Graduate Student Conference - Cornell University Southeast Asia Program: March 16-18, 2007

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Graduate Student Conference - Cornell University Southeast Asia Program

• The Cornell Southeast Asia Program would like to announce its 9th Annual Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference. This year's Conference will take place at the Kahin Center for Advanced Research on Southeast Asia, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY on March 16-18, 2007.

-- This year's keynote speaker will be Patricia Spyer, Professor of the Anthropology of Contemporary Indonesia, Leiden University, The Netherlands. Patricia Spyer is the author of The Memory of Trade: Modernity's entanglements on an Eastern Indonesia Island (Duke, 2000) And editor of Border Fetishisms: Material Objects in Unstable Spaces (Routledge, 1998). Her current research focuses on the role of mass and small media in the dynamics of the violence and reconciliation processes in the Moluccas, Indonesia.

-- More details about the conference including abstract format and submission guidelines may be found here: http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/southeastasia/academics/student_symposium.asp