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Kyoto-Berkeley Seminar on Indonesia
Date: January 10th, 2014 Venue: Rakuyu Kaikan, Kyoto University Although Indonesia has long been a major area of study for scholars and students of Southeast Asia, it has recently become the focus of renewed attention, often centering on its experience of political transition, its economic growth (fueled in part by the high prices of commodities) and rich natural resources, its checkered record of successes and failures in managing ethnic and religious pluralism and co-existence, and its vibrant literary and arts scene. This seminar brings together scholars from Japan, Indonesia, and the USA in a day-long intensive seminar grouped around three theme-based sessions: culture and the arts; resources; and politics. The […]
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Date: January 10th, 2014 Venue: Rakuyu Kaikan, Kyoto University Plural coexistence has often been held up as both ideal and goal in managing political and social relations between states and in avowedly multiethnic and multireligious societies. But how do specific strategies of classification, negotiation, contestation, mobilization, and redistribution bring “plural coexistence” into play and, just as important, into question? This workshop focuses on how “plural coexistence”—particularly in its ethnic and state-mediated dimensions—is operationalized (to use Cathy Clayton’s phrase) across East and Southeast Asia. What happens when “difference”—and the capacities, resources, networks, and circulations (whether human, material or ideational) it indexes and taps—is codified, institutionalized, and enforced by a variety of […]
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