Brown Bag Series
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies schedules brown bag lectures and performances on Fridays at 12:00 p.m. during the Fall and Spring semesters. Speakers are invited to present original research, sections of dissertations, and other works in progress.
In particular, it is a wonderful opportunity for doctoral students to share new ideas and receive valuable feedback regarding their work. Brown Bag Lectures are usually held in the lushly appointed Tokioka Room at Moore Hall (Room 319) or in the Korean Studies Center Auditorium.
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Fall 2008 Series
October 13 - Politics and Movie Making in Southeast Asia - Towria, et. al.
September 19 - Southeast Asian Digital Library Collections - Tillinghast, et. al.
October 13, 1:30 p.m., Korean Studies Auditorium
The Politics of Making Movies in Southeast Asia
In Partnership with the Hawaii International Film Festival
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT in Southeast Asia changed dramatically over the last twenty-five years, from the fall of Marcos and Suharto in the Philippines and Indonesia to the doi moi (restructuring) movement in Vietnam to the coups (and threatened counter-coups) in Thailand. Making movies in the region today is not the same as it was yesterday. As part of the Hawaii International Film Festival, the Center is bringing seven new Southeast Asian films to campus and is bringing to Hawaii seven filmmakers for a special discussion of politics and movies in the region.
THE DISCUSSANTS will include Pimpaka Towira, the feature filmmaker from Thailand, whose political exposé cum documentary THE TRUTH BE TOLD captured a portrait of idealism, integrity and activism against then-Prime Minister Thaksin. From Indonesia, Melissa Karim, scriptwriter of CHANTS OF LOTUS, an omnibus film made by four women directors, will discuss the movie in terms Indonesian women, teen sex, human trafficking, AIDS and rape - and talk of the film's battle with censors. Also attending will be Gotot Prakosa, director of the Indonesian rock opera/concert film KANTATA TAKWA, about the explosive and politically-charged 1991 Iwan Fals concert. From the Philippines, award-winning directors Tara Illenberger and Ellen Ongkek-Marfil will discuss alternative and independent filmmaking in one of the most prolific filmmaking countries in Asia. Finally, Nguyen Thanh Van, director of A LITTLE HEART, will talk of commercial filmmaking in Vietnam after doi moi. The moderator will be Christian Razukas, graduate student in Southeast Asian Studies and a former Film Programmer for HIFF.
September 19, 12:00 p.m., Tokioka Room
Using ScholarSpace!
Making Southeast Asian Digital Collections at UH
Beth Tillinghast, Margie Bodemer, Yati Paseng, Claire Chen
University of Hawaii