10:00-12:00pm
Registration - Outside Regency Room
12:00-12:30pm
Buffet Lunch - Regency Room
12:30-1:00pm
Opening remarks - Regency Room
Speakers:
Dr. Rathindra Bose
Vice President for Research and
Dean of the Graduate School
Dr. Harold Kafer
Dean, College of Visual and Performing Arts
Dr. Catherine Raymond
Director, Center for Burma Studies
Religious Personages, Religion, and Environment – Regency Room
1:00-1:20pm
Dominic Nardi - "The Green Buddha: The Role of Buddhist Civil Society in Environmental Conservation in Myanmar"
1:20-1:40pm
Jason Carbine - "Defending the Front-Line Fortress: Transmitting the Patthana in Contemporary Burma"
1:40-2:00pm
Jacques Leider - "Specialists for Magic, Ritual and Devotion: Studying the Punnas of the Early Konbaung Period"
2:00-2:30pm
Discussion and break
Crossing Burmese Boundaries: Negotiating Ethnicity, Nation, and Gender
2:30-2:50pm
Chie Ikeya - "Tropes and Traps of the Modern Female: A Gender History of Late Colonial Burma"
2:50-3:10pm
Jaspal Singh - "The Indian Diaspora in Burma and Identity Politics in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace and Mira Kamdar’s Motiba’s Tattoos"
3:10-3:30pm
Joseph Cheah - "The Function of Monastic Site in the Maintenance of Burmese Culture and Identity"
3:30-3:50pm
Tamara Ho - "Women of the Temple: Burmese Buddhism and Gender in a U.S. Frame"
3:50-5:00pm
Discussion and break
Tribute to May Kyi Win
May Kyi Win, for the last ten years, was the former curator of the Donn V. Hart Southeast Asia Library Collection, Founders Memorial Library at Northern Illinois University. She was a devout Buddhist and was loved by everyone. She passed away two years ago.
5:00-6:30pm
Founders Memorial Library, 4th Floor, Room 403
Opening Remarks: Dean Arthur Young
- Homage
- Exhibition - "Envisioning Burma: Selections from the Burma Collection at Northern Illinois University Libraries"
- Reception
7:00pm
Dinner at the Chandelier Room
SATURDAY, October 23
(Panel 1, Regency Room)
7:00-10:00am
Breakfast buffet available – Regency Room
Language, Literature, and Linguistics
8:40-9:00am
Richard Kunst - "Paper on Wa lexicography"
9:00-9:20am
Maung Tha Noe - "The Grammar of Pugam"
9:20-9:50am
Discussion and tea break
9:50-10:10am
Saw Tun - "Language of the Past: A Study of the Colloquial Burmese (1750-1850)"
10:10-10:30am
Avon Crismore - "Teaching and Learning English in Burma Today: Places and People"
10:30-11:00am
Discussion and tea break
11:00-11:20am
Vincent Berment - "Sylla and GMSWord: Applications for Computerizing Myanmar Languages"
11:20-11:40am
Justin Watkins - "U 8 chin p lar:P ?!? the Language of Burmese Internet Chat"
11:40-12:00pm
Vicki Bowman - "Pulp Fiction Amongst the Pagodas, Rangoon Romance"
12:00-1:00pm
Discussion and lunch – Regency Room
The State of Burma I
1:00-1:20pm
Ikuko Okamoto - "Agricultural Marketing Liberalization and the Rural Economy in Myanmar (Burma)
1:20-1:40pm
Wylie Bradford - "Economic Push-Factors in Burma-Thailand Labour Migration: Inferences From Official Wage Data"
1:40-2:00pm
Alison Vicary - "Survey: The Economics of Migrant Workers in Thailand"
2:00-2:30pm
Discussion and tea break
2:30-2:50pm
Paul Sarno - "The Impact of Socialist Law on the Burmese Legal System (1962-1976)"
2:50-3:10pm
Cindy Kleinmeyer - "Transitional Justice Strategies on the Thai- Burma Border: Analyzing the Theory and the Practice"
3:10-3:30pm
Angelene Naw - "Aung San and Aung San Suu Kyi’s Policy Towards the Karens"
3:30-4:00pm
Discussion and tea break
4:00-4:20pm
Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung - "The Karens in Burma: A Political Dilemma"
4:20-4:40pm
Tin Maung Maung Than - "Aspiring to be a Developmental State: Myanmar’s Development Experience since 1948"
4:40-5:00pm
Tun Myint - "Origins of the Challenges in the Making of Modern New Burma"
5:00-6:00pm
Discussion and break
6:00-7:15pm
Museum opening at Altgeld Hall with reception
Speakers:
Dr. Rathindra Bose
Vice President for Research and
Dean of the Graduate School
Peggy Doherty
Director, NIU Art Museum
Dr. Catherine Raymond
Director, Center for Burma Studies
7:15pm
Dinner - Chandelier Room
8:15pm
Keynote speaker U Thaw Kaung - "Myanmar Literary Criticism of the Twentieth Century, a Survey" - Chandelier Room
