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[justinm at ucr.edu]

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justin

1) Conference Announcement
Graduate Student Conference, Cornell University Southeast Asia
Program

March 14-16, 2008
Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Avenue, Ithaca, NY

The Cornell Southeast Asia Program would like to announce its
10th annual Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Conference. This
year the event will be held at the Kahin Center for Advanced
Research on Southeast Asia on March 14-16, 2008. The Annual
Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Conference is a symposium
organized annually by the SEAP Student Committee. It serves as
a forum for students around the U.S. and abroad who are
working in any discipline related to Southeast Asia to be
actively involved in intellectual exchanges with their fellows
in the community of Southeast Asian Studies. This year we are
honored to announce that our keynote speaker will be Professor
Thongchai Winichakul, the author of Siam Mapped: A History of
the Geo-body of a Nation (1994), and "Remembering/Silencing
the Traumatic Past: the Ambivalent Memories of the October
1976 Massacre in Bangkok" in Cultural Crisis and Social
Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos (2002),
edited by Charles F Keyes and Shigeharu Tanabe. Sponsored by:
Southeast Asia Program. For more international activities
please visit:
http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/southeastasia/calendar/index.asp.
_____________________________________________________

2)
Conference Announcement
Asia/Pacific Business Outlook (APBO) 2008

April 7 & 8, 2008
Davidson Conference Center
University of Southern California - Los Angeles

http://www.apbo2008.com/

The USC Marshall School of Business will host the 21st  annual
APBO conference, in partnership with the U.S. Department of
Commerce. APBO is the premiere networking event for American
businesses that want to expand their investment and trade
opportunities in the Asia/Pacific markets. The conference
highlights new business opportunities and challenges for U.S.
companies, presented by 50 experts, including the U.S.
Department of Commerce Senior Commercial Officers (SCOs) and
American executives working in 14 countries in the
Asia/Pacific Rim, including India and Mexico. Register early
to ensure private one-on-one appointments with the SCOs--one
of the extraordinary benefits for conference participants.

Academic and non-profit rates are available. Please contact
<echow at marshall.usc.edu> or call 213 740 7130.

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