UBC Southeast Asia

04/25/2022

No shortage of interesting events!

Folks, CSEAR is organising a fully in-person roundtable event on overseas Filipinos and the Philippines elections on April 29th.


The Philippines has one of the largest diasporic populations in the world, with a significant proportion of overseas Filipinos calling Canada home. With the May 9 elections approaching, this is an opportunity for us to consider the ways in which the overseas Filipino has engaged with and shaped political and social developments in the Philippines. How do the overseas Filipino vote? How have they mobilized and campaigned for candidates? How have social networks and the two-way flow of ideas between overseas Filipinos and Filipinos in the Philippines converged to shape electoral outcomes? And how will the results of the May 9 elections affect Canada-Philippines relations? These are some of the questions that the roundtable hopes to address.


Registration link: https://bit.ly/3xwO1Bn

Day and time: April 29th 2022, 4-5.30pm PST

Location:

C.K. Choi Building Room 120, University of British Columbia

(this event is in-person only)

Panelists:

Dr Dada Docot, Assistant Professor (Anthropology) at Purdue University

Teilhard Paradela, PhD Candidate (History) at the University of British Columbia

Erie Maestro, Community Activist

Moderator:

Phebe Ferrer, Senior Research Specialist at the Asia Pacific Foundation

03/20/2022

Join us on March 25th 2022, from 3pm PST onwards, as CSEAR together with the UBC Department of History hosts an in-person movie screening of 'Pesantren (A Boarding School)’. The screening will be followed by a roundtable discussion. Snacks and refreshment will be provided between the movie screening and the roundtable discussion!


Pesantren (A Boarding School) offers rare access inside an Islamic boarding school, and an insight into a traditional educational system that fosters good character-building based on a peaceful religious teaching that has been practiced in Indonesia for centuries. Raising their students to respect and to have compassion towards others despite their differences, these schools are Indonesia’s last defense in the face of today’s rising extremism.

Amidst the cultural and religious backgrounds, Pesantren aims to present a more universal story, about young people who are struggling to overcome their limitations to reach their goals and dreams. The film attempts to raise awareness of the role of religion and culture in society, and to enhance social and personal sensitivity towards social contexts and its consequences. It also aims to encourage dialogues on tolerance, diversity, and inclusion in society.



The movie screening will be followed by a roundtable discussion. Shalahuddin Siregar (movie director), Okky Madasari (Novelist and PhD Candidate) and Dr. John Roosa (Department of History) will be part of the panel discussion.


Details of the event, including time and venue, are available in the registration link below. The event is open to public with limited space, subject to UBC health and safety regulations - mask and proof of vaccination is required.



Please register for the movie screening and subsequent panel discussion in the link below:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pesantren-a-boarding-school-movie-screening-and-discussion-registration-299699638687

01/27/2022

UPCOMING EVENT: CSEAR is organising, along with the Centre for Korean Research and the Centre for Japanese Research, a roundtable on: “Japan and Korea in Southeast Asia: Roles, Interests and Influences.”

The event will take place on Thursday, 3rd February at 5pm (PST).

Join the discussion with Dr. Nobuhiro Aizawa (Kyushu University), Dr. Yongwook Ryu (NUS) and Dr. Soo Yeon Kim (NUS). Dr. Paul Evans (UBC) will be our discussant!

Register at: shorturl.at/ijCH7

11/22/2021

Tomorrow Nov. 23 at 2.30 PM, John Roosa acting head of the History Department at UBC and CSEAR's own executive committee member, will give this fascinating talk about methodologies in writing his new book Buried Histories. Join him and get your zoom link by emailing [email protected] !

06/20/2021

Our talk with James Chin is only two days away! Make sure you have registered to get your zoom link for the event.

See you soon!

Join us next week for this highly stimulating talk with James Chin, professor of Asian Studies at the University of Tasmania, who will discuss Sabah and Sarawak and the politics of secession in Malaysia.

Mark your calendar! This online webinar will be held on June 22, 2021 at 6 pm (Pacific Time) or if you are in Malaysia on June 23, 2021 at 9 am (Kuala Lumpur Time) and on June 23, 2021 at 11 am Tasmania Time.

Please click here to register and get your zoom link for the event:
shorturl.at/muwE3

06/15/2021

Join us next week for this highly stimulating talk with James Chin, professor of Asian Studies at the University of Tasmania, who will discuss Sabah and Sarawak and the politics of secession in Malaysia.

Mark your calendar! This online webinar will be held on June 22, 2021 at 6 pm (Pacific Time) or if you are in Malaysia on June 23, 2021 at 9 am (Kuala Lumpur Time) and on June 23, 2021 at 11 am Tasmania Time.

Please click here to register and get your zoom link for the event:
shorturl.at/muwE3

05/22/2021

We've very excited to co-sponsor a talk by Dr. Edgar Liao entitled "The Colonial & Cold War Origins of Youth in Singapore"

When: Friday, 28 May, 8-9pm Vancouver time
How: registration details at www.academia.sg

Please do join - it is sure to be an engaging discussion !

05/03/2021

This latest documentary could be of interest to those of you who are engaged with Cambodian history.

Ghost Mountain is the story of Bunseng Taing, a Cambodian refugee who made his way to Connecticut in 1980 after surviving both the Killing Fiends and a second horror never before documented. He was among 45,000 refugees who managed to escape to what they believed was safety in Thailand, only to be forced back over the Cambodian border in an area heavily infested with landmines. James Taing is the co-producer and co-director and is the son of the main character, Bunseng, and has been interviewing and documenting the principal characters for the last ten years.

You can watch the documentary through this link:

Cambodian refugee Bunseng made his way to Connecticut in 1980 after surviving both the Killing Fields and a second horror never before documented.

04/19/2021

April 26 is a week's away! Don't forget to register to get your zoom links for the event 😎

Bookmark your calendar and join us for our upcoming event with historian and political scientist Farish A. Noor as our speaker.

TITLE:

The Instrumental Use of the Trope of the Native American in 19th Century British and American Accounts of Southeast Asia

DATE AND TIME:

April 26, 2021. 7 pm (Pacific Time) / April 27, 2021. 10 am (Singapore Time)

ABSTRACT

The 19th century witnessed the expansion of Western colonial power and influence across both mainland and maritime Southeast Asia, and the publication of a growing number of books about the region and its peoples by Western scholars, travellers and colonial administrators. The 19th century was also a time when pseudo-scientific theories of polygenesis and racial difference were rife, and deemed respectable in academic and political circles in the West. This paper looks at how some British and American authors were inclined to examine Southeast Asians through the lens of racial theory, and how in the course of doing so were also inclined to compare some Southeast Asian ethnic groups to the natives of America. In the course of doing so Native Americans were invariably seen and cast as a homogenous racial group that was then located at the bottom of a hierarchy that differentiated between superior and inferior races. The repeated deployment of the trope of the Native American, as the embodiment of inferiority and savagery, was an instance of racial stereotypes being instrumentalised at a global level, as part of a new pan-Atlantic Anglo-American discourse of race and racial difference.

REGISTER HERE:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAocuuhrjwuE9EMe3sGtFleq0dii3BimG8G

04/17/2021

Coming up soon! Don't forget to register!

Don't forget to register for UBC History's upcoming 10th annual Burge lecture, coming up soon on April 22nd at 6pm!

“Migration and the Environment: A View from the Indian Ocean World” with Dr. Sunil Amrith, Professor of History at Yale University, will explore environmental history and the history of migration pertaining to the Indian Ocean.

Register here: https://history.ubc.ca/events/event/10th-annual-burge-lecture-guest-lecturer-dr-sunil-amrith/