[Englecturers] FW: UCR Southeast Asia: Texts, Rituals, Performance Program

[Susan Brown]

Friday, October 27, 2006

12 noon - 2:00 p.m.

The Barn (private room)

Sponsored by the UCR Southeast Asia: Texts, Rituals, Performance Program

 

Public lecture by

 

Philippe Peycam

Director, Center for Khmer Studies

 

"From 1920s Saigon to 2000s Phnom Penh: Personal Reflection on Civil Society
Development and the need for Intellectual Capacity Building."

 

Philippe Peycam took his PhD in Vietnamese History at the School of Oriental
and African Studies, University of London.  Since 1999, he has been the
founding director of the Center for Khmer Studies, Inc., America's first
Overseas Research Center in Southeast Asia, which runs as an academic and
civil society building non-profit institution, in Siem Reap, Cambodia. While
in Vietnam and in Cambodia, Peycam has been involved in many knowledge-based
capacity building projects. He is co-author of a book on Saigon's
architectural heritage (in French and Vietnamese). Currently he is working
on the publication of his doctoral dissertation on Southern Vietnamese
Political Culture in the early 1920s.

 

Free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Prof. David Biggs (david.biggs at ucr.edu).

 

 

Darci Lombard

Accounting Assistant 

Comparative Literature & Foreign Languages

Hispanic Studies

Tel: (951) 827-1423

Fax: (951) 827-2160

darci.lombard at ucr.edu

 

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