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.
November 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
【New Guest Research Associate】
We have updated the visiting scholars’ web page. Please check here.
【Visitor’s Voice】
・Visitor’s Voice is an interview series of our visiting fellows. We asked them about their research, future ambitions, and more.
【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.
【CSEAS Report】CSEAS Report 2023/2024 and leaflet are now available in PDF format.
【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.
【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
・CSEAS Reading Group Roundtable Session
22 November 2023, 4 – 6 pm
Venue: Seminar Room (213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Book titles & presenters:
Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller (Tomohiro Machikita)
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi (Angie Kwan)
Ghosts ปีศาจ by Seni Saowaphong (Lawrence Chua)
Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-determination by Adom Getachew (Tomoko Takahashi)
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality by Kathryn Paige Harden (Youdiil Ophinni)
Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union by Mie Nakachi (Chika Obiya)
Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain by Amy Jeffs (Keith Taylor)
The Wedger by David Grann (Olga Dror)
The Rediscovery of America by Ned Blackhawk (Michael Feener)
・Unraveling the Israel-Palestine Conflict: Insights, Consequences, and Solutions
24 November 2023, 10 am –12 pm (PST)
Venue: Ateneo de Davao University
Kisho Tsuchiya (CSEAS) will deliver a talk on “Comparatively Speaking: Conflicts in Palestine and Timor.”
・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 Synposium 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
・Kyoto University Asian Economic Development Seminar (AEDS)
27 November 2023, 10:30 am –12:00 pm (JST)
Venue: Seminar Room (Room 213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Paper 1: “Spatial Analysis of Inequality and Urbanization in Thailand” by Nattapong Puttanapong (Thammasat University)
Paper 2: “Urban Inequality and Labor Market Dynamics in Bangkok by Tamaki Endo (Saitama University) and Thongchart Bowonthumrongchai (Srinakharinwirot University)
・The 47th Southeast Asia Seminar
7–14 December 2023
Place: Mae Ramat, Tak, Thailand
Theme: Health, Border, and Marginality: Toward Transdisciplinarity?
Decha Tangseefa, Mieno Fumiharu, Yoko Hayami, Yoshihiro Nakanishi, Yalei Zhai, Chika Yamada, Tomoko Takahashi, and Yunxi Wu will participate the seminar from CSEAS.
・Special Seminar on Indonesia
13 December 2023, 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Venue: Seminar Room (213), Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Speaker: Solahudin (IPAC / Visiting Research Scholar, CSEAS）
Title: The Roots of ISIS in Indonesia
・Visual Documentary Project (VDP) 2023 Short Documentaries Screening
16 December 2023, 1:30 – 6:00 pm
Venue: Large Conference Room, 3rd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Selected films:
Against This Messy World (Director: AW See Wee / Malaysia)
No Laughing Matter (Director: Pe Maung Same / Myanmar)
The Songs We Sing in a Different Land (Director: Inshallah P. Montero / Philippines (Portugal, Belgium, Hungary))
Saya di Sini, Kau di Sana (a Tale of the Crocodile’s Twin) (Director: Taufiqurrahman Kifu / Indonesia)
・A Back-to-Back Philippines Seminar Special
December 18 Monday, 4 – 6 pm & 19 Tuesday, 2 – 4 pm
Day 1 @ Seminar Room (213)
Speaker: Patricio N. Abinales (Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University)
Title: Duterte and the Crowd: Crime and Comedy in Philippine Politics
Speaker: Ronald D. Holmes (De La Salle University)
Title: There Is _ Honor among…: Why the Alliance Broke Too Early
Day 2 @ Tonantei (Room 201)
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
・CSEAS Book Launch & Discussion: Packaged Food, Packaged Life: Corporate Food in Metro Manila Slums
24 January 2024, 3:00 – 4:30 pm
Venue: Seminar Room (Room 213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University) / Online (Zoom)
Speaker: Heriberto Ruiz Tafoya (Institute of Social Theory and Dynamics in Hiroshima)
Discussant: Walden Bello (International Adjunct Professor, State University of New York)
Moderator: Mario Ivan Lopez (CSEAS)
3. Publications: Hot off the CSEAS Press
【Latest Issue】
・Vol. 12, No. 2 of Southeast Asian Studies on 24 August 2023.
Website / KURENAI / 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 “Why foreign MSMEs spontaneously promote CSR: A case of the oolong tea industry in Vietnam” by Yunxi Wu, in Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia on November 1, 2023.
【New Article】Introducing our new staff: Assoc. Prof. Yalei Zhai (Newsletter, November 2023)
【Interview】Interview with Tomoko Takahashi, “Smitten with the Theories on International Institutions: From Dialogues with Scholars from around the Globe” (Newsletter, November 2023)
【Essay】R. Michael Feener, “Letter from the Kamogawa River: Downstream to Deeper Oceans of Imagination” (Newsletter, November 2023)
【New Article/Open Access】Tadashi Yamashita, Pham Nguyen Quy, Emi Nogami, Erina Seto‑Suh, Chika Yamada, Saori Iwamoto, Kyoko Shimazawa, and Kenji Kato. Depression and anxiety symptoms among Vietnamese migrants in Japan during the COVID‑19 pandemic. Tropical Medicine and Health 51, 59 (2023). doi: 10.1186/s41182-023-00542-8
【Interview】Majid Daneshgar: Scientific Miraculousness and the Qur’an | The Scientific Readings of the Qur’an (2023/11/03)
【Handlist】Majid Daneshgar, Comp. Ed., A Handlist of Nine Newly Discovered Middle Eastern and Islamic Materials, Special Collections Christ’s College Library Cambridge, October 2023.
【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. 74 (22 November 2023) Toru Ito, Shinko taikoku Indo no kodogenri: Dokuji riarizumu gaiko no yukue (The Principles of Behaviour of the Emerging Power India: Direction of Peculiar Realism Diplomacy), Keio University Press, 2020 and Indo no shotai: “Mirai no taikoku” no kyo to jitu (The True Nature of India: The Fiction and Reality of a ‘Future Great Power’), Chuko Shinsho La Clet, 2023 (in Japanese).
SoundCloud / YouTube / Book information 1 & Book information 2
【New!】Book Talk on Asia No. 73 (8 November 2023) Biriyani Taro, Miwaku no supaisu gohan: Biriyani (Biryani), Jiyukokuminsha, 2023 (in Japanese).
SoundCloud / YouTube / Book information
・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
・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
5. Past Events
・CSEAS Colloquium: Ho Chi Minh Cult: Invention of Tradition
22 November 2023, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Venue: Middle-sized Meeting Room (No. 332), 3rd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building
Speaker: Olga Dror (Professor, Texas A&M University / Visiting Research Scholar, CSEAS)
・November Get Together
22 November 2023, 12:30 pm –
Venue: Small Meeting Room I, 3rd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
・JASTIP 2023 Workshop on Biodiversity: Genetic Resources and Innovative Bioresources Technology for Future Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
22 November 2023
Venue: BRIN, Jl. Raya Ir. H. Juanda no.18 Bogor
・MAHS Special Seminar: Interoperable Database and Virtual Reality for Archaeological Investigations and Storytelling
21 November 2023, 4 – 6 pm
Venue: Small meeting room (Room 330), 3rd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Lecturer: Vincenzo Lombardo (Professor, University of Torino)
・CSEAS Special Seminar on the Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh: Agency & Belonging in Displacement
14 November 2023, 3:30–5:40
Venue: Tonantei (Room 201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Chair: Yoko Hayami (CSEAS)
Paper-One: “Digital Literacy in Refugee Life: An Emerging Agency in Rohingya Camps in Bangladesh,” Nasir Uddin (Professor, Chittagong University)
Paper-Two: “Women of the Rohingya Exodus: Negotiating Gender and Belonging in Bangladesh’s Refugee Camps,” Farhana Rahman (Cambridge University)
Comments: Nakanishi Yoshiniro (CSEAS) and Miriam Jaehn (NUS)
・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
・34th JASID Annual Conference
11–12 November 2023
Venue: Sophia University
Yunxi Wu (CSEAS) delivered a research presentation titled “Rural Transitions in Migration and Inter-Ethnic Shifts during the Post-Cash Crop Boom: A Case of the Taiwanese-Introduced Oolong Tea Industry in Vietnam’s Central Highlands” at the “Rural Development” session.
・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)
・Special Seminar on Cambodian Society and Buddhism since 1993
9 November 2023, 3 pm –
Venue: Tonantei, 2nd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Talk (1): Transnationalizing Buddhism: Cambodian Temples, Student Monks and Pilgrims in Sri Lanka and India
Speaker: Prof. John Marston (El Colegio de México/Center for Khmer Studies)
Talk (2): Emerging New Type Buddhist Lay Leaders in Rural Cambodian “vat”: Modernity, Knowledge Transmission, “Putthichak”
Speaker: Prof. Satoru Kobayashi (CSEAS)
・USHULUDDIN 4th International Student Conference “Islamic Studies in Indonesian Islamic Higher Education: Past, Present and Future”
7–8 November 2023
Faculty of Ushuluddin and Islamic Thought, UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta
Keynote speaker: Prof. Majid Daneshgar, PhD (Kyoto University)
・Special Seminar on Indonesian Politics: “Indonesian Foreign Policy in the Reform Era”
6 November 2023, 3:30 – 5:30 pm (JST)
Venue: Seminar Room (Room 213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Speaker: H.E. Dr. N Hassan Wirajuda (Minister for Foreign Affairs of Indonesia 2001–2009)
Discussant: Pavin Chachavalpongpun (CSEAS)
・2023 SEASIA Executive Committee Meeting
6 November 2023
Venue: Tonantei (Room 201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
・Courtesy Visit from the Faculty of Cultural Studies, University of Brawijaya
6 November 2023
https://kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/news/2023/11/20231106/
・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) contributed to the workshop. Majid Daneshgar (CSEAS) served as a coordinator.
・International Symposium “Islamization in Southeast Asia as reflected in literature, archival documents and oral stories”
3–5 November 2023
Venue: Osaka University
Majid Daneshgar (CSEAS) and Micheal Feener (CSEAS) presented their research on “Discovering a hidden miraculous grave. A rare Persian and Arabic inscription of Ferdowsi’s Shāhnāmah from Barus, Indonesia,” in the session on “Insular Southeast Asia: Early Islamization of Southeast Asia: Religion, Kingship, and Cosmology.”
・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)
・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”
・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 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)
・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
■Notes
The other day, a friend of mine that comes from overseas took me to a home-cooking restaurant close to Kyoto University. Coming from Tokyo, I had the image that such places tend to be “Kyoto= traditionally Japanese/ conservative” and was nervous to step into the restaurant, but the moment the owner welcomed us warmly while smiling and explaining that they created “a new Halal menu”, I could already tell that I was wrong. After listening to the owner that he simply wants “the warm hearted” to come to the restaurant, regardless of nationalities or ethnicities, I realized that people in Kyoto listen to others earnestly and treasure trust in daily life. In fact, the restaurant felt like a family on its own, where fun conversations were propping up among every visitor beyond the borders of language or food culture. I am looking forward to visiting them again soon. (TT)
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