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CSEAS Digital News Issue 5 – 2022/05/25
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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.
May 2022 issue includes:
1. Announcements and Highlights
2. Upcoming Events
3. Publications: Hot off the CSEAS Press
4. Podcasts in Japanese: “Book Talk on Asia”
5. Media Exposure
Thank you and regards,
The Public Relations Committee, Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS).
1. Announcements and Highlights
【MAY Get Together】
The monthly welcome and farewell party, Get Together, will be held on Thursday, May 26, from 12:30 pm. This time it will be held onsite at the Inamori middle sized meeting room (#332, on the 3rd floor of the Inamori bldg). Please join us and have an opportunity to enjoy small talks.
・Greetings from CSEAS: A Message from the Director Fumiharu Mieno.
More information: https://kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/about-cseas/
・New Guest Research Associate: Krishna Bahadur K C, Adadol Ingawanij, and Arief Widodo Djati. CSEAS welcome Krishna Bahadur K C, Adadol Ingawanij, and Arief Widodo Djati as Visiting Research Scholar on June 1, 2022.
・New Guest Research Associate: Richard MacDonald, Yuhki Tajima, and Ehito Kimura. CSEAS welcome Richard MacDonald, Yuhki Tajima, and Ehito Kimura as Guest Scholar on June 1, 2022.
・New Guest Research Associate: Uxía Alonso Alonso. CSEAS welcome Uxía Alonso Alonso (Guest Research Associate) on May 30, 2022.
・New Staff: Multia Zaharah and Mohamed Shamran. CSEAS welcomed Multia Zaharah and Mohamed Shamran as Affiliated Researchers.
https://kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/staff/multia-zaharah/
https://kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/staff/mohamed-shamran/
・【New!】CSEAS online movie program: Four new videos are now available
Hiroki Baba, “What is Needed for a Town to Be Lives in Sustainably: Exploring Different Ways of living in New Town.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKi-t3CqK38
Chika Obiya, “Research Inspired by a Single Scarf: The “Veil Controversy” as Seen from Uzbekistan.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp7nJP4ndAU
Atushi Kobayashi, “Understanding the Region Today Using History: Asian Economic History that Captures Local Energy.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1vNRdkzeL4
Wataru Yamazaki, “Where Do Organisms Come from, and Where Do They Go?: The Worldwide Spread of Infectious Disease, Accelated by Globalization.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvRO-SO5-uw
2. Upcoming Events
・CSEAS Colloquium “Gender & Logistics in Malay Polygamy: A Revolution of Rights, Roles and Responsibilities”
May 26, 2022, 1 pm – 2:30 pm
Venue: Middle-sized Meeting Room (No.332), 3rd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building
Speaker: Nurul Huda Mohd. Razif (https://kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/staff/nurul-huda-mohd-razif/)
More information: https://kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/20220526/
・CSEAS Reading Group online session
May 27, 2022, 4 pm –
Book title: Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller. How Things Count as the Same: Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor. Oxford University Press, 2018. https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190888718.001.0001/oso-9780190888718
Moderator: Michael Feener
Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88211713134?pwd=RGhYNk8rREJWTWRsQzUxd0NOVDVwZz09
Meeting ID: 882 1171 3134
Passcode: kyoto
・Asia-Pacific Research Unit Seminar “Remarks on the Discourse History of the ‘Comfort Women’ ”
June 24, 2022, 3 pm – 4:30 pm
Venue: Large Meeting Room, 3rd floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building
Speaker: Reinhard Zöllner (Universität Bonn, Germany)
Commentator: Kozue Akibayashi (Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University)
Moderator: Yusuke Murakami (CSEAS)
Contact: Toshihiko Kishi (CSEAS), Email: tokishi@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
3. Publications: Hot off the CSEAS Press
【New Issue】
・Vol.11, No.1 of Southeast Asian Studies.
More information: https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2022/04/vol-11-no-1-of-southeast-asian-studies/
【New Article】
・TRENDSETTERS column “The State of Creative Activism in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia and the 2021 Myanmar Crisis,” by Sherlyn Mae F. Hernandez in Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia on 1 May 2022.
More information: https://kyotoreview.org/issue-32/the-state-of-creative-activism-in-post-cold-war-southeast-asia/
【Forthcoming】
・Takamichi Serizawa, Writing History in America’s Shadow: Japan, the Philippines, and the Question of Pan-Asianism, Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2022.
4. Podcasts in Japanese: “Book Talk on Asia”
・In this program, the Editorial Office, CSEAS will introduce the latest books on Asia twice a month. The authors will be invited to talk about the contents and background of their books.
https://soundcloud.com/user-153026370-46049678
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYNr5XeQb9WIM8svoGgRYPkshslSO3iKW
5. Media Exposure
・Prof. Fumiharu Mieno commented in Nikkei Asia on April 25, 2022, “MARKET SPOTLIGHT: South Korea shrugs off weak yen as Japan’s influence wanes.”
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Market-Spotlight/South-Korea-shrugs-off-weak-yen-as-Japan-s-influence-wanes
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If there are any comments, suggestions, or inquiries, please contact the Public Relations Committee, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University.
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