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CSEAS Digital News Issue 35 – 2024/11/27

2024.12.25

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 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. Media Exposure
 7. Past Events

Thank you and regards,
The Public Relations Committee, Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS)

1. Announcements and Highlights

【November Get Together】
・The monthly welcome and farewell party, Get Together, will be held on Thursday, November 28, 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】
・Philip Michael Fountain (Religious Studies): CSEAS welcomes Philip Michael Fountain as Visiting Research Scholar from 1 December 2024 to 28 February 2025.
・Firzan Nainu (Pharmacology): CSEAS welcomes Firzan Nainu as Guest Scholar on 18–28 November 2024.

【Visitor’s Voice】New interview article is available now. We asked them about their research, future ambitions, and more.
 Visitor’s Voice: Interview with Wahyu Prasetyawan: “Transformation of Indonesia’s Political Economy, 2004–2024: Power, Capital, and Networks”
 Visitor’s Voice: Interview with Antonio Postigo
 Visitor’s Voice: Interview with Roger Casas: “Finding the Right People and Staying with Them”

【MOU】CSEAS signed an MOU with Nakhon Phanom University

【MOU】CSEAS signed an MOU with the National Centre for Borderland Ethnic Studies in Southwest China, Yunnan University

【Career】Invites applications for a permanent Professor or Associate Professor (Information Science) position (Application deadline: Dec 20, 2024)

【Honor】Professor Emeritus Hiromu Shimizu becomes Laureate of the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon

2. Upcoming Events

CSEAS Colloquium: “An Authoritarian Security Community in Mainland Southeast Asia: Regional Dynamics in an Actor-Centered Theory of Transnational Authoritarianism”
 Date & Time: Thursday, 28 November 2024, 1:30–3:00 pm (Japan Time)
 Venue: Middle Meeting Room (I-332), 3rd Floor, Inamori Center, CSEAS Kyoto University
 Speaker: Gregory Raymond (Australian National University / Visiting Research Scholar, CSEAS)

Special Seminar: “Heterogeneity in trade preferences, political action, and utilization of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) among firms in production networks”
 Date & Time: Thursday, 28 November 2024, 3:30–4:30 pm (Japan Time)
 Venue: Seminar Room (I-213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, CSEAS Kyoto University Speaker: Antonio Postigo (IBEI / ISEAS / LSE, Visiting Research Scholar, CSEAS)

・“Learning about Southeast Asian Culture and Society through Film” Screening
 Date & Time: Friday, 29 November 2024, 18:00– (Japan Time)
 Venue: Multimedia Room 2, 1st Floor, East Building, CSEAS Kyoto University
 Screening Title: Sameblod’ (2016, 108min. Swedish and Sami, with Japanese subtitles)

Book Launch & Discussion on Unrequited Love: Duterte’s China Embrace
 Date & Time: Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 3:00–4:30 (Japan Time)
 Venue: Seminar Room (I-213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, CSEAS Kyoto University
 Presenter: Marites Dañguilan Vitug (Rappler)
 Discussant: Yusuke Takagi (GRIPS)
 Moderator: Julie de los Reyes (CSEAS)

International Workshop on Transition from the Margins: Resource Peripheries and Decarbonisation in the Asia-Pacific
 Date: Thursday, 12–Friday, 13, December 2024
 Venue: Seminar Room (I-213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
 Organizer: CSEAS Kyoto University, GRIP-ARM, GSID Nagoya University, SEASIA

Public lecture on Energy Transition and Society
 Date & Time: Thursday, 12 December 2024, 4:00–5:30 pm (Japan Time)
 Venue: Middle Meeting Room (I-332), 3rd Floor, Inamori Center, CSEAS Kyoto University

3. Publications: Hot off the CSEAS Press

【Latest Issue】
・Vol. 13 No. 2 of Southeast Asian Studies on 22 August 2024. This issue contains Yen Pham Thi’s “US-Vietnam Defense Diplomacy: Challenges from the Ukraine War” and other five articles and nine book reviews. All articles are available on the journal’s website and J-Stage.

【Latest Issue】
・Vol. 62, No. 1 of Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies on 31 July 2024. This issue includes a special focus on “Contexts of Crisis: Understanding the Rohingya Issue from Multiple Perspectives,” edited by Yoshihiro Nakanishi (CSEAS), and five book reviews. All articles are available on the journal’s website and J-Stage.

【Latest Issue】
Special issue (39) titled “Vietnam and Foreigners: Aspects and Experiences” of Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia is out on September 1, 2024. In this issue, David Koh (Vin University) serves as the guest editor and includes five articles. Each article is available in English, Japanese, Thai, Bahasa Indonesia, Filipino, Vietnamese, and Myanmar on our website. Five book reviews are also available.

【New Article】
・TRENDSETTERS column “Indonesia’s Future under Prabowo: Will be Better?,” by Sumanto Al Qurtuby, in Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia on November 1, 2024.

【Latest Issue】CSEAS monthly newsletter released on November 13.
 [Report] Kimiya Kitani, “Toward the Creation of a Research Data Management System and a Cross-Institutional Platform for Area Studies: Report on Participation in the 5th SEASIA Biennial International Conference and Institutional Visits in the Philippines”
 [Letter from the Kamogawa River] Ryota Sakamoto, “The Brilliance of Daily Life”

【New Article】Yamazaki Y, Tanaka R, Castillo G, Macalanda AMC, Talactac MR, Yamazaki W. Development of a concentration method for simple and sensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2 in saliva using a magnetic nanoparticle kit. J Virol Methods. 2024 Nov 1:115059. doi: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2024.115059.

【New Article】Yamashita T, Quy P, Nogami E, Yamada C, Kato K. (2024) Difficulties Faced by Vietnamese Migrants in Japan in Accessing Healthcare During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Their Self-Reported Health Perceptions. Cureus 16(11): e74058. doi:10.7759/cureus.74058

【Cover Design & Editorial】Asst. Prof. Youdiil Ophinni was in charge of the cover design and editing of the Hakubi Center’s handbook, “The Hakubi Project at a Glance.”

【Forthcoming】Marie Quinn, Mica Barreto-Soares, Robert L. Williams, Clinton Fernandes, Zelia Pereira, Lynda-Ann Blanchard, Kisho Tsuchiya, Guteriano Neves, Li-Li Chen, Hannah Loney and Michael Leach (eds.), Peskiza Foun Kona-ba Timor-Leste / Novas Investigações sobre Timor-Leste / New Research on Timor-Leste: Proceedings of the 2023 Timor-Leste Studies Association Conference, UNTL Liceu Campus, 12–14 July 2023, Vols I and II, Hawthorn: TLSA, 2024.

【Forthcoming】Majid Daneshgar, Reconstructing Erpenius’ Library: The First Collection of Oriental Manuscripts at Cambridge University Library, Brill, December 2024.

4. Presentations

【Presentation】Julie de los Reyes, Critical Minerals Workshop – roundtable discussion at the Ignite: Festival of Radical Ideas Conference, the Transnational Institute, the Netherlands, 1 October 2024.

【Presentation】Julie de los Reyes, “Decarbonising Southeast Asia’s power sector: Prospects for a managed coal phase-down/out,” presentation at the 48th Southeast Asian Seminar, Jakarta, Indonesia, 22 October 2024.

【Presentation】Tomohiro Machikita, “Incentives on the Road: Multitask Principal-Agent Problem and Accidents in the Trucking Industry,” 19th East Asian Economic Association International Conference, Thammasat University, 1–2 November 2024, Bangkok, Thailand.

【Invited Talk】Youdiil Ophinni, “Applications of CRISPR-Cas systems in infectious disease management,” Invited Talk in the 6th Scientific Health Seminar for Clinical Laboratory Experts 2024 (SIKLIK 2024), Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia, 2 November 2024.

【Keynote Speech】Yoshimi Nishi, “Sharing memories of the disaster beyond generations and regions: Re-experiencing others’ perspectives and frameworks with the camera app
MemoryGraph,” Keynote speech in the 3rd Aceh Global Conference on Social, Communication, Government, and Political Sciences (AGC-SCOPOS 2024), Sabang, Aceh, Indonesia, 4 November 2024.

【Presentation】Youdiil Ophinni, Todd Mackenzie Allen, Masanori Kameoka, “Advancing HIV-1 cure using CRISPR-Cas9: From cell culture to human stem cells and humanized mice,” Oral Presentation in the The 71st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Virology, Nagoya, Japan, 5 November 2024.

【Invited Talk】Yoshimi Nishi, “MemoryGraph: Merawat Memori Bencana untuk Kesiapsiagaan (MemoryGprah: Preserving Disaster Memory for Preparedness),” Graduate Program in Disaster Science, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 6 November 2024.

【Poster Presentation】Yoshimi Nishi, “Aceh Tsunami MemoryGraph: Sharing Tsunami Experiences through Resident‐Recorded Landscape Changes,” presentation on the International Seminar on Tsunami Disaster Mitigation 2024 with the theme “Strengthening Tsunami MItigation Strategies After 20 Years of the 2004 Aceh Tsunami,” TDMRC, Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 7 November 2024.

【Presentation】Yoshimi Nishi and Alfi Rahman, “Recording and archiving landscape changes in tsunami-affected areas: An attempt to activate collective memory through a mobile app MemoryGraph for Banda Aceh,” presentation on the 16th WEST-DR (Aceh International Workshop and Expo on Sustainable Tsunami Disaster Recovery) 2024, Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 9 November 2024.

【Presentation】Youdiil Ophinni, “Gene editing to cure HIV infection: Bridging basic science, translational research, and clinical application,” Invited Presentation in the International Symposium: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Biomedical Research held by Sam Ratulangi University, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, 19 November 2024.

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. Media Exposure

Julie de los Reyes and J. Nem Singh, “The Case for U.S.-China Cooperation on Climate Goals,” Opinion, Nikkei Asia, 11 Otcober 2024.

・An interview with Assoc. Prof. Majid Daneshgar has posted in Prof. Nile Green (UCLA)’s podcast “Akbar’s Chamber: Experts Talk Islam.”
 “Orientalism Reconsidered: Collecting Islamic Manuscripts in Seventeenth Century Europe”

Serambi Indonesia and RRI reported on the 3rd Aceh Global Conference on Social, Communication, Government, and Political Sciences (AGC-SCOPOS 2024), which was held on November 4, 2024 and featured a keynote speech by Assoc. Prof. Yoshimi Nishi.

Suara Muhammadiyah reported on the “Kineidoscope 2024” film festival (November 18-20, 2024, Yogyakarta, Indonesia), with which the Visual Documentary Project (VDP) collaborated.

7. Past Events

Seminar on Tourism, Indigeneity, and Sustainability in Raja Ampat, Papua, Indonesia
 Date & Time: Tuesday, 26 November 2024, 10:00–12:00 (Japan Time)
 Venue: Seminar Room (I-213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University

Joint Workshop between CSEAS Kyoto University and Yunnan University “China and Southeast Asia’s Borderlands: Chances and Challenges”
 Date & Time: Monday, 25 November 2024, 10:30–12:30 (Japan Time)
 Venue: Medium Meeting Room (I-332), 3rd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University

CSEAS Reading Group: Roundtable Session
 Date & Time: Friday, 22 November 2024, 4:00–6:00 pm (Japan Time)
 Venue: Seminar Room (I-213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University

Official Visit from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Hasanuddin University
 Date: Friday, 22 November 2024

Special Seminar: “Reexamining the ‘Conservative Turn’ in Indonesia: Islam, State and Power Relations”
 Date & Time: Thursday, 21 November 2024, 3:10–4:30 (Japan Time)
 Venue: Seminar Room (I-213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
 Speaker: Noorhaidi Hasan (Rector of UIN Sunan Kalijaga)

Official Visit from UIN Sunan Kalijaga
 Date: Wednesday, 20 November 2024

Seminar: “Polemics on Jews and Israel among Indonesian Muslims and Christians”
 Date & Time: Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 4:00–5:00 pm (Japan Time)
 Venue: Seminar Room (I-213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
 Speaker: Sumanto Al Qurtuby (Nusantara Institute / Visiting Research Scholar, CSEAS)

Book Talk on Ken MacLean’s Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar
 Date & Time: Tuesday, 19 November 2024, 4:00–5:30 pm (Japan Time)
 Venue: Research Commons (E-101), East Building, CSEAS Kyoto University
 Speaker: Ken MacLean (Clark University)
 Discussant: Masao Imamura (Yamagata University)
 Moderator: Kisho Tsuchiya (CSEAS)

Seminar: “Religious Nationalism at a Sufi Shrine in Sri Lanka”
 Date & Time: Tuesday, 19 November 2024, 1:30–3:00 (Japan Time)
 Venue: Tonantei (I-201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
 Speaker: Frank J. Korom (Professor Emeritus of Religion and Anthropology, Boston University)
 Organizer: Maritime Asia Heritage Survey (MAHS)

Official Visit from Universiti Utara Malaysia
 Date: Tuesday, 19 November 2024

Seminar on Islam Institutions during the Covid Pandemic in Indonesia
 Date & Time: Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 10:30–12:00 am (Japan Time)
 Venue: Seminar Room (I-213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
 Speaker: Dr. Fita Fathurokhmah, M.Si (UIN Jakarta)

Official Delegation from Faculty of Da’wah and Communication Sciences, UIN Jakarta
 Date: Wednesday, 13 November 2024

Special Seminar: “Indonesian Islam between Progressive Islam and Democratic Decline: Revisiting the Role of NU in the Era of Joko Widodo’s Presidency”
 Date & Time: Wednesday, 6 November 2024, 16:00– (Japan Time)
 Venue: Seminar Room (I-213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
 Speaker: Syafiq Hasyim (Vice Rector of UIII and senior lecturer Indonesian International
Islamic University (IIIU))

Special Seminar: “Exploring distances between gibbons and Batek hunter-gatherers in Malaysia”
 Date & Time: Tuesday, 5 November 2024, 13:30–15:00 (Japan Time)
 Venue: Tonantei (Room 201), 2nd floor, Inamori Center, CSEAS Kyoto University
 Speaker: Lye Tuck-Po (Universiti Sains Malaysia)

CSEAS Eurasia Seminar
 Date & Time: Monday, 1 November 2024, 2–5 pm (Japan Time)
 Venue: Middle Meeting Room (I-332), 3rd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
 Title: Decolonial Turn and Methodological Challenges in Kurdish Studies
 Speaker: Mashuq Kurt (University of London)
 Moderator: Mostafa Khalili (CSEAS / Hakubi Center, Kyoto University)

Tonan Talk: “Tales Things Tell”
 Date & Time: Friday, 1 November 2024, 2–4 pm (Japan Time)
 Venue: Tonantei (I-201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, CSEAS Kyoto University
 Talk 1: “Nazar: Preliminary Notes Towards a Theory of the Evil Eye” by Balbir K. Singh (Concordia University / Guest Research Associate, CSEAS)
 Talk 2: “New Clothes, New Textiles: Wool Muslin in Modern Japan” by Yu-Ning Chen (PhD Student, University of Washington in St. Louis / Guest Research Associate, CSEAS)

Official Visit from Sam Ratulangi University
 Date: Wednesday, 30 October 2024

・“Learning about Southeast Asian Culture and Society through Film” Screening
 Date & Time: Friday, 25 October 2024, 18:00– (Japan Time)
 Venue: Multimedia Room 2, 1st Floor, East Building, CSEAS Kyoto University
 Screening Title: Enemies of the People (2009, 94 min)

Special Seminar: “Affective Work: Religion, Economy and Gender among the Tai Lue of Contemporary Sipsong Panna (P.R. China)”
 Date & Time: Friday, 25 October 2024, 4:00–5:30 pm (Japan Time)
 Venue: Tonantei (I-201), 2nd floor, Inamori Center, CSEAS Kyoto University
 Speaker: Roger Casas (Visiting Research Scholar, CSEAS)
 Discussant: Kiyoshi Hasegawa (Bunkyo University)
 Moderator: Satoru Kobayashi (CSEAS)

CSEAS Colloquium: “Subsidence: Surfacing Life in a Sinking City”
 Date & Time: Thursday, 23 October 2024, 1:30–3:00 pm (Japan Time)
 Venue: Middle Meeting Room (I-332), 3rd Floor, Inamori Center, CSEAS Kyoto University
 Speaker: Allan Edward Lumba (Concordia University / Visiting Research Scholar, CSEAS)

The 48th Southeast Asia Seminar: “Co-creation of New Urban Living: Advancing Quality of Life in the Climate Change Era”
 Date & Time: Sunday, 20 – Monday, 28 October 2024
 Venue: Jakarta & Surabaya, Indonesia

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