Date: January 11-12th, 2013 Venue: Rakuyu Kaikan Kyoto “Trans-national Southeast Asia” is a timely notion. Not only is the idea of the trans-national au courant in academic study across a variety of fields, but Southeast Asia as a region is perhaps the most trans-national of spaces in the global realm. In what ways? Southeast Asia has always existed at a crossroads position in the global trade routes; this has been true since the transmission of Hinduism and Buddhism more than a millennium ago. In the intervening centuries, Islam and then Christianity on a massive scale followed on these circuits (fully half of Southeast Asia’s populace became either Christian or Muslim […]