Year 1 Seminar

Getting the joke. Difficult pasts and difficult sites of learning in Thailand and beyond

Leave a Comment / CO-OP Blog / Marieke Bloembergen

Getting the joke. Difficult pasts and difficult sites of learning in Thailand and beyond by Marieke Bloembergen To me, as an Indonesianist, or ‘Island Southeast Asianist’ as Panggah Ardiyansyah, Zainab Tahir and I would call ourselves initially in the CO-OP context, our first group visit and traveling seminar, to Thailand in January 2024, was full […]

Getting the joke. Difficult pasts and difficult sites of learning in Thailand and beyond Read More »

Drifting ships: who owns the cargo?

Leave a Comment / CO-OP Blog / Zainab Tahir

Drifting ships: who owns the cargo? by Zainab Tahir It was strikingly sunny in early January 2024 when the CO-OP cohort visited the Plai Bat II site in Buriram Province, Thailand. The site lies atop a hill in the Prakhon Chai region, a perfect location for those who seek a connection to the past. Considering

Drifting ships: who owns the cargo? Read More »

A Visit to Phanom Rung

Leave a Comment / CO-OP Blog / Soumya James

A Visit to Phanom Rung by Soumya James Our group visited the Phanom Rung Historical Park where we saw two lintels that were stolen and thence returned. The lintels traversed through multiple cultures1 and time scales, national boundaries and destination points, and changed many hands before ultimately returning to a home that is familiar and

A Visit to Phanom Rung Read More »

Seeing Old Sites Anew: Some Reflections from the First Critical Thinking Lab

Leave a Comment / CO-OP Blog / Stephen Murphy

Seeing Old Sites Anew: Some Reflections from the First Critical Thinking Lab by Stephen Murphy From 5 – 14 January 2024, the CO-OP cohort met in Thailand for the first of its three critical thinking labs. After a night in Bangkok, we set out for Northeast Thailand where we would remain for the next 8

Seeing Old Sites Anew: Some Reflections from the First Critical Thinking Lab Read More »

Thinking with Sema Stones at the Temple Museum

Leave a Comment / CO-OP Blog / Heidi Tan

Thinking with Sema Stones at the Temple Museum by Heidi Tan Our visit to Ban Sema and the temple of Wat Pho Chai Semaram in Kalasin province, was a late afternoon encounter with familiar signs of merit-making and active temple curation. An orderly layout of ancient sema stones or boundary markers (from the Pali sīmā)

Thinking with Sema Stones at the Temple Museum Read More »