Seminars/Symposia:FY2009
December, 2009
- The Third Global COE International Conference"Changing Nature of "Nature":
New Perspectives from Trandisciplinary Field Science"
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- Date & Time:December 14-17, 2009
- Place:Room No. 333, 3F, Inamori Foundation Memorial Hall, CSEAS, Kyoto University
- Program:PDF
- The 13th Kyoto University International Symposium‘New Horizons of Academic
Visual-Media Practices’
- With visual media and discussions from such diverse fields as medical science
and astrophysics, to biology, Anthropology, sociology, psychology and Informatics,
we present a revolutionary interdisciplinary endeavor unique in the world!
Pioneering new fields of academia through the visual practices, Kyoto University
opens the door to a century of academic films with this International Symposium!
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- Date & Time:
December 11(Fri) 10:00-18:30, 2009
12(Sat) 10:00-18:30, 2009
13(Sun) 10:00-18:00, 2009
- Place:
Kyoto University Clock Tower Centennial Hall
http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/clocktower/facilities/detail/kinen_h.htm/
http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/access/campus/main.htm [Access]
- Program：http://gaia.net.cias.kyoto-u.ac.jp/visual-media.practices/en/program.html
- Languages:Japanese/English [Simultaneous interpretation available]
- Sponsored by: Kyoto University
Organized by Center for Integrated Area Studies, Graduate School of Letters,
Graduate School of Education, Graduate School of Science, Graduate School
of Medicine, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Graduate
School of Informatics, Institute for Research in Humanities, Center for
Southeast Asian Studies, Wildlife Research Center, The Academic Center
for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University Museum
Co-facilitated by Kyoto University Open Course Ware
With Assistance from the Kyoto University Foundation
- Applications [limited to 400 people] and Inquiries:
visual-media.practices[at]cias.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Koji Tanaka [Chair of the Symposium Steering Committee]
- Filipino Film Forum for the year 2009
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- Film Title:LAST SUPPER NO. 3,
- Date & Time:December 9 (Wed.), 2009, 18:00-
- Place: Research Building No.2., Yoshida Main Campus, Kyoto University,
- Review (Francis Cruz) : "The film explores, with an adroit grasp of comedy, the ｓuffering
of Winston Nanawa, a production designer for TV ads, under a bizarrely
inefficient, absurdly impertinent, grossly corrupt, and atrociously dawdling
justice system in the Philippines." We look forward to seeing you
all next Wednesday.
- Special Seminar
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- Title:IS THE MIDDLE CLASS A HARBINGER OF DEMOCRACY? EVIDENCE FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA
- Speaker:Dr. Erik Martinez Kuhonta, CSEAS Visiting Research Fellow from McGill University
- Date & Time:December 3rd (Turs.), 2009, 16:00- 18:00
- Place: Middle size meeting room (Room No. 332) on the third floor of Inamori Foundation
Memorial Building
- Abstract:
A vast body of literature claims that the middle class is a critical force
for democratic transitions, democratic consolidation, and political stability.
Yet, recent events in Thailand and in many Southeast Asian newly-industrializing
countries indicate that the middle class often challenges democratic regimes
or supports authoritarian juntas. How should we reconcile these divergent
views of the middle class? This presentation will argue that to understand
the relationship between the middle class and democracy it is necessary
to analyze the interests of the middle class, rather than to simply theorize
the middle class as the causal link between economic development and democratization.
By analyzing middle class behavior in four Southeast Asian countries –
Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore – this article shows that
this class will rebel when democratic or authoritarian regimes fail to
address their key concerns: corruption, economic development, and political
stability.
- About the speaker:
Erik Martinez Kuhonta is assistant professor of political science at McGill
University in Montreal and a visiting fellow at the Center for Southeast
Asian Studies at Kyoto University. His research interests are in comparative
politics, political economy, and political development, with a focus on
Southeast Asia. He has published in academic journals including Asian Survey,
Pacific Review, Harvard Asia Quarterly, and American Asian Review, and
is co-editor of Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region, and
Qualitative Analysis (Stanford University Press, 2008). He received his
Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2003.
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