Seminars/Symposia: FY2013
July 2013
- Special In-house Seminar on Practice-oriented Area Studies
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- Date and Time：July 31 (Wed.), 2013 11：00 - 13：00
- Place：Small Meeting Room I, 3rd Floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building,
Kyoto University
- Topic：What we have learned from Sasari Village in Miyama
- Presenters：
- Mr.Sonam Chhogye, Lecturer, Sherubtse College, Bhutan
- Ms.Phub Lhamo ,Lecturer, Sherubtse College, Bhutan
- Mr. Sonam Zangpo, Young Research Fellow, Sherubtse College, Bhutan
- Ms. Tshewang Choden,Young Research Fellow, Sherubtse College, Bhutan
- Ms. Khin Lay Swe and Khin Oo Aung, Ex Pro-rector, YAU, Myanmar, UNDF Myanmar
Expert.
- Tonan Talk by Prof. Hungguk Cho
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- Date：July 31st (Wed.), 2013, 12:00 - 13:30
- Place：Tonan-tei (Room No. 201, 2nd floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building,
CSEAS, Kyoto University
- Speaker：Professor Hungguk Cho, Professor of Southeast Asian History in the Graduate
School of International Studies, Pusan National University, South Korea
- Title：Reinterpretation of King Chao Anouvong (1804-1828) of Viengchan and Lao
Historical Perception of Thailand
- Abstract：
- Recently a statue of King Chao Anouvong was erected on the bank of the
Mekong River in Viangchan or Vientiane, Laos. Chao Anouvong was a king
of Viangchan (r. 1804-1828), one of the Lan Xang kingdoms of Laos, when
it was under the rule of Thailand. He undertook a liberation war against
Thailand in the late 1820s. However, this enterprise failed, with Chao
Anouvong himself together with his family being captured and brought to
Bangkok, where he died. Viangchan was totally destroyed, and the Lan Xang
kingdom was incorporated into Siam as Siamese provinces. Lao and Thai authorities
and scholars, dealing with the relations between both countries in this
period, equivocate, on the one hand, in narrating the history because of
the “explosive” character of the subject and attempt, on the other hand,
to defend or justify the standpoint of their own country in explaining
crucial events or situations of the liberation war of Chao Anouvong. Their
narratives which provide different interpretations on them seem, however,
to be underlain by a nationalist sentiment in any case, though some differences
in extent.
- Bio note：
- Hungguk Cho is Professor of Southeast Asian History in the Graduate School of International
Studies, Pusan National University, South Korea. His main interests lie
in Thai and Lao history and historiography. His recent research has been
on historical relations between Southeast Asia and Korea. His publications
include among others Die politische Geschichte Thailands unter der Herrschaft König Narais (1994), Formation and Change of Ethnic Chinese Society in Southeast Asia (co-author, 2000, in Korean), “The Trade between China, Japan, Korea and
Southeast Asia in the 14th Century through the 17th Century Period” (2000),
“Siamese -Korean Relations in the late Fourteenth Century” (2006), Thailand: A Country of Buddhism and Kingship (2007, in Korean), History of Relations between Korea and Southeast Asia (2009, in Korean), and Southeast Asian Historiography Unravelling the Myths: Essays in honour
of Barend Jan Terwiel (co-author, 2011).
- Moderator：Prof. Junko KOIZUMI (CSEAS)
- CSEAS Colloquium by Dr. Swapan Kumar Dasgupta
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- Date：July 25(Thurs.), 2013 16:00 -
- Place：Meddle sized meeting room (Room No. 332), Inamori Foundation Memorial Building,
Kyoto University
- Speaker：Dr. Swapan Kumar Dasgupta, Visiting Research Scholar at CSEAS, Kyoto University
and Director (Admin.), Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD),
Bangladesh
- Title：Governance of Public Service Delivery in Bangladesh: Role of Members of
Parliament
- Abstract：
- This study assessed the role of Members of Parliament (MP) and other stakeholders
in the governance of public services and scope for improvement democratically
in Bangladesh. The study revealed that accountability of government officials
to service receivers was not visible adequately. Local government bodies
could not assert themselves for ensuring accountability of public service
providers. Personality conflict between Upazila Chairman (UZC) and MP;
UZC and Vice Chairs; and UZC and UNO (Upazila Executive Officer) obstructed
formation of Standing Committees in many Upazilas. Chaotic situation in
many Upazilas hindered horizontal and vertical accountability of government
service providers. Upazila Parishad could not monitor public service delivery
properly because of departmental plan and implementation. Majority of respondents
of sample departments mentioned that they have internal evaluation system.
But, the research team could not trace that to assess level of customer
satisfaction. Majority of respondent MPs said that transparency, accountability,
participation and integrity are inevitable for good governance and democracy
in public service delivery. The study recommends that Parliamentary Standing
Committees (PSCs) may review public service delivery system periodically
to make that client-friendly. PSCs may examine programs and projects to
identify problems and recommending solutions. Recommendations of PSCs should
get priority and due importance by respective Ministries. PSCs may organize
public hearing at district and Upazila levels to receive first-hand information
on quality, quantity and effectiveness of public services. Time slots need
to be kept in parliament session for discussion and dissemination of performance
of public service delivery. MP's 'face-to-face' interaction with people
may be organized and telecasted by television and radio. Government departments
should present their performance in presence of MP before all cross-sections
of citizens. MPs may advise Upazila Parishad to prepare a five year plan
and its break up as Annual Development Plans and budgets integrating plans
of transferred departments. MPs may integrate their special resource grants
with Upazila Parishad Plan and budget.
- Bio note：
- Dr. Swapan Kumar Dasgupta is a B.A. (Hons.) & M.A. in Economics from
Chittagong University, Bangladesh. He did second M.Sc. in Food Policy and
Commodity Trade from University of Welsh Swansea, UK. He did Ph.D. in Bio-production
Science from United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tottori University,
Japan. He worked as a Visiting Research Fellow in Graduate School of International
Development, Nagoya University, Japan. He has published 30 research reports
at home and abroad on Micro-credit, Poverty, Development intervention;
Farm Management; Food Security; Agricultural Tenancy; Cooperatives, Public
Service Delivery; Local Government; Agricultural Value Chain; Disaster
Management and Climate Change. He provided consultancy services to the
Asia Foundation Bangladesh; the Embassy of Switzerland in Bangladesh; Japan
International Cooperation Agency in Bangladesh; UNDP Bangladesh; and Directorate
of Women & Children's Affairs of Bangladesh. He was involved in designing
and conducting 75 training courses/workshops for civil servants and GO/NGO
professionals.
- Moderator：Dr. Kazuo Ando, CSEAS, Kyoto University
- Tonan Talk by Dr. Simon Creak
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- Date & Time：July 24 (Wed.), 2013 12:00 - 13:30
- Place：Tonan-tei (Room No. 201, 2nd floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building,
CSEAS, Kyoto University
- Speaker：Simon Creak, Associate Professor, Hakubi Center for Advanced Research and
CSEAS, Kyoto University
- Title：Sport, regionalism, and regional history: Thailand’s founding of the Southeast
Asian Peninsular Games, 1957-59
- Abstract：
- The Olympic Committee of Thailand founded the biennial South East Asia
Peninsular Games (SEAP), forerunner of the region’s biggest and longest-running
sporting event, the Southeast Asian Games, in 1959. Then and subsequently,
organizers explicitly sought to use the games to promote regional friendship
and cooperation among participating countries, which originally included
Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Malaya, Singapore, South Vietnam, and Thailand.
Regionalist themes were notable for the geographical make-up of the region
imagined in the games, i.e. mainland Southeast Asian; the ideological make-up
of this “region”, which cut across ideological cleavages in the context
of the Cold War; the imagined historical antecedents of this region invoked
by organizers; and the use of sport, a cultural practice, rather than politics
or economics to promote regionalism. Yet regionalism was not the only force
behind the establishment of the SEAP Games. In this paper, I examine how
regional sentiments combined with regional history – in the form of Thai
and other regional nationalisms, and the Cold War intervention of the United
States – in the founding of the SEAP Games. I will also consider how these
sometimes-conflicting motifs were brought to life, intentionally and otherwise,
in the inaugural 1959 SEAP Games in Bangkok. Based on this discussion,
I will conclude with some thoughts about regional history and the study
of regionalism in Southeast Asia.
- Bio note：
- Simon Creak is Associate Professor in Kyoto University’s Hakubi Center for Advanced
Research and based in the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. His research
interests lie in the cultural, political, and intellectual history of modern
Southeast Asia, especially the related issues of nationalism, state formation,
and regionalism. Much of Simon’s previous work has approached these interests
through the study of sport, physicality, and gender in colonial and post-colonial
Laos. His first monograph, Body Work: Sport, Physical Culture, and the Making of Modern Laos (University of Hawaii Press), is due to be released in 2014.
- Moderator：Junko KOIZUMI (CSEAS)
- Tonan Talk by Prof. Eugenio Matibag
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- Date：July 4th (Thurs.), 2013, 12:00 - 13:30
- Place：Tonan-tei (Room No. 201, 2nd floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building,
CSEAS, Kyoto University
- Speaker：Prof. Eugenio Matibag, Department of World Languages and Cultures, Iowa
State University
- Title：Cosmopolitan Nationalism: The Filipino Ilustrados Abroad
- Abstract：
- What is the meaning of nationalism in a world of globalizing interconnections?
Does it make sense to see in national integration a “template,” as Thomas
Hylland Eriksen puts it, for the processes of globalization? Do nationalist
movements challenge colonial hegemony while seeking an accommodation within
a global system of states and transnational agencies?
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- Possible answers to these questions may be gleaned from the writings and
personal histories of the nineteenth-century Filipino expatriates called
“ilustrados.” Definitions of the term ilustrado include the dispersed group
of Filipino educated elite who denounced the dysfunctions and abuses of
Spanish colonial rule, who agitated across borders in networks and associations
originating outside the Philippines. These Filipino activist intellectuals
produced a body of works that illustrate what Benedict Anderson has called
a “long-distance” nationalism with reformist or revolutionary implications;
what invites closer examination is the manner in which this cadre of nationalist
thinkers, orators and authors issued a call for a new cosmopolitanism based
on notions of new ethnic identities and global socioeconomic justice.
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- Beginning with a reflection on Juan Luna’s painting Spain Guiding the Philippines
to the Light of 1887 and considering Nick Joaquin’s thesis on the formation
of the Philippine culture as an Hispanic process, Professor Matibag will
go on to survey seminal contributions to the discourse of Philippine nationalism
in the works of Juan Luna, Pedro Paterno, Jose' Rizal, Marcelo H. del Pilar
and Apolinario Mabini. All makers of a modern Philippines, these ilustrados
sought to advance the representation of a "colony" as a "nation,"
at the same time demonstrating the way in which nationalism, by a broadening
of political culture and espousal of universal values, participated in
the processes of an early globalization.
- Bio note：
- Eugenio Matibag, professor of Spanish in Iowa State University's Department of World Languages
and Cultures, was born in Cavite and grew up in Southern California. He
has published research on Latin American and Philippine literature in the
journals Revista Hispa'nica Moderna, Humanities Diliman, Catauro, Postmodern Culture,
The Journal of Caribbean Studies, Dispositio, Hispame'rica, and in various anthologies and encyclopedias. His two books are Afro-Cuban Religious Experience (1996) and Haitian-Dominican Counterpoint (2003). He is currently at work on a study that examines the discourse
of Philippine nationalism in the context of globalization in the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries.
- Moderator：Prof. Hau Caroline (CSEAS)
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