Seminars/Symposia: FY2010
November, 2010
- G-COE Initiative 1 International Seminar
Politics of ‘Non-Western’ International Relations from Asian Perspective
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- Date & Time:November 29th, 2010, 13:00~16:00
- Place:Small-size Seminar Room II (Room 331), Inamori Foundation Building 3rd
floor,Kyoto University
- Program:
- 13:00 Opening
13:00-13:15
- International Relations as a Academic Hegemony for Asian Studies*
Shiro Sato (Researcher, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University)
- 13:15-13:45
- The Post-Western Turn in International Theory and the English School*
Josuke Ikeda (Post-doctoral Fellow, Kinugasa Research Organization, Ritsumeikan
University)
- 13:45-14:15
- Dangerous Liaisons? The English School and the Construction of a “Japanese”
IR
Chen Ching Chang (Assistant Professor, College of Asia Pacific Studies,
Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)
- 14:15-14:45
- A Critique of South Korean Methods of Constructing a Korean School in
IR
Cho Young Chul (Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Political Science
and International Relations, Yonsei University)
- 14:45-15:00 Coffee Break
15:00-16:00 Discussion
- Contact:Shiro SATO (CSEAS)
- SPECIAL SEMINAR (Asian Core Program)
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- Date & Time:November 16 (Tues.) 2010, 16:00 - 18:00
- Place: Small Meeting Room I (Room no.330), 3rd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial
Building
- Speaker: Dr. Shu Yuan Yang (Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology,
Academia Sinica, Taiwan).
- Topic:"Christianity, Headhunting, and History among the Bungkalot /Ilongot
of Northern Luzon, Philippines"
- Abstract:
The invasion of the New Peoples’ Army (NPA) in the mid 1980s is a significant
and marked event for the people of Gingin, a settlement located at the
center of the Bugkalot area. It has stirred up feelings of fear, terror,
panic, and anger among the local residents, who were predominantly Christians
by this time. The killing of seven Bugkalot men at the hands of the NPA
in July, 1988, has aroused Bugkalot Christians and some of them “backslid”
and went headhunting again to revenge the deaths of their relatives. How
do we comprehend the resurgence of headhunting among the Bugkalot when
Christianity has already taken a strong hold? Is it just an old cultural
habit that dies hard? Is it a slap at the face of missionaries who consider
the eradication of headhunting their most important achievement? Does it
demonstrate the insincerity of the Bugkalot’s conversion to Christianity?
How do the Bugkalot themselves interpret the invasion of the NPA and the
resurgence of headhunting? This article seeks to address these questions.
I suggests that headhunting still figures significantly in the shaping
of local memory and historical consciousness, however, the Bugkalot’s representations
of the past have been reworked within the framework of Christianity. Christianity
does not only serve as the meta-narrative of change, it also informs the
ways in which the Bugkalot contemplate their existence in the world and
their relationship with the Philippine state.
- Contact: Yoko Hayami (Extension 7336/ yhayami@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp)
- Public Discussion with Benedict Anderson
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- Date & Time:November 9 (Tuesday), 10.00 am.
- Place:Large-size Seminar Room (Room no.333), 3rd Floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial
Building
- Speaker: Benedict Anderson (Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International
Studies, Government & Asian Studies at Cornell University)
- Topic:"Hell"
- Abstract: Departing from his recent article “Pret Pralaat: Prawatisat Narokphu [Strange
Spectres: A History of Hell],” in *Aan* vol 2: no. 2 (2009), pp. 11-36
(<http://www.readjournal.org/read-journal/2009-10-vol-6/ben/ >- in Thai), the discussion shall include issues on democratization and
nationalism in contemporary Asia.
- * Prof. Anderson's recent publications include ヤシガラ椀の外へ [Out from Under
the Coconut Halfshell] (Tokyo: NTT, 2009), and *Mendjadi Tjamboek Berdoeri
*(Depok: Komunitas Bambu, 2010).
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