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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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Poster for Spinning Gasing from the
Spring 2007 Film Series.
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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
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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-
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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."
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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
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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
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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.
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Alam Payind, Director of the Center for Middle Eastern
Studies at Ohio State University.
Sapril Akmady and Anthony Medrano, co-curators of the
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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
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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.
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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
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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).
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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
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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.
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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