You are cordially invited to a CSEAS Tonan Talk, a Brown Bag lecture
series. The talk is free-for-all, and you can bring your lunch bag to
the place. The details are as follows.

Date: June 20th (Thurs.), 2013 12:00-14:00
Place:Tonan-tei (Room No. 201),CSEAS, Inamori Foundation Memorial
Building, Kyoto University
Speaker:Dr. Mariam B. Lam, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Riverside
Title:Cultural Economic Development in the Film Industries of Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos

Abstract:
Film scholarship on postcolonial Southeast Asia often privileges the French colonial period of the three nation-states of Việt Nam, Cambodiaand Laos. Today, however, provocative cultural production and economic redevelopment is taking shape in peninsular Southeast Asia. The layered colonial and imperial histories of these three countries and this region as a whole impose certain constraints on the post-Cold War redevelopment of these national film industries, while also allowing for unique transnational innovations. Southeast Asian peninsular films and filmmakers are cross-referencing one another’s economic developmental models, governmental initiatives, celebrity cross-over market potentials, connected land and aerial borders, East/West collaborations and North/South co-productions.

Bio note:
Mariam B. Lam is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Media & Cultural Studies, and Director of the Southeast Asian Studies Research Program (SEATRiP) at the University of California, Riverside. She is founding Co-Editor of the *Journal of Vietnamese Studies*, Chair of the Southeast Asian Archive Board at UC Irvine, and an Advisory Board Member of the University of California Humanities Research Institute. Her monograph, entitled *Precariat Reckoning: Viet Nam, Post-Trauma and Strategic Affect *(forthcoming, Duke UP, 2014), analyzes cultural production and community politics within and across Viet Nam, France, and the US, and she is completing work on her second book, *Surfin’ Southeast Asia: New Circulations of Cold War Culture and Global Capital*.

Moderator: Caroline HAU, CSEAS, Kyoto University