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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.

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Episode 8: Arnout van der Meer, Assistant Professor of History, Colby College

Nov 1, 2018

In this week's episode of the Gatty Rewind, Michael and Juan Fernandez sit down with Arnout van der Meer from Colby College, to discuss his Gatty Lecture, "Performing Colonialism: Hegemony, Representative Culture, and Resistance in Late Colonial Indonesia." In this episode, Arnout discusses his journey to studying colonial Indonesia at Rutgers, the archival research involved in his current book manuscript, and how he plans to look at Southeast Asian colonial fairs in the future. Also discussed: how to get a job after graduate school, getting different historical perspectives from colonial sources, and interrogating Indonesian literature. To Java!