Oct 25, 2018

In episode 7 of the podcast, Michael and Astara Light interview Faizah Zakaria, who presented a Gatty talk titled, "The Toba Super Catastrophe as the History of a Future." In her lecture, Faizah examines the origins and development of the super catastrophe theory, offering both a synthesis of Toba's prehistory as pieced...

Oct 25, 2018

In this week’s episode of the podcast, Michael and Ryan Buyco interview Nico Ravanilla from UC San Diego about his Gatty lecture, “Political Cycle in Public Works Procurement in the Philippines.” Using granular data on public works procurement in the Philippines from 2004-2017, Nico provides evidence of...

Oct 25, 2018

In the 5th episode of the pod, Michael and Hoang Minh Vu chat with Xiaoming Zhang about his Gatty lecture, “China’s 1979 War with Vietnam,” in which Professor Zhang discussed Vietnam’s 1979 war with Vietnam, and asked the questions: What are lessons from the 1979 war? How is the war remembered, or forgotten, by...

Oct 25, 2018

In the 4th episode of the Gatty Lecture Rewind Podcast, Michael and Sireemas Maspong sit down with Daniel Kaufman to discuss his Gatty Lecture, “Between Mainland and Island Southeast Asia.” In his lecture, Daniel shows how research in linguistics so far has focused on the eastern contact zones between Austronesians...

Oct 25, 2018

In this week’s podcast, Michael chats with Yen Vu, PhD Candidate in the Romance Studies Department at Cornell University about her research into Vietnamese Francophone Literature. Yen’s Gatty Lecture, “Prodigal sons and disparate selves: Vietnamese youth and intellectuals in colonial transitions,” analyzes...