Seminars/Symposia: FY2013
June 2013
- Special Seminar by Prof. Thongchai Winichakul
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- Date & Time：June 27(Thurs.), 2013 14:00 - 16:00
- Place：Middle-sized Meeting Room (Room No.332), Inamori Foundation Memorial Building,
Kyoto University
- Speaker：Prof.Dr.Thongchai Winichakul, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Title：Hyper-Royalism as Public Culture in Thailand: Cold War Insecurity, Visual
Culture and Magic
- Abstract：
- The success of the Thai monarchy as a sacred institution in our time is
due to its ability to reinvest its rich cultural capital in modern public
sphere. To assure his people of social normalcy and prosperity in the context
of the Cold War and post-Cold War security anxiety, the popular Dharma-raja
epitomizes the great Thainess via visual consumption. But the success comes
at a huge cost, especially as it may come to its end.
- About the speake：
- Thongchai Winichakul is Professor of History at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
His book, Siam Mapped (1994) was awarded the Harry J Benda Prize from the
Association for Asian Studies (USA) in 1995, and the Grand Prize from the
Asian Affairs Research Council (Japan) in 2004. He was a recipient of the
John Simon Guggenheim Award in 1994 and elected to the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences in 2003. His research interests are in cultural and
intellectual history of Siam including nationalism and history of knowledge.
He currently works on the intellectual foundation of modern Siam (1880s-1930s)
and also a book on the memories of the 1976 massacre in Bangkok. He is
currently the President of the Association for Asian Studies.
- Moderator：Assoc. Prof. Pavin Chachavalpongpun (CSEAS)
- CSEAS Colloquium by Dr. Suhardja D. Wiramihardja
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- Date：June 21(Fri.), 2013 16:00 -
- Place：Meddle sized meeting room (Room No. 332), Inamori Foundation Memorial Building,
Kyoto University
- Speaker：Dr. Suhardja D. Wiramihardja, Visiting Research fellow of CSEAS and Professor
of Astronomy Research Group, Institut Teknologi Bandung
- Title：Current Studies on Ethnoastronomy in Indonesia
- Abstract：
- This presentation will introduce current studies on ethnoastronomy in Indonesia.
In the first part, I will give a brief history of astronomy in the country
as well as a short background of ethnoastronomy in general. Some results
of the studies conducted by Indonesian and foreign researchers for several
ethnic groups with various aspects of cultures will be presented. Indeed,
knowledge of the starry sky and its constellation was common in many ethnic
groups amongst the natives of Indonesian archipelago. A season-keeping
system based on appearance and disappearance of certain stars or star clusters
was recognized in many ancient ethnic groups and applied mainly by farmers
to the agricultural cycle. Knowledge of the sky was woven into the textures
of life in such forms as : mythology, astronomy-related folklores, ritual
behaviors. A recent study suggests that an alignment of Borobudur-Pawon-Mendut
temples is similar with the alignment of the Orion Belt stars. In the latter
part of this presentation, I will give results of a study in exploring
astronomy-related culture of the indigenous Sundanese people, the ethnic
group of 43 million people who live in west part of Java island.
- Bio note：
- Suhardja D. Wiramihardja, professor of astronomy, Institut Teknologi Bandung,
obtained his doctorate in astronomy from Kyoto University with specialty
in Physics of Galaxy. His publications are mostly on star-forming regions
and galactic clusters. Recently he has included ethnoastronomy within his
research scope. He is currently a visiting research fellow in CSEAS, Kyoto
University.
- API Seminar
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- Date：June 20 (Thurs.), 2013, 15:00 - 18:10
- Place：Small Meeting Room II (Room No. 331), Inamori Foundation Memorial Bldg.,
Kyoto University
- Program & Abstract：PDF
- Moderator：Prof. Yoko Hayami (CSEAS)
- Tonan Talk by Dr. Mariam B. Lam
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- Date：June 20 (Thurs.), 2013, 12:00 - 14:00
- Place：Tonan-tei (Room No. 201, 2nd floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building,
CSEAS, Kyoto University
- Speaker：Dr. Mariam B. Lam, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Southeast
Asian Studies, University of California, Riverside
- Title：Cultural Economic Development in the Film Industries of Viet Nam, Cambodia
and Laos
- Abstract：
- Film scholarship on postcolonial Southeast Asia often privileges the French
colonial period of the three nation-states of Việt Nam, Cambodiaand Laos.
Today, however, provocative cultural production and economic redevelopment
is taking shape in peninsular Southeast Asia. The layered colonial and
imperial histories of these three countries and this region as a whole
impose certain constraints on the post-Cold War redevelopment of these
national film industries, while also allowing for unique transnational
innovations. Southeast Asian peninsular films and filmmakers are cross-referencing
one another's economic developmental models, governmental initiatives,
celebrity cross-over market potentials, connected land and aerial borders,
East/West collaborations and North/South co-productions.
- Bio note：
- Mariam B. Lam is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Media & Cultural
Studies, and Director of the Southeast Asian Studies Research Program (SEATRiP)
at the University of California, Riverside. She is founding Co-Editor of
the Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Chair of the Southeast Asian Archive Board at UC Irvine, and an Advisory
Board Member of the University of California Humanities Research Institute.
Her monograph, entitled Precariat Reckoning: Viet Nam, Post-Trauma and Strategic Affect (forthcoming, Duke UP, 2014), analyzes cultural production and community
politics within and across Viet Nam, France, and the US, and she is completing
work on her second book, Surfin’ Southeast Asia: New Circulations of Cold War Culture and Global
Capital.
- Moderator：Prof. Hau Caroline (CSEAS)
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