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The 3rd Annual Hana-Stanford Conference on Korea for U.S. Secondary School Teachers
July 28, 2014
The third annual Hana-Stanford Conference on Korea for U.S. Secondary School Teachers takes place this summer, from July 28 to 30, at Stanford.
Ties That Bind: Cultural Identity, Class, and Law in Vietnam's Labor Resistance
November 6, 2013
Vietnamese news accounts of labor-management conflicts, including strikes, and even reports of owners fleeing their factories raise potent questions about labor activism in light of this self...
Empire as a Moral Problem: Religious Cosmopolitanism and Colonial Modernity in Northeast Asia
November 6, 2013
In the early twentieth century, against the backdrop of colonial violence, the Japanese annexation of Korea, and World War I, religious and secular groups in East Asia voiced support for a new...
Jesus, Lenin, and Victor Hugo: The “Outrageous” Syncretism of Caodai Religion in Vietnam and California
May 8, 2013
Co-sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies The Caodai religion is unique. Born in French Indochina in 1926, it mixes Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism with organizational elements from...
Establishing Identity: Documents, Performance, and Biometric Information in Immigration Proceedings
May 6, 2013
How do we know that a person is what she claims to be? Or how do we make others believe that we are the person that we claim to be?
Indonesia Is No Model for Muslim Democracy
March 5, 2013
Since the resignation of Indonesia’s authoritarian president Suharto in 1998, the country has made great strides in consolidating a democratic government.
Colonialism and Patterns of Ethnic Conflict in Contemporary India
December 6, 2012
Why does ethnic violence in multi-ethnic states revolve around one identity rather than another?
Hana-Stanford Conference on Korea for U.S. Secondary School Teachers
July 23, 2012
The first annual Hana-Stanford Conference on Korea for U.S. Secondary School Teachers conference takes place this summer, from July 23 to 25, at Stanford.
Discourses of Defiance: Framing Muslim Self-Determination in Thailand and the Philippines
May 23, 2012
Using the concept of framing, this presentation will explore discourses behind the move for greater self-determination on the part of the Malay-Muslims of southern Thailand and the Moro of the...
Fake Encounters in India: Instant Justice By Police and Posthumous Trial by Media
September 27, 2011
A police “encounter killing,” or simply “encounter,” is a term with no legal validity but which has seeped via the media into Indian English so surely that it has acquired a life of its own.
Does Democratization Imply Islamization? Lessons from Democratic Indonesia, the World’s Largest Majority-Muslim Country
May 18, 2011
Indonesia has undergone democratization since 1998. Islamic political parties have re-emerged, but they have failed to gain significant support.
Pop Preachers, Pornography, and Moral Politik: Islamic Statecraft in Democratic Indonesia
February 10, 2010
In October 2008 Indonesian legislators finally passed a law against pornography.
Malaysia at the Crossroads: Race-based Politics, the Emergence of a Multiracial Alternative and the Road Ahead
October 14, 2009
Malaysia, a nation in Southeast Asia is a fascinating polyglot: while its people are predominantly Muslim, it is also a surprisingly diverse nation, with many communities of faith living together...
Science and Secularity: Rethinking Religous Reform
October 9, 2008
This series of talks explore a number of issues which have arisen from a study of ethnogenesis, identity formation, state building, religious reform, and socio-economic "modernization" in selected...
Rediscovery of India by the American Academy
February 27, 2008
In the past decade, academia has experienced a remarkable revival of interest in India.
Protest and Repression in South Korea (1970-1979)
January 11, 2008
Chang's presentation seeks to understand the emergence and evolution of social movements during the 1970s in South Korea.
Not What It Seems: Muslim Governance in Malaysia Today
October 29, 2007
Tectonic shifts have underscored the gradual Islamization of mainstream politics in contemporary Malaysia.
Schools for Zealots? Islamic Education and Democracy in Indonesia - and Implications for the Muslim World
October 16, 2007
In recent years the largest Muslim-majority country, Indonesia, has seen the growth of contrary trends: a peaceful movement for democracy led and supported mostly by Muslims but also incidents of...
Imagining the Indian Nation: The Role of Literature in the Nationalist Movement: 1920-1947
February 20, 2007
There was nothing inherently unified about the diverse cultures, religions and languages that comprised the Indian subcontinent under colonialism.
Breakdown of Monoethnic Society in South Korea: The Influx of Foreign Laborers and the Aging of the Population
October 13, 2006
One aspect of globalization that is receiving increasing scholarly attention is international migration, especially the transnational migration of workers.
Indian Politics and International Relations Since the End of the Cold War
May 3, 2006
About the speaker: Achin Vanaik, fellow and board member of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam is one of the most important analysts of contemporary Indian politics.
How to Study Islam as a Religion and in Society
October 7, 2005
Cosponsored with the Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford
Power, Rights, and Desire: The "Islamic State" in Muslim Southeast Asia
March 3, 2004
Daulah Islamiyya (Islamic sovereignty, or an Islamic state) is a declared objective of the Southeast Asian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyya.
Getting Closer? Southeast Asia and the Middle East
November 19, 2003
In the United States since 9/11, there has been a tendency to reduce Southeast Asia's connections to the Middle East to religion: that is, to the Muslim faith shared by majori-ties east of the...
