Gatty Lecture Series

The Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture Series (formerly known as the Brown Bags) is a weekly lecture series featuring advanced SEAP graduate students as well as academics, diplomats, researchers, and others who have expertise in Southeast Asia. A history of the series and its origins is available in the Fall 2021 SEAP Bulletin. 

All talks will be held at the Kahin Center (640 Stewart Avenue) at 12:15pm. In accordance with SEAP tradition, lunch will be served. At this time all Gatty Lectures are taking place in-person only, with no hybrid or virtual option.

If you miss a talk, or would like to hear more from one of our speakers, many can also be found on the Gatty Lecture Rewind Podcast after their lecture. Recordings for some of our previous virtual and hybrid Gatty lectures are available on the Global Cornell YouTube channel.

• September 3: Juno Salazar Parreñas, Cornell University - Tropical Polar Bears: A Story of Militarization, Oil Industrialization, and Singapore
• September 9: Amitav Acharya, American University - Bridging the Local and the Global: How Can Scholars of International Relations Benefit from Expertise on Southeast Asia and Vice Versa?
  • *Note: This talk will take place on Wednesday
• September 17: Michał Lubina, Jagiellonian University - To Russia with Love: Myanmar’s Turn to Russia and Its Consequences
• September 24: Doreen Lee, Northeastern University - The Urban Grotesque: Life and Debt in Jakarta
• October 1: Suzy Lee, Binghamton University - Temporary Measures: Migrant Workers and the Developmental State in the Philippines and South Korea
• October 8: Brooke Schedneck, Rhodes College - Gendering Monastic Aesthetics in Thailand
  • *Note: This talk will take place in Rockefeller 374
• October 15: Chao Ren, Hamilton College - Frontier Futures: Natures and Cultures of Capitalism in a Burmese Oilfield, 1880s-1940s
• October 23: Micah R. Fisher, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa - Inheritance, Unsettled: Land, Scholarly Parity, and the Possibilities of Field Schools in Southeast Asia
  • *Note: This talk will take place on Friday
• October 29: Mary-Collier Wilks, University of North Carolina Wilmington - Reimagining Aid: Foreign Donors, Women’s Health, and New Paths for Development in Cambodia
• November 5: Christina Firpo, California Polytechnic State University - Beauty and the Nation: Women, Culture, and the National Image of Vietnam 1920-1940
• November 12: Karann Putrevu, Cornell University - Tigers and Their Prey: Assessing Impacts of the Collapse of Wild Pigs Due to African Swine Fever
• November 19: Emily Hue, University of California, Riverside - Performing Vulnerability: Risking Art and Life in the Burmese Diaspora
• December 3: Muhammad Suhail Mohamed Yazid, Harvard University - Malaysia, Decolonization, and Finding a New Language for Self-Determination