ViSA Thông Báo 11/17

Tue Nov 16 20:18:06 EST 2010

ViSA
Vietnamese Students Association

November 10, 2010

*General Meetings are every Wed at 5:30, Saybrook Fellows Lounge*

1. <>  YVSG Workshop (Nov 17)

2. <>  SEAS Seminar (Nov 17)

3. <>  SEAS Movie Screening (Nov 17)
4. <>   ViSA Families

5 <> . AASA/AACC Announcements

   - Arts Festival Survey 

   -AASA Basketball Tournament

6 <> . Other/Plugs

  -VASI Summer Program

  -Microfinance Brigades 

1. Yale Vietnamese Studies Workshop: "Identifying Trickster Space in the
Process of History-Making in Vietnam"

Conor Lauesen, Yale University

Wednesday, November 17

4PM

Linsly-Chittenden 212

Refreshments will be served

Please see the YVSG schedule at: http://www.yale.edu/seas/YVSG.htm

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2. Southeast Asia Studies Seminar Series: "Burma After the Elections: What
Can We Expect?”

Christina Fink, Anthropologist, Washington D.C., Author of Living Silence in
Burma: Surviving under Military Rule.

Burma/Myanmar has long been ruled by a military regime intent on maintaining
control. The regime's decision to hold elections on November 7, 2010, the
first elections in 20 years, seems to suggest it is willing to loosen its
grip. However, a closer inspection reveals how the regime has sought to
carefully manage the process in order to ensure its continued dominance.
This talk begins by examining the conditions under which the elections were
held, with a focus on the insecurity that pervades people's lives in Burma
and how so often, people feel compelled to act in ways that perpetuate
military rule. The elections and their likely impact will then be analyzed,
taking into account the various interests and perspectives of the
participants, including those who hope to use the process to bring about
gradual change.

Christina Fink is an anthropologist who received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley
in 1994 and was based in Thailand for most of the last 15 years. She is the
author of Living Silence in Burma: Surviving Under Military Rule (Zed Books,
2009, second edition) and articles and chapters examining the challenges of
providing humanitarian assistance in Burma, the 2007 monks' protests, the
impacts of militarization on communities in Eastern Burma, and the
development of civil society in the country. For the last ten years, she
served as a lecturer on Thai politics and society at the International
Sustainable Development Studies Institute, which runs study abroad programs
for American university students. During the same period, she also developed
and taught courses for members of Burmese civil society organizations
working in the fields of democracy, human rights, women's empowerment, and
humanitarian assistance.

Wednesday, November 17

12:00 Noon

Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

For complete SEAS seminar and events schedule, see
<http://www.yale.edu/seas/Events.htm> http://www.yale.edu/seas/Events.htm

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3. SEAS Movie Screening: Enemies of the People

Followed by discussion with Director, Rob Lemkin

November 17, 2010 - 7:00 P.M.

Room 101 – Linsly-Chittendon, 63 High Street

Winner: Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize, World Cinema Documentary,
2010

Co-Directors: Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath

2009; 93 minutes

Synopsis:

The Khmer Rouge slaughtered nearly two million people in the late 1970s. Yet
the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain unexplained. Until now. Enter Thet
Sambath, an unassuming, yet cunning, investigative journalist who spends a
decade of his life gaining the trust of the men and women who perpetrated
the massacres. From the foot soldiers who slit throats to Pol Pot's
right-hand man, the notorious Brother Number Two, Sambath records shocking
testimony never before seen or heard. Having neglected his own family for
years, Sambath's work comes at a price. But his is a personal mission. He
lost his parents and his siblings in the Killing Fields. Amidst his journey
to discover why his family died, we come to understand for the first time
the real story of Cambodia's tragedy. Codirectors Rob Lemkin and Sambath
create a watershed account of Cambodian history and a heartfelt quest for
closure on one of the world’s darkest episodes. [Synopsis courtesy of
Sundance Film Festival]

For Trailer and additional information, see
http://www.yale.edu/seas/Enemies.htm

Co-sponsored by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies and the Orville H.
Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights

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4. ViSA Families

Now that most of you have met your families, it’s time to hang out and get
to know each other. There are multiple AACC Events (see below) or grab a
simple meal in a dining hall on an evening you’re all free! Big Sibs, please
make an effort to coordinate family get-togethers. And check out the
interview with Thuy, Paul, Catherine, Mary, and Anh’s family on the APA
Blog: http://www.yaleaasa.org/blog/?p=2121 

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5. AASA/AACC Announcements

AACC Arts Festival Survey (Free Froyo World giftcard)

WANNA SEE SOMETHING REALLY COOL? Well you could... just tell us! We would
love to hear your input Spring Fling-style so we can bring people that you
actually want to see for the AACC’s Spring Arts Festival! What’s at stake?
By filling out the survey, you’ll be entered into a raffle for a $5 gift
card to Froyo World!

<https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHJyZzBWNVE1anRxT3ljX25iUW
FJMmc6MQ>
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHJyZzBWNVE1anRxT3ljX25iUWF
JMmc6MQ

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AASA Basketball Tournament

Thursday, Dec. 9th 

10AM-1PM

Lanman Court

The semi-annual AASA basketball tournament is coming up soon and we need a
team! It'll be a full court, 5-on-5 game. ** There will be prizes for the
winning team !!**  Email vy.tran at yale.edu if you can play!

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Revelasians & APA Blog
Revelasians, the semesterly publication put out by the Asian American
Cultural Center, would like to welcome all members of the Yale community to
submit their work! We're currently taking student created works of poetry,
prose, photography, art and much more! Have an interesting piece you wrote
for English 120, a photo from Intro to Photography, or something you want to
say? Send it in!

All AACC affiliate groups must submit a piece on any major event they host

Please send all submissions to austin.lan at yale.edu or
yale.revelasians at gmail.com 

For samples of previous issues, please click here:
http://www.yale.edu/aacc/publications.htm 

If you’re interested in other Asian American voices, check out the AASA Blog
at www.yaleaasa.org/blog.  There you’ll find amazing photos from AASA
events, restaurant reviews, and other interesting submissions from Yalies in
the Asian American community, including yours truly. Feel free to submit
your own work to apablog10 at gmail.com.  We are now recruiting more staff
members so please email us also if you are interested in being a permanent
contributor.

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6. Other/Plugs

Humanity in Action (HIA) 2011 Fellowship.

HIA invites applications from college students and recent graduates who are
intellectually gifted, mature, independent and passionate about human
rights. Current sophomores, juniors, and seniors and graduates from the
classes of 2009 and 2010 are eligible to apply.

The HIA Fellowship brings together international groups of Fellows to study
minority rights and produce research exploring how and why individuals and
societies, past and present, have resisted intolerance and protected
democratic values. Separate programs will take place for five weeks in
Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Paris, and Warsaw. Applications are due on
January 10, 2011.

View Application Materials
<http://humanityinaction.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=71d6157afa2d805d1
37fbb966&id=782aedad62&e=7da8e84333> here | Apply
<http://humanityinaction.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=71d6157afa2d805d1
37fbb966&id=67bf16d95f&e=7da8e84333> here

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Vietnamese Advanced Summer Institute (VASI) Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam

Program Dates: June 13 to August 5, 2011

The Vietnamese Advanced Summer Institute (VASI) is an intensive eight-week
course of study in advanced Vietnamese conducted at Vietnamese Language
Studies Sai Gon in Ho Chi Minh City. VASI is

equivalent to a full year's academic work. Program applicants must have
attained an intermediate level of proficiency in Vietnamese before attending
VASI. Applicants must also be citizens or permanent residents of the U.S.
and either a graduate student, junior or senior at a college or university;
a faculty member or K-12 teacher; or an area studies or foreign language
education administrator.

Candidates who are selected for VASI must pay a non-refundable program fee
of $750 to UC Berkeley before departure to Viet Nam. Participants are
responsible for their own health insurance, pre-travel inoculations and some
of their daily living expenses in Viet Nam. Airfare, tuition, visa fees and
lodging are covered by VASI.

For the online application and other information, see the VASI website:
http://cseas.berkeley.edu/VASI/ 

The deadline for applications is: February 1, 2011

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Yale Microfinance Brigades 

Want to know about how microfinance started? Want to learn how you can be a
part of Yale Microfinance Brigades?

Yale Microfinance Brigades and Social Investment Team Bring you the
Microfinance Simulcast Series:

Your chance to take a class on Microfinance! An incredible class taught at
Berkeley University screened right here at Yale University: WLH 211, 7-9pm
Mondays October 25 - December 6th. 

Attend a few classes, or attend all - but do check this amazing opportunity
out!

To learn more visit our fb page:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=163047340391600
<http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=163047340391600&ref=ts> &ref=ts 

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**If you are looking for more summer opportunities, the AACC Newsletter has
a long list of them. Please email me if you do not receive the newsletter
and I will forward it to you. I would include the extra-Yale opportunities
in the newsletter, but they are rather extensive.**

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Do you have an event you’d like ViSA members to know about? Publicize it
here! It can be a performance you are in or a cause you’re volunteering for
– just about anything outside of ViSA that concerns you!  It will be listed
under the Other/Plugs category. Just email me at catherine.dinh at yale.edu
about where and when your event will be and a short description before the
week of the event.

If you would like to be removed from the panlist, please send me an email at
catherine.dinh at yale.edu.

Have a restful Thanksgiving break!

ViSA

Vietnamese Students Association

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