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DESCRIPTION:Gatty Lecture Series\n\nJoin us for a talk by Eric C. Thompson\
 ,  Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at th
 e National University of Singapore\, who will discuss the writing of a boo
 k The Story of Southeast Asia.\n\nThis Gatty Lecture will take place at th
 e The Kahin Center\, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions\
 , contact seapgatty@cornell.edu.\n\nAbout the Talk\n\nIn this talk\, the a
 uthor discusses the writing of The Story of Southeast Asia (NUS Press\, 20
 24). The book is a historical anthropology of the region and its people. W
 hile using a historical-chronological structure\, it outlines a series of 
 themes that have created the region as we know it today: migration and set
 tlement\, trade and industry\, state building (and state avoidance)\, adop
 tion of popular religions\, gender and kinship relationships\, contested s
 overeignty\, and modernity. Although written in a clear narrative language
  with a broad (popular\, undergraduate) audience in mind\, the book touche
 s on many ongoing debates in Southeast Asian studies and other disciplines
  and makes arguments (mostly implicit or in passim) for the framing of the
 se debates (e.g. around periodization\, agency\, identity\, and gender/kin
 ship). The author will discuss several of these (and invites discussion of
  others): What were the motivations of writing the book and the positional
 ity of the author? Why attend to an exceptionally longue durée? What are 
 the “strange parallels” between the adoption and spread of Theravada\,
  Islam\, Confucianism\, and Christianity in the region? How does Southeast
  Asia make us rethink the relationship between modernity and gender relati
 ons? How can we (and should we) put colonialism in its place? And of cours
 e\, what in the heck was Sriwijaya?\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nEric C. Thomps
 on is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropolo
 gy at the National University of Singapore. He holds a PhD in sociocultura
 l anthropology from the University of Washington and was a postdoctoral fe
 llow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies\, University of California 
 Los Angeles. He is the author of Unsettling Absences: Urbanism in Rural Ma
 laysia (2007) and The Story of Southeast Asia (2024)\, co-author of Awaren
 ess and Attitudes toward ASEAN (2007) and Do Young People Know ASEAN? (201
 6)\, and co-editor Southeast Asian Anthropologies (2019) and Asian Smallho
 lders: Persistence and Transformation (2019) among other publications.
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LOCATION:Kahin Center
SUMMARY:Writing a Story of Southeast Asia
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 -asia
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