In this episode, Michael sits down with Harriman Saragih, Professor of Business Innovation at Monash University, to discuss his work on consumer behavior in Indonesia through the lens of environmentalism.

Research and lecture summary: 01:45

Advice for researchers and recommendations: 10:40

Harriman Saragih's Top Recommendation:

• Plastic Wars by FRONTLINE PBS (link)

We are back for the new semester! In this latest episode, Magnus Fiskesjö, Associate Professor at Cornell University, and Michael discuss his recent book Stories from an Ancient Land (link), with a detailed discussion on Wa history and culture. Research and lecture summary: 1:47

Advice for researchers and recommendations: 39:14

Magnus Fiskesjö's Top Recommendation:

• To Govern the Globe by Alfred W. McCoy (link)

In our latest episode, Michael and Unaizah chat with Sandy Chang, Assistant Professor at the University of Florida, to discuss her current book project on British Malaya (1870s-1930s), focusing on female Chinese migrants and their roles as sex workers in the brothel economy.

Research and lecture summary: 1:45

Advice for researchers and recommendations: 25:55

Sandy Chang's Top Recommendation:

• Fluid Jurisdiction by Nurfadzilah Yahaya (link)

In our latest episode, Michael sits down with William Noseworthy, a Visiting Scholar at the Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, to discuss his decade-long project on Cham religious communities in Vietnam and Cambodia (17th century - present), which revolves around themes of power, culture, and memory.

Research and lecture summary: 01:50

Advice for researchers and recommendations: 19:15

William Noseworthy's Top Recommendations:

• Histoire de la diaspora Cam by Nicolas Weber (link)
• The Politics of Cham Migration to Malaysia by Rie Nakamura (link)
• The First Vietnam War by Shawn McHale (link)

In this week's episode, Michael chats with Will Smith, from Deakin University in Melbourne, about his recent book project, Mountains of Blame (link), which explores the impact of environmental governance and climate change on the Philippine island of Palawan. 

Research and lecture summary: 01:50

Advice for researchers and recommendations: 18:00

Will Smith's Top Recommendations:

• Mao's Bestiary by Liz Chee (link)
• The Sovereign Trickster by Vincent Rafael (link)

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)