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.

October 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

【October Get Together】
・The monthly welcome and farewell party, Get Together, will be held on Thursday, October 23, 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 Associate】
・Malik, Alpraditia (Engeneering) : CSEAS welcomes Malik, Alpraditia as Program-specific Researcher (CSEAS-DAIKIN Project) from October 1 to March 31, 2026.
・Jose Eleazar Reynes Bersales (Anthropology): CSEAS welcomes Jose Eleazar Reynes Bersales as Visiting Research Scholar from November 1, 2025 to April 30, 2026.

【Visitor’s Voice】New interview article is available now. We asked them about their research, future ambitions, and more.
・Visitor’s Voice: Interview with Marady Oum: “The Vital Roles of Libraries and Archives”

【Call for short documentaries】VDP2025: Living “Deviance” (Applications deadline: November 30, 2025)

【Call for Application】Japan Foundation Southeast Asia Partnership (JFSEAP) Program: Visiting Fellowship (Inbound) / Grant Program for Japan-ASEAN Global Partnership (Application deadline: 1 p.m., December 2, 2025 (Japan Time))

【Call for participants】Kyoto University International Symposium 2025 on Education and Research in Global Environmental Studies in Asia (Dec 2–3, 2025 at IPB University, Bogor, Indonesia)

2. Upcoming Events

・International Conference – Encouraging Local Development in Southeast Asian Countries: Public Administration and Political Perspectives
　Date & Time: Saturday, 25 October 2025, 9:00–16:00 (JST) / 07:00–14:00 (WIB)
　Venue: Large Meeting Room (I333), 3rd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University / Online
　Co-host: Indonesian Association for Public Administration Scientists (AsIAN) / Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) Kyoto University

・Joint Dissemination Seminar
　Date & Time: Wednesday, 29 October 2025, 2:00–4:30 pm (Japan Time)
　Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
　Title: Maritime Security Governance against Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing: Comparative Study on Japan and Indonesia
　Speaker: Rafyoga Jehan Pratama Irsadanar (Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta), Saya Kiba (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)
　Discussant: Masaaki Okamoto (CSEAS), Indra Alverdian (GRIPS)
　Moderator: Mohammad Syaban (PhD Researcher, CSEAS)

・Special Seminar
　Date & Time: Thursday, 30 October 2025, 3:00–4:30 pm (Japan Time)
　Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
　Title: Religion and Climate Change: Examples from the Science–Policy Interface: IPCC, The Netherlands, and Thailand
　Speaker: Arthur C. Petersen (University College London)

・Tonan Talk
　Date and Time: Wednesday, 5 November 2025, 12–1 pm (Japan Time)
　Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
　Title: Japan’s Summer of Discontent: Migrants, Moral Panic, and Rethinking what is “Essential”
　Speaker: Mario Lopez (CSEAS)
　Commentator: Yunchen Tian (Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University)

・The 49th Southeast Asia Seminar
　Date: 19–24 November 2025
　Venue: Phnom Penh/Sihanoukville, Cambodia
　Theme: Global Disruptions and Southeast Asia: Exploring histories, narratives, and transdisciplinary challenges

・CSEAS Colloquium
　Date & Time: Thursday, 27 November 2025, 15:00–16:30 (Japan Time)
　Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
　Title: TBA
　Speaker: Vina A. Lanzona (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)

・CSEAS Colloquium
　Date & Time: Thursday, 4 December 2025, 3:00–4:30 pm (Japan Time)
　Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University / Online (Zoom)
　Title: The May 1998 Riots: Women Psychologists and the Entry of Trauma in Indonesian Popular Discourse
　Speaker: Hans Pols (Unversity of Sydney)
　Moderator: Chika Yamada (CSEAS)

3. Publications: Hot off the CSEAS Press

【Latest Issue】Southeast Asian Studies Vol. 14 No. 2 on August 28, 2025.
　Journal’s website / KURENAI / J-STAGE

【Latest Issue】Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Vol. 63, No. 1 on July 31.
　Journal’s website / KURENAI / J-STAGE
　
【Latest Issue】
・Special issue (41) titled “History with Documents: New Research on the Indonesian Left” of Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia is out on September 1, 2025. In this issue, Thiti Jamkajornkeiat serves as the guest editor and includes five articles. Each article is available in English, Japanese, Thai, Bahasa Indonesia, Filipino, Vietnamese, Myanmar, and new this issue, Kumer. Five book reviews are also available.

【New Article】
・TRENDSETTERS column “A Birdlike Flock Moving Without a Leader: Social Networks and Economic Pressures in the 2025 Indonesia Demonstrations” by Wahyu Prasetyawan, in Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia on October 1, 2025. 　
　
【Latest Issue】CSEAS monthly newsletter released on October 8.
　[Letter from the Kamogawa River] Hiroshi Ishii, “The Potential of Japanese Underwater Archaeology.”

【New Article】Yunihastuti E, Ophinni Y, Sari V, Adli I, Yamada C, Widhani A, Sanityoso A, Gani RA. Longitudinal changes in immune biomarkers following direct-acting antiviral therapy in HIV/HCV-coinfected individuals in Indonesia. Journal of Medical Virology. 2025 Oct 6; 97(10): e70627　http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmv.70627

【New Article】Simpson, A. “Japan’s economy needs foreign workers, not the nationalist approach pushed by its new leader.” The Conversation. 22 October 2025.

【Report】Ye Htet, “AYSEA 2025 ‘Asia in a Fragile World’,” SEASIA Official News, October 3, 2025.

4. Presentations

【Presentation】Julie Ann de los Reyes, (Panel, with Walden Bello, CP Chandrasekhar, and Chukki Nanjundaswamy) “Conversation on Globalization and Deglobalization,” and (Presentation) “The ‘Criticality’ of Critical Minerals: Implications for Energy Transitions and Global Power,” Focus on the Global South – Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute, 25 September 2025, Bangkok, Thailand.

【Presentation】Mario Lopez, “In ‘Migrant Workers’ We Trust? Bottom-up Co-existence and the Hard Limits of Japan’s Migration Policies,” Toward Enhanced ASEAN-Japan Mobility Cooperation: International Workshop on Issues Surrounding Japan-Southeast Asia’s Mobility, Ritsumeikan AJI Institute, 28 September 2025, Osaka Ibaraki.

5. Podcasts in Japanese: “Book Talk on Asia” 　

In this program, the Editorial Office, CSEAS introduces the latest books on Asia. The authors are invited to talk about the contents and background of their books. YouTube

6. Media Exposure

・Prof. Yusuke Murakami delivered a keynote speech on “Japanese Diplomacy Toward Latin America” at an international conference held at the Universidad del Pacífico in Lima, Peru, and the presentation was featured in the local newspaper La República on October 13, 2025.

・Prof. Masaaki Okamoto appeared in NHK World-JAPAN on September 26, 2025.
　“Gen Z Protests Spread across Asia,” NHK World-JAPAN, Asian View: Interview

7. Past Events

・CSEAS Colloquium
　Date & Time: Thursday, 16 October 2025, 12:00–13:00 (Japan Time)
　Venue: Tonantei (I201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
　Speaker: Jiří Jákl (Palacky University Olomouc / Visiting Research Scholar, CSEAS)
　Title: Extinct or Still Around? Javanese Large Mammals (the Javan Tiger, Rhinoceros, Elephant) and Their Histories
　Chair: Tomohiro Machikita (CSEAS)

・Learning Southeast Asian Culture and Society: Screening
　Date & Time: Friday, 26 September 2025, 18:00– (Japan Time)
　Venue: Multimedia Room 2, 1st Floor, East Bldg, CSEAS Kyoto University
　Title: Chungking Express 恋する惑星/重慶森林 (103min. Cantonese, with Japanese subtitles)

・CSEAS Reading Group Session
　Date & Time: Friday, 26 September 2025, 4pm– (Japan Time)
　Venue: Tonantei (I201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
　Book Title: Helen Czerski. Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World. Penguin, 2024.
　Instructor: Youdiil Ophinni (CSEAS)

・Special Seminar
　Date & Time: Wednesday, 24 September 2025, 3–6 pm (Japan Time)
　Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
　Title 1: The Hidden Political Economy of Apartment Governance in Jakarta
　Speaker 1: Ruriana Nafilah Anggraini (PhD Candidate, ASAFAS Kyoto University)
　Title 2: Reimagining Resistance: Feminist and Housing Rights Activism in Contemporary Indonesia
　Speaker 2: Intan Paramaditha (Macquarie University/Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan), Aryo Danusiri (University of Indonesia/rimpang collective)

・CSEAS Colloquium
　Date & Time: Wednesday, 24 September 2025, 2–4pm (Japan Time)
　Venue: Tonantei (I201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
　Title: Japan’s Legal Transplants and Their Discontents: A Critical Appraisal
　Speaker: Ratno Lukito (State Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta, Indonesia / Visiting Research Scholar, CSEAS) 　

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