Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115 USA
October 3-5, 2008
| Friday (October 3, 2008) | |||
| 10:00-12:00 | Registration: Outside Regency Room | ||
| 12:00-1:00 | Crossings: Contemporary Asian Art Show Htein Lin Performance and De-Vernissage Reception | ||
| 1:00-1:30 | International Burma Studies Conference Opening - Regency Room | ||
| Regency Room | Capital Room North | Capital Room South | |
| 1:30-3:00 | Art History: Painting and Artifacts | Film Viewing | Music |
| Alexandra Green Nagas, Alchemists, Magic and Hell in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burmese Wall Paintings |
The Legend of Lady Hill (Pan Dandayi), Bryce Beemer, 2005 (131 min.) | Gavin Douglas The Slide Guitar in Post-Colonial Burma: Local Adaptations to a Global Instrument |
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| Catherine Raymond Nineteenth Century Buddhist Cloth Painting from Burma |
Sayuri Inoue The Formation of Genre Division in Burmese Classical Songs with Special Reference to Song Anthologies in Palm Leaf Manuscripts |
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| Ralph Isaacs The Pongyibyan; Funeral Ceremonies of Senior Monks in 19th Century Burma and Associated Artifacts |
Kit Young Adaptable Sonorities: Gita Lu Lin U Ko Ko’s Departures in Sundaya Tone and Style (Lobby for Piano Lecture) |
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| 3:00-4:30 | Art History: Iconography and Architecture | Film Viewing | Nineteenth Century History and Culture |
| Anne May Chew The Rock-cut Temples of Shwe Ba Taung - Central Burma |
The Legend of Lady Hill (Pan Dandayi) continued | William Womack Burma Studies on Tour: Baptist Portrayals of Burma in 1830s America |
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| Richard Cooler The Pointed Arch at Pagan: What Shape Jambudvipa? |
Francois Tainturier Building the ‘City of Dhamma’: King Mindon’s Foundation of Mandalay in the Face of Adversity |
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| Charlotte Galloway A Pyu Transition at Bagan: Iconographic Links |
Tin Maung Kyi A New Theory on the Evolution of Burmese Puppetry |
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| Alexandra De Mersan The Making of a Buddha Image in Arakan |
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| 5:30-6:30 | Exhibit Opening Reception Belief Made Tangible - NIU Art Museum | ||
| 7:00-7:30 | Keynote Speaker: Dr. Toe Hla - Ellington’s in Holmes Student Center | ||
| 7:30-8:30 | Dinner - Ellington’s | ||
| 8:30-9:30 | Film Festival - Sandburg Auditorium | ||
| Saturday (October 4, 2008) | ||||
| 7:00-8:00 | Breakfast Regency Room | |||
| Regency Room | Capital Room North | Capital Room South | Sandburg Auditorium | |
| 8:00-9:45 | Migration Within and Out of Burma: How to Cope and to What Effect? | Questions of History and Historiography | Shan 1 Chair: Nicola Tannenbaum |
Film Viewing |
| Inge Brees Refugees as Transnational Actors: The Impact of Burmese Diaspora Engagement |
Pat McCormick The Rajawangsa Katha: Writing and Telling Mon Narrative Histories |
Jane Ferguson Blasting the Past; Or What Happens When the Silver Screen Promotes Burman-centric History Amongst Ethnically Diverse Viewers |
When the Gate is Open (Palaung), Matt Maizels, 2008 (43 min.) | |
| Erin Taylor Recent Resettlement of People from Burma and the (Re) Emergence of the “Burmese” Community in Australia |
Benjamin Lemon Collasophe, Historicity and the Decline of Pagan: Cyclical History and Historicism Verses Generativity in the Historiography of Pre-modern Myanmar |
Nancy Eberhardt What Does It Mean to Be Shan? Shifting Ethnic Markers for Shan in Northern Thailand |
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| Stephen Hull The ‘Everyday Politics’ of IDP Protection in Karen State |
U Thaw Kaung Letwe Nawrahta (1723-1791): Recorder of Myanmar History read by Dr. Toe Hla |
John Hartmann The Chain of Chiang and Viang: Questions for Linguistics and Archaeology |
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| Rachel Sharples Cyber Space: The Role of Technology in Mobilizing Displaced Karen in the Thailand-Burma Borderlands |
Jotika Khur-Yearn A Book for the Dead: A Shan Buddhist Tradition Being a Means for the Preservation of their Cultural Identity |
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| 9:45-10:00 | Coffee and Tea Regency Room | |||
| 10:00-11:45 | Political Science: Nation, State and Economy | Education | Shan 2 Chair: Jane Ferguson |
Film Viewing |
| Sean Turnell Burma's Economy 2008: Decline, Disaster....and Ways Forward |
Rosalie Metro Recognition of Identity as Control of Difference in Contemporary Burmese State History Textbooks |
Nicola Tannenbaum Being Shan on the Thai Side of the Border: Continuities and Transformations in Shan Culture and Identity in Maehongson, Thailand |
U Po Sein: A Diamond in the Golden Land, Glenn Short, 2006, 53 min. | |
| Paul Sarno The War on Drugs in Myanmar |
Chika Wanatabe NGOs in Burma/Myanmar: The Construction of Knowledge and Ethical Personhood in Capacity Building Activities |
Francois Robinne At the Confluence of Ethnic Reification and Ethnic Neutralization: Two Contrast Cases in Northern and Southern Shan State |
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| Brooke Treadwell At the Intersection of Education & Politics: How Teachers Negotiate Civic Education in Burma |
Chit Hlaing (F. K. Lehman) Port Polities in the Hills: Shan States and Trade in the China-Burma (Myanmar) Border Region |
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| Donna Hendry Building a Bridge: Literal and Metaphorical Building of National Unity in Burma |
Wunna Ko Ko Myanmar Unicode: Comparative Study on Using Adhoc Fonts and Standardized Encoding for Myanmar Scripts |
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| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch - Regency Room | |||
| Saturday (October 4, 2008) Continued ... | |||
| Regency Room | Capital Room North | Capital Room South | |
| 1:00-2:30 | Political Science: Intra-Asian Foreign Policy | Sino-Burmese Lives and Cultures | Historical Buddhisms |
| Bo Bo Importance of Emergence of Taiwan on the Foreign Policy of Burma |
Tasaw Hsin-chun-Lu The Soundscapes of Ethnic Chinese in Rangoon between 1949 and 1988 |
Respondent: Chit Hlaing | |
| Paribatra Pinitbhand Dilemmas of Thailand’s Foreign Policy Toward Myanmar from 2001 to 2004: A Cost-Benefit Analysis |
Wen-Chin Chang Life History of Two Kokang Chinese in Burma |
Jason Carbine Buddhism, Law, and Sacred Space |
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| Renaud Egreteau India’s Burma Policy in Question – Achievements and Setbacks of the New Indo-Burmese Partnership |
Guy Lubeigt The Chinese in Burma: Traditional Migration or Strategy for a Conquest |
Alexey Kirichenko Classification of Buddhist Literature in Burmese Inscriptions and “Histories of Pitaka” (Pitakat Thamaing) |
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| Kyi May Kaung Weakness in the Traditional Area Studies Approach and Burma |
Lilian Handlin Hybrid Buddhism in Early Pagan |
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| Patrick Pranke Dhammazedi and the Writing of Mon Buddhist History |
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| 2:30-4:00 | Round Table: Research in Burma: Difficulties and Dilemmas | State Influence on Society and Culture | Buddhism in early 20th and 21st Centuries |
| Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung • Literary Analysis |
Myint Zan Influences and Non-influences of Aspects of Western Thinking and Law Regarding Madness and (Criminal) Responsibility in Burmese Social and Legal Discourse |
Erik Braun The Rise of the Laity and the Origins of Insight Meditation |
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| Takahiro Iwaki Re-examination of the Relation Between “The Upper Burma Village Regulation (1887)” and the Local Society |
Alicia Turner Shoes and Shikhos: Buddhism, Rituals and Boundaries of Religion |
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Paul Sarno • Interview |
Bryce Beemer Southeast Asian Slavery and Slave Gathering Warfare as a Vector for Cultural Transmission: The Case of Burma and Thailand |
Juliane Schober The Saffron Revolution and Buddhist Social Engagement in Myanmar |
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| Tin Maung Maung Than • Economic Research |
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| Patrick McCormick • History Research |
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| 4:00-5:30 | Roundtable: Burma's Constitutional Referendum: Fact or Fantasy? | Language and Literature | Ethnography |
| John Brandon Dominic Nardi Myint Zan Sean Turnell |
Phyu Phyu Win Burmese Language Used in Kyae Gaung & Shwe Li |
Celine Coderey Disease Conception and Traditional Medical Practice in Arakan |
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| Edith Piness and Oliver Pollak Rereading Burmese Days in the early 21st Century |
Ward Keeler Why are Transvestites Better Than Women at Making Women Beautiful in Mandalay? |
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| Hans-Bernd Zollner The Young Revolutionary and the Skeptic Nationalist. A Pilot Study Towards a Typology of Burmese Political Thought and Thinkers |
Niklas Foxeus The Annual Ceremony of an Ariyaweizzadhour Sect |
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| Chit Hlaing (F. K. Lehman) Defining Personhood, Servanthood and Jurisdiction: Southeast Asian Polities vs. East and South Asian Polities Kyun, kha, nga |
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| 6:00-6:30 | Cocktails - Altgeld Hall Ballroom (cash bar) | ||
| 6:40-7:45 | Burma Studies Gala Night Dinner - Altgeld Ballroom | ||
| 7:45-9:15 | Cultural Events - Altgeld Ballroom | ||
| Friday (October 5, 2008) | |||
| 8:00-9:00 | Breakfast Regency Room | ||
| Regency Room | |||
| 9:00-11:00 | Responses to Cyclone Nargis | ||
| Ingrid Jordt Nargis Relief and the Entrenchment of Military Power in Burma |
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| Kit Young Gitameit Music Center Unlearning Avoidance Shaun Sha Da |
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| 11:00-11:30 | Closing Ceremony: In Memory of Ludu Daw Ahmar | ||