All lectures will be held virtually on Zoom, and more information for each talk is available below.

The full poster for the Spring 2021 Gatty Lecture Series is available here.

The timing of the lecture series has changed for this semester. Talks will still be held on Thursdays, but to accommodate speakers and audiences in Asia some will take place at 12:30pm Eastern and others at 8:00pm Eastern Please be sure to read the description for each talk to be certain which time slot it will be. 

List of Speakers

• 2/11 - Joe Pittayaporn (Chulalongkorn Universityl): Old Thai and the Arrival of Thai in Central Thailand
• 2/18 - Cherubim Quizon (Seton Hall University): Beyond Bloody Reds: Notes on the Significance of Morinda in the Bagobo Textile Hierarchy
• 2/25 - John Burgess (Independent Author and Journalist): Cambodia's Angkor Temples as a Military Prize: The World War II Experience
• 3/4 - Mai Van Tran (Cornell): Activist Resilience under Repression: The Role of Bystander Protection in the Burmese Pro-Democracy Movement 
• 3/11 - Alexandra Dalferro (Cornell): Knots as Nodes of Power: Practices of Pattern-making and Discourses of Copying among Silk Weavers in Surin
• 4/1 - Anthony Irwin (Cornell): Everybody Gets a Sword! The Production and Proliferation of Buddhist Ritual Weaponry in Northern Thailand
• 4/8 - Ronit Ricci (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Title TBA, link coming soon.
• 4/22 - Gavin Douglas (UNC Greensboro): Sound, Music, and Buddhism in Myanmar/Burma
• 4/29 - Juliet Lu (Cornell): South of the Clouds, North of the Nagas: Yunnan’s Changing Role in the Mekong Region
• 5/6 - Ian Baird (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Rise of the Brao: Ethnic Minorities in Northeastern Cambodia During Vietnamese Occupation
• 5/13 - Vinh Phu Pham (Cornell): Configuring the Future in Vietnamese Francophone: Readings of Marguerite Duras, Pham Duy Khiêm, and Kim Lefèvre 

Semester Poster

The poster of Gatty Lectures for Spring 2021 contains information about all lectures as well, including speaker names, affiliations, and lecture titles.