Southeast Asia Seminar： Program and About the Lecturers
The 33rd Southeast Asia Seminar on
“Region” and Regional Perspectives on/from Southeast
Asia
Program
Day 1 (Monday, September 7)
Delineating the Field: Diversity and Integration |
| 8:30-9:00 |
Registration |
| 9:00-9:20 |
Welcome remarks by Kosuke Mizuno, Director, Center for Southeast Asian
Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University |
| 9:20-10:15 |
Seminar orientation |
| 10:15-10:30 |
Library orientation by Yumi Kitamura (CSEAS, Kyoto University) |
| 10:30-11:15 |
Informatics orientation by Kimiya Kitani (CSEAS, Kyoto University) |
| 11:15-13:00 |
Lunch break |
| 13:00-14:30 |
Anthony Reid (Visiting Fellow, CSEAS), “Strong States, Weak States, No States: Can
Southeast Asia’s Diversity be a Strength in the 21st Century?” |
| 14:30-14:40 |
Break |
| 14:40-16:10 |
Koji Tanaka (Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University), “The Making of
Southeast Asia: The Significance of Its Ecological Background as Viewed
from Contemporary Environmental Issues” |
| 16:10-17:00 |
Free discussion |
Day 2 (Tuesday, September 8)
Southeast Asia within a Wider Regional Framework |
| 9:00-10:30 |
Kaoru Sugihara (CSEAS, Kyoto University), Southeast Asia and the Growth of the Asian
International Economy, 1800-2009 |
| 10:30-10:40 |
Break |
| 10:40-12:10 |
Liu Hong (Visiting Fellow, CSEAS), “Network and Governance in Transnational Asia:
Toward a New Framework of the East Asian Political Economy” |
| 12:10-13:15 |
Lunch break |
| 13:15-14:45 |
Nissim Otmazgin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “Popular Culture and the Making
of East Asia” |
| 14:45-15:00 |
Break |
| 15:30-16:30 |
Noboru Ishikawa (CSEAS, Kyoto University), “National Space, Flows, and Interfaces: Towards
a Spatial Ecology of Southeast Asia” |
| 16:30-17:30 |
Free discussion |
Day 3 (Wednesday, September 9)
Historical and Contemporary Networks |
| 9:00-10:30 |
Caroline S. Hau (CSEAS, Kyoto University), “Political Passions and Social Daydreams: On
Asianism as Network and Fantasy” |
| 10:30-10:40 |
Break |
| 10:40-12:10 |
Takeshi Onimaru (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies), “Shanghai Connection:
The Communist Network in East and Southeast Asia in the 1920s and 1930s” |
| 12:10-13:15 |
Lunch break |
| 13:15-14:45 |
Takashi Shiraishi (Council for Science and Technology Policy), “Southeast Asia in the Making
of a Region” |
| 14:45-15:00 |
Break |
| 15:00-16:30 |
Ken Miichi (Iwate Prefectural University), “Islam and Southeast Asia in the Age of
Globalization” |
| 16:30-17:30 |
Free discussion |
Day 4 (Thursday, September 10)
Ideas and Practices |
| 9:00-10:30 |
Yoko Hayami (CSEAS, Kyoto University), “Gender and Changing Families in Southeast
Asia” |
| 10:30-10:40 |
Break |
| 10:40-12:10 |
Masaaki Okamoto (CSEAS, Kyoto University), “Politics and Thugs in Southeast Asia: Irony
of Democratic Consolidation Projects?” |
| 12:10-13:15 |
Lunch break |
| 13:15-14:45 |
Patricio Abinales (CSEAS, Kyoto University), “The World as an Opium Den: Non-Traditional
Security in the 21st Century” |
| 14:45-14:55 |
Break |
| 14:55-17:15 |
Film showing of Wong Kar-wai’s “2046” (2004) |
| 17:15-18:00 |
Free discussion |
Day 5 (Friday, September 11)
Collaboration and Exchanges |
| 9:00-10:30 |
Members of the Summer Seminar, “Future Directions of Southeast Asian Studies” |
| 10:30-10:40 |
Break |
| 10:40-12:10 |
Takaaki Oiwa (Japan International Cooperation Agency), “Supporting Regional Public
Policy in Southeast Asia and Overseas Development Assistance (ODA)” |
| 12:10-13:10 |
Lunch break |
| 13:10-15:00 |
Eyal Ben-Ari (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Erik Martinez Kuhonta (Visiting Fellow, CSEAS, Kyoto University), Discussion and Commentary |
About the Lectures
| Patricio N. ABINALES is Professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University.
His is co-author (with Donna Amoroso) of State and Society in the Philippines (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005). His current research is on the relationship
between rodent-borne diseases, state formation and local politics. |
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| Eyal BEN-ARI is Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. He has carried out research in Japan, Israel and
Singapore on white collar communities, early childhood education, business
expatriates, the Israeli and Japanese militaries and peace-keeping forces.
His previous publications include Body Projects in Japanese Childcare (1997), Mastering Soldiers (1998) and (with Zev Lehrer, Uzi Ben-Shalom and Ariel Vainer) Rethinking the Sociology of Combat: Israel’s Combat Units in the Al-Aqsa
Intifada (2008). Among his edited books are (with John Clammer) Japanese Presences in Singapore, (with Edna Lomsky-Feder) The Military and Militarism in Israeli Society (2000), (with Daniel Maman and Zeev Rosenhek) War, Politics and Society in Israel (2001), (with Smita Jassal) Echoes of Partition (2006) and (with Kobi Michael and David Kellen) The Transformation of the World of Warfare and Peace Support Operations (2009). |
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| Caroline S. HAU is Associate Professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto
University. She was educated at the University of the Philippines and Cornell
University. Her books include Necessary Fictions: Philippine Literature and the Nation, 1946-1980 (2000) and On the Subject of the Nation: Filipino Writings from the Margins, 1981-2004 (2004). She is currently working on a book of Southeast Asian political
biographies (co-edited with Kasian Tejapira) and a book on ethnic-Chinese
cultural politics in the Philippines. |
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| Yoko HAYAMI (Ph.D. Anthropology) is a cultural anthropologist and Southeast Asianist.
She is Professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University.
Her major research has been with ethnic minorities in Mainland Southeast
Asia, namely, Thailand and Burma. Her research topics include gender, ethnic
identity, religion and family. Her major works are Between Hills and Plains: Power and Practice in Socio-Religious Dynamics
among Karen (2004, Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press) and a co-edited
volume Gender and Modernity: Perspectives from Asia and the Pacific (2003, Kyoto University Press and Trans-Pacific Press). She has recently
published a book in Japanese on gender and ethnicity among Karen people
in Northern Thailand 『差異と つながりの民族誌：北タイ山地カレンにおける民族とジェンダー』（2009 世界 思想社）. |
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| Noboru ISHIKAWA is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Center for Southeast
Asian Studies, Kyoto University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Anthropology
from the Graduate Center, City University of New York and is the author
of a range of articles on the borderlands and riverine societies of Borneo
(Sarawak and West Kalimantan), nation and identity, transnationalism, and
political economy/ecology. His publications include Dislocating Nation-States: Globalization in Asia and Africa, 『境界の社会史：国家が所有を宣言するとき』, and Between Frontiers: Nation and Identity in a Southeast Asian Borderland. |
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| HONG Liu is Professor of East Asian Studies and the founding director of the Centre
for Chinese Studies at the University of Manchester; he is also the Chinese
Ministry of Education Yangtze Eminent Professor at the School of Asian-Pacific
Studies at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. Educated in China, Europe
and the USA, he taught at the National University of Singapore between
1995 and 2006 and has held visiting appointments at Kyoto, Stockholm, National
Central and Harvard Universities. Liu’s research interests include interactions
between China and its Asian neighbors, the Chinese diaspora, and Asian
social, business and knowledge networks. He has published six books and
more than seventy articles in English, Chinese and Japanese in journals
such as World Politics, The China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, Indonesia,
Critical Asian Studies, Asian Studies Review, Journal of Southeast Asian
Studies, 『東南アジア研究』and《历史研究》. His most recent publications include Shuttling between Market, Society and the State: Chinese Merchants in Port
Cities and the Making of Business Networks in East Asia [co-editor, in Chinese] (2008); Pramoedya and China [co-author, in Indonesian] (2008), Battle for the Minds: The Cold War in Asia and Beyond (co-editor, forthcoming), and Images, Metaphors and Postcolonial Transformations: A Study of Sino-Indonesian
Interactions, 1949-1965 (forthcoming). |
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| Erik Martinez KUHONTA is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill
University. His research is in comparative and Southeast Asian politics,
especially political economy of development, political development, state-society
relations, and qualitative methodology. Kuhonta has held visiting fellowships
at the Walter Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University,
the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore, and
the East-West Center in Honolulu. He has published in Comparative Political Studies (forthcoming), Asian Survey, Pacific Review, Asian Affairs, Harvard Asia Quarterly, and American Asian Review, and is editor (with Dan Slater and Tuong Vu) of Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis (Stanford University Press, 2008). In 2007, he received the McGill Undergraduate
Political Science Teaching Award. He received his Ph.D. in Politics from
Princeton University. |
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| Ken MIICHI is a lecturer at Iwate Prefectural University. After completing his Ph.D
at Kobe University on the youth movements of Nahdlatul Ulama in 2002, he
worked at Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University
and Embassy of Japan in Singapore. In 2002 his dissertation was awarded
the Asia Pacific Research Scholarship Prize. He has conducted extensive
research on Islamic political movements and published Islamism in Contemporary Indonesia (in Japanese) in 2004. His English and Indonesian publications include
the following: “Book Review: Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, Catatan dari Penjara:
Untuk Mengamalkan dan Menegakkan Dinul Islam,” Asian Journal of Social Science, Volume 35, Numbers 4-5, 2007; “Penetration of ‘moderate’ Islamism in
contemporary Indonesia,” Masatoshi Kisaichi (ed.), Popular Movements and Democratization in the Islamic World, Oxon: Routledge, 2006; “Islamic Youth Movements in Indonesia,” IIAS Newsletter no.32, November 2003; and “Kiri Islam, Jaringan Intelektual dan Partai
Politik: Sebuah Catatan Awal,” Tashwirul Afkar, 10, 2001. |
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| Takaaki OIWA is Senior Research Fellow at the Japan International Cooperation Agency
Research Institute. His research field is political Economy (Economic Development
and Institutions, Regional Cooperation), and he has served as Deputy Director
of the Southeast Asia group; Deputy Resident Representative of the JICA
Indonesia Office; and Group Director/ Senior Researcher of the Research
Group at the Institute for International Cooperation of JICA. Recent publications
include The Synthesis Report of the Study on Assistance strategy for Southeast
Asian Region - Regional Integration and Development Assistance, JICA 2006; Non-Traditional Security Issues and Development Assistance - From the View
Point of International Public Goods (National Institute for Research Advancement, in Japanese, 2007). |
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| Masaaki OKAMOTO is Associate Professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto
University. He is interested in Southeast Asian local politics, especially
Indonesia, and in the privatization of violence in Asia. His publications
include: (co-edited with Abdur Rozaki) Kelompok Kekerasan dan Bos Lokal di Indonesia Era Reformasi (2006); “An Unholy Alliance: Political Thugs and Political Islam Work
Together,” Inside Indonesia 93 (August-October 2008); “Jawara in Power, 1998-2007,” Indonesia 86 (October 2008); and “Populism under Decentralization in Post-Suharto Indonesia,”
in Mizuno Kosuke and Pasuk Pongpaichit (eds.), Populism in Asia (forthcoming). |
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| Takeshi ONIMARU is Assistant Professor at the Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo,
specializing in political history and international relations in East and
Southeast Asia. He obtained his B.A. in Law from Kyoto University in 1997,
his M.A. in Human and Environmental Studies from Kyoto University in 2000,
and Ph.D. in Area Studies from Kyoto University in 2005. He was Visiting
Researcher at Hong Kong University in 2001, and a Fellow of the Suntory
Foundation in 2003. He was also Lecturer/Research Fellow at the Center
for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, in 2005; and Research Assistant
and Research Associate at GRIPS before his present appointment. His research
interests include political and police activities against the international
Communist Movements in East and Southeast Asia in 1920s and 1930s; state
surveillance system for pandemic flu in Southeast Asia; and comparative
state formation in East and Southeast Asia. |
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| Nissim Kadosh OTMAZGIN teaches at the Department of East Asian Studies, the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem. Dr. Otmazgin’s academic background is Political Science and
East Asian Area Studies. He was conferred his Ph.D. in March 2007 by Kyoto
University. As a part of his research, Dr. Otmazgin has conducted extensive
fieldwork in Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Bangkok, and Seoul. His Ph.D.
dissertation, which examined Japan’s popular culture exports to East Asia,
won the Iue Asia Pacific Research Prize in October 2007. He is currently
conducting a comparative study on cultural industry and cultural policy
in East Asia. |
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| Anthony REID is a Southeast Asian Historian, currently a visiting fellow at the CSEAS
of Kyoto University. He is also Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow
at the Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies at the Australian
National University, where he was previously employed 1970-99. In between
he was founding Director (2002-7) of the Asia Research Institute of the
National University of Singapore, and Professor of History and founding
Director of the Center for SE Asian Studies at UCLA (1999-2002). He was
awarded the Academic Prize of the 13th Fukuoka Asian Culture Prizes in
2002.His more recent books include Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680 (2 vols. New Haven, 1988-93), Charting the Shape of Early Modern Southeast Asia (1999), An Indonesian Frontier: Acehnese and other histories of Sumatra (Singapore, 2004), Imperial Alchemy: Nationalism and Political Identity in Southeast Asia (Cambridge, 2009); and (as editor or co-editor) Verandah of Violence: The Historical Background of the Aceh Problem (Singapore, 2006), Viet Nam: Borderless Histories (2006), Islamic Legitimacy in a Plural Asia (2007), Chinese Diaspora in the Pacific (2008), Negotiating Asymmetry: China’s Place in Asia (Singapore, 2009). |
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| Takashi SHIRAISHI has a Ph.D. in History, Cornell University in 1986 and taught at the University
of Tokyo (1979-1987), Cornell University (1987-97), and Kyoto University
(1996-2005). He currently serves as executive member, Council for Science
and Technology Policy and President, Institute of Developing Economies
(IDE-JETRO). He has published numerous books, including three award-winning
works and two edited books widely used in courses on Asian regionalization
and regionalism: An Age in Motion (Cornell University Press, 1990, Ohira Masayoshi Asia Pacicfic Studies
Award, available also in Indonesian with the title Zaman Bergerak), Indonesia: Kokka to Seiji (Government and Politics in Indonesia, Libroport, 1990, Suntory Academic
Award), Umi no Teikoku (The Making of a Region, Chuokoron, 2000, Yomiuri-Yoshino Sakuzo Award),
Network Power: Japan and Asia (Cornell University Press, 1997) and Beyond Japan: The Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism (Cornell University Press, 2006). He also serves as editor of Indonesia (Cornell University) and editor-in-chief of Japan Echo. |
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| Kaoru SUGIHARA is Professor of Economic History at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies,
Kyoto University. Trained in Kyoto University (MA) and the University of
Tokyo (D Econ), he taught at the Faculty of Economics, Osaka City University,
from 1978 to 1985, at the Department of History of the School of Oriental
and African Studies, University of London, from 1985 to 1996 and at the
Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, from 1996 to 2006. He is
currently President of the Socio-economic History Society of Japan, and
a member of the Executive Committee of the International Economic History
Association. His Japanese-language publications include Patterns and Development of Intra-Asian Trade (1996) and The Rise of the Asia-Pacific Economy (2003). He is editor of Japan, China and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850-1949 (Oxford University Press, 2005), and co-editor of three volumes on the
Third World economic history. He is currently writing a book on The East Asian Miracle in Global History (in Japanese), and editing a volume on Labour Intensive Industrialization in Global History with Gareth Austin, to be published from Routledge. He is also convener
of a large-scale interdisciplinary research project “In Search of Sustainable
Humanosphere in Asia and Africa”, which is a Global COE Program at Kyoto
University, and is engaging in a creative dialogue on sustainability with
specialists from diverse science, social science and humanities disciplines. |
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| Koji TANAKA is Director of the Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University.
Succeeding CSEAS’s tradition in area studies, Tanaka carried out many fieldworks
in Southeast Asia, which are characterized by an amalgamation of ecological,
social and cultural approaches. His studies on Southeast Asia started in
the middle of 1970s with his interests on agriculture and its development,
and have extended to the field of natural resource management and governance.
His research activities also cover a variety of geographical units in Southeast
Asia, extending from the maritime world of Southeast Asian archipelago
to the mountain regions of continental Southeast Asia. Based on his recent
fieldworks conducted in Indonesia, Laos and Myanmar, he will introduce
and discuss current issues related to natural resource governance, and
explore the ecological “image” of contemporary Southeast Asia from both
“bird’s-eye view” and “worm’s-eye view” perspectives. His recent works
include “Kemiri (Aleurites moluccana) and forest resource management in eastern Indonesia: An eco-historical
perspective” (2002), “Inflow of agricultural technologies and outflow of
natural resources: Observing the border region of northern Shan State,
Myanmar” (2004), “Diversity of wild and weedy rice in Laos” (2006, co-authored),
“Land allocation programme and stabilization of swidden agriculture in
the northern mountain region of Laos” (2007), and “Sikkim Himalayan agriculture:
Improving and scaling up of the traditionally managed agricultural systems
of global significance” (2009, co-authored). |
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