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.
October 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
【October Get Together】
・The monthly welcome and farewell party, Get Together, will be held on Thursday, October 26, from 12:30 pm at the Small meeting room 2 (on the 3rd floor of the Inamori bldg). 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 articles are available now. We asked them about their research, future ambitions, and more.
Visitor’s Voice: Interview with Nasir Uddin: “Forced Displacement, Refugees and Human Rights Issues”
【Call for Applications】CSEAS Fellowship for Visiting Research Scholars, 2024 is now open. The deadline for applications is October 31, 2023.
【Call for Proposals】The 5th SEASIA Biennial International Conference 2024 (July 18-20, 2024, at the University of the Philippines, Diliman) calls for papers on “De/Centering Southeast Asia.” The deadline for submission is November 30, 2023.
【New!】CSEAS Newsletter No. 80 (2022) is now available on our website and KURENAI.
【New Videos】Videos introducing the Center are now available. Please use the three videos, “Area Studies at Kyoto University: Characteristics and Challenges,” “Academic Diversity of CSEAS,” and “Publication Activities and International Networks,” in your educational, research, and exchange activities.
【Database】“Southeast Asia Serials Database” portal site is now open.
【TANKEN Video】CSEAS have released a new video in our research introduction video series ‘TANKEN Video: Welcome to Area Studies.’ We have launched the 5-minute series, focusing on keywords or exploring new research topics while highlighting different viewpoints and issues.
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
・Daikin Industries × CSEAS Joint Research Project: Seminar Series on Urban Living in Southeast Asia: 5th Seminar
25 October 2023, 4:00 – 5:30 pm (JST)
Hybrid venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University / Zoom
Speaker: Lawrence Chua, PhD (Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Syracuse University / Visiting Research Scholar, CSEAS)
Title: Airconditioning and Sensuous Citizenship Formation in the Architecture of Early 20th-century Bangkok Cinema
・CSEAS Colloquium: “An Area Study on Sediment Disasters and Sand Mining Activities in Mt. Merapi Region, Indonesia”
26 October 2023, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Venue: Middle-sized Meeting Room (No. 332), 3rd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building
Speaker: Masaharu Fujita (Affiliated Professor, CSEAS)
・Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #26
26 October 2023, 3 pm – 4:30 pm
Venue: E217, Main Bldg., Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University / Zoom Web Seminar
Presenter: Takashi Kurosaki (Hitotsubashi University)
Title: Effects of the Covid-19 & Natural Agricultural Shocks on Preferences of Pakistani Farmers (co-authored with Hamza Umer, Hitotsubashi University)
・CSEAS Special Seminar on Constitution in Myanmar
27 October 2023, 3 pm – 4:30 pm (JST)
Venue: Tonantei (Room 201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Speaker: Melissa Crouch (Professor, UNSW Faculty of Law and Justice / Visiting Research Scholar, CSEAS)
Title: “The Role of Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Myanmar”
・CSEAS Roundtable Discussion of Malaysian Politics “Malaysian Politics at the Crossroads?: Transformation, Polarization and Collaboration”
31 October 2023, 2:30 pm–5:05 pm
Venue: Tonantei (Room 201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Coordinator: Motoko Kawano (Affiliated Associate Professor, CSEAS)
・Workshop on “Wallace in the Muslim World: Translating “The Malay Archipelago” from the Middle East to Southeast Asia”
6 November 2023, 10:00 am – 3:30 pm
Venue: Middle Conference Room (Room 332), 3rd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
R. Michael Feener (CSEAS) and Ryota Sakamoto (CSEAS) will be the contributors. Majid Daneshgar (CSEAS) will serve as a coordinator.
・Special Seminar by Keith Weller Taylor: “The Gold-digging Mania of 1957–59 and the Beginning of North Vietnamese Archaeology”
10 November 2023, 4 pm – (JST)
Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Speaker: Keith Weller Taylor (Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University / Guest Scholar, CSEAS)
・Seminar on Historical and Comparative Institutional Analysis
13 November 2023, 4:45 – 6:15 pm (JST)
Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Speaker: Pascal BOURDEAUX (Associate Professor, École Pratique des Hautes Études)
Title: Paul Mus’s view of early postcolonial Vietnam (1945–1947): Comments on an unpublished political essay
・Book Launch: Packaged Food, Packaged Life: Corporate Food in Metro Manila Slums
16 November 2023, 3:00 – 4:30 pm
Venue: Seminar Room (Room 213, 2nd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University) / Online (Zoom)
Speaker: Heriberto Ruiz Tafoya
Discussant: Walden Flores Bello
・Special Seminar on the Philippines
19 December 2023, 2 pm – (JST)
Venue: Tonantei (Room 201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Speaker: Eri Kitada (Rutgers University-New Brunswick)
Title: Work, Life, and Violence in Davao, the Philippines, 1906–1921
Speaker: Patricio N. Abinales (Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University)
Title: The Two Ferdinands – an Extended Note
・2023 Japan Association for Asian Studies (JAAS) Autumn Convention
25 November 2023, 10 am – 8 pm
Venue: Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Tomohiro Machikita (CSEAS) will serve as a chair of the plenary session “Globalization and its Reversal: Evidence from the Semiconductor Industry in Asia.” The speakers of the session are: Yukihiko Sato (IDE), Hidemi Yoshioka (Kumamoto University), Kai Kajitani (Kobe University), and Ryo Sahashi (University of Tokyo). The discussants are: Kazufumi Shimizu (Kyushu University) and Chiharu Takenaka (Rikkyo University).
・International Symposium on LGBTQ Issues and the Globalization of “BL”
25 and 26 November 2023, 10:00–18:00
Venue: 5th Floor Hall, Low-Rise Wing, Meiji University Nakano Campus
3. Publications: Hot off the CSEAS Press
【Latest Issue】
・Vol. 12, No. 2 of Southeast Asian Studies on 24 August 2023.
The full text is available on our website, KURENAI, and J-STAGE.
【Latest Issue】
・Vol. 61, No. 1 of Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies on 31 July 2023.
In this issue, two articles, a review article, and four book reviews are included. The full text is available on our website, KURENAI, and J-STAGE.
【Latest Issue】
・Special issue (36) titled “Social Media and Youths in Southeast Asia and Japan: An Instrument for Political Change?” of Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia is out on September 1, 2023. In this issue, Pavin Chachavalpongpun serves as guest editor. Five book reviews are also available.
【New Article】
・TRENDSETTERS column “The Absence of any Move Forward in Thailand” by William J. Jones and Douglas L. Rhein, in Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia on October 1, 2023.
【Interview】Interview with Yunxi Wu (CSEAS), “Navigating the World via Strangers’ Kindness: The Multifaceted Landscape of Vietnam’s Highlands” (Newsletter, October 2023), published.
【Essay】An essay by Zenta Nishio (Ritsumeikan University), “Area Study as Place of Correspondence: Reflecting on the book 現代フィリピンの地殻変動 [The Great Transformation of Contemporary Philippines]” (Newsletter, October 2023) published.
【Essay】Tomoko Takahashi (CSEAS), “Letter from the Kamogawa River: When the World Designs Antarctica” (Newsletter, October 2023), published.
【Blog】Maritime Asia Heritage Survey: Latest MAHS Blog released
Fernando Caro, “Typography as a way of preserving an ancient writing system: A new digital font for Maldivian Dhives Akuru script.”
【New Articles】A set of three articles on the Quran and Science from Africa to the Middle East and South-East Asia authored by Majid Daneshgar (CSEAS) has been published with Zygon, the leading journal of religion and science.
Daneshgar, M. (2023), The Qurʾān and Science, Part I: The Premodern Era. Zygon. https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12931
────, Part II: Scientific Interpretations from North Africa to China, Bengal, and the Malay-Indonesian World. https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12932
────, Part III: Makers of the Scientific Miraculousness. https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12930
【New Article】
・Theara Thun (2023) “Post-conflict Higher Education and Transnational Politics at a Crossroads: A New Vietnamese Language Studies Program Faces Protests in Cambodia,” Studies in Higher Education, DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2023.2261978.
【Forthcoming】
・Kisho Tsuchiya, Emplacing East Timor: The Cycle of Regime Change and Knowledge Production, 1860-2010, University of Hawai‘i Press.
【Forthgoming】
・Ueda, Kaoru and Azuma, Eiichiro (eds), Japanese America on the Eve of the Pacific War: An Untold History of the 1930s, Hoover Institution Press, 2024.
Toshihiko Kishi (CSEAS) contributed Chapter 5 “Perceptions of the 1930s in Local Japanese American Newspapers in Hawai’i: The Nikkei Community and Japan as Portrayed in the Maui Shinbun.”
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. 72 (25 October 2023) Toru Otani, Chugoku no shinigami (Chinese God of Death), Seikyusha, 2023 (in Japanese).
SoundCloud / YouTube / Book information
【New!】Book Talk on Asia No. 71 (11 October 2023) Keiko Yoshioka, Tetsudo to aikoku: Chugoku, Ajia 3 man kiro wo ressha de tabishite kangaeta (Rails and Nationalism: 30000km Journey By Train Though China and Asia), Iwanami Shoten, 2023 (in Japanese).
SoundCloud / YouTube / Book information
・Book Talk on Asia No. 70 (27 September 2023) Chie Sakurada, Kokuo hogei no Tai gendaishi: Pumipon no gyoko to sono eiga (Contemporary Thai History from the Welcoming of KING: Bhumibol’s Provincial Visits and His Films), Minervashobo, 2023 (in Japanese).
SoundCloud / YouTube / Book information
・Book Talk on Asia No. 69 (13 September 2023) Hitomi Fukasawa, Betonamu minpoten no tanjo: “Minpo” no shihoka to ho no shihai no josei (The Birth of Vietnamese Civil Code: Building the Rule of Law through the Emergence of the Private Law), Keio University Press, 2023 (in Japanese).
SoundCloud / YouTube / Book information
・Book Talk on Asia No. 68 (23 August 2023) Hiroomi Takemori, Betonamu kenchiku angya: Hanoi, Hochimin, Fue, Hazan (Architectural Pilgrimage in Vietnam), Shokokusha, 2023 (in Japanese).
SoundCloud / YouTube / Book information
5. Past Events
・Lecture by H.E. Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, Secretary-General of ASEAN
25 October 2023, 11 am – 12:30 pm
Venue: International Conference Hall III, Clock Tower, Kyoto University
Modelator: Yoko Hayami (CSEAS)
Opening Remarks: Nagahiro Minato, President of Kyoto University
Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation: H.E. Mr. Masahiko Noriya, Ambassador of Japanese to ASEAN
Lecture: H.E. Dr. Mr. Kao Kim Hourn, ASEAN Secretary-General
Q&A Session
Closing Remarks: Fumiharu Mieno (CSEAS)
・Special Seminar on Shan in Chiang Mai: Buddhist Ordination and Tourism / Migrant Men in the Sex Industry
20 October 2023, 3 pm – 5:30 pm
Venue: Tonantei (Room 201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Speaker 1: Ploysri Porananond (Chiang Mai University)
Title: Poy Sang Long as Cultural Tourist Attraction in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Speaker 2: Amporn Jirattikorn (Chiang Mai University)
Title: Masculinity for Sale: Shan Migrant Men Sex Workers in Thailand and the Performance of Manhood
・PRIF Regime Competition Research Group Online Workshop
18 October 2023
Title: Power-Gap Driven Draft Resolutions: China’s Sponsorship Behavior on Economic Deregulation at the United Nations General Assembly
Tomoko Takahashi (CSEAS) delivered her ongoing research for the Regime Competition Research Group, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF).
・Kyoto AEDS Seminar
13 October 2023, 16:45–18:15
Venue: Seminar Room (Room 213), Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Speaker: Steen Thomsen (Center for Corporate Governance, Copenhagen Business School)
Title: Comparative Corporate Governance: Japan, Southeast Asia and the Nordics
・Daikin Industries × CSEAS Joint Research Project: The 4th Seminar on Urban living in Southeast Asia
12 October 2023, 3 pm – 5 pm
Venue: Tonantei (Room 201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Founadtion Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Opening remarks by Masaaki Okamoto (CSEAS)
Presentation 1: Tomoko Uno (Mukogawa Women’s University) “A Study on Air Conditioning Use and Environmental Adjustment Behavior in Surabaya, Indonesia” (in Japanese)
Presentation 2: Alpraditia Malik (Ritsumeikan Universiity) “Public housing as a Concordant Crossroads: fostering intra- and intergroup social interaction for the low-incomes”
・Special Seminar: Contemporary Art Therapy for People with Disabilities in Myanmar
11 October 2023, 4 pm – 6 pm
Venue: Seminar Room (Room 213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building
Speaker: Aung Min (Aung Clinic (Myanmar))
・Global Governance Unit Colloquium, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
5 October 2023
Venue: WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Title: Power-Gap Driven Draft Resolutions: China’s Sponsorship Behavior on Economic Deregulation at the United Nations General Assembly
Tomoko Takahashi (CSEAS) stayed at WZB Berlin Social Science Center, as a Visiting Researcher of the Global Governance Unit (September 26-October 19, 2023) and presented for the colloquium.
・The 1st Asian Journals Network Seminar-Workshop
5 October 2023
Venue: Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Narumi Shitara (CSEAS) delivered the presentation titled “For Regular and Timely Journal Publication.”
・Special Seminar: Frontiers of Gender Studies in Asia
3 October 2023, 3:30 pm – 5 pm
Venue: Seminar room (I213), 2nd floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Speaker: Solahudin (Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC), Indonesia / Visiting Research Scholar, CSEAS)
Title: Extremist Marriage: The Role of ISIS Women in Indonesia
Commentator: Masako Ishii (Rikkyo University)
Moderator: Chika Obiya (CSEAS)
・Visit of H.E. Dr. Ibrokhim Abdurakhmonov, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovations of the Republic of Uzbekistan
2 October 2023
・CSEAS Reading Group Session: Energy and Civilization: A History by Vaclav Smil
29 September 2023, 4 pm –
Venue: Room 201 (Tonantei), 2nd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Facilitator: Julie de los Reyes (CSEAS)
Book Information: Vaclav Smil, Energy and Civilization: A History, The MIT Press, 2018
・CSEAS Colloquium: Sovereignty, Sacred Space, and the Histoires Croisées of Wat Rachathiwat วัดราชาธิวาส
28 September 2023, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Venue: Middle-sized Meeting Room (No. 332), 3rd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building
Speaker: Lawrence Chua (Visiting Research Scholar of CSEAS, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Syracuse University)
■Notes
While I was wracking my brain on how to organize my paper, I unexpectedly made friends with a young scholar who also likes to discuss issues through storytelling. She is a geographer with rigorous academic training, but she has abandoned the traditional structure of scientific papers, preferring a fluid narrative that includes her arguments. This method both vividly presents field stories and conveys fresh perspectives. I immediately wrote to her, and we talked late into the night, feeling greatly inspired. (Y)
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