Kale Bantigue Fajardo is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Fajardo completed his undergraduate studies Cornell (Developmental Psychology/Feminist Studies/Southeast Asian Studies) and his MA and PhD in cultural anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Fajardo is the author of Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities and Globalization (2011) and a Co-Editor of Q&A: Queer Voices from Asian North America (2021.) He has been published in books and journals such as Mains'l Haul: A Journal of Pacific Maritime History; Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity; Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora; GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies; and The Transgender Reader 2; among others. He has a new essay in Hydro-Humanities: Water Discourse and Environmental Futures (2021.) Fajardo is currently a Deputy Editor at The Island Studies Journal, a member of the editorial board of the Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies in Chicago.

In this talk, Fajardo will lecture on different kinds of boats, waters, and queer river-and-seafaring Filipino/a/x figures in contemporary Philippine Cinema. He will specifically discuss and closely read films such as Sagwan (Oar/Paddle) (2009), Marino (Seaman) (2009), Muro-Ami (Reef Hunters) (1999) and Thy Womb (2012), and he will draw from Southeast Asian/Philippine/global maritime histories of seafaring, boat-building, and fishing and queer/trans/feminist theories, as well as oceanic/archipelagic/island studies. In doing so, Fajardo will reveal the postcolonial and decolonial implications of these films in relation to indigeneity, tourism, neoliberal economics, global Filipino/a/x migration, and heteropatriarchy.

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Co-sponsored by SAAGA and Performing and Media Arts

In 1934, a U.S. production company released a film set in the southern Philippines called Brides of Sulu, about a pair of star-crossed lovers (one Muslim, one not) risking their lives to elope. In 2011, two Filipino film archivists began investigating whether Brides of Sulu was, in fact, two lost Philippine silent films from 1931, Moro Pirates and Princess Tarhata, edited together “to meet the U.S. demand at the time for movies that showcasted the exotic Orient” (San Diego Jr. 2011) and to justify the U.S.’s colonization of the Philippines. Archivist Teddy Co called Hollywood’s possible appropriation of the Philippine films an act of “piracy.” In this lecture, Professor De Kosnik will explore the multiple forms of piracy at work in and around the extant version of Brides of Sulu – not only the U.S. movie industry’s potential copying of Filipino silent works, but other forms of copying and plundering by Americans of Filipinos and of Filipinos by Americans, and the characterization of each group as piratical by the other, at the time of the U.S. colonization of the Philippines and beyond.

Abigail De Kosnik is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) and the Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies. She is also the Director of BCNM, and is the 2020-2025 craigslist Distinguished Chair in New Media. She is the author of Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom (MIT Press, 2016) and co-editor, with Keith Feldman, of #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation (University of Michigan Press, 2019). She has published articles on media fandom, popular digital culture, social media, and performance studies in Third Text, Cinema Journal (now Journal of Cinema and Media Studies), The International Journal of Communication, Modern Drama, Transformative Works and Cultures, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Performance Research, and elsewhere. She co-organizes The Color of New Media, a working group focusing on technology and intersectionality. De Kosnik is Filipina American.

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Dr. Kathryn Fiorella is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health at Cornell University. She leads the Food Systems and Health Concentration area of the Master of Public Health Program. She is also a faculty fellow of the Atkinson Center for Sustainable Future and the Center for Health Equity. Dr. Fiorella holds a PhD in Environmental Science, Policy and Management and Masters in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB from Princeton University in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Dr. Fiorella was an Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University and a Postdoctoral Immersion Fellow at the Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC). Dr Fiorella is an environmental scientist and epidemiologist, and her research aims to understand the interactions among environmental change and livelihood, food, and nutrition security. Her work is focused on global fisheries and the households that are reliant on them to access food and income. She uses interdisciplinary methods and her work aims to foster a deeper understanding of how ecological and social systems interact, the ways communities and households adapt to and mitigate environmental change, and the links between human well being and ecological sustainability.

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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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*Note: This Gatty Lecture will be entirely virtual, with no hybrid presence at the Kahin Center as usual. It will be held at 8pm instead of the usual 12:15pm.

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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