[Tlc] conferences - UCR and UCLA

[justinm at ucr.edu]

--Friday-Sunday, February 16-18, 2007
Conference on Religious Festivals in Contemporary Southeast Asia
 
University of California, Riverside
Extension Center, Conference Rooms D and E
1200 University Avenue
Riverside, CA 92507
(Free and Open to the Public; Parking $3)
http://www.seatrip.ucr.edu/news_announcements/religious_festivals.html

The conference will explore festivals as embodied narratives
in which the connections between religion and nationalism,
globality and locality, tourism and politics are drawn, urgent
issues that invite careful unfoldings in Southeast Asian
Studies today.  Our ideas for this conference are steered by
two complementary assumptions.  Firstly, religious festivals
are pivotal events in the life of a local community, no matter
how heterogeneous itself.  They are representatives for a more
or less comprehensive understanding of its dynamics. 
Secondly, in spite of its differences, Southeast Asia is tied
together by certain commonalities, and a discussion of
religious festivals could make a substantial contribution to
determining these commonalities. 

--Saturday, February 24, 2007
Arts, Violence, and the State: Symposium on Southeast Asia and
Beyond
 
11:00 AM - 5:30 PM
314 Royce Hall
UCLA Campus
Free and open to the public. Parking $8.
Web announcement here.

This symposium gathers scholars who address the relationship
of the performing arts, the state, and violence. It aims to
examine the possible violent meaning and consequences of arts
practice when they become productions of national identity and
state ideology. It will also interrogate issues of policy,
classification, and copyright. Invited scholars will engage
with these topics in the context of Southeast Asia, but also
discuss possible parallels and linkages with other sites.

SCHEDULE

11:00 a.m. Registration  & Refreshments
11:15 a.m. Opening Remarks

11.30 a.m.  Panel 1:
Dr. Maria Josephine Barrios, "Death as Muse: State Terrorism
in the Philippines and a Theatre of Vigil and Vigilance"
Dr. Pornrat Damrhung, "Questioning Political Theatre in
Contemporary Thailand"
Dr. Zulkifli Binhaji Mohamad, "Becoming a Malay Muslim Artist
in Malaysia"

1:00 p.m. Lunch

1:45 p.m. Panel 2:
I Gusti Agung Ayu, "Conversing through the Arts: Women’s
Stories of Liberation and Repression"
Dr. R. Diyah Larasati, "Female Dancing Bodies and State
Terror: Sexual Politics in Indonesia"
Dr. Ananya Chatterjea, "In the Name of God: Violence in
Contemporary Performance in India and Indonesia"

3:15 p.m.  Break

3:30 p.m. Discussant Panel
Dr. Marta Savigliano (Visiting Professor, UC Riverside)
Dr. Geoffrey Robinson (History, UCLA)
Dr. Lucy M. Burns (Asian American Studies and World Arts &
Cultures, UCLA)

4.30 p.m. Open Discussion

Sponsored by UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies with a
generous gift from Robert Lemelson.

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