Gatty Rewind Podcast

In our latest episode, Michael sits down with Andrew Weintraub, from the Department of Music at the University of Pittsburgh, for a discussion on ethnomusicology, where they unpack Professor Weintraub's recent research on the music of the Left in Indonesia from 1950-65.

Research & lecture summary: 02:18

Advice for researchers and recommendations: 23:30

Andrew Weintraub's Publications:

• Power Plays (link)
• Dangdut Stories (link)

Andrew Weintraub's Top Recommendations:

• The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins (link)
• Social Commitment in Literature and the Arts by Keith Foulcher (link)
• Buried Histories by John Roosa (link)

Watch Professor Weintraub's Gatty Lecture here.

In today's podcast, Michael and Professor Geoff Robinson, from the Department of History at UCLA, delve into Geoff's research on the mass killings in Indonesia from 1965-66, and his recent monograph, The Killing Season. (link).

Research & lecture summary: 02:00

Research advice and recommendations: 23:08

Robinson's Other Books:

• East Timor 1999: Crimes Against Humanity (link)
• "If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die" (link)

Geoffrey Robinson's Reading Recommendations:

• Republicanism, Communism, Islam by John Sidel (link)
• Buru Quartet by Pramoedya Ananta Toer (link)

Watch Geoffrey Robinson's Gatty Lecture here.

In this week's episode, Michael sits down with Sara Swenson, from the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College, to discuss contemporary Buddhist charity movements in Vietnam and her ethnographic research in Ho Chi Minh City, which is the heart of her current book project on grassroots Buddhist social service campaigns and its relation to religious humanitarianism in Southeast Asia.

Research & lecture summary: 01:58

Research advice and reading recommendations: 20:20

Sara Swenson's Reading Recommendations:

• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Voung (link)

In the latest episode of the Gatty Lecture Rewind, Michael talks with Professor Joshua Plotnik, Assistant Professor at Hunter College, about the intelligence and cognitive abilities of elephants and how research into elephants cognitive abilities can be used to enhance conservation and efforts via education, for Asian elephants and their habitats, such as those in Thailand.

Research & lecture summary: 02:00

Advice for researchers and book recommendations: 27:46

Joshua Plotnik's Top Recommendations:

• Elephants by Hannah Mumby (link)
• Elephant Bill by J.H. Williams (link)

Welcome back to a new season of the Gatty Lecture Rewind! In this first episode of the semester, Michael sits down with Tom Pepinsky, the director of the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University, to discuss the concept of ethnic identity in Malaysia. This was the topic of Professor Pepinsky's recent Gatty Lecture and the crux a long-term book project he is developing.

Research & lecture summary: 02:33 Advice for undergrads/reading recommendations/life during the pandemic: 29:28

Tom Pepinsky's Top Recommendations:

• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (link)
• The Raid: Redemption (2011 movie)
• What is a Malay? by Judith A. Nagata (link)

In the final episode of this academic year of the Gatty Lecture Rewind Podcast, Michael talks with Professor Ian Baird about his new book, Rise of the Brao: Ethnic Minorities in Northeastern Cambodia during Vietnamese Occupation.

Watch Ian Baird's Gatty lecture here.

In this week's episode of the Gatty Lecture Rewind Podcast, Michael chats with Dr. Juliet Lu about a recent talk she gave at Cornell titled, "'Like China 30 years ago' Chinese Discourses of Development in Northern Laos." Dr. Lu is also a host on the Belt and Road Podcast.

Watch Juliet Lu's Gatty lecture here.

In the 52nd episode of the Gatty Lecture Rewind Podcast, Michael sits down with Professor Gavin Douglas to discuss a recent Gatty Lecture that Gavin gave at Cornell, titled, "Sound, Music, and Buddhism in Myanmar/Burma."

Watch Gavin Douglas' Gatty Lecture here.

In episode 51 of the Gatty Lecture Rewind Podcast, Michael sits down (virtually) with Professor Ronit Ricci, to discuss a recent Gatty Lecture (and much more!) that she gave at Cornell, titled "From Sarandib, via Lanka, to Ceylon: Exile and Memory in the Colonial Age."

In this week's podcast episode of the Gatty Lecture Rewind, Michael chats with Anthony Irwin, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University, about a recent lecture he gave at Cornell, titled, "Everybody Gets a Sword! The Production and Proliferation of Buddhist Ritual Weaponry in Northern Thailand." Anthony and Michael discuss Anthony's journey to this project, as well as the significance of class and the state to ritual weaponry in Northern Thailand.