<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Justin,<div><br></div><div>Sorry to weigh in so late -- I've been gone a few days, and away from email. How sad to come home to such terrible news. Please add my name to the signers of the condolence letter. </div><div><br></div><div>BTW, is there a running total yet for the donations that have been made? </div><div>And where again should they be sent? </div><div><br></div><div>-- Leslie Woodhouse</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On May 18, 2008, at 5:00 PM, <a href="mailto:tlc-request@lists.ucr.edu">tlc-request@lists.ucr.edu</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Send Tlc mailing list submissions to<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="mailto:tlc@lists.ucr.edu">tlc@lists.ucr.edu</a><br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>http://lists.ucr.edu/mailman/listinfo/tlc<br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>tlc-request@lists.ucr.edu<br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>tlc-owner@lists.ucr.edu<br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of Tlc digest..."<br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. TLC-NY Digest on detention (justinm@ucr.edu)<br> 2. Re: TLC/VSG-letter of condolence for Roxanna Brown's family<br> (catharin dalpino)<br> 3. Re: TLC-Roxanna Brown (Kate Gillogly)<br> 4. Re: Roxanna Brown letter of condolence (BennyWidyono@aol.com)<br><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><justinm@ucr.edu><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">May 18, 2008 2:23:29 PM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">tlc@lists.ucr.edu<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[Tlc] TLC-NY Digest on detention</b><br></span></div><br><br>Forwarded from:<br><br>Hi,<br>in case it is of interest, the New York Times has also written recently<br>about immigrants and temporary visitors facing similar dangers, from US<br>government authorities.<br>sincerely, Magnus Fiskesjö<br><br><br>Few Details on Immigrants Who Died in Custody<br>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/nyregion/05detain.html<br><br>Death by Detention<br>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/opinion/06tue1.html?scp=1&sq=Death+by+Detention&st=nyt<br><br>Italian’s Detention Illustrates Dangers Foreign Visitors Face<br>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/us/14visa.html?ref=us<br><br>______________<br>Dr. Justin McDaniel<br>Dept. of Religious Studies<br>3046 INTN<br>University of California, Riverside<br>Riverside, CA 92521<br>951-827-4530<br>justinm@ucr.edu<br><br><br><br><br><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"catharin dalpino" <catharindalpino@earthlink.net><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">May 18, 2008 7:27:40 AM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"justinm@ucr.edu" <justinm@ucr.edu>, tlc@lists.ucr.edu, vsg@u.washington.edu<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Re: [Tlc] TLC/VSG-letter of condolence for Roxanna Brown's family</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">catharindalpino@earthlink.net<br></span></div><br><br>Please add my name.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Catharin Dalpino<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">[Original Message]<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">From: <justinm@ucr.edu><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">To: <tlc@lists.ucr.edu>; <vsg@u.washington.edu><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Date: 5/18/2008 2:42:32 AM<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Subject: [Tlc] TLC/VSG-letter of condolence for Roxanna Brown's family<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Dear All,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Please see the letter of condolence for Dr. Roxanna Brown's family below<br></blockquote>and attached with the list of supporters. I will be sending this letter to<br>her family on Monday morning. If you would like to be added to the list,<br>please do not hesitate to contact me.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Sincerely,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">justin<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Dear Family, Friends, and Colleagues of Dr. Roxanna Brown,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">When a great and good person is taken from us, the shock calls upon us to<br></blockquote>freeze the daily whirl of activities and face an irreparable loss in our<br>lives.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Your sister, your mother, your daughter, Roxanna Maude Brown was such a<br></blockquote>person. She touched so many lives over the course of her own. A growing<br>chorus of admiration and affection attests to the broad reach of her life<br>and work.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Roxanna's journey took her from the role of journalist, the conscience of<br></blockquote>a nation, <br><blockquote type="cite">documenting from the ground the unfolding tragedy of Vietnam, to her<br></blockquote>discovery of what <br><blockquote type="cite">would be her life's work buried literally beneath her feet: the ceramics<br></blockquote>of Southeast <br><blockquote type="cite">Asia. More than once her pursuit of ceramics study through the<br></blockquote>countryside of Southeast Asia aroused the suspicion of the forces locked in<br>mortal combat swirling around her. Amidst the horror of war, it must have<br>been hard for them to see the innocence of her search for kilns and shards.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Roxanna became a leading figure in the study of Southeast Asian ceramics,<br></blockquote>and the culture of which they were a part. Her keen eye and vast empirical<br>knowledge allowed her to shape theories of historical development in<br>Southeast Asia that challenged accepted paradigms. That she was able to<br>pursue her work and achieve what <br><blockquote type="cite">she did without the force of institutional structure supporting her was<br></blockquote>remarkable. When <br><blockquote type="cite">she ascended to the Directorship of the Southeast Asia Ceramics Museum,<br></blockquote>she seemed at <br><blockquote type="cite">last fitted with the platform from which to make manifest for the benefit<br></blockquote>of the public her <br><blockquote type="cite">lifetime of study. The museum is a testament to her sensibility and the<br></blockquote>rigor of her <br><blockquote type="cite">scholarship. We hope it remains true to her ideals.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Many have spoken of her achievements as a scholar, her unique place in<br></blockquote>her chosen field of study. For those of us who were blessed to know her<br>personally, her friendship was equally to be cherished. All of us have our<br>own stories of Roxanna, our testimonials as friends and colleagues. Her<br>irrepressible, infectious enthusiasm for Southeast Asian ceramics spread a<br>charmed field of energy about all who came in contact with her. She moved<br>with equal grace through mansions and the most modest of dwellings. She<br>asked for little and shared much. Her gentle generosity and unjudgemental<br>acceptance of difference and frailty in a field all too often marred by<br>intolerance and avarice made her a loved as well as respected figure.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">But, compounding this tragedy, this is not a moment of grief at the loss<br></blockquote>of a loved one <br><blockquote type="cite">slipping away from us after a full, rich life, surrounded by friends and<br></blockquote>family, whose last <br><blockquote type="cite">moments are made as safe and soft as material comforts can permit. This<br></blockquote>is a moment of <br><blockquote type="cite">mischance. This is a moment of horror. This is a moment of grief not<br></blockquote>only for the friend we have lost, but anguish for the suffering, the<br>unjust, unnecessary, suffering of her last days and nights on earth. A<br>vulnerable, trusting, undemanding soul thrust alone into the <br><blockquote type="cite">netherworld of the institutional at its most cold and brutal. It is<br></blockquote>unspeakable.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Many of us have discussed how best to pursue the questions that arise<br></blockquote>concerning the <br><blockquote type="cite">circumstances of her most tragic and untimely death. We wish to be<br></blockquote>sensitive to your feelings and desires as we move forward. We feel there<br>are many who need to answer for what has happened. We do not seek to<br>return vengeance for victimization, but we seek illumination, and justice.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">It is not only the cruelty of Roxanna's incarceration we seek to redress,<br></blockquote>but the slur <br><blockquote type="cite">cast upon her name by the accusations that prompted her arrest. For a<br></blockquote>scholar of such <br><blockquote type="cite">integrity, who tirelessly sought to raise the level of ethical practice<br></blockquote>in the trade in <br><blockquote type="cite">ceramics, it is a cruel irony that her reputation has been thus tainted. <br></blockquote>We cannot <br><blockquote type="cite">bring back Roxanna, but we can try our best to clear her of any shadow of<br></blockquote>wrongdoing, and restore her good name for the future.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">For all of us who knew her as a scholar and as a person, we will remember<br></blockquote>her always as she was--dedicated, generous, gentle, warm. Roxanna will be<br>greatly missed.<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">In sorrow,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Caverlee Cary<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Nhung Tuyet Tran<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Pattaratorn Chirapravati<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Hiram Woodward<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Craig Reynolds<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Melody Rodari<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Alicia Carlos<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Charles Keyes<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Joyce Clark<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Judith Henchy<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Susan Kepner<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Rebecca Hall<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Louise Cort<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Michele Thompson<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Robert Brown<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Emmy Bunker<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Shawn McHale<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Edward Miller<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Boreth Ly<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Bonnie Brereton<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Charles Wheeler<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Carol Stratton<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Charnvit Kasetsiri<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Leedom Lefferts<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">BJ Terwiel<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Louis Gabaude<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thak Chaloemtiarana<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Stanley O’Connor<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Barbara Gaerlan <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Nguyen-Vo Thu-Huong<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Richard Page<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Eric Charles Thompson<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Anne R Hansen<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Philippe Peycam<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Charles Keith<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Christina Firpo<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Nicola Tannenbaum<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Larry Ashmun<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Nora Taylor<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">William Lavely<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Donald Mccallum<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Nguyen Ngoc BICH<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Bin Wong<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Nick Menzies<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Michael Ross<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Philip Taylor<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Darryl Johnson<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Laurie Sears<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Paul Kratowska<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Quynh Kieu<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Chan Kieu<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Laichen Sun<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Richard A. Ruth<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Trude Bennett<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Christine McDaniel<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Justin McDaniel<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Cari Coe<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Jim Cobbe<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Scott Laderman<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">John Stevenson<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Karen Adams<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ben Kerkvliet<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">David Rehfuss<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Hue-Tam Ho Tai<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Sarah Grant<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Geoff Wade<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Volker Grabowsky<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Kelly Meister<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Nathan McGovern<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Liam C Kelley<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Anthony Zola <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ronachai Krisadaolarn<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Vasudha Narayanan<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Julia White<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Vasilijs Mihailovs<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Susan Lee<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Nancy Tingley<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Tana Li<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Suteera Nittayananta<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Douglas Padgett<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Erik Davis<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">John Amos Marston<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Haydon Cherry<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Matthew Wheeler<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Donald Swearer<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Sommai Premchit<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ngô Thanh Nhàn<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Robert & Carol Retka<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Robert Acker<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Melissa Pashigian<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Bonnie Baskin<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Philip Alperson<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Tran Phuong Ky<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Dao Hung<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Nancy Wiener<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">John Guy<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ron Otsuka<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Doris Wiener<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Joseph Gerena<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Kathleen Gillogly<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">David Lovell<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Todd Perreira<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Deborah Wong<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Rene Lysloff<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Hendrick Maier<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">David Biggs<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Christina Schwenkel<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Lan Duong<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Tamara Ho<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Muhammad Ali<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Mariam Lam<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Sally Ann Ness<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Cecily Cook<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Deborah Tooker<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Catherine Raymond<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Bokyung Kim <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Dawn Rooney<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Nha Trang Pensinger<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">William L. Pensinger<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">John N. Miksic<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Goh Geok Yian <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">and many many others <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">______________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Dr. Justin McDaniel<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Dept. of Religious Studies<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">3046 INTN<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">University of California, Riverside<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Riverside, CA 92521<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">951-827-4530<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">justinm@ucr.edu<br></blockquote><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Kate Gillogly" <kagillogly@comcast.net><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">May 18, 2008 9:03:59 AM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><tlc@lists.ucr.edu><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Re: [Tlc] TLC-Roxanna Brown</b><br></span></div><br><br>Telling this story to my partner, an older African-American man, he was far<br>less shocked than I was. He's heard too many of these types of stories over<br>the years. While prisoners have a constitutional right to medical care, in<br>fact they often receive grossly inadequate care. There is little funding of<br>prison medical care - the neo-con argument is that prisoners should not get<br>better medical care than "ordinary" hard-working citizens get. <br><br>The everyday conditions of people in prisons, justly or unjustly, have now<br>impinged on "our" world, and I suspect that the vehicle for that has been<br>the expansion of the powers of the U.S. judiciary system post-9/11. On what<br>grounds could an older woman who was disabled and highly respected in her<br>community have been considered a flight risk? Why keep Dr. Brown in prison<br>for so long without access to legal counsel or to friends and family? What<br>happened to habeus corpus? What happened to innocent until proven guilty?<br>Dr. Brown's case has really brought home to me that I've been ignoring the<br>extent to which fundamental civil rights in the U.S. have been abrogated<br>under the current political regime. I've been doing what Martin Niemuller<br>argued against. <br><br>I hope that we can help Dr. Brown's family find answers and forgiveness.<br>But I also hope that cases like this will serve as a wedge for opening up<br>and exposing the inherent injustices in the current justice system. What<br>can we do to make this known and to try to make sure it does not happen<br>again?<br><br>Best,<br><br>Kate Gillogly<br>Visiting Faculty (Anthropology), Chicago State University<br>Geography, Sociology, Economics, and Anthropology<br>Program Coordinator, National Association for the Practice of Anthropology<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: tlc-bounces@lists.ucr.edu [mailto:tlc-bounces@lists.ucr.edu] On Behalf<br>Of justinm@ucr.edu<br>Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 1:07 AM<br>To: tlc@lists.ucr.edu<br>Subject: [Tlc] TLC-Roxanna Brown<br><br>Here is a link to an article that may be of interest to those following Dr.<br>Roxanna Brown's tragic case. I forward it from Doug Padgett.<br>Thanks,<br>justin<br><br>I'm sure other people have pointed this out to you, but the <br>Washington Post just ran a series by Dana Priest on medical care in <br>INS prisons.<br><br>See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/specials/ <br>immigration/index.html<br><br>The facility Roxanna Brown does not seem to have been run by INS; it <br>was a Justice Dept. facility run by the Bureau of Prisons. But it <br>seems the horrific problems run right through....<br><br><br>______________<br>Dr. Justin McDaniel<br>Dept. of Religious Studies<br>3046 INTN<br>University of California, Riverside<br>Riverside, CA 92521<br>951-827-4530<br>justinm@ucr.edu<br>_______________________________________________<br>Tlc mailing list<br>Tlc@lists.ucr.edu<br>http://lists.ucr.edu/mailman/listinfo/tlc<br><br><br><br><br><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">BennyWidyono@aol.com<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">May 18, 2008 2:01:10 PM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">justinm@ucr.edu, tlc@lists.ucr.edu<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Re: [Tlc] Roxanna Brown letter of condolence</b><br></span></div><br><br> <div id="role_body" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottommargin="7" leftmargin="7" topmargin="7" rightmargin="7"><font id="role_document" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"> <div>Justin, Please add my name Benny Widyono to the list. </div> <div> </div> <div> <div>In a message dated 5/17/2008 2:38:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, zolaa@mozart.inet.co.th writes:</div> <blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2">Dear Justin,<br><br>Thank you for including me.<br><br>Yes, please add my name to the letter. I only met <br>her a few times, but she was indeed an inspirational person.<br><br>Best regards, Tony Zola<br>Anthony M. Zola<br>Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Resources Development Specialist<br><br>Office:<br>124/170 Moo 1, Piyawararom Village, Bungyeetho<br>Phraongchaosai Road (Khlong 4)<br>Thanyaburi, Pathum Thani 12130, Thailand<br><br>tel. (+66) (0) 2152-2348; fax: (+66) (0) 2152-2350<br>Thai cell phone: (+66 8) (0) 9206-9377; Lao cell phone: (+856-20) 551-1369<br>email addresses: zolaa@inet.co.th and zolaam@gmail.com<br><br>Postal address:<br>P.O. Box 42, Thanyaburi<br>Pathum Thani 12110, Thailand<br><br>At 01:54 PM 5/17/2008, justinm@ucr.edu wrote:<br>>Dear All,<br>><br>>Please see the letter of condolence for Roxanna <br>>Brown's family attached and below. If you <br>>haven't signed your name to it and still would <br>>like to, please do not hesitate to contact me.<br>><br>>Thank you,<br>>justin<br>><br>>Dear Family, Friends, and Colleagues of Dr. Roxanna Brown,<br>><br>>When a great and good person is taken from us, <br>>the shock calls upon us to freeze the daily <br>>whirl of activities and face an irreparable loss in our lives.<br>><br>>Your sister, your mother, your daughter, Roxanna <br>>Maude Brown was such a person. She touched so <br>>many lives over the course of her own. A <br>>growing chorus of admiration and affection <br>>attests to the broad reach of her life and work.<br>><br>>Roxanna's journey took her from the role of <br>>journalist, the conscience of a nation,<br>>documenting from the ground the unfolding <br>>tragedy of Vietnam, to her discovery of what<br>>would be her life's work buried literally <br>>beneath her feet: the ceramics of Southeast<br>>Asia. More than once her pursuit of ceramics <br>>study through the countryside of Southeast Asia <br>>aroused the suspicion of the forces locked in <br>>mortal combat swirling around her. Amidst the <br>>horror of war, it must have been hard for them <br>>to see the innocence of her search for kilns and shards.<br>><br>>Roxanna became a leading figure in the study of <br>>Southeast Asian ceramics, and the culture of <br>>which they were a part. Her keen eye and vast <br>>empirical knowledge allowed her to shape <br>>theories of historical development in Southeast <br>>Asia that challenged accepted paradigms. That <br>>she was able to pursue her work and achieve what<br>>she did without the force of institutional <br>>structure supporting her was remarkable. When<br>>she ascended to the Directorship of the <br>>Southeast Asia Ceramics Museum, she seemed at<br>>last fitted with the platform from which to make <br>>manifest for the benefit of the public her<br>>lifetime of study. The museum is a testament to <br>>her sensibility and the rigor of her<br>>scholarship. We hope it remains true to her ideals.<br>><br>>Many have spoken of her achievements as a <br>>scholar, her unique place in her chosen field of <br>>study. For those of us who were blessed to know <br>>her personally, her friendship was equally to be <br>>cherished. All of us have our own stories of <br>>Roxanna, our testimonials as friends and <br>>colleagues. Her irrepressible, infectious <br>>enthusiasm for Southeast Asian ceramics spread a <br>>charmed field of energy about all who came in <br>>contact with her. She moved with equal grace <br>>through mansions and the most modest of <br>>dwellings. She asked for little and shared <br>>much. Her gentle generosity and unjudgemental <br>>acceptance of difference and frailty in a field <br>>all too often marred by intolerance and avarice <br>>made her a loved as well as respected figure.<br>><br>>But, compounding this tragedy, this is not a <br>>moment of grief at the loss of a loved one<br>>slipping away from us after a full, rich life, <br>>surrounded by friends and family, whose last<br>>moments are made as safe and soft as material <br>>comforts can permit. This is a moment of<br>>mischance. This is a moment of horror. This is <br>>a moment of grief not only for the friend we <br>>have lost, but anguish for the suffering, the <br>>unjust, unnecessary, suffering of her last days <br>>and nights on earth. A vulnerable, trusting, <br>>undemanding soul thrust alone into the<br>>netherworld of the institutional at its most <br>>cold and brutal. It is unspeakable.<br>><br>>Many of us have discussed how best to pursue the <br>>questions that arise concerning the<br>>circumstances of her most tragic and untimely <br>>death. We wish to be sensitive to your feelings <br>>and desires as we move forward. We feel there <br>>are many who need to answer for what has <br>>happened. We do not seek to return vengeance <br>>for victimization, but we seek illumination, and justice.<br>><br>>It is not only the cruelty of Roxanna's <br>>incarceration we seek to redress, but the slur<br>>cast upon her name by the accusations that <br>>prompted her arrest. For a scholar of such<br>>integrity, who tirelessly sought to raise the <br>>level of ethical practice in the trade in<br>>ceramics, it is a cruel irony that her <br>>reputation has been thus tainted. We cannot<br>>bring back Roxanna, but we can try our best to <br>>clear her of any shadow of wrongdoing, and <br>>restore her good name for the future.<br>><br>>For all of us who knew her as a scholar and as a <br>>person, we will remember her always as she <br>>was--dedicated, generous, gentle, warm. Roxanna will be greatly missed.<br>><br>>In sorrow,<br>>Caverlee Cary<br>>Nhung Tuyet Tran<br>>Pattaratorn Chirapravati<br>>Hiram Woodward<br>>Craig Reynolds<br>>Melody Rodari<br>>Alicia Carlos<br>>Charles Keyes<br>>Joyce Clark<br>>Judith Henchy<br>>Susan Kepner<br>>Rebecca Hall<br>>Louise Cort<br>>Michele Thompson<br>>Robert Brown<br>>Emmy Bunker<br>>Shawn McHale<br>>Edward Miller<br>>Boreth Ly<br>>Bonnie Brereton<br>>Charles Wheeler<br>>Carol Stratton<br>>Charnvit Kasetsiri<br>>H. Leedom Lefferts<br>>BJ Terwiel<br>>Louis Gabaude<br>>Thak Chaloemtiarana<br>>Stanley O’Connor<br>>Barbara Gaerlan<br>>Nguyen-Vo Thu-Huong<br>>Richard Page<br>>Eric Charles Thompson<br>>Anne R Hansen<br>>Philippe Peycam<br>>Charles Keith<br>>Christina Firpo<br>>Nicola Tannenbaum<br>>Larry Ashmun<br>>Nora Taylor<br>>William Lavely<br>>Donald Mccallum<br>>Nguyen Ngoc BICH<br>>Bin Wong<br>>Nick Menzies<br>>Michael Ross<br>>Philip Taylor<br>>Darryl Johnson<br>>Laurie Sears<br>>Paul Kratowska<br>>Quynh Kieu<br>>Chan Kieu<br>>Laichen Sun<br>>Richard A. Ruth<br>>Trude Bennett<br>>Justin McDaniel<br>>Cari Coe<br>>Jim Cobbe<br>>Scott Laderman<br>>John Stevenson<br>>Karen Adams<br>>Ben Kerkvliet<br>>David Rehfuss<br>>Hue-Tam Ho Tai<br>>Sarah Grant and many many others<br>><br>><br>><br>>______________<br>>Dr. Justin McDaniel<br>>Dept. of Religious Studies<br>>3046 INTN<br>>University of California, Riverside<br>>Riverside, CA 92521<br>>951-827-4530<br>>justinm@ucr.edu<br>><br>>_______________________________________________<br>>Tlc mailing list<br>>Tlc@lists.ucr.edu<br>>http://lists.ucr.edu/mailman/listinfo/tlc<br>><br>>No virus found in this incoming message.<br>>Checked by AVG.<br>>Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: <br>>269.23.16/1448 - Release Date: 5/16/2008 7:42 PM<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Tlc mailing list<br>Tlc@lists.ucr.edu<br>http://lists.ucr.edu/mailman/listinfo/tlc</font></blockquote></div></font><br><br><br><div><font style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><hr style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? <a title="http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001" href="http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001" target="_blank">Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food</a>.</font></div></div> <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Tlc mailing list<br>Tlc@lists.ucr.edu<br>http://lists.ucr.edu/mailman/listinfo/tlc<br></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Sans"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Lucida Sans; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Lucida Sans; font-size: 12px; ">------------------------------------------------------------</span></span></font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Sans"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Lucida Sans; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Lucida Sans; font-size: 12px; ">Leslie A. 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