From the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University, the Gatty 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. Interviews are hosted by graduate students at Cornell University, and 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 seap.einaudi.cornell.edu. Music provided by 14 Strings and the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble.
Gatty Lecture Rewind Podcast
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From the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University, the Gatty 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. Interviews are hosted by graduate students at Cornell University, and 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 seap.einaudi.cornell.edu. Music provided by 14 Strings and the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble.
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April 23, 2026
Episode 148: Arnisson Ortega, Associate Professor from the Department of Geography and the Environment, Syracuse University
<p>In this episode, host Namfon Narumol Choochan speaks with Arnisson Andre Ortega, Associate Professor from the Department of Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University. First, they discuss his current project, "City of Imperialism," which examines the legacy of former U.S. military bases in the Philippines. Then, they unpack his lecture, "Geonarratives of Hope and Resistance," which is a part of a collaborative project with human rights defenders in Negros Island. It shows that mapping is more than a technical tool, but can be used to support resistance and justice, especially in a place suffering from authoritarian violence like the Philippines. Tune in to find out more about how Prof. Ortega and his colleagues turn cartography into a tool of care and resistance!</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Lightning round (Lecture Summary):</strong> 3:33</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Main interview: </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">8:13 –Could you tell us about your intellectual journey—how you became interested in geography, colonialism, and what ultimately led you to pursue a PhD?</p> <p dir="ltr">15:15 –How does the tradition of mapmaking connect to the history of colonialism in the Philippines? In what ways does countermapping challenge or push back against those inherited frameworks?<br /> <br /> 19: 20 –Could you share more about your current book project—its central arguments and what you hope it contributes to the field?</p> <p dir="ltr">24: 41 – Your work involves collaboration beyond academia. How did these partnerships come about, and what does meaningful collaboration look like in your project?</p> <p dir="ltr">27:36 – What drew you specifically to Negros Island as a focal point for your research?<br /> <br /> 34:13 – Could you walk us through the process of your project? Who are the key participants, and how do they shape the knowledge that emerges?<br /> <br /> 36:40 – In your lecture, you discuss how violence operates within everyday, seemingly mundane life. This brings to mind Hannah Arendt's idea of the "banality of evil." How does this concept help us understand the normalization of violence in the Philippine context? And how do human rights defenders resist within these conditions?<br /> <br /> 44: 48 – Finally, what advice would you give to students or scholars who want to use academic work to build infrastructures of care and support justice-oriented initiatives?</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Advice Advice for researchers and recommendations:</strong> 44:40</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Dr. Ortega's top recommendation: </strong></p> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><a href= "https://www.ucpress.edu/books/urban-ecologies-on-the-edge/paper">Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila's Resource Frontier</a> by Kristian Karlo Saguin</p> </li> </ul> <p dir="ltr">The music on the podcast is from "14 Strings!", a Filipino-style Rondalla group established at Cornell University. Check them out <a href= "http://14strings.com/">here</a>. </p> <p dir="ltr">Produced by Neen Yada Tangcharoenmonkong, Adam Farihin, and Cecilia Liu</p> <p> </p>
April 16, 2026
Episode 147: Courtney Wittekind, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Purdue University
<p dir="ltr">In this episode, host Namfon Narumol Choochan speaks with Courtney T. Wittekind, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Purdue University. Together, they discuss Dr.Wittekind's lecture, which is part of her forthcoming book, <a href= "https://www.sup.org/books/anthropology/city-speculation">City of Speculation: Unsettled Futures in Urban Myanmar</a> (Stanford University Press), and explore how speculation unfolds amid political, economic, and social instability. Focusing on Southwest Yangon, Dr. Wittekind examines everyday practices of speculation and gambling in a suburb where the Myanmar government proposed a plan to build a new city that never came to fruition. The conversation reflects on navigating the unexpected and uncertainty during fieldwork, especially the pandemic, and how these challenges reshaped her methodology and her scholarly work. Tune in to learn more! </p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Lightning round (Lecture Summary):</strong> 1:15</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Main interview:</strong> 6:36</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>6:50</strong> – What did you do before you started a PhD, and what made you pursue a doctoral degree? </p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>9:54</strong> – Did you have a topic in mind when entering grad school, and how did it change?</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>14:21</strong> – Did you intend to choose Southwest Yangoon as your research focus in your first fieldwork, or did it come afterward?</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>25:43</strong> – Your research deals with instability. Meanwhile, speculation involves futurity. How do you think of speculation in Southeast Asia, which is fraught with political instability?</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>31:55</strong> - Who speculates? What does this speculation reveal about Southwest Yangon?</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>35:03</strong> – Your lecture mentioned the organizing movement advocating for the New City plan. This challenges my understanding of the grassroots movement, which usually organizes against real estate developers. What does this organizing movement reveal about the politics of urbanization in the context of Myanmar?</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>39:42</strong> – One audience member asked about how to identify the people's desire in the movement, and you admitted that it is hard to identify the real agrarian desire, and one of your chapters discusses the two categories of authentic and inauthentic farmers. How do you distinguish between the two? Are the lines fixed, or are they more fluid? And how do you examine whether the movement stemmed from the real agrarian desire?</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>44:13</strong> – How did the Coup in 2021 complicate the speculation you're looking at? </p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>47:44</strong> - Since speculation is about futurity, it is always a process involving hope. Given the context of political instability, would speculation be possible without hope?</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Advice Advice for researchers and recommendations:</strong> 50:28</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Dr. Wittekind's top recommendations: </strong></p> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><a href= "https://www.yangonfilmschool.org/">Yangon Film School:</a> an institution based in Myanmar, making cutting-edge films</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><a href= "https://www.purin.org/">Purin films:</a> a film fund that supports independent cinema in Southeast Asia</p> </li> </ul> <p dir="ltr">Don't forget to check out Dr. Wittekind's forthcoming book: <a href= "https://www.sup.org/books/anthropology/city-speculation">City of Speculation, Unsettled Futures in Urban Myanmar.</a></p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Description: </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">In 2018, amidst a celebrated political transition, Myanmar's first democratically elected government since 1962 proposed a built-from-scratch "new city" just outside Yangon, the country's former colonial capital and current economic center. 20,000 acres of once-barren rice fields became the site of extraordinary developmental dreams. Farmers on Yangon's outskirts traded cultivation for speculation on land and property, betting on uncertain futures and weighing what, exactly, was worth risking for a chance at transformation. As plans for the new city stalled amid political turmoil, economic liberalization, a pandemic, and a military coup, speculation became both a source of hope and a means of survival when urban dreams faded.</p> <p dir="ltr">Drawing on three years of site-based fieldwork and digital ethnography, Courtney T. Wittekind shows how speculation reshapes citizens' contemporary demands and forward-looking dreams—for themselves as well as their country—in times of crisis. Adopting the lens of "vernacular speculation," she reveals how ordinary people create value, interpret ambiguity, and act on possible futures, even as the promises of democracy and development collapse around them. A powerful account of how hope, anticipation, and uncertainty reconfigure everyday life, City of Speculation captures what it means to imagine—and gamble on—the future in the wake of profound upheaval.</p> <p dir="ltr">The music on the podcast is from "14 Strings!", a Filipino-style Rondalla group established at Cornell University. Check them out <a href= "http://14strings.com/">here</a>. </p> <p dir="ltr">Produced by Neen Yada Tangcharoenmonkong, Adam Farihin, and Cecilia Liu</p> <p> </p>
April 9, 2026
Episode 146: Taomo Zhou, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore
<p dir="ltr">In this episode, host Namfon Narumol Choochan and Carrie Mo, a master's student in Asian Studies, interview Taomo Zhou, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore, about her research on the life of Francisca Casparina Fanggidaej, an Indonesian transnational activist in the Afro-Asian movement and the mother of seven. Because of her involvement with the Communist Party of Indonesia (Partai Komunist Indonesia, PKI), Francisca went into exile in China after the 1965 Indonesia massacre, forcing her to separate from her family for many decades. By examining Francisca's life and activism in Indonesia, China, and the Netherlands, Prof. Zhou tells us how contested international politics shaped gender roles and expectations, redefining what motherhood meant.</p> <p dir="ltr">Lightning round(Lecture Summary): 4:20</p> <p dir="ltr">Main interview: 8:12</p> <p dir="ltr">8:12 – How did you first discover Francisca Casparina Fanggidaej, and how did you piece together her story through archival materials and oral history interviews?</p> <p dir="ltr">10:17 – Can you walk us through Francisca's background and life trajectory? What led her to political activism?</p> <p dir="ltr">11:26 – How did Francisca become involved in politics, and what shaped her early political commitments?</p> <p dir="ltr">13:44 – How does Francisca's life reflect shifting gender ideologies, particularly across the Sukarno and Suharto eras in Indonesia?</p> <p dir="ltr">16:54 – During her exile after the 1965 political violence, Francisca arrived in Beijing. How should we understand China's role within a more rigid gender framework at the time?</p> <p dir="ltr">19:54 – In her diaries, Francisca attempts to tell her story to her daughter. How do you interpret these writings in relation to the politics of maternal absence?</p> <p dir="ltr">23:17 – Why is motherhood a critical lens for rethinking internationalism?</p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr">26:27 - How does the case of Francisca become useful to think about the gender roles and expectations in the present, especially for mothers?</p> <p dir="ltr">27:38 – Your upcoming book, Made in Shenzhen, shifts focus geographically—what drew you to Shenzhen, and are there connections between this project and Francisca's story, particularly around migration?</p> <p dir="ltr">31:33 – How does the concept of maternal absence reshape our understanding of domestic labor and caregiving?</p> <p dir="ltr">Advice Advice for researchers and recommendations: 33:50</p> <p dir="ltr">Dr. Zhou's top recommendations: </p> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><a href= "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46221974-the-majesties">The Majesties: A Novel by Tiffany Tsao</a></p> </li> </ul> <p dir="ltr">The music on the podcast is from "14 Strings!", a Filipino-style Rondalla group established at Cornell University. Check them out <a href= "http://14strings.com/">here</a>. </p> <p dir="ltr">Produced by Neen Yada Tangcharoenmonkong, Adam Farihin, and Cecilia Liu</p>
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