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Criticine.com: Call for Contributions on Archiving in SEA

Posted on 02 September 2010 by Theresa Navarro

From Criticine News (31 August 2010)

In Alexis’s last blog entry on August 29 2009 he wrote:

DEAR FILM DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF THE PHILIPPINES

You have the mandate to start the National Film Archive. I have heard that your first priority project in relation to archiving is the digitization of some 70 works into high quality digital copies. While this may be useful, perhaps inquiring into the state of and assisting the various archives in the country (UP Film Center, Mowelfund et al) whose current holdings (which include rare prints if not master negatives of some titles, let alone the entire history of alternative/experimental cinema in the country) are being stored in deplorable conditions, may be even more important. Have you thought about this? Saving the master negatives or prints and storing and caring for them properly will ensure their survival far longer than digital copies (of which we are still uncertain), and in their original state too. Steps need to be made NOW to ensure that we don’t lose more of these films.

I know you would like high quality digital copies of films to be available for public screenings, and its embarrassing when you’re asked for titles, even recent ones, and don’t know where to get them, but to push for this at the expense of the archiving itself, when the situation is clearly a SOS one for many films/archives is a serious mismanagement of priorities.

I saw this poster recently in the National Film Archive of Thailand, an institution that has done so much with so little and continues to do more (I believe you can learn much from them), and thought it would be useful to share it with you:

Alexis wrote this a few weeks after he Nika, and Lav Diaz visited the Thai Film Archive. They had come to Bangkok that precious week last year for an event Lav would later describe as a “very prole” restrospective of his films. It would never have happened without the kindness of the three good souls from Manila who had taken the time to come – to come to talk and listen, each so acute in words and yet were better listeners still. Out of gratitude for their sincere approach to our homestyle event, we wanted to show them an indie spirit shrine.

So one night we took Alexis, Nika and Lav hurtling along the city’s never-ending elevated highway to a province bordering Bangkok. Out there among the abandoned fields and half-finished condos nestle a cluster of modest buildings in which the Thai Film Archive lives. There is a small restoration and storage bungalow, a cramped library inside an adapted storage carriage, and a museum. Dome Sukwong, the founder of an archive now in its 26th year and which for the most part has been living off a pitiful annual budget, showed them around. Inside the museum, Dome got Alexis to crank an old camera. A flickering image of a miniature figure appeared on the wall – a king takes a step in 1897. “Faster!” the guardian of the spirit shrine whispered to Alexis. It was a wondrous minute, like watching magic passing hands from the bearded visionary to the fresh-faced one with an infectious laugh.

After Alexis and Nika flew back to Manila, Lav mentioned that the humble scale of the archive, its quiet persistence, had resonated strongly with Alexis. The night before the visit, the question of how films die in Southeast Asia had already found its way to us. We had met up with the archivist Brigitte Paulowitz, who has a special interest in film archiving in the region and has helped to train people for the Thai archive. The conversation quickly turned to a topic that was bothering both Alexis and Lav, and which he subsequently wrote up on this blog: the push for digitisation of old films in countries such as the Philippines where much still remains to be done in terms of storing prints in acceptable condition. It was a rich, long night around a bar table on the pavement, a crash course in archiving dilemmas, with Brigitte setting us right on a few myths. In terms of storage, it’s not necessarily cheaper to transfer film prints to digital, and in terms of longevity there is no comparison between the two. With intelligent use of vernacular architectural knowledge it’s possible to construct storage buildings in Southeast Asia that won’t cost the earth to run. Look to archives in the region for examples of what’s being done successfully. For thinking on storage, look to Laos rather than take as the starting point the fanciful notion of the handsomely resourced archives of the West.

A sense of possibilities against impossible odds. I guess Alexis might have been struck by this. Or at least it would have been characteristic of him to draw from our nocturnal encounters this kind of inspiration, and then to take it upon himself to speak out about the hard things and the possibilities already around.

The next issue of Criticine hopes to build on Alexis’s call for a serious look at archiving decisions and practices in the region, and we would gladly welcome contributions on such topics as:

Archives in Southeast Asia – institutions, collections, practices, histories
Possiblities, polemics, controversies
Archive footage or other material in film, video, artistic practice
Private archives, non-institutional forms of collection
Archiving Southeast Asia – materials held outside the region
Interviews with archivists, collectors, filmmakers
Any other topics that resonate with Alexis’s blog and that you feel should be included in this issue

Please email us at criticine1@gmail.com

Criticine.com | about founder Alexis A. Tioseco

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Call for Papers: Panel(s) on Southeast Asian Cinema

Posted on 12 July 2010 by Theresa Navarro

Panel(s): Southeast Asian Cinema
Deadline: 15 July 2010

The Center would like to identify scholars interested in presenting papers on Southeast Asian cinema at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference in Honolulu – March 31-April 3, 2011 (even if you have already submitted a paper to AAS…we’d like to know about people working on SEAn film!). With the AAS looking to expand their range of topics and noting that a larger convention space will allow for a greater number of panels, we are interested in organizing panels on SEA cinema themes to include (but not limited to) Vietnamese film, women filmmakers, films adapted from works of literature, translating SEAn film, and Islam in film.

If you or someone you know is interested in being included on such a panel(s), please contact us at cseas@hawaii.edu and include your name, institutional affiliation, and proposed paper title and short abstract (please include “SEA Cinema-AAS”in the subject bar). Since the deadline for paper submission to AAS is August 5, please send us a statement of interest no later than July 15. This is an organizational effort only. Sadly, we are not offering travel subsidies at this time. Thanks for your interest in Southeast Asian cinema. We look forward to seeing everyone in Honolulu in 2011!

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2011 AAS/ICAS Conference in Honolulu

Posted on 12 May 2010 by Ronald Gilliam

On behalf of the Program Committee for the 2011 joint Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) conference “70 Years of Asian Studies,” to be held at the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu, we are pleased to invite colleagues in Asian Studies to submit proposals for Organized Panels, Roundtables, Workshops, and Individual Papers for sessions to be created by the Conference Committee.

The Committee seeks sessions that will engage panelists and audiences in the consideration of ideas, information, and interpretations that will advance knowledge about Asian regions and, by extension, will enrich teaching about Asia at all levels.

Because space constraints will not be a concern in 2011, we should be able to accommodate more than 400 panel sessions (compared to our usual 250), including substantially more panels comprised of individual paper proposals. The larger number of panel sessions will allow many more scholars to be on the formal program, thus facilitating institutional travel funding and maximizing attendance.

Institutions, organizations and affiliated groups are particularly encouraged to submit panel, roundtable, and workshop session proposals for the formal program, rather than as Meetings-in-Conjunction, which will be limited primarily to business meetings or social functions.

We look forward to your colleagueship at the Honolulu conference and to a program that reflects the culture and dynamism of both the AAS and ICAS, and celebrates the last 70 years of scholarship in the field of Asian Studies.

Questions? Please contact a member of the Program Committee or the AAS Conference Manager, Robyn Jones, rjones@asian-studies.org.

For more information on the conference, please visit the official website.

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Conference on Human Rights in SEA

Posted on 28 April 2010 by Ronald Gilliam

The First International Conference on
HUMAN RIGHTS in SOUTHEAST ASIA

Organized by the Southeast Asian Human Rights Studies Network and the Center for Human Rights Studies and Social Development (CHRSD), Mahidol University, Thailand.

14-15 October 2010
Bangkok , Thailand
www.seahrcon.org

Human rights in Southeast Asia are at a critical juncture. There are a number of positive developments in the promotion and protection of human rights, such as, the institutionalization of the ASEAN Inter-governmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), formation of national human rights commissions or institutions and the development of a dynamic human rights discourse within the region. These occur, however, alongside a significant amount of human rights violations in a wide variety of areas. There is still much work to do in the promotion and protection of human rights of ASEAN peoples.

The First International Conference on Human Rights in Southeast Asia intends to bring together academics, researchers, graduate and post-graduate students, civil society organizations and government agency representatives who work on the research and greater understanding of human rights in Southeast Asia . It seeks to explore the ways researchers and civil society have begun to make more critical contributions to deepening the understanding of human rights-based framework and actual issues through in-depth engagement with localized sites within the Southeast Asian region. Likewise, as human rights is an emerging area of study at universities and academic institutes in Southeast Asia , the conference also aims to provide a venue for the increasing body of research work being done by academics and graduate students on Southeast Asian human rights.

Possible Panel Themes will include:
1. Universality and particularity of human rights
2. Individual and collective rights
3. Gender, sexuality and women’s rights
4. Rights of vulnerable and marginalized groups
5. Peace, conflict, security and human rights
6. Challenges to human rights in Southeast Asia
7. Media, advocacy and popularization of human rights

Paper Submission Details
Those who wish to present a paper at the conference are invited to submit an abstract of 300-350 words and a short biographical paragraph of 150 words in English by 30 June 2010 to Ms. Saksinee Emasiri at seahrcon@gmail.com. Please indicate to which proposed panel you think your paper would best fall under. The full paper should be about 5,000-6,000 words.

Successful applicants will be notified by 15 July 2010. Full papers are due on 30 September 2010.

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Vietnamese Advanced Summer Institute (VASI)

Posted on 13 November 2009 by Theresa Navarro

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
14 June to 6 August 2010

The Vietnamese Advanced Summer Institute (VASI) is an intensive eight-week course of study in advanced Vietnamese conducted at Vietnamese Language Studies Saigon in Ho Chi Minh City. VASI is equivalent to a full year’s academic work.

more info | Deadline: 1 February 2010

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Oceans of Sound Conference

Posted on 21 October 2009 by Ronald Gilliam

International Institute for Asian Studies and the University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
9 September 2010

The maritime Sama peoples make up on of the most widespread cultural groups within the southeast Asian island region.  They can be found in the Philippine Sulu Archipelago, southwestern Mindanao, Sabah, Borneo, east Kalimantan, and Sulawesi, and across many of the eastern Indonesian islands.  One specific, so-called “sea-nomadic” Sama group refers to itself as “Sea Sama” (Sama Diluat, also known as Bajau Laut).

This conference looks at the Sama Dilaut’s performing arts, focussing on kulintangan and other types of instrumental music, song repertoire, and dance. Music and dance are central to the Sama Dilaut’s identity negotiation and maintenance of cultural memory. Music and dance are direct tools in the processes of identity negotiation that localise the Sama Dilaut ‘in-between’ rather than ‘here’ or ‘there’. ‘In-between’ like the beach is in-between the land and the sea, which is difficult to define sharply because of a constant coming and going of high and low tides that blurs the line between the one and the other; but also ‘in-between’ like the present is a bridge between yesterday and tomorrow. This ‘in-between’ is, at the same time, the clear space of the Sama Dilaut’s ‘Own’.

Contact Dr. Birgit Abels at birgitabels@gmail.commore info | Deadline: 15 January 2010

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Southeast Asian Studies: Space, Movement and Place in Southeast Asia

Posted on 29 March 2009 by Theresa Navarro

UC Berkeley and UCLA Joint Conference
University of California, Berkeley, USA
2 – 3 April 2010

Spatial relations in Southeast Asia have long underpinned, stimulated and framed key works on political organization in the region, from Stanley Tambiah’s ‘galactic polity’ to to Thongchai Winichakul’s ‘geo-body’ to Benedict Anderson’s ‘imagined communities’ to James C. Scott’s ‘zomia.’ This conference proposes to re-examine these formulations, while exploring new research and new understandings about space, landscape and human impact in Southeast Asia.

program | Deadline: 19 January 2010

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