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7th Annual Symposium on Asia in the Curriculum
New Directions in Southeast Asian StudiesContemporary Thailand Workshop
7th Annual Symposium on Asia in the Curriculum
September 26-28th 2008
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, FedEx Global Education
Center is proud to host the 7th Annual Symposium on Asia in the
Curriculum, September 26-28th 2008.
Like its predecessors; 2007 at Columbia University, website at:
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/eacp/aic/ and 2006 at UCLA, this symposium
will afford our ad-hoc consortium of schools, school districts,
colleges, universities, museums, and other organizations the
opportunity to gather and focus our collective energies on
strengthening teaching about Asia. The program will offer a good blend
of experience-sharing/problem-exploring panels in addition to
presentations focusing on disseminating new resources and techniques
with a special focus on using digital technology and distance learning.
Further information on the Symposium is available at http://global.unc.edu/aic.
This 7th meeting of a national effort supported by the Freeman
Foundation that promotes teaching and learning about Asia in our K-12
schools and universities issues first call for papers, speakers and
presentations to our local North Carolina groups involved in education.
Please see attached MS Word document for additional information.
The symposium will be held in the Southern US for the first time and
provides us with a wonderful opportunity to showcase our local efforts
in education to a national audience while exchanging ideas with
participants from across the country.
For additional symposium background information, please take a look at
the Columbia University
website http://www.columbia.edu/itc/eacp/aic/,
or the University of Hawaii, East West Center 2005
Symposium http://education.eastwestcenter.org/asiapacificed/Sym2/index.html
New Directions in Southeast Asian Studies
Friday-Saturday, October 10-11, 2008, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Papers will be available below hyperlinked at the title.
New Directions in Southeast Asian Studies
Program
October 10, 2008
UNC Chapel Hill
Conveners:
Donald M. Nonini and Kevin Hewison
Friday, October 10 – Room 3024, FedEx Global Education Center, UNC Chapel Hill 3 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.
Peter Coclanis (Associate Provost for International Affairs and Professor of History, UNC Chapel Hill), “Welcome and Opening Comments”
Donald M. Nonini, (Anthropology UNC-Chapel Hill), “Conference Overview and Aims”
I. Democracy’s Prospects, the State, and Civil Society Movements in Southeast Asia
Keynote Address
3:10 p.m.- 3:55 p.m. – Max Lane (Department of Malay Studies, National University of Singapore), “New Nationalisms in Indonesian Politics, the 2009 Elections and the Left”
3:55 - 4:30 p.m. – Discussion
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. – Susanne Praeger Nyein (Carolina Asia Center, UNC Chapel Hill), “Expanding Military, Shrinking Citizenry and the New Constitution in Burma”
5:00 p.m. - 5:20 p.m. – Discussion
Contemporary Thailand Workshop
November 12, 2008 Public Session
3:30-5:00 (Chair: Will Itoh) FedEx Global Education Center – (Room 4003)
KATHERINE BOWIE, A Historical Perspective of Thai Village Democracies
KEVIN HEWISON, “Thai-Style Democracy”: The Struggle for a Political Model (with Kengkij Kitirianglarp)
South Asian Film Festival
Fall 2008
Wed. Sept. 10
219 New West
Garam Hawa (Scorching Winds)
M.S. Sathyu (1973), Hindi-Urdu
Wed. Sept. 17
219 New West
Shadow Kill (Nizhalkkuthu)
A. Gopalakrishnan, Malayalam
Wed. Sept. 24
219 New West
Ankur (The Seedling)
Shyam Benegal (1974), Hindi-Urdu
Wed. Oct. 1
FedEx Global Education Center auditorium
Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters)
Sabiha Sumar (2003), Panjabi, Urdu
Wed. Oct. 8
219 New West
In Custody
Merchant Ivory (1994), Hindi-Urdu
Wed. Oct. 22
FedEx Global Education Center audit.
Khuda ke liye (For the Sake of God)
Shoaib Mansoor (2007), Hindi-Urdu
Wed. Oct. 29
219 New West
Water
Deepa Mehta (2005), Hindi-Urdu
Wed. Nov. 5
FedEx Global Education Center auditorium
Parzania: Heaven and Hell on Earth
Rahul Dholakia (2007), Hindi-Urdu
Wed. Nov. 12
219 New West
Phoolan Devi (Bandit Queen)
Shekhar Kapur (1994), Hindi-Urdu
Wed. Nov. 19
219 New West
Vanaja
Rajnesh Domalpalli (2006), Telugu
Fri. Nov. 21
39 Graham Memorial
Hum Panch (We Five)
Bapu (1980), Hindi-Urdu
Wed. Nov. 26
219 New West
Fire
Deepa Mehta (1996), Hindi-Urdu
For more information, please call Afroz Taj at 962-1060 or Pamela Lothspeich at 843-4864.
NOTE: if you want to receive announcements about South Asian films,
concerts, lectures, and conferences, e-mail us at taj@unc.edu and we will
put you on our e-mailing list!
The South Asia Film Festival is sponsored by the UNC Dept. of Asian
Studies, the Carolina Asia Center, the Center for South Asia Studies, and
Geet Bazaar Desi Radio (every Sunday 10 am to 12 noon on 88.1 FM WKNC).
For more information, please call Afroz Taj at 962-1060 or Pamela
Lothspeich at 843-4864.
NOTE: if you want to receive announcements about South Asian films,
concerts, lectures, and conferences, e-mail us at taj@unc.edu and we will
put you on our e-mailing list!
The South Asia Film Festival is sponsored by the UNC Dept. of Asian
Studies, the Carolina Asia Center, the Center for South Asia Studies, and
Geet Bazaar Desi Radio (every Sunday 10 am to 12 noon on 88.1 FM WKNC).
Contemporary Thailand Workshop
November 12, 2008 Public Session
3:30-5:00 (Chair: Will Itoh) FedEx Global Education Center – (Room 4003)
KATHERINE BOWIE, A Historical Perspective of Thai Village Democracies
KEVIN HEWISON, “Thai-Style Democracy”: The Struggle for a Political Model (with Kengkij Kitirianglarp)
The Siamese Connection
A Film by Josh Gibson
Thursday, November 13, 2008
7:00 PM
Nelson Mandela Auditorium
FedEx Global Education Center
A film exploring the lives and legacy of the 19th-century conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker of Surry County, North Carolina and the extraordinary connections that unite all of us. Filmmaker Josh Gibson will introduce the film and take questions.
Sponsored by the Carolina Asia Center in recognition of the 175th Anniversary of Thai-US Diplomatic Relations.
This event is free and open to the public
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