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.
April 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
【April Get Together】
・The monthly welcome and farewell party, Get Together, will be held on Thursday, April 24, from 12:30 pm at the Small Meeting Room II (#332 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 Fellow】
・Ha Chae Kyoun (Asia Pacific IR): CSEAS welcomes Ha Chae Kyoun as Guest Research Associate from April 10 to May 17.
・Al Makin (Islamic Studies): CSEAS welcomes Al Makin as Visiting Research Scholar from May 1 to July 31.
・Antje Missbach (Sociology): CSEAS welcomes Antje Missbach as Guest Scholar from May 1 to July 29.
・Sol Dorotea Rosales Iglesias (Political Science), currently Visiting Research Scholar, will rejoin the Center as a Guest Research Associate from May 1 to July 31.
【Personnel Change (April 1)】
・Yoshihiro Nakanishi, Professor (promoted)
・Ye Htet, Research Associate
・Caroline Sy Hau, Visiting Professor
・Junko Koizumi, Visiting Professor
・Mikiko Ono, Visiting Professor
【Visitor’s Voice】New interview article is available now. We asked them about their research, future ambitions, and more.
Interview with Maria Victoria Raquiza: “Addressing the Developmental Paradox of High Poverty and Inequality Amidst Decent Growth Rates in the Philippines”
【CSEAS Report】The CSEAS Report 2024–25 Issue (in Japanese) published. We hope you will use it in your publicity activities. If you need a printed copy, please contact the Editorial Office or the Research Liaison Offices.
【Call for Applications】ASEAN-Japan Youth Forum “Take Actions for Social Change 2025”
Application Deadline: Friday, 2 May 2025
【Obituary】In memory of Professor Hiromu Shimizu
2. Upcoming Events
・CSEAS Colloquium
Date & Time: Thursday, 23 April 2025, 1:30–3:00 (Japan Time)
Venue: Middle Meeting Room (I332), 3rd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University / Online
Title: Local Anti-Crime Campaigns in Southeast Asia
Speaker: Sol Iglesias (University of the Philippines Diliman / Visiting Research Scholar, CSEAS)
・Special Seminar: “Designing Industrial Policy: The Case of Singapore’s Semiconductor Ecosystem”
Date & Time: Friday, 25 April 2025, 0:30–2:00 pm (Japan Time)
Venue: Tonantei (I201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
Speaker: Yongwook Ryu (Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS)
・CSEAS–IIAS Joint Seminar
Date&Time: Friday, 25 April 2025, 2–5 pm (Japan Time)
Venue: Middle Meeting Room (I332), 3rd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
Speakers: Guan Hao (IIAS), Tomohiro Machikita (CSEAS), Yuqing Li (IIAS), Satoru Kobayashi (CSEAS)
・Learning Southeast Asian Culture and Society: Screening
Date & Time: Friday, 25 April 2025, 18:00– (Japan Time)
Venue: Multimedia Room 2, 1st Floor, East Building, CSEAS Kyoto University
Title: Once Upon a Star (132 min.)
・Kyoto AEDS
Date & Time: Thursday, 1 May 2025, 4:45–6:15 (Japan Time)
Venue: Room 101 on 1F, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics, East Bldg, Yoshida Campus, Kyoto University
Speaker: Tanika Chakraborty (IIM Calcutta)
Title: Public Private Partnership Models in Social Health Insurance schemes: Evidence from a Pioneering Program in India
・The 9th KINDOWS Open Seminar, Film Screening of “Bose ~The Forgotten Hero~”
Date & Time: May, 17, 2025 (Sat) 13:00–17:00 (open at 12:30) (Japan Time)
Venue: Maskawa Hall, Maskawa Building, North Campus, Kyoto University
・A Thematic Exhibition for the 50th Anniversary of the Museum’s Founding, Lines and Dots: The Aesthetic Journey of Arabic Calligraphy
Date: 13 March–17 June 2025
Venue: Thematic Exhibition Hall, National Museum of Ethnology
Exhibision cooperation: Michael Feener (CSEAS), Maritime Asia Heritage Survey (MAHS)
3. Publications: Hot off the CSEAS Press
【Latest Issue】
・Vol. 14 No. 1 of Southeast Asian Studies will be on 24 April 2025. All articles are available on the journal’s website and J-Stage .
【Latest Issue】
・Vol. 62, No. 2 of Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies on 31 January 2025. All articles are available on the journal’s website and J-Stage .
【Latest Issue】
・Special issue (40) titled “Eroding Electoral Integrity: Reasons for Democratic Backsliding in Southeast Asia” of Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia is out on March 1, 2025. In this issue, Asia Centre 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 “Vietnam’s Nuclear Power Ambition during Putin’s Quick Visit,” by Nguyen Quoc Buu in Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia on April 1, 2025.
【Latest Issue】CSEAS monthly newsletter released on April 9.
[Notes from the Field] Learning the Living Arts and Techniques of Uzbek Herders (Natsumi Shida)
[Notes from the Field] Weaving Encounters from the Margins: In Memory of the Anthropologist Shimizu Hiromu (Mario Lopez)
[New Staff] Majid Daneshgar
[Letter from the Kamogawa River] When Your Curry Speaks to You (Nathan Badenoch)
【Guidebook】Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University 2025 Japanese edition.
【New Article】Takahashi, Tomoko. January 2025. “Two Questions of Sovereignty: China and the Third World Countries in the United Nations General Assembly (1971–1990)”, Global Studies Quarterly 5(1), ksaf024, https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksaf024 (Data released in Harvard Dataverse).
【Dataset】Takahashi, Tomoko, 2025, “Two Questions of Sovereignty: China and the Third World Countries in the United Nations General Assembly (1971–1990)”, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KPI6YG, Harvard Dataverse, V1 (Access: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/KPI6YG)
【New Book】James C. Scott, In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life It Brings, Yale University Press, 2025.
【Forthcoming】Majid Daneshgar, Persianate Prose and the Making of Malay Muslim Literature: Text, Translation and Commentary of the Durr al-Majalis, Edinburgh University Press, May 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】Julie de los Rayes, “Accelerating Power Sector Decarbonisation? The Role of Japan in Southeast Asian Energy Transition,” invited presentation at the “Asia, Canada and the Global Energy Transition” hosted by Natural Resources Canada – Government of Canada, 28 March 2025.
【Presentation】Kisho Tsuchiya, Book talk “Emplacing East Timor: Regime Change and Knowledge Production, 1860–2010,” 16 April 2025, UH CSEAS.
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.
6. Media Exposure
・A video entitled “Japan and Brazil: Prospects for Cooperation” produced in collaboration with Prof Yusuke Murakami released on 31 March 2025.
7. Past Events
・CSEAS Book Reading Group: Journal Club Edition
Date & Time: Monday, 21 April 2025, 4–6 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)
・Kyoto AEDS
Date & Time: Friday, 18 April 2025, 10:30–12:00 (Japan Time)
Venue: Room 101 on 1F, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics, East
Bldg, Yoshida Campus, Kyoto University
Speaker: Shyamal Chowdhury (Australian National University)
Title: The Right Timing Matters: Identifying Sensitive Periods in the
Formation of Socio-Emotional Skills
・Kyoto AEDS
Date & Time: Tuesday, 15 April 2025, 10:30–12:00 (Japan Time)
Venue: Room 106 on 1F, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics, East
Bldg, Yoshida Campus, Kyoto University
Speaker: Lorenzo Casaburi (University of Zurich)
・The 8th KINDOWS Open Seminar, Film Screening of “Japani”
Date & Time: Saturday, 29 March 2025, 2:00–4:30 (open at 13:30, Japan Time)
Venue: Maskawa Hall, Maskawa Building, North Campus, Kyoto University
■Endnote
Looking at my calendar, I murmured, “Kamogawa River today, aquarium tomorrow,” to which my children replied, “That sounds so fun!” I responded, “Right?” – but of course, it was all for work.
At the Kamogawa River, we conducted at small-scale fishery as part of a practical training session for third-year students in the Faculty of Agriculture. We applied for a special collection permit from Kyoto Prefecture, set up fish traps and used hand nets to scoop in the shallows. We were able to collect river creatures such as freshwater goby and freshwater sprat.
The following day at the Kyoto aquarium, we observed seal behavior. For a while, we plan to conduct seal observation in a week day about once a month. If you see a sign reading “Kyoto University – Research in Progress” hanging from a camera and me or a graduate student from the Graduate School of Agriculture nearby, please feel free to say hi when you visit the aquarium. (SK)
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