5th Annual Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference (ASEACC)

Call for Papers
5th Annual Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference (ASEACC)

WHEN: November 27 – 29, 2008
WHERE: Manila, The Philippines

Major Themes:
-States of Independence
-New Media
-Southeast Asia and Europe

Other Possible Topics:
- Alternative funding/distribution channels and bodies
- Issues of identity and representation in independent film
- Interdisciplinary approaches in alternative media production
- Independent film and the mainstream
- Festivals and grant-giving bodies
- The Local and the Global
- Independent film in the Philippines

Please send an abstract (max. 500 words) of your proposed paper to one these members of the program committee of the confernce:
Dr. Rolando B. Tolentino:
Dr. Sophia Harvey:
Dr. Gaik Cheng Khoo:
Dr. Tilman Baumgärtel:

DEADLINE: May 21, 2008

The conference will be accompanied by screenings of selected independent films from Southeast Asia from November 25 – 26 and on November 30, 2009. Web announcement here.

Nietzsche, Strauss, and Mann

Nietzsche, Strauss, and Mann

The Encounter of Music and Philosophy

Duke University

204 Perkins Library (The Breedlove Room)

Thursday, April 24, 2008

12:00 Lunch (Breedlove Room)

1:00 Introduction: Gregson Davis, Dean of the Humanities

1:15 Tracy B. Strong, Ph.D.

Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego

Music, Language, and Politics in Nietzsche

2:45 Break

3:15 David Wellbery, Ph.D.

Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago, IL

Function and Form of Tragedy According to Nietzsche

4:45 Reception

7:30 Dinner: Café Nikos

Friday, April 25, 2008

9:00 AM Bryan Gilliam, Ph.D.

Department of Music, Duke University, Durham, NC

Strauss and the Sexual Body:

The Erotics of Humor, Philosophy, and Ego-Assertion

10:30 Break

11:00 Charles Youmans, Ph.D.

School of Music, Penn State University, PA

Subjectivity and Sentimentality in the Late Works of Richard Strauss

12:30 Lunch

1:30 Hans Rudolf Vaget, Ph.D.

Department of German Studies, Smith College, MA

'Schicksalsgeist': Nietzsche, Music, Mann and Weimar Culture

7:00 Dinner: Home of Michael Gillespie and Nancy Henley

81 Beverly Dr., Durham NC 27707

"Ten Years After: Reformasi & New Social Movements in Indonesia, 1998-2008"

April 25-26, 2008
University of California, Berkeley

FRIDAY, April 25
Location: IEAS Conference Room, 6th floor, 2223 Fulton St., Berkeley CA

8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Registration
9:00 – 9:15 a.m. Welcome & Opening Remarks

9:15 – 10:50 a.m.
PANEL I: Social Movements, Labor and NGOs in Contemporary Indonesia

“NGOs, Unions and the Indonesian Labor Movement, 1998-2008”, Michele Ford, University of Sydney
“The Prince as the Merchant: The Rise of the NGO Industry in the Post-Suharto Era”, Benny Subianto, Institute for Multiparty Democracy
“New Order Hangover: Frameworks for Struggle and Political Power in Contemporary Indonesian Social Movements”, Vincent Boudreau, City College of New York
Discussant: Nancy Lee Peluso (UC Berkeley)

10:50– 11:10 a.m. Break

11:10 – 12:45 p.m.
PANEL II: Rural Communities and Social Change

“Rise of the Farmers: Democratization and Agricultural Politics in Indonesia”, Erick Danzer, University of Wisconsin
"Can We Get Hak Ulayat?": Land and Community in Pasir and Nunukan”, Laurens Bakker, Radboud University Nijmegen
“Claiming the Grounds for Reform: Agrarian and Environmental Movements in Indonesia”, Suraya Afiff, University of Indonesia (presenter); Nancy Peluso, UC Berkeley; Noer Fauzi, UC Berkeley
Discussant: Annette Clear (UC Santa Cruz)

12:45 – 1:45 p.m. Lunch (on own)

1:45 – 3:20 p.m.
PANEL III: Urban Movements, Politics and Change

“Racialized Dispossession and Entangled Justice in Medan”, Yen-ling Tsai, UC Santa Cruz
“The Use of Disasters: NGOs, Political Parties and Fires in Contemporary Jakarta”, Jérôme Tadié, Institut de recherches pour le developpement
“A Neighborhood Fight in Semarang: Land, Development and the Law”, Jamie Davidson, National University of Singapore
Discussant: Ria Hutabarat (UC Berkeley)

5:00 p.m.
SPECIAL FORUM ON POST-1998 INDONESIA WITH GUEST SPEAKERS:
Nursyahbani Katjasungkana (Legislator, DPR-RI; founder, Women’s Legal Aid Bureau/LBH-APIK)
&
Hilmar Farid (Indonesian Institute for Social History)
Location: MLK Jr. Student Union, Stephens Room, Sproul Plaza

8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
FILM SCREENINGS: New Documentaries on Indonesia
Location: 102 Moffitt Library

8:00 p.m.
“Promised Paradise” (2006) Directed by Leonard Retel Helmrich
This controversial documentary follows puppeteer Agus Nur Amal as he looks for the traces of the terrorists who masterminded the 2002 Bali bombings. The film’s focus on Nur Amal’s methods to talk about the Bali bombings, Osama bin Laden and the 9/11 attacks in the U.S. underscores the confusion and uncertainty of many Indonesians as they face the impact of home-grown radicalism and terrorism.

9:00 p.m.
“The Year of Living Vicariously” [“Ada Apa Dengan Indonesia?”] (2005) Directed by Amir Muhammad
In this entertaining and insightful film, Malaysian filmmaker Amir Muhammad uses a split screen to explore the state of Indonesian culture and politics, while recording the making of Riri Riza’s film “Gie” in 2004, shortly before the country’s first direct presidential elections. The film features informal discussions with the film’s crew and cast and presents an intimate portrait of artistic people grappling with their new world, as they also remember and carry forward stories and traditions from Indonesia’s past.

SATURDAY, April 26
Location: IEAS Conference Room, 6th floor, 2223 Fulton St., Berkeley CA

8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Registration

9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
PANEL IV: New Appeals and Ways of Thinking

“Utuy Sontani and The 'Essence of Marxism'”, Scott Schlossberg, UC Berkeley
“Republik DIY: The Rise of Indonesia's 'Youth Independent' Movement”, Brent Luvaas, UCLA
“Sexuality and Sexual Politics in Contemporary Indonesia”, Gadis Arivia, Yayasan Jurnal Perempuan
“The Rise of Liberal Islam Network in Indonesia, 2001-2007”, Muhamad Ali, UC Riverside
Discussants: Shawn Callanan (UC Berkeley) & Jeffrey Hadler (UC Berkeley)

11:00 - 11:15 a.m. Break

11:15 – 12:50 p.m.
PANEL V: Trends in Post-Reformasi Government

“Bersatu Kita Teguh: Public Goods Transfers, Elections and National Unity”, Risa Toha, UCLA
“The New Regionalist Movements of Post-Authoritarian Indonesia”, Ehito Kimura, University of Hawaii
“In Whose Hands: Security Sector Reforms after Suharto”, Sylvia Tiwon, UC Berkeley (presenter) & Monica Tanuhandaru, International Organization of Migration-Jakarta
Discussant: Michael Malley (Naval Postgraduate School)

12:50 – 1:45 p.m. Lunch (on own)

1:45 – 3:20 p.m.
PANEL VI: Reformasi and New Realities at the Regional Level

“Jemaah Islamiyah and a Weak State in Indonesia: The Case of Poso Violence”, Arianto Sangadji, University of Birmingham
“Kambali ka Nagara: The Revival of Regional Consciousness in West Sumatra”, Pam Allen, University of Tasmania
“Village Government in Aceh: After the Tsunami, the MoU, LOGA and the 2006-07 Election”, Craig Thorburn, Monash University
Discussants: TBA

3:20 – 3:40 p.m. Break

3:40 – 5:15 p.m.
PANEL VII: Changing Outlooks on Indonesian History

“Remembering the Madiun Affair: Political Change, Personal Accounts and Historiography (1949-2000)”, Akiko Sugiyama, Missouri State University
“Syarikat and the Move to Re-examine NU's Violent Past”, Katherine McGregor, University of Melbourne
“The Politics of Victimhood in Post-Suharto Indonesia”, John Roosa, University of British Columbia
Discussant: Rudolf Mrazek, University of Michigan

5:15 – 5:30 p.m. Closing remarks

Spaces of the Self in Early Modern Culture

Spaces of the Self in Early Modern Culture, Part 5: Family and Work Space

Friday, April 25 – Saturday, April 26

In William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

A conference at the Clark Library organized by David Sabean and Malina Stefanovska, Center and Clark Professors, 2007-08

Subjectivity is embedded in space, which serves to define, shape, and represent it. Every culture has its own articulation between natural and social places or between material and representational ones, as well as its way of constructing identity and selfhood in relation to space. In the early modern period, sites as diverse as the court, the cabinet of curiosities, or the prayer room were crucial for forming and representing individual identities. This year-long series of conferences, dedicated to five such key places, will explore constructions of selfhood and identity, while reflecting on the cultural differences and historical evolution of space, both as material foundation and as representation of human relationships, hierarchies and values.

In part 5 of this year-long series, we seek to understand the influence on individual identities, of new family and kinship structures, or of emerging work and leisure practices represented in the configuration of the house (reading spaces, craftsman’s workshop, artist’s studio, cabinets of curiosities, material objects of culture, relation of space to memory and work, practices of hospitality, etc.).

Registration Deadline: April 18, 2008

Registration Fees: $25 per person; UC faculty & staff, students with ID: no charge*

*Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form.

Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.

To register, please visit:

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#apr25

Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.

Complimentary lunch and other refreshments are provided to all registrants.

Please call a week ahead to arrange for wheelchair access.

Program Schedule:

Friday, April 25

9:30 A.M. Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M. Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Welcome

Session 1: The Scholar’s Workspace

Gadi Algazi, Tel Aviv University

At the Study: Who Was With Early Modern Scholars When They Were Alone?

Gabriele Jancke, Free University of Berlin

Scholars’ Spaces – Households and the Practices of Hospitality

Anne Vila, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Scholar at Work: Habitus, Habitation, and the Identity of the “Learned” in Eighteenth-Century France

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:00 P.M. Session 2: The Philosopher Alone and in Public

Carole Martin, Texas State University

Framing the Philosopher’s Work Space: From Chardin’s Philosophe to Diderot’s Regrets sur ma vieille robe de chambre

Pierre Saint-Amand, Brown University

The Philosopher's Studio

Carol Pal, UCLA Ahmanson-Getty Fellow

Ephemeral Academy: The Hague and the Republic of Letters in the 1630s

5:00 P.M. Reception

Saturday, April 26

9:30 A.M. Morning Coffee

10:00 A.M. Session 3: Household and Social Space

Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long Beach

The Familial and Working Spaces of a Tribade and Her Narrator in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Kimberley Skelton, Tufts University

A Socially Stratified Retreat: The 1650’s English Country House and Household

David Packwood, University of Warwick

Re-Negotiating Social Space in Poussin’s Louvre Self-Portrait of 1649-1650

1:00 P.M. Lunch

2:30 P.M. Session 4: Workshops

Sean Silver, UCLA

Visiting Strawberry Hill

Jorge Tárrago Mingo, University of Navarre

Diffuse Boundaries: The Theatrical Workshop

UP Film Institute Summer 2008 Workshops

UPFI SUMMER 2008 MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOPS


The UP Film Institute (UPFI) announces the opening of its SUMMER 2008 Multimedia Workshops – a series of short-term, specialized courses on the power of images and the various aspects of film and audiovisual production/exhibiti on.

The following courses will be offered.

1. ADVOCACY VIDEO : The Creative Process
Facilitator: Surf Reyes
Dates: 19-23 May 2008
Time: 10:00 am- 4:00 pm .
Venue: UPFI Videotheque (at the back of Cine Adarna)
Fee: P 5,000 inclusive of light snacks, handouts, and certificates.

2. BASIC SCRIPTWRITING for Beginners
Facilitator: Libay Linsangan Cantor
Dates: April 8, 11, 15, 18, 22
Time: 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Venue: A 107 a
Fee: P 6,000 inclusive of light snacks, handouts, and certificates.

3. INTERMEDIATE SCRIPTWRITING
Facilitator: Libay Linsangan Cantor
Dates: May 3, 10, 17, 24, 31

Time: 1:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Venue: A 107a
Fee: P 6,000 inclusive of light snacks, handouts, and certificates.

4. CINEMATOGRAPHY

Facilitator: Nap Jamir
Dates: Schedule tentative (please wait for further announcements)
Time: tentative
Venue: UPFI Videotheque (at the back of Cine Adarna)
Fee: P 18,000 inclusive of 16mm film, processing, equipment use, light snacks, & certificates.

5. BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY
Facilitator: Vivian Limpin
Dates: April 28, 30, May 2, 5, 7, 9
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Venue: A107b and Photolab
Fee: P 8,000, inclusive of B&W film, materials for developing, light snacks, & certificates.
Requirement: 35mm still camera

6. NON-LINEAR EDITING
Facilitator: Ramon Bautista
Dates: April 14- 16
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Venue: UPFI Post-Facility (at the back of Cine Adarna)
Fee: P 5,000 inclusive of use of equipment, light snacks, handouts, and certificates.

7. DOCUMENTARY FILM PRODUCTION
Facilitator: Milo Paz
Dates: 12-16 May 2008

Time: 10am- 5pm
Venue: UPFI Videotheque (at the back of Cine Adarna)
Fee: P 9,000 inclusive of use of equipment, light snacks, handouts, and certificates.

8. CURATING FOR CINEMA
Facilitator: Nonoy Lauzon
Dates: 21 May 2008 onwards (broken schedule, clas will decide when the next meeting will be)

Time: 2-5pm
Venue: UPFI Conference Room
Fee: P 4,000 inclusive of light snacks, handouts, and certificates.

9. EXPERIMENTAL FILM PRODUCTION

Facilitator: Sari Dalena

Dates: 21-25 April 2008

Time: 1pm-6pm

Venue: UPFI Post Facility

Fee: P 9,000.00 inclusive of use of equipment, light snacks, handouts and certificates

10. SEMINAR ON QUEER CINEMA

Facilitator: Lorna Israel

Dates: 01- 05 May 2008

Time: 1:00-5:00 pm

Venue: UPFI Conference Room

Fee: P 4,000.00 inclusive of light snack, handouts and certificates

11. WRITING ABOUT FILMS: Classical Film Theory and Criticism

Facilitator: Patrick Campos

Dates: 21-25 April 2008

Time: 10am- 5:00pm

Venue: UPFI Conference Room

Fee: P 4,000.00 inclusive of light snacks, handouts and certificates

12. WRITING ABOUT FILMS: Film Appreciation for the Young

Facilitator: Patrick Campos

Dates: 19-23 May 2008

Time: 10 am- 5:00 pm

Venue: A107b

Fee: P4,000.00 inclusive of light snacks, handouts and certificates

13. ANIMATION FOR CHILDREN

Facilitator: Bryan Quesada and Teta Tulay

Dates: 28 April – 02 May 2008

Time: 10am- 5:00pm

Venue: UPFI Post facility

Fee: P 6,000.00 inclusive of use of materials, light snacks, handouts and certificates

14. ANIMATION

Facilitator: Roxlee and Teta Tulay

Dates: 05 May- 14 May 2008

Time: 10:00am – 5:00 pm

Venue: UPFI Post Facility

Fee: P 9,000.00 inclusive of use of materials, light snacks, handouts and certificates

15. DIGITAL IMAGING (Digital Photography with Photo Manipulation)

Facilitator: Bryan Quesada

Dates: 19-23 May 2008

Time: 10am-5pm

Venue: UPFI Post Facility

Fee: P 6,000.00 inclusive of use of materials, light snacks, handouts and certificates

16. EXPERIMENTAL FILM MAKING

Facilitator: Kidlat Tahimik

Dates: 29 April – 5 May 2008

Time:

Venue: Baguio City

Fee: P 8280.00 inclusive of transportation, food and lodging, handouts and certificates

17. DIRECTING

Facilitator: Carlitos Siguion Reyna

Dates: 5 – 9 May, 2008

Time:

Venue:

Fee: P 10,000.00 inclusive of light snacks, handouts and certificates

All workshops will be held at the facilities of the UPFI Cine Adarna or the College of Mass Communication ( Annex Building ), starting APRIL. Participants who enroll in and finish any of the courses will be given certificates of participation.

The UPFI is the country's first and only degree-granting film school, and it is the home of the first and longest-running production workshop series in the Philippines . The UPFI is a member of the International Association Schools of Film & Television (CILECT).

For inquiries, you may call us at the UPFI Cine Adarna, telephone numbers 9263640 / 92627222 (telefax), or mobile number 09156960875, e-mail us at <upfi_workshops@ yahoo.com. ph >, or visit our website <http://www.upd. edu.ph/~film_ institute/ workshop. html >.

University of the Philippines Film Institute
(Member, CILECT/Internationa l Association of Film and Television Schools)

For workshop inquiries:
Cine Adarna, Magsaysay and Osmeña Avenues, UP Diliman, Quezon City
E-mail: upfi_workshops@ yahoo.com. ph>
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 4286, 4289; 9263640/9262722 (Telefax)
Website: http://www.upd. edu.ph/~film_ institute/ workshop. htm

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