Gatty Rewind Podcast

Lightning Round: 3:48

Research and lecture summary: 7:20

Advice for researchers and recommendations: 29:20

Dr. Jenny Hedstrom's Top Recommendations:

• Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith

The music on the podcast is from "Me and Some Friends", a musical project by a group of friends at Cornell, to experiment with how the beautiful timbres of Gamelan music can meld with hypnotic guitar parts to create a contemplative and unique experience. Check them out here.

Produced by Neen Tangcharoenmonkong and Kelly Ryoo.

In this episode, host Francine Barchett sits down to interview Dr. Nina Baker Capistrano to unpack her lecture "Reinscribing P'u-tuan in the Metanarrative of Early Southeast Asia." During their discussion, Dr. Capistrano describes the significance and implications of material evidence from P'u-tuan and neighboring cultures, which grant us insight into early interregional connectivities. She also calls for the need to study marginalized, pre-colonial Filipino cultures, especially the P'u-tuan.

Lightning Round: 4:02

Research and lecture summary: 14:35

Advice for researchers and recommendations: 39:00

Dr. Nina Baker Capistrano's Top Recommendations:

• Performing Prowess: Essays on Localized Hindu Elements in Southeast Asian Art from Past to Present
• 2021 Philippine International Quincentennial Conference (Youtube Link)

The music on the podcast is from "Me and Some Friends", a musical project by a group of friends at Cornell, to experiment with how the beautiful timbres of Gamelan music can meld with hypnotic guitar parts to create a contemplative and unique experience. Check them out here.

Produced by Neen Tangcharoenmonkong and Kelly Ryoo.

In this episode of the Gatty Lecture Rewind podcast, host Francine Barchett is joined by guest host, Sarah Meiners, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Cornell University. Together, they interviewed Dr. Nguyen Marshall, who unpacked her lecture titled, "Between War and the State: Civil Society in South Vietnam, 1954-1975" which is inspired by her latest book. During the episode, Dr. Nguyen Marshall delves into the challenges, methods, and motivations behind her book. Through this work, Professor Nguyen Marshall aims to bring to light the stories of ordinary lives in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

Lightning Round: 3:20

Research and lecture summary: 7:34

Advice for researchers and recommendations: 35:27

Dr. Nguyen Marshall's Top Recommendations:

• Vietnamese saxophonist Trần Mạnh Tuấn (Apple Music link, Spotify link)

The music on the podcast is from "Me and Some Friends", a musical project by a group of friends at Cornell, to experiment with how the beautiful timbres of Gamelan music can meld with hypnotic guitar parts to create a contemplative and unique experience. Check them out here.

Produced by Neen Tangcharoenmonkong and Kelly Ryoo.

In this episode of the Gatty Lecture Rewind podcast, Dr. Claudio unpacks his lecture titled, "Imperialism and the Formation of Good Governance Discourse in the Philippines: The Case Study of the Philippine National Bank in the 1920s." He explains how the Philippine National Bank (PNB) fell into crisis—not because of corruption, but because of a postwar global deflation. Listen now to learn more about the collapse of the PNB and Dr. Claudio's challenges the dominant form of political-economic analysis in the Philippines.

Lightning Round: 5:28

Research and lecture summary: 9:09

Advice for researchers and recommendations: 28:57

Dr. Claudio's Top Recommendations:

• Olongapo funk (The Advisors)
• Till My Heartaches End by Ella May Saison

The music on the podcast is from "Me and Some Friends", a musical project by a group of friends at Cornell, to experiment with how the beautiful timbres of Gamelan music can meld with hypnotic guitar parts to create a contemplative and unique experience. Check them out here.

Produced by Neen Tangcharoenmonkong and Kelly Ryoo.

In this episode of the Gatty Lecture Rewind podcast, Vicente Rafael, his wife Lila Shahani, and guest host Geronimo Christobal join Francine to unpack Professor Rafael's lecture titled, "The Authoritarian Imaginary: Intimacy and the Autoimmune Community in the Contemporary Philippines." Tune in to gain insights into the making of his latest book The Sovereign Trickster, Filipino politics, and find out how he and his wife met!

Lightning Round: 3:14

Research and lecture summary: 16:01

Advice for researchers and recommendations: 44:17

Professor Rafael's Top Recommendations:

• Novels
• Netflix
• Reading newspapers

The music on the podcast is from "Me and Some Friends", a musical project by a group of friends at Cornell, to experiment with how the beautiful timbres of Gamelan music can meld with hypnotic guitar parts to create a contemplative and unique experience. Check them out here.

In this episode of the Gatty Lecture Rewind podcast, Dr. Weiss sits down to unpack her lecture titled, "Decline and Fall of Malaysia's Dominant-Party System." The episode discusses Malaysia's 15th general election in November 2022 that ended the country's dominant-party system. Listen now to learn more about the election results' political implications and what it may mean for the future of Malaysia.

Lightning Round: 3:54

Research and lecture summary: 6:31

Advice for researchers and recommendations: 39:28

Dr. Weiss' Top Recommendations:

• Bangkok after Dark by Benjamin Tausig
• Malaysian short films and documentaries (FreedomFilmFest)

The music on the podcast is from "Me and Some Friends", a musical project by a group of friends at Cornell, to experiment with how the beautiful timbres of Gamelan music can meld with hypnotic guitar parts to create a contemplative and unique experience. Check them out here.

In this episode of the Gatty Lecture Rewind podcast, Dr. Su sits down to unpack her lecture titled, "The Border Within: Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Berlin." The episode delves into the divide between Northern Vietnamese and Southern Vietnamese populations in Germany after its reunification in 1975. Beyond going over the contents of the lecture, Dr. Su opens up about her experiences in the field and the job market - sharing her honest advice for graduate students hoping to enter academia.

Lightning Round: 02:52

Research and lecture summary: 06:24

Advice for researchers and recommendations: 24:43

Dr. Phi Su's Top Recommendations:

• Under Current Pasts: the 1990s' Silencing of Migrants to the GDR
• Lordy Rodriguez's "Territory States"

The music on the podcast is from "Me and Some Friends", a musical project by a group of friends at Cornell, to experiment with how the beautiful timbres of Gamelan music can meld with hypnotic guitar parts to create a contemplative and unique experience. Check them out here.

On this week's episode, Francine sits down with Dr. Risa Toha, assistant professor of Political Science at Wake Forest University, to unpack her Gatty Lecture titled, "Can National Identity Trump Ethnic Favoritism? Experimental Evidence from Singapore." Throughout the episode, Francine and Mutty propose questions to Dr. Toha about her experiment design, what stood out most from the data collected, and the implications of her findings. Stay tuned for a preview about Dr. Toha's upcoming work, her recommendations, and advice for early career scholars!

Lightning Round: 03:30

Research and lecture summary: 08:43

Advice for researchers and recommendations: 33:29

Dr. Toha's Top Recommendations:

• Ethnicity and Politics in Southeast Asia (link)

The music on the podcast is from "Me and Some Friends", a musical project by a group of friends at Cornell, to experiment with how the beautiful timbres of Gamelan music can meld with hypnotic guitar parts to create a contemplative and unique experience. Check them out here.

On this week's episode, Francine sits down with Linna Chhun, Assistant Professor of American Studies at University of Texas - Austin, to unpack her first book manuscript Walking with the Ghost that analyzes memories of the Cambodian Genocide (1975-79) through the lens of personal and familial narratives. Join us for a thrilling conversation on autoethnographies, trauma, militarism, life as a graduate student, and hilarious dog stories!

Lightning Round: 02:50

Research and lecture summary: 11:55

Advice for researchers and recommendations: 42:10

Dr. Chhun's Top Recommendations:

• A Nail the Evening Hangs On by Monica Sok (link)
• Ghost Face by Greg Santos (link)
• Afterparties: Stories by Anthony Veasna So (link)

The music on the podcast is from "Me and Some Friends", a musical project by a group of friends at Cornell, to experiment with how the beautiful timbres of Gamelan music can meld with hypnotic guitar parts to create a contemplative and unique experience. Check them out here.

On this week's episode, Francine welcomes Dr. Sean Fear from Leeds University's School of History to unpack his virtual lecture, "Assessing Saigon's "Year of Sand": the 1968 Tet Offensive and Rise and Fall of South Vietnam's Second Republic". Stay tuned to hear Dr. Fear share his work which sheds new light on the South Vietnamese government, the role of language training in work, and fond memories of his time at Cornell University.

Lightning Round: 03:40

Research and lecture summary: 09:30

Advice for researchers and recommendations: 41:40

Dr. Fear's Top Recommendations:

• Feature film: Dat Kho (Land of Sorrows). (Link)

The music on the podcast is from "Me and Some Friends", a musical project by a group of friends at Cornell, to experiment with how the beautiful timbres of Gamelan music can meld with hypnotic guitar parts to create a contemplative and unique experience. Check them out here.