Dear friends and colleagues,
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) Kyoto University is pleased to announce the launch of a monthly internal newsletter. This will be sent out on a monthly basis and include updates on activities, research meetings, events, new publications and podcasts.
July 2024 issue includes:
1. Announcements and Highlights
2. Upcoming Events
3. Publications: Hot off the CSEAS Press
4. Presentations
5. Podcasts in Japanese: “Book Talk on Asia”
6. Past Events
Thank you and regards,
The Public Relations Committee, Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS)
1. Announcements and Highlights
【July Get Together】
・The monthly welcome and farewell party, Get Together, will be held on Thursday, July 25, from 12:30 pm at the Small-sized Meeting Room 2 (#331 on the 3rd floor of Inamori Center). Please join us and have an opportunity to enjoy small talk.
We have updated the visiting scholars’ web page. Please check here.
【Visitor’s Voice】
New interview article is available now. We asked them about their research, future ambitions, and more.
・Interview with Wong Chin Huat: “Research Should be Driven by Curiosity than Conviction”
2. Upcoming Events
・CSEAS Colloquium “Does Malaysia need a pure FPTP system? – Electoral system in Post-Transition Malaysia”
Date & Time: Thursday, 25 July 2024, 13:30–15:00 (Japan Time)
Venue: Middle-size Meeting Room (I-332), Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Speaker: Wong Chin Huat (Sunway University, Malaysia / Visiting Research Scholar, CSEAS)
・Screening : “The Last Season”
Date & Time: Friday, 26 July 2024, 18:00–
Venue: Media Room (E-106), 1st Floor, East Building, CSEAS, Kyoto University
・Colloquium on “Facing Violence, Transgressing Boundaries: Issues of Care at Borders”
Date & Time: Thursday, 8 August 2024, 13:00–15:00 (Japan Time)
Venue: Tonantei (I-201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University / Zoom
Speakers: Ai Sugie (Aisha Khanam) (Graduate School and Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University), Nurul Huda Mohd. Razif (Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the University of Bergen, Norway), and Miriam Jaehn (JSPS postdoctoral fellow, CSEAS)
3. Publications: Hot off the CSEAS Press
【Latest Issue】
・Vol. 13 No. 1 of Southeast Asian Studies on 25 April 2024. This issue contains a special focus on “Collective Care in Three Vietnamese Contexts: The Intersection of Health, Community, and the State,” as well as two articles and eight book reviews. All articles are available on the journal’s website and J-Stage.
【Forthcoming】
・Vol. 62, No. 1 of Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (Tonan ajia kenkyu) will be on 31 July 2024.
【Latest Issue】
・Special issue (38) titled “Health, Border, and Marginality: Toward Transdisciplinarity” of Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia is out on June 1, 2024. In this issue, Decha Tangseefa (CSEAS) serves as the guest editor.
【New Article】
・TRENDSETTERS column “Thailand: An Urban Country,” by Apiwat Ratanawaraha, in Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia on July 1, 2024.
【Latest Issue】CSEAS monthly newsletter released on July 10.
[Notes from the Field] Kisho Tsuchiya, “Teaching in the Field: Practicing Asian Studies in Asia.”
[New Staff] Youdiil Ophinni
[New Staff] Taihei Kikuchi
[Letter from the Kamogawa River] Jean-Pascal Bassino, “Rice in War: Some Insights from Christopher Goscha’s Historiography of the Indochina War.”
【New Book】Kisho Tsuchiya, Emplacing East Timor: Regime Change and Knowledge Production, 1860–2010. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2024.
【New Book】Sachiko Imamura, Governing Philosophy and Violence: State and Society in Indonesia after Independence, University of Tokyo Press, 2024, in Japanese.
【New Article】Mario Ivan Lopez, “Navigating Japan’s Demographic Shift with the Help of Migrant Care Workers,” ACAP Bulletin, March-April-May 2024, pp. 6–7.
【Forthcoming】Nasir Uddin, Indigeneity, Marginality and the State in Bangladesh: Homeless at Home, Routledge India, August 2024.
4. Presentations
【Panel Discussion】
・Julie de los Rayes, “Energy Security in the ASEAN Region,” in “Strengthening Indo-Pacific Collaboration for Development: Workshop for Think Tank and Academia Opinion Leaders from Quad and ASEAN countries,” 7 June 2024, Bali, Indonesia.
【Lecture】
・Youdiil Ophinni, “Advancing HIV/AIDS cure using CRISPR-Cas9: from cell culture to humanized mice and human stem cells.” Guest Lecture in Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, 26 June 2024.
【Presentation】
・Julie de los Rayes, “Anti-Developmentalism Redux? A Critical Assessment of Philippine Energy Transition,” International Workshop on “Unpacking the rise of green developmentalism in Southeast and Northeast Asia,” 27 June 2024, CSEAS Kyoto University.
【Presentation】
・Takahashi Tomoko, “Too Complicated to Negotiate from Scratch: How China Leverages Extra-Institutional Information Shortcuts for Cooperation in the United Nations General Assembly”, The Japanese Society for Quantitative Political Science 2024, 7 July 2024, Kochi University of Technology, Kochi.
【Presentation】
・Kisho Tsuchiya, “Round Table on Tsuchiya, Emplacing East Timor: Regime Change and Knowledge Production, 1860–2010,” Timor Leste-Indonesia Workshop at the 2024 AAS-in-Asia, July 8, 2024, Universitas Gadjah Mada
【Presentation】
・Kisho Tsuchiya, “Mindanawan Commoners’ Perceptions of Martial Law and Communism as Foundations for Grassroots Conservativism,” AAS-in-Asia Conference, July 9–11, 2024, Universitas Gadjah Mada.
【Presentation】
・Kisho Tsuchiya, “How to Approach to Cold War Asia?” Round Table session at AAS-in-Asia Conference, July 9–11, 2024, Universitas Gadjah Mada.
【Presentation】
・Kisho Tsuchiya, “Timor-Leste in History and International Relations,” the 5th SEASIA Biennial International Conference 2024, July 18-20, 2024, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City.
【Presentation】
・Julie de los Reyes, “Beyond the core: How Southeast Asia matters in low-carbon transitions,” the 5th SEASIA Biennial International Conference 2024, July 18-20, 2024, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City.
【Presentation】
・Kimiya Kitani and Toshiro Kamiya, “Database Framework for Small-scale Datasets: Some Cases on Field Survey Data Collected in Area Studies in Southeast Asia,” the 5th SEASIA Biennial International Conference 2024, July 18-20, 2024, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City.
【Presentation】
・Chika Yamada, “Rethinking Thermal Comfort in Southeast Asia’s Urban Landscape,” the 5th SEASIA Biennial International Conference 2024, July 18-20, 2024, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City.
【Presentation】
・Miharu Uchiyama and Hiroshi Aihara, “Balancing Comfort and Sustainability in Air Conditioning – from the Corporate Perspective,” the 5th SEASIA Biennial International Conference 2024, July 18-20, 2024, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City.
【Moderator】Kobayashi Satoru, “What is Comfortable and Sustainable Cooling? : Exploring ‘Airconditioning Nexus’ from a Multi-Disciplinary Perspective,” the 5th SEASIA Biennial International Conference 2024, July 18-20, 2024, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City.
【Plenaly Roundtable】
Caroline Hau, “De/Centering Southeast Asian Studies and the Search for Relevance,” the 5th SEASIA Biennial International Conference 2024, July 18-20, 2024, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City.
5. Podcasts in Japanese: “Book Talk on Asia”
In this program, the Editorial Office, CSEAS introduce the latest books on Asia. The authors are invited to talk about the contents and background of their books.
Soundcloud / YouTube
6. Past Events
・The 5th SEASIA Biennial Conference “De/Centering Southeast Asia”
Date: Thursday, 18 July to Saturday, 20 July, 2024
Venue: University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City
・Book Talk on Kisho Tsuchiya’s Emplacing East Timor: Regime Change and Knowledge Production, 1860–2010
Date & Time: Wednesday, 4 July 2024, 15:00–16:30 JST
Venue: Research Commons (E101), East Bldg, CSEAS, Kyoto University / Online (Zoom)
Speaker: Kisho Tsuchiya (CSEAS)
Discussant: Shintaro Fukutake (Faculty of Global Studies, Sophia University)
Moderator: Genta Kuno (CSEAS)
・ Seminar: “Contingent Adaptation as Everyday Performance: Crafting New Agriculture Practices to Respond to a Historic Flood in Vietnam’s Northern Uplands”
Date & Time: Wednesday, 3 July 2024, 15:00 – 16:30 JST
Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, CSEAS, Kyoto University
Speaker: Emmanuel Pannier (French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD))
・Seminar: “Japan’s Approach to Deterrence: Implications for Deterrence in the Taiwan Strait”
Date & Time: Tuesday, 2 July 2024, 14:45–16:15 JST
Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, CSEAS, Kyoto University
Speaker: Oriana Skylar Mastro (Stanford University)
Discussant: Tomoko Takahashi (CSEAS)
・Book Talk on Joseph Torigian’s Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao
Date & Time: Tuesday, 2 July 2024, 13:00–14:30 JST
Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, CSEAS, Kyoto University
Speaker: Joseph Torigian (School of International Service, American University / Research Fellow, Hoover Institution)
Discussant: Tomoko Takahashi (CSEAS)
・Short-film screening: Miwatari
Date & Time: Friday, 28 June 2024, 18:00 – JST
Venue: Multimedia Room 2, 1st Floor, East Bldg, CSEAS, Kyoto University
Screening: Miwatari (2023 / Japan / Japanese with English subtitle / 11 min)
Guest speaker: Yuuka Miyazono (HAKUA)
・Seminar: “Militarization Overlooked: Rethinking the Origins of Indonesia’s New Order, 1950–1965”
Date & Time: Friday, 28 June 2024, 12:30–14:00 JST
Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, CSEAS, Kyoto University
Speaker: Norman Joshua (Postdoctoral Fellow, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University)
Discussant: Jun Honna (College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University)
・Seminar: “Changing Spatialities at the India-Myanmar Borderlands”
Date & Time: Thursday, 27 June 2024, 15:00 – 16:30 JST
Venue: Tonantei (I201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, CSEAS, Kyoto University
Speaker: Karin Dean (School of Humanities, Tallinn University / Guest Scholar, CSEAS)
・CSEAS Colloquium: “The First East Asian Economic Miracle: Wages, Living Standards and Foundations of Modern Economic Growth in Southeast Asia, 1880–1938”
Date & Time: Thursday, 27 June 2024, 13:30 – 15:00 JST
Venue: Middle-sized Meeting Room (332), 3rd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
Speaker: Jean-Pascal Bassino (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon / Visiting Research Scholar, CSEAS)
・Book Talk on Theara Thun’s Epistemology of the Past: Texts, History, and Intellectuals of Cambodia, 1855–1970
Date & Time: Wednesday, 26 June 2024, 16:45–18:00 JST
Venue: Research Commons (E101), East Bldg, CSEAS, Kyoto University / Online (Zoom)
Speaker: Thun Theara (Research Fellow, the University of Hong Kong / Affiliated Asst. Prof., CSEAS Kyoto University)
Moderator: Kisho Tsuchiya (CSEAS)
■Endnotes
I have recently come to interact with people who use diverse methods even within the same academic field. Each time, I notice the completely different norms in their communities, which is very intriguing. For example, at conferences for researchers conducting quantitative analysis, many people dress like Steve Jobs, wearing T-shirts, and almost everyone uses the Overleaf system for their presentation slides. On the other hand, in seminars focusing on history and philosophy, slides are usually created in PowerPoint, containing brief keywords or related pictures, or sometimes there are no slides at all, with presenters speaking directly to the audience. The former often includes many mathematical formulas, while the latter deals with the complexity of concepts that cannot be fully conveyed through slides. Both approaches are rational in their own ways, yet they also reflect the atmosphere that these communities have cultivated over the years. Even when discussing the same topics or research questions, as someone who employs mixed methods, I seek guidance from senior researchers about the “norms” in each community to communicate on the same footing. Sometimes, when I hit a dead end with one method, the other method provides a refreshing perspective, and I find joy in this art of going back-and-forth. (T.T.)
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