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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 9: Erin Lin, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, the Ohio State University

Nov 4, 2018

In this week's episode, Michael and Cornell PhD Candidate Van Mai Tran sit down with Erin Lin, Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University, to chat about her research into the legacy of US bombing from the Vietnam War on the land and agriculture in Cambodia, and the ways that different groups within Cambodia deal with the effects of undetonated bombs on fertile rice paddies in their country. Using a dataset of declassified US Air Force records and an agricultural survey of over 3,600 rice paddies across Cambodia, I show that in highly fertile soil, this mechanical failure still poses risk from the unexploded ordnance, and farmers are deterred from efficiently using their land.