features talks by members of the U-M faculty and distinguished visitors.
7:00-8:30pm, 2609 SSWB

October 12, 2007
Foodgetting, Ritual, and Values in Cambodia
Erik Davis, University of Chicago
TBD
12:00pm, 1636 SSWB

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