Southeast Asia Crossroads Podcast - CSEAS @ NIU

In this talk, Drs Jones and Legerwood talk with Dr Grant and explore how medical imaging participates in the re-configuration of public and private health care in Phnom Penh. Dr Grant consider different concepts to help parse the organization of care when Cambodia’s political economy evades captions such as “socialism” or “free market capitalism.” Jenna Grant is a cultural anthropologist working i...

Drs Jones and Atkins speak with An Tran on his classical guitar playing infused with Vietnamese style. Tran is based in Chicago and has won 13 international and awards. he has been praised for his “gorgeous playing” and “flawless technique” by the KnoxTNToday, and received many accolades for his dynamic artistry including being hailed as a “Vietnamese guitar virtuoso” by Austin Classical Guitar. A...

In this podcast Drs Jones and Kanjana sit down with Dr. Leslie Castro-Woodhouse about her book, Woman between Two Kingdoms: Dara Rasami and the Making of Modern Thailand. They will discuss a northern Thai consort named Dara Rasami played a critical role in Siam’s effort to emulate a European-style “hierarchy of civilizations” in building a modern nation-state. The trajectory of Dara’s 24-year care...

In this talk, Drs Eric Jones and Micah Morton discuss the work of certain ethnic Akha elite to promote a pan-Akha identity among their roughly 730,000 ethnic kin residing throughout the Upper Mekong Region. The region’s ongoing transformation from battlefields to markets is being accompanied by the growth of more formal transborder ties among a number of non-dominant ethnic groups, such as the Akh...

We sit down with a few future difference makers from Jakarta, Jeremy and Faith Intan, to hear where they stand on the environment. Help sustain the podcast by becoming a subscriber. For $7 per month or $1.75 per episode, you can help make future episodes possible. Visit https://foundation.myniu.com/give.php and choose your donation amount. Search for 'Center for Southeast Asian Studies' as the rec...

Drs Jones and Wong talk to Jennifer Goodlander about Balinese cultures and arts and how it would turn into an amazing journey of ritual and shadows. Jennifer describes the training and rituals she experienced while becoming a dalang, or puppeteer, in order to provide insight into the function of tradition in Balinese religion and culture. Help sustain the podcast by becoming a subscriber. For $7 p...

Jonathan Liljeblad and Eric Jones take to the microphones to explore the complications of carrying out a human rights curriculum in Burma. Help sustain the podcast by becoming a subscriber. For $7 per month or $1.75 per episode, you can help make future episodes possible. Visit https://foundation.myniu.com/give.php and choose your donation amount. Search for 'Center for Southeast Asian Studies' as...

Drs Eric Jones, Vichet Chhuon, and Marina Aleixo discuss critical notions of race, identity, and belonging for Cambodian American youth and families. Drawing from previous work, Professor Chhuon describes the ways that Cambodian American youth are simultaneously invisible and hypervisible in their school and community, which shape access to important identities and relationships. Help sustain the...

Drs Jones and Elvin Ong discuss how pre-electoral alliances significantly enhance the chances of opposition victory against dominant incumbent autocrats. Help sustain the podcast by becoming a subscriber. For $7 per month or $1.75 per episode, you can help make future episodes possible. Visit https://foundation.myniu.com/give.php and choose your donation amount. Search for 'Center for Southeast As...

Nicolas Verstappen joins Eric Jones and Kanjana Thepboriruk to explore the forgotten history of Thai comics Help sustain the podcast by becoming a subscriber. For $7 per month or $1.75 per episode, you can help make future episodes possible. Visit https://foundation.myniu.com/give.php and choose your donation amount. Search for 'Center for Southeast Asian Studies' as the recipient, then put 'podca...

Drs Jones and Matthew Jagel visit the First Division Museum at Cantigny Park in Wheaton, IL. Gayln Piper and Kyle Mathers join us as we discuss not only the history of the First Division, including Vietnam, but get a behind-the-scenes peek at the museum and some amazing artifacts. Help sustain the podcast by becoming a subscriber. For $7 per month or $1.75 per episode, you can help make future epi...

In this episode, Judy Ledgerwood sits down to talk about her latest research and the unprecedented study of one Cambodian village across tumultuous decades. Help sustain the podcast by becoming a subscriber. For $7 per month or $1.75 per episode, you can help make future episodes possible. Visit https://foundation.myniu.com/give.php and choose your donation amount. Search for 'Center for Southeast...

Jacob Shell is an Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University. He received his PhD in Geography from Syracuse University. Shell arrived at his interest in Burma (Myanmar) through the topic of transportation: in particular transportation on animal-back. His first book, "Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobilit...

Eric Jones and Aarie Glas welcome Drs. Dylan Loh, Deepak Nair and Philips Vermonte to discuss the role and response of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to the upheavals in Myanmar Help sustain the podcast by becoming a subscriber. For $7 per month or $1.75 per episode, you can help make future episodes possible. Visit https://foundation.myniu.com/give.php and choose your donation amount....

Tontrakul is a modern Isaan music project that began when Tontrakul Kaewyong wanted to create new sounds for Isaan music. He experiments with other musical genres like drum 'n' bass, future bass, ambient house and world beats but maintains the distinct accent of Thailand's northeast. Help sustain the podcast by becoming a subscriber. For $7 per month or $1.75 per episode, you can help make future...

Dr. Eric Jones and Isabelle Squires sit down with Dr. Michael Hawkins to explore his research on the Moro Village exposition. In 1904, the United States government contracted to bring 88 Filipino Muslims to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition as live exhibits. These Moros were officially classified as “semi-civilized” subjects. This podcast explores efforts to market and promote the Moro exhibit to...

Dr. Jones interviews Dr. Shzr Ee Tan, author of Beyond Innocence and Gender in Chinese Music. They discuss music, soundscapes, culture, religion and technology, and how migrant workers utilize these resources to strengthen their identities and create a place for themselves to find solace and a sense of community as they are working abroad. Some links to Dr. Tan's work https://pure.royalholloway.ac...

In this episode of Crossroads, Dr. Jones interviews Dr. Cooler about the repatriation of a thousand year old statue of the Buddha to Myanmar after being stolen in the mid 80s and then recovered later by Dr. Cooler. Come join us for the twists and turns as the Buddha travels from Myanmar, Bangkok, San Francisco, New York, Dekalb, France, and finally, back to Myanmar. Help sustain the podcast by bec...

In this episode of Crossroads, Dr. Eric Jones talks with Thomas Gardiner and Brittany Hebeler whose GKWW law firm is in the unique position of representing victims of recent Indonesian airline disasters. Go to https://gkwwlaw.com/aviation for more information. Help sustain the podcast by becoming a subscriber. For $7 per month or $1.75 per episode, you can help make future episodes possible. Visit...

Dr Eric Jones speaks with Mesrob Vartavarian on the US relationship with the Philippines. Since the turn of the twentieth century, the United States has shaped and interacted with coercive institutions in the Philippines in pursuit of its own strategic interests. Philippine military professionalism, praetorianism, and de facto autonomy were all encouraged by the United States to either facilitate...

In this crossover episode from our sister podcast Napalm in the Morning, Drs Jones and Jagel interview Dave Luhrssen, author of The Vietnam War on Film, War on the Silver Screen, Secret Societies and Clubs in American History, and many others! Come for the historical analysis, stay for the historians! davidluhrssen.com/

Dr. Jones and Eve Zucker discuss Cambodia and the recovery of the country post-genocide and the alterations of a statue commissioned of Yeay Mao. https://anthropology.yale.edu/people/eve-zucker Help sustain the podcast by becoming a subscriber. For $7 per month or $1.75 per episode, you can help make future episodes possible. Visit https://foundation.myniu.com/give.php and choose your donation amo...

Drs Jones and Jagel speak with historian and museum conservationist Heath Hardage Lee on her book League of Wives, her inspiration and work in oral history collecting interviews for the book, and the upcoming major Hollywood film adaptation. Order her book here on her website. https://heathleeauthor.com/ Help sustain the podcast by becoming a subscriber. For $7 per month or $1.75 per episode, you...

In this podcast, Drs Jones and Jagel interview Hoang Minh Vu, a Ph. D. Candidate from Cornell, on his research surrounding the Third Indochina War and Vietnam’s efforts to integrate itself into the economic fabric of the non-Communist global market. Hoang Minh Vu highlights ASEAN’s rapid post-Cold War enlargement and transformation into the indispensable host of the most important Asia-Pacific sec...

Eric Jones sits down with Irving Chan Johnson, Associate Professor in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, to discuss his passion for Thai temple murals and the specificities of the Thai style. Here is are two links to his book "The Buddha on Mecca’s Verandah: Encounters, Mobilities, and Histories along the Malaysian-Thai Border" https://www.amazon.com/Irvin...