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.
June 2025 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. Media Exposure
7. Past Events
Thank you and regards,
The Public Relations Committee, Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS)
1. Announcements and Highlights
【June Get Together】
・The monthly welcome and farewell party, Get Together, will be held on Thursday, June 26, from 12:30 pm at the Small Meeting Room II (#332 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
【New Research Associate】
・Sandeep Ray (filmmaker, History): CSEAS welcomes Sandeep Ray as Visiting Research Scholar from June 17 to September 16, 2025.
・Ulan Nukan (International Relations): CSEAS welcomes Ulan Nukan as Guest Scholar from July 7 to 15.
・Erni Saurmalinda Butar Butar (Engineering): CSEAS welcomes Erni Saurmalinda Butar Butar as Guest Research Associate from July 8, 2025 to July 7, 2026.
【Visitor’s Voice】New interview article is available now. We asked them about their research, future ambitions, and more.
Interview with Al Makin: “The Politics of Pluralism: Ideas and Challenges in Indonesia”
【Award】Asst. Prof. Kisho Tsuchiya has been awarded the 14th (2025) Mishima Kaikun Academic Award for his work Emplacing East Timor: Regime Change and Knowledge Production,1860–2010. Congratulations!
2. Upcoming Events
・Special Seminar
Date & Time: Thursday, 26 June 2025, 1:30–3:00 pm (Japan Time)
Venue: Medium Meeting Room (I332), 3rd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
Title: In Good Hands: Religion as a Hierarchical System
Speaker: Ward Keeler (University of Texas at Austin)
・Special Seminar
Date & Time: Friday, 27 June 2025, 4:00–5:30 pm (Japan Time)
Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
Title: Featuring the Southeast Asia Policy of the Middle Powers: A Comparative Studies of Taiwan and Korea
Speaker: Alan Hao Yang (National Chengchi University)
Commentator: Mie Oba (Kanagawa University)
・Learning Southeast Asian Culture and Society: Screening
Date & Time: Friday, 27 June 2025, 6 pm– (Japan Time)
Venue: Multimedia Room 2, 1st Floor, East Building, CSEAS Kyoto University
Film title: Hanuman and 7 Ultraman (105min, Thai with Japanese subtitles)
・ASEAN+3 Bond Market Forum (ABMF) Kyoto University sessions on building a sustainable society
Date & Time: Monday, 30 June 2025, 9:30 am–4:10 pm (Japan Time)
Venue: International Science Innovation Building, Kyoto University
Organizers: ADB, CSEAS, GSM-Kyoto University
Speaker: Prof. Fumiharu Mieno will deliver a presentation titled “ASEAN’s Financial Structure: What has changed? What has not changed?”
・CSEAS Colloquium
Date & Time: Monday, 30 June 2025, 4–6 pm (Japan Time)
Venue: Tonantei (I201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University / Online
Title: Art Meets Anthropology: Balancing Tatemae (public face) & Honne (private face)
Speaker: Jeanine Schreurs (Guest Scholar, CSEAS)
・Asia Round Table Series 2025–1: AMRO-CSEAS Joint Seminar
Date&Time: Wednesday, 16 July 2025, 3:30–5:30 pm (Japan Time)
Venue: Tonantei (I201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University / Online
Theme: ASEAN’s macroeconomic and financial resilience
・Tonan Talk
Date & Time: Thursday, 17 July 2025, 10:30–12:00 (Japan Time)
Venue: Tonantei (I201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
Title: “(In)visible Inequalities: Gender and Immigrant Background in Elite Japanese Firms”
Speaker: Hilary J. Holbrow (Indiana University)
3. Publications: Hot off the CSEAS Press
【Latest Issue】
・Vol. 14 No. 1 of Southeast Asian Studies on 24 April 2025. This issue features a special focus on “Fieldwork in a Time of Change: Papers in Honor of Mizuno Kosuke,” edited by guest editors Agung Wicaksono and Jafar Suryomenggolo from Gadjah Mada University, along with eight book reviews. All articles are available on the journal’s website and J-Stage .
【New Article】Ichiro Kakizaki, “Concentration and Disarmament of Japanese Soldiers in Thailand After World War II,” Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, May 16, 2025, Advance online publication.
【New Article】Tomoko Nakata, “Reconsidering the Highlander-lowlander Dichotomy through the Phu Mi Bun Rebellion of Southern Laos,” Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, June 24, 2025, Advance online publication.
【Latest Issue】
・Special issue (40) titled “Eroding Electoral Integrity: Reasons for Democratic Backsliding in Southeast Asia” of Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia is out on March 1, 2025. In this issue, Asia Centre serves as the guest editor and includes five articles. Each article is available in English, Japanese, Thai, Bahasa Indonesia, Filipino, Vietnamese, and Myanmar on our website. Five book reviews are also available.
【New Article】
・TRENDSETTERS column “Rethinking China-Thailand Relations: Overseas Chinese and Knowledge Production during the Cold War,” by Sittithep Eaksittipong, in Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia on June 1, 2025.
【Latest Issue】CSEAS monthly newsletter released on June 11.
[Report] Special Lecture by Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad “Asia and the World on the Brink: Rethinking Order in an Age of Turmoil”
[Interview] The Centrality of the Borders and the Cosmopolitanism of Frontiers (Patricio Abinales)
[Letter from the Kamogawa River] Horsepower (Caroline S. Hau)
【New Book】Yos Santasombat, Kian Cheng LEE, and Decha Tangseefa (eds), China’s BRI in Southeast Asia: Concepts and Methodologies, Kyoto Area Studies on Asia 31, Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press, 2025.
【New Book】Majid Daneshgar, Persianate Prose and the Making of Malay Muslim Literature: Text, Translation and Commentary of the Durr al-Majalis, Edinburgh University Press, May 2025.
【New Book】Erminia Colucci and David Lester, Suicide and Culture 2.0: Understanding the Context, Hogrefe, 2025.
【New Book】Hajimu Masuda (ed.), Kisho Tsuchiya (contrib.), Cold War Asia: Unlearning Narratives, Making New Histories, The University of North Carolina Press, 2025.
【New Book】Yamazaki, W. (2025). LAMP Detection of Pathogenic Vibrio spp. in Seafood and Water Samples Using Colori-Fluorometric Dye. In: Garrido-Maestu, A., Lamas, A. (eds) Foodborne Pathogens. Methods and Protocols in Food Science. Springer, New York, NY.
4. Presentations
【Lecture】Youdiil Ophinni. “CRISPR gene editing in CAR T cells for infection and immunotherapy: current updates.” Plenary Lecture in the Jakarta Clinical Allergy and Immunology Network 2025 Symposium, Jakarta, Indonesia, 15 June 2025.
【Study Trip】Tomoko Takahashi, U.S.-Japan Network for the Future, Cohort 7 Participant (2024–2026), the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation / Japan Foundation. June 8–15, 2025, Tokyo/Kumamoto/Fukuoka, JAPAN (In person).
【Lecture】Youdiil Ophinni. “High-dimensional flow cytometry for translational research in cellular immunology and host defense.” Guest Lecture in the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, 19 June 2025.
【Workshop】Kisho Tsuchiya, “Framing the Studies of Japan: Professionalization Workshop for Southeast Asian PhD Studies, ” mentor, 2025 AAS-in-Asia Preconference Workshop, 30–31 May 2025, Hotel Tibet, Kathumandu, Nepal.
【Discussion】Kisyo Tsuchiya, “Border Fluidity, Deterritorialization, and Reterritorialization: Reconfiguring Borders Across East and Southeast Asia,” in “Capital, Migration, and (Re)Territorialization: Reconfiguring Borders Across East and Southeast Asia” symposium, 2025 AAS-in-Asia Conference, 1–4 June 2025, Kathmandu, Nepal.
【Assessment】Azar Mirzaei, assessed the Business Education program, Universitas Negeri Surabaya (UNESA), in collaborate with “Acquin” European accreditation system, 2–6 June 2025, Indonesia.
5. Podcasts in Japanese: “Book Talk on Asia”
In this program, the Editorial Office, CSEAS introduces the latest books on Asia. The authors are invited to talk about the contents and background of their books. YouTube
Recommendations for this month:
・No. 28 Anthony Reid, “A History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads,” translated into Japanese by Atsushi Ota, Noriyuki Osada, Waka Aoyama, Masao Imamura, and Takashi Hasuda (Nagoya University Press, 2021) Part 1
• No. 29 Same as above, Part 2
6. Media Exposure
・Special Lecture by Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, hosted by CSEAS, was reported by major Japanese media outlets
7. Past Events
・CSEAS Eurasia Seminar
Date & Time: Tuesday, 24 June 2025, 15:30–17:00 (Japan Time)
Venue: Tonantei (I201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University / Online (Zoom)
Speaker: Bakhtiyor A. Islamov (Tashkent Branch of the Russian Economic University named after G.V. Plekhanov)
Title: External Labor Migration Processes in Uzbekistan
・The Tenth Joint Seminar between IMS and KR/KIAS
Date & Time: Saturday, 21 June 2025, 13:00–17:00 (Japan Time)
Venue: Meeting Room (AA447), 4th Floor, Research Building No. 2, Kyoto University
Title: New Trends of Islamic World Studies in the Local and Global Context
・CSEAS Reading Group Session
Date & Time: Wednesday, 18 June 2025, 4:00 pm – (Japan Time)
Venue: Tonantei (I201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
Book title: Kristian Karlo Saguin, Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila’s Resource Frontier, University of California Press, 2022.
Instructor: Julie de los Reyes (CSEAS)
・Kyoto AEDS Seminar
Date & Time: Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 10:30-12:00 (Japan Time)
Venue: Refresh Room, 8F, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics, East Bldg, Yoshida Campus, Kyoto University
Title: Civil Society and Democratization: Evidence from the Lawyers’ Movement in Pakistan
Speaker: Sultan Mehmood (New Economic School)
・A Thematic Exhibition for the 50th Anniversary of the Museum’s Founding, Lines and Dots: The Aesthetic Journey of Arabic Calligraphy
Date: 13 March–17 June 2025
Venue: Thematic Exhibition Hall, National Museum of Ethnology
Exhibision cooperation: Michael Feener (CSEAS), Maritime Asia Heritage Survey (MAHS)
・Special Seminar
Date & Time: Monday, 16 June 2025, 15:00–16:30 (Japan Time)
Venue: Tonantei (I201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
Title: Viral Sovereignty: Security and Mistrust in the Indonesian H5N1 Influenza Outbreak
Speaker: Celia Lowe (University of Washington)
・Special Lunch Seminar on Indonesian Politics
Date & Time: Monday, 16 June 2025, 11:30 am–1 pm (Japan Time)
Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
Chair: Masaaki Okamoto (CSEAS)
・MoC signing with Yayasan Lentera Studi Indonesia
Date: Monday, 16 June 2025
・Special Seminar
Date & Time: Monday, 9 June 2025, 2:30–4:00 pm (Japan Time)
Veune: Tonantei (I201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University / Online (Zoom)
Title: The Illusion of Choice: Understanding Singapore’s 2025 General Elections
Speaker: Thum Ping Tjin (New Naratif / Guest Research Associate, CSEAS)
・Learning Southeast Asian Culture and Society: Screening
Date & Time: Friday, 30 May 2025, 18:00– (Japan Time)
Title: Lolo and the Kid （the Philippines, 97 min.）
Venue: Multimedia Room #2, 1st Floor, East Bldg., CSEAS Kyoto University
・CSEAS Colloquium
Date & Time: Thursday, 29 May 2025, 1:30–3:00 (Japan Time)
Venue: Medium Meeting Room (I332), 3rd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
Speaker: Sonam Kinga (Royal Institute of Governance and Strategic Studies, Bhutan / Visiting Research Scholar, CSEAS)
Title: Non-Diplomatic Relations between Bhutan and China: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective
・Visit and Special Lecture by Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad
Date & Time: Monday, 26 May 2025, 11:15–12:15 am (Japan Time)
Venue: Large Meeting Room (I333), 3rd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
Title: Asia and the World on the Brink: Rethinking Order in an Age of Turmoil
■Endnote
This spring, I had the opportunity to be stationed at the Jakarta Liaison Office. There is so much I have learned, which will be left for other pieces, but here I’d like to share something that reminded me of one commonality of the world: people everywhere worry about whether I am eating properly. I have made countless culinary blunders—burning pasta, putting cucumbers into miso soup, and so on. As everyone at the liaison office got to know me, they also began to wonder how I even manage to survive in Japan. Now, people around the globe—Indonesia, Germany, China, the United States, and so on—anxiously take a look at my photos from dinner. Although I am supposed to be a researcher on international cooperation, in reality, I am the one that is supported by everyone. (T.T.)
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