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Seminars/Symposia: FY2013

April, 2013

CSEAS Colloquium by Dr. Jacqueline A. Siapno
  1. Date:April 25th (Thurs.), 2013 16:00 -
  2. Place:Middle-sized Meeting Room (Room No.332), Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
  3. Speaker:Dr. Jacqueline A. Siapno, CSEAS Visiting Research Scholar
  4. Title:The global in the national and local: an ethnographic study of knowledge economies and governance in Timor Leste
  5. Abstract:
  6. This talk examines the global in the national and local, in the governance systems, procedures, attitudes, and approaches in state and government institutions in Timor Leste, and the gap between rural villager’s experiences with those of consultants in the state. I am borrowing from Saskia Sassen’s proposal for a research agenda for sociology in tracing “the global in the national” – “whether an institution, a process, a discursive practice, an imaginary – that both transcends the exclusive framing of national states and also partly emerges and operates within that framing.” (Sassen 2010: 1) In addition to looking at climate change (mudansa klimatika) at the local rural district levels, I am also interested in looking at the global in the national and local in “designing” the nation-state(e.g. state iconography; National Development Plans); knowledge economies (including the re-colonization of scholarship and knowledge-production); the role of consultants (“rule of experts”), their modes of influence and institutional implications; the politics of Timor Leste’s application to the ASEAN regional governance grouping; articulations of the global in popular culture, media, festivals, supermarkets, and at its most intimate manifestation - at the level of the household and family. The longer-term research beyond this talk examines Timor Leste’s public finance and the funny business of big organizations’ climate mitigation, linking it to the idea that rents from oil and gas (the key component in Timor Leste’s foreign exchange reserves), is problematical, from both climate change consideration and how the oil fund has been managed and disbursed. Timor Leste is a young nation that is expressing ultra-nationalism and nationalist identity (however contentious these new cultural, historical, and linguistic identities may be) and yet is also paradoxically dependent on global governance advisers and on basic goods and infrastructure-building from its former colonizer/s and dominant neighbors and partners.
  7. Bio Note:
  8. Dr. Jacqueline A. Siapno is currently a Visiting Research Scholar in CSEAS, Kyoto University. Before coming to Kyoto, she resigned from her position as Associate Professor in the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University, S. Korea, in order to support her husband in the Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in Timor Leste in 2012. After being a scholar for several years and belatedly realizing the “limits” of Political Theory, she decided to cross-border to practical politics and work with the youth and women’s movements of their political party by supporting to organize trainings on mass mobilization, fund-raising, communications and social media, public-speaking (specially for women), and “accompanying” her husband during the campaign to hundreds of rural villages, listening and taking notes on people’s grievances and visions. She is originally from Pangasinan, Philippines, but has been living in Timor Leste since 1999, where she is raising a family. For her publications and work as a musician, see: http://kyoto-u.academia.edu/JacquelineSiapno
Special Seminar by Dr. Porphant Ouyyanont
  1. Date:April 18, 2013, Thursday, 14:00-15:30
  2. Place:Tonan-tei (Room. No. 201) on the 2nd floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
  3. Title:King Bhumibol's sufficiency economy philosophy and Thai society
  4. Speaker:Dr. Porphant Ouyyanont, Associate Professor, School of Economics, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University
  5. Abstract:
  6. King Bhumibol's sufficiency economy philosophy (setthakit pho phiang-a just enough economy) was formalised in the aftermath of the financial crisis in 1997. Through his royal visit to various parts of Thailand, work and research, mostly in rural areas. Over many decades, King Bhumibol embraced Buddhist principles underlining a middle path, especially in developing the Thai economy in keeping up for the sustainable development in the era of globalization. Under the sufficiency economy thinking, it will help to build resilience against the risks which arise from capitalism both in internal and external conditions. The application of the thinking is applicable at all level from individuals, households, community business and government sector to the management and the development of the nation. This seminar will discuss the background the concept of sufficiency economy, its application and some evaluation of its implementation in Thai economic and social development will be provided.
  7. Bio Note:
  8. Dr. Porphant Ouyyanont is associate professor of economics at Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University. He obtained his doctorate in economic history from the University of New England, Australia, and has been a visiting researcher at Kyoto University Center for Southeast Asian Studies. His publication and research interests include the economic history of Bangkok and Thailand, village economy, The Crown Property Bureau in Thailand and its investment role. Some of his works include The Village Economy in the Central Region of Thailand (Bangkok:Vitheethud, 2003), "The Crown Property Bureau in Thailand and Crisis of 1997" (Journal of Contemporary Asia, 38(1)February, 2008) "Underdevelopment and Industrialization in Pre-War Thailand" (Australian Economic History Review 52 (1), March 2012).
  9. Moderator:Junko KOIZUMI (CSEAS, Kyoto University)
Tonan Talk by Dr. Bliss Cua Lim
  1. Date:April 18, 2013, Thursday, 12:00-13:30
  2. Place:Tonan-tei (Room. No. 201) on the 2nd floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
  3. Title:An Archive of Fragments: Temporality, Knowledge, and Constraint in Philippine Cinema
  4. Speaker:Dr. Bliss Cua Lim, CSEAS Visiting Research Fellow
  5. Abstract:
  6. Fragile material conditions and acute temporal pressures constrain scholarship on Philippine film and media, which must always contend with a fragmented, partial archive. Such research is characterized by the scarcity of films available for study and pervaded by ineluctable archival loss. Prior to the establishment of a National Film Archive of the Philippines in 2011, film restoration and preservation languished due to a dearth of funding, lack of state support, and the deterioration of media storage formats.
  7. This talk provides a capsule history of the Philippines’ audiovisual archive advocacies, analyzing two tendencies in the archive movement: state centralization on the one hand, privatized collecting on the other. The keywords “temporality, knowledge, and constraint” in the talk’s subtitle can be briefly glossed as follows. Drawing on Jacques Derrida, Akira Lippit defines the *anarchive* as the necessary complement to the archive, the inevitability of loss that shadows forms of historical survival. Accordingly, the talk explores the anarchival temporalities that emerge in response to the impending deterioration of surviving works, as well as efforts to combat the expectation of archival decay. While the archive may be broadly understood as the enabling condition of possibility for history writing, the notion of constraint gestures at issues of loss and access as limit-conditions for historical knowledge.
  8. Bio Note:
  9. Bliss Cua Lim is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University. She is the author of *Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic and* *Temporal Critique *(Duke University Press, 2009 and Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2011). Her research and teaching center on temporality, Philippine cinema, postcolonial feminist film theory, transnational horror and the fantastic, and taste cultures. She is currently working on a new book on the crises of archival preservation in Philippine cinema.
  10. Moderator:Caroline Hau (CSEAS, Kyoto University)
Special Screening of Pangasinan movies
  1. We are glad to invite you for a special screening of two movies from the Philippines:
  2. 1. Surreal Random Texts (15 minutes)
  3. 2. Anacbanua (Child of the Sun) (104 minutes)
  4. Director: Christopher Gozum
  5. Date:April 17, 2013, Wednesday, 15:00-
  6. Introductory notes by John XXV Lambino Movie starts at 15.10 p.m.
  7. Place:Small Meeting Room I (Room. No. 330) on the 3rdfloor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
  8. Synopsis of the movies
  9. 1. Surreal Random Text (complete title: Surreal Random MMS Texts for a Mother, a Sister and a Wife Who Longs for You: Landscape with Figures): A short experimental video shot using a mobile phone camera documenting displacement and isolation.
  10. 2. Anacbanua: An exiled poet returns to his native homeland of Pangasinan province after many years of absence. Through a mystical soul journey, he reclaims his primal connection to the water (danum), to the land (dalin), and to the people (katooan) where in the end he finds a home to anchor his wandering soul and his art.
  11. For trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYC61sesQ68 We look forward for your participation.
  12. Moderator:Jafar Suryomenggolo (CSEAS, Kyoto University)
Tonan Talk by Prof. Leonard Blusse
  1. Date:April 11, 2013 12:00-14:00
  2. Place:Tonan-tei (Room. No. 201) on the 2nd floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
  3. TitleThe Kaiba lidai shiji, How the Chinese of Batavia assessed their urban past
  4. Speaker:Leonard Blusse, Professor Emeritus at Leiden University and visiting professor at Kyoto University Institute for Research in Humanities
  5. Abstract:
  6. Since the opening up of the Chinese archives of the Chinese Council (Kong Koan,公館) of Batavia and the publication by Xiamen University Press of the minutes (Gongan bu,公安簿) of the council meetings (11 volumes covering 1787-1868 so far) we are much better informed about Chinese urban life in Southeast Asia during the nineteenth century. The Chinese community of Batavia/Jakarta has played a prominent role in the city’s history ever since its establishment in 1619. The founder of the city, Governor General Jan Pietersz Coen had a high regard of the Chinese as a mercantile middle class. He immediately installed a prominent Chinese merchant Souw Bing Kong as the Captain or headman of the Chinese population group to help administrate his fellow countrymen. Over the years a shadow administration of Captain, lieutenants and other Chinese officers came into being as the number of Chinese immigrants dramatically increased from the 1680s onwards. The first hundred years were characterized by a remarkable collaboration and peaceful coexistence between the Chinese and Dutch citizens of Batavia largely thanks to the informal administration of the Chinese officers.
  7. But by the late 1730s when the colonial economy and the ecological situation of the city and its agricultural hinterland plunged into a deep crisis it became clear that matters were running out of control, and indeed in 1740 a massive Chinese rebellion occurred followed up by a pogrom, the so-called Chinese massacre of Batavia. A few years after this tragic event the Chinese captaincy system was re-established and institutionalized in the Kong Koan or Chinese Council of Batavia which would continue to exist until the outbreak of the Second World War. It so happens that in the first years of the nineteenth century a Chinese history of Batavia, the Kaiba lidai shiji ,was composed by an anonymous Chinese writer. This vernacular history, which looks back at the first two hundred years of Batavia, was written as a chronological year by year account summing up the more or less important events in town according to its Chinese author. In the context of the Asia in the Age of Globalisation project hosted by Kyoto University, Prof Nie Dening (Xiamen University) and I are presently translating and annotating into English this unique historical work which provides us with insights how the Chinese experienced their own position in the early modern colonial society of the headquarters of the VOC. In my talk I hope to point out some of the main issues in the text that may be of interest to the audience and hopefully will contribute to a lively discussion.
  8. Bio Note:
  9. Leonard Blusse is Professor Emeritus at Leiden University and visiting professor at Kyoto University Institute for Research in Humanities. He is a prominent scholar on the early history of Southeast Asia and East Asia, including the history of Overseas Chinese. He has published numerous works in many languages on the history of Dutch East India Company (VOC) and its connection with Southeast Asia and Japan during the seventeenth and nineteenth century. His major works include Strange Company, Chinese Settlers, Mestizo Women and the Dutch in VOC Batavia, (Verhandelingen KITLV 122), Dordrecht: Foris (1986, second imprint 1988); Ryu to Mitsubachi, Chugokukai-eki no orandajin yonhyakunenshi, (The Dragon and the Honeybees, four hundred years of Dutch activities on the China Coast) published in Japanese, translated by Fukami Sumio, Fujita Kayoko, Koike Makoto, Tokyo: Koyo Shobo, 2008); Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008.
  10. Moderator:Piyada Chonlawong (CSEAS, Kyoto University)
Special Seminar by His Excellency Fernando Lasama de Araujo
  1. Date:April 3, 2013, Wednesday, 14:00 - 16:00
  2. Place:(Place is changed!!) Middle-sized Meeting Room (Room No.332), 3nd floor of Inanori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
  3. Title:Timor Leste: Its Achievements and Challenges as a Post-Conflict Country
  4. Speaker:His Excellency Fernando Lasama de Araujo, the Deputy Prime Minister of Timor Leste
  5. About Speaker:
  6. Fernando Lasama de Araujo is currently the Deputy Prime Minister of Timor Leste (2012-2017). He has also served as the President of Parliament (2007-2012) and Interim President (2008) of Timor Leste. He is the co-founder of Partido Democratico (PD) which served as the strongest opposition party after Independence in 2002. During the anti-colonial struggle for independence, he was a co-founder and Secretary-General of the Resistencia Nacional dos Estudantes de Timor Leste (RENETIL), a clandestine youth student movement which played a very important role in the independence struggle.
  7. Moderator:Hau Caroline (CSEAS, Kyoto University)