Gatty Rewind Podcast

On this week's episode, guest host Mutty sits down with Stanford University Ho Center for Buddhist Studies Post Doctoral Fellow Dr. Trent Walker.

In the episode, Dr. Walker unpacks his lecture titled "Songs of Love and Loss: Crafting Buddhist Poetry In Early Cambodia." He takes us through his journey of learning Khmer, shares tales from ordaining as a monk in Cambodia, and recites Buddhist poems for listeners.

Lightning Round: 02:35

Research and lecture summary: 04:32

Advice for graduate students and recommendations: 45:00

Dr. Walker's Top Recommendations:

• Have a sip podcast: 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 Joseph Scalice (link), the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, to unpack his new book The Drama of Dictatorship (link) which examines the period leading up to the declaration of martial law in the Philippines by Ferdinand Marcos in 1972 and uncovers the prominent role played by two Communist Parties, the PKP and the CPP, in these events. Stay tuned for a discussion on the open source software, politically committed scholarship, post-graduate struggles, and more!

Lightning Round: 03:20

Research and lecture summary: 08:00

Advice for researchers and recommendations: 32:40

Dr. Scalice's Top Recommendations:

• Obsidian note taking app (link)
• The Singapore Group by J.G. Farrell (link)
• Banaag at Sikat (Radiance and Sunrise) by Lope K. Santos, translated by Danton Remoto (link)
• Mga Ibong Mandaragit (The Preying Birds) by Amado V. Hernandez, translated by Danton Remoto (link)
• Maynila, sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag (Manila in the Claws of Light), a movie by Lino Brocka (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 is joined by guest host Aparajita Majumdar, PhD candidate in History, as they sit down with Dr. Alyssa Paredes from the University of Michigan. Dr. Parades unpacks her Gatty Lecture titled "Plantation Liberalism: Personhood and Property between Philippine Mindanao and the Black Atlantic". Get insights as to how she converted constructive criticism into the topic of her Gatty Lecture, her experience with transnational, multilingual research, and finally her advice for fresh graduates navigating the job market.

Lightning Round: 04:08

Research and lecture summary: 12:16

Advice for Fresh Graduates and recommendations: 27:27

Dr. Paredes' Top Recommendations:

• Chemical cocktails defy pathogens and regulatory paradigms (link)
• Remaindered Life (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 MK Long, a graduate student in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University, to unpack her research analyzing the (auto)biographies of Burmese Buddhist nuns. These texts come from a 1982 volume of (auto)biographies of the founder and three generations of successors of a Buddhist nunnery established in central Burma in 1905. Stay tuned for a discussion on the importance of interpersonal relationships between nuns, kinship, language learning, graduate school, and more!

Lightning Round: 03:00

Research and lecture summary: 12:15

Advice for researchers: 25:50

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.

This week's Gatty Lecture Rewind podcast features ANU department of anthropology professor Dr. Sophie Chao. In the episode, Francine unpacks Dr. Chao's Gatty Lecture titled: We are (not) Monkeys: Raciality, Animality, and Cosmopolitical Struggles in Indonesian West Papua. They also dive further into what inspired her work, and the ways it connects with her expertise in environmental anthropology, and reflect critically on questions about the ethicality, justice, and positionality surrounding her research.

Lightning Round: 03:19

Research and lecture summary: 8:41

Advice for researchers and recommendations: 43:06

Dr. Chao's Top Recommendations:

• The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis (link)
• Sydney Southeast Asia Centre Stories podcast: Sustainable Peatland Management and Transboundary Haze 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 welcomes Dr. Jeremy Ladd of Cornell University's Government Department to unpack his lecture titled, "The Unintended Consequences of Repression in the Electoral Regimes in the Social Media Era". During the episode, Francine delves into Dr. Ladd's utilization of social media data to explore the effects of political suppression on Cambodia's political scene during the 2010s. Stay tuned to hear about Dr. Ladd's work as a mixed-methods political theorist in Southeast Asia!

Lightning Round: 04:02

Research and lecture summary: 8:11

Advice for researchers and recommendations: 39:00

Dr. Ladd's Top Recommendations:

• From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia (link)
• The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century (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.

Welcome back to a new season of the Gatty Rewind!

On this week's episode, Francine sits down with Juan Fernandez, a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Cornell University, to unpack his research on the histories of masculinity in the highlands of the northern Philippines in the early 20th century. Stay tuned as we discuss sexuality in the Philippines, reminisce over Juan and Francine's time at Cornell, and more!

Lightning Round: 04:36

Research and lecture summary: 06:50

Cornell Tidbits: 24:30

Advice for researchers and recommendations: 30:08

Juan Fernandez's Top Recommendations:

• Annie Batungbakal - a song by Hotdog (link)

On this week's episode, Francine sits down with Dr. Miles Kenney-Lazar, from the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore, to unpack his research on the current efforts to devise new approaches for governing land and associated natural resources in Myanmar. Stay tuned for an interesting conversation on land reform in Myanmar, visualizing the future of land, resources to learn more about current events in Myanmar, and more!

Lightning Round: 03:40

Research and lecture summary: 08:30

Advice for researchers and recommendations: 52:05

Dr. Kenney-Lazar's Top Recommendations:

• Frontier Myanmar magazine (link)
• Donate to CDM Myanmar (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.

This week's episode has a special co-host! Welcome Tamar Law, a graduate student in Development Studies at Cornell University and the current co-chair of SEAP's graduate committee.

On this week's episode, Francine and Tamar host a tag-team interview with Dr. Tania Li, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, and Dr. Pujo Semedi, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Gadjah Mada University, to unpack their new book Plantation Life (link) on the structure and governance of Indonesia's contemporary palm oil plantations. Join us for a lively yet informative discussion about Tania and Pujo's long-standing academic partnership, corporate occupation in the palm oil plantations, movie recommendations, and more from the dynamic duo!

Lightning Round: 04:30

Research and lecture summary: 16:10

Advice for researchers and recommendations: 54:15

Tania and Pujo's Top Recommendations:

• Aroma of Heaven documentary (trailer)
• Durga/Umayi by Y.B. Mangunwijaya (link)
• In the Shadow of the Palms by Sophie Chao (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 author Sunisa Manning to unpack her debut novel A Good True Thai (link) which is a historical fiction set in Thailand during the 1970s student radicalization and revolution. Her book was a finalist for the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize for Southeast Asian writers. Join us for a thought-provoking conversation on censorship in Thailand, Sunisa's mixed-race experiences, and her struggles in resolving her Thai and American identity!

Lightning Round: 03:10

Research and lecture summary: 05:38

Advice for researchers and recommendations: 33:30

Manning's Top Recommendations:

• Buru Quartet by Pramoedya Ananta Toer (link)
• How to Read Now: Essays by Elaine Castillo (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.