[Tlc] T-Council on Thai Studies conference

[justinm at ucr.edu]

Please see the program for the Council on Thai Studies meeting
at UW-Madison below and attached.
Best,
justin

Council on Thai Studies (COTS), December 1, 2007
206 Ingraham Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison

PROGRAM

8:00-8:30	Registration (no fee), with morning coffee

8:30-11:05 	(with 5 min intermission)
Moderator:  Robert Bickner, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Taylor Easum, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Sacred Space and the Restoration of Chiang Mai: 1782-1806." 

John Hartmann, Northern Illinois University
"The Chain of Chiang: Keng Tung to Xiang Khwang and Beyond"

Arnika Fuhrmann, University of Chicago
“‘What kind of case is a case of a ghost?’—History,
negativity, and the minority subject in Thai film after 1997”

Jeff Boone, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"No Lust, No Caution.  Problems in the Study of Modern Thai
Literature"

Susan Kepner, University of California-Berkeley
"Saam Kler and Bertie Wooster:  Social Comedy and Social
Criticism in the Work of 
P. Intarapalit and P.G. Wodehouse"

11:05-11:15 	Break

11:15-12:15	Guest Speaker: Professor Thak Chaloemtiarana,
Cornell University
Introduction by Thongchai Winichakul

Thak Chaloemtiarana, Cornell University
"Bucking the Thai Literary Canon:  the significance of
pre-1929 translated, original and imitation novels."
 
This talk will be an attempt to shake the view of Thai
literary scholars that the first real Thai novels were written
in 1929 with the publication of MC Akatdamkoeng's Lakhon Haeng
Chiwit, Kulab's Luk Phuchai, and Dokmaisot's Sattru Khong
Chaolon.  Earlier novels, either translated ones or original
compositions in Thai, or imitating compositions are
significant works, especially in view of Siam's attempt to
cope with the West.

12:15-1:30	Lunch (on your own)
 

1:30-3:30	Moderator:  Larry Ashmun, University of
Wisconsin-Madison

Andrea Molnar, Northern Illinois University
“Southern Thai Muslim Women’s Political Participation: 
Preliminary Field 
Findings”

Frank Osanka, Independent Scholar, Racine, WI
“Murdering Buddhist Educators and Burning Schools as a
Strategy of the Islamic Insurgency in South Thailand, 2004-2007”

Anthony Medrano, Ohio University
“Constructing a National Identity: The Role of the State
School in Southern Thai Society” 

Punchada Sirivunnabood, Northern Illinois University 
“Party Transformation and the Survival of the Democrat Party
of Thailand”

3:30-3:40	Break

3:40- 5:10	Moderator:  Katherine Bowie, University of
Wisconsin-Madison

Joe Harris, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Stratified Citizenship: State Racial and Ethnic
Classification Systems in Thailand"

Tatchalerm Sudhipongpracha, Northern Illinois University
(political science)
"Disaggregation of Thailand's judicial system and civic
engagements"

Joel Sawat Selway, University of Michigan
“The Political Economy of Healthcare in Thailand”

5:15-5:45
Bruce Pamperin, University of Wisconsin-Stout
"Three Weeks in Amazing Thailand:  Study Abroad Lessons"

[Let’s go having dinner together at …TBA…]


Sunday Dec 2, 9:00-11:00	Brunch at Bowie’s, 4118 St. Claire
St., (608) 238-8150


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Note: Our guest speaker, Professor Thak Chaloemtiarana, will
also give another talk at the Friday Forum by the UW Center
for Southeast Asian Studies, Friday, Nov 30, noon, at 206
Ingraham Hall.

 "Autobiographies of the rich, the gorgeous, and the comical:
iconic achievers in contemporary Thai society."

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