[Tlc] two TLC events in LA

[justinm at ucr.edu]

For those who will be in the Golden State for the AAS
conference and have the time to head south, there are three
TLC related talks at UCLA and UCR on April 10th, 13th, and
14th. The first is by David Del Testa, on April 10th, although
on the topic of Vietnam "under" the French looks at teaching
the "Indochine" period is classrooms more broadly (see below).
The second, by Craig Reynolds on the 13th, takes a broad look
at Southeast Asian historiography and the work of O.W.
Wolters. The third is a three speaker colloquium at UCR on the
subject of Southeast Asia, Intertextuality, and Art with
Pattaratorn Chirapravati, Jinah Kim, and Justin McDaniel as
speakers. 

See more information below.

Thanks,
jm


April 10, 2006
Lecture - Teaching the Beaucarnot Diaries: Vietnamese and
French Culture
and Society under Colonialism and Beyond

10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA Campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Parking at UCLA's Lot 3 costs $8.
Tel: 310-206-9163, Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
cseas at international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/cseas/

A Colloquium with David Del Testa, Assistant Professor of History,
Bucknell University. A presentation of the website "Adieu
Saigon, Au
Revoir Hanoi: The 1943 Vacation Dairy of Claudie Beaucarnot" at
www.bucknell.edu/Beaucarnot/ designed as a tool for students
and teachers
to explore the world of Vietnam during French colonialism. 
This on-line
source presents a new primary source for French colonial
Indochina while
illustrating undergraduate research stemming from it. David
Del Testa is
Assistant Professor of History at Bucknell University.  He
received his
Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, writing a
dissertation on
"'Paint the Trains Red': Labor, Nationalism, and the Railroads
in French
Colonial Indochina, 1898-1945." In 2000 he served as Director
of the
University of California Education Abroad Program in Vietnam.
 Before
moving to Bucknell he taught at UCLA and California Lutheran
University.
It was a Cal Lutheran project that led him to return to
Vietnam with a
group of students and to retrace the route of Claudie Beaucarnot.

April 13, 2006
Colonial Service and Academic Distinction in Southeast Asian
Studies: The
Professional Lives of O.W. Wolters

10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor) UCLA Campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Parking in Lot 3 costs $8. Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Tel: 310-206-9163
cseas at international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/cseas/

A lecture by Prof. Craig Reynolds, Centre for Asian Societies and
Histories, Australian National University. O. W. Wolters
(1915-2000) was,
by the 1970s, unarguably the most influential historian of
early Southeast
Asia writing in the English-speaking world.  His History,
Culture and
Region /in Southeast Asian Perspectives/ (1982, 1999 rev. ed.)
is probably
his most well-known work. This was his second career. From
1938 until 1957
he was a member of the Malayan Civil Service (MCS). A
specialist in
Chinese, he served in various provincial posts in western
Malaya, ending
his career as Head of the Psychological Warfare Section, a
position that
involved supervising the translation of anti-communist
propaganda. In this
talk I will draw some connections between his scholarship and
his earlier
career as a colonial official in the MCS as well as address
more general
issues about his life as a scholar. Craig Reynolds has taught
in the
Centre for Asian Societies and Histories, Faculty of Asian
Studies,
Australian National University since 1995.  He holds a PhD in
Southeast
Asian History from Cornell University. His research interests
are the
modern politics, history, and culture of Thailand, and the
history of
Southeast Asia more generally. He is the author of many
articles and books
in these fields, among them an edited volume, National
Identity and its
Defenders: Thailand Today (Ciang Mai 2002) and Seditious
Histories:
Contesting Thai and Southeast Asian Pasts (Seattle 2006).

Colloquium of Southeast Asian, Intertextuality, and Art, April
14th, UCR. Please contact justin.mcdaniel at ucr.edu for more
information.


______________
Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
2617 Humanities Building
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
909-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu