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Seminars/Symposia:FY2007

December, 2007

A special seminar of CSEAS Foreign Scholar on Peace Keeping in Aceh
  1. Date & Time：December, 25th (Tue.) , 2007 14:00 -17:00
  2. Place：Room 207, the 2nd floor of East building, CSEAS
  3. Speaker 1： Prof. Ikrar Nusa Bhakti (Director, Center for political Studies, Indonesian Institute of Science, CSEAS Foreign Scholar)
  4. Topic 1： "Peace in Disguise? The Birth of Electoral Politics in Aceh"
  5. Abstract： This article will describe and analyses situation in Aceh from conflict, to the peaceful settlement of dispute through the Helsinki Peace Accord, till two years after the implementation of the MoU. It begins with a brief history about the Aceh state prior to the Dutch occupation, followed by long period of war between the Acehnese and the Dutch during the colonial era, the Acehnese voluntarily joint the new Republic of Indonesia, and why the Acehnese wanted to be independent from Indonesia. It will be followed by how the central government in Jakarta tried to solve the problem of separatism in Aceh since 1950s, both through political and military solutions. The last part of this article will be a description and analysis about situation in Aceh post the Helsinki MoU, what will happen in Aceh if the new local government successful in delivering economic prosperity and maintain security in Aceh and what will happen if they fail.
  6. Speaker 2： Ｄｒ．Asna Husin (Director, Peace Education Program in Ace)
  7. Topic 2： "Post Tsunami Reconstruction of Aceh"
  9. Organizer: Kosuke Mizuno (CSEAS, Kyoto University)
Let's Watch Movies Together
  1. Date & Time：December, 20th (Thurs.) , 2007, 15:00 -17:30
  2. Place：Room 207, the 2nd floor of East building, CSEAS
  3. Film 1:Tongpan
  4. Directed by Euthana Mukdasanit, Surachai Jantimatorn
    Produced by The Isan Film Group
    Written by Khamsing Srinawk, Paijong Laisagoon, Mike Morrow
    Starring Ong-art Ponethon
    Music by Surachai Jantimatorn
    Cinematography Frank Green
    Language: Thai/Lao (English subtitle)
  5. Details: Directed by Euthana Mukdasanit, Surachai Jantimatorn, Produced by The Isan Film Group, Written by Khamsing Srinawk, Paijong Laisagoon, Mike Morrow, Starring Ong-art Ponethon, Music by Surachai Jantimatorn, Cinematography Frank Green, 20 minutes, Language: Thai/Lao (English subtitle)
  6. Story:Tongpan is a black and white theatrical film. It is based on the real-life experience of a farmer from the poverty stricken Northeast region of Thailand. Tongpan and his family were forced off their land when a dam built nearby caused their farm to be flooded in the wet season and left it parched in the dry.
    They have moved to a small town bordering Laos on the Mekong River. There, Tongpan the farmer is struggling to support his family as Tongpan the pedicab driver, Tongpan the small time boxer, and Tongpan the keeper of someone else's chickens.
  8. Film 2:"Rebel with a Real Cause: The story of the fight for truth over the controversy of Pak Moon Dam"
  9. Details： Produced by The people of Mae Moon Manyuen village, Assembly of the Poor, Language Thai/Lao (English subtitle)
  11. Film 3："Damu no Mizu ha Iran"
  12. Details：Directed by Ryoichi Sato, 20 minutes, Language: Japanese
Seminar of Socio-Cultural Dynamics Division
  1. Date & Time：16:30 - 18:30, December 19 (Wed.), 2007
  2. Place： Room 107, the 1st floor of East building, CSEAS
  3. Speaker: Mika Toyota (Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore)
    Topic: "The Flow of Social Remittance: The Case of Unmarried Burmese
    Health Care Workers in Singapore".
  4. Abstract:
  5. Since the mid-1990s the number of migrant nurses and health care workers from Myanmar has been on the rise in Singapore. The majority of these health care workers are tertiary-educated single females, which reflects the non-marriage trend in Myanmar. The percentage of tertiary-educated females remaining single in Myanmar is 41.3 percent at age 35-44 and 34.1 percent at age 45-54. (Jones 2004) This paper focuses on the value of remittances not only to those who receive them but also for those who send them. A large part of the voluntary remittances are sent back to support the education of siblings, health care expenses for the elderly parents and relatives, as donations to temples, or to support ordination rituals of younger male relatives. By doing so, it seems that the ideology of women as ‘nurturing mothers’ in the Buddhist value system is symbolically sustained and reconfigured despite their unmarried status and the fact that they are far away from home. Thus, by extending the concepts of ‘family remittances’ and ‘global chain of care’, this paper argues that while these Burmese migrant nurses are employed to care for the elderly and sick abroad, at the same time it enables them to symbolically practice “nurturing” roles for the people in their home country without actually getting married.
  7. The research findings of this paper is based on the survey questionnaire (n=412) among foreign health care workers for the elderly in Singapore, in-depth interviews with Burmese health care workers in Singapore and the opinion survey (n=552) on late marriage and family relations in Myanmar conducted in 2006-2007.
  1. The presentation will be in English.
  2. Organizer：ISHIKAWA, Noboru (CSEAS) # 7331
The 2nd seminar on Politics, Economics and History of Asia in FY2007
  1. Date & Time：15:00 - 18:00, December 18 (Tues.), 2007
  2. Place：Room 207, the 2nd floor of East building, CSEAS
  3. Speakers & Topics：
    Professor George Bryan Souza（University of Texas, San Antonio）
    "An Anatomy of Commerce and Consumption: Merchants and Opium at Batavia over the Long Eighteenth Century"
    Professor Eric Tagliacozzo (Cornell University and CSEAS)
    "Opium Smuggling in Island Southeast Asia during the Long Nineteenth Century"
    Both speakers are leading historians of Southeast Asia who have opened up the academic frontier, especially as authors of The Survival of Empire: Portuguese Trade and Society in China and the South China Sea 1630-1754 (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915 (Yale University Press 2005, NUS Press 2007), respectively.
    Professor Souza is making a brief visit to Japan to participate in the workshop on global history in Osaka this time, but is to arrive at CSEAS next June to work with us as CSEAS visiting fellow. Professor Tagliacozzo is currently staying with us from October to next January as CSEAS visiting fellow.
    It is hoped that the combination of two papers on opium trade will stimulate discussion on the nature of the transition of Asian trade during the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, a theme which is currently attracting attention in Japanese academia.
  4. Organizer：
    Kaoru Sugihara, CSEAS, Kyoto University
    sugihara@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Special Seminar on Manuscript Publication in English
  1. Date & Time：December, 13th (Thursday) 16:00 -18:00
  2. Place：Room 207, the 2nd floor of East building, CSEAS
  3. Topics：‘The Bumpy Road to Oxford University Press’
  4. Speaker: Professor Kaoru Sugihara (CSEAS）
  5. Rational:
    This special G-COE seminar is designed to help young scholars get published in peer-reviewed international journals as well as academic presses in Asia-Pacific, the United States and Europe. The seminar consists of two parts.
    The first is a series of lectures by G-COE professors, visiting fellows at CSEAS and other institutions at Kyoto University, and invited senior scholars who will be asked to share with the participants their experience in getting published abroad. The seminar will also invite academic publishers in Japan and abroad to share insights on how to get published. The second part will be a continuous discussion among the participants on the manuscripts (journal articles and/or books) that they plan to submit for publication.
    At this point, the focus will be on the social sciences and the humanities, but the special seminar will, in the near future, be focused on dialogue between humanities, social science and science, an end in view of publishing materials that reflect inter-disciplinary G-COE themes.
    The first seminar will be held on December 13, from 4:00-6:00 p.m, at E326. Our first speaker will be G-COE convenor, CSEAS Professor Kaoru Sugihara.
  6. Language:Japanese
  7. Contact：
    Patricio N. Abinales (CSEAS) abinales@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
    Tamaki Endo (GCOE / CSEAS) endo@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
CORE University Program Seminar
  1. Date：December, 6 - 7, 2007
  2. Venue：Royal City Hotel, Bangkok
  3. Topics：Private Faces of Power and Institutions in Southeast Asia
  4. Organized by:Thammasat University and Kyoto University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies
  5. Co-Organized by: Global COE Program "In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere"
  6. Program:Core University HP
 
 

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