Global COE Program - Kyoto University - In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa

Date: February 3rd (Fri.), 2012  16:00-18:00
Location: AA401, 4th Floor, Research Building No. 2, Yoshida Campus,
Kyoto University
(Access Map: http://www.asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/about/access.html)
 

Speaker: Dr. Jagannath Adhikari (Visiting Professor, ASAFAS, Kyoto
University and Executive Director, Nepal Institute for Development
Studies)

Title:  Globalization and socio-economic change in Nepal: Implications
for collective action for resource management.

 

   Abstract:  Globalization has led to tremendous changes in Nepali
economy and society, particularly since the early 1990s. The changes
are seen in the greater integration of the villages and urban areas to
the global sphere through the movement of people and goods and
commodities, and inflow of cultural images of progress and
modernization in the developed countries through increased access to
media. The other concomitant changes are the greater reliance on
non-farm income for household and village economy, and in greater
political assertion of the community and group interests. These
changes were partly resulted because of the new-found economy detached
from various forms of community-based patron-client relationships, and
increased consciousness of, and search for, the group’s identity. The
paper argues that this socio-economic change led by globalization is
one of the main forces behind growing ‘identity politics’ seen in
Nepal in recent times. This new social/political formation has
consequences for resource management in village Nepal for which
‘collective action’ is necessary. It has, on the one hand, helped in
demanding the rights for resources, and on the other hand, put various
challenges for collective action for resource management, particularly
land and forests.

This seminar is jointly organized by South Asia and Indian Ocean
Studies Seminar, ASAFAS, Kyoto University and the Nepal Academic
Network (NAN) （https://sites.google.com/site/nanjp09/）

Date and Time: Jan.26（Thu), 2012 11:45-13:00
Place: Tonan-tei
(Room No. 201 on the second floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Hall)

*****Our Guests of this month*****

<Visiting Research Fellow >
Baker Christopｈer John　(Research Title: Land population, and state
in Siam, 1600 to present) From UK

Pasuk Phongpaichit（Research Title: Determinants of Wealth
Concentration in Thailand） From Thailand

Feener　Roy Michael（Research Title:　Shari’s and Social Engineering :
The Implementation of Islamic Law in Contemporary Aceh）From USA

Pranee Kiriyanant（Research Title: Survey of Open Source integrated
Library System in Thai university libraries　In Bangkok and Pathum
Thahi) From Thailand

 

〈Visiting Researcher & Project Researcher〉
Lou　Apolinario　Antolihao（Research Title: Tourism Development, Local
Livelihood Systems, and the Impact of the　East ASEAN Growth Area
Initiative.)From Philippines

Keith　David　Barney（Policy　Analyst, Forest Trends.　Washington DC）
From　Canada

・Kok-Boon Neoh（Post-Doctoral　Fellow, Vector Control Research Unit,
Urban Entomology Laboratory, School of Biological Sciences, Universiti
Sains Malaysia） From Malaysia

 

〈A Short-term international Student〉
Rizky Ramadhan（Research　Title：　Green　Marketing）From　Indonesia

Agustinus Dadang Fajar Suryanto（Research Title:　Role of Railway in the
Development Comparative Study Between Japan and Indonesia）From　Indonesia

Date, 15:00～18:00 Wednesday, 25th January, 2012
Place: Inamori Foundation memorial Bldg., Tonan-Tei on the 2nd floor

Program:
1) Speaker: Dr.Kok-Boon Neoh, CSEAS, Kyoto University
Title: "Termite biology and ecology - Its potential as ecosystem service
provider"

2) Speaker: Dr. Keith Barney, CSEAS, Kyoto University
Title: “The Making of an Environmental State in Laos: Comparative
Studies in Forest Concession Governance and the Dynamics of Upland
Agrarian Transformation”.

Date： December 17-18, 2011
Venue： Inamori Foundation Building, Third Floor, Middle-Sized Conference Room, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

East Asia is rich in its diversity of ethnic, religious and cultural composition. By and large the region has maintained the coexistence of such diversity while at the same time achieving economic progress, becoming the hub of the flow of people, goods, money and information. Yet the region is also confronted with serious issues such as the decrease of biodiversity and tropical forest, disasters, pandemics, aging population, ethnic and religious conflicts, economic differentiation and poverty. In the face of this, how is coexistence and sustainability possible despite or on account of diversity?

For this purpose, we promote the study of plural coexistence which connects the global and the local dynamically, towards mending the political and economic imbalances of globalization. How can we make public resources out of the region’s social foundations at the basis of people’s everyday lives? How can we connect these in a complementary way with existing systems of governance towards solving problems and issues mentioned above?

This proposed workshop is the first of a workshop series to take place in Kyoto (Dec. 2011), Singapore (2012), and Guangzhou (2013), representing a core component of institutional linkages among the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University in Kyoto, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. The research themes of the workshops are closely linked with the research program entitled “Towards Sustainable Humanosphere in Southeast Asia” currently being undertaken at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University (http://www.humanosphere.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/) and with two of the Five Peaks of Excellence at NTU, namely, “Sustainable Earth” and “The New Silk Road.” (http://enewsletter.ntu.edu.sg/classact/Nov10/Pages/cn2a.aspx). These themes will also have the potential of being connected with the on-going developments of the Sino-Singapore Knowledge City in Guangzhou of which NTU is one of the major participants.
Program>> (20111117UP)

Date： 15:00～17:00 Thuesday, November 8, 2011
Venue： Meeting Room , the 3rd floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Hall

Date： October 18, 2011 14:00-16:00
Venue： Tonantei

Speaker： Joannes Wibisono, CSEAS Visiting Research Fellow

Title： "Fascination with Fascism: Japan and Germany in the Indies of the 1930s”

 

Abstract：
Japan’s victory over Russia in 1905 became an eye opener for many Asian nations the majority of which were still colonized by western powers. It catapulted Japan into a model Asian nation well into 1930s when it embraced fascism. Information and knowledge about Japan filtered through to the Indies mainly through publications written in Dutch, which, in turn, originated from Germany, a close ally of Tokyo. In the Indies admiration for Japan also grew into fascination for Germany.

Ki Hadjar Dewantara, leader of the educational institute Taman Siswa and father of the Indonesian national education admired Japan for its tradition of Kokuka or “to govern a nation as a family”. Dewantara emphasized the importance of family, which he considered sacred and he educated his pupils as if they were part of his family, the so-called Among System.

In 1930 Dewantara was elected dictator of Taman Siswa as part of his strategy to resist attempts by Dutch colonial authority to shut down Taman Siswa. And it worked. He also succeeded, for the first time ever, in uniting nationalist organisations in the Indies.

There are some striking parallels between Dewantara and Soeharto. First and foremost Dewantara wanted a strong leader for the nation, which Soeharto was indeed during his 32 years of Neuordnung. Soeharto also governed Indonesia as if he presided over a family. Not only did he confuse being head of a family with being head of state, he also did not abide any opposition.

In Dewantara’s fascination with pre-war Japan and Germany, we discover the origins of Soeharto’s dictatorship and also, perhaps, a history of the Indonesian Right.

Date: October 8-10, 2011

Place: Kihada Hall, Uji Campus - Kyoto University

 

 

for more information, please visit our website:
http://www.sustain-kyoto.com/index.php/sustain/sustain2011

 

Date: September 1, 2011 13:00-17:00
Venue: Small Meeting Room I (Room no. 330), 3rd floor, Inamori
Foundation Memorial Building, CSEAS, Kyoto University
Contact: Kobayashi Satoru (CSEAS, Kyoto University)

Workshop: “Development and Human Security in Cambodia”
 

Program:

13:00-13:10 Opening

13:10-13:35
Heng Molyaneth (Graduate School of International
Development, Nagoya University)
Title: Economic effects of cross-border migration: Analysis on
productive investment and consumption of migrant households

13:35-14:00
Cheng Savuth (Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya University)
Title: Industry Linkages, Technology Gap, Absorptive Capacity, and
Productivity Spillover from Foreign Firms: Evidence from Firms in Cambodia

14:00-14:25
Sim Piseth (Graduate School of International Development,
Nagoya University)
Title: The Potential of Oil and Gas Industry in Cambodia

14:25-14:40 Coffee Break

14:40-15:05
Ham Oudom (Master course of Anthropology-Sociology, Royal
University of Phnom Penh)
Title: Access to Education of Indigenous Peoples in Cambodia

15:05-15:30
Uy Saret (Department of Sociology, Royal University of
Phnom Penh)
Title: Community based Natural Resource Management and Livelihood
Changes: Ethnic Cham people in Chong Kneas Commune.

15:30-15:55
Phon Sovatna (Graduate School of Integral Agriculture and
Rural Development)
Title: A Study of Farmer Water User Committee (FWCC) of the SCIRIP
project, Kampong Thum

15:55-16:20
Kong Sothea (Graduate School of Integral Agriculture and
Rural Development)
Title: Study on the present of E.Coli and vibrio in the fresh cultured
fish and its fermented products (Nam Sach Trey).

16:20-17:00 Discussion

17:00 Closing

Title: "The First Encounter of Southeast Asian Care Workers with Japanese Patients and Cared Elderly: Examinations on Controversial Human-Mobility Projects under the Economic Partnership Agreements"

Speaker: Dr. Shun Ohno, Visiting Professor of Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

Date: July 14th（Thurs.), 2011, 12:00 - 13:30

Place: Tonan-tei (Room No. 201) on the 2nd floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University

 

Abstract:
One year after Japan became a ‘super-aging society’ in 2007, it began to receive Indonesian and Filipino nurses and caregivers in its labor market, and might be accept Vietnamese and Indian care workers in the near future. This new government- government (G-G) project commenced in accordance with Japan’s Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the Philippines and Indonesia having huge young populations. Between 2008 and 2011, a total of over 1,300 Indonesian and Filipino nurse and certified care worker (kaigo-fukushishi) ‘candidates’ have entered Japan, and have been under training and employment all over Japan. Expectedly or unexpectedly, they have faced a number of problems at their workplaces that were not opened to foreign workers until recently. Based on his extensive fieldwork in Japan and abroad, the lecturer will overview the past implementation of the EPA programs and discuss the limitations and possibilities of border-crossing care in the country of linguistic homogeneity.

  

Self-introduction
Shun Ohno received his MA from University of the Philippines Asian Center, and his PhD from Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University. He has experiences to work as a staff writer and assistant editor for Mainichi Shimbun for 22 years. He worked as president of Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines in 1994-95. He joined Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University as a visiting professor in 2010 after he finished to work as director of Kyushu University Asia Center. He has worked as representative of the international research team on border-crossing care workers from Southeast Asia to Japan since 2007. His publications include Media Bunka to Sogo Imeiji Keisei - Nicchūkan no Aratana Kadai [Media culture and mutual images: New issues for Japan, China and Korea] (ed.), Kyushu Daigaku Shuppan-kai, 2010; Japanese Diasporas: Unsung Pasts, Conflicting Presents, and Uncertain Future (coauthored), Routledge, 2006; Kankō Kōsu de nai Firipin - Rekishi to Genzai, Nihon to no Kankei-shi [Alternative courses in the Philippines: History, present and historical relations with Japan], 3rd edn. Kobunken, 2000.

 

Title: "Infrastructure Development and Human Security in the Greater
Mekong Sub-Region : a Case Study of Northeastern Thailand"

Speaker: Thanyathip Sripana, Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for
Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

Date: July 7th（Thurs.), 2011, 12:00 - 13:30

Place: Tonan-tei (Room No. 201) on the 2nd floor of Inamori Foundation
Memorial Building, Kyoto University

 

Thanyathip Sripana is a senior researcher and lecturer at the
Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University. She is also
guest lecturer in various institutions in Thailand, and occasionally
gives lecture in Vietnam and Malaysia. Receiving a scholarship from
the French government, she earned her doctorate degree from Faculte de
Droit et de Science Politique, Universite d’Aix-Marseille III, in
France. Vietnamese Studies has taken up much of her time since 1988,
with her experience doing research in France, Canada, Japan, and
countries in the Mekong Sub-Region : Laos and Cambodia. She has been
conducting in-depth research in Vietnam in particular.

 

Abstract:
Infrastructure development is a key element of the GMS approach to
overall development in Mekong Sub-region. The transport corridors
development are the chief means of achieving connectivity, which is
included in three Cs strategy : connectivity, competitiveness and
community. The objective of infrastructure development is to transform
these transport corridors into fully fledged economic corridors
highlighting trade, investment, tourism, etc. In addition, the
benefits of improved transport linkages will reach to remote and
landlocked areas in the GMS.

The major transport corridors are the North-South corridor, the
East-West Corridor, and the Southern Corridor. The North-South
corridor connects Kunming and Bangkok, through alternative routes– one
via Lao PDR and the other via Myanmar .
The East-West Corridor is running from Da Nang at the coast of Viet
Nam west to Lao PDR and through Thailand to Mawlamyine at the coast of
Myanmar on the Andaman Sea . The Southern Corridor runs from Dawei on
the Myanmar coast, then through Bangkok , then through the
Thailand-Cambodia border at Aranyaprathet-Poipet. From this point, it
seperates into two routes. The first one goes eastward through Siem
Reap, Stung Treng and then through the border with Viet Nam and onward
to Quy Nhon. The second route is from Aranyaprathet-Poipet to Phnom
Penh , to Ho Chi Minh City , and extends to Vung Tau. The Southern
Coastal Corridor runs along the Gulf of Thailand on the coasts of
Thailand , Cambodia and Viet Nam – from Bangkok through Trat, then Koh
Kong, Sre Ambel, Sihanoukville, and Kampot in Cambodia , before
reaching Ha Tien in Kien Giang , Vietnam , and continuing to Ca Mau
and Nam Can, the southmost of Vietnam . The corridors create broad
networks with many intersecting points that cover the entire
sub-region.

Transport corridors facilitate economic development through the
mobility of goods and people across borders, and also between remote
and disadvantaged areas, and more prosperous areas in the Mekong
Sub-region. This movement; however, can have a negative impact on
human security as well. Connectivity and infrastructure development
can facilitate illicit activities such as smuggling of goods, drug
trafficking, casinos in border towns, human trafficking (through labor
migration), prostitution, and even human communicable diseases
including viruses from animal sources. Thailand is confronted by all
of these health and social issues and must be prepared to face
increasing pressure to respond as the region develops.

Mukdahan and Nakhon Phanom in northeastern Thailand is a passage and
an area of concern on human security issues related to drug
trafficking, and labor migration from Vietnam and Laos exacerbated by
infrastructure development. Due to the construction of the Mekong
bridge between Sawannakhet and Mukdahan, it has facilitated drug
trafficking and labor migration, and the establishment of a Casino in
Sawannakhet. The Casino attracts Thais, and Vietnamese from the
central Vietnam. A new casino is expected to be set up after a new
Mekong bridge connects Thakhek and Nakhon Phanom. Other routes in the
sub-region, such as, Routes 8, 9, 12 and 13 have facilitated these
changes and issues of security as well.

 

Title: "Short review of collective research in French Southeast Asia Center & personal research underway on Laotian and Thai textile collections and genetically modified silkworms in Japan"

Speaker: Annabel VALLARD, CSEAS Visiting Project Researcher

Date: June 30th（Thurs.), 2011, 12:00 - 13:30

Place: Room No. 107 on the 1st floor of East building, CSEAS, Kyoto University

 

Short self-introduction: Annabel VALLARD is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Southeast Asia Center (CNRS / EHESS, Paris, France). She obtained her Phd in social anthropology at the university of Paris 10 Nanterre in February 2009. Her thesis focused on textile industry in Vientiane area. Based on a two years ethnography, the thesis followed the thread at all stages of its transformation, distribution and consumption with a special interest on the Morning Market and some private international workshops. Her last paper titled “Laotian textiles in between markets and the politics of culture” had been recently published in JSEAS (June 2011).

 

Webpage:
http://case.vjf.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article382

http://ehess.academia.edu/AnnabelVallard/About

 

Abstract:
This presentation will be organized in two parts. The first part will be dedicated to the presentation of the French Southeast Asia Center (CNRS / EHESS) and some collective research that are underway at the center. The second part will be dedicated to Annabel’s research on textiles and her plan in Japan. As you may know, in Southeast Asia, weaving and its products are linked to a long history of practices and representations that have recently undergone considerable transformation. These changes are related to globalization and the increasingly integrated flows of capitals, human beings and goods at an international scale. From fibers to garments, a number of Southeast-Asian countries have been deeply involved since the 1980’s into the world of textile and apparel industry which nowadays plays a key role in their economies. The postdoctoral project aims to explore two facets of Southeast Asian textiles globalized networks through a focus on: 1/ innovative fibers production and use, in particular bio-textile issued from genetic engineering; 2/ collections of ancient fabrics that populate private galleries and public museums. The purpose is to question, at every stage of these networks, the ways in which humans make these materials and textiles collections exist by giving them a presence in the physical world as well as in the symbolic sphere.
This ethnographically based project is focused on two mainland Southeast Asian countries: the Lao PDR and Thailand. The comparison is important at least for two reasons: 1/ The Lao PDR and Thailand are not only large producers, consumers and exporters of handcrafted textiles, but this craft widely models the social images and imaginations of individual as well as collective; 2/ The Lao PDR and Thailand share a common cultural ground, the dominant political population being Tai ethnic groups. However, during the 20th century they experienced contrasted political and socioeconomic developments, resulting in one being a constitutional monarchy, the other being a socialist republic.
Japan is a particularly interesting interface to develop this project notably because Japanese collectors and biotechnologists are deeply involved in the Laotian and Thai textiles production, collection and commercialization creating in this way polymorphous innovative textiles networks connecting Japan with Thailand and Laos – and more generally Southeast-Asia – that I shall explore from an anthropological perspective.

 

Date： June 15, 2011 16:00-18:00
Venue： Room No.331, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University

Speaker： Shamsul A. B.
Distinguished Professor of Social Anthropology, Director, Institute of Ethnic Studies (KITA), National University of Malaysia (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)

Title： "From Conflict to Cohesion: The analytical challenge in Southeast Asian Studies”

Organizer：Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)"Planted Forests in Equatorial Southeast Asia: Human-nature Interactions in High Biomass Society"

Abstract：
Southeast Asia as a form of knowledge, as being presented in the field of Southeast Asian studies, popularized and expanded during the Cold War has privileged what could be called as a ‘conflict approach’ in which the workings of centrifugal forces as the ruling societal pattern informed analyses regarding the region and its component countries. Underpinning this conflict approach was the well-known ‘domino theory.’ Therefore, each component country was perceived as a domino that would fall one after another as communism expanded its influence in the region, namely, from Mainland Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Burma) to the Maritime part of the region (Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and the Philippines). Social scientists, working independently or for the noncommunist countries (USA, UK, France, Germany), held the viewpoint that the internal conflict and struggle within the region made it fragile and vulnerable to communist takeover. Saving the region from communist takeover became almost a ‘political salvation’ for both the noncommunist bloc and the majority of their social scientists. Although the Cold War was over in 1989, the conflict-based analytical paradigm persists until today. The countries of the region continued to be seen as fragile and vulnerable exposed to new transnational forces, such as global fundamental Islamic activism, that would find roots locally rather easily. Political analysts often playing the ‘prophet of doom’ role frequently offer negative predictions about the future of these societies. It was predicted once that the fall of Suharto would lead to the breaking down of Indonesian unity as a nation-state. Malaysia was predicted to suffer from serious bloody ethnic conflicts every time an economic crisis occurred in Asia. But none of these has actually taken place. Why it didn’t happen has also to be explained. Perhaps, as this presentation shall argue, that it is useful to approach this issue sociologically from a ‘cohesion approach’ with the assumption that the plural societies in Southeast Asia are generally in a state of ‘stable tension’ meaning they have been surviving in a situation dominated by major societal contradictions but nonetheless, longitudinally, remains generally cohesive. In other words, there is social cohesion within these societies, but the journey has not been plain sailing. Empirical evidence from Malaysia shall be presented as a case study.
Shamsul A.B. is Distinguished Professor of Social Anthropology and, currently, Founding Director, Institute of Ethnic Studies (KITA), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia. He has researched, written and lectured extensively, in the last 25 years, on the theme “politics, culture and economic development,” with an empirical focus on Malaysia and Southeast Asia. His award-winning monograph From British to Bumiputera Rule (1986, reprinted 1990, 2nd edition 2004) is a study on the phenomenology of class and ethnic relations in a Malaysian rural community. His academic activism takes many forms: conferences and lecture tours in Asia, Europe, North & South America & the Oceania; public policy formulation in Malaysian higher education; museum re-conceptualization projects; and as a political analyst on Malaysia current affairs in local and international media (Channel News Asia, Al-Jazeera, National Geographic, Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the BBC). Recently, he was awarded the prestigious ACADEMIC PRIZE 2008, of the Fukuoka Prize, Japan.

Date: 25 May, 2011  16:00-18:00
Venue: Inamori Building, Small Meeting Room 1
Presenter: Ken Kassem, Head of Marine Conservation, WWF Malaysia

 

ABSTRACT:
Malaysia sits in the middle of the world's most biodiverse
seas. Regional agreements, including the Sulu Sulawesi Marine Ecoregion
and the Coral Triangle Initiative have shaped the direction of marine
conservation and coastal management. However, political and historical
realities have an influence, which makes adhering to agreements
challenging for local authorities, resource managers and local
communities. At the same time, marine resource status and local
livelihoods continue to suffer.

 

Title: Colonial Policing in the Dutch East Indies: The Case of the
Ambonese in the Armed Police

Speaker: Martin Thiry, Visiting Project Researcher, CSEAS

Date: May 12th（Thurs.), 2011, 12:00 - 13:30

Place: Tonan-tei (Room No. 201), on the 2nd floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University

Abstract:
The role of ethnic minorities in colonial policing is integral
to the rise of the nation-state and an expression of agency on the part
of minority groups in the development of the nation-state. During the
late colonial period in the Dutch East Indies an amalgamation of ethnic
minorities, referred to collectively as the Ambonese, served as policing
agents. In this capacity the Ambonese have been understood as subject
forces and less as actors, obscuring a fuller history of the Ambonese as
colonial police. The introduction of armed police units allowed the the
so-called pacification of the archipelago, particularly in the Outer
Islands where no more than nominal colonial control had been exercised.
The Ambonese would serve prominently in the marechausse and later in the
much more robust armed police, critically in their own home areas. The
ways in which they served in the years 1890-1946 helped lay foundations
for the Indonesian nation-state. The Dutch and, later the Japanese,
were trying to form and keep together the colonial state; with the help
of the Ambonese they served to cohere Indonesia.

Bio Info: Martin Thiry is a PhD candidate at the University of Hawaii.
After graduating from Harvard in 2000 he worked for the New Orleans
Police Department as a patrolman and robbery detective. Currently, he
is a Foreign Researcher in Residence at Kyoto University.

Contact: Satoru KOBAYASHI, CSEAS

Speaker: Professor Reynaldo Clemeña Ileto

Date: April 21, Thursday, 16:00-17:30

Venue: Rm. 332 (Middle-Sized Room), Inamori Foundation Hall

 

ABSTRACT:

Teodoro Agoncillo’s classic monograph, The Revolt of the Masses: The Story of Andres Bonifacio and the Katipunan was written in 1948 but published only in 1956. In this talk, I try to draw out the book’s connection with the cultural campaign during the Japanese occupation, the political turmoil that followed “Liberation” and the granting of independence, and the Cold War and its manifestation in the Huk rebellion and its suppression. The book’s timely appearance is linked to the importance placed by national leaders and political activists on “unfinished revolution” as a primary trope in electoral campaigns, nation-building projects, and mass mobilization in the 1950s. Significantly, the book was published on the same year that a heated public debate was raging over a Senate bill to require the reading of Rizal’s novel’s in all schools. The talk winds up with personal reflections on the influence of Revolt of the Masses in the making of Pasyon and Revolution, and the reasons why I am taking a second look at Revolt today.

REYNALDO CLEMEÑA ILETO is Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. He authored Magindanao, 1860-1888: The Career of Datu Uto of Buayan (1971, 2007); Pasyon and Revolution: Popular Movements in the Philippines, 1840-1910 (1979, 2011); and Filipinos and their Revolution: Event, Discourse, and Historiography (1998). He also wrote “Religion and Anticolonial Movements” for the Cambridge History of Southeast Asia (1992) and Knowing America’s Colony, A Hundred Years from the Philippine War (1999). He has been Associate Professor at the University of the Philippines, Tañada Chair Professor at De La Salle University, Burns Chair Professor at the University of Hawaii, Reader at James Cook University and Australian National University, and Research Scholar at CSEAS, Kyoto University and ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. His works have earned him the Benda Prize, Ohira Prize, Philippine National Book Award, Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize, and Grant Goodman Prize.

 

 

Title: Language Use and Linguistic Landscapes among Cambodia Muslims: Reflections from the field

Speaker: Dr. Nathan Badenoch, Associate Professor, Hakubi Project, Kyoto University

Date: April 18th (Mon.), 2011, 12:00-13:00

Place: Middle sized meeting room (Rm.332), Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University

Abstract:
Muslims are a diverse and dynamic minority group in Cambodia. In addition to the local ethnic, historical and doctrinal differences that exist among Cambodian Muslims, they are linking up with regional and global networks in different ways. To do this, people are using Malay, Thai, Arabic and other languages, in both spoken and written form, in addition to the Khmer and Cham languages used locally. In this talk we
will discuss our observations and reflections from a field trip to explore how language expresses linkages within multilayered networks. The talk is structured around a discussion of two elements of language: spoken/written language use in daily life, and the linguistic landscape of Muslim spaces.

Date & Time: March 18th (Fri.), 2011, 12:00-14:00
Place: Small-sized Meeting Room II (Room No. 331), Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Topic: "Targeting Translation: US Counterinsurgency and the Weaponization of Language"
Speaker: Prof. Vicente L. Rafael, University of Washington
 

Abstract:
Much has been written recently about the rise of counterinsurgency, stressing the "protection of the population" as the preferred strategy of the U.S. in its permanent "global war on terror". In this talk, I will focus on two of the most prevalent tropes in the discourse of counterinsurgency: the "weaponization" and "targeting" of foreign languages. How is the counterinsurgent notion of languages as "weapons" and "targets" linked to the strategic imperative of deploying translation as a means for colonizing the life world of occupied populations? How does the American military seek to expropriate the practice of translation through the development of automatic translation systems and the exploitation of the mediating power of native interpreters? What are the limits and contradictions to the targeting of speech and the militarization of linguistic exchange between occupiers and occupied? What do these limits on the weaponization of translation tell us about the vicissitudes of counterinsurgency as a strategy for sustaining the US empire?
 

Vicente L. Rafael is Professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. He is the author of several works on the colonial Philippines, including Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society Under Early Spanish Rule (Duke UP, 1993), White Love and other Events in Filipino History (Duke UP 2000), and more recently, The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines (Duke UP, 2005). His current research deals with the use and abuse of language by the US military in its attempts to mobilize translation in its "global war on terror."
 

This is an announcement of an International Seminar on "Change and Persistence in Cambodian Society" at Phnom Penh, Cambodia on the coming Saturday, jointly organized by the Faculty of Agricultural  Economics and Rural Development of Royal University of Agriculture, Collaborative Research on 'State formation and Community', Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University (Leader: Dr. Sasagawa Hideo, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University), and the Cambodia Fieldstation of Kyoto University GCOE Program 'In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa'.

Date: March 12, Saturday
Place: Seminar room No.5, Cambodia Japan Cooperation Center

Program:

12:50-13:00 Welcome and Introduction by Dr. Kobayashi Satoru (CSEAS, Kyoto University)

13:00-13:40 Dr. Kobayashi Satoru (CSEAS, Kyoto University),
"Reconfiguration of Cambodian rural community: 1979-2002"

13:40-14:20 Dr. Yagura Kenjiro (Hannan University, Osaka)
"Effects of youth labor migration on the selection of spouse, place of residence and land inheritance in Cambodia"

14:20-14:30 Break

14:30-15:10 Ms. Yoeu Asikin (Lecturer, Royal University of Agriculture)
"Willingness to pay for the conservation of flooded forest in TonleSap Biosphere preserve, Cambodia"

15:10-15:50 Mr. Pinn Thira (Lecturer, Royal University of Agriculture)
"The effectiveness of vegetable production in farmers livelihood at Wat Chas village, Kampong Cham province"

15:50-16:30 Mr. Duk Piseth (Lecturer, Royal University of Agriculture)
"The study of farmers' attitude towards Stung Chinet irrigation, Kampong Thom Province"

16:30-16:50 Break

16:50-18:00 Discussion
Discussants, Dr. Nathan Badenoch (CSEAS-Hakubi, Kyoto University), Dr. Sasagawa Hideo (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)

18:00-18:10 Summary and Nest Steps by Dr. Kobayashi Satoru (CSEAS, Kyoto University)
 

The public lecture, "Let's Learn about Nursing in Asia", co-hosted by Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Kyushu University and Osaka Nursing Association will be held at Osaka Nursing Association in Osaka City on 26th Feb. 2011. Dr. Shun Ohno, Visiting Professor of CSEAS is one of main organizers.
    The attached files are detailed program and application form written in English and Japanese.  If you are interested in this lecture, please apply to Osaka Nursing Association by fax before 10th Feb.

◆ Speakers and titles of the lectures ◆

Opening remarks: Dr. Shun Ohno, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Reiko Ogawa, Graduate School of Law, Kyushu University
Ms.Yuriko Toyoda, President, Osaka Nursing Association

1.Assoc. Prof. Yuko Ohara-HIRANO, Graduate School of Medical Sciences,
Kyushu University
“How do hospitals evaluate the Economic Partnership Agreement?”

2. Ms. Kumiko Takasu, Director of Nursing Department, Satoh Hospital (Osaka)
“Our Experience of Accepting Indonesian Nurses in our Hospital”

3. Ms. Keiko Fujiwara, Deputy Head Nurse, Toneyama Hospital (Osaka)
（Committee for the International Cooperation of Osaka Nursing Association）
“An Exchange Program with Filipino Nurses at Osaka Nursing Association”

4. Prof. Cora Anonuevo, College of Nursing, University of the Philippines Manila
“The Nursing Education and the Board Examination System in the Philippines”

5. Dr. Setyowati, Faculty of Nursing, University of Indonesia
“The Nursing Education and the Board Examination System in Indonesia ”

6. Prof. Yoshichika Kawaguchi, University of Occupational and Environmental Health
“Nursing Education in Indonesia, Philippines and Japan”

7. Dr. Bachtiar Alam, Faculty of Humanities, University of Indonesia
“Cultural Friction and Language Barriers Experienced by Foreign Nurses”

8. Panel Discussion
Coordinator: Dr. Shun Ohno
“Accepting Foreign Nurses – For Developing Better Programs”

 

Date: From 13h00 to 15h00 of the 3rd Feb. 2011.
Venue: Middle sized Conference Room, Inamori Centre, Kyoto U.
http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/access/campus/pharm.htm

Objectives of the Conference:
There exists so many discussions concerning the both of positive and negative aspects of petnetration of globalization into world's peripheries. In this petit-conference, we are going to examime the
mythes of harmful global economy and of helpful global economy to local people's lovelihoods in Cameroon based on detailed observation on local people's various perceotion and practices against entangled processes of globalization of food and agriculture.

Program:
13h00-13h10 Opening remark and Introduction of Mr. Abdourahman Zourba
13h10-13h40 "Food security, concepts, current status and strategies in Cameroon"  (Abdourahman Z., FAO, Cameroon)
13h40-14h00 "Cash crop and labor system in the multiethnic contexts in East Cameroon"  (Oishi T., Kokoro Research Centre, Kyoto U.)
14h00-14h20 "The Relationship between Agriculture and Hunting-gathering in Southern Cameroon" (Sakanashi K., Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto U.)
14h20-14h30 Comments (Araki S., ASAFAS, Kyoto U.)
14h30-15h00 General Discussion (All participants)
***
18h00- Mixer at Japanese Resraurant

*Any queries should be addressed to Mr. Oishi :takanori(at)educ.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Date: 27 January 2010, 16:00-
Place: Middle-sized meeting room (Room.no. 332) on the third floor of Inamori Memorial Hall


Speaker: Dr. Attachai JINTRAWET (CSEAS Visiting Research Fellow, Chiang Mai University)
Topics:
1. "A Decision Support System Research and Development Network for Agriculture and Natural Resources Management: A TRF-DSS Experience"*
*2. Climate change and rice production in Thailand.*


*1. "A Decision Support System Research and Development Network for Agriculture and Natural Resources Management: A TRF-DSS Experience"*
*Summary*
Agricultural and natural resources are the foundation of social and economic development in Thailand since her first national plan in 1960s.  With un-integrated utilization, agricultural productivity as well as natural resources rapidly deteriorated, leading to multi-dimensional problems.  The Thailand Research Fund (TRF) established a Decision Support Systems (DSS) research and development network (TRF-DSS) in 2002 to address issues of agriculture and natural resources management problems. Using a "systems" approach, a problem is viewed from the DSS framework, allow researchers and users to draw and integrate key components as well as to define database and modelbase management systems.

This talk describes the TRF-DSS research and development network, consists of 14 universities and one line agencies in Thailand.  Between 2002-2010, more than twenty DSS tools being developed and used by users at various levels, ranging from policy makers and the provincial and local government levels, performing short and long term planning and management to improve conditions. I would hope that the TRF-DSS network provides a platform for multi-disciplinary teams to tackle issues at various levels.

*2. Climate change and rice production in Thailand.*
*Summary*
Rice-based cropping systems in Thailand is one of the sensitive areas which would be influenced by change in climate characteristic and pattern, which induced by global warming.  During my stay at CSEAS-Kyoto, CropDSS shell will be used to link the CSM-CERES-Rice model version 4.0.2.0 with future climate scenarios from the PRECIS regional climate model (RCM) to downscale the ECHAM4 Global Climate Model (GCM) for Thailand.  I am also collaborating with Prof. TACHIKAWA team (of the Hydrology and water resources research laboratoty, Department of Civil and Earth Resources Engineering in Katsura campus) to use the MRI climate model outputs with CropDSS shell.  I have met with the team at Katsura campus on December 17, 2010 and on January 24, 2011, we have organized a the first small technical meeting at CSEAS in room 107.

The data from ECHAM4 Global Circulation Model under SRES A2 and B2 scenarios, downscaled to higher resolution to project the climate during 1980-2099.  A slightly decline in main season rice yields were predicted under all production systems before 2040s period and drastically decreased after 2040s period.  However, one should bear in mind that the predicted amount of rainfall and the relationship of more incidents of insect pests.
Finally, the CropDSS shell and the CSM-CERES-rice model may be used to evaluate alternative adaptive production strategies under future climate scenarios projected by the ECHAM4 GCM in Thailand and other countries, providing that data sets are available for model testing and evaluation.

The dialogue is joined by all ambassadors of ASEAN CPR and Ambassador Takio Yamada (Permanent Representative of Japan to ASEAN). In welcoming them, we will have a keynote address by Prof. Takashi Shiraishi (Executive Member of the Council of Science and Technology Policy in the Cabinet Office). The event will be a great opportunity to exchange opinions from various perspectives about the future ASEAN and its relationship with Japan.

Time: 20 December 2010, 16.30 pm 〓 18.30 pm
Venue: Middle Size Conference Room at the Inamori Foundation Memorial
Hall 3rd floor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto
University.

Program:
Moderator: Prof. Honna Jun (Ritsumeikan University, Faculty of
International Relations)
Opening speech: Prof. Matsumoto Hiroshi (President of Kyoto University)
Introduction by: Prof. Shimizu Hiromu (Director of Center for Southeast
Asian Studies)
Keynote address: Prof. Shiraishi Takashi (Council of Science and
Technology Policy, Cabinet
        Office)
“From East Asia Back to Asia Pacific”

Dialogue with ASEAN Ambassadors:
〓      Ambassador Yamada Takio (Japanese Ambassador to ASEAN)
〓      H.E. Pengiran Basmillah Pengiran Haji Abbas (State of Brunei Darussalam)
〓      H.E. Amb. Kan Pharidh (Kingdom of Cambodia)
〓      H.E. Amb. I Gede Ngurah Swajaya (Republic of Indonesia)
〓      H.E. Amb. Prasith Sayasith (Lao People’s Democratic Republic)
〓      H.E. Dato’ Hsu King Bee (Federation of Malaysia)
〓      H.E. Amb. U Nyan Lynn (Republic of the Union of Myanmar)
〓      Ms. Ma. Teresita C. Daza (Republic of The Philippines)
〓      H.E. Amb. Lim Thuan Kuan (Republic of Singapore)
〓      H.E. Amb. Manasvi Srisodapol (Kingdom of Thailand)
〓      H.E. Amb. Vu Dang Dzung (Socialist Republic of Vietnam)

Date and Time: December 20th  (Mon.), 2010, 11:30-13:00
Place: Tonan-tei (Room no. 201) on the 2nd floor of Inamori Foundation
Memorial Building.
Speaker: Filomeno V. Aguilar, CSEAS visiting research fellow and
Professor of History at the Ateneo de Manila University and editor of
the journal Philippine Studies.
Topic: “Filipinos as Global Labor Migrants in the Nineteenth Century”

Abstract:
There is a widespread misconception that the global labor migration of Filipinos began only in the 1970s when Marcos promoted overseas employment as state policy. When looking back to the nineteenth century,
only the travels of the rich, young men like Jose Rizal, known as the
ilustrados, enter the popular consciousness. However, this talk presents evidence that ordinary Filipinos engaged in work-related long-distance migration in the nineteenth century and found jobs both within and outside the Spanish realm. Their movements suggest that Filipinos were active participants in the world’s great age of migration, which occurred from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century.
Migrating way ahead of and in larger numbers than the ilustrados, these workers were at the forefront of the country’s engagement with modernity.

Date and time: December 14th, 2010, 13:30-16:30
Venue: Small Conference Room-I (Room no. 330), on the 3rd floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building

Program:
*Speaker-1:
Mr. Mohammad Najmul Islam (Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University)
Presentation title: "Survival Strategies of the *Char* Dwellers from Flood Hazards: A Study on the Ganges-Padma Floodplain in Bangladesh"

*Speaker-2:
Dr. Gulsan Ara Parvin (JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, International Environment and Disaster Management, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University)
Presentation title: "Role of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in Coastal Community's Disaster Risk Reduction, Response and Recovery: A Case Study of Hatiya Island of Bangladesh"

*Speaker-3:
Dr. Tazul Islam (Foreign Visiting Fellow, Center for South East Asian Studies, Kyoto University)
Presentation title: "Grameen Phase Two: Exploring the Potential of Microfinance"

Abstract:
1. Bangladesh is the largest floodplain delta in the world where flooding of different magnitude is a major hazard. Due to population pressure and scarcity of land many of the poorest communities are obliged to live in the floodplain riverine areas known as char-lands. The char people and their livelihood in the Ganges-Padma floodplain are under threat due to floods. In the study area Island char and attached char villages are largely affected by annual floods. The excess of water happens during the monsoon season because of widespread flooding those damages char-land settlements, agricultural crops, dwelling assets, infrastructures and communication networks. The purpose of this research is to assess the socioeconomic impacts of flood hazards on char-livelihood and explore the survival strategies and better practices to reduce their damages and vulnerabilities as local wisdoms. This study has revealed that indigenous knowledge of the char people is an important survival means during the flood period. Seasonality-based diversified livelihood, alternative sources of income, dwelling protection by local materials, cow-shed and floor raising, poultry case built on high platform, gardening and seed-bed preparation in the homestead area, fuel-stock and seed preservation as invented by indigenous knowledge of the char-dwellers that can reduce damage and flood vulnerabilities.

2. Due to climate change threats Bangladesh and its coastal areas have achieved great attentions by the researchers and environmentalists.  On the other hand, Bangladesh has made its distinctive niche in the world for being the pioneer in the innovation of microfinance system for the poor. Thousands of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) are working for the social and economic development of the deprived communities in Bangladesh. Almost every part of Bangladesh including coastal areas there are numbers of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) operating their
development programs. Welfare, social development and poverty alleviation through micro-credit are the prime focus of the most of the MFIs. Role of microfinance in poverty alleviation is examined by several researchers. But what MFIs are doing for disaster risk reduction is not well addressed yet. By empirical study in one of the most vulnerable coastal communities of Bangladesh, named Hatiya, this research intends to evaluate community’s perception about the role of MFIs in coastal communities’ disaster risk reduction, response and recovery. Findings reveal that though most of the MFIs claimed to offer skill development training programs only a few clients of MFIs (only 16%) have received this training.
 More than half of the clients claimed that their ability of risk reduction in income and occupation has not been changed. But since the ability of overall change in disaster fighting is significantly correlated with the years of membership, it can be said that the longer is the membership time period the better is the disaster preparedness, response and recovery process. It is expected that outcome of this research would give pragmatic guidance to the current efforts of MFIs and thus contribute to make the coastal community more resilient in disaster fighting.

3. This paper explores the prospects of the Grameen Phase Two, also known as the Grameen Generalized System, in overcoming the limitations of the one-size-fits-all, credit-driven classical Grameen model and in the process highlights the internal and external contributing factors to the evolution of the Grameen Phase Two, and analyzes briefly the changes made in Grameen Phase Two, and the impact, especially the impact on poverty alleviation, of the Grameen Two. The paper concludes that with the Nobel Peace Prize the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh has won the worldwide reputation as the pioneer of microcredit movement, with the introduction of Grameen Phase Two, though an unfinished task, it is now highly hoped that it can successfully move into the much-needed next phase of supplying client-responsive, flexible financial services to ensure enhanced impact on poverty alleviation and financial sustainability.

Date and Time: December 2nd  (Thursday), 2010, 12:00-13:30
Place: Small Meeting Room I (Room no. 330), 3rd floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building
Speaker: Mr. Ahmad Suadi, Visiting Research Fellow
Topic: “Identity in Motion: The Cham Muslim Minority in Vietnam and
Cambodia within the Global Context.”

(Summary)
     The frequent movement and mobility of people and the phenomenon of collective identity based on ethnicity and religion are the norm in the current era of globalization. However, the Cham Muslim minority, despite high mobility and a religious and ethnic identity of their own, are rather unique. There are around 150 thousand in Cambodia, and a further 90 thousand in Vietnam, and almost all of these have never legitimately owned land throughout history. They are spread throughout the two countries, but the majority live in villages and beside the lower part
of the Mekong Delta, far from the cities and centers of trade. Some live in neighboring countries such as Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, and others are spread as far as North America.
        As an ethnic group that has historically been disadvantaged through constant defeat in politics, that owns no land legitimately, and that has been an oppressed minority, the Cham Muslims have a tradition of befriending and associating with others, which is widespread and has an adventuristic air to it,  and some have a tradition of trade involving lengthy travel.  Cham Muslims continue to preserve their traditions and the legacy of their ancestors, and perhaps even a unique worldview. However, in the current era of globalization they have come face to face with two narratives which, with modern technology, all groups find difficult to avoid: modernity and Islam. On the one hand, the Vietnamese and Cambodian governments have introduced development to their people, and are thus seen as agents of modernity and globalization. In fact, both are considered to have successfully established modern national economies. The Cham Muslims in these two countries find it difficult to avoid the influence of modernity, both as victims and as those who benefited from the process of modernization.
        On the other hand, the Cham Muslims were also confronted with Islam, which came at the same time as globalization and has undergone speedy development in the two countries. After 11 September 2001, they were subject to society’s perception about terrorism and Islam. As with  modernity and the new values it brought, the Islam introduced to the region also had its own values that differed from the traditions and beliefs of the traditional Cham Muslims. This Islam mostly came from the Middle East and Malaysia. According to Philipp Brukmayr,  for instance, Cham Muslims are now a strong voice for the development of Islam in Southeast Asia. They are currently undergoing an intense struggle in relation to the arrival of this new Islam.
        This research will examine how the Cham Muslims in Vietnam and Cambodia regard the two influences mentioned above, at the same time that they are mobile and moving. It asks the question, how do they transform their values, or which values and traditions have changed, and which have stayed the same for the traditional Cham Muslims in this current struggle? How do they formulate their interests based on ethnicity and religion as a minority group?
        Cham or Champa itself comes from the name of a powerful kingdom, which was originally Hindu before changing to Islam. It is unsure exactly when the conversion took place, but it is clear that Islam came via India and China.  Up to today, the people of Cham have belonged to one of two religions. The Hindus usually live in the hinterland in Vietnam (smaller in number and left behind), while the Cham Muslims usually use the Mekong river to their benefit. This paper, however, focuses purely on the Cham Muslims.
        After the Kingdom of Vietnam overthrew the Kingdom of Champa at the end of the 17th century, the Champa people became known as the ethnic Chams and were pushed to an area that is now part of Cambodia. Some however still live in central Vietnam. They still call themselves the ethnic Chams. They represent an ethnic group that has neither state nor (legitimate) land. But for the Cham Muslims, their two identities of “Cham” and “Muslim” are one, and cannot be separated. They have their own way of life, way of developing and preserving their cultural
traditions and ceremonies that generally differ from those of mainstream Muslims.
        With the introduction of the modern nation-states of Cambodia and Vietnam, the Cham Muslims were not considered citizens of either of the two states. During the Vietnam War, many Cham Muslims worked for foreign businesses brought to the country by America because of their lack of direct ties to a Vietnamese identity. As a consequence however, after the war they were accused of defending the foreigners and rioters, and as such, were discriminated against.  In Cambodia, under Pol Pot the Cham Muslims were victims of the genocide, along with those who held other religious beliefs.  When King Sihanouk returned to power, he embraced the Cham Muslims and called them the Khmer Muslims, and thus they received some protection. However, the Cham identity is threatened by the process of assimilation, which would see them assimilate to the Cambodian or Khmer identity, which is Buddhist.
        They continue to live out an identity that moves between Cham, Malay, and Middle Eastern, and an identity as a defeated ethnic minority, at the same time as fulfilling their obligations as citizens within the modern nation-state system.  However, on the other hand they also continue to maintain their lifestyle by being constantly in a state of mobility and motion.  And so the identity of the Cham Muslims is one of being and needing to be in constant motion.
        In studies on identity, there are two views on ethnicity or nation, namely the primordial and the instrumental.  Ethnic groups or nations that are primordial believe that the group or nation possess deep roots, including biological roots, and has a joint collective memory, language and culture, including faith and beliefs. Meanwhile, ethnic groups or nations that are instrumental can be adapted and may be extended, a person may leave or enter, and the group or nation may consist of more than one community.  It seems that the Cham Muslims use both
perspectives, both primordial and instrumental, sometimes at the same time and sometimes in turn, in order to defend their lifestyle from political, cultural and economic pressures that come from outside.
        The difficulty with this research lies in the lack of funding for field research. However this may be partially overcome through the use of secondary data from libraries and available literature, as well as from quotes in books, journals, or general media.

Date and Time: November 24th (Wednesday), 2010, 12:00-13:30
Place: Small Meeting Room II (Room no. 331), 3rd floor, Inamori
Foundation Memorial Building
Speaker: Prof. AMBETH R. OCAMPO
Topic: “History, re-presentation and the State: Banknotes and nationhood”.

(Abstract)
       THRICE colonized and with an archipelagic landscape the Philippines is a young nation constantly in search of self. History is central to this search for identity and the teaching of it in schools is both: INFORMATIVE, as an academic discipline that studies the past; and FORMATIVE when the past is utilized to situate citizens in the context of the nation, its past, present, and future. Often overlooked in the study of the writing of history are everyday objects like: coins, banknotes, stamps, monuments, official holidays, commemorations, and street names. So common are these that we see but do not notice. These objects become contested territory when history becomes a handmaid to nation-building and nationalism. Giving banknotes a second look shows us how the state utilizes history to promote citizenship and nationhood.
Banknotes go beyond mere monetary instruments. As an international calling card, they project a sense of nation.

＜Date and Time＞
16 November (Tuesday), 16:00-18:00

＜Venue＞
Small Meeting Room I (Room no.330), 3rd Floor, Inamori Foundation
Memorial Building

＜Speaker＞
Dr. Shu Yuan Yang (Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of
Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

＜Title＞
"Christianity, Headhunting, and History among the Bungkalot / Ilongot of Northern Luzon, Philippines"

*After the seminar, we will go for some food and drink to welcome Dr. Yang.
 

<ABSTRACT>
The invasion of the New Peoples’ Army (NPA) in the mid 1980s is a
significant and marked event for the people of Gingin, a settlement
located at the center of the Bugkalot area. It has stirred up feelings
of fear, terror, panic, and anger among the local residents, who were
predominantly Christians by this time. The killing of seven Bugkalot men
at the hands of the NPA in July, 1988, has aroused Bugkalot Christians
and some of them “backslid” and went headhunting again to revenge the
deaths of their relatives. How do we comprehend the resurgence of
headhunting among the Bugkalot when Christianity has already taken a
strong hold? Is it just an old cultural habit that dies hard? Is it a
slap at the face of missionaries who consider the eradication of
headhunting their most important achievement? Does it demonstrate the
insincerity of the Bugkalot’s conversion to Christianity? How do the
Bugkalot themselves interpret the invasion of the NPA and the resurgence
of headhunting? This article seeks to address these questions. I
suggests that headhunting still figures significantly in the shaping of
local memory and historical consciousness, however, the Bugkalot’s
representations of the past have been reworked within the framework of
Christianity. Christianity does not only serve as the meta-narrative of
change, it also informs the ways in which the Bugkalot contemplate their
existence in the world and their relationship with the Philippine state.

 

Contact: Yoko Hayami
Extension 7336, yhayami[at]cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp

 

Date: 9 November 2010, 10:00-12:00
Place: Large-size Seminar Room (大会議室）
Inamori Foundation Building 3rd floor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University.

Speaker: Benedict Anderson (Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government & Asian Studies at Cornell University)

Title: "Hell"

Abstract:
# Departing from his recent article “Pret Pralaat: Prawatisat Narokphu [Strange Spectres: A History of Hell],” in *Aan* vol 2: no. 2 (2009), pp. 11-36 (<http://www.readjournal.org/read-journal/2009-10-vol-6/ben/ >- in Thai), the discussion shall include issues on democratization and nationalism in contemporary Asia.
# * Prof. Anderson's recent publications include ヤシガラ椀の外へ [Out from Under the Coconut Halfshell] (Tokyo: NTT, 2009), and *Mendjadi Tjamboek Berdoeri *(Depok: Komunitas Bambu, 2010).

Date: 27 September 2010, 16:00-
Place: Dai-kaigishitsu (the biggest meeting room) on the third floor of Inamori Memorial Hall

Speaker: Jose V. Camacho Jr.
(chair of Department of Economics and associate professor of economics and associate dean, College of Economics and Management, University of the Philippines)

Title:
An Analysis of the Decreasing Trends in Enrolment and Graduation in Philippine Agriculture-Related Higher Education Institutions: Implications for Philippine Economy and Human Resource Development in
Agriculture

Abstract:
The agricultural sector remains to be the backbone of Philippine economy. The sector provides raw materials on which the rest of the economy depends. More than one third of the population is employed in agriculture, agribusiness and agriculture-related industries. It contributes nearly 20 percent to the country's gross domestic product. However, agricultural labor productivity has not improved for several years now. Compared with its Asian neighbors, the agricultural sector has lagged behind. The country did not post satisfactory performance in terms of yield and production of various agricultural commodities. It is therefore a common lament that the comparative advantage of Philippine agriculture has continuously declined; its competitiveness and trade balance has eroded. In sharp contrast on what it had experienced in the past decades as net exporter or agricultural commodities, the Philippines since 1994 have been a net importer. One cause of alarm along this trend is the declining quality and quantity of human resource deemed critical to spur structural change in agriculture through innovation, research and development. For several years now, private and state colleges and universities have experienced decreasing enrolment and graduates in agriculture and agriculture-related degree programs such as forestry/agroforestry, agribusiness, agricultural economics, animal husbandry and dairy science, farming systems, agricultural engineering and agricultural technology. If this trend remains to be unchecked or not reversed, the country will lack trained individuals and skilled professionals who will play crucial role in innovating new ideas, methods and materials that will accelerate agricultural modernization, a transformation coupled with the development of institutions, and improvement in people's livelihood and employment in an environment that is responsive to the challenges of global economy. This paper will examine the causes of declining enrolment and graduates in agriculture and agriculture-related higher education institutions in the Philippines. It will analyze the profile of these institutions including an investigation of their student enrolment and graduation trends support infrastructure and facilities and their curricular degree programs and governance. The paper will be significant as it contributes to the analysis of Philippine development issues and problems, specifically on the country's persistent decline in agricultural productivity and competitiveness. It revisits and reasserts the role of agriculture in poverty alleviation and in ensuring food security.

Date: September 24, 2010, Friday, 14:00-17:00
Place: Middle-Sized Room, Inamori Foundation Hall Kyoto University

Program:

14:00-14:10 Welcome remarks by Prof. Hiromu Shimizu, Director, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

14:10-14:50 Presentation #1 Prof. Nicanor G. Tiongson, Visiting  Researcher

14:50-15:30 Presentation #2 Prof. Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem, Visiting Research Fellow

15:30-15:40 Break

15:40-16:20 Presentation #3 Prof. Eduardo Climaco Tadem, Visiting Researcher
 
16:20-17:00 Open Forum

ABSTRACTS: PUSONG AND REVOLUTION: SUBVERSIVE LAUGHTER IN THE LATE 19thCENTURY  TAGALOG TRICKSTER TALES

NICANOR G. TIONGSON, VISITING RESEARCHER

In trickster tales current at the end of the 19th century, the Tagalog  pusong (Juan, Suan, Gusting Vivas) gleefully flouts socially-accepted rules of urbanity, decency and morality, satirizes classroom "education" and  common "logic", plays on the greed of his Spanish and mestizo superiors (and  thereby outwits them), runs circles around the gobernadorcillo, guardia  civil and other overbearing petty officials, and lampoons the Catholic  rituals of attending mass, saying kilometric prayers and going to  confession.

In a Tagalog society long silenced by government and religious censorship,  the pusong succeeded a) in exposing the exploitative intent and impositions  of the Spanish colonial system, b) in voicing out the common people's  feelings about the hierarchy regnant in their society, and c) in inspiring  the Tagalog folk to believe in the possibility of a society more humane than  the one they lived in. As more and more Tagalogs saw their society from  the pusong's eyes, it became that much easier for them to objectify and  eventually reject their colonial overlords.

NICANOR G. TIONGSON, Ph.D., is affiliated with CSEAS as a Japan Foundation  fellow from March 25 to October 31, 2010. He is a professor at the  University of the Philippines Film Institute. He served as dean of the U.P.  College of Mass Communication (2003-2006) and as vice-president and artistic  director of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (1986-1994). As a  teacher, he has handled courses on Philippine theater, film and the other  arts at the University of the Philippines and, as a visiting professor, at  the University of California, Berkeley, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and  the Osaka University of Foreign Studies. As a creative artist, he has  written full-length plays (like *Pilipinas Circa 1907* and *Noli at Fili
Dekada 2000*), librettos for contemporary dance (like *Realizing Rama*and  *Siete Dolores*) and scripts for videos on Philippine arts and culture  (like *Dulaan* I-III). As a scholar, he has published pioneering works on  Philippine theater (like *Sinakulo*, *Komedya* and *Salvador F. Bernal:  Designing the Stage*) and Philippine film (*The Cinema of Manuel Conde* and  the *Urian Anthology 1970-79* and *1980-1989*). He also wrote the  historical work, *The Women of Malolos.* He was editor-in-chief of the
10-volume *CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art *and the 28-part *Tuklas  Sining* videos and monographs on the Philippine Arts. During his term as  CSEAS fellow in 2009, he completed *The Urian Anthology* *(1990-1999),* which  will be launched this September in the University of the Philippines.

PRIME MINISTER VIRATA: THE MAKING AND UNMAKING OF A TECHNOCRATIC  REVOLUTION
TERESA S. ENCARNACION TADEM, VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW

My paper discusses the factors which led to the emergence of Cesar E.A.  Virata as Prime Minister, the highest position which a technocrat has ever  attained in the Philippines, as well as to the factors which led to his  downfall. The first part will examine how Virata's family and academic  backgrounds laid the foundation for his technical expertise which was sought  by the business community. This paved the way for his recruitment into the  Marcos administration in 1965. The second part will examine the factors which facilitated Virata's ability to deal with the powerful politico-economic elites in the Philippine Congress. The declaration of  martial law in 1972 brought about new challenges to Virata foremost of which came from the First Lady Imelda Marcos and the leadership's cronies. This will be examined in the third part. A common theme which cuts across these different phases in the shaping of Virata's economic and political power as a technocrat was the crucial role he played in serving the interests of President Ferdinand E. Marcos and the U.S. in particular, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The last part of my paper will discuss the factors which contributed to their withdrawal of support for Virata.

Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem is Professor and former Chair of the Department  of Political Science (2000-2003) and former Director of the Third World  Studies Center (May 2004-May 2010), University of the Philippines, Diliman.  She has published journal articles and book chapters on Philippine civil society and WTO negotiations, the Philippine technocracy, the anti-Asian Development Bank campaigns in Thailand, and anti-globalization movements in Southeast Asia. She is editor of *Localizing and Transnationalizing  Contentious Politics: Global Civil Society Movements in the Philippines*(Lexington Press 2009). 

MARXISM, THE PEASANTRY AND AGRARIAN REVOLUTION IN THE PHILIPPINES
EDUARDO CLIMACO TADEM, VISITING RESEARCHER

This study is concerned primarily with the tradition of peasant resistance that is rooted in various Marxist analyses of revolutionary agrarian social movements. It looks at the questions that have informed Marxist studies on peasant revolutions and how writers from this school of inquiry have attempted to answer them. To see how Marxists have in practice related to peasant societies, the paper then examines an actual peasant community consisting of three villages in the provinces of Tarlac and Pampanga in Central Luzon, Philippines which have been the targets of organizing activities by armed Marxist guerrilla movements.

This paper argues that Marxist theories on peasant revolutions seem far removed from reality and that practitioners often find themselves pragmatically adjusting and revising the former to conform to the situation in the field. For peasant communities, on the other hand, the findings from the field show that different motivations (including personal considerations) in joining the armed struggle are at work and that
participation in revolutionary struggles is only one of the options that individual peasants consider in responding to their abject conditions and improving their lives.

Eduardo Climaco Tadem is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of the Philippines, Diliman where he teaches courses on theories in area studies, Southeast Asian socio-economic development, alternative development strategies in Asia, and the Asian peasantry and rural development. He has a
> Ph.D in Southeast Asian Studies from the National University of Singapore. Currently, he is Visiting Reseacher at the Kyoto University Center for Southeast Asian Studies. He has published extensively and conducted numerous social science research studies on varied topics such as agrarian reform and rural development, official development assistance, the peasantry and agrarian unrest, Mindanao political economy, social movements, Philippine-Japan relations, conflicts over natural resources, industry studies, regional development, international labor migration, foreign investments, and contemporary politics. He has participated in many international conferences in various Asian, European, North American and Latin American countries and served as chairperson or board member of civil society organizations (CSOs) engaged in social development and critical research work. His recent publications include: "Development and Distress in Mindanao: A Political Economy Overview," 2010. *UP Forum*, Vol 11 (1);  "The Filipino Peasant in the Modern World: Tradition, Change and Resilience," 2009. *Philippine Political Science Journal.* Vol 30 No 53; "Peasant Lives in the Margin: The Life and Times of Vicente and Marcelina Narciso," 2008, *Singsing*: Juan D. Nepomuceno Center for Kapampangan Studies. Vol 6. No 1.

Date：September 18,15:00～17:30
Place：Multimedia Room (F214) at 2nd Floor of Fusokan, Imadegawa Campus, Doshisha University
http://www.doshisha.ac.jp/access/ima_campus.html

Speakers:
 Mrs. Deborah Gewertz（Professor, Dept. of Anthropology-Sociology, Amherst College）
Mr. Frederick Errington（Distinguished Professor, Anthropology, Emeritus , Trinity College）
Topic：“The Noodle Narratives: A Work-in-Progress”

Clifford Geertz said that anthropologists go to small places to address big issues. Extending this view, we “go” to a small commodity, instant noodles, to address big issues pertaining to geopolitical connections and disjunctions. Momofuko Ando’s innovation -- flash fried in oil (often in palm oil), dehydrated, precooked, and easy to prepare - is now eaten by almost everyone, but in varying amounts and for diverse reasons. For example, college students and Silicon Valley programmers consuming instant noodles in their work environments as snacks are linked with, as well as importantly differentiated from, urban dwellers eating instant noodles as a major source of affordable food and displaced persons eating them in relief packages.

In this paper, we probe these connections and disjunctions, revealing important domains of contemporary practice. The “noodle narratives” we tell concern scientific food development, international food marketing, human nutrition, environment sustainability (given oil palm production), and relief feeding. This is to say, we show that instant noodles make much happen and show much happening of sociocultural, economic, political, personal, and global significance.

＜Date and Time＞
24 August (Tuesday), 15:00-17:00

＜Venue＞
Seminar Room I, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/about/access_ja.html

＜Speaker＞
Dr. Sulfikar Amir (Assistant Professor, Division of Sociology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University)

＜Title＞
The Battle in Jepara: Nuclear Power and the State-Society Relation in Post-New Order Indonesia

＜Abstract＞:
For the past thirty years, Indonesia has been trying to develop nuclear power meant to sustain energy security. The urgency to go nuclear is currently becoming stronger particularly due to ongoing energy crisis caused by rapid depletion in Indonesia’s oil reserves. The Indonesian state nuclear agency proposes to have four nuclear power plants built in Jepara, Central Java. The first construction is planned to commence very soon to be operating commercially by 2016. The state’s desire for nuclear power, however, has been responded very critically by civil society groups that view the state’s nuclear energy planning malicious and hazardous. The apprehension comes from a conviction that the state has no adequate capacity to operate high-risk technology such as nuclear energy. An anti-nuclear alliance
constituted by a number of grassroots groups concentrated in Jepara emerges to curb the construction of Indonsia’s first nuclear power plant. Delving into the engagement of civil society groups in highly technocratic issues of nuclear power organized by state technocrats, this seminar brings into spotlight the contestation between the state and civil society that characterize the state-society relation in Indonesia after the collapse of the New Order regime. The seminar highlights two issues. First, it examines the logic and rationality that drive the state’s ambition to go nuclear. While it touches mostly on domestic politics, international factors are briefly discussed. Second, it observes the rise of organized resistance coordinated by civil society groups and how these groups encounter the discourse of nuclear risks constructed by the state. The seminar concludes by discussing two fundamental changes in the contemporary state-society relation in Indonesia.

＜Biography＞:
Dr. Sulfikar Amir is an assistant professor in the Division of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He completed a PhD in Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute in Troy, New York. His research interests cover technological nationalism, sociology of technology, sociology of risk, development, and Southeast Asian studies. His articles have published
in journals such as Asian Survey, Indonesia, Technology in Society, and Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society.

＜Date and Time＞
 31 July, 2010, 14:00-18:00

＜Venue＞
Meeting Room, the 3rd floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building

 

【PROGRAM】

14:00-14:05 Masayoshi Shigeta (Kyoto University)
                       Opening Remarks

14:05-14:15 Itaru Ohta （Kyoto University）
                       Keynote Speech

14:15-14:50 Toru Sagawa (JSPS/ Osaka University)
                       Excessive Violence and Social Order in the Kenya-Ethiopia Borderland

14:50-15:25 Jon Holtzman (Western Michigan University)
Remembering and Forgetting in Samburu-Kikuyu Postcolonial Violence

15:25-15:40 Coffee Break

15:40-16:15 Tamara Enomoto (Tokyo University)
‘The Traumatised Acholi People’: Revival of Tradition in the Era of Global Therapeutic Governance

16:15-16:50 Motoji Matsuda (Kyoto University)
Violence, Restoration and Reconciliation：Beyond the Africa Schema

16:50-17:05 Coffee Break

17:05-18:00 General Discussion

Discussant: Hussein Solomon (University of Pretoria), Abu Abdala Kambagha Mvungi (University of Dar es Salaam), Eisei Kurimoto(Osaka University), Masayoshi Shigeta (Kyoto University)

Date and Time: July 26th, 2010 (Monday), 13:30-15:00

Place: Small Seminar Room II (Room No. 331) on the 3rd floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building

Speaker: Victor Teo, PhD, Japan Foundation Visiting Fellow, CSEAS, Kyoto University from The University of Hong Kong

Topic: Contextualising China's Peaceful Rise in Southeast Asia: A Test Case for China's World Status

Abstract:
This paper aims to review recent scholarship documenting the debate on China's professed doctrine of Peaceful Rise. By laying out the context to this doctrine, the paper discusses the domestic and foreign
perspectives on this idea, thereby exposing the perceptual gulf that exists between Chinese and non-Chinese analysts. The paper argues that one of the best indicators on China's behaviour as potential world power in the international system could come from an empirical analysis on her international behaviour in a specific region. To this end, the paper attempts to do so by scrutinising China's diplomatic engagement in Southeast Asia, and delineates what one should or could expect from China as she continues on her current developmental trajectory.

Date: 9:30am, 11 July 2010, Sunday
Place: Inamori Memorial Build., Small Meeting Room 1

Speaker 1: Ms. Shaila SHARMEEN
Title: "Mundas and Political Transformation from bellow:
local politics, power relations, state and discourse in Barind, Bangladesh."
Language: English

Speaker 2: Ms. Keiko SATO
Title: "Goat Rearing Practices according to Wealth Differences and SHG Programs in Semiarid South India"
「南インド半乾燥地域における階層別ヤギ飼育実体とSHGプログラム」
Language: English

Speaker 3: Mr. Atsushi KOBAYASHI
Title: "The Statistical Study of Southeast Asian Products' Imports into Singapore in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century"
「19世紀前半のシンガポールにおける東南アジア産物の輸入に関する
統計的考察」
Language: Japanese

N.B. 1 All the doors to Inamori Build is locked on Sunday so a card key is needed to open the door.
If you do not have one, then please call me on 090-9308-1608 when you arrive there so that I will open it for you.

11th Reserach Meeting for Oil Palm

Date：10th July, 2010　13：00-18：15
Place：Middle Meeting Room (chuu-kaigishitsu),Inamori Building, Kyoto University, Japan

Program：
Part 1　Indonesian Session
13：00-15：30
"Politics of Oil Palm Plantation Expansion and the Popular Resistance Movement in West Kalimantan"
(by Drs. Abudur Rozaki　（Islamic State University of Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta, Indonesia）)

"The Relation Dynamic of Small Holder Oil Palm Plantation and The State : The Case Study in North Sumatra - Indonesia"
(Drs. YB. Widodo（Pusat Penelitian Kependudukan, LIPI, Indonesia)

Part 2　Malaysian Session
15：45-18：15
”From Natural Forest to Planted Forest: Metamorphoses of a High Biomass Society in Northern Sarawak, Malaysia”
(Dr. Ishikawa Noboru, CSEAS）

”Resistance and Resiliance of Local Community to the Oil Palm Plantation in Sarawak”
(Ms. Kato Yumi)

There is a CSEAS colloquium by Dr. Roy Bin Wong.

Date: 24 June 2010, 16:00-17:00
Place: Middle-sized meeting room (Room.no. 332) on the third floor of Inamori Memorial Hall

Speaker: Dr. Roy Bin Wong
Topics: Comparing States and Regions in East Asia and Europe: Is Southeast Asia (Ever) Part of East Asia?

Abstract:
The emergence of global or world history has celebrated connections among different parts of the world, often with a claim to have eclipsed historians' conventional focus on countries. What we are missing is much needed additional attention to the geographies of connection that emerge in the spaces beyond national states that are far less than global. We need to fill in the spaces between local and global in order to understand the world around us. This essay reconsiders how regional spaces, like "East Asia," and "Southeast Asia," can help us mediate between the local and global as we put national states into broader contexts. As we think about how regional spaces can help us understand the larger world, we can also consider if or when it can be helpful to consider 鉄outheast Asia・to be a part of some larger "East Asia."

 

Date:June 3rd (Thurs.) , 2010　15:00- 17:00
Place:Room No. 331, on third floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, CSEAS. Kyoto University

Speaker: Hla Maung Thein, Visiting Research Fellowship, Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Kyoto University and Deputy Director, Planning and Statistics Division, Forest Department, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar

Moderator:Kazuo ANDO, CSEAS, Kyoto University

Date:May 26(Wed.) , 2010　10:30- 12:00
Venue:Room No. 331, Inamori Memorial Building, CSEAS. Kyoto University

Speaker: Kim D. Reimann, Georgia State University

Title: “Regional Environmental Governance and NGOs: Field Notes from Cases from Southeast Asia"

Abstract:
As an Abe Fellow in 2008-2009, Reimann conducted field research in Japan and Southeast Asia related to regional environmental governance and NGOs in Southeast Asia. This research project analyzes the multiple and various roles that NGOs now play in the region as advocates, critics, partners, agenda-setters, consensus-builders and major players in the area of the environment. Her talk at CSEAS will present her3 case studies (NGOs and the Asian Development Bank, the Sulu-Sulawesi Seas Marine Eco-Region, the Mekong Biodiversity Conservation Corridor Initiative) and some of her initial findings in the field. Kim DoHyang Reimann is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Georgia State University (GSU) and she is also currently the Director of the Asian Studies Center at GSU. Her publications include her recent book The Rise of Japanese NGOs, Activism from Above (Routledge 2009) as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles. Her research examines NGOs/the nonprofit sector, global activism, transnational social movements, and environmental governance, with a particular regional focus on Japan and greater East Asia.(http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwpol/2768.html)

Date:May 17(Mon.) , 2010　15:00- 17:00
Venue:Inamori Memorial Hall, Small Seminar Room II
Chaired by Caroline S. Hau, Center for Southeast Asian Studies Kyoto University

Speaker: Professor Pheng Cheah, University of California, Berkeley

 

The official advertisement celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China credits Hong Kong's success to its status as the premier world city of Asia ("Asia's World City") and to its economic position as "the prime gateway to China". But what is also proclaimed in denegation (Verneinung) is a pervasive worry about Hong Kong's ability to remain competitive as a mediating zone between global capital and the mainland in the face of the rise of other Asian global cities such as Shanghai and Singapore. At the same time, global flows have also generated needs, fantasies and desires that have exacerbated preexisting divisions and inequalities and also led to deep structural changes in Hong Kong society. This paper argues that Fruit Chan's Hollywood, Hong Kong offers a satirical mapping and dark critique of Hong Kong's position as a global city within the contemporary capitalist world system.

 

Date:March 9(Tues.) , 2010　15:00- 17:00
Venue:Room no:330 on the third floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building

Speaker: Dr. Myint Thein, CSEAS Visiting Research Fellow from Historical
Research Center, National Museum, Myanmar

Title: “Arakan-Bengal Relation: Special Emphasis on mid-Mrauk-U Period (1531-1638)”

 

Abstract:

In this paper the central purpose is to explore the relation between
Arakan (Rakhine) and Bengal in the mid-Mrauk-U Period. The struggle for
the control of the Bengal was the principle historical force at that
time. In the period of strong king, Rakhine expand their kingdom in the
east and west of neighboring countries. During the 16th century, while
the Rakhine was concentrating its best efforts on Bengal they played the
prominent role in the region. It was due to the existence of seaports in
Bengal, Rakhine was able to make control the trade. The strong kings
tried to obtain fresh supplies of manpower as slave labours from Bengal.
Yet the greater the demands for rice in Southeast Asia, the more eager
people tried to get slaves from market for extending their rice
cultivation. It is one of the basic factors of why the Rakhine kings
expand to Bengal. This paper is in a brief span of hundred years
(1531-1638); I would try to analyses of the political relation between
the two and bearing on the Rakhine kingdom. To form a judgment on the
determining factors in the Arakan-Bengal relation, I carefully assess
the relative weight of the specific functions, the aims of power
struggle, and the local conditions. Emphasis will be laid political
relation on the two powers. And finally, an attempt will be made the
different angle through the Rakhine historical point of view.

 

Date：March 7 2010,　(Sun.) 16:00-17:30
Venue： Room AA 401, 4th Floor, Research Building No. 2,
Yoshida Campus, Kyoto University

Speaker: Sudarshan Raj Tiwari, Professor, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University
Discussants: Yogesh Raj, Hans Rausing Scholar, Imperial College London

 

【Abstract】
Crossroads Setting of Temples in Nepali Towns

The setting of the Nepali temple today is clearly urban and it is in
this urban setting, in the crossroads created by streets and the
spaces and squares they create, that the temple and its form come to
life. A study of the urban development pattern of the Kathmandu Valley
shows that both the temple and its setting derive from a more than a
2000-year-old history of urbanisation. The form of the city itself was
mediated principally by temples and their associated rituals. That
such should have been the case with Lichchhavi towns is
understandable, given the classical Hindu knowledge and practices in
city planning and patterning that they would have brought from their
background in the Gangetic plains. Surprisingly, what comes out of the
analysis of records of the Lichchhavi themselves is that the Kirat
society before their arrival was also quite urban and the Kathmandu
Valley was already dotted with small but dense urban settlements. The
small towns of the Kirat were also ritually mediated: the devakula
temple and its counterpart pith had as strong and deterministic a role
in defining the form of the town itself as the street patterns were
for the Lichchhavi town. The inter-assimilation of the classical Hindu
pattern and the Kirat pattern seem to have reinforced the Hindu idea
of locating temples within or near the town as well as in natural
‘power places’ and tirthas and developed a unique set of locational
and siting characteristics for temples in the Valley. A syncretism of
the Kirat idea of godly spirits or energy resident at crossroads and
the Hindu/Buddhist concept of planning a town in the cosmic image (and
their technique of realising the concept through the patterning of
intersecting streets) is behind the development of the crossroads of
Kathmandu Valley towns as the key setting of temples.

Professor Sudarshan Raj Tiwari studied architecture and earned
Bachelor’s degree from School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi
(University of Delhi) in 1973. He took his Master’s degree in
Architecture from University of Hawaii, USA in 1977 specializing on
housing in tropical countries. His interest drew him to the study of
Nepali historical architecture, urbanism and culture, which led to a
PhD from Tribhuvan University for his dissertation on ancient
settlements of Kathmandu Valley in 1995. He has served in the faculty
of Tribhuvan University’s Institute of Engineering for more than
thirty years, and was Dean of the Institute of Engineering between
1988 and 1992. Prof Tiwari has worked at several world heritage sites
such as Lumbini, Swoyambhu, Changunarayan and Bhaktapur Durbar Square.

 

 

Date：February 16 2010,　(Tue.) 16:00-17:30
Venue： Room AA401, 4th Floor, Research Building No.2, Yoshida Campus,
Kyoto University

http://www.asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/about/access.html

Speaker: Taberez Ahmed Neyazi (Visiting Fellow, East-West Center, Hawaii)
Discussants: Patricio N. Abinales (Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University)
Gautam Bhaskar (Ph.D. candidate, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University)

 
This research project explores the role of vernacular media in the
deepening of India’s democracy. India is not only the most populous
democracy - it is one where people from lower caste and class groups
are increasingly beginning to participate in electoral politics. This
has led to the political empowerment of lower caste groups in India.
What is striking about India is that the process of democratic
deepening has taken place despite the low level of economic
development, illiteracy and social divisions. While most of the
neighboring countries in the South Asian region have experienced
authoritarian rule and military dictatorship, India has remained a
successful democracy, except for a brief interlude of authoritarian
rule from 1975 to 1977. The case of India also negates the commonly
held belief that got established through the experiences of East Asian
countries that authoritarian regimes are needed in order to achieve
rapid growth. There is wide consensus among scholars about the
expansion of the participatory base of Indian democracy, which Yadav
(2000) has termed the “democratic upsurge”. In an attempt to
understand the mechanisms of the deepening of Indian democracy, this
research analyzes the role of Hindi news media. The main hypothesis of
my current research argues that the process of the deepening of
India’s democracy has occurred largely due to the rise of the
vernacular media with its ability to reach the masses that could not
be reached by English newspapers and television. This research
explores the role of Hindi media in facilitating the deepening of
grassroots mobilization in Indian democracy by paving the way for the
entry of hitherto marginalized groups into the political arena. This
is done through a study of one of India’s major Hindi language
dailies, Dainik Bhaskar (The Daily Sun). The structural development
and expansion over the years of Dainik Bhaskar exemplifies the
dominant position that Hindi news media has come to occupy in a
globalizing India. The entry of new social groups into the political
arena with the rise of grassroots movements and popular mobilization
since the 1980s has largely been facilitated by the Hindi newspapers
that have strong presence in small towns and rural areas. The
resurgence of Hindi newspapers has not only contributed to the further
consolidation of Indian democracy, but it also challenged the long
held dominance of English newspapers in the public sphere. It has also
resulted in ‘vernacularization’ of the public sphere and widening the
political and cultural space available for the hitherto marginalized
classes who could not participate in ‘national’ public sphere because
of a certain dominant mode of discourse hegemonized by the
English-speaking ‘national’ elite.

Taberez Ahmed Neyazi is currently Visiting Fellow, East-West Center,
Hawaii. He received Ph.D. from National University of Singapore in
September 2009. His dissertation title was "Media Convergence and
Hindi Newspapers: Changing Institutional and Discursive Dimensions,
1977-2007". His publications include “Cultural Imperialism or
Vernacular Modernity? Hindi Newspapers in a Globalizing India”, Media,
Culture and Society, Sage, London (Accepted for publication), “Global
Myth vs. Local Reality: Towards Understanding ‘Islamic’ Militancy in
India”, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Vol. 29, No. 2, June 2009,
pp. 153-169, Routledge, London; and “State, Citizenship and Religious
Community: The Case of Indian Muslim Women”, Asian Journal of
Political Science, Vol. 15, No. 3, December 2007, pp. 303-318,
Routledge, London.

 

Date:February 9(Tues.) , 2010　15:00- 17:30
Venue:Meeting Room I (Room No. 330), Inamori Foundation Memorial Building

Speaker: Dr. Mochtoar Pabottingi, Visiting Researcher, CSEAS

Title: “The Interplay of Nationhood and Democracy in Contemporary Japan: Reading out of Japan’s Agriculture, Education, and Environment.”

 

Abstract:
It has virtually been an enduring hypothesis for many years that democracy and nationhood converge positively. That is to say democracy thrives best on the soil of good nationhood and the fabrics of a nation are strengthened under good democracy. Unprecedentedly, Pabottingi ventures an attempt at reading the future prospects of Japan as a polity through this hypothesis, fully aware all along not only of the endless contestability of notions of both nation and democracy, but also of the confrontation between particular notions of nationhood and democracy –facts, if unearthed, capable of falsifying the hypothesis. Matters in Japan’s agriculture, education, and environment are here taken up as testing grounds for either the convergence or the divergence of nationhood and democracy in contemporary Japan. Whichever way the discussion leads to, it has something to tell about the future of Japan’s politics.

Dr. Pabottingi would be leaving CSEAS on February 28, 2010
after working here since March 1, 2009 as a visiting
researcher on a one-year fellowship from The Japan Foundation
under affiliation with CSEAS Director, Professor Kosuke Mizuno.

 

Date & Time: 29 January, Fri. 14:00-15:30
Place: Small Meeting Room II, Inamori Center, 3F

 

Abstract:
According to V. Lieberman, debt slavery was the main channel for the royal
service population (ahmudan) to escape from the royal control and
hide themselves under the patronage of powerful private families during
the Taungoo period. As a result, the loss of human resources in the royal
sector accelerated the fall of the dynasty.

However, a close inquiry into the debt-slave contracts in the 19th
century indicates that the debt slavery in the Konbaung period did not
maintain such historical significance any more. Quite different from　
Taungoo kings, Konbaung kings rarely tried to intervene in private　
contracts even though these contracts dealt with the most important　
resources in the kingdom, i.e., human being and land.

This report is an effort to understand the direction and nature of
socio-economic changes in nineteenth-century Burma, basing upon 300
debt-slave contracts.

Prof.Teruko SAITO is Emeritus Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Tokyo
University of Foreign Studies. She has conducted extensive research on
socio-economic history of Burma. Her major publications in English include
"Rural Monetization and Land-Mortgage Thet-Kayits in Kon-baung Burma," in
_Last Stand of Asian Autonomies: Responses to Modernity in the Diverse
States of Southeast Asia and Korea, 1750-1900_edited by Anthony Reid
(MaCmillan, St.Martin's, 1997). She also co-edited with Lee Kin Kiong,
_Statistics on the Burmese economy: the 19th and 20th centuries_(Institute
of Southeast Asian Studies, c1999), and recently with U Thaw Kaung,
_Enriching the past: preservation, conservation and study of Myanmar
manuscripts: proceedings of the International Symposium on Preservation of
Myanmar Traditional Manuscripts_(Yangon, 2006).

Contact: Junko Koizumi, CSEAS.

 

Date & Time: 23 January, Sat. 13:30-18:00
Place: Kyodaikaikan. Room 212

On the 23rd of January, we will be holding the 10th
Virtual Earth seminar. Everybody is welcome to join.
There is no need to register in advance for participation,
but we ask that those who wish to take part in the
after-event gathering please contact the office at the
address below in anticipation. The venue for the
gathering will be the "Momojirou" izakaya (Japanese-style
pub) near Hyakumanben.

 

See here for details on the content of the study group:
http://virtual-earth.asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/info/010.html

Virtual Earth Study Group Office:
virtual.earth.kyoto[at]gmail.com

 

Date:January 23(Sat.) , 2010　13:00- 17:45
Venue:Room Number AA 447 (fourth floor)

Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS)
Research Building No.2
Yoshida Campus
Map: http://www.asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/about/access.html

Program »

1:00 - 1:05 Opening remark

1:05 - 1:35 Challenges and approaches towards GLOF risk mitigation

Ripendra Awal, JSPS postdoctoral research fellow

Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University

1:35 - 2:05 Water induced disasters and their preventive
measures in the context of Nepal

Badri Shrestha, GCOE postdoctoral research fellow

Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University

2:05 - 2:45 Discussion

2:45 - 3:00 Break

3:00 - 3:30 Commercial collection of medicinal and aromatic
plants and livelihood in the mountainous communities in Nepal

Shanti KC Poudel, Doctoral student

Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University

3:30 - 4:00 The circumstances of space utilization and
management of the Buddhist Monastery in traditional urban area of
Patan city

Lata Shakya, JSPS research fellow
Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University

4:00 - 4:40 Discussion

4:40 - 4: 50 Break

4:50 - 5:20 Bhutan’s population-scaping design sours
Nepal-Bhutan relationship

Govinda Rizal, Doctoral student

Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University

5:20 - 5:40 Discussion

 

Contact:
Bhaskar Gautam: bhaskar.gautam[at]gmail.com
Tatsuro Fujikura: fujikura[at]asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp

 

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Date:December 3(Turs.) , 2009　16:00- 18:00
Venue:Middle size meeting room (Room No. 332) on the third floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building


Speaker:Dr. Erik Martinez Kuhonta, CSEAS Visiting Research Fellow from McGill University

Title: IS THE MIDDLE CLASS A HARBINGER OF DEMOCRACY? VIDENCE FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA

 

Unit 3 "Organization of Radical Trends" KIAS (Center for Islamic Area Studies at Kyoto University) will hold the meeting for presenting research papers. This is scheduled as follows:

Date & Time: 30 November., Fri. 15:00-18:00
Place: Lecture Room I (AA401), Faculty of Engineering Bldg. No.4, 4th Floor, Yoshida Campus, Kyoto University
http://www.asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kias/contents/tariqa_ws/access_map.pdf
Language: Japanese

Speaker 1:
HOSAKA Shuji, "Jihadism as Phenomenon: its History and the Status Quo"

Speaker 2:
TAKAOKA Yutaka, "Genealogy of Radical Trends in Iraq"

If you can join us, please send us an e-mail.
inq-kias(at)asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Date: 24 January, Sat. 14:00-17:00
Venue: Lecture Room I (AA401), Research Bldg. No.2(Faculty of
Engineering Bldg. No.4), 4th Floor, Yoshida Campus, Kyoto Univerity
http://www.asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kias/contents/tariqa_ws/access_map.pdf
 

Date:November 19 (Thu.), 2009　15:00 -
Venue:Middle size meeting room (Room No. 332) on the third floor of Inamori Memorial Hall

Speaker: Prof. Nareppa Nagaraj, CSEAS Visiting Research Fellow from
University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore
Title:Water Crisis in Peninsular India: Innovative Approaches and Policy Imperatives


Abstract:
Irrigation has a prime role in Indian agriculture offering food security
to meet the needs of an ever growing population. Of late, the growth in
the surface irrigated area has stagnated and declined. And, the area
under ground water irrigation has increased massively leading to
overexploitation. Facilitating policies towards electricity, credit,
technological innovations in well exploration, extraction and use,
demographic shifts, lucrative product markets and weak groundwater
institutions are contributing to the over-extraction of groundwater. For
the past four decades, groundwater extraction has exhibited a trajectory
of initial utilization, agrarian boom, growing scarcity and eventually
bust with a rapid fall in the groundwater table in semi-arid regions of
India. This has forced several farmers to shift to dryland agriculture
as they could not bear the brunt of failure of wells increasing economic
scarcity of the precious groundwater resource for irrigation. The
ineffective institutional efforts of the government to contain
groundwater overdraft have proved in vain. The challenge is thus to
frame effective institutions focusing on resource management rather than
resource development. In this endeavor, this study critically examines
trends in the growth of irrigation covering 1). the trajectory of well
irrigation, 2). the degree of over exploitation, 3). causes and the
consequences of groundwater depletion, 4). the management gaps and the
appropriate institutional, 5). technical and corrective policy
instruments to overcome the water crisis taking into account both demand
and supply side issues. Further, this study show that groundwater
management approaches which are effective in one country may not be
effective or viable in another country due to the variation in type of
aquifers, the number of users involved, alternative sources of water and
the political economy at large.

 

Date:November 12 (Thursday), 2009　18:30 -
Venue:Room 447, 4th Floor, Research Building No.2., Yoshida Main Campus, Kyoto University,

Film Title:ENDO (Love on a Budget)

ENDO (Love on a Budget) is "a moving love story set in the world of contractual labor where people are trained to accept everything as temporary. The genius of this film is that it manages to say something　about Philippine society in the most subtle of ways." (Philbert Ortiz　Dy). Directed by Jade Castro, the film was hailed by many critics as one of the best films of 2007. It won the Special Jury Prize, Best Actress award (Ina Feleo) and Best Editing award from the Cinemalaya Festival of 2007, and the Best Screenplay and Best Actor (Jason Abalos) awards at the Gawad Urian of 2008. It competed officially at the Nantes International Film Festival in France in 2008. "Endo" is the Filipino
slang term/abbreviation for "end of contract."

 

Date and Time:November 9 (Mon.) , 2009, 14:00-18:00
Venue:CIAS Seminar Room (213), Kyoto University Inamori Center

CIAS will hold the 1st seminar in series on regional integration.
The series of seminars entitled
"A Multidisciplinary Approach to Analyze Regional Integration"
will be organized by Prof. Dr. Anne Androuais
(CNRS Senior Economist / CIAS visiting researcher).

Monthly "Get Together" will be resumed in September. 　Get Together is a
small party hosted by CSEAS director to introduce new foreign
researchers and farewell to who are leaving CSEAS soon.

All of you are welcome to have an opportunity to enjoy small talks with
refreshments.

The details are as follows.

Date and Time: September 25th (Fri.), 2009, 11:45-12:15
Place: Tonan-tei (Room No. 201 on the second floor of Inamori Foundation
Memorial Hall)

*****Our Guests in this month*****

Anthony REID from National University of Singapore
(August 1, 2009 ・January 31, 2010)

Viengrat NETHIPO from Chulalongkorn Univeristy
(September 1, 2009 ・February 28, 2010)

Hong LIU from Manchester University &
Sun Yat-sen University
(September 1, 2009 ・February 28, 2010)

Eric KUHONTA from McGill University
(September 1, 2009 ・December 31, 2009)

Please join us!

Date:August 4(Tue.)-6(Thu.) , 2009　13:00 - 16:15
Venue:Chulalongkorn University and The Tawana Bangkok Hotel

http://www.enitschula.net/

Though Prof. Nishibuchi kindly agreed to attend the conference as a
representative of CSEAS, I am happy if any of you join the conference.
The detail program will be published at the above page soon.

Date:July 23 (Thurs.), 2009　15:00 - 17:00
Venue:CIAS Seminar Room (Room 203 on the 2nd floor of Inamori Hall)

Speaker: Dr. Anne Androuais (CNRS/University Paris Ouest Nanterre La
Defense)
Topic:"The Japanese process of cooperation and competition in Asian
regionalization: A way to follow in implementation of regional integration ?"

Dr. Anne Androuais will be leaving in early August, and will visit
again as a fellow from late September for about five months. Related to
her presentation and academic interests, she intends to organize a
series of seminar regarding regional integration in various regions in
the world while she will join us again since September.
Your kind participation to the seminar would be most welcome.


Summary of presentation:

In order to explain the concept of cooperation and competition in Asian
regionalization, it is interesting to see how Japanese Economic
Cooperation system has accompanied trade and companies, and how Japanese
foreign direct investments have boosted out their production to become
more competitive on the Asian market and at the same time companies have
launched sophisticated products on their local market in Japan.

With the establishment of the trans-boundaries experiences at the end of
the nineties’ in various areas of Asian countries, like Singapore, Johor
and Riau, with a great number of Japanese companies, regionalization
became less an “open regionalization” and more an actual regional
integration. And then, with the FTA (Free Trade Agreements) the march
towards an effective regional integration was considered.

However, the Japanese long length system of cooperation and competition
in Asia will change due to diverse conditions such as the progress of
the ASEAN plus three (APT), the likely buildup of regional institutions,
and the consideration for the region to become not only an economic
integrated area but to take into account political, cultural and
environmental situations; environment is considered to be a common
denominator for present and future regional actions.

Date:July 22(Wed) , 2009　15:00 - 17:00
Venue:Lecture Room #1 (AA401), the 4th floor of Research Bldg. No. 2


Speaker: Dr. Zurina Shafii (Director of Islamic Finance and Wealth Management Institute, Islamic Science University of Malaysia)
Title: Islamic Finance Fundamentals and the Reporting of Syariah Compliant Measures in Islamic Banks

Date:July 22 (Wed.), 2009　10:00 - 12:00
Venue:CSEAS - Tounan Tei, Inamori Building 2nd floor (room 201)

Speaker: Dr. Vedi Hadiz
Topic:"Contemporary Indonesian Political Situation"
(fixed title is on-going)

Date:  2009 July 12 (Sun.) 10：30-18：00
Venue: Lecture Room No. 1 (Room: AA401), 4th Floor, Research Bldg. No.
2, Main Campus, Kyoto University
http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/access/campus/map6r_y.htm

[Language]
English

Program:

Chairs:
Akahori Masayuki (SIAS)
Tonaga Yasushi (KIAS)
Takahashi Kei (SIAS)
Nigo Toshiharu (KIAS)

Commentators:
Nevad Kahteran (Associate Professor, Sarajevo Univ., Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Alexandre Papas (Senior Researcher, CNRS, France)

Program
Opening (10:30-10:40)

Part One: Width of Islamic Culture (10:40-12:20)
Nakanishi Tatsuya (Kyoto Univ.), “Sources of Islamic Ideas in Chinese
Qadiris: Preliminary Research of Sufism and Taoism in Northwestern China
during the 18th and 19th century.”

Ria Fitoria (Sophia Univ.), “Paguyuban Adat Cara Kahurun Urang (PACKU):
A Study of Religious Movement in Cigugur, West Java, Indonesia.”

Komura Akiko (Sophia Univ.), “A New Look at Islam in Japan through the
Magazine ‘Assalam'.”

Fujii Chiaki (Kyoto Univ.), “The View of Illness Based on Islam: The
Case of East African Coast.”

Part Two: Depth of Islamic Thought (13:30-14:45)
Tochibori Yuko (Kyoto Univ.), “The Works and Thought of Amir ‘Abd al-Qadir.”

Wakakuwa Ryo “Against Secularism: Views of the Ulama on the Eve of
Tunisian Independence.”

Sononaka Yoko (Kyoto Univ.), “The Sama’ of Sufi Literature:
Minhacu’l-Fukara of Ismail Ankaravi, the 7th Sheikh of the Mevlevihane
in Galata.”

Part Three: Variety of Islamic Society (15:00-16:15)
Yasuda Shin (Kyoto Univ.), “The Concept of al-Siyaha al-Diniya: Focus on
Syria and Egypt.”

Tobinai Yuko (Sophia Univ.), “The Present-day Situation of the Life of
Internally Displaced People in Khartoum: Through Fieldwork on the Kuku
Language Used in the Activity of the Episcopal Church.”

Aleksandra Majstorac Kobiljski (Doshisha Univ.), “Rethinking Butros
al-Bustani's National Academy.”

Comments from Commentators (16:30-17:10)
General Discussion (17:10-18:00)

If you can join us, please send us an e-mail.
inq-kias[at]asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp

 

Date:July 09 (Thurs.), 2009　16:00 - 18:00
Venue:Seminar Room No.330 on the third floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building

Speaker: SUPIANDI Sabiham, CSEAS Visiting Research Fellow from Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia
Topic:"Management of the Indonesian Peat Lands: It needs to be imporved"


Abstract:
In Indonesia, people with their modern technology have recently utilized an extensive amount of peat swamp lands for agriculture and other purposes. Although some agricultural businesses in large scales have brought in a lot of profit to the country, the conversion of land has had a dramatic impact on the environment not only of the local area, but also of regions surrounding the land globally. The changes have resulted in the detrimental development of peat swamp lands and huge destruction of the natural resources particularly the forest. The future development of peat swamp lands accordingly needs to be thoroughly improved, and the utilization of such lands should be based on serious consideration of the site specific and functional region of peat ecosystem, the crops that are suitable with capability of peat swamp lands, and the modern technology that is enriched by local knowledge/technology.


Coordinator:Yasuyuki, KONO (CSEAS, Kyoto University)

Date:  2009 July 8 (Wed.) 15：00-17：00
Venue: Lecture Room No. 2 (Room AA415), 4th Floor, Research Bldg. No.2,
Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University
(Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo, Kyoto )
For the access please find the following URL.
http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/access/campus/map6r_y.htm

Speaker:
Prof. Nevad Kahteran (Sarajevo Univ., Bosnia and Herzegovina; visiting
associate professor of Kyoto Univ.)
Title:
“Overcoming Fundamentalism: About Possible Links between the Kyoto
School and Sufism in the Pluralistic Age”

Commentators:
Prof. Sawai Yoshitsugu (Tenri Univ.)
Prof. Kamada Shigeru (The Univ. of Tokyo)
(Other commentators are under negotiation.)

Chair:
Tonaga Yasushi (Kyoto Univ.)

 

Date:June 26 (Fri.), 2009　16:00 - 18:00
Venue:Room No. 332, Seminar Room on the 3rd floor of Inamori Foundation
Memorial Building

Speaker: Professor Mary Beth Mills (Colby College, U.S.)
Topic:"Raising Voices, Claiming Space: Migrant Women's Labor Activism
in Bangkok"

Professor Mills is the author of Thai Women in the Global Labor Force:
Consuming Desires, Contested Selves (Rutgers UP 1999), a well-cited work
on migrant women laborers from rural northeast Thailand to Bangkok.

Abstract:
Like many newly industrializing Asian nations, Thailand has relied
heavily on rural-urban migration to build a cheap, flexible, and
compliant labor force for global capital. In Bangkok, new entrants into
urban wage labor are typically young (teens and early twenties), many
are female. Prior to arriving in the city, few have extensive experience
either of urban life or of the harsh demands and disciplines of
industrial wage labor. The youth, gender, and rural origins of many wage
workers tend to position them within the urban labor force in ways that
increase their vulnerability to workplace discipline and limit their
access to the institutions and ideas about labor organizing.
Nonetheless, some migrant workers do become involved in Thailand's small
but persistent labor movement.
At one level, labor activism offers migrants practical means of
challenging the hardships they experience in the workplace. Yet
workers’ material assertions and demands often meet with only partial
success (and not always that). The attractions of labor activism for
participants, therefore, cannot be understood solely in terms of the
movement’s overt political achievements. Rather, the labor movement and
associated activities represent compelling avenues through which
participants can contest and rework broader experiences of
marginalization (as workers, as migrants, and as women). In this
analysis I examine some ways in which the labor activism of migrant
women workers takes shape in relation to their understandings and
reimagining of gendered norms and their claims to new forms of spatial
practice and autonomy.

Date:June 4 (Thu.), 2009　14:00 - 16:00
Venue:Seminar Room II, Iwamori Building

Topic:Roundtable on the State of Democracy in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asian Perspectives
Vedi Hadiz (Associate Professor, National University of Singapore and
author of Localising Power in Indonesia: A Southeast Asia Perspective,
forthcoming, Stanford University Press, 2009)

Thailand
Prof. Ukrist Pathmanand (Professor, Chulalongkorn University,
co-author of the book The Thaksinization of Thailand, with Duncan
McCargo)

Indonesia
Prof. Jun Honna (Associate Professor, Reitsumeikan University and
author of Military Politics and Democratization in Indonesia)

Prof. Masaaki Okamoto (Associate Professor, CSEAS and author of  "An
Unholy Alliance: Political Thugs and Political Islam Work Together, "
Inside Indonesia 93", August-October 2008)

Malaysia
Prof. Toh Kin Woon (Senior API Fellow, former leader, Parti Gerakan
Rakyat Malaysia - the Malaysian People’s Movement Party, and former
Senator, Malaysian Upper Chamber of Parliament, member of the Penang
State Legislative Assembly)

The Philippines
Prof. Patricio N. Abinales (Professor, CSEAS, and author of History
and Orthodoxy in the Muslim Filipino Narrative, 1898-2000, Ateneo
Press, forthcoming)

Date:May 27 (Wed.), 2009　13:30-
Venue:Small Meeting Room, Inamori Memorial Building

Date:May 25 (Mon.), 2009　13:00 - 16:15
Venue:Meeting Room (Room# AA447), 4th Floor, Research Bldg. No.2

Date:May 25 (Mon.), 2009　15:00 -
Venue:room 201 (Tonantei) of Inamori Hall, CSEAS, Kyoto University
Topic:The Aboriginal Sewang Performance: Preserving Tradition
Speaker:Professor Solelah Ishak, University of Malaya

Abstract:

Date:May 23 (Sat.), 2009　15:00 - 17:30
Venue: Lecture Room 1 (Room AA401), 4th Floor, Research Bldg. No. 2,
Kyoto University

Date:May 22 (Fri.), 2009　17:00 - 19:00
Venue:Institute for Reseach in Humanities (1st floor, Common 2)
http://www.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/

Date:May 18 (Mon.), 2009　09:00 - 12:00
Venue:Centre for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) – Kyoto University
Inamori Foundation Memorial Hall 3rd Fl., Room 333
46 Shimoadachi-cho, Yoshida Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501

Speakers:

Language:English (executive summary will be provided in Japanese) and simultaenous
interpretation during Question and Answer session


This event is an excellent opportunity to exchange views and knowledge on Indonesia and
we are looking forward to meeting you at the seminar. Please find enclosed your registration form
and kindly return it by Thursday, 14 May 2009. For further information please contact Ms.
Anggraeni, Information Section-Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia in Osaka (Phone:06-6252-9826 or E-mail: anggraeniw[at]indonesia-osaka.org)


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Date: May 14 (Thurs.), 2009 16:00 - 18:00
Place: Room 331, 3rd floor of Inamori Foundatin Memorial Hall

Topic: "Bridging the social, ecological and economic dimensions of
sustainability in mountain watersheds of Southeast Asia"

Speaker: Dr. Andreas Neef, CSEAS Visiting Research Fellow from
University of Hohenheim

Abstract：
Many past research and development efforts in the mountains of Southeast
Asia did not have a long-term impact because they tended to focus only
on one dimension of sustainability rather than employing a
multi-dimensional approach. Attempts to introduce soil and water
conservation measures, for instance, have largely failed because they
concentrated merely on the technical feasibility and potential
ecological effects, while neglecting economic viability and
socio-cultural acceptance. The predominant state-paradigm of
environmental resource governance with its emphasis on
command-and-control approaches has often undermined community-based
resource management systems of common-pool resources, such as forests
and water. The production of agricultural commodities, on the other
hand, has mostly been market-driven and often induced unsustainable boom
and bust cycles.
Public investments towards sustainable land use and rural development in
marginal mountain regions will need to move from financing piecemeal
research and technology development to building long-term
‘Multi-Stakeholder Knowledge and Innovation Partnerships’. Such
partnerships can bridge the social, ecological and economic dimensions
of sustainability and integrate the community, the market and the state
– which have often been regarded as antagonistic forces. The underlying
rationale of multi-stakeholder knowledge and innovation partnerships is
that efforts to reverse widespread environmental degradation and
alleviate rural poverty in mountain watersheds of Southeast Asia require
collective and concerted action by a wide range of stakeholders and
across different scales. Drawing primarily on research work in Thailand,
but also on other countries in Southeast Asia, I argue that
‘Multi-Stakeholder Knowledge and Innovation Partnerships’ towards
sustainable watershed development in mountainous regions need to be
based on three pillars: (1) participatory resource governance, (2)
payments for environmental services, and (3) rural processing and
marketing cooperatives.

Coordinator: Yasuyuki Kono (CSEAS)

Date: April 24 (Fri.), 2009　13:00-17:00
Venue: Inamori Memorial Hall

Program>>

Date:April 22 (Wed.), 2009　13:30-
Venue:Small Meeting Room, Inamori Memorial Building

Date: April 21 (Tue.), 2009 12:00-13:30
Place: Room 330, 3rd floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Hall

Topic: "Thaksin’s Legacy: Thaksinomics and Its Impacts on
Thailand’s National Innovation System and Industrial Upgrading"

Speaker: Dr. Patarapong Intarakumnerd (Visiting Fellow at CSEAS and
Adjunct Professor, College of Innovation, Thammasat University)

Abstract：
Thaksin Shinawatra was one of the most powerful prime ministers of
Thailand. With a set of new policies under Thaksinomics, great and
sustained power, his CEO style of management, and his intention to make
Thailand a developed country, his administration could have been a
formidable force transforming Thailand’s weak and fragmented innovation
system to a stronger and more coherent one, and laid out a long-lasting
foundation for the country’s technological and industrial upgrading, as
experienced in Japan and East Asian NIEs. Thaksin administration paid
much more attention to the neglected meso and micro foundations of
country’s competiveness. For the first time, Thailand had explicit
vertical industrial policies that were tailored to specific sectors and
geographical clusters. These policies pushed existing central and
regional government agencies to adjust themselves accordingly. The
Thaksin government also induced changes in the roles and behaviours
other actors in the Thai NIS. Nonetheless Thaksin government, to a large
extent, failed to make an enduring impact on industrial and technology
upgrading. There are two key factors underlying this failure: a) the
deficiencies of Thaksin policies and implementation of those policies
themselves, and b) the resistance of changes by other actors in the
national innovation system.

Coodinator: Kaoru Sugihara(CSEAS)

Date:April 19 (Sun.), 2009　13:00-
Venue:Meeting room AA447. 4th Fl., ASAFAS Bldg., Kyoto University
http://www.asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/about/access.html

Date: April 3 (Fri.), 2009 14:00-
Place: Room 331, 3rd floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Hall

Topic: "Sustainable rural development initiative for natural resource
management: Role of agroforestry in the resource poor tropical
environments of West Java, Indonesia"

Speaker: Prof. Oekan. S. Abdoellah
CSEAS visiting research fellow from Institute of Ecology, University of
Padjadjaran-Bandung, Indonesia

Abstract：
In the rural areas of West Java, agriculture is still one of the most
crucial sectors in supporting the daily life of rural people where the
problem of resource-poor farmers mostly remain. Today many rural areas
in West Java, especially in the upland, face serius problem such as
environmental degradation and resource depletion. Agroforestry systems
such as homegardens and bamboo-tree gardens have a potential role as
rural ecosystem components to address such problems. These  agroforestry
systems are often touted as efficient and sustainable and can meet
divers ecological, economic, and social functions. Homegardens and
bamboo-tree gardens also help to reduce atmospheric CO2 levels by
sequestering carbon in the biomass and soil. Yet in Indonesia and in
West Java in particularly, the policy makers and local scientists have
neglected these land use systems. Moreover in view of the recent trends
of land use in West Java, these systems are under severe pressure. Many
farmers have already converted homegardens and bamboo-tree gardens  into
cashcrop gardens. Using data from research on agroforestry in the upper
Citarum watershed West Java-Indonesia and  literature review, in this
presentation I will examine these traditional land use systems, their
current status and future prospects as a component of the rural
ecosystem in search of sustainable rural development for natural
resource  management.

Date: February 23-24 ,2009
Venue:  Inamori Memorial Hall and meeting rooms

Title: The Making of East Asia: from both Macro and Micro Perspectives

Program>> (2009/02/05Update)

There will be a Keynote Speech by Chris Baker "Asia in an Era of Global
Upheaval" on the morning of Feb.23.

The main part of the two-day workshop will be held in two parallel
sessions, one on "A Decade of Change: Toward a New Model of East Asian
Economy" and "Changing "Families"".

Date: 24 January, Sat. 14:00-17:00
Venue: Lecture Room I (AA401), Research Bldg. No.2(Faculty of
Engineering Bldg. No.4), 4th Floor, Yoshida Campus, Kyoto Univerity
http://www.asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kias/contents/tariqa_ws/access_map.pdf

KIAS(Center for Islamic Area Studies at Kyoto University) organized the
research group of modern Middle East literature.In the present situation
in Japan, Each genre of the literature studies in the Islamic world, for
example, modern Turkish literature,　modern Persian literature, modern
Arabic literature, etc., is isolated and researchers cannot easily climb
over the wall separates the genres. So we need a cross-border research
meeting where we can investigate possibilities of the literature studies
and think out the methods of activiation of these studies.
We select three major genres, i..e. modern Turkish literature, modern
Persian literature, modern Arabic literature, for the 1st research
meeting at the moment. However, nothing is farther from our intention
than to limit our research plan to three genres.

Speakers & Titles:
KATSUDA Shigeru(Osaka University)
''Studies of Modern Turkish Literature in Japan''
FUJIMOTO Yuko(Osaka University)
''Studies of Modern Persian Literature in Japan''
OKA Mari(Kyoto University)
''Studies of Modern Arabic Literature in Japan''
Language: Japanese

Date:Saturday 17th January, 2009
Venue:

* International Forum:
Room "Rainbow", 5th Floor, Imperial Queens Park Hotel
Address: 199 Sukhumvit, Soi 22, Bangkok 10110
Tel: 02-261-9000
Fax: 02-261-9499

* Reception party:
Bangkok Liaison Office, Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Grand floor, Raj Mansion, 31-33, Soi 20, Sukhumvit Road

Program：

13:00-13:30 Registration
13:30-14:00 Opening (Chair: Assoc. Prof. Arai Nobuaki, Kyoto University)
-Welcome address 1: His Excellency Mr. Komachi Kyoji (Japanese Ambassador)
-Welcome address 2: Prof. Yoshikawa Kiyoshi (Representative of Kyoto University)
-Welcome address 3: Dr. Wiwut Tanthapanichakoon (Representative of KUC)

14:00-14:45 Lecture 1 (Chair: Prof. Kono Yasuyuki, Kyoto University)
-Speaker: Prof. Tsujii Hiroshi, Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University
"World food Crisis and the Roles that Thailand and Japan Should Play"

14:45-15:15 Coffee break

15:15-16:00 Lecture 2 (Chair: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sucharit Koontanakulvong, Chulalongkorn University)
-Speaker: Dr. Sommai Pivsa and Dr. Sorapong Pavasupree, Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi
"Energy Crisis from the Perspectives of RMUTT
- Kyoto University Cooperative Works in Energy and Materials Research"
(in Thai language)

16:00-16:45 Lecture 3 (Chair: Mr. Yamamoto Akio, Japanese Alumni )
-Speaker: Mr. Yamada Munenori, President of JETRO Bangkok Center
“ERIA’s Activities on Food & Energy Security”
(ERIA = the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia)

16:50-17:00 Closing (Chair: Prof. Kono Yasuyuki, Kyoto University)
-Closing address: Professor. Mizuno Kosuke (Director of Center for Southeast Asian Studies)

17:00-19:30 Reception Party (Chair: KUC, Japanese Alumni and KU)
-Welcome address 1: Mr. Yamamoto Akio (Mitsui Bussan, Representative of Japanese Alumni)
-Welcome address 2: Assoc. Prof. Krisada Visavateeranon (President of Thai-Nichi Institute of Technology)
Remarks: The above International Forum in Imperial Queen’s Park Hotel is open to the interested public free of charge, whilst the Reunion Party in the evening is open to Kyodai alumni, their families and colleagues with a participation fee of 700 baht per person for Thai participants and 1,000 baht per person for Japanese participants.
Institutional setting：
* Forum：Organized by Kyoto University and KUC (Kyoto Union Club)
Supported by Thai-Nichi Institute of Technology (TNI)
* Reception party：Organized by Kyoto University, KUC and Japanese KU Alumni Association in Bangkok

Contact：KOBAYASHI, Satoru (CSEAS)

Date:January 11 (Sun.), 2009  13:30-17:00
Venue:Common research room for the Course of South Asian Studies, 6th
floor, B bldg., Minoh Campus, Osaka University
http://www.osaka-u.ac.jp/jp/accessmap.html
http://www.osaka-u.ac.jp/jp/annai/about/map/minoh.html


Presentation 1: SATO Minoru (Kansai University)
``Publishing of Han Kitabs in the Modern Ages"
Presentation 2: KUROIWA Takashi (Musashi University)
``Logic of Succession in the case of Chinese Akhonds"(tentative)

Date:December 22 (Mon.), 2008  14:00 - 16:00
Venue:Inamori Foundation Memorial Hall, Room number 331

Speakers and Topics:
Dr. Tirthankar Roy (London School of Economics)
Water and Economic Change in South Asia

Date: December 16（Tue.）16:30-18:00
Venue:Tonantei, 2nd floor, Inamori Hall, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/about/access_ja.html

Tittle: Free in the Forest: Popular Neoliberalism and the Aftermath of War in the U.S. Pacific Northwest
Speaker: Prof. Anna Tsing (UC Santa Cruz)

Anna Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is internationally recognized as a leading anthropologist. Over the past decade, Anna Tsing has developed a sophisticated ethnographic approach to the study of global connections. Her most recent book entitled Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connections (Princeton University Press 2005) was awarded the Senior Book Prize from the American Ethnological Association. Other publications include:
- Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia, co-edited with P. Greenough (Duke University Press, 2003).
- Shock and Awe: War on Words, co-edited with B. van Eekelen, J. González, and B. Stötzer. (New Pacific Press, 2004).
- In the Realm of the Diamond Queen. Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place. Princeton University Press, 1993).

Co-organizers：Global COE Program ”In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa ” / Center for Integrated Area Studies Joint
Contact: Noboru Ishikawa (Center for Southeast Asian studies, Kyoto University)

Opening & Session 1

Session 3
“Narrating and Listening to the Memories of Nakba in Kyoto: Dialogue between Palestine and East Asia” & Closing Session

Date:Dec 16 (Tue), 2008　10:00-18:30
Venue:Inamori Hall, Kyoto University, Kyoto
http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/access/downlodemap/documents/haichi2008.pdf
http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/access/downlodemap/documents/medicine2008.pdf

Language: English

Date:December 6 (Sat), 2008　13:00-18:00
Venue:Classroom 203, Bldg. No.7, Waseda Campus, Waseda University
http://www.waseda.jp/eng/campus/map.html

Presentation: NISHINO Masami(The National Institute for Defense Studies)
``Muhammad Qutb's Thought in his Contemporary Ideological Trends"
Comment: IIZUKA Masato(Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

Discussion: HOSAKA Shuji(Kinki University, Chair), NISHINO Masami,
IIZUKA Masato and SUZUKI Emi(Waseda University)
``Decoding the Modern Egyptian Political-Ideological Scene''

Language: Japanese

Date: December 5th（Fri.） 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm,
6th (Sat.) 10:00 am - 5:30 pm
 
No registration fee required. Simultaneous interpretation provided (Japanese and English).
Registration deadline： November 20th, 2008.

Venue:Kyoto University Clock Tower Centennial Hall (City Bus: "Hyakumanben" or "Kyodai Seimon-mae" )

Sponsored by： Kyoto University; Organized and Directed by：The Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
Supported by：The Kyoto University Foundation, Science Council of Japan; Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(A)
An Interdisciplinary Study of Representation and Expression of Race
Co-facilitated by：Kyoto University Open Course Ware, Grad.Sch. of Letters, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Grad. Sch. of Biosstudies


In 2002, the Institute for Research in Humanities held a conference entitled "Is Race a Universal Idea?" The conference challenged conventional notions of race through interdisciplinary dialogues. This conference will seek to address the remaining vital question: although academics agree that the concept of race is a social construct, why is race still perceived so tangibly in our daily lives? The symposium will approach this question by exploring racial representations as dynamic agencies that produce a sense of reality through various media and discourses. Particular attention will be given to the transformations of racial representations. The conference will examine the process of such changes and discuss their implications and potential for further transformation.

http://kyodo.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~race/symposium-en.html

Date:November 12 (Wed), 2008　17:00-
Venue:Meeting room AA447. 4th Fl., ASAFAS Bldg.,Kyoto University
http://www.asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/about/access.html

Language：English with Japanese Subtitle

URL:
http://persepolis-movie.jp/
http://www.afpbb.com/article/entertainment/movie/2351151/2644942
http://www.afpbb.com/article/1623130
http://www.afpbb.com/article/entertainment/movie/2370199/2778738
http://www.varietyjapan.com/news/movie/2k1u7d0000008t93.html

Date: October 10(Fri.)，2008 　10:30-12:00
Venue:Room 207 on the 2nd floor of CSEAS East building

Topic: "Towards an East Asian Community (with thanks to Charles Darwin and Karl Marx)"
Speaker: Dr. Paul Close, CSEAS Visiting Researcher

Abstract:
The processes of regionalisation and regional integration in Southeast
Asia and East Asia towards the construction of the ASEAN Community and,
more inclusively, what has come to be widely referred to as the East
Asian Community (EAC) is attracting growing political and academic
attention, with the topic of the comparison and relationship – as
conducted through the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), for instance - between
a) East Asian integration around ASEAN and its extensions and b)
European integration around the European Community (EC) and Union (EU)
being of major interest. The attention being given to East Asian
integration reflects a largely supportive stance on the prospect of an
EAC, albeit mixed positions on the possibility and desirability of the
EAC resembling the EC and EU, especially in its institutional makeup.
Still, the differences over detail aside, there appears to be a clear
drift in political and academic circles in East Asia towards
regionalism, that doctrine, ideology or set of principles which favours
and facilitates regional integration, the process whereby an
identifiable region – such as Europe, Southeast Asia or East Asia -
becomes more and more socially (economically, politically, culturally)
unified and cohesive.

As with European integration, while historical, cultural and related
considerations will play a part in conditioning the process of East
Asian integration, and so in shaping the resulting East Asian regional
social formation (the EAC) – around the ASEAN-China-
Japan triptych - they will play only a secondary and largely contingent,
rather than a decisive, part. What will matter above all in determining
both European and East Asian integration are the agendas, interests and
power that are rooted in the prevailing political economy sphere of
social life; in that sphere which is being gradually elevated from the
nation-state level to the regional and global levels in accordance with
the processes of de facto regional integration, on the one hand, and
globalisation, on the other.


Coodinator: Kosume Mizuno (CSEAS)

Date: September 1- 5，2008 　
Venue:SHIMA SPAIN MURA

Biotechnology of Lignocellulose Degradation, Biomass Utilization and Biorefinery http://www.bio.mie-u.ac.jp/conference/mie-bioform/

Date: August 31- September 5，2008 　
Venue:Bologna, Italy

[Organizers]
WCPR

"SPARC(Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate) 4th General Assembly"

Date: August 19(Tue.)，2008 　
Venue:Meeting Room (AA447), Research Bldg. No. 2(Faculty of Engineering
Bldg. No. 4), 4th Floor, Kyoto University

[Organizers]
YAMANE So(Osaka University), SAWAE Fumiko(Tohoku University) and YOKOTA
Takayuki(The Japan Institute of International Affairs)

[Timetable]
13:00-13:15 Opening Speech: YAMANE So

13:15-13:30 Guest Speech: KOSUGI Yasushi(Kyoto University)

13:30-14:30 Speaker (1): Moinuddin AQEEL(University of Karachi)
"Print Media and Moderninzing Islam: Impact of Printing in the Islamic
West Asia in the Early Nineteenth Century''

14:30-15:30 Speaker (2): Zahid Munir AMIR(Punjab University/al-Azhar
University)
"Muhammad Iqbal's Concept on Islam: From a Perspective of a Moderate
Trend''

15:45-16:05 Commentator (1): MISAWA Nobuo(Toyo University)

16:05-16:25 Commentator (2): HIRANO Junichi(Kyoto University)

16:25-17:05 General Discussion
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Prospectus

       Unit 2 "Study on Moderate Trends'' of Center for Islamic Area Studies
at Kyoto University(KIAS) has been studying the moderate trends in the
Islamic world and we have had eight seminars since last year. In these
seminars, we tried to examine the general character of various moderate
trends, that is to say, to make it clear what kind of elements make up
`moderate trend.' But one fundamental matter has always prevented us
from understanding of Islamic moderate trends: what on earth is Islamic
moderate trend? If an `Islamic moderate trend' were put in a different
time and situation, it might be regarded as a radical trend, and another
`Islamic moderate trend' might be recognized secular, or even
`un-Islamic.' In other words, the definition of `moderate trend' can
change according to political, social, historical and regional contexts.
This problem led us to the question of which social factors can make a
trend or movement `moderate.' Among some social factors which can bring
so-called `moderate trends' into existence, we pay attention to the
roles of media in the formation of `moderate trends' for the present.

       For our present concerns as stated above, we planed an International
Workshop on the role of media, especially from the second half of the
nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century in South
Asia. The media has had a pretty important role in motivating the
Islamic revivalism in that era - it should be regarded as a `moderate
trend' because it was by no means an radical movement for the purpose of
overthrowing the government - when the publishing technology developed
rapidly. Newspapers and magazines were published by Muslim leaders and
journalists in several areas, such as Rashid Rida's "al-Manar'' or Sar
Saiyid Ahmad Khan's "Tahzib al-Akhlaq''. Beside the journals, books
also began to be published. In the British India, Muhammad Iqbal's
poetry was published and people shared Iqbal's poetical image of Islamic
revivalism. And his message gave great influence on muslims in the
British India. Nowadays, Iqbal has been regarded as the pioneer of the
concept of Pakistan. It should added that Iqbal is also famous in Iran
for his Persian poetry. Most of Muslim media at that time discussed how
a muslim should live his life under the influence of the Westren
modernization. Exactly through the media, the public became motivated
and civic movements started as a result.

       For this workshop, we invite two distinguished scholars from Pakistan
who will present us some cases on the role of media in motivating the
muslim public for Islamic moderate trends. Dr. Moinuddin Aqeel will
discuss the role of print media regarding modernizing Islam in Islamic
West Asia, which brought the great impact on Indo-muslims. And Dr. Zahid
Munir Amir will present Muhammad Iqbal's concept on Islam from a
perspective of a moderate trend.

Date: July 17(Thu.)，2008 　16:00 ～18:00
Venue:Room 207 on the 2nd floor of CSEAS East building

Topic:  Related Beings: Rice and Human
Speaker: Prof. Ang Choulean (CSEAS Foreign Visiting Research Fellow)

Abstract:
From several standpoints, Cambodia still remains an under-developed country. But what she can still be proud of, she will lose, as one can guess, the day she’ll become developed. The richness I would like to introduce you to is deeply rural, highly cultural and in the same time highly fragile: the thinking and ritual practices associated with rice. In rural areas, which represent the main and profound reality of Cambodia, rice is not just a cultivation, not just the main cultivation, the main source of peasant's income. Beyond cultivation, rice is culture. Maybe I'm saying a tautology. Yet I wish to show how close to humankind rice is, for Cambodian farmers. I will present two types of ritual where you can realize that rice, topmost cultivation, and human, cultural creature par excellence, form two facets of one single being. The first ritual marks the end of the harvest and the strengthening of the seeds for the next rice cultivation cycle. The second one is a series of rites of passage marking the different steps of an individual's life.

Date: July 17(Thu.)，2008 　13:00 ～16:00
Venue:Room 207 on the 2nd floor of CSEAS East building

Workshop on Exploring East-West Corridors
- Living Ancient Road from Angkor to Thailand -

1.　Reconsideration of Thai History : East-West Corridors
Yoneo Ishii(Professor emeritus at Kyoto University)

2. "The muti-disciplinary approach for archaeological study: case study of
Royal Road from Angkor to Phimai"
Surat Lertlum (CSEAS, Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy)

3. Comment on Royal Road Studies from Cambodian Anthropologist
Ang Choulean (CSEAS, Royal University of Fine Arts, Cambodia）

Contact: Go Yonezawa,Mamoru Shibayama

Date: July 12th (13:00- 15:00), 13th (13:00-17:00) (The two-day WS)
Venue: Common building #307, ASAFAS/CSEAS, Kawabata Campus

Facilitator: Itsushi Kawase (JSPS Research Fellow, ASAFAS Kyoto University)

This workshop regards video as "language" rather than the tool for
gathering visual records.
It can be used to approach knowledge in new ways that researchers can
acquire and apply to their own disciplines in a form of discourse radically different
from that of written texts.
This workshop is being offered to researchers with little experience
of video production who wish to use video in research projects. The 1st day of workshop will argue the ways of "seeing" through juxtaposing extracts from much-discussed anthropological cinemas during 2006-2007. The 2nd day includes the basic training for videotaping out on the field and theoretical discussions of how video may be applied to the research and publication in anthropology and related disciplines.

Date: July 10(Thu.)，2008 　16:30 -18:00
Venue:Room 207 on the 2nd floor of CSEAS East building

Topic:The Grameen Bank and the Bank Rakayat Indonesia:
Sharing of Experiences between the Two Microfinance Giants
Speaker: Prof. Tazul Islam (CSEAS Foreign Visiting Research Fellow)

Abstract:
With a brief overview of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and
the Bank Rakayat Indonesia, this presentation explores the financial
services currently being provided by these two microfinance giants and
in the process highlights their impact on poverty alleviation and
financial sustainability: the two main issues which make a micro finance
institution successful. Basing mainly on secondary data, the paper
concludes that both the giants have many lessons to learn from each
other. In case of Grameen, though much has been done in Grameen Phase
Two, there does still appear to be considerable scope for increasing the
range of savings services needed to better meet the needs of the poor.
Likewise, in contrast to the sophistication that has developed in the
savings services of the Bank Rakayat Indonesia, the range of lending
services does not seem to be as well developed.

Contact: Koichi Fujita(ex. 7321)

Date: July 5(Sat.)- 6(Sun)，2008 　10:00 ～18:00
Venue:Conference Room, 5th floor, Neiseikan-Building. Imadegawa Campus, Doshisha University

Forum Fee: 3,000yen (faculties and general participants)
2,000yen (undergraduate/graduate students)
1,000yen (foreign students and participants from abroad)
*This includes the proceedings and its postal fare. Reception fees are not included.

Reception fee: 3,000yen (faculties and general participants)
2,000yen (students, foreign students and participants from abroad)

Participation Requirements: anyone who are interested in the Philippines

Presentation Requirements and Types:
a. Scholarly/academic presentation: scholars and graduate students studying about the Philippines.
b. Practical presentation: individual workers and NGOs doing activities on the Philippines.

Presentation language: Japanese, English, Pilipino (there will be no translation)

Presentation time: 40 minutes (including inquiry time) for both academic and practical presentations

[Previous The Forum Programs]
http://www.d1.dion.ne.jp/~zmackey/foruminjapan.html

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--July 6 (Sun.)---

1st Session (Conference Room)
Moderator: Saya Kiba
9:00-9:40 Erec C. Rana (M.A. Student, Graduate School of Policy Scinence, Ritsumeikan University)
"PENSION REFORM FOR THE SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM OF THE PHILIPPINES: An Analysis of the Feasibility of the Inclusion of Government Subsidy"

9:40-10:20 Jorge H. Primaverra (M.A. Student, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University)
"Population Economies of Scale: The Case of Decentralization in the Philippines"

Break

2nd Session (Conference Room)
Moderator: Saya Kiba, Wataru Kusaka
10:30-11:10 Myleen G. Yap (M.A. Student, Graduate School of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University)
"Performance Management System based on Organizational Performance Indicators Framework: The Department of Social Welfare and Development in the Philippines Experience"

11:10-11:50 Shingo Fukuda (Ph.D. Student, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University)
"Production Strategies of SMEs in the Industrial Declining Period: Case of the Footwear Industry in the Philippines"

11:50-13:00 Lunch Time

3rd session
(Conference Room)
Moderator: Jefferson R. Plantilla, Kenichi Yamane, Makiko Tamaki
13:00-13:40 Ma.Theresa T. Payongyayong (University of the Philippines,Diliman), Jeanette L. Yasol-Naval (University of the Philippines,Diliman)
"The Ethos of Rice: Environmental Philosophy in the Rice Farming Systems And Practices in the Philippines and Japan"

13:45-14:25 Makiko Tamaki (Ph.D. Stdudent, Graduate School of Political Science and Economics, Meiji University)
"Does Microfinance Empower Women?; A Case Study of City of Koronadal"

14:30-15:10 Ayumi Sugimoto (Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo) "Collaborative process for forestry management and local governance-A case study from Quirino Province in the Philippines-"

15:15-15:55 Miho Fujii (Kyoto University, Center for Integrated Area Studies)
"Social Stratification in a Laguna Small Coconut Farming Village (1950s ~1970s): A Case Study in Laguna Province"

(Room 507)
Moderator: Kentaro Azuma, Nelia G. Balgoa, Takahiro Kobayashi
13:00-13:40 Kouki Seki (Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University)
"Emergent Difference and Commonality in the Transnational Social Space---A Case of a People's Organization in Metro Manila, the Philippines"

13:45-14:25 Takahiro Kobayashi (Waseda University)
"Securing the living space: A case study on the local settlement problem in a town of the Western Visayas in the Philippines"

14:30-15:10 Elizabeth Morales-Nuncio (University of Sto.Tomas)
"Filpino Women's Ethnicity, Histories,& Identities from Trading to Malling in the Philippines"

15:15-15:55 Yuko Kobayakawa (Ph.D. Student, Toyo University)
"The Land Acquisition Program As A Key To Social Capital-Case Study of the Urban Poor Community in Cebu, Philippines-"

Break

Final Session (Conference Room)
Moderator: Benedict San Jose
16:05-16:45 Nicolle B. Comafay (Ph.D.Student,Doshisha University, Graduate School of Sociology)
"Kyoto Association of Pinoy Scholars: A Filipino Scholar-Student Group in Japan"

16:45-17:00 Special Event& Merienda

Meeting (~18:00)

Date: June 29(Sun.)，2008 　10:00 ～16:30
Venue:Conference Room, 3F, Seiwakan Hall, Omiya Campus, Ryukoku University, Kyoto

The Afrasian Centre for Peace and Development Studies at Ryukoku University will hold its 2008’s first international seminar on 29th June. This is a follow-up seminar after the third international symposium on 23rd and 24th of February 2008, focusing on resource and sustainability issues in developing countries of Asia and Africa.

This time, we focus on more specified subject issues, that is, the impacts of globalising economy on resource management at the local community level. We are expecting to have deeper academic discussion and insights to extract impacts of globalizing economy on local community resource management in Japan, other Asian and African countries. For this purpose, we invite two keynote speakers from abroad: Prof. Raymond Jussaume, Jr. from Washington State University and Prof. Louise Fortmann from University of California at Berkeley.

【Keynote Speakers】
・Prof. Raymond Jussaume, Jr., Washington State University
・Prof. Louise Fortmann, University of California at Berkeley
・Prof. Atsushi Kitahara, Ryukoku University

【Programme】>>

Date:16:00‐18:00, June 24(Tue.)，2008
Venue:Room No. 207 on the 2nd floor of East building

Speaker：Professor Richard von Glahn (University of California,
Los Angeles)
Topic："Multiple Currency Circuits and the Origins of the Paper
Money Standard in China in the 12th-13th Centuries"

Abstract:
The monetary system of the Southern Song period was characterized by distinctive regional monetary circuits and multiple currencies, including bronze and iron coin, paper money, and silver. Although bronze coin remained the standard unit of account in government finance and private trade throughout the Song, during the Southern Song period a new monetary standard emerged based on paper money. Moreover, silver developed into a key component of the Southern Song fiscal system. Silver acquired particular importance as the hard currency reserve that backed the new paper currency. Thus, by the beginning of the 13th century, silver had begun to usurp the place of bronze coin as a store of value. Bronze coin remained the standard unit of account, but its circulation diminished over the course of the Southern Song period. Indeed, I argue that the substitution of paper money and silver for many of the functions once performed exclusively by bronze coin was a catalyst for the massive export of Song coin to Japan during the 13th century (and later to Southeast Asia as well), and paved the way for the creation of the purely paper currency monetary system of the Mongol-ruled Yuan dynasty.

Contact: SUGIHARA, Kaoru

Date: June 14(Sat)，2008   13:30-18:00
Venue: East Building Room 207 (E207)

The Program

13:30-14:10     Kosuke Mizuno (CSEAS): Social Movements and Changing Governance

14:10-14:50     Boonlert Visetpreecha (Thammasat Univ.), "The Protest Waves
of the Four Regions of Slum Network in Thailand"

14:50-15:30     Krisda Boonchai (Thammasat Univ.), "Food Resource Base: the
New Concept from Thai Civil Society Movement facing Food Crisis"

15:40-16:20     Nalinee Tantuwanich (Thammasat Univ.), "Cutural Movement and
the Movement Culture: Case Studies of Thai Social Movement during 1990-2000"

16:20-17:00     Naruemon Thabchumpon (Chulalongkorn Univ.), "Participatory
Democracy in Practice: the Struggle of the Anti Pak Mun Dam Movement in
Thailand"

17:10-18:00     Discussion

Date:16:00‐, June 5(Thu.)，2008
Venue:Meeting room AA447. 4th Fl., ASAFAS Bldg., Kyoto University

Title: Dubai (2005)　Tagalog with English subtitles
Starring :  Aga Muhlach, Claudine Barretto, John Lloyd Cruz
Directed By:  Rory B. Quintos

Story:
Summoning his younger brother Andrew (John Lloyd Cruz) to the city of Dubai, the financially stable Raffy (Aga Muhlach) -- a Filipino citizen who's spent several years overseas -- hopes his sibling can find work so that they can finally move to Canada. Unfortunately, Raffy doesn't expect Andrew to go falling in love with his ex-girlfriend, Faye (Claudine Barretto) -- a woman Raffy, in fact, still cares for very much.

Filipinos are in every corner of the world, toiling as nurses in the US, maids in Hong Kong, caregivers in Canada, entertainers in Japan, factory workers in Taiwan, engineers and construction workers even in war-torn Iraq. Whe rever there is work and good pay, there you will find him, leaving his home for the promise of a better and brighter future for his family. The Filipino diaspora has given rise to this question: Where is home for the Filipino?

Date:16:00‐17:30, June 3(Tue.)，2008
Venue:Institute of Sustainablity Science (Uji Research Building 502)

Date:15:30-17:30, May 27 (Tue.)，2008
Venue:Seminor Room of 3th Floor, ASAFAS New Building, Kawabata (Riverside St.), Kyoto Univ.

Speaker: Edward K. Kirumira(Dean of Faculty of Social Scienses, Makerere University, UGANDA)

Title: "Can Enhancing Local Behaviour Practices Significantly Contribute to HIV and AIDS Prevention? －Lessons From Uganda"

Recently, attention has been drawn to the reversal of the prevention success in Uganda, where there are some indications that HIV prevalence has increased (UNAIDS, 2006). This has been variously attributed to temporary shortages of condoms, or the expansion of abstinence-until-marriage programmes conducted by evangelical churches that may promote unrealistic standards of sexual behaviour (Bass, 2005; The Economist, 2006). However, the stagnant and worsening trends in Uganda date from about 2000, significantly before either the condom shortages or the proliferation of abstinence-only programmes (Kirumira, 2008). Another possibility is that these negative HIV trends are due, at least in part, to the phasing out of the 'Zero Grazing', community-involving, and other partner reduction/fidelity-focused campaigns of the late 1980s (Epstein, 2007). The presentation argues for re-visioning local behavior practices in HIV and AIDS prevention within the broader context of multi-sectoral approach to national response programmes.

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