Southeast Asian Brownbag: Murder, Bigamy, Pedophilia and Betrayal!

Join us for our next scheduled brown bag:

Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Korean Studies Building, Conference Room
University of Hawaii at Manoa

Murder, Bigamy, Pedophilia and Betrayal
The Missing Chief's House from Hilimondregeraya, Nias, Indonesia

In the Danish National Museum, there are many unique remnants of a once great chief's house from Nias, Indonesia. These are some truly fine works of art from a vanishing tradition on a remote island. The visitor however would never suspect the incredible story behind these now scattered but extraordinary artifacts. It is a narrative of high art and high achievement with a heavy overlay of criminality and debauchery.

Presented by
Dr. Jerome Feldman, Professor of Art History, Hawaii Pacific University

Professor Feldman teaches art history at Hawaii Pacific University. His specialization is in the arts of tribal Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. He received his Ph.D. in tribal art history from Columbia University and has conducted field studies in remote islands of Indonesia and Polynesia. He has studied museum collections in Europe and America and has aided in several important exhibitions including The Eloquent Dead at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Nias Tribal Treasures at the Volkenkundig Meumeu Nusantara in Delft, and Beyond the Java Sea a Smithsonian sponsored traveling exhibition. He has also written books and articles and lectured extensively on tribal Southeast Asian, Micronesian and Polynesian art and architecture. In fall 2004, he was the Slade Visiting Professor at Cambridge University, England.

The Center for Southeast Asian Studies schedules brown bag lectures and performances during the Fall and Spring semesters. Speakers are invited to present original research, sections of dissertations, and other works in progress. Brown Bag Lectures are usually held in the lushly appointed Tokioka Room at Moore Hall (Room 319) or in the Korean Studies Center Auditorium. Join the Center's Outreach E-mail List for the complete precis for and locations of brown bag lectures.

Ticket Information
Free!

Event Sponsor
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Manoa

More Information
Paul Rausch, 956-2688, cseas@hawaii.edu, http://www.hawaii.edu/cseas

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