International Burma Studies Conference

International Burma Studies Conference

International Burma Studies Conference
Panels, Papers, and Presenters
October 5-7, 2012
Friday (October 5, 2012)
10:00-2:00
Registration: Outside Regency Room
1:00-1:30
International Burma Studies Conference Opening - Regency Room
1:30-3:00
Regency Room
Capital Room North
Panel 1: Glimpses of
Myanmar’s Very Long
History (1)
Lilian Handlin (moderator)
A Labyrinth Image in the
Mahosadha Jataka
Panel 2: Linguistics (1)
Aleix Ruiz-Falques
Saddhammasiri and His
Philosophy of Language
Terrence Tan
Beads of Samon Valley
3:00-4:30
Capital Room South
Sandburg Auditorium
Panel 3: Literature and Power Panel 4: Human Rights
Concerns in Contemporary
Justin Watkins (moderator)
Myanmar
Julian K. Wheatley
Emily A. Ehmer (moderator)
William Davis
New Linguistic Data on the Women Activist Writers of
A Population-Based Assessment
Pyu Language and its
Burma Since 1988: Agents of of Health and Human Rights in
Relationship to Old
Change and Courage
Karen State
Burmese
John Hartmann
Amara Thiha
Emily Hong
Connecting Chiang:
The Impact of Occidentalist
Cultural Resistance in Burma:
Historical, Linguistic and
Literatures on the Development Local Meaning-Making in the
Archaeological Possibilities of Racist Ideas and Rise of
Work of Minority Rights Activists
Ultra-Nationalism in
Contemporary Myanmar Burma
Keita Kurabe
Maung Bo Bo
On Lexical and Grammatical How to Raise the ‘Bo’s
Borrowing in the Jingpho
Nationalism in the Cold War
(Kachin) Language
Burmese Press
Elliott Prasse-Freeman
Former Political Prisoners and
Patterns of Re-Subjectivisation
Catherine Raymond
Lisa Brooten (moderator)
A Burmese Cosmological
Why Press Freedom is Not
Palm-leaf Manuscript from
Enough: Human Rights, Peacethe Burma Art Collection at
Building and the Multi-Ethnic
Northern Illinois University
Public Sphere
Panel 5: Glimpses of
Panel 7: Collections and
Panel 8: Education, Past and
Panel 6: The State,
Myanmar’s Very Long
Curators: Display of Burmese Present
Customary Law and Civil
History (2)
Arts and Curatorial Practices
Society
C. Raymond (Discussant and
moderator)
Jorg Schendel
Roger Lee Huang
Alexandra Green
Kim Johnson (moderator)
Commercializing the Upper Rethinking State-Societal
Collecting Burmese Art in the Imperial Education Policies in
Burma Rice Core
Relations in Myanmar:
British Museum
Burma
Implications for Current
Political Developments
Francois Tainturier
Maaike Matelski
Sherry Harlacher
Dorothy Guyot
Sanctifying Old and New Developments in
Palm or Paper? Some
The Tension Between Acing the
Knowledge in a Nineteenth Representation and
Thoughts on Book Art Practices Matric and Learning Critical
Century Burmese Precis of Advocacy for Burmese Civil in Burma and Ceylon
Thinking Skills
Buddhist Cosmography
Society
Lodewijk Wagenaar
Rebecca Hall
Pyi Phyo Kyaw
(moderator)
Burmese Art in the Walters Art Burmese Monastic Education in
Troubles in Siam – The
Museum
Contemporary Sociopolitical
Last Years of the Dutch
Contexts of Burma: Curricula,
East India’s Lodge in
Motivation and Roles of Monastic
Ayutthaya 1760 - 1767
Examinations
Celine Coderey
Jim Guyot
Dana: Burmese Art of Donation The Asiatic Mode of College
Admission: A Burma Case
Seinenu M. Thein
Eating and the Emergence of the
Burmese Self: An Examination of
Burmese Children’s Embodied
Mealtime Practices and How
They Shape Their Sense of
Independence, Agency and
Intimacy
Friday (October 5, 2012) Continued….
5:30-6:30
Exhibit Opening Reception “Music for the Divine” - NIU Art Museum, Altgeld Hall
6:30-7:00
Cocktails – Blackhawk Dining Room – Holmes Student Center (HSC) Lower Level (cash bar)
7:00-8:00
Dinner – Blackhawk Dining Room - Holmes Student Center Lower Level
8:00-8:30
Sarah M. Bekker Prize Announcement and Dedication to Saw Tun and David Steinberg - Blackhawk, HSC
8:30-9:30
Film Festival “They Call it Myanmar: Lifting The Curtain” presented by Robert Lieberman – Sandburg Aud., HSC
To view a trailer of our new Burma film, “They Call it Myanmar — Lifting The Curtain” go to:
http://www.theycallitmyanmar.com
Saturday (October 6, 2012)
7:00-8:00
Breakfast - Regency Room
Regency Room
8:00-9:45
Capital Room North
Panel 9: The Irony of
Panel 10: Colonial and
Endurance: Shifting
Post-Colonial
Concepts of the Sasana in Subjectivities
Burmese Buddhism
Thomas Patton(moderator) Patrick McCormick
Buddhist “Salvation Armies” English in Burma as an
and the Vanguards of the Intellectual Inheritance
Sasana
Capital Room South
Maitrii Aung-Thwin(moderator)
Imperial Intertextuality and the
Making of a Burmese/Bengali
Criminal: Saya San’s
Connection to the Chittagong
Armoury Raid Case of 1930
Erik Braun
Rosalie Metro (moderator) Haydon Cherry
Stone Before Speech:
Post-Colonial Subjectivities Crime and Punishment in
Mindon’s Fifth Buddhist
in the Post-Conflict Aid
Colonial Burma: Policing the
Council
Triangle: The Drama of
Plural Society
Educational Missionization in
the Thai-Burma Borderland
Patrick Pranke
Thomas Rhoden
Lalita Hingkanonta
History and Eschatology in Burmese Refugee
Mixed Marriage, Zerbadis and
Burmese Buddhist
Repatriation in Comparative Buddhism: Anatomy of Urban
Chronicles
Analysis
Unrest in Late Colonial Burma
Alicia Turner
Dynamic Orthodoxies and
Shifting Sasana: Colonial
Interpretation of Buddhist
Reform
Coffee and Tea - Regency Room
Panel 13: Buddhism’s
Panel 14: Burma’s 19th and
10:00-11:45 Varied Meanings in
20th Century History (1)
Recent Myanmar History
Charles Carstens
Chipamong Chowdhury
The Malalankaravatthu in Marma of the Chittagong Hill
Context
Tracts and Historical/Ethnic
Relationship to Burma
Sandburg Auditorium
Panel 11: Discourse of Crime, Panel 12: Migration and
Law and Culture in Colonial Burmese Communities in the
Burma
Diaspora
Inga Gruss (moderator)
Social Hierarchy, Authenticity
and Time: Student
Performances by Migrant
Children on World Teacher’s
Day
Lian Thang
The Pulpit Chronicle: A Study of
How Burmese Chin Immigrants
in the United States Negotiate
Their Ethnic Identity Through
Christianity
Heather MacLachlan
Constructing Pan-Karen Identity
in Fort Wayne, Indiana
9:45-10:00
Ward Keeler (moderator)
Burmese Buddhism as
Social Ideology
Kyaw Soe Lwin
Labour Politics Under the
Revolutionary Council (19621974)
Panel 12: Migration and
Burmese Communities in the
Diaspora (continued)
Renaud Egreteau (moderator)
Back from Golden Land:
Exploring Migration Patterns,
Resettlement and Political
Mobilization of Burmese Indian
Repatriates in Eastern India
Since the 1960s
Rey Ty and Maria BeltranFigueroa
Contending Approaches to
Refugee Services
Han Thinzar (Honey) Zaw
Theravada Buddhism
Influence on Gender
Communication in
Myanmar/Burma
Michael D. Leigh(moderator)
Mytkyin 1942: Seven Days
that Shook A World
Saturday (October 6, 2012) Continued ...
12:00-1:00
Lunch - Regency Room – Group Photo will be taken in the Sandburg Auditorium before lunch
Regency Room
Capital Room North
Capital Room South
Sandburg Auditorium
th
1:00-2:30
Panel 15: Political
Panel 16: Burma’s 19 and Panel 17: State, Society and Panel 18: Reforms, Electoral
Economy and Finance in a 20th Century History (2)
Ethnicity in Post-Colonial
Campaigns and Their Results
Modernizing State
Burma
James Scott (Discussant)
Koji Kubo (moderator)
Asuka Mizuno
Political Economy Analysis of Pattern of Settlements in
Exchange Rate Policy
Burmese Trade During the
Reform in Myanmar
Colonial Period
John Buchanan
The Rise of Rural Strongmen:
Societies in Transition in
Independent Burma
Hans-Bernd Zollner and Daw
Hla Hla Win (moderator)
Burmese/Myanmar Elections –
Then and Now
Min Ye Paing Hein
Tax Reform and Economic
Development in Burma
(Myanmar): Thou Goest
Whither?
Mu-Lung Hsu
Nicholas Farrelly
Matthew J. Walton
Learning Chinese: The
A Manau Before a War: Culture Soldiers, Activists and Monks:
Cultural and Economic Basis and Conflict in Burma’s
Contesting “Democracy” in
of the Yunnanese Identity
Kachinland
Contemporary Myanmar
Sandar Win
Banks’ Lending Decisions to
Finance Businesses in the
Façade of Convergent to
Institutional Pressures:
A Case of Myanmar (Burma)
Joanna Barnard
The Visibility of Beriberi?
Colonial Healthcare and
Nutrition in British Burma
David S. Mathieson
Quantifying and Qualifying the
Human Cost of Burma’s Civil
Wars
Adam P. MacDonald
From Military Rule to Electoral
Authoritarianism: The
Reconfiguration of Power in
Myanmar and its Future
Kenton Clymer
Burma, The United States,
China and the Guomindang
(KMT) Problem in the 1950s
Ma Jianxiong
Setting the Han Lineages
Among Dai Chieftains: The
Construction of Kokang Elite
Networks as a Frontier
Institution Between China and
Burma
Nicole Loring
A Window of Opportunity?
Using Burma’s Recent Elections
to Conceptualize Regime
Change
Panel 19: Music and Visual Panel 20: Linguistics (2)
Performance in Burma
2:30-4:00
Bryce Beemer
Dancing Partners: The
Influence of Thai Ramayana
Masks on the Arts of the
Konbaung Era
Gavin Douglas
The Dhamma Gita of Maung
Ko Ko: Sacred and Secular
Music Fusion
Julian Wheatley (moderator)
Justin Watkins
Ritual Chanting in Sumtu
Chin- A Report on recent
Linguistic Fieldwork
Nathan Waxman
The Naturalization of Indic
Loanwords in Burmese
Myint Zan
Burma: Entering the Good News
Column [Again}? A
Retrospective and Prospective
Look at Recent “Stunning
Reforms”
Panel 21: Political Reform in
Myanmar and Sino-Myanmar
Relations in Post General
Elections Era
David Steinberg (Discussant)
Li Chenyang (moderator)
Sino-Myanmar Relations After
the General Election in 2010:
Challenges and Prospect
Liu Zhi
Ethnic Policy of the New
Government and Tendency of
Inter-Ethnicity Relations in
Myanmar During the Post
Election Period
Catherine Raymond
Laichen Sun
The Burmese Harp: A Visual Gunpowder and Languages
Construction of a Burmese
Identity
Saturday (October 6, 2012) Continued
Regency
Capital Room North
Zhu Xianghui
Business Elites and Reform in
Myanmar
Capital Room South
Panel 22: Technology, Art Panel 23: State and Society
and Cultural Production
in Contemporary Myanmar
4:00-5:30
John Badgley (moderator)
Myanmar Libraries: Past,
Present and Future
Jane M. Ferguson
International Technology
and Burmese Modernity in
Burmese Cinema
Emily Hue
Challenging Vulnerable
Cartographies of Burma:
Affect, Art and Humanitarian
Discourse
Sandburg Auditorium
Panel 21: Political Reform in
Myanmar and Sino-Myanmar
Relations (continued)
David Steinberg (Discussant)
Lu Guangsheng
Economic Relations of Yunnan
and Myanmar: Renewed
Challenges
Laur Kiik
Myanmar’s Conflicted
Nationalisms – Myanmar’s
Disconnected
Environmentalisms: The
Making of Kachin
Environmental Subjects
Tharaphi Than
Khin Zaw Win
All that Glitters is Not Gold:
Nation Building and Regional
The Political and Social Reality Powers
Behind the Image of Powerful
Women in Contemporary
Burma/Myanmar
Yan Min Aung
Greening Myanmar Industry:
Choosing the Right
Environmental Policy Tools for
Regulating Industrial Pollution
in Burma
Aung Myint Oo
Ludu: A Private Collection
Open for Public and
Academics
5:30-6:30
Cocktails - Altgeld Hall Ballroom (cash bar)
6:30-7:30
Burma Studies Gala Night Dinner - Altgeld Ballroom
Cultural Events – Featuring Award Premiere “Five Pools” on Karen Bronze Drums by Greg Beyer, Chair of
Percussion Ensemble, School of Music, Northern Illinois University, Altgeld Ballroom
7:30-9:30
Sunday (October 7, 2012)
8:00-9:00
Breakfast - Regency Room
Regency Room
Panel 24: Ethics of Research in Myanmar – Roundtable Discussion
9:00-10:00
Rosalie Metro - Discussant
Patrick McCormick
Elliott Prasse-Freeman
10:00-11:15 Panel 25: Roundtable on Current Affairs - Sponsored by the Asia Foundation
John Brandon (moderator)
David Steinberg
U Ko Ko Hlaing
U Than Kyaw
Tin Maung Maung Than
11:15-11:30 Closing Ceremony
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