Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun: An Elegy

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Crystal Baik, Associate Professor, Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside In this talk, Professor Crystal Mun-hye Baik offers a glimpse into her second book project, Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun: An Elegy. An intimate cultural history of war, illness, and estrangement framed through her family history, Before the Fire Dogs Steal […]

Ethnic Orders: Social Categories and the Politics of Identity in the Malay World

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Thomas Pepinsky, Walter F. LaFeber Professor, Department of Government and Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University Ethnicity is central to politics throughout the Malay world, but the meaning and significance of ethnicity—and of social categories like “Malay”—is contested, dynamic, and multifaceted. This talk is an overview of an ongoing book project, tentatively entitled Ethnic Orders, which […]