Gatty Rewind Podcast

In this week's episode, Michael, Hoang, and Astara sit down with Christina Schwenkel, from the University of California Riverside to discuss her research into the small industrial city of Vinh in the aftermath of US bombing during the Vietnam war.

Michael and Matt Reeder sit down with Professor Tom Borchert to chat about his research on Thailand, Buddhism, and the education of buddhist monks. Tom's first book, "Educating Monks: Minority Buddhism on China’s Southwest Border," was published in 2017 and is available from the University of Hawai’i Press.

In this episode of the Gatty Lecture Rewind, graduate students Michael and Ing sit down with Pasoot Lasuka to talk about a lecture he gave at Cornell University titled, "Reading Dead and Lived Modernities in Mainland Southeast Asia through Late 19th and Early 20th Century Thai Travel Writings." Their conversation covers how Pasoot came to this topic, definitions of modernity, and much more!

In this episode of the Gatty Rewind, Michael and Juan chat with Mark Rice from St. John Fisher College about his work on colonial photography in the Philippines. Mark recently gave a talk, "American (Pre)Colonial Photography in the Philippines: The Menage Expedition of 1890-1893," at Cornell University, and Juan and Michael ask Mark about this research project, his career as a historian of photography, and much more!

In this week's Gatty Lecture Rewind, Michael and Cornell Graduate Student Juan Fernandez interview Anthony Medrano, PhD and Ziff Environmental Fellow at Harvard University. They discuss Anthony's research on the history of fish production and consumption in Southeast Asia, particularly in the Straits of Melaka between Indonesia and Malaysia. Anthony's talk was titled, "Working the Tides: Pawangs, Fishers, and Scientists in the Straits of Melaka, 1870-1940."

In this episode of the podcast, Michael and Astara are back to chat with Ryan Buyco, PhD Candidate at Cornell, about his Gatty Lecture, which was an overview of his dissertation research on the small island archipelago of Okinawa in Southern Japan. They chat about transpacific studies, Ryan's time doing fieldwork in the Philippines and Okinawa, and what he hopes to take on in the future. 

In this week's episode of the Gatty Lecture Rewind, Michael and Astara sit down with Urmila Mohan from NYU, to discuss her work on textiles, hinduism, and uses of images in Bali, Indonesia. Urmila's lecture relied on fieldwork and archival research over the past few years, and used an anthropological and historical lens to the uses of images by some Balinese. Urmila edits an open-access journal, jugaad, which you can find here: https://jugaad.pub/. 

In the first episode of season 2 of the Gatty Rewind, Michael and Hoang sit down with Cornell University Professor Lily Chi, to discuss her research into the history of Vietnamese Architecture. Lily presented her research at Cornell University on January 31, 2019 in a talk entitled, "Constructing Saigon: Touring a City through its Guidebooks (1910-1990). Hoang, Michael, and Lily also discuss her motivations for her research in Vietnam, the agency of architecture, and more.

Welcome back to the Gatty Lecture Rewind Podcast! The Gatty Lecture Rewind Podcast comes from the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University, and we are back with a whole new slate of guests for this spring. Check back in each week to hear Cornell Graduate Students chat with a new scholar of Southeast Asia. These scholars have come to Cornell to give a "Gatty Lecture" at the Kahin Center for Advanced Research on Southeast Asia. Those lectures happen every Thursday in Ithaca, NY, and are free and open to the public. Conversations will explore the language, history, culture, religions, arts, politics, and more of Southeast Asia. We hope you enjoy the conversation!

In the final episode of Season 1 of the Gatty Lecture Rewind, SEAP graduate students Michael and Hoang Minh Vu sit down with Alex-Thai D. Vo, PhD Candidate at Cornell to chat about his research on land reform in Northern Vietnam in the years leading up to the Vietnam War. The three discuss Alex-Thai and Hoang's personal and academic journey's to their topics, and the importance of researching Vietnam from multiple perspectives for the country. Tune in next year for Season 2 of the podcast!