slow seminar – Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions

Slow Seminar – Traces of Trauma: Cambodian Visual Culture and National Identity in the Aftermath of Genocide

seacoast Slow Seminar, Uncategorized May 1, 2021June 22, 2021slow seminar

On May Thursday,May 27th 5-7pm PDT, UCSC SEACoast Center and University of Washington, Seattle Southeast Asia Center will be co-hosting a seminar to discuss Boreth Ly’s new book, Traces of Trauma. The discussion will be aimed at exploring the fraught and entangled projects of surviving genocide, re-constructing national identity, and healing in the aftermath of genocide.

We are grateful to have Jenna Grant, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and the Southeast Asian Center (SEAC) at University of Washington, join and open the discussion with a few questions. Also joining us is Amy Sanford, whose work is discussed in the book and is featured on the book cover.
Please email seacoast@ucsc.edu to RSVP for this event. For security reasons, the zoom link will be sent at least 30 minutes before the start of the event.

Slow Seminar – Mekong Dreaming: Life and Death Along a Changing River

seacoast Slow Seminar, Uncategorized April 1, 2021June 22, 2021slow seminar

On April 29th, 8-10am PDT, the UCSC SEACoast Center and Aarhus University BLUE will be co-hosting a seminar to discuss Andrew Alan Johnson’s Mekong Dreaming: Life and Death Along a Changing River. The reading and discussion are aimed at exploring an ethnographic insight into the impact of infrastructural changes on a river and on its human and nonhuman inhabitants.

We are fortunate to have PhD student Natalie Ng from the UCSC Anthropology Department join and open the discussion with a few questions.

Please email seacoast@ucsc.edu to RSVP for this event. For security reasons, the zoom link will be sent at least 30 minutes before the start of the event.

Slow Seminar – Mangroves and Metal Pollution

seacoast Slow Seminar, Uncategorized March 1, 2021June 22, 2021slow seminar

On Thursday, April 1 from 5 – 7 pm PDT on Zoom, we will be hosting a seminar focused on mangroves as a socio-ecological system from a chemical perspective. Dr. Gonzalo Carrasco (Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University) will guide our conversation about metal contamination in mangroves, highlighting the significance of metals in coastal degradation and climate change:

I will introduce the reasons why it is important to study metals in mangroves in these times and in Asia in particular, as the story that I will tell you relates to land and coastal natural vegetation degradation, growing metal pollution sources, and impending climate change. For this, I will present mangroves from a chemical perspective, and will discuss highlights in recent literature as well as some of my results from Singapore mangroves. Finally, multiple scenarios with different stages of development will be discussed looking at the metal pollution coping capacity of the coastal ecosystem, with the aim to start a conversation about possible solutions and social implications.

Gonzalo has offered a recommended reading. Please email seacoast@ucsc.edu for the reading and to RSVP for this event. For security reasons, zoom links will be sent at least 30 minutes prior to the seminar.

Slow Seminar – The City and the Wilderness: Indo-Persian Encounters in Southeast Asia

seacoast Slow Seminar, Uncategorized January 1, 2021June 22, 2021slow seminar

On January 28, 3:30-5:30PM PST, we discuss Arash Khazeni’s The City and the Wilderness: Indo-Persian Encounters in Southeast Asia. The reading and discussion are aimed at expanding our knowledge of Indian Ocean histories and interactions by exploring a new set of voyages and connections. We are thrilled to have Professor Vilashni Cooppan of UCSC Literature join and open the discussion with a few questions.

Please email seacoast@ucsc.edu for the readings and RSVP in order to receive the Zoom link and password.

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