All sessions are in HUNT (Hunthausen) 110 at Seattle University

This symposium is on the patterns and networks of cultural interaction, exchange, and mutual curiosity between Europe and Southeast Asia as well as Sri Lanka. While some of the papers use frameworks of empire, others highlight themes that are often overlooked or obscured when focusing on the frameworks of empires and nation-states. Issues of heritage are also highlighted.

Sat. May 26th

9:15-10:30 Politics of Heritage and Education
“Collecting Malay Heritage: Amateur Scholarly Societies, Ethnology, and Colonial Education in British Malaya 1900-1910”
Matthew Schauer, University of Pennsylvania

“Illegible Histories: Cultural Heritage and Vietnam’s Yao Communities”
Bradley Davis, Gonzaga University

10:45-12:15 Power Relations, Policy and Technology
“The Politics of Mobility and Constructions of Masculinities in Colonial Vietnam.”
Judith Henchy, University of Washington

“Rituals and Power: Anxieties over and Challenges to the Material and Immaterial Forms of Deference in Colonial Java, 1900-1942” Arnout van der Meer, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

“Opium Policy and International Opinion: Colonial Burma, c.1930-1939” Ashley Wright, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada

12:15-1:45 Lunch

1:45-3:00 Material Culture
“Material Culture in Colonial Indonesia”
Dawn Odell, Lewis and Clark College

“Circulation of Tiles and Other Forms of Material Culture”
H. Hazel Hahn, Seattle University

3:00-3:15 Coffee Break

3:15-4:30 Travelogue and Photography
“The Diaries of Philiphe Binh: A Vietnamese Travel Account of Early Nineteenth-Century Portugal”
George Dutton, UCLA

“Images of Empire: Late Nineteenth Century British Photography in Ceylon” Benita Stambler, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art

Sun. May 27th

9:30-11:00 Architecture and Urbanism
"Technical Exchanges in Colonial Vietnam: a Missed Rendez-Vous?"
Caroline Herbelin, Université de Toulouse 2 Le Mirail, France

“Modernizing Cambodia Under Norodom Sihanouk”
Linda Saphan, Manhattan College

“Rejecting and Reproducing Colonial Urbanism in Contemporary Malaysian City Design”
Sarah Moser, University of Massachusetts Lowell

11:15-12:15 Lunch

12:15-1:30 Music
“Rethinking the ‘Divine Arabesque’: A Critical Approach to Claude Debussy and the Javanese Kampong from the 1889 Universal Exposition” Rachel Thompson, Minneapolis College of Art and Design

“Jazz and the British Empire in Colonial Asia”
Fritz Schenker, University of Wisconsin, Madison

This symposium is sponsored by the Pigott-McCone Endowed Chair Fund of Seattle University. This symposium is open to the public.