GRADUATE SEMINAR - Southeast Asia History Theory

This graduate seminar will be an introduction to debates and current research on the histories, cultures, and literatures of Southeast Asia. We will discuss historiographical efforts to conceptualize and teach about the region as a bounded field of study. Attention will be paid to the different approaches that Southeast Asian, European, American, and Japanese scholarship have taken to Southeast Asian Studies. We will analyze the place of religion, of race, of colonialism, of “the Chinese” and other minorities, of gender, and of pre-colonial “tradition” in Southeast Asianist discourse.