Dredge Byung’chu Kang, PhD MPH, is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California San Diego. His research focuses on beauty and love as they intersect with race, class, gender, sexuality, transnationality, and structural violence in interracial relationships, body modification, popular culture, and HIV. Dredge’s first book, “White Asian Aspirations: Queer Racialization in Thailand” argues that recent Asian regionalism has help construct a new “Asian” racial category in Asia modelled on the naturalized alignment of light skin color and national achievement. Dredge’s second project, “The Total Package,” examines the Korean Wave in Thailand.

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Kimberly Kay Hoang is an Associate Professor of Sociology and the College and the Director of Global Studies at the University of Chicago. She is an award winning scholar, author, and teacher- her work having received over 18 prizes from several different professional associations. Additionally, she has received the 2020 Lewis A Coser Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Sociological Theory— a mid-career award for Theoretical Agenda Setting. Dr. Hoang is the author of, Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work (2015) and is currently finalizing her second monograph Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets, of which this lecture is based on, that is forthcoming with Princeton University Press later this year.

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Tinakrit Sireerat is a Ph.D. Candidate in the field of Asian Literature, Religion and Culture. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in history from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, he joined the Ph.D. program at Cornell University to pursue his interests in the environmental history of Japan and Thailand during the nineteenth century. His dissertation, tentatively entitled “Looking from the North: A Comparative Enviro-Colonial History of Hokkaido and Lanna,” reexamines the history of livestock farming in Hokkaido and forestry in Lanna to foreground the interconnections between colonial administration and environmental governance, and role of knowledge production in bridging the seemingly separate fields of governance.

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This talk is co-organized by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.

May Sabe Phyu is a women human rights defender leading civil society efforts to end discrimination against women and ethnic and religious minorities for more than 20 years in the development and humanitarian sector. She raises awareness of the human cost of conflict and advocates for peace and reconciliation. For her leadership in advocating for the full and equal rights of women and ethnic and religious minorities in Myanmar, she received the International Women of Courage Award in 2015. May Phyu is now in the United States after the military’s brutal violence crackdown in Myanmar. She is also a founding member of the Women’s Advocacy Coalition Myanmar connecting with her sisters inside the country and exile. May Phyu is currently hosted by the Dorothea S. Clarke Program in Feminist Jurisprudence at the Cornell Law School and is an active collaborator with Profs. Sandra Babcock and Elizabeth Brundige in the International Human Rights Clinic and the Gender Justice Clinic.

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Since 2005, Jonathan Padwe has studied the changing landscape of highland Cambodia as it is perceived by, and managed by, the Jarai people of the border region where Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam meet. His 2020 book Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories: Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands charts the ways that landscapes record memories, the partial and fragmentary nature of which allow for re-interpretation of dominant historical narratives, troubling understandings of the region's past. Prior to working in Cambodia, Dr. Padwe lived and worked for over seven years in eastern Paraguay.

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Harriman Samuel Saragih is an Assistant Professor in Business Innovation, Monash University Indonesia. He currently teaches the course of Theory and Practices of Innovative Marketing where previously he taught courses related to Data-Driven Marketing, Strategic Marketing Management, Arts Marketing, and Music Business Ecosystem to undergraduates and masters degree in business (Supervisor to C-Level Executives). He is a former Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University. He holds Applied Data Science certification from Columbia Engineering & Emeritus and Data Science Practitioner from IBM. He earned his BSc and PhD from Engineering Management and Management Sciences, Institut Teknologi Bandung and he earned his Masters from Binus University while he was working in China National Offshore Oil Corporation SES Ltd as Project Officer and Training Analyst. He received an Emerald Literati Award as one of the Outstanding Reviewers in the journal Arts and the Market. His methodological expertise is in qualitative case research methods and two stage disjoint approach partial least square structural equation modeling.

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**Due to unforeseen circumstances, Arnika Fuhrmann will no longer be presenting. The speaker and title of this Gatty Lecture have changed.**

Magnus Fiskesjö's research concerns ethnic relations and political anthropology in China and Southeast Asia. His research and teaching interests include historical and political anthropology; civilizations and barbarians; sovereignty, citizenship, and state formations; autonomy and dependence; ethnopolitics, ethnicity, and ethnonymy in interethnic relations; cultural heritage and archaeology; museums and modernity; and East and Southeast Asia (including China and Burma).

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Talk by Syed Jaleel Hussain

The ethnic, linguistic and religious diversity has been an essential feature of life in Kashmir for centuries. The majority of the muslim population is Sunni along with sizeable pockets of Shia minority. Shias have played a critical role in the socio-political and cultural life of Kashmir. They were part of the valiant defiance of the Mughal designs in the Chak and post-Chak Kashmir, were involved with the resistance against Dogra oppression, and actively participated in the political struggle against Indian rule after 1947. The overall political posture of Shias regarding the essential elements of the resolution of Kashmir conflict is not starkly different from the majority Sunnis. For most part of the modern history Shias have supported the azadi movement towards a sovereign and independent Kashmir. However, after the 1980s, the Shia discourse about azadi and insurgency gradually turned ambivalent with the growing internal group contestation amongst Shias due to internal and external factors. The internal factors include the growing electoral competition and a rise in the incidents of sectarian violence in Kashmir. The political developments in Pakistan, Iran and the Arab world have become the external determinants of Shia thinking about the Kashmir issue.

Syed Jaleel Hussain is a Fulbright post-doctoral fellow at the South Asia Program, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University. He is an Assistant Professor at Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He is a University Gold Medalist, an ICSSR doctoral fellow, a recipient of UGC’s Senior Research Fellowship and Gandhi Smriti Fellowship for Masters Programme. His research articles have been published in national and international peer reviewed journals like the Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs, Journal of Defence Studies, Economic & Political Weekly and South Asian Journal of Diplomacy. His op-ed articles have appeared in Indian English dailies like the Indian Express, the Sunday Guardian, Afghan Zariza, Greater Kashmir and others. He has previously been associated with Delhi Policy Group, a think tank based in Delhi. His primary research interests are in the areas of culture and strategy, global nuclear issues, ethnic conflicts and issues of conflict & security in South Asia and West Asia.

Talk by Ali Raza

This work reveals the lives, geographies, and anti-colonial struggles of Indian revolutionaries and how they sought to remake the world. Driven by the utopian dreams of Communist Internationalism, Indian communists yearned for a revolutionary upheaval that would overthrow European imperialisms and radically transform their societies and the world. In doing so, they joined millions around the world equally invested in the transformative project of Communist Internationalism, by far one of the largest, and most radical, anti-colonial projects of the twentieth century. I present this global story from the vantage point of South Asia from the 1910s to the 1950s.

Ali Raza, Associate Professor, is a historian of South Asia at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). His research and teaching interests include the social and intellectual history of South Asia, comparative colonialisms, 20th century internationalisms, and decolonization. Raza’s work has appeared in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East; South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies; Itinerario; South Asian History and Culture; and Contemporary South Asia. He is the co-editor of The Internationalist Moment: South Asia, Worlds, and World Views, 1917-39 (Sage, 2014) and the author of Revolutionary Pasts: Communist Internationalism in Colonial India. (Cambridge, 2020; Folio Books 2021; Tulika Books 2022)