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West Sumatran Minangkabau Traditions: Special Randai Performance & Lecture

Posted on 02 February 2012 by Pahole Sookkasikon

West Sumatran Minangkabau Traditions: A Randai Theatre Performance and Illustrated Lecture by Edy Utama

Where:

Shangri La, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art
4055 Papu Circle
Honolulu, HI 96816

When:

Saturday, February 4, 2012
1:30 – 3:30 p.m.

Schedule:

1:30 – 2:00 p.m. Open House
2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Concert/Lecture
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Refreshments

Précis:

West Sumatran Minangkabau culture is the result of a long process of dialogue between various world cultures with a matrilineal kinship system in combination with Islamic religion. This salon focuses on elements of Minangkabau culture beginning with dance and musical selections from the Randai theatre production The Genteel Sabai performed by students from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa Theatre and Dance Department. Sumatran Minang cultural expert, scholar, and photographer Edy Utama, will follow the performance with an illustrated talk, Contemporary West Sumatran Minangkabau Traditions with the aid of interpreter, Rohayati Paseng. The talk will focus on the characteristics that make up this unique culture and the ways in which the culture is changing due to pressure from the Indonesian government and an increasingly westernized world.

Ticket Price:

$15 per person
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Parking:

Please note there is no parking at Shangri La or in the surrounding neighborhood. Access to Shangri La is by shuttle van only.
Van service to Shangri La will begin at 1:15 p.m. from the Kapi’olani Community College, parking lot B.

About Us:

The mission of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art is to promote the study and understanding of Islamic arts and cultures. In the context of the increasing tension between the U.S. and the Muslim world, DDFIA plays a unique role in the growing dialogue among scholars, artists and the public about how to help cultivate mutual understanding.

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Tags: Cambodia, Khmer Rouge, New York Times, Photography

Photography: Scars of Cambodia’s War (Maureen Lambray/Umbrage)

Posted on 02 February 2012 by Pahole Sookkasikon

The scars of Cambodia’s wars and genocide are more than psychic: this little nation in the heart of Southeast Asia is one of the most densely mined places on earth. And like those mines, the legacy of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge exacts a constant — and hidden — toll, leaving the country mostly poor, politically repressive, corrupt and violent.

It was only last month that a trial of the three surviving Khmer Rouge leaders got under way, reviving buried memories for many traumatized Cambodians.

In her meditation on the scars of war in Cambodia, “War Remnants of the Khmer Rouge” (Umbrage Books, October 2011), the photographer Maureen Lambray has chosen to emphasize portraits of badly maimed victims of the land mines that were mostly laid during the wars that preceded and followed the Khmer Rouge rule. The quiet mood of her carefully composed and lit portraits of land-mine victims, as they stare intently into the camera, belies the horror of their mutilation.

“I began documenting the people and haunted sites,” she wrote in the book’s preface. “It seems half the population are still missing arms, legs, fathers and mothers.”

Over the last three decades, land mines have caused more than 63,900 deaths and injuries, Helen Clark, the development chief of the United Nations, said at a major international conference on land mines now under way in Phnom Penh.

Apart from these broken bodies, Ms. Lambray’s camera also captures the desolation of ruined buildings and forbidding forests in a land populated by ghosts. In a more direct reference to Pol Pot’s atrocities, she shows an empty corridor at Tuol Sleg Prison, where thousands of people were tortured and sent to a killing field, enclosed by barbed wire to prevent them from jumping to their deaths.

Like her other work, Ms. Lambray’s photographs combine journalistic coverage — sometimes at personal risk — with artistic composition.

In 1979, Yassir Arafat invited her to Beirut for an in-depth look at the Palestine Liberation Organization. The following year, she covered the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, disguising herself at one point as an Afghan man. And in 1994, she was caught up in the Zapatista uprising in Mexico during a project to document obscure Indian tribes.

Her first encounter with Cambodia came in 1979 when she chronicled the lives of refugees in camps along the Thai border where hundreds of thousands of people had fled as the Khmer Rouge regime collapsed. She returned to Cambodia in 2003 and said she was stunned to see how little the country had recovered.

“The government has begun spiriting away the maimed Cambodians as more tourists flock to their country,” she wrote in her preface. “We need images as reminders of how quickly genocide can happen, and the past become the present.”

A killing cave southwest of Battembang where the Khmer Rouge pushed victims through a hole in the roof to fall to their death.

A mined jungle in Kampot.

A torture room inside S-21.

Photography and the article were taken from a piece by journalist, Seth Mydans, for the New York Times. The original article was originally released on December 1, 2011, at 1:00 pm.

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Tags: anna leonowens, Bookshelf Spotlight, mongkut, siam, Thailand, victorian literature

Bookshelf Spotlight: Anna Leonowens, Siam, and “The King & I”

Posted on 31 January 2012 by Pahole Sookkasikon

Featured University Of Hawai’i Press Publishing

* Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation

Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation

by Thongchai Winichakul
University Of Hawai’i Press, 1994

This unusual and intriguing study of nationhood explores the 19th-century confrontation of ideas that transformed the kingdom of Siam into the modern conception of a nation. Siam Mapped challenges much that has been written on Thai history because it demonstrates convincingly that the physical and political definition of Thailand on which other works are based is anachronistic.

University Of Hawai’i Press | Goodreads | Amazon | Google Books

Featured Books

* The English Governess At The Siamese Court
* Anna and the King of Siam
* Romance of the Harem
* Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the King and I Governess
* Mongkut the King of Siam

The English Governess At The Siamese Court

by Anna Leonowens
Oxford University Press, USA; 1st edition (March 17, 1989), Originally published in 1870

The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok (1870) vividly recounts the experiences of one Anna Harriette Leonowens as governess for the sixty-plus children of King Mongkut of Siam, English teacher for his entire royal family, and translator and scribe for the King himself. Bright, young, and energetic, Leonowens was well-suited to these roles, and her writings convey a heartfelt interest in the lives, legends, and languages of Siam’s rich and poor. She also tells of how she and the King often disagreed on matters domestic. After all, this was the first time King Mongkut had met a woman who dared to contradict him, and the governess found the very idea of male domination intolerable. Overworked and underpaid, Leonowens would eventually resign, but her exchanges with His Majesty–heated and otherwise–on topics like grammar, charity, slavery, politics, and religion add much to her diary’s rich, cross-cultural spirit, its East-meets-West appeal.

Over the years, that appeal has only increased. Eighty years after it first appeared, this memoir inspired the popular book and film, Anna and the King of Siam, and a few years later the hit musical, The King and I. Now comes yet another version, Anna and the King, the new film starring Jodie Foster and Chow Yun Fat. Here, then, is the original tale, presented with many reproductions of the fine drawings that the King had offered as gifts to Leonowens. The English Governess at the Siamese Court remains engaging as a story of adventure, fascinating as a picture of nineteenth-century Bangkok, and intriguing as an account of life inside King Mongkut’s palace.

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Anna and the King of Siam

by Margaret Landon
Harper Paperbacks, 1999; Originally published in 1944

Anna Leonowens, a proper Englishwoman, was an unlikley candidate to change the course of Siamese (Thai) history. A young widow and mother, her services were engaged in the 1860′s by King Mongkut of Siam to help him communicate with foreign governments and be the tutor to his children and favored concubines. Stepping off the steamer from London, Anna found herself in an exotic land she could have only dreamed of lush landscape of mystic faiths and curious people, and king’s palace bustling with royal pageantry, ancient custom, and harems. One of her pupils, the young prince Chulalongkorn, was particularly influenced by Leonowens and her Western ideals. He learned about Abraham Lincoln and the tenets of democracy from her, and years later he would become Siam’s most progressive king. He guided the country’s transformation from a feudal state to a modern society, abolshing slavery and making many other radical reforms.

Weaving meticulously researched facts with beautifully imagined scenes, Margret Landon recreates an unforgettable portrait of life in a forgotten extotic land. Written more than fifty years ago, and translated into dozens of languages, ” Anna and the King of Siam “(the inspiration for the magical play and film “The King and I”)continues to delight and enchant readers around the world.

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Romance of the Harem

by Anna Leonowens
University of Virginia Press, 1991; Originally published in 1873

The author is Anna Leonowens, the lovely English governess to the children of the King of Siam whose story is immortalized, highly romanticized in the Rogers & Hammerstein musical “The King and I” (1951). “Truth is often stranger than fiction,” writes Leonowens. Fiction based on fact, embellished to fascinate the reader and get the point across, is perhaps a more precise description of all the gruesome torture and persecutions of the ladies of the harem by the King who was a Buddhist monk and abbot for 26 years before ascending to the throne.

King Mongkut’s harem was so immense it encompassed an enormous complex within the Grand Palace in Bangkok called the Nang Harm (“Veiled Women”), surrounded by a high wall, housing the royal princesses, wives, and concubines of the king. It was a world of its own, complete with Amazon-women guards, prisons, judges and executioners, but also schools and theaters. Here the women carried out their connubial duty to produce the king’s heirs. When King Mongkut died he left behind 66 royal children.

After five years, Anna Leonowens left, traveling to England and Ireland before settling in the United States and eventually Canada, where she once again supported herself by teaching.

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Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the King and I Governess

by Susan Morgan
University of California Press, 2008

If you thought you knew the story of Anna in The King and I, think again. As this riveting biography shows, the real life of Anna Leonowens was far more fascinating than the beloved story of the Victorian governess who went to work for the King of Siam. To write this definitive account, Susan Morgan traveled around the globe and discovered new information that has eluded researchers for years. Anna was born a poor, mixed-race army brat in India, and what followed is an extraordinary nineteenth-century story of savvy self-invention, wild adventure, and far-reaching influence. At a time when most women stayed at home, Anna Leonowens traveled all over the world, witnessed some of the most fascinating events of the Age of Empire, and became a well-known travel writer, journalist, teacher, and lecturer. She remains the one and only foreigner to have spent significant time inside the royal harem of Siam. She emigrated to the United States, crossed all of Russia on her own just before the revolution, and moved to Canada, where she publicly defended the rights of women and the working class. The book also gives an engrossing account of how and why Anna became an icon of American culture in The King and I and its many adaptations.

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Mongkut the King of Siam

by Abbot Low Moffat
Cornell University Press; 1st Cornell Printing edition (1968)

In this fascinating biography, Moffat considers Mongkut to be one of the great men of Siam, and seeks to recover him from the well-loved fictions. Includes a number of black-and-white illustrations. He is skeptical of the reliability of Anna Leonowns accounts and analyzes some of them.

Must reading for the fans of Margaret Landon and the stage play / movies and people with an interest in Asian history.

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Tags: Film Series, Philippines

Film Series: In the Navel of the Sea (Philippines)

Posted on 30 January 2012 by Ronald Gilliam

Date: Wednesday 1 February 2012 @ 6:30 PM
Korean Studies Auditorium

Director: Marilou Diaz-Abaya
Writer: Jun Lana
Cast: Jomari Yllana, Elizabeth Oropesa, Chin Chin Gutierrez, Pen Medina, Ronnie Lazaro

Filmmaker Marilou Diaz-Abaya ventures into the realm of instinct andemotion in this unusual story about a male midwife. In a remote fishing village during the American occupation, young Pepito (Jomari Yllana) grows up with no choice but to learn the trade of his mother, despite obvious embarrassment and prejudices. The real test of maturity comes when he ventures from the island (the nest, the navel) to the mainland (the real world). The script won the prestigious PALANCA literary award, and Diaz-Abaya manages to get outstanding performances from her actors with her economical, understated direction. ~ Gönül Dönmez-Colin, Rovi

This film was translated and subtitled by students in the film and translation course of Pia Arboleda, Assistant Professor of Filipino and Philippine Literature, Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures, University of Hawai’i.

Please note: Bring WARM clothes as the auditorium is heavily air-conditioned!!

Distributor: http://www.kabayancentral.com
Please support the distributor by purchasing all of their films!

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Tags: Cambodia, Music, Song of the Week

Song of the Week: Ros Sereysothea រស់ សេរីសុទ្ធា (Cambodia)

Posted on 28 January 2012 by Ronald Gilliam

Ros Sereysothea (Khmer: រស់ សេរីសុទ្ធា) (1948 – 1977) was a famous Cambodian singer during the nation’s thriving cultural renaissance. She sang from a variety of genres but romantic ballads emerged as her most popular works. Despite a rather short career she is credited with producing hundreds of songs and even starring in a few movies. Details of her life and fate during the Khmer Rouge is relatively unknown but it is generally accepted she did not survive.

With the cultural upheaval by the Khmer Rouge, scant evidence of Ros Serey Sothea’s life remains. Her master recordings were either destroyed by the regime or deteriorated rapidly to the tropical environment due to lack of preservation. However, many vinyl recordings have survived and have gained reissues initially on tape cassettes and later on compact discs. Unfortunately many of these reissues are also remixed with extra beats usually overriding the original score. The vinyls from the master sources are thereby highly sought out by preservationist and collectors.

Nonetheless Sothea remained extremely popular even after her death in Cambodian communities scattered throughout the United States, France, Australia and Canada. Western interest in Sothea would not dawn until songs by Sothea, Sinn Sisamouth and other Cambodian singers of the era such as Meas Samoun, Choun Malai and Pan Ron, were featured on the soundtrack to Matt Dillon’s film City of Ghosts. Tracks by Sothea are “Have You Seen My Love”, “I’m Sixteen” and “Wait Ten Months”. The Los Angeles band Dengue Fever, which features Cambodian lead singer Chhom Nimol, covers a number of songs by Sothea and other singers from the short-lived but rich Cambodian rock and roll scene. The advent of the internet, undoubtly saved what was left of her discography while spreading and garnering interest in her music even after almost half a century later.

Biography Blog | Last.fm | Ros Serevsothea Film | Khmer Music Page

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Tags: Bookshelf Spotlight, Lèse-Majesté, Monarchy, Thailand

Bookshelf Spotlight: Thailand, Lèse-Majesté, and Her Monarchy

Posted on 25 January 2012 by Pahole Sookkasikon

Featured University Of Hawai’i Press Publishing

* Saying the Unsayable: Monarchy and Democracy in Thailand

Saying the Unsayable: Monarchy and Democracy in Thailand

ed. Soren Ivarsson, & Lotte Isager
University Of Hawai’i Press, 2010

The Thai monarchy today is usually presented as both guardian of tradition and the institution to bring modernity and progress to the Thai people. It is moreover seen as protector of the nation. Scrutinizing that image, this volume reviews the fascinating history of the modern monarchy. It also analyses important cultural, historical, political, religious, and legal forces shaping the popular image of the monarchy and, in particular, of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. In this manner, the book offers valuable insights into the relationships between monarchy, religion and democracy in Thailand – topics that, after the September 2006 coup d’état, gained renewed national and international interest.

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Featured Books

* Lords of Things: The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy’s Modern Image
* Monarchy in South East Asia: The Faces of Tradition in Transition
* Nai Luang Beloved King of Thailand: A History of the Chakri Dynasty
* The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand’s Bhumibol Adulyadej
* Truth on Trial in Thailand: Defamation, Treason, and Lèse-Majesté

Lords of Things: The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy’s Modern Image

by Maurizio Peleggi
University Of Hawai’i Press, 2002

Lords of Things offers an intriguing interpretation of modernity in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Siam by focusing on the novel material possessions and social practices adopted by the royal elite to refashion its self and public image in the early stages of globalization. It examines the westernized modes of consumption and self-presentation, the residential and representational architecture, and the public spectacles appropriated by the Bangkok court not as byproducts of institutional reformation initiated by modernizing sovereigns, but as practices and objects constitutive of the very identity of the royalty as a civilized and civilizing class.

Bringing a wealth of new source material into a theoretically informed discussion, Lords of Things will be required reading for historians of Thailand and Southeast Asia scholars generally. It represents a welcome change from previous studies of Siamese modernization that are almost exclusively concerned with the institutional and economic dimensions of the process or with foreign relations, and will appeal greatly to those interested in transnational cultural flows, the culture of colonialism, the invention of tradition, and the relationship between consumption and identity formation in the modern era.

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Monarchy in South East Asia: The Faces of Tradition in Transition

by Roger Kershaw
Routledge, 2000

This title is the first study to relate the history and contemporary role of the South East Asian monarchy to the politics of the region today. Comprehensive & up-to-date, Monarchy in South East Asia features an historical and political overview of Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Laos, as well as the region in general. The excellent coverage of this fascinating subject should be of interest to general reader as well as to specialists focusing on region.

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Nai Luang Beloved King of Thailand: A History of the Chakri Dynasty

by Tenzin Dawa
ThaiSunset Publications, 2011

His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej is divinely revered by Thais. Still, during His Majesty’s long reign of 65 years [as of 2011], the King has seen over 15 military coups, 16 constitutions, and 28 changes of prime ministers. The King has also used his influence to stop military coups, among others, including attempts in 1981 and 1985.

It has often been said that the independence and integrity of Thailand is assured by three unifying factors: its people’s carefree disposition, the tolerant Buddhist Religion, and the Thai Throne. For seven centuries Thailand has successfully survived as an independent country while countries all around in Southeast Asia disintegrated or fell victim of colonialist powers. For that reason, no Thai would now deny that as these unique and sacred institutions survive and flourish, so the Thai nation will also survive and flourish. Without either one of them, no one could foresee what Thailand would be like

King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Queen Sirikit, and the Heir-apparent are legally considered “inviolable” and criticism can result in three to fifteen years imprisonment; although the King said in his 2005 birthday speech that he would not be offended by lèse majesté, since “the King is human.”

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The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand’s Bhumibol Adulyadej

by Paul M. Handley
Yale University Press, 2006

Thailand’s Bhumibol Adulyadej, the only king ever born in the United States, came to the throne of his country in 1946 and is now the world’s longest-serving monarch. The King Never Smiles, the first independent biography of Thailand’s monarch, tells the unexpected story of Bhumibol’s life and sixty-year rule—how a Western-raised boy came to be seen by his people as a living Buddha, and how a king widely seen as beneficent and apolitical could in fact be so deeply political and autocratic.

Paul Handley provides an extensively researched, factual account of the king’s youth and personal development, ascent to the throne, skillful political maneuverings, and attempt to shape Thailand as a Buddhist kingdom. Handley takes full note of Bhumibol’s achievements in art, in sports and jazz, and he credits the king’s lifelong dedication to rural development and the livelihoods of his poorest subjects. But, looking beyond the widely accepted image of the king as egalitarian and virtuous, Handley portrays an anti-democratic monarch who, together with allies in big business and the corrupt Thai military, has protected a centuries-old, barely modified feudal dynasty.

When at nineteen Bhumibol assumed the throne, the Thai monarchy had been stripped of power and prestige. Over the ensuing decades, Bhumibol became the paramount political actor in the kingdom, silencing critics while winning the hearts and minds of his people. The book details this process and depicts Thailand’s unique constitutional monarch—his life, his thinking, and his ruling philosophy.

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Truth on Trial in Thailand: Defamation, Treason, and Lèse-Majesté

by David Streckfuss
Routledge, 2011

Since 2005, Thailand has been in crisis, with unprecedented political instability and the worst political violence seen in the country in decades. In the aftermath of a military coup in 2006, Thailand’s press freedom ranking plunged, while arrests for lèse-majesté have skyrocketed to levels unknown in the modern world. Truth on Trial in Thailand traces the 110-year trajectory of defamation-based laws in Thailand. The most prominent of these is lèse-majesté, but defamation aspects also appear in laws on sedition and treason, the press and cinema, anti-communism, contempt of court, insulting of religion, as well as libel. This book makes the case that despite the appearance of growing democratization, authoritarian structures and urges still drive politics in Thailand; the long-term effects of defamation law adjudication has skewed the way that Thai society approaches and perceives “truth.”

Employing the work of Habermas, Foucault, Agamben, and Schmitt to construct an alternative framework to understand Thai history, Streckfuss contends that Thai history has become “suspended” since 1958, and repeatedly declining to face the truth of history has set the stage for an endless state of crisis.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of South East Asian politics, Asian history, and media and communication.

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Tags: CSEAS, East-West Center, Indonesia, Minangkabau

East-West Center: Minangkabau Processions of Sumatra

Posted on 19 January 2012 by Pahole Sookkasikon

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Tags: Indonesia, Performance, Randai, The Genteel Sabai, UHM

The Genteel Sabai

Posted on 11 January 2012 by Pahole Sookkasikon

Randai play “The Genteel Sabai” Comes to Kennedy Theatre with Pants-Slapping Action

The University of Hawai’i at Mānoa’s Department of Theatre and Dance presents the rare theatre form of randai with its production of “The Genteel Sabai,” a folk dance-drama from the Minangkabau ethnic group in West Sumatra, Indonesia. Synopsis: A daughter seeks revenge for the murder of her father in this exciting folk dance-drama. Randai comes from the Minangkabau ethic group in Sumatra, Indonesia, and features beautiful traditional music and singing, martial arts, dance and acting; and its signature pants-slapping percussion!

Dr. Kirstin Pauka, Director and Professor of Southeast Asian Theatre at UHM along with guest teachers from Indonesia, bring this exciting theatre form back to Kennedy Theatre’s main stage Feb. 3, 4, 9, 10, 11 at 8 p.m., and Feb. 12 at 2 p.m. Randai combines beautiful singing, talempong music, dancing, acting, and story-telling along with its signature pants-slapping percussion and the Indonesian martial arts form called silat. This is the third time Pauka has directed a randai play at UHM, the first in 2001 (“Umbuik Mudo and The Magic Flute”) and the second in 2005 (“Luck and Loss: Manandin’s Gamble”). Audiences will have an opportunity to attend two pre-show chats on Feb. 4 and 11 at 7 p.m.

What:

“The Genteel Sabai”

Presented By:

UHM Department of Theatre and Dance

When:

Feb. 3, 4*, 9, 10, 11* at 8 p.m
Feb. 12 at 2 p.m.
*Free Pre-show Chats: Feb. 4 and 11 at 7 p.m.

Where:

UHM’s Kennedy Theatre, Mainstage

Ticket Prices:

$22 regular; $20 seniors, military, UH faculty/staff; $12 students; $5 UHM students with validated fall 2011 UHM photo ID.; all service charges included in ticket price.

Ticket Information:

Onstage seating will be available on a first-come first-serve basis at the performance to all ticket holders. Tickets are available online now at www.etickethawaii.com, at outlets, and by phone at 944-2697. Tickets available at Kennedy Theatre Box Office beginning Jan. 23. Call 956-7655 for more information or visit the Kennedy Theatre website.

UHM Student Buy-One-Get-One-Free Night: Thurs. Feb 9, tickets available beginning at 5 p.m.

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Tags: Alumni, Employment

CSEAS Alumni & Community Group

Posted on 20 April 2010 by Ronald Gilliam

Are you an alumni of the Asian Studies program at the University of Hawaii? Are you a Southeast Asia aficionado? Are you interested in professional networking with SEA specialists?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, the CSEAS Alumni & Community Group on Linkedin is perfect for you! By joining this group, members will receive a weekly newsletter with 10-20 open positions, fellowships, and opportunities in addition to open positions posted by our colleagues around the globe! In addition, we have a discussion forum and newsfeed so you can stay up to date with the Center and participate in discussions with Southeast Asian specialists.

WHAT IS LINKEDIN?

Linkedin is the largest professional social networking site with over 60 million users. The purpose of the site is to connect with professionals and obtain references from those who personally know the member. Linkedin is rapidly becoming a common name as the company has unique partnerships with larger institutions such as the New York Times, Business Week, and Google among others. Linkedin also allows users to research companies where they wish to gain employment in addition to searching for open positions in their field.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FACEBOOK AND LINKEDIN?

The Center for Southeast Asian Studies also runs a facebook page, yet our Linkedin page remains separate with differing uses. Overall, facebook is used to connect friends and family while Linkedin is used to connect professionals. Therefore, the CSEAS tends to place emphasis on jobs within our Linkedin group while our facebook group is used primarily for local events pertaining to Southeast Asia. If members are more interested in employment opportunities, Linkedin is a better source while those only interested in UH events would benefit more from our facebook page. While members can choose which service they wish to join, we hope many utilize both as we continue to grow our online presence.

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Tags: News

Follow CSEAS on Twitter!

Posted on 08 March 2010 by Ronald Gilliam

Tweet, tweet from CSEAS! We invite you to join our twitter feed where we post up-to-date news, announcements, movies, speakers, and more! Join in the conversation by following us at http://www.twitter.com/uhcseas!

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