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Special Seminar on Manuscript Publication in English

1. Date & Time:January, 31st (Thursday) 16:30 -18:00
2. Place:E207 Seminar Room, East Building, CSEAS, Kyoto University
3. Topic:"Publishing in English: A Southeast Asian Studies Vantage"
4. Guest Speaker:Dr. Eric Tagliacozzo, CSEAS visiting research fellow and Associate Professor, History Department, Cornell University.
5. Language:English
   ＊ After the seminar, there will be informal gathering.
6. Rationale of the seminar :
   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.
7. Contact:Patricio N. Abinales (CSEAS) /Tamaki Endo (GCOE / CSEAS)

The 2nd Kyoto University Southeast Asian Forum
"Technical Innovation for Sustainable Societies"

1. Date & Time:January, 26th (Sat.) , 2008 13:30 -
2. Place:Queen's Park Hotel, Bangkok
3. Program:
   13:00-13:30 Registration
   13:30-13:40 Opening Addresses Prof. Yokoyama Toshio, Vice-President, Kyoto University
   Dr.Wiwut Tanthapanichakon, President, Kyoto Union Club
   13:40-14:00 Keynote Address Prof.Ishii Yoneo, President, National Institutes for the Humanities
   “Thai Power of Assimilation and Tolerance, a Historical Reflection”
   14:00-14:40 Lecture 1 “Energy for the future” Prof.Yoshikawa Kiyoshi, Kyoto University
   14:40-15:00 Coffee Break
   15:00-15:40 Lecture 2 “Nanotechnology: Does it truly benefit our society and how can we be sure it is safe?” Dr.Wiwut Tanthapanichakon
   15:40-16:10 Panel Discussion: “Technical Innovation for Sustainable Societies”
   (Discussion will be in English, but the summary in Thai.)Panelist: Indonesian graduate
   Mr. banno Tetsuji, President, Marubeni Thailand Co., Ltd.
   Prof. Krisada Visavateeranon, Thai-Nichi Institute of Technology
   Moderator: Dr. Sucharit Koontanakulvong
   16:10-16:20 Closing Remarks

Special Seminar

You are cordially invited to Special Seminar jointly organized by Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University (CSEAS) and Center for Islamic Area Studies at Kyoto University (KIAS). This seminar is also a CSEAS colloquium in January.

1. Topic: "Financing Devotion: Economic Histories of the Southeast Asian Pilgrimage to Mecca"
2. Speaker:Dr. Eric Tagliacozzo, CSEAS visiting research fellow and Associate Professor, History Department, Cornell University.
3. Date & Time:January 23, 2008, 16:00 - 18:00
4. Place: E207 Seminar Room, East Building, CSEAS, Kyoto University
5. Commentators:Kaoru Sugihara (CSEAS, Kyoto University),
   Yasushi Kosugi (ASAFAS, Kyoto University)
6. Abstract:
   Performing the pilgrimage to Mecca is incumbent upon every Muslim who is able to do so as the fifth and final religious pillar of Islam. Yet religious devotion cannot be divorced from the ways and means of performing it, namely the financial wherewithal of undertaking a journey which may be thousands of miles from one’s home. Traveling on Hajj for Southeast Asians has always required the accumulation of significant economic resources, therefore, before such a trip could even be contemplated. These funds were earmarked for the trip of a lifetime, one that was usually performed only once. Sometimes the journey was even one that had no return, if the devotee should die on the long and hazardous journey (which happened often, historically), or in the Holy Places themselves. The economics of Hajj, thus, was serious business: the pilgrimage both contributed to regional and trans-regional economies, and also was vital to the financial planning of millions of individuals and their families over the centuries. This paper explores the longue-duree economic history of the pilgrimage to Mecca, outlining its early forms as part of the Early Modern Indian Ocean “system”, its colonial morphogenesis, and finally its modern manifestations in the era of Southeast Asian nation-states
   Biography of the Speaker:
   Dr. Eric Tagliacozzo is Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of "Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier" (Yale, 2005), which won the Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association of Asian Studies in 2007. He is also the editor or co-editor of three books due out in 2008: "The Indonesia Reader: History, Culture, Politics" (Duke University Press); "Clio/Anthropos: Exploring the Boundaries Between History and Anthropology"(Stanford University Press); and "Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Islam, Movement, and the Longue Duree" (also Stanford [and Singapore] University Presses). His next book, "The Longest Journey: Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca", will be published by Oxford University Press.
7. Contact: Noboru Ishikawa 075-753-7331 ishikawa@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Special Seminar

1. Topic: "Indonesian Constitution"
2. Speaker:Prof. Dr. Satya, Arinanto on Indonesian Constitution.
   Dr. Arinanto is a professor on Constitutional Law at Faculty of Law, University of Indonesia. He is also the vice director of PSJ (Pusat Studi Jepang - Center for Japanese Studies), University of Indonesia.Currently he is visiting Japan under the invitation of JICA.
3. Date & Time:16.00 -, January 17, 2008.
4. Place: CSEAS East Building, 2nd Floor, E207, Kyoto University
5. Language: English
6. Coordinator:Okamoto Masaaki, Jafar Suryomenggolo, CSEAS

The 26 th Bangkok, Thai Seminar

1. Topic: Screening of Thai documentary film "The Truth Be Told:The Cases Against　Supinya Klangnarong" by Pimpaka Towira
2. Date & Time:15:00 - 19:00, January 16, 2008
3. Place:Bangkok office of CSEA, Kyoto University (Sukumwit Soi 20)
4. Language:English
   Fee of Charge
5. Program:
   3pm-4pm: 　Introduction and a short lecture about political background of Supinya's cases by Ajarn Michael H. Nelson
   4pm-6pm: 　Screening of "The Truth Be Told" (Thai soundtrack with English subtitle)
   6pm-7pm: 　Q&A with a filmmaker, Ms. Pimpaka Towira, and discussion if time allows.

A Special Seminar on "State, Market and Community Study Group"

1. Topic: "ASEAN at 40: Revisiting the Past, Looking to the Future"
2. Speaker:Dr Teofilo C. DAQUILA, Associate Professor, Southeast Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore
3. Date & Time:10:00 - 11:30 am , January 11 (Friday), 2008
4. Place: CSEAS East Building, 2nd Floor, E207, Kyoto University
5. Abstract:
   This paper discusses the regional integration process that has taken place in Southeast Asia through the ASEAN regional grouping. It investigates the initiatives that have been undertaken by ASEAN to foster closer regional economic integration. It also identifies and explains the different factors that have impacted the ASEAN integration process. Finally, it discusses the ASEAN’s linkages with the global economy at the multilateral, regional and bilateral levels including a discussion of the present and future schemes.
   Dr. Teofilo Daquila has had teaching appointments at the Australian National University, George Washington University, Chulalongkorn  University, and Korea University. He has published books including The Economies of Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand (New York, 2005), Regionalism and Multilateralism: ASEAN in the Global Economy (Manila, 2006), and The Transformation of Southeast Asian Economies (New York, 2007).He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Australian National University and his M.A. degree from the University of the Philippines and the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium).

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