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University of Washington
Southeast Asian Studies
Graduate Student Conference
MAY 14 – 15, 2010
University of Washington, Seattle
The Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities
Dear conference participants,
Communications 202
The Center for Southeast Asian studies at the University of Washington welcomes you to the
2010 Graduate Student Conference. It is our hope that by incorporating extensive feedback
through peer review and open discussion, that the unconventional format of this conference will
play a constructive role in furthering your current scholarship and in building long-term academic
relationships across disciplines. We would like to thank our invited scholars Carlo Bonura, Penny
Edwards, Eric Tagliacozzo, and Ben Marwick for their facilitation of this year’s panel discussions.
We would also like to extend a thank you to the staff of the Southeast Asia Center for their
support and encouragement during the lengthy planning process and to all those individuals and
organizations that helped to make this event possible. We wish you all a collegial and productive
conference!
The Organizing Committee:
Micaela Campbell, Allan Lumba, Hoang Ngo, Matthew Walton
2010 Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference
University of Washington
The Organizing Committee would like to thank the following departments and organizations for their
generous support to the Conference:
Southeast Asia Center
Simpson Center for the Humanities
Jackson School of International Studies
Department of History
UW Law School Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal
Department of Political Science
Department of Anthropology

Southeast Asia Center
UW Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference
Friday, May 14, 2010
Simpson Center, Communications 202
Opening Remarks
(9:30-10:00)
Conference Format:
Each participant will be allotted 20 minutes to present their paper. The remaining 10 minutes is reserved
in equal part for comments from peer reviewer and chair.
Panel I: 10:00- 12:40
Chair: Penny Edwards, Associate Professor, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies,
University of California, Berkeley
10:00- 10:30
Sovatha Ann, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Paper Money in Phnom Penh: Beyond the Sino-Khmer Tradition
Comments: Woonkyung Yeo
10:30- 11:00
Marites Mendoza, University of Washington
Writing La Filipina Moderna: Empire and Modernity in Filipina English Fiction
Comments: Will Arighi
10 minute break
11:10- 11:40
Hoang Ngo, University of Washington
A “Benevolent Fire:” The Death of Thich Quang Duc (1897-1963)
Comments: Matthew J Walton
11:40- 12:10
Emily Hue, New York University
Burmese Diasporic Art Gone Digital: A New Frontier for A/P/A Studies? (Working Title)
Comments: Micaela Campbell
12:10- 12:40
Open Discussion
12:40-1:40 Lunch (Professionalization)
Panel II: 1:40- 4:20
Chair: Carlo Bonura, Research Officer in the Centre for
Political Ideologies, University of Oxford
1:40- 2:10
Micaela Campbell, University of Washington
68H Utan Kayu Street: Intersections of the Public Sphere
Comments: Emily Hue
2:10- 2:40
Awidya Santikajaya, John Hopkins University
Reviving Moderate Islam, Managing Intra-State Conflicts
Comments: Khartini Abdul Khalid

10 minute break
2:50- 3:20
Matthew J Walton, University of Washington
Subjectivity and Objectivity in Theravada Buddhism
Comments: Hoang Ngo
3:20- 3:50
George Radics, University of Washington
M- Banking in War-Torn Parts of the Philippines
Comments: Allan Lumba
3:50-4:20
Open Discussion
Southeast Asia Center
UW Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Simpson Center, Communications 202
Panel III: 9:00- 12:10
Chair: Ben Marwick, Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology, University of Washington
9:00- Andy Cowan, University of Washington
Excavations and chronology at Tham Sua Cave, Lao PDR
9:30- Anna Cohen, Seungki Kwak, and Kimbi Macy, University of Washington
Sediments and Iron Age Humans at Tham Sua Cave, Northern Lao PDR
10:00- Seungki Kwak and Anna Cohen, University of Washington
Understanding Consumption and Ceramic Use in Iron Age Laos: Organic Residue Analysis Using Gas
Chromatography – Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS)
10 minute break
10:40- Kimbi Macy, University of Washington
A contribution to portable X-ray fluorescence method utilizing the elemental composition of ceramics from
Tham Sua cave, Laos
11:10 - Ariel Auerbach, University of Washington
Holocene climate reconstruction at Tham Sua through
XRD analysis of clay minerals
11:40 - Carrie Williams, University of Washington
Species identification of Microfossil remains at
Tham Sua Cave, Lao PDR
12:10-1:10 Lunch (Methods)
Panel IV: 1:10- 3:50
Chair: Eric Tagliacozzo, Associate Professor,
Department of History, Cornell University
1:10- 1:40
Will Arighi, University of Washington

Anxieties of Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century
Philippine Costumbrista Fiction
Comments: Marites Mendoza
1:40- 2:10
Woonkyung Yeo, University of Washington
Between Java and Singapore: Rubber Trades in
Palembang in the mid 20 th Century
Comments: Sovatha Ann
10 minute break
2:20- 2:50
Khartini Abdul Khalid, Tufts University
The Role of the State in Shaping a Singapore Muslim
Identity in the post- 9/11 Era
Comments: Awidya Santikajaya
2:50- 3:20
Allan Lumba, University of Washington
Gold Nations: Colonial Crises and Currencies
in the Philippines, 1901- 1903
Comments: George Radics
3:20-3:50
Open Discussion
10 minute break
4:00-5:00 pm
Closing Remarks from Panel Chairs
Carlo Bonura, Research Officer in the Centre for
Political Ideologies, University of Oxford
Penny Edwards, Associate Professor, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of
California, Berkeley
Ben Marwick, Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology, University of Washington
Eric Tagliacozzo, Associate Professor, Department of History, Cornell University