Seminars/Symposia: FY2011
October, 2011
- Green and Life in ASEAN: Coexistence and Sustainability in East Asian Connections
- The 2nd CSEAS-KASEAS Joint International Symposium
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- CSEAS, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, has started
to extend the Northeast Asian network on Southeast Asian studies since
the occasion of the 40 years' anniversary in 2005. As one of the activities
under the scheme, CSEAS has collaborated with KASEAS (Korean Association
of Southeast Asian Studies), and organized the international joint symposium
that has been held every two years. The CSEAS-KASEAS first International
joint symposium was held in Jinju, Korea in 2009. This time the second
CSEAS-KASEAS International joint symposium will be held in Kyoto on October,
28-29, 2011 with the title of "Green and Life in ASEAN: Coexistence
and Sustainability in East Asian Connections". The keynote speeches
will be given by Prof. Yoon Hwan Shin (Institute of East Asian Studies,
Sogang University) and Prof. Shiraishi Takashi (GRIPS). Both of them are
the most influential scholars on the each country's policy to ASEAN. Prof.
Shin will talk on Korea's ASEAN Policy at Crossroads, and Prof. Shiraishi
will talk on Green, Life, and Academic Collaboration in East Asia. The
symposium will consist of 5 panels. The first panel with the title ASEAN:
Perspectives from Northeast Asia, and the fifth panel with the title of
Flows and Interaction with Southeast Asia, were proposed by KASEAS side,
on the other hand, the second panel, Social Security and Local Care Systems
in Southeast Asia, the third panel, Impact, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
of Climate Change on Water Resources and Food Production, and the fourth
panel, Interaction of Migrant Workers in East Asia were proposed by CSEAS
side.
- We hope these discussions will be fruitful. You are welcome to our international
joint symposium between KASEAS, and CSEAS that is free of charge.
- Date：October 28th - 29th, 2011
- Place:Meeting Rooms on 3rd floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto
University
- Sponsors：KASEAS, JSPS Asian CORE Program and CSEAS-Kyoto University "Towards
Sustainable Humanosphere in Southeast Asia"
- Program：PDF
- Poster：PDF
- Special Seminar
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- Date： October 18, Tuesday, 14:00 -16:00 p.m.,
- Venue： Tonantei, Inamori Memorial Hall, CSEAS
- Speakers: Joannes Wibisono, CSEAS Visiting Research Fellow
- Title:Fascination with Fascism: Japan and Germany in the Indies of the 1930s
- Abstract:
- Japan’s victory over Russia in 1905 became an eye opener for many Asian
nations the majority of which were still colonized by western powers. It
catapulted Japan into a model Asian nation well into 1930s when it embraced
fascism. Information and knowledge about Japan filtered through to the
Indies mainly through publications written in Dutch, which, in turn, originated
from Germany, a close ally of Tokyo. In the Indies admiration for Japan
also grew into fascination for Germany.
Ki Hadjar Dewantara, leader of the educational institute Taman Siswa and
father of the Indonesian national education admired Japan for its tradition
of Kokuka or “to govern a nation as a family”. Dewantara emphasized the
importance of family, which he considered sacred and he educated his pupils
as if they were part of his family, the so-called Among System.
In 1930 Dewantara was elected dictator of Taman Siswa as part of his strategy
to resist attempts by Dutch colonial authority to shut down Taman Siswa.
And it worked. He also succeeded, for the first time ever, in uniting nationalist
organisations in the Indies.
There are some striking parallels between Dewantara and Soeharto. First
and foremost Dewantara wanted a strong leader for the nation, which Soeharto
was indeed during his 32 years of Neuordnung. Soeharto also governed Indonesia
as if he presided over a family. Not only did he confuse being head of
a family with being head of state, he also did not abide any opposition.
In Dewantara’s fascination with pre-war Japan and Germany, we discover
the origins of Soeharto’s dictatorship and also, perhaps, a history of
the Indonesian Right.
About the speaker:
J. Wibisono is editor of the Indonesian service of Radio Netherlands Worldwide,
Hilversum Holland.
For more information, please contact C. Hau (hau@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp)
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- Joint seminar of the Hakubi Center and Center for Southeast Asian Studies
- "Perspectives on the Region and Regional Community in Southeast Asia"
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- Date： October 4th, 16:00-18:00
- Venue： Middle-sized meeting room (no. 332), 3rd floor, Inamori Memorial Hall,
CSEAS
- Speakers:
- Junko Koizumi, Professor of Thai History, CSEAS
Anthony Milner, Basham Professor of Asian History, Australian National
University, and Research Fellow, CSEAS
- Simon Creak, Associate Professor, Hakubi Center and CSEAS
- Abstract:
In a "world of regions", as the post-Cold War era has been called,
multi-state geographical regions are thought to offer member nations important
political, strategic, and economic benefits. The vast and diverse region
of Southeast Asia, shaped by its own dynamic histories and encounters with
the rest of Asia, Europe and the United States, is an archetypal example
of such a region. Yet the term "Southeast Asia" is relatively
young and, in the modern sense of the term, the region is younger still.
What constitutes "Southeast Asia" and how, when and why did it
come to be perceived as a region? What efforts have been made to develop
a regional community in Southeast Asia, and how have these been studied?
And what is missing from existing approaches to the study of regionalism
in Southeast Asia?
- This seminar brings together a panel of three historians working on different
aspects of the region and regionalism in Southeast Asia:
Prof. Junko Koizumi―“ ‘Southeast Asia’ and Southeast Asian Studies in the
US in the Early Cold War Period”
- Southeast Asian Studies as part of Area Studies was created and developed
mainly in the US after WWII. I would like to trace the process of delineating
Southeast Asia as a distinct area of academic concern/interest in the US
in the early Cold War period.
Prof. Anthony Milner―“Studying ASEAN Regionalism”
- Region building is now beginning to attract the degree of scholarly attention
once focused on the constituting of nation states. In the case of the Asian
region, however, the skill-set employed in this new endeavour gives too
little attention to area expertise.
Assoc. Prof. Simon Creak―“The Southeast Asian Games as Regional Community
Building”
- A multi-sport event founded in 1959, the Southeast Asian Peninsula/Southeast
Asian Games represent a cultural expression of regionalism missing from
studies of regional community building. I will sketch the history of the
Games and some of the ways I plan to study them during my Hakubi research
project.
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