Symposium Schedule
8:00-8:30 – Breakfast & Registration (parking pass pick-up)
8:30-8:45 – Welcoming Remarks by Dr. Jennifer Goodlander
Director of Southeast Asian & ASEAN Studies
8:45-9:45 – Piphat Music; Demonstrations and Performances
Dr. Priwan Nanongkham, Kent State University
9:45-10 – Break
10-11:00 – Panel Session One
“The Burgeoning Pia: Globalization of the Phin Pia in the New Millennium” | Andrew Shahriari - Kent State University
“Soundscapes of the Khmer Rouge Labor Camp” | Scott Pribble - San Francisco State University
“Geography, Place, and Identity: ‘Named Melodies’ of Tai Speaking People in Southwest China” | Matthew Wrestler, Northern Illinois University
11:00-11:15 – Break
11:15-12:15 – Panel Session Two
“Distant Explosions” | Wayne Vitale - Independent Scholar
"Gong Yaw competition in Mahasarakham, Thailand" | Khomkrich Karin, Mahasarakham University
“Pong Lang as Local Wisdom: Discourse and Meaning in Northeastern Thai Musical Performance” | Kurt Bear - Indiana University
Papawee Rojburanawong
12:15-1:15 – Lunch (provided)
1:15-2:30 – Workshop with Saiban
2:30-3:45 – Panel Session Three
“They Tried to Stop Us, They Tried to Rob Us, They Tried: ‘Chnam-oun 16” and the Search for New Cambodian-ness” | Brian V. Sengdala, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
“Performing Masculinity among the Mokhaen in Isan, Thailand” | Awirut Thotham, Mahasarakham University
“Dynamism of Isan Performing Arts , Thailand” | Peerapong Sensai, Mahasarakham University
“Playing Music, Performing Culture: The Pedagogies of Community-Based Thai Music in the United States”
Nattapol Wisuttipat - University of California, Riverside
3:45-4:00 – Break
4:00-5:15 – Keynote Presentation by Jane Ferguson
5:15-6:00 – Break (concert set-up)
6:00-7:00 – Joint Concert by Saiban and Sin-Isan
Opening performance by Thai Culture and Fine Arts Institute’s Thai Dulcimer Ensemble