[Tlc] AAS reminder and TLC business meeting 2007

[justinm at ucr.edu]

Dear TLC Members,

1) Just a reminder, the deadline for
proposals for the annual meeting of the AAS in Boston (must be
submitted electronically) is August 4,
2006. Please help support TLC Studies by submitting a panel by
that date. 

Please see the "call" at:
http://www.aasianst.org/Proposal/pages/2007CFP.htm

2) We are pleased to annouce that Dr. Judy Ledgerwood (Chair,
Anthropology Department at Northern Illinois University), a
long time TLC member and one of the most respected and
prolific anthropologists working in Cambodia, will be our
guest speaker at the annual TLC Business Meeting in Boston.
The theme for the talk is "The Field of Anthropology and
Cambodian Studies." Dr. Ledgerwood's specific title will be
announced in the coming months.

Professor Ledgerwood is a cultural anthropologist whose
research interests include gender, refugee and diaspora
communities, and the transnational movements of people and
ideas. Her current research is focused on Cambodian Buddhism
and ideas of cultural identity. Professor Ledgerwood's
dissertation was on changing Khmer conceptions of gender in
Khmer refugee communities in the United States. After she
completed her degree, she taught and conducted research in
Cambodia for three and a half years. She taught as a visiting
professor at Cornell University and the Royal University of
Fine Arts in Phnom Penh. From 1993 to 1996, she was a research
fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu.

Professor Ledgerwood teaches general cultural anthropology,
anthropology and human diversity, history and theory of
anthropology, women in cross cultural perspectives,
Asian-American cultures, anthropology of gender, and peoples
and cultures of mainland Southeast Asia. 

Thank you and enjoy the 4th, the beginning of the rainy season
retreat, and the summer.

Best regards,
justin 


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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
2617 Humanities Building
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu