Title: Sport, regionalism, and regional history: Thailand’s founding of the Southeast Asian Peninsular Games, 1957-59   Speaker: Simon Creak, Associate Professor, Hakubi Center for Advanced Research and CSEAS, Kyoto University   Date & Time: Wednesday July 24th, 12:00-13.30   Place: Tonan-tei (Room. 201), Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, CSEAS, Kyoto University   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,…