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【L&G】Berkeley-Kyoto Symposium on “Narrating Southeast Asian Worldliness”

2014/10/24 @ 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Date: 24 October, 2014
Venue: University of California-Berkeley

Co-Organizers: University of California-Berkeley

 

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Description

Recent research in historical sociology and anthropology has attempted to broaden the frame of Southeast Asian Studies beyond the parochiality of studies of national areas by focusing on historical connections and circulations of culture, religion and commodities within Southeast Asia and between the region and the wider world. This symposium focuses on worldly Southeast Asian networks and narratives from the period spanning the rise of modern nationalism to contemporary globalization, their ethico-political consequences and their broader implications for theorizing worldliness. There will be sessions on Southeast Asian world literature, labor migration and the relationship between nationalism and internationalism.

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Program

9:30 – 9:50 a.m.
    Coffee

9:50 – 10:00 a.m.
Opening Remarks
    Pheng Cheah, UC Berkeley

10:00 – 12:00 p.m.
Panel 1

    Ilustrado Politics and World Literature
    Caroline Hau, Kyoto University

    Telling Tales of the World
    Pheng Cheah, UC Berkeley

    Discussant TBD

12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
    Lunch

1:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Panel 2

    Cross Cultural Legacies of the Buddha’s Second Coming: Disenchantment and
    Enlightenment at the Center and Periphery of Spanish Christendom

    John Blanco, UC San Diego

    Indian Ocean Worlds in the Philippines: Lascars, Sepoys, and the British Occupation (1762-64)
    Megan Thomas, UC Santa Cruz

    Beyond Colonial Miseducation: Internationalism and Pedagogy in American Era Philippines
    Lisandro Claudio, Kyoto University

    Discussant TBD

4:00 – 4:15 p.m.
    Break

4:15 – 6:15 p.m.
Panel 3

    Migration, Diaspora, and Burma: Wendy Law-Yone’s The Road to Wanting
    Tamara C. Ho, UC Riverside

    Alien Romance in Hong Kong:
    love and sexuality in the literary narratives of Indonesian overseas workers

    Jafar Suryomenggolo, Kyoto University

    Discussant TBD

WEBSITE: http://sea-sh.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/

Record of Activity: Narrating Southeast Asian Worldliness」

The Berkeley-Kyoto Symposium was held on October 24, 2014 in the University of Calfornia-Berkeley campus. As Professor Pheng Cheah, Chair of Berkeley CSEAS noted in his welcome address, this symposium was jointly organized by UC-Berkeley’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Kyoto University’s CSEAS, as part of the activities covered by the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the two centers. The symposium focused on worldly Southeast Asian networks and narratives from the period spanning the rise of modern nationalism to contemporary globalization, their ethico-political consequences and their broader implications for theorizing worldliness. There were sessions on Southeast Asian world literature, labor migration and the relationship between nationalism and internationalism. A number of faculty members from the University of California system also participated, among them John D. Blanco of University of California-San Diego, Megan Thomas of the University of California-Santa Cruze, and Tamara Ho of University of California-Los Angeles. The Kyoto CSEAS team was composed of Caroline Hau and postdoctoral fellows Jafar Suryomenggolo and Lisandro Claudio. The event was attended by 42 researchers and students.

20141024_Claudio panel Berkeley

From left to right: John Blanco, Megan Thomas and CSEAS’ Lisandro Claudio

 

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2014/10/24
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