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 2024 issue includes:
1. Announcements and Highlights
2. Upcoming Events
3. Publications: Hot off the CSEAS Press
4. Presentations
5. Podcasts in Japanese: “Book Talk on Asia”
6. 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 27, from 12:30 pm at the Small-sized Meeting Room 2 (#331 on the 3rd floor of Inamori Center). Please join us and have an opportunity to enjoy small talk.
We have updated the visiting scholars’ web page. Please check here.
【New Research Associate】
・Karin Dean (Political Geography, Southeast Asian Studies): CSEAS welcomes Karin Dean as Guest Scholar on June 20.
・Yu-Ning Chen: CSEAS welcomes Yu-Ning Chen as Guest Research Associate on July 1.
・Gregory Vincent Raymond (Southeast Asian politics / foreign relations): CSEAS welcomes Gregory Vincent Raymond as Visiting Research Scholar on July 15.
・Matthew Thomas Reeder (History, Southeast Asian Studies): CSEAS welcomes Matthew Thomas Reeder as Visiting Research Scholar on July 17.
【Visitor’s Voice】
New interview article is available now. We asked them about their research, future ambitions, and more.
Visitor’s Voice: Interview with Mirlan Bektursunov: “Building of “Nomadic Socialism”: State and Society in the Making of Soviet Kyrgyzstan”
Visitor’s Voice: Interview with Md. Asaduzzaman Sarker: “Rohingya Refugee Influx and Socio-environmental Crises in Teknaf Peninsula of Bangladesh”
【Call for Applications】The 48th Southeast Asia Seminar
Theme: Co-creation of New Urban Living: Advancing Quality of Life in the Climate Change Era
Date: 20–28 October 2024
Venue: Jakarta and Surabaya, Indonesia
Application Deadline: June 30, 2024
【Call for Papers】International Workshop on Transition from the Margins: Resource Peripheries and Decarbonisation in the Asia-Pacific
Date & Time: Thursday, 12 December – Friday, 13 December, 2024
Venue: Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
The deadline for applications: 30 June 2024
2. Upcoming Events
・Book Talk on Theara Thun’s Epistemology of the Past: Texts, History, and Intellectuals of Cambodia, 1855–1970
Date & Time: Wednesday, 26 June 2024, 16:45–18:00 JST
Venue: Research Commons (E101), East Bldg, CSEAS, Kyoto University / Online (Zoom)
Speaker: Theara Thun (Research Fellow, the University of Hong Kong / Affiliated Asst. Prof., CSEAS Kyoto University)
Moderator: Kisho Tsuchiya (CSEAS)
・CSEAS Colloquium: “The First East Asian Economic Miracle: Wages, Living Standards and Foundations of Modern Economic Growth in Southeast Asia, 1880–1938”
Date & Time: Thursday, 27 June 2024, 13:30 – 15:00 JST
Venue: Middle-sized Meeting Room (332), 3rd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
Speaker: Jean-Pascal Bassino (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon / Visiting Research Scholar, CSEAS)
・Seminar: “Changing Spatialities at the India-Myanmar Borderlands”
Date & Time: Thursday, 27 June 2024, 15:00 – 16:30 JST
Venue: Tonantei (I201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, CSEAS, Kyoto University
Speaker: Karin Dean (School of Humanities, Tallinn University / Guest Scholar, CSEAS)
・Seminar: “Militarization Overlooked: Rethinking the Origins of Indonesia’s New Order, 1950–1965”
Date & Time: Friday, 28 June 2024, 12:30–14:00 JST
Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, CSEAS, Kyoto University
Speaker: Norman Joshua (Postdoctoral Fellow, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University)
Discussant: Jun Honna (College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University)
・Short-film screening: Miwatari
Date & Time: Friday, 28 June 2024, 18:00 – JST
Venue: Multimedia Room 2, 1st Floor, East Bldg, CSEAS, Kyoto University
Screening: Miwatari (2023 / Japan / Japanese with English subtitle / 11 min)
Guest speaker: Yuuka Miyazono (HAKUA)
・Book Talk on Joseph Torigian’s Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao
Date & Time: Tuesday, 2 July 2024, 13:00–14:30 JST
Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, CSEAS, Kyoto University
Speaker: Joseph Torigian (School of International Service, American University / Research Fellow, Hoover Institution)
Discussant: Tomoko Takahashi (CSEAS)
・Seminar: “Japan’s Approach to Deterrence: Implications for Deterrence in the Taiwan Strait”
Date & Time: Tuesday, 2 July 2024, 14:45–16:15 JST
Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, CSEAS, Kyoto University
Speaker: Oriana Skylar Mastro (Stanford University)
Discussant: Tomoko Takahashi (CSEAS)
・ Seminar: “Contingent Adaptation as Everyday Performance: Crafting New Agriculture Practices to Respond to a Historic Flood in Vietnam’s Northern Uplands”
Date & Time: Wednesday, 3 July 2024, 15:00 – 16:30 JST
Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, CSEAS, Kyoto University
Speaker: Emmanuel Pannier (French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD))
・Book Talk on Kisho Tsuchiya’s Emplacing East Timor: Regime Change and Knowledge Production, 1860–2010
Date & Time: Wednesday, 4 July 2024, 15:00–16:30 JST
Venue: Research Commons (E101), East Bldg, CSEAS, Kyoto University / Online (Zoom)
Speaker: Kisho Tsuchiya (CSEAS)
Discussant: Shintaro Fukutake (Faculty of Global Studies, Sophia University)
Moderator: Genta Kuno (CSEAS)
・The 5th SEASIA Biennial Conference “De/Centering Southeast Asia”
Date: Thursday, 18 July to Saturday, 20 July, 2024
Venue: University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City
3. Publications: Hot off the CSEAS Press
【Latest Issue】
・Vol. 13 No. 1 of Southeast Asian Studies on 25 April 2024. This issue contains a special focus on “Collective Care in Three Vietnamese Contexts: The Intersection of Health, Community, and the State,” as well as two articles and eight book reviews. All articles are available on the journal’s website and J-Stage.
【Latest Issue】
・Vol. 61, No. 2 of Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies on 31 January 2024.
Journal website / J-Stage
【Latest Issue】
・Special issue (38) titled “Health, Border, and Marginality: Toward Transdisciplinarity” of Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia is out on June 1, 2024. In this issue, Decha Tangseefa (CSEAS) serves as the guest editor.
【New Article】
・TRENDSETTERS column “Springing Forward: Myanmar’s Rising Momentum and the Imperative for Future Accountability,” by Chosein Yamahata, in Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia on June 1, 2024.
【Latest Issue】CSEAS monthly newsletter released on June 12.
[Interview] Genta Kuno, “The Many Faces of Jakarta: Exploring the City through the Security Practice”
[Notes from the Field] Kisho Tsuchiya, “Mindanao Perceptions of Past and Present as an Alternative to Conventional Narratives of Recent Philippine History”
[Letter from the Kamogawa River] Satoru Kobayashi, “Walking the streets of Kyoto, Imagining the Religious Culture of the Past”
【New Book】Kisho Tsuchiya, Emplacing East Timor: Regime Change and Knowledge Production, 1860–2010. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2024.
【New Book】Sachiko Imamura, Governing Philosophy and Violence: State and Society in Indonesia after Independence, University of Tokyo Press, 2024, in Japanese.
【New Article】기시 도시히코 (KISHI Toshihiko), 다문화주의 접근법은 ‘동물의 권리’를 보장할 수 있을까―군용동물 위령비와 일본 육군 (Multiculturalism and Animal Rights: Reevaluating the Role of Military Animals in the Japanese Army), 만주연구 (Journal of Manchurian Studies), No. 37 (April 2024), pp. 225–245.
【Interview】YIDFF Interview: Journey of a Bird, Anonymous (Director), Interviewer: Kawamoto Kanae
4. Presentations
5. Podcasts in Japanese: “Book Talk on Asia”
In this program, the Editorial Office, CSEAS introduce the latest books on Asia. The authors are invited to talk about the contents and background of their books.
Soundcloud / YouTube
6. Past Events
・Seminar by Alanna O’Malley: “Undetermined Self-Determination: The Afterlives of Global South Anti-colonial Solidarity at the United Nations”
Date & Time: Wednesday, 19 June 2024, 16:00–17:30 (JST)
Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd floor, Inamori Center, CSEAS Kyoto University / Online (Zoom)
Speaker: Alanna O’Malley (Leiden University)
Discussants: Yuan Zhou (Graduate School of Law, Kobe University), Tomoko Takahashi (CSEAS)
・International Workshop on China and India’s Perspectives on the Global South in a Changing Global Order
Date & Time: Wednesday, 19 June 2024, 11:00–12:30 (JST)
Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd floor, Inamori Center, CSEAS Kyoto University / Online (Zoom)
Speakers: Yuan Zhou (Graduate School of Law, Kobe University), Raphaëlle Khan (City College of New York- CUNY / Harvard Asia Center), Juan Acevedo (PhD student, City University of New York), and Tomoko Takahashi (CSEAS)
Discussant: Alanna O’Malley (Leiden University)
・Official Delegation from RIGCAS Huaqiao University
Date: Friday, 14 June 2024
・Special Seminar by Nick Cheesman: “The Hermeneutics of Torture in Thailand”
Date & Time: Tuesday, 11 June 2024, 15:30–17:00 (JST)
Venue: Tonantei (I201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, CSEAS Kyoto University
Speaker: Nick Cheesman (ANU)
Title: The Hermeneutics of Torture in Thailand
・NAGA: A Narrative Session. A Comparative Study on ‘Rivers and Beliefs’ in Japan and Southeast Asia
Date & Time: Sunday, 9 June 2024, 17:30–20:30 (JST)
Venue: Kurashigoto Goemon in Kamitakano, Kyoto
Sponsor: JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B): “The Mekong River Basin in Environmental Literature: Rivers and Beliefs in Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos”
・Book Launch and Talk: The Future of the Ayta in the Ashes
Date & Time: 30 May 2024, 15:00–16:30 JST
Venue: Research Commons, East Bldg, CSEAS, Kyoto University / Online (Zoom)
Speakers: Hana Mori (Book Dedign / Illustration), Tetsuya Suzuki (Kyoto University Press), and Hiromu Shimizu (Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University)
Moderator: Zenta Nishio (CSEAS Affiliated Researcher)
・Courtesy Visit from the Faculty of Social and Political Science, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta
Date: Thursday, 30 May 2024
・CSEAS Reading Group Session: The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality by Kathryn Paige Harden
Date & Time: Friday, 24 May 2024, 16:00– JST
Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, CSEAS, Kyoto University
Presenter: Youdiil Ophinni (CSEAS)
・Courtesy Visit from the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, National University
Date: Friday, 24 May 2024
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