7th International Burma Studies Conference
2004
Program
FRIDAY, October 2210:00-12:00pm Registration - Outside Regency Room 12:00-12:30pm Buffet Lunch - Regency Room 12:30-1:00pm Opening remarks - Regency Room Speakers: Dr. Rathindra Bose Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School Dr. Harold Kafer Dean, College of Visual and Performing Arts Dr. Catherine Raymond Director, Center for Burma Studies Religious Personages, Religion, and Environment – Regency Room 1:00-1:20pm Dominic Nardi - "The Green Buddha: The Role of Buddhist Civil Society in Environmental Conservation in Myanmar" 1:20-1:40pm Jason Carbine - "Defending the Front-Line Fortress: Transmitting the Patthana in Contemporary Burma" 1:40-2:00pm Jacques Leider - "Specialists for Magic, Ritual and Devotion: Studying the Punnas of the Early Konbaung Period" 2:00-2:30pm Discussion and break Crossing Burmese Boundaries: Negotiating Ethnicity, Nation, and Gender 2:30-2:50pm Chie Ikeya - "Tropes and Traps of the Modern Female: A Gender History of Late Colonial Burma" 2:50-3:10pm Jaspal Singh - "The Indian Diaspora in Burma and Identity Politics in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace and Mira Kamdar’s Motiba’s Tattoos" 3:10-3:30pm Joseph Cheah - "The Function of Monastic Site in the Maintenance of Burmese Culture and Identity" 3:30-3:50pm Tamara Ho - "Women of the Temple: Burmese Buddhism and Gender in a U.S. Frame" 3:50-5:00pm Discussion and break Tribute to May Kyi Win May Kyi Win, for the last ten years, was the former curator of the Donn V. Hart Southeast Asia Library Collection, Founders Memorial Library at Northern Illinois University. She was a devout Buddhist and was loved by everyone. She passed away two years ago. 5:00-6:30pm Founders Memorial Library, 4th Floor, Room 403 Opening Remarks: Dean Arthur Young * Homage * Exhibition - "Envisioning Burma: Selections from the Burma Collection at Northern Illinois University Libraries" * Reception 7:00pm Dinner at the Chandelier Room SATURDAY, October 23 (Panel 1, Regency Room) 7:00-10:00am Breakfast buffet available – Regency Room Language, Literature, and Linguistics 8:40-9:00am Richard Kunst - "Paper on Wa lexicography" 9:00-9:20am Maung Tha Noe - "The Grammar of Pugam" 9:20-9:50am Discussion and tea break 9:50-10:10am Saw Tun - "Language of the Past: A Study of the Colloquial Burmese (1750-1850)" 10:10-10:30am Avon Crismore - "Teaching and Learning English in Burma Today: Places and People" 10:30-11:00am Discussion and tea break 11:00-11:20am Vincent Berment - "Sylla and GMSWord: Applications for Computerizing Myanmar Languages" 11:20-11:40am Justin Watkins - "U 8 chin p lar:P ?!? the Language of Burmese Internet Chat" 11:40-12:00pm Vicki Bowman - "Pulp Fiction Amongst the Pagodas, Rangoon Romance" 12:00-1:00pm Discussion and lunch – Regency Room The State of Burma I 1:00-1:20pm Ikuko Okamoto - "Agricultural Marketing Liberalization and the Rural Economy in Myanmar (Burma) 1:20-1:40pm Wylie Bradford - "Economic Push-Factors in Burma-Thailand Labour Migration: Inferences From Official Wage Data" 1:40-2:00pm Alison Vicary - "Survey: The Economics of Migrant Workers in Thailand" 2:00-2:30pm Discussion and tea break 2:30-2:50pm Paul Sarno - "The Impact of Socialist Law on the Burmese Legal System (1962-1976)" 2:50-3:10pm Cindy Kleinmeyer - "Transitional Justice Strategies on the Thai- Burma Border: Analyzing the Theory and the Practice" 3:10-3:30pm Angelene Naw - "Aung San and Aung San Suu Kyi’s Policy Towards the Karens" 3:30-4:00pm Discussion and tea break 4:00-4:20pm Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung - "The Karens in Burma: A Political Dilemma" 4:20-4:40pm Tin Maung Maung Than - "Aspiring to be a Developmental State: Myanmar’s Development Experience since 1948" 4:40-5:00pm Tun Myint - "Origins of the Challenges in the Making of Modern New Burma" 5:00-6:00pm Discussion and break 6:00-7:15pm Museum opening at Altgeld Hall with reception Speakers: Dr. Rathindra Bose Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School Peggy Doherty Director, NIU Art Museum Dr. Catherine Raymond Director, Center for Burma Studies 7:15pm Dinner - Chandelier Room 8:15pm Keynote speaker U Thaw Kaung - "Myanmar Literary Criticism of the Twentieth Century, a Survey" - Chandelier Room SATURDAY, October 23 (Panel 2, Capitol Room) 7:00-10:00am Breakfast buffet available – Regency Room Cultural Interfaces 9:30-9:50am Joerg Schendel - "Trade, Identity, and Imperialism in Upper Burma" 9:50-10:10am Jean Berlie - "Past and Present of the Rakhine Muslims" 10:10-10:30am F. K. Lehman (F.K.L. Chit Hlaing) - "Remarks on the Ethnography of the Chinese in Burma from the China Border: Preliminary Results of a Year's Fieldwork (2003)" 10:30-11:00am Discussion and tea break Music 11:00-11:20am Christopher A. Miller - "Songs of the Pa’O: Music, Text, and Meaning in Taunggyi" 11:20-11:40am Gavin Douglas - "‘Tit Pya, Hnit Pya’ and ‘The Beautiful Collision of Nations’: Burmese Music and the World Music Market" 11:40-12:00pm Ward Keeler - "What's Burmese About Burmese Rap?" 12:00-1:00pm Discussion and lunch – Regency Room Art & Archaeology 1:00-1:20pm U Nyein Lwin - "Archaeological excavations at Letpanywa" (read by Alexandra Green) 1:20-1:40pm Roxanna Brown - "Burmese Ceramics Export" 1:40-2:00pm Charlotte Galloway - "Stylistic Change During in the Early Pagan Period (1044–1113)" 2:00-2:30pm Discussion and tea break 2:30-2:50pm Lilian Handlin - "The Changing Landscape of Pali Buddhism in Pagan" 2:50-3:10pm Alexandra Green - "The Narrative Murals of Tilokaguru Cave-temple: A Reassessment after Jane Terry Bailey" 3:10-3:30pm Catherine Raymond - "The Burmese Art Collection at Northern Illinois University as a Teaching Resource and a Key to Burmese Civilization" 3:30-4:00pm Discussion and tea break 4:00-4:20pm Cynthia Warso - "The Pointing Buddha Image as Centerpiece for King Mindon’s Construction Program at Mandalay" 4:20-4:40pm April Tin Tin Aye - "Nineteenth Century Burmese Parabaik Paintings As Visual Narratives" 4:40-5:00pm Susan Conway - "Power Dressing Court Dress: Lan Na Shan Siam" 5:00-5:20pm Yin Ker - "'Modern Burmese Painting According to Bagyi Aung Soe (1923-1990)" 5:20-6:00pm Discussion and break 6:00-7:15pm Museum opening at Altgeld Hall with reception Speakers: Dr. Rathindra Bose Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School Peggy Doherty Director, NIU Art Museum Dr. Catherine Raymond Director, Center for Burma Studies 7:15pm Dinner - Chandelier Room 8:15pm Keynote speaker U Thaw Kaung - "Myanmar Literary Criticism of the Twentieth Century, a Survey" - Chandelier Room SUNDAY, October 24 7:00-10:00am Breakfast buffet available – Regency Room State of Burma II – Capitol Room 8:50-9:10am Lisa Brooten - "The Media, Aung San Suu Kyi, and the Feminization of Democracy" 9:10-9:30am Donald M. Seekins - "Public Spaces in Rangoon (Yangon): Their Transformation after 1988" 9:30-9:50am Kyaw Yin Hlaing - "The State of Social Capital in Myanmar" 9:50-10:20am Discussion and break 10:20-12:20pm Roundtable discussion organized by David Steinberg 12:20-12:30pm Closing remarks |