Southeast Asia Crossroads Podcast - Cseas @ Niu

In this talk, Drs Jones and Legerwood talk with Dr Grant and explore how medical imaging participates in the re-configuration of public and private health care in Phnom Penh. Dr Grant consider different concepts to help parse the organization of care when Cambodia’s political economy evades captions such as “socialism” or “free market capitalism.” Jenna Grant is a cultural anthropologist working in the fields of medical anthropology and medical humanities; feminist and postcolonial science and technology studies; visual anthropology; and Southeast Asia Studies. Her work includes participatory filmmaking, ethnographic and historical analysis of medical imaging, and community-based inquiry of archival images.

Drs Jones and Atkins speak with An Tran on his classical guitar playing infused with Vietnamese style. Tran is based in Chicago and has won 13 international and awards. he has been praised for his “gorgeous playing” and “flawless technique” by the KnoxTNToday, and received many accolades for his dynamic artistry including being hailed as a “Vietnamese guitar virtuoso” by Austin Classical Guitar. An Tran started learning the guitar at the age of eight with Vietnamese guitarist Nguyen Hai Thoai. Afterward, he received his musical training at the Vietnam National Academy of Music studying with guitarist Vu Viet Cuong. He received his B.A. in Music and the Distinguished Young Alumni Award from North Park University, studying with Julie Goldberg and Tom Zelle and his Master of Music along with the Southeast Asia Studies Fellowship from Yale University, studying with Benjamin Verdery. Currently a Dorothy and Carl Johnson endowed Doctor of Musical Arts candidate at Northwestern University studying with Anne Walle

In this podcast Drs Jones and Kanjana sit down with Dr. Leslie Castro-Woodhouse about her book, Woman between Two Kingdoms: Dara Rasami and the Making of Modern Thailand. They will discuss a northern Thai consort named Dara Rasami played a critical role in Siam’s effort to emulate a European-style “hierarchy of civilizations” in building a modern nation-state. The trajectory of Dara’s 24-year career as an ethnic outsider within the rarefied space of the Siamese Inner Palace illuminates both Siam’s crypto-colonial strategies to assimilate regional elites, and women’s importance to Thai political history.

In this talk, Drs Eric Jones and Micah Morton discuss the work of certain ethnic Akha elite to promote a pan-Akha identity among their roughly 730,000 ethnic kin residing throughout the Upper Mekong Region. The region’s ongoing transformation from battlefields to markets is being accompanied by the growth of more formal transborder ties among a number of non-dominant ethnic groups, such as the Akha, Dai-Lue, Lahu, and Hmong. Since the late 2000s, a network of self-declared “Neo-Traditionalist” Akha elite based in the Thai-Myanmar borderlands has been recrafting the religio-political borders of belonging in a larger “Akha World” in the making that encompasses multiple local, national, and regional borders.

We sit down with a few future difference makers from Jakarta, Jeremy and Faith Intan, to hear where they stand on the environment.

Drs Jones and Wong talk to Jennifer Goodlander about Balinese cultures and arts and how it would turn into an amazing journey of ritual and shadows. Jennifer describes the training and rituals she experienced while becoming a dalang, or puppeteer, in order to provide insight into the function of tradition in Balinese religion and culture.

Jonathan Liljeblad and Eric Jones take to the microphones to explore the complications of carrying out a human rights curriculum in Burma.

Drs Eric Jones, Vichet Chhuon, and Marina Aleixo discuss critical notions of race, identity, and belonging for Cambodian American youth and families. Drawing from previous work, Professor Chhuon describes the ways that Cambodian American youth are simultaneously invisible and hypervisible in their school and community, which shape access to important identities and relationships.

Drs Jones and Elvin Ong discuss how pre-electoral alliances significantly enhance the chances of opposition victory against dominant incumbent autocrats.

Nicolas Verstappen joins Eric Jones and Kanjana Thepboriruk to explore the forgotten history of Thai comics

Drs Jones and Matthew Jagel visit the First Division Museum at Cantigny Park in Wheaton, IL. Gayln Piper and Kyle Mathers join us as we discuss not only the history of the First Division, including Vietnam, but get a behind-the-scenes peek at the museum and some amazing artifacts.

In this episode, Judy Ledgerwood sits down to talk about her latest research and the unprecedented study of one Cambodian village across tumultuous decades.

Jacob Shell is an Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University. He received his PhD in Geography from Syracuse University. Shell arrived at his interest in Burma (Myanmar) through the topic of transportation: in particular transportation on animal-back. His first book, "Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility," was published by MIT Press in 2015. Shell initially set out to write a book about elephants as a means of transportation in 2012, a research framing which directed his attention to the teak forests of central Burma, as well as to the forests of Kachin State and to Northeast India. His book about this topic, "Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants," was published by WW Norton in 2019. Shell also draws maps.

Eric Jones and Aarie Glas welcome Drs. Dylan Loh, Deepak Nair and Philips Vermonte to discuss the role and response of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to the upheavals in Myanmar

Tontrakul is a modern Isaan music project that began when Tontrakul Kaewyong wanted to create new sounds for Isaan music. He experiments with other musical genres like drum 'n' bass, future bass, ambient house and world beats but maintains the distinct accent of Thailand's northeast.

Dr. Eric Jones and Isabelle Squires sit down with Dr. Michael Hawkins to explore his research on the Moro Village exposition. In 1904, the United States government contracted to bring 88 Filipino Muslims to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition as live exhibits. These Moros were officially classified as “semi-civilized” subjects. This podcast explores efforts to market and promote the Moro exhibit to American patrons through themes of savagery, violence, colonial danger, and even cannibalism. It also takes special note of the ways that Moros negotiated, resisted, and actively collaborated with these themes.

Dr. Jones interviews Dr. Shzr Ee Tan, author of Beyond Innocence and Gender in Chinese Music. They discuss music, soundscapes, culture, religion and technology, and how migrant workers utilize these resources to strengthen their identities and create a place for themselves to find solace and a sense of community as they are working abroad. Some links to Dr. Tan's work https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/shzr-tan(ad70e394-5ecb-4805-bdd3-5f0db9655199).html https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Innocence-Aboriginal-Ecosystem-Musicology/dp/1138115835 https://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Eastman-Rochester-Studies-Ethnomusicology/dp/1580464432/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=9781580464437&linkCode=qs&qid=1616385738&s=books&sr=1-1

In this episode of Crossroads, Dr. Jones interviews Dr. Cooler about the repatriation of a thousand year old statue of the Buddha to Myanmar after being stolen in the mid 80s and then recovered later by Dr. Cooler. Come join us for the twists and turns as the Buddha travels from Myanmar, Bangkok, San Francisco, New York, Dekalb, France, and finally, back to Myanmar.

In this episode of Crossroads, Dr. Eric Jones talks with Thomas Gardiner and Brittany Hebeler whose GKWW law firm is in the unique position of representing victims of recent Indonesian airline disasters. Go to https://gkwwlaw.com/aviation for more information.

Dr Eric Jones speaks with Mesrob Vartavarian on the US relationship with the Philippines. Since the turn of the twentieth century, the United States has shaped and interacted with coercive institutions in the Philippines in pursuit of its own strategic interests. Philippine military professionalism, praetorianism, and de facto autonomy were all encouraged by the United States to either facilitate or place limits upon political change. This lecture emphasizes the influence of underlying structures over discreet events. https://einaudi.cornell.edu/discover/people/mesrob-vartavarian