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 2023 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
【June Get Together】
・The monthly welcome and farewell party, Get Together, will be held on Thursday, June 22, from 12:30 pm at the Research Commons room (on the 1st floor of the East bldg). Please join us and have an opportunity to enjoy small talk.
We have updated the visiting scholars’ web page. Please check here.
【New Guest Research Associate】
・Remil Linggatong Galay (Veterinary Sciences): CSEAS welcome Remil Linggatong Galay as Visiting Research Scholar on July 1.
・Olga Dror (Modern East Asia and Vietnam): CSEAS welcome Olga Dror as Visiting Research Scholar on July 1.
・Thanik Lertcharnrit (Archeology, Anthropology): CSEAS welcome Thanik Lertcharnrit as Visiting Research Scholar on July 1.
・Solahudin (jihadi movement in Indonesia, journalist): CSEAS welcome Solahudin as Visiting Research Scholar on July 1.
【Visitor’s Voice】New interview articles are available now. We asked them about their research, future ambitions, and more.
【Call for Applications】The application for short documentaries for the 11th Visual Documentary Project (VDP2023) has opened. The theme is “Laugh!” The deadline is 1 September 2023.
【New!】CSEAS have released a new video in our research introduction video series ‘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.
2. Upcoming Events
・CSEAS Colloquium: “Shifting Plantations in the Borderlands: A Challenge of Chinese Agribusiness in Southeast Asia”
22 June 2023, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Venue: Research Commons Room, 1st Floor, East Building, CSEAS
Speaker: Yos Santasombat (Professor, Chiang Mai University/ Visiting Research Scholar, CSEAS)
・AAS-in-Asia 2023 “Asia in Motion: Memory, Preservation, and Documentation”
24-27 June 2023
Venue: Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
Kisho Tsuchiya (CSEAS) will present his research paper, “Reconsidering the Mid-Twentieth Century in Portuguese Timor: A Comparison of Portuguese and Japanese Archives” and participate in the roundtable “Possible Futures for Southeast Asian Studies.”
Miriam Jaehn (CSEAS) will present the research titled “Intimate Encounters and Shifting Im-/Mobilities – Rethinking Anthropological Practices during a Pandemic,” and organize the panel session on Trans-Nationalism and Intimacies in Asia.
・International Workshop: “When Critical Urban Studies Meet Asian Studies: A Dialogue on New Directions of Knowledge Production in Globalizing Asia”
1 July 2023, 1 pm – 3 pm
Hybrid venue: Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo and online
Speaker: Hyun Bang Shin (Professor, LSE Geography and Environment, Board and editor of IJURR)
Title: “Critical urban studies, knowledge production and publishing: Perspective from IJURR’s editor”
Discussants: Masaaki Okamoto (CSEAS) and Shigeto Sonoda (Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo)
・CSEAS Gender Seminars 2023: Special Seminar: Frontiers of Gender Studies in Asia
4 July 2023, 4 pm − 5:30 pm (JST)
Venue: Seminar Room AA447, ASAFAS (Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies), East Side of Research Building No. 2, Yoshida Main Campus, Kyoto University / online via zoom
Speaker: Patricia Sloane-White (Professor, University of Delaware)
Title: “Gendering Sharia in the Muslim Workplace: Corporate Islam in Malaysia”
Moderator: Nurul Huda Mohd. Razif (CSEAS)
・Special Seminar: “How Peace Prevails: Insurgent Cohesion and Fragmentation in Aceh, Indonesia”
5 July 2023, 4 pm – 5:30 pm
Venue: Small-sized Meeting Room II, 3rd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Speaker: Yuhki Tajima (Georgetown University/ Guest Scholar, CSEAS）
・Special Seminar: “Putting Plantation Life into Public Debate: Experiments in Research Translation”
6 July 2023, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Venue: Large-sized meeting room, 3rd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building
Speaker: Tania Murray Li (Professor, University of Toronto/ Visiting Research Scholar, CSEAS)
・International Conference on Political Development in Southeast Asia: Implications to the Indo-Pacific Democracy
6-7 July 2023
Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Co-organized by CSEAS, Kyoto University and CSEAS, NCCU
・2023 Pacific International Politics Conference
7-8 July 2023
Venue: National University of Singapore
Tomoko Takahashi (CSEAS) will deliver a panel presentation entitled “Reciprocity versus Unconditionality: The Coalition of China and the Global South at the United Nations General Assembly.”
・Kyoto University Asian Economic Development Seminar (AEDS)
10 July 2023, 4:45 – 6:15 pm (JST)
Venue: Seminar Room (Room 218), 2nd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Speaker: Anthony P. D’Costa（University of Alabama in Huntsville）
Title: Compressed Capitalism and the Persistence of Informal Labor Markets in India
・CSEAS Gender Seminars 2023: Seminar on Gender Issues in Academia
11 July 2023, 12 pm − 2 pm
Venue: Seminar Room (Room 213), Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Speaker: Patricia Sloane-White (Professor, University of Delaware)
Moderator: Nurul Huda Mohd. Razif (CSEAS)
・2023 Timor-Leste Studies Association Conference
12-14 July 2023
Venue: Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa’e (UNTL), Dili, Timor-Leste
Kisho Tsuchiya (CSEAS) will organize the special stream for Decolonizing Timor-Leste Studies and present a research paper, “History, Oral Traditions, and Archaeology: Reconceptualizing Historical Research to understand East Timorese Longue Durée.”
・Masterclass with Professor Patricia Sloane-White (University of Delaware)
14 July 2023, 2 pm – 4 pm
Venue: Tonantei (Room 201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Contact: Nurul Huda Mohd. Razif (CSEAS)
・Special Seminar: “Cults of Domination or Legitimation? Anthropomorphism and the Roots of Founding Father Personality Cults in East Asia”
18 July 2023, 3:30 pm – 5 pm
Venue: Mid-sized Meeting Room, 3rd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Speaker: Dr. Paul Schuler (University of Arizona School of Government and Public Policy, SGPP）
・Special Seminar: “Small-Medium-Large Countryism: Divesting the Nation-State”
21 July 2023, 2 pm – 4 pm
Venue: Tonantei (Room 201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Speaker: Chen Kuan-Hsing (Visiting Professor, Institute for Research in the Humanities, Kyoto University)
Discussant: Victor Li (Guest Scholar, CSEAS)
3. Publications: Hot off the CSEAS Press
【Latest Issue】
・Vol. 12, No. 1 of Southeast Asian Studies on 27 April 2023.
In this issue, Atsushi Ota (Keio University) served as guest editor of the Special Focus “Environmental and Public Welfare in the Creation and Development of Economic Infrastructure in Southeast Asia, c. 1800-1930: Currency Supply, Forest Control, and Rail Transport.” In addition, three articles and five book reviews are included.
【Latest Issue】
・Special Issue (35) titled “The Intellectual History of Buddhism in the Republic of Vietnam” of Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia is out on March 1, 2023. In this issue, Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox (Western Connecticut State University) and Olga Dror (Texas A&M University) serve as guest editors.
【New Article】
・TRENDSETTERS column “Nobody is Ready until Everyone is Ready: A Further Reflection on Finding a Balance between Comfort Zone and a “New Normal” Way of Teaching Online,” by Mukda Pratheepwatanawong, in Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia on June 1, 2023.
【New Article】Report on the Book Review Symposium by Kanae Kawamoto (CSEAS Affiliated Lecturer): “Rohingya” Crisis: The Violent Politics of Ethnicity and Religion in Myanmar and Contemporary Myanmar Politics
【New Article】
・We have published a self-introduction article by newly appointed staff; the June 2023 issue features Institutional Research Fellows Yunxi Wu and Tomoko Takahashi.
【New Article】
・The latest essay CSEAS faculty recommends books recently read is now available: the June 2023 issue of “Letter from the Kamogawa River” by Wu Yunxi.
【New Article】
・Iqra Anugrah (2023). “Land Control, Coal Resource Exploitation and Democratic Decline in Indonesia.” TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, 1-19. doi:10.1017/trn.2023.4
【New Article/Open Access】
・Furusawa, T., Koera, T., Siburian, R. et al. (2023). “Time-series analysis of satellite imagery for detecting vegetation cover changes in Indonesia.” Scientific Reports 13: 8437. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-35330-1
【Forthcoming】
・Kisho Tsuchiya, Emplacing East Timor: The Cycle of Regime Change and Knowledge Production, 1860-2010, University of Hawai‘i Press.
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 / YouTube
【New!】Book Talk on Asia No. 63 (14 June 2023) Masami Kaneko (ed.), Daininki Betonamu ryouriten ona jikiden “Betonamu-chan” Kaneko Masami no reshipi noto (The Top Vietnamese Restaurant in Japan’s Owner, Masami Kaneko’s Secret Vietnamese Cook Book), Publisher: Tokyo News, Distributor: Kodansha, 2023 (in Japanese).
SoundCloud / YouTube / Book information
・Book Talk on Asia No. 62 (24 May 2023) Koji Tsuda, Nihon gunseika Jyawa no Kakyo shakai: Kyoeiho ni miru tosei to doin (Chinese Society in Java under Japanese Military Rule: Control and Mobilization as Reflected in the Kung Yung Pao). Tokyo: Fukyosha, 2023 (in Japanese).
SoundCloud / YouTube / Book information
・Book Talk on Asia No. 61 (10 May 2023) Junko Saito, Shin-Chugokujin: Gekihen suru shakai to nayameru wakamonotachi (The New Chinese), Chikumashobo, 2023 (in Japanese).
SoundCloud / YouTube / Book information
・Book Talk on Asia No. 60 (26 April 2023) Ryuju Satomi, Fuon na nettai: Ningen “izen” to “igo” no jinruigaku (The Unsettling Tropics: An Anthropology Before and After the Human). Kawadeshobo-shinsha, 2022 (in Japanese).
SoundCloud / YouTube / Book information
【Forthcoming】Book Talk on Asia No. 64 (28 June 2023) Ai Sugie, Kast saiko: Bangradeshu no Hindu to Musurimu (Reconsidering Caste: Hindus and Muslims in Bangladesh), The University of Nagoya Press, 2023 (in Japanese).
Book information
5. Past Events
・Special Seminar: “Dynamic Farmers, Dead Plantations, and the Myth of the Lazy Native: Counter-Trajectories of Indonesian Development”
13 June 2023, 3:30 pm – 5 pm
Hybrid Venue: Middle-sized Meeting Room, 3rd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University / Zoom
Speaker: Tania Murray Li (Professor, University of Toronto/ Visiting Research Scholar, CSEAS)
・JASID (The Japan Society for International Development) the 24th Spring Conference
10 June 2023
Venue: Akita City Cultural Creation Centre
Wu Yunxi (CSEAS) presented the research titled “Local Resilience in agricultural globalisation: A Study of the Oolong Tea Industry in Vietnam.”
・Special Lecture: Documenting Endangered Heritage in Southeast Asia
31 May 2023, 14:00 (Bangkok Time)
Venue: Faculty of Architecture, Silpakorn University
Speaker: R. Michael Feener (CSEAS)
・CSEAS-KASEAS Joint Conference 2023: Engaging Southeast Asian Studies in an Age of Uncertainties
26-27 May 2023
Venue: Large-sized Meeting Room, 3rd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
・ CSEAS Reading Group: The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich
26 May 2023, 4 pm –
Hybrid Venue: Seminar Room (No. 213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building
Lecturer: Chika Yamada (CSEAS)
・Kyoto AEDS Seminar
25 May 2023, 3 pm – 6:15 pm
Venue: E217 Conference Room 1 on 2F, Faculty of Agriculture Main Bldg., North Campus, Kyoto University
Speaker: Takeshi Sakurai (Professor, The University of Tokyo)
Title: Improving Infant Nutrition through the Market: Experimental Evidence from Ghana
Speaker: John Gibson (Professor, University of Waikato; Visiting Faculty, Hitotsubashi University)
Title: “Measurement errors in popular DMSP night-time lights data lead to understated estimates of spatial inequality and attenuated treatment effects in empirical political economy”
・1st Asia-Africa 2050 Daikin-KU seminar (hybrid event)
25 May 2023, 3:30 – 4:40 pm
Venue: Main conference room (AA447), 4th floor, General Research Bldg. 2, Yoshida Campus, Kyoto University / online (zoom)
Presenter: Rohan D’Souza (ASAFAS)
Title: ‘The Art of Being Cool’: Global Warming and a ‘Working Temperature’ for South Asia
・CSEAS Colloquium: Making Gods: A Case Study of the City God Worship in Anxi, China and Singapore
25 May 2023, 1:30 pm – 15:00 pm
Venue: Research Commons, Ground Floor, East Building, CSEAS, Kyoto University
Speaker: Tong Chee Kiong (Visiting Research Scholar, CSEAS)
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