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CSEAS Digital News Issue 8 – 2022/08/24
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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.
August 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. Past Events
Thank you and regards,
The Public Relations Committee, Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS).
1. Announcements and Highlights
【New Guest Research Associate】
・Herman Hidayat (forest policy). CSEAS welcome Herman Hidayat as Visiting Research Scholar on September 1, 2022.
・Rataya Phanomwan Na Ayuttaya (library and information science). CSEAS welcome Rataya Phanomwan Na Ayuttaya as Visiting Research Scholar on September 1, 2022.
・We have updated the visiting scholars’ web page. Please check here.
【Visitor’s Voice】
・New interview articles are available now. We asked them about their research, future ambitions, and more.
https://kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/category/vv/
Interview with Bounthong Bouahom: “Honesty and Perseverance: Must-haves for a Researcher”
Interview with William Womack: “Writing in a Connected World”
【Relaunched】CSEAS have relaunched a series of research introduction videos ‘TANKEN Video: Welcome to Area Studies.’
The aim of this video series is to widely publicize the field activities and research of the CSEAS members, and to introduce the latest area studies through the researchers who are engaged in it.
A number of videos are available to promote the appeal of area studies. Please take a look! They can also be used as teaching materials.
TANKEN Video: Welcome to Area Studies: https://onlinemovie.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/
2. Upcoming Events
・DASU Web seminar by Pablo Mac Clay (ZEF, Universität Bonn) “Can Auctions Foster Renewable Energy under Institutional and Macroeconomic Instability?”
25 August 2022, 11 am – 12 am
More information: https://kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/20220825/
・Asian Journals Network Conference “Journals Unite to Promote a Truly Global Scholarly Culture” (Online)
29-30 August 2022
More information: https://www.ateneo.edu/events/2022/08/29/journals-unite-promote-truly-global-scholarly-culture
・The CSEAS Reading Group: Roundtable Session (Online)
30 September 2022, 4 pm –
This session our colleagues will each be presenting very short (5 minute) ‘introductions’ or ‘invitations’ to a book of their choosing. No reading or preparation is necessary to join the roundtable. We hope that this will help to encourage broader trans-disciplinary participation in our future sessions, and welcome you all to attend!
Zoom link: https://kyoto-u-edu.zoom.us/j/86569426714?pwd=V3oxUGZIdmZDdmp4SHVmYlFBdTBuQT09
Meeting ID: 865 6942 6714
Passcode: Kyoto
3. Publications: Hot off the CSEAS Press
【New Book】
・Matteo Miele, Mongolian Independence and the British: Geopolitics and Diplomacy in High Asia, 1911–1916, E-International Relations, 2022.
https://www.e-ir.info/publication/mongolian-independence-and-the-british-geopolitics-and-diplomacy-in-high-asia-1911-1916/
【Latest Issue】
・Vol. 11, No. 1 of Southeast Asian Studies has published on April 28, 2022.
More information: https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2022/04/vol-11-no-1-of-southeast-asian-studies/?fbclid=IwAR0BHuLmPBbAq77pmCGom2pY40YdqHbxMlguYiT7t2y8dcJErbc26Q3j34s
【New Article】
・TRENDSETTERS column “Transgender Studies in the Kathoeis’ Community,” by Kath Khangpiboon (Department of Social Work Faculty of Social Administration, Thammasat University), in Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia on August 1, 2022.
https://kyotoreview.org/issue-33/transgender-studies-in-the-kathoeis-community/
【New Article】
・Kimura, S.S., T. Sagara, K. Yoda, and L.S. Ponnampalam (2022) “Habitat Preference of Two Sympatric Coastal Cetaceans in Langkawi, Malaysia, as Determined by Passive Acoustic Monitoring,” Endangered Species Research 48: 199-209.
https://doi.org/10.3354/esr01194
【New Article】
・Pavin Chachavalpongpun (2022) “On His Majesty’s Service: Why is the Thai Foreign Ministry Royalist?,” Journal of Contemporary Asia, published online on 8 August 2022.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00472336.2022.2081930
【New Article】
・Pavin Chachavalpongpun (2022) “Nationhood in the Cloud: Cyber Sovereignty in Thailand,” Asian Studies Review, published online on 17 August 2022.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10357823.2022.2109591?cookieSet=1
【New Article】
・Caroline Hau (2022) “On Reading Books and Censorship,” Pingkian: Journal for Emancipatory and Anti-imperialist Education 7 (1): Pandemic and Fascism.
https://leftwingbooks.net/products/pingkian-volume-6-number-1-pandemic-and-fascism-2022
【New Article】
・Caroline Hau (2022) “The Rise of the Global Elites in Market-Driven Societies, or, (American) Men Behaving Badly,” UNITAS 95 (2): 136-169.
http://www.doi.10.31944/2022950204
【New Article】
・Hiroki Baba, Ana Ruiz-Varona, Yasushi Asami (2022) “Policies and Tax Systems for Regulating Vacant Houses,” Urban and Regional Planning Review 9: 153-166.
https://doi.org/10.14398/urpr.9.153
【New Article】
・Alexandru Onaca, Emil Gachev, Florina Ardelean, Adrian Ardelean, Aurel Persoiu, and Alexandru Hegyi (2022) “Small is Strong: Post-LIA Resilience of Europe’s Southernmost Glaciers Assessed by Geophysical Methods,” CATENA 213.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2022.106143
【Book Review】
・Zenta Nishio, “Ethnographies of Development and Globalization in the Philippines: Emergent Socialities and the Governing of Precarity, Edited by SEKI Koki, 2020, UK: Routledge, 216 pages,” Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology Vol. 22 No. 2 (2021): 7-17.
【Newsletter】
・Valley of Happiness: News Letter, GNH Community Engagement Centre – Sherubtse College, JICA Partnership Program “Human Resource Development toward Community Building by University-Community Engagement in Trashigang, Bhutan”
https://www.sherubtse.edu.bt/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/newsletter-final-Copy.pdf
【Forthcoming】
・Pheng Cheah, Caroline S. Hau (eds), Siting Postcoloniality: Critical Perspectives from the East Asian Sinosphere, Duke University Press, 2022.
https://www.dukeupress.edu/siting-postcoloniality
【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.
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-153026370-46049678
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYNr5XeQb9WIM8svoGgRYPkshslSO3iKW
【New!】Book Talk on Asia No. 44 (24 August 2022)
・Jun Kumakura, Shinkyō Uiguru Jichiku: Chūgoku Kyōsantō sihai no 70 nen (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: 70 Years of the Rule of the Communist Party of China). Tokyo: Chuokoron-shinsha, 2022 (in Japanese).
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-153026370-46049678/kumakura
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WHzSLn2vqA&list=PLYNr5XeQb9WIM8svoGgRYPkshslSO3iKW&index=44
Book information: https://www.chuko.co.jp/shinsho/2022/06/102700.html
【New!】Book Talk on Asia No. 43 (10 August 2022)
・Takeshi Kawanaka. Kyōsō to chitsujo: Tōnan Ajia ni miru minshushugi no jirenma (Competition and Order: Democratic Dilemma in Southeast Asia). Tokyo. Hakusuisha, 2022 (in Japanese).
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-153026370-46049678/kawanaka
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp1RSO0S0ic&list=PLYNr5XeQb9WIM8svoGgRYPkshslSO3iKW&index=43
Book information: https://www.hakusuisha.co.jp/book/b604726.html
Book Talk on Asia No. 42 (27 July 2022)
・Ryo Araki. Gendai Indoneshia no Isurāmu fukkō: Toshi to sonraku ni okeru syūkyō bunka no konseisei (Islamic Revival in Current Indonesia). Tokyo: Kobundo, 2022 (in Japanese).
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-153026370-46049678/araki
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFy_-bzGmX4&list=PLYNr5XeQb9WIM8svoGgRYPkshslSO3iKW&index=42
Book information: https://www.koubundou.co.jp/book/b597748.html
Book Talk on Asia No. 41 (13 July 2022)
・Masashi Hirosue. Umi no Tōnanajia shi: Kōshi, josei, gairaisha (A History of Maritime Southeast Asia: Port Cities, Local Women, and Foreign Visitors). Tokyo: Chikumashobo, 2022 (in Japanese).
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-153026370-46049678/hirosue
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lts_da5ors&list=PLYNr5XeQb9WIM8svoGgRYPkshslSO3iKW&index=41
Book information: https://www.chikumashobo.co.jp/product/9784480074782/
5. Past Events
・Forum of History: Rethinking History of Timor and the Cold War
20 August 2022
Kisho Tsuchiya (CSEAS) gave an invited lecture “Theorizing Southeast Asia’s unCold Wars: East Timor Problem in 1974-1975” at Associação Timoriana, a research organization for graduates of the National University of Timor-Leste.
・A film screening programme and talk “Animistic Medium: Contemporary Southeast Asian Artists Moving Image Practices”
July 28, 2022, 5:30 pm – 7 pm
Venue: 1st Floor, Former Kyoto Prize Library Room Inamori Bldg
Speaker: May Adadol Ingawanij (CSEAS Visiting Fellow)
Moderator: Mario Ivan Lopez (CSEAS)
https://kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/20220728-2/
・Special Seminar on the Philippines
July 29, 2022, 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Venue: Middle-sized Meeting Room (No.332), 3rd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building
Jilene Chua (Johns Hopkins University, Guest Research Associate, CSEAS） “Daughter, Wife, or “Immoral Woman”?: Chinese Exclusion Laws in U.S. Colonial Philippines”
Karl Ian Uy Cheng Chua (Ateneo de Manila University) “Komiks in Campaigns: Utilitarian Uselessness”
https://kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/20220729/
・Special Seminar at the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo（online event）
July 26, 2022, 3 pm – 4 pm (JST)
Title: Unmasking the immune responses against African swine fever virus associated with vaccination with the live attenuated virus BA71DCD2
Presenter: Uxía Alonso (CSEAS Guest Research Associate)
https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/kokusaiboueki/informationen/dr-uxia-alonso-from-centre-de-recerca-en-sanitat-animal-spain-gave-a-special-seminar-on-development-of-vaccine-against-african-swine-fever-virus/
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