Gatty Lecture Rewind Podcast

From the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University, the Gatty Lecture Rewind Podcast features interviews and conversations with scholars and researchers working in and around Southeast Asia, all of whom have been invited to give a Gatty Lecture at Cornell University. Conversations cover the history, politics, economics, literature, art, and cultures of the region. Podcast topics cover the many nations and peoples of Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Burma, Laos, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, and Timor-Leste. For more information on the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University, visit our website. Music provided by 14 Strings and the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble.

Episode 99: Nina Baker Capistrano, Ayala Museum, Philippines

Nov 10, 2023

In this episode, Francine sits down to interview Dr. Nina Baker Capistrano to unpack her lecture "Reinscribing P’u-tuan in the Metanarrative of Early Southeast Asia." During their discussion, Dr. Capistrano describes the significance and implications of material evidence from P'u-tuan and neighboring cultures,...

Episode 98: Van Nguyen Marshall, Department of History, Trent University

Nov 2, 2023

In this episode of the Gatty Lecture Rewind podcast, Francine is joined by guest host, Sarah Meiners, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Cornell University. Together, they interviewed Dr. Nguyen Marshall, who unpacked her lecture titled, "Between War and the State: Civil Society in South Vietnam,...

Episode 97: Lisandro Claudio, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley

Oct 20, 2023

In this episode of the Gatty Lecture Rewind podcast, Dr. Claudio unpacks his lecture titled, "Imperialism and the Formation of Good Governance Discourse in the Philippines: The Case Study of the Philippine National Bank in the 1920s." He explains how the Philippine National Bank (PNB) fell into crisis—not because of...

Episode 96: Vicente Rafael, Department of History, University of Washington (Featuring Lila Shahani)

Oct 17, 2023

In this episode of the Gatty Lecture Rewind podcast, Vicente Rafael, his wife Lila Shahani, and guest host Geronimo Christobal join Francine to unpack Professor Rafael's lecture titled, "The Authoritarian Imaginary: Intimacy and the Autoimmune Community in the Contemporary Philippines." Tune in to gain insights into the...

Episode 95: Meredith Weiss, Department of Political Science, University at Albany, SUNY

Sep 19, 2023

In this episode of the Gatty Lecture Rewind podcast, Dr. Weiss sits down to unpack her lecture titled, "Decline and Fall of Malaysia’s Dominant-Party System." The episode discusses Malaysia's 15th general election in November 2022 that ended the country's dominant-party system. Listen now to learn more about the...