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“I Don’T Want To Hear Your Language!” White Social Imagination And The Demography Of Roman Corinth, Ekaputra Tupamahu

Faculty Publications - Portland Seminary

This article aims to deconstruct the hidden pervasive whiteness in biblical scholarship and to propose another way to reimagine the linguistic dynamic of Roman Corinth from an Asian American perspective. It highlights the legal and historical interconnectedness of whiteness and the dominance of English. English is a critical marker of whiteness in the United States. In this context, immigrants are expected to conform to and assimilate themselves with whiteness by performing English. This particular racialized context has influenced and resulted in a scholarly historical reconstruction of immigrants in Roman Corinth as “Greek speaking im/migrants.” Immigrants can come from many different …

Ancient Wisdom And Future Medicine: A Defense Of The Science Of Ayurveda, Michael Eatmon

Master of Liberal Studies Theses

A growing number of people turn to Ayurveda as a complement or an alternative to conventional Western medicine. What are they turning to—a genuine medical science or a patent pseudoscience? This paper claims that modern Ayurvedic medicine is a genuine science with a promising future.

Lives Of Hindu And Buddhist Saints, Ronald S. Green

Philosophy and Religious Studies

A study of lives of individuals related to Hinduism and Buddhism, who are alleged to be “saints” in stories, biographies and autobiographies. These life accounts are compared to archetypes found in canonical sources including the Ramayana, the Bhagavata Purana, and Buddhist Jataka. The class considers the genre of religious biography/hagiography in such terms as intended audience and practical usage of the texts. Students will examine stories about ancient and modern Hindus and Buddhists from India, China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia and America.

Salaysay, Saysay, Salukoy: Tungo Sa Dalumat Ng Alamat, Christian Jil R. Benitez

Filipino Faculty Publications

Dinadalumat sa kasalukuyan ang alamat bilang bagay na nagpapasaysay ng panahon nang may kritikal na pagsasalalay sa ekolohiya. Sa pagtalunton sa ilang pag-iisip na kanluranin hinggil sa mito, isinasalin ito bilang "alamat," na pinasasaysayan bilang masidhing sandali ng pagsasalaysay, na parating nakikitaon sa kabagayan. Itinutulak ang ekolohikong ugnayan ng alamat at sangkabagayan sa pagpapahalaga sa mga ito bilang ang nagsasalaysay at nagpapasaysay para sa isa''t isa. Sa ganang ito, nilalansag ng alamat ang mga karaniwang pag-uuri ng panahon bilang "banal" at "dahay," para sa halip magtaya sa isang pagdalumat ng panahon, sa metonimikong "kasalukuyan" na parating maalamat, at samakatwid, parating …

Introduction : From Performance Research To Performance Ecologies In Contemporary Thailand, Pornrat Damrhung, Lowell Skar

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

This special issue of manusya explores the diverse ways that performance cul tures are embedded in cultural ecologies in Thailand today. This theme emerged from work done using performance research approaches in projects done around Thailand between 2017 and 2019. These projects discovered that perfor mance lives in cultural ecosystems, both producing new knowledge, skills and performances for those involved in them, and revealing how performance cul tures were locally-grounded living assemblages of creativity in diverse Thai communities.1 These results prompted arranging the first English-language conference in Thailand to focus on performance research and to further ex plore the ecological …

The Promise Of Artistic Research In The Asia Pacific, Danny Butt

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

Artistic research has sought to gain academic legitimacy through adapting to scientific methods, while also retaining the mandate of the humanities in the reproduction of culture. In both cases, Western epistemologies have structured what constitutes knowledge and how it is circulated and shared. The contemporary university is far more connected to its local environment, bringing the potential of engaging broad publics in the life of the institution. Innovation and experimentation with local artistic forms is one way that artistic research can powerfully animate the 21st century university mission in the Asia Pacific.

Performance Research Seen Through The Lens Of Cultural Ecology : A Case Study Of An Innovative Production At Chiang Mai’S Lanna Wisdom School, Pornrat Damrhung

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

This paper examines a performance project called Kita Natakan Lanna (Lanna Music and Dance) done by the artist, Saran Suwanachote, or Khru Nick, a dancer in the Northern martial dance form of “Choeng,” at the local arts and culture center known as the Lanna Wisdom School in Chiang Mai. By working with Khru Nick and observing how he produced a new work for this project, I learned that he used an approach based on a local form of cultural life made of interconnected parts, and used the concept of Rabob Niwet or “ecology.” This system is used to …

The Rong Ngeng Of The Andaman Coast : History, Ecology, And The Preservation Of A Traditional Performing Art, Lawrence Ross

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

This article examines recent grassroots strategies for preserving traditional performing arts along southern Thailand’s Andaman Sea Coast, focusing on rong ngeng, an idiomatic form of social dance and music, widely popular there in the post-World War Two years. Between 1935 and 1960 a small, mixed cohort of rural performing artists created networks of communities, scattered on Thai-Andaman, with a distinctive regional culture based in the shared repertoire of songs and dances they adapted, created an innovative lyrical style called phleng tanyong (Tanyong song), and a star system that turned village performers into local celebrities (Ross 2017, 68). More than …

Roundtables On Performance Research, Developing Cultural Ecologies, And Artistic Research Networking In The Asia-Pacific, Lowell Skar, Pornrat Damrhung

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

Three sessions of international and local participants from a July 2019 conference created active ecosystems which generated living examples of intercultural improvisation, performance research, cultural ecologies and artistic research in Thailand. Summarized and assessed in this article, these sessions revealed some of the first fruits of Thailand’s work in these areas through engagement with other practitioners in the region. Besides offering creative improvisation among Thai artists and artist-centered critical assessments of their work, the article captures active thinkers seeking to reimagine the “festival” format for performance research, and seeks for ways to continue future regional collaboration in artistic research. The …

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Manusya, Journal of Humanities

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Playing With Practice Theory : Preliminary Remarks On The Work Of Performance Ecologies In 21st Century Bangkok, Lowell Skar

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

This article builds a framework for considering the place of contemporary performance groups in 21st century Bangkok. It grounds performance groups in ensembles of performance practices developed by groups as part of their unique performance cultures. The varied ensembles of performance practice of three such groups – the Pichet Klunchun Dance Company, the 8X8 Theatre Group, and the B-Floor Artist Collective – are embodied in these groups’ distinctive interactive performance styles and tied to the different creative spaces where they work. The groups’ artistic practices and their working spaces are produced within larger ecologies of performance spanning the urban landscape …

Leh Laweng : Reinventing “Lakhon Phanthang” Hybrid Dance Theatre In A Post-Traditional Style, Phakamas Jirajarupat, Nataporn Rattanachaiwong

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

Leh Laweng (The Wiles of Laweng) was a new dance-drama the authors created in 2019 in a post-traditional style of “Lakhon Phanthang” or hybrid dance theatre form. Working in our faculty’s theatre, the authors developed an original woman-centerd plot from the well-known Thai epic poem The Story of Phra Aphai Mani by Sunthorn Phu. Our new four-act script focused on the key, but neglected, figure Laweng – a Western-styled warrior queen – and reworked traditional modes of presentation to better convey a new sensibility for today’s audiences. While performed by traditional performers, cast for their abilities in traditional dancing and …

The Impact Of The Sinsai Roo Jai Ton Project On The Development Of Local Culture And Contemporary Performance In Northeastern Thailand, Pachaya Akkapram

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

This article discusses the diverse impacts of the Sinsai Roo Jai Ton research project based at Khon Kaen University from 2016 to 2019. Designed as a puppet performance by university students working with local artists in northeastern Thailand (Isan), the project inspired many other groups interested in making puppet performances by collaborating with local artists in Isan communities. Beyond collaborative performances, the project developed new interests in students who participated in the project and helped develop new types of teaching and learning, of research, and creating contemporary performances from artistic materials in local Isan communities such as narratives, stories, folk …

Ang Bisa Ng Pag-Uulit Sa Biswal Na Naratibo, Alvin B. Yapan

Filipino Faculty Publications

Isa sa mga pagpapakita ng kultural na karalitaan ng isang bayan ang kakulangan; kung hindi man ay kawalan; ng pakikibahagi ng epikong bayan sa popular na imahinasyon. Ngunit higit pa sa paghugot ng materyal na kultura sa kaban ng panitikang bayan na may panganib na mauwi sa exotisismo at kapitalistang pag-aangkop; nandoon ang etikong responsabilidad ng mga alagad ng sining na makipagtalaban sa kamalayang katutubo. Mula sa ganitong mataimtim na pakikipag-ugnayan; maaaring makatagpo ng mga prinsipyong gagabay sa malikhaing produksiyon na lilikha ng higit na angkop na mga hakbang sa pagpasok ng epikong bayan sa popular na imahinasyon. Iaangat ng …

Confronting Otherness Through Theatre : On Directing The Merchant Of Venice For Thai Audiences, Dangkamon Na-Pombejra

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

This article analyzes on a new directorial approach to Venice Vanija (เวนิสวาณิช), a Thai version of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (written 1596–99) and translated by King Rama vi (r. 1910–1925). It aimed to create a new space and new rules that would encourage Thai audiences to embrace new perspectives by watching the performance. The production was directed by the author in 2018 in the Department of Dramatic Arts in the Faculty of Arts at Chulalongkorn University.  The directing approach focused on the play’s famous line “all that glitters is not gold;” (Act ii, scene vii, line 65), and …

Migration And Women’S Relationships To The Land And Food In Myanmar, Allison Joseph

Scripps Senior Theses

Abstract

In the 21st century, Myanmar has become the largest migration source country in the Greater Mekong Sub-region. To achieve its economic and political goals, the government has conducted extensive confiscation and reallocation of communal lands, which has resulted in a growing class of landless and dispossessed citizens. Under the new laws, rural women are disproportionately impacted and more vulnerable to the processes of dispossession, often lacking the rights or resources of their male counterparts to fight for the land of their ancestors. This has resulted in the wide-scale disinheritance of Myanmar’s rural women from their land and food, as …

Humayun Ahmed And Archival Hauntings: The Subaltern Experience Of The 1971 Liberation War Of Bangladesh As Portrayed In Debi, Nilima Islam

Dissertations and Theses

In this paper, I argue how Humayun Ahmed's Debi offers insight into the function that archives play in creating radical nationalism in a country like Bangladesh; how these archives work to consolidate political power for a select few, and how they further subjugate and silence the country’s subalterns.

Vietnamese Punctuation Prediction Using Deep Neural Networks, Thuy Pham, Nhu Nguyen, Hong Quang Pham, Han Cao, Binh Nguyen

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Adding appropriate punctuation marks into text is an essential step in speech-to-text where such information is usually not available. While this has been extensively studied for English, there is no large-scale dataset and comprehensive study in the punctuation prediction problem for the Vietnamese language. In this paper, we collect two massive datasets and conduct a benchmark with both traditional methods and deep neural networks. We aim to publish both our data and all implementation codes to facilitate further research, not only in Vietnamese punctuation prediction but also in other related fields. Our project, including datasets and implementation details, is publicly …

They Dance To Bring Attention To A War. But Who’S Watching?, Fruhlein Chrys Econar

Capstones

Potri Ranka Manis Queano has been at the helm of Kinding Sindaw, the heritage dance troupe she founded, for the last 27 years. When a group of ISIS-affiliated local terrorists attacked Marawi City, the home of the Maranao people, it infused a sense of urgency into her group’s work.

http://www.fruhlein.com/kindingsindaw

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (December 9, 2019), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.