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 2026 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 Friday, January 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】
・Renaud Charles Edouard Egreteau (Political Science): CSEAS welcomes Renaud Charles Edouard Egreteau as Visiting Research Scholar from February 1 to April 30.
・Kumudinei Dissanayake (Management and Organization Studies): CSEAS welcomes Kumudinei Dissanayake as Visiting Research Scholar from February 1 to July 31.
・Rapatsa Trirath: CSEAS welcomes Rapatsa Trirath as Guest Research Associate from January 16 to June 3.

【New!】CSEAS Report 2025–2026 published. Copies are available at the Editorial Office and the Research Liaison / Global Collaboration Support Offices.

【Call for Abstracts】SEASIA 2026 “Forging Southeast Asia’s Futures,” on July 8–10, 2026, at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Application deadline: 15 February 2026)

【Award】Congraturations to Dr. Satoko S. Kimra, who is the recipient of the 2026 Japanese Society of Fisheries Science Award (Scientific Achievement Award in Fisheries Science).

2. Upcoming Events

・CSEAS Colloquium
　Date & Time: Friday, 23 January 2026, 3:00–4:30 pm (Japan Time)
　Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
　Title: Non-Alignment via Multi-Alignments: Evidence from Southeast Asia in the Trump 2.0 Era
　Speaker: Kuik Cheng-Chwee (Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS),
National University of Malaysia (UKM) / Guest Scholar, CSEAS)
　Moderator: Yoshihiro Nakanishi (CSEAS)　

・Tonan Talk
　Date & Time: Thursday, 29 January 2026, 3:00–4:30 pm (Japan Time)
　Venue: Tonantei (I201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
　Title: Manifesto of the Durian: Smell and Area Studies
　Speaker: Fadjar Ibnu Thufail (BRIN)
　Organizer: Tomohiro Machikita, Youdiil Ophinni (CSEAS)

・CSEAS Reading Group Session
　Date & Time: Friday, 30 January 2026, 4 pm– (Japan Time)
　Venue: Tonantei (I201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
　Book Title: Mie Nakachi. Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union
　Presenter: Chika Obiya (CSEAS)

・GCR 2025 Annual Conference
　Date & Time: Thursday, 12–Friday, 13 February 2026,
　Venue: Large Meeting Room (I333), 3rd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University

・CAACCS×VDP Screening & Talk
　Date & Time: Friday, 13 February 2026, 7–9 pm (Japan Time)
　Venue: FabCafe Kyoto
　Theme: Together We Live: Documentary Films from Vietnam and Indonesia
　Co-organizer: Center for Africa-Asia Contemporary Studies, Kyoto Seika University & VDP, CSEAS Kyoto University

・CSEAS Colloquium
　Date: Friday, 27 February 2026
　Venue: TBA
　Title: Understanding Thailand’s 2026 Election: Political Contestation, Party Landscapes and Elite Power Structures
　Speaker: Prajak Kongkirati (Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University / Guest Scholar, CSEAS / JFSEAP Visiting Fellow)
　Discussant: Pavin Chachavalpongpun (CSEAS)　

3. Publications: Hot off the CSEAS Press

【Latest Issue】Southeast Asian Studies Vol. 14 No.3 on December 25.
　Journal Website / KURENAI / J-STAGE

【Forthcoming】Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Vol. 63, No. 2 will be at the end of January 2026.
　Journal Website / KURENAI / J-STAGE
　
【Advance Online Publication】
　Hoyeon Jo. “Toward a New Foundation for the Study of Vietnamese Genealogies: Compilation and Analysis of “The Catalogue of Genealogical Manuscripts Preserved in the Institute of Hán-Nôm Studies and the National Library of Vietnam”,” Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, advance online publication, January 21, 2026.

【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 “Japan’s Economic Security Strategy: A View from Southeast Asia,” by Aaron Jed Rabena, in Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia on January 1, 2026.
　 　
【Latest Issue】CSEAS monthly newsletter released on January 14.
　[Interview] “Toward Historical Research as a Foundation for Open Dialogue,” Interview with Taihei Kikuchi
　[Letter from the Kamogawa River] “In Praise of Idleness” by Mario Lopez 　

【New Article/Open Access】Takashi Iwata, Taichi Matsumoto, Mayu I. Ogawa, Tomonari Akamatsu, Takahide Araki, and Satoko S. Kimura (2026), “A possible example of the coexistence of dolphins and marine economic activity in Osaka Bay, Japan,” Aquatic Mammals, DOI: 10.1578/AM.52.1.2026.1

【New Article/Open Access】Nakajin, H., S. S. Kimura, Y. Mizutani, et al. 2026. “First Comprehensive Study of Telomere Length Measured by Southern Blot Hybridization and Oxidative Stress Across 12 Captive Marine Mammal Species.” Marine Mammal Science 42, no. 1: e70113. DOI: 10.1111/mms.70113

【New Article】Majid Daneshgar, “Reading Ismāʿīlī Islam in Aceh: Shāh Shams Sabziwārī’s Poems Copied in the 15th-Century Indonesia,” DABIR: Digital Archive of Brief notes & Iran Review 12 (2025): 40–45. doi: 10.1163/29497833-20230032
　
【New Article】Majid Daneshgar, “An Unknown Malay-Javanese Booklet Belonging to Thomas Erpenius: Early Days of the Shaṭṭārī Prayers in Indonesia,” DABIR: Digital Archive of Brief notes & Iran Review 12 (2025): 122–150. doi:10.1163/29497833-20230035

【New Article】Miele, M. (2025). A Bhutanese in Gyantse: The Treaty of Punakha and the Protection of Bhutanese Subjects. Studia Orientalia, 13(1), 65–70. DOI: 10.23993/store.157189

【New Article】Miele, M. (2025). Settembre a Kathmandu. Mondoperaio, 10, 21–24. https://hdl.handle.net/2158/1437912

【New Book】Sonam Kinga (2025). White Dragon and Red Dragon: Bhutan’s Historical and Geopolitical Encounters with China. Royal Institute for Governance and Strategic Studies, Phuentsholing, Bhutan.

【New Book】Rina Suryani Oktari, Nishi Yoshimi, Bokiraiya Latuamury, Budi Arianto, Suraiya Kamaruzzaman, 20 Perempuan Hebat dari Ambon: Jejak Langkah dalam Mengatasi Krisis dan Membangun Inspirasi, USK Press, 2025.

【New Book】Rina Suryani Oktari, Nishi Yoshimi, Suraiya Kamaruzzaman, Budi Arianto, Bokiraiya Latuamury, Kontribusi Perempuan Banda Aceh: Dalam Membangun Ketahanan Masyarakat di Masa Krisis, USK Press, 2025.

【Forthcoming/Foreword】Pavin Chachavalpongpun, “Foreword,” in Mark S. Cogan (ed.), Indo-Pacific Diaspora in Peace and Conflict Unity and Division in the Age of Transnational Repression, Routledge, Early 2026.

4. Presentations

【Presentation】Masayuki Yanagisawa, “Holistic Approach on Environmental History: From Agro-Ecological to Institutional Adaptation in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam,” Keynote Speech at the 10th International Conference on Science and Technology, University of Mataram, 19 November 2025, Senggigi, Lombok.

【Presentation】Tomohiro Machikita, “Do Deepening Suppliers Diversify? The Motorcycle Industries in Indonesia and Vietnam,” Special Session 1 – Empirical Development Economics: Policy, Technology, and Human Capital, the Vietnamese Academic Network in Japan (VANJ) Conference 2025 “Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the Digital Transformation Era”, 20 December 2025, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

【Presentation】Youdiil Ophinni, “Disasters and responses in each country and region: The Indonesian case,” Invited Presentation in the Japan Society for Southeast Asian Studies Research Meeting: Social Resilience in the Wake of the 2025 Southeast Asia Heavy Rainfall Disasters, Kyoto, Japan (Online), 24 December 2025.

【Presentation】Yoshimi Nishi, Opening Remarks and Discussion, the Japan Society for Southeast Asian Studies Research Meeting: Social Resilience in the Wake of the 2025 Southeast Asia Heavy Rainfall Disasters, Kyoto, Japan (Online), 24 December 2025.

【Chair】Hiroyuki Yamamoto, the Japan Society for Southeast Asian Studies Research Meeting: Social Resilience in the Wake of the 2025 Southeast Asia Heavy Rainfall Disasters, Kyoto, Japan (Online), 24 December 2025.

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

・Interviews with Professor Yoshihiro Nakanishi regarding Myanmar’s general election held in December were published in major media outlets including Mainichi Shimbun (December 25, 2025) and NNA ASIA (November 28, 2025).

・TANKEN Video 5-min. with Professor R. Michael Feener, Director of the Maritime Asia Heritage Survey (MAHS), was featured in the KyotoU Channel’s monthly feature “Solutions for the Climate Crisis.”

7. Past Events

・Special Seminar
　Date & Time: Monday, 19 January 2026, 3:00–4:30 (Japan Time)
　Venue: Seminar Room (I213), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
　Title: The Energy Transition in Indonesia: Looking at the Climate-Energy Politics
　Speaker: Niken Prilandita (Bandung Institute of Technology / Guest Research Associate, CSEAS / JFSEAP Visiting Fellow)
　Discussant: Julie de los Reyes (CSEAS)

・“Learning About Asian and African Cultures and Societies Through Film” Screening
　Date & Time: Thursday, 15 January 2026, 7 pm– (Japan Time)
　Venue: Multimedia Room 2, 1st Floor, East Building, CSEAS Kyoto University
　Title: Zulu War (1964, 138min., English and Zulu, with Japanese subtitles)

・CSEAS Bangkok Young Scholars Salon: Thailand in Transition
　Date & Time: Thursday, 15 January 2026, 3:30 pm– (Bangkok Time)
　Venue: Bangkok Liaison Office, CSEAS Kyoto University
　Organizer: Yalei Zhai (CSEAS)

・Special Seminar
　Date & Time: Thursday, 8 January 2026, 1:30–3:00 pm (Japan Time)
　Venue: Tonantei (I201), 2nd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
　Title: The Political Economy of Agricultural FDI and Food Security in Kampong Speu Province, Cambodia
　Speaker: Natalie Page (PhD researcher, University of Bath / Guest Research Associate, CSEAS)
　Discussant: Liu Zewen (Faculty of Economics, Shimonoseki City University)

・“Learning About Asian and African Cultures and Societies Through Film” Screening
　Date & Time: Friday, 26 December 2025, 6 pm– (Japan Time)
　Venue: Multimedia Room 2, 1st Floor, East Building, CSEAS Kyoto University
　Title: Drunken Master (1978, 111min., Cantonese with Japanese and English subtitles)

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