Public Lecture

Title: “The Failure of Peasant Revolutions” in NE Thailand and Cambodia

Time: Thursday January 26, 2006

2 – 4 PM

Location: Conference Room 12, 2nd floor

Political Science Bldg 3 (Udhyanin)

Speaker: Professor Charles Keyes

Professor of Anthropology and International Studies

University of Washington, USA

Biography:

Selected Publications:

Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos (edited with Shigeharu Tanabe, 2002)

“Cultural Differences, the Nation State, and Rethinking Ethnicity Theory: ‘Lessons’ from Vietnam,” (The David Skomp Distinguished Lecture in Anthropology, University of Indiana, 2001)

“The Politics of Language in Thailand and Laos”, in Fighting Words: Language Policy and Ethnic Relations in Asia, Michael E. Brown and Sumit Ganguly, eds. (2002).