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.

January 2025 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

【January Get Together】
・The monthly welcome and farewell party, Get Together, will be held on Thursday, January 23, from 12:30 pm at the Research Commons Room (#101 on the 1st floor of East Building). 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】
・Sol Dorotea Rosales Iglesias (Political Science): CSEAS welcomes Sol Dorotea Rosales Iglesias as Visiting Research Scholar from February 1 to April 30.
・Maria Victoria Ribargoso Raquiza (Development Studies, governance, social policy): CSEAS welcomes Maria Victoria Ribargoso Raquiza as Visiting Research Scholar from February 1 to July 31.
・Pingtjin Thum (historian, journalist): CSEAS welcomes Pingtjin Thum as Guest Research Associate from February 1 to July 31.

【Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia】Interview with Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, ASEAN Secretary-General

2. Upcoming Events

・CSEAS Colloquium
　Date & Time: Thursday, 23 January 2025, 1:30–3:00 pm (Japan Time)
　Venue: Research Common (E101), East Building, CSEAS Kyoto University
　Title: Humanitarian Confessions
　Speaker: Philip Fountain (Victoria University of Wellington / Visiting Research Scholar, CSEAS)

・Seminar on “Surviving the State: Land and Democracy in Myanmar”
　Date & Time: Friday, 31 January 2025, 2:00–3:30 pm (Japan Time)
　Venue: Tonantei (I201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
　Title: Surviving the State: Land and Democracy in Myanmar
　Speaker: Hilary Oliva Faxon (University of Montana)

・Tonan Talk
　Date & Time: Friday, 28 February 2025, 3:00–5:00 pm (Japan Time)
　Venue: Tonantei (I201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
　Title: “Karampátan ñg Tao”: Tracing the Rise of Tagalog Human Rights Discourse Using a Textual Corpus
　Speaker: Ramon Guillermo (Professor, Director of the Center for International Studies, University of the Philippines-Diliman)    

・Final Commemorative Lectures and Celebration Party for Professor Toshihiko Kishi at Kyoto University
　Date & Time: Friday, 21 March 2025, 3:00 pm – (Japan Time)
　Venue of Final Lectures: Large Meeting Room, 3rd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
　Language: Japanese

・CSEAS Journal Reading Session　
　Date & Time: Monday, 21 April 2025, 4:00 pm (Japan Time)
　Venue: Tonantei (I201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
　Papers: Wang, Weiwei, et al. 2023. “Earliest Curry in Southeast Asia and the Global Spice Trade 2000 Years Ago.” Science Advances, 9(29): eadh5517. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adh5517
Denpetkul, Thammanitchpol, and Arthit Phosri. 2021. “Daily Ambient Temperature and Mortality in Thailand: Estimated Effects, Attributable Risks, and Effect Modifications by Greenness.” Science of The Total Environment, 791: 148373. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148373
　Presenter: Chika Yamada (CSEAS)

3. Publications: Hot off the CSEAS Press

【Latest Issue】
・Vol. 13 No. 3 of Southeast Asian Studies on 26 December 2024. All articles are available on the journal’s website and J-Stage.

【Forthcoming】
・Vol. 62, No. 2 of Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies will be on 31 January 2025.

【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 “The US-Vietnam Comprehensive Strategic Partnership and Vietnam-US-China Relations,” by David Koh, in Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia on January 1, 2025.

【Latest Issue】CSEAS monthly newsletter released on January 8.
　[Library Collection] Majid Daneshgar, “Professor Yoneo Ishii Library Collection: Studying Asian and Muslim Materials of a Southeast Asianist (Part I)”
　[Report] Tosirou Kamiya, “Special Lecture: “Kyoto Orimono and Shibusawa Eiichi: The People Who Laid the Foundation of Kyoto’s Modern Industry””         
　[Letter from the Kamogawa River] Genta Kuno, “Prison, Territories, Neighborhood”

【Report】Tomoko Takahashi, “Courtesy Call to Taiwan (December 2024),” SEASIA Official News, posted on January 14, 2025.

【New Article】Claiborne DT, Detwiler Z, Docken SS, Borland TD, Cromer D, Simkhovich A, Ophinni Y, Okawa K, Bateson T, Chen T, Hudson W, Trifonova R, Davenport MP, Ho TW, Boutwell CL, Allen TM. High frequency CCR5 editing in human hematopoietic stem progenitor cells protects xenograft mice from HIV infection. Nature Communications. 2025 Jan 7, 16(1): 446. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-55873-3

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

【Forthcoming】Majid Daneshgar, Persianate Prose and the Making of Malay Muslim Literature: Text, Translation and Commentary of the Durr al-Majalis, Edinburgh University Press, April 2025.

【Forthcoming】Kisho Tsuchiya, contributor, in Hajimu Masuda, Ed., Cold War Asia: Unlearning Narratives, Making New Histories, The University of North Carolina Press, May 2025.

【Forthcoming】Nawawi, Athiqah Nur Alami, Julius Bautista, Maitrii Aung-Thwin, Deasy Simandjuntak, Yanu Endar Prasetyo, eds., Managing Disruption and Developing Resilience for a Better Southeast Asia: The 4th SEASIA Biennial Conference 2022, Springer Proceedings in Humanities and Social Sciences, May 2025.

4. Presentations

【Presentation】Youdiil Ophinni, “Identification of human-to-primates viral spillover in Indonesia,” Research Meeting of the Center for the Evolutionary Origins of Human Behavior (EHUB), Kyoto University, 20 December 2024.

【Lecture】Yoshimi Nishi, “Building Resilient Society through sharing stories,” in “Refleksi 20 Tahun Tsunami Aceh dan Luncurkan Buku Ketangguhan Perempuan dan Keluarg,” Universitas Syiah Kuala, December 30, 2024, Online.

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

・Assoc. Prof. Yoshimi Nishi’s lecture at HI UMM was featured in Tabloid Matahati on December 10, 2024. 

・The Bartsham Community Museum was established in Trashigang, Bhutan, through the JICA Grassroots Technical Cooperation Project led by CSEAS

・Short videos featuring Assoc. Prof. Majid Daneshgar, “Endless Stories: Studying Gemstones in Arabic in the 17th century with Dr Majid Daneshgar” and “Endless Stories at Cambridge University Library: A royal copy of an Arabic work (Baghdad, 1274)” have been uploaded to the Cambridge University Library YouTube channel.

・Assoc. Prof. Majid Daneshgar appeared on “Cambridge Arts Roundup” in Cambridge Radio, and an interview with him was uploaded. (40:00 min –)

7. Past Events

・Kyoto University Asian Economic Development Seminar (AEDS)
　Date & Time: Tuesday, 7 January 2025, 3:30–5:00 pm (Japan Time)
　Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
　Title: Communities of Commerce: The Legacy of Chinese Immigration on Economic Development in Java
　Speaker: Gedeon Lim (University of Hong Kong)

・CSEAS Colloquium
　Date & Time: Thursday, 26 December 2024, 1:30–3:00 (Japan Time)
　Venue: Middle Meeting Room (I332), 3rd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University / Online (Zoom)
　Title: Telling Apart: How Ethnicity Became Political in Early Modern Siam
　Speaker: Matthew Reeder (National University of Singapore / Visiting Research Scholar, CSEAS）

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