Southeast Asia Program
Abby Cohn
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Professor, Linguistics
Abby Cohn is a professor of linguistics and Southeast Asian studies. Her research interests include the Austronesian languages of Indonesia, with a particular focus on their phonetics, phonology, and morphology.
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Andrea Bachner
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Professor, Comparative Literature
Andrea Bachner is a professor of comparative literature. She was the director of the East Asia Program for the term 2019-22 and a member of the East Asia Program steering committee and the CEAS editorial board.
She holds an MA from Munich University, Germany, and a PhD from Harvard University. Her research explores comparative intersections between Sinophone, Latin American, and European cultural productions in dialogue with theories of interculturality, sexuality, and mediality.
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Program
Role
- Faculty
- EAP Core Faculty
- SEAP Faculty Associate
Contact
Email: asb76@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-6795
Eric Tagliacozzo
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Director, Comparative Muslim Societies Program
Eric Tagliacozzo is the John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the director of the Einaudi Center's Comparative Muslim Societies Program and a core faculty member of the Southeast Asia Program and South Asia Program.
He also serves as co-director of the Migrations initiative.
His research centers on the history of people, ideas, and material in motion in and around Southeast Asia, especially in the late colonial age.
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Program
Role
- Faculty
- CMSP Director
- SAP Core Faculty
- SEAP Core Faculty
- Einaudi Faculty Leadership
- Executive Committee
Contact
Email: et54@cornell.edu
Musics of Southeast Asia
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August 14, 2024
12:00 am
Kahin Center
A Hands-On Workshop for K-16 Music Teachers
Intended Participants: K-12 music teachers, Community College and other music educators welcome.
Join the director of the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble (Chris Miller) and the founder of the 14 Strings (Jane Maestro)! Filipino Rondalla for a three-day hands-on workshop designed for music teachers. Participants will become familiar with percussion and stringed instrument musical forms found in Southeast Asia. The hands-on focus will be on learning to play Indonesian gamelan and Filipino Rondalla music, with emphasis on exploring innovative and fun ways to share these musical traditions with students. Workshop leaders and other guest speakers will highlight the rich histories and cultural contexts of these musical forms, from the medieval Spanish roots of Rondalla to contemporary forms, fusion, and even connections to popular music and hip hop in Southeast Asia.
Gamelan
Metallophones, gongs, drums and xylophones are just some of the instruments that make up the various types of gamelan ensembles that are found across the archipelago of Indonesia. Learning to play traditional pieces on gamelan instruments will offer participants an immediate encounter with musical difference on multiple levels, including tuning systems, cyclical formal structures, rhythmic organization, and the real-time generation of parts. Participants will also be provided with materials to translate musical materials to instruments available to their students. Building on the experience of playing gamelan, participants will explore how musicians working in contemporary idioms draw upon traditional fundamentals.
Rondalla
The Filipino Rondalla is a traditional ensemble in the Philippines known as a plectrum orchestra. It consists of a unique set of stringed instruments (bandurria, laud, octavina, and bajo de uñas) that are played with a plectrum or pick. Learning to play these instruments can enhance teachers' knowledge of stringed instruments, introducing new techniques and sounds to explore in the classroom. It also gives teachers ways to offer students a richer, more varied musical education while promoting cultural understanding and appreciation. Filipino music often features complex rhythms and time signatures. Teaching these rhythms can improve students' rhythmic abilities and expose them to non-Western musical structures. Incorporating Rondalla music expands the musical repertoire available to teachers and students and can provide opportunities for creative arrangements (or compositions) and teamwork (building listening skills and synchronization).
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Program
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
Cycles of History: Review of "To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change"
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Magnus Fiskesjö, EAP/PACS/SEAP
"The famous Southeast Asia historian Alfred McCoy has published an important new book, To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change on world history, and where it is heading with China as an aspiring new world empire." - Magnus Fiskesjö
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Topic
- Global Public Voices
Program
Xinlei Sha
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Graduate Student
Degree Pursued: PhD
Anticipated Degree Year: 2026
Committee Chair/Advisor: Juno Salazar Parreñas
Discipline: Anthropology
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How to Assemble an AAS Panel
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May 31, 2024
8:00 pm
A workshop by GETSEA.
Have you always wanted to present a paper at the Association for Asian Studies annual meeting? But you can’t find a panel that fits your work, and you don’t know how to gather other scholars to create a panel of your own?
Join GETSEA for an informal discussion with Tom Pepinsky (Cornell), Trude Jacobsen Gidaszewski (NIU), and Chris Hulshof (Wisconsin-Madison) about the process of assembling a panel to submit to AAS.
After the discussion, we will move into breakout rooms for possible panel matchmaking. So, please come with a short description of the topic you are interested in presenting at AAS (a general idea is fine as well. It doesn’t need to be a finished proposal).
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Program
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Southeast Asia Program
May 2024 Einaudi Center News
Faculty and Student Kudos and a Farewell
Learn about Einaudi's faculty seed grant awards, CRADLE's new Law and Economics Papers, and over 100 students conducting international research this summer with Einaudi support.
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Scientists Decode Orangutan Communication Using Machine Learning
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Wendy Erb
Wendy Erb has spent countless hours studying orangutans in Borneo's tropical peatland forests in order to learn how male Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) communicate. While doing so, she discovered one undeniable advantage of understanding orangutan language: When the males decide to show off their strength by uprooting nearby trees, nearby scientists need to be careful to not get smooshed.
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Wa History: Agency and Victimization
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Magnus Fiskesjö, PACS/EAP/SEAP
Magnus Fiskesjö has published a chapter on the Wa ethnic group in a new volume, Chasing Traces: History and Ethnography in the Uplands of Socialist Asia, edited by Pierre Petit and Jean Michaud.
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Topic
- Inequalities, Identities, and Justice
- World in Focus