[Tlc] Cambodian events

[justinm at ucr.edu]

Dear All,

If you are in Southern California or have students in the
region, then February will have a number of events for
Cambodian Studies. See below.

Best,
justin

Wednesday, February 07, 2007
On the Cusp of Phoenix Rising: Cambodian American Spoken Word
 
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Glorya Kaufman Hall, Studio 230
UCLA Campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Web announcement:
http://www.international.ucla.edu/cseas/events/showevent.asp?eventid=5579

Anida Yoeu Esguerra will perform excerpts from her work and
will speak about her collaborative work with Southeast Asian
artists.

"On The Cusp of Phoenix Rising" is a combination of poetry and
performance with one mic, one stage and one wall. This show is
a collection of Anida Yoeu Esguerra's poetry and performance
works. The show is an arsenal of work ranging from her most
fierce poems to her most vulnerable monologues; from raw
spoken word favorites such as "Haram! Haram! Haram!" to the
experimental fusion of poetry, video and sound in "Visiting Loss."

Esguerra also performs excerpts from her recent show "Living
Memory/Living Absence," an interdisciplinary exploration of
memory, exile, and the pain of these experiences within the
bodies of Cambodian genocide survivors. Whether through humor,
wit, anger or just honest storytelling "On the Cusp of Phoenix
Rising" is a reflection of Esguerra's hybrid cultural
experiences as she struggles to find the juncture of her
artistic, spiritual, and political identities. The pieces in
this set change depending on audience, current issues, and
what the moment requires.

Anida Yoeu Esguerra is a Cambodian Muslim American woman whose
spoken word performance work can be described to have explored
the refugee condition. For more information about her work and
accomplishments, please visit: atomicshogun.com.

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and
Departments of Asian American Studies and World Arts and Cultures.



Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Curator Lecture on Island Southeast Asian and Other Art from
the "Intersections" Exhibit at UCLA's Fowler Museum
 
7:00 p.m.
Fowler Museum of Cultural History
UCLA Campus
http://www.fowler.ucla.edu/incEngine/?content=cm&cm=calendar
Individual session tickets available -- contact Bonnie Poon to
RSVP at 310-825-8655 - $15 per session for non-members of the
Fowler Museum; $10 per session for members; series costs $25
for members; $40 for non-members.
 
Gallery Course: Curator Series, Session III
In the last session of a three-part course considering the
exhibition Intersections, explore art from Asia and the
Pacific, including diverse figurative sculpture by the
Austronesian peoples (today’s Indonesians, Filipinos,
Polynesians, and others) and spectacular, ikat-dyed silks from
Uzbekistan. Roy Hamilton, curator of Asian and Pacific
collections, leads this final session of the Curator’s Series
featuring an object study session of the Fowler’s extensive
collection of betel nut cutters.

Other lectures in the series include:
Thursday, February 1, 2007, 7 p.m., Gallery Course: Curator
Series, Session I,  Polly Nooter Roberts, deputy director and
chief curator of the Fowler and a specialist on the arts of
Africa.
 
Thursday, February 8, 2007, 7 p.m., Gallery Course: Curator
Series, Session II , The behind-the-scenes look at
Intersections continues with this session led by Virginia
Fields, curator of Pre-Columbian (Latin American) art at LACMA.


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. 


Sunday, February 18, 2007
The Art of Collecting: Shiva, Cambodia, Angkor period, c. 925
 
2:00 pm
Norton Simon Museum
411 West Colorado Boulevard
Pasadena, CA 91105-1825
626.449.6840
http://www.nortonsimon.org/events/

Museum tour: Hear the story of how the head and body of this
colossal sculpture were reunited in this 20-minute discussion
with a staff educator.

Shiva, c. 925, Cambodia: Angkor period, Sandstone, 72-1/2 in.
(184.2 cm)
http://www.nortonsimon.org/collections/highlights.asp?period=SAH&page=3&resultnum=33

Although his hands are missing, this figure can be identified
as Shiva by the vertical third eye between his eyebrows. His
power and strength are evoked by the hieratic frontality of
his posture and the sheer physicality of his massive body.
Such monumental sculptures are characteristic of Koh Ker,
which briefly served as Jayavarman IV's capital from 921 to 928. 

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