CSEAS News Archive

• Indonesian Rule Weighs Heavy in West Papua
  Patsy Spier tells of campaign to investigate Indonesia's role in her husband's murder; John Rumbiak calls for independence for the island peoples.
• Spirit Possession Religions and Popular Rituals Flourish in Vietnam
  Mother Goddess religion as well as local gods and shamans have strong following despite official disapproval.
• Forgiveness in East Timor, But Where Is the Justice?
  Five years after the Indonesian massacres in East Timor, reconciliation meetings in many villages have tried to restore the broken bonds between the two sides, but the Indonesian generals who ordered the killings have never been brought to trial.
• ASEAN and Terrorism in Southeast Asia
  Some Islamic extremists envision a new pan-Islamic state in Southeast Asia, Chinese scholar tells UCLA audience.
• The Near Extinction of Cambodian Classical Dance
  Cambodian classical dancer and teacher Sophiline Cheam Shapiro speaks about the dance's political and cultural roles, how it was almost destroyed by Pol Pot, its politicization under the Vietnamese communists, and its revival today.
• The Southeast of Asian Languages and Cultures
  How Southeast Asian languages joined the East Asian Languages and Cultures Department
• Vietnamese Artist Tran Trong Vu -- Torn between Two Worlds
  Looking back at his homeland from Paris his cartoonlike images explore bureaucracy and entrepreneurial conformity in a burlesque of socialist realist style.
• The Machinery of Vietnamese Art and Literature in the Post-Renovation, Post-Communist, and Post-Modern Period
  Pham Thi Hoài, one of contemporary Vietnam's most influential writers, analyzes literature in Vietnam today
• Transition to Crisis in the Indonesian Countryside
  Anna L. Tsing (Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz) discusses connections between globalism, rural chaos, and environmental destruction.
• Reflections on East Timor after Independence: An Opposition Leader’s Perspective
  Fernando de Araujo describes the problems of constructing a democratic infrastructure in the wake of the devastation wrought by Indonesia on his island nation.

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