The 36th Southeast Asia Seminar Call for Applications
“Cities and Cultures in Southeast Asia ”
- Sponsors:
Cebuano Studies Center, University of San Carlos
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
(“Southeast Asian Studies for Sustainable Humanosphere” Research Program
and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Asian Core Program)
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- Date: 20-23 November 2012
- Venue: Cebu City, Philippines
The Southeast Asia Seminar has been held annually by the Center for Southeast
Asian Studies, Kyoto University since 1976. Organized thematically around
a variety of topics, the seminar offers three full days of intensive lectures
by experts in the field and group discussions and presentations by the
participants. This year, the Southeast Asia Seminar will be an international
seminar co-sponsored by the Cebuano Studies Center of the University of
San Carlos. We welcome your application.
- Online Application Form (The application deadline has passed)
- Program
About the Seminar
Southeast Asia has some of the world’s largest and most vibrant cities.
Roughly 250 million people or over 40% of the population in the region
live in urban areas. Mega-cities like Manila, Jakarta, and Bangkok are
home to more than ten million people each, and serve as administrative
and financial centers as well as migration, transportation and communication
hubs. Singapore is touted as a “global city,” a status to which Kuala Lumpur
also aspires. “Secondary cities” like Cebu, Chiang Mai, Penang and Surabaya
have histories and cultures that are as rich as those of the national capitals
from whose shadows they are emerging as part of larger, polycentric urban
systems (including corridors) and networks across the region.
This seminar looks at the social and cultural processes and practices out
of which cities emerge, grow, decay, and change. Cities are concentrations
of people, goods, capital, and infrastructure in space and across time,
but they are also sites of power; objects of fantasies, aspirations, and
“planning”; cultural, national and world “heritage”; subjects of literature,
cinema, and other forms of representation; arenas of contestation, struggle,
and negotiation involving individuals, groups, communities, and institutions;
and base points for cultural interaction, social innovation, and economic
and political transformation. The blurring of boundaries between cities
and countrysides, and increasing connections and hierarchies within and
between cities and between megacities and second-tier and smaller urban
areas are making themselves felt in the culture, politics, and economy
of Southeast Asian countries. The speakers in this seminar will address
vital issues and concerns relating to the history of cities and heritage
conservation, the role of communities in the making and remaking of cities,
and ways in which politics and economy inform urbanization and are played
out in the city. The seminar includes a one-day field trip within Cebu
City.
- ● Period： November 20 (Tues.) - 22 (Thurs.), 2012, with optional field trip on Nov.
23 (Fri.), 2012
Participants will arrive in Cebu on November 19 and depart for their respective
home countries on November 24.
- ● Venue：Cebu City, Philippines
- ● Program： please click here
- ● Participants： Applicants who want to join the seminar must have strong academic interest
in the topic of this year’s seminar, and should be prepared to participate
actively and join in the discussion for the full three-day seminar. We
accept applications from young and up-and-coming scholars in Southeast
and East Asia.
- ● Seminar fee： Participation is free. Roundtrip airfare, accommodation, and per diem allowance
for the seminar will be covered by the sponsors.
- ● Online application form： Please fill in the online application form by clicking here (The application deadline has passed).
- ● Inquiries：Please send your inquiries to summer_com@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Important: Please indicate “Southeast Asia Seminar” as the subject of
your email; otherwise, your email may not reach us)
- ● Application deadline： August 1, 2012
- ● Selection：The seminar committee will select on the basis of the application forms
and we will notify all applicants by the end of August.
- Contact: please address all inquiries to
- Caroline Hau, CSEAS Kyoto University
46 Shimoadachi, Yoshida, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
(〒606-8501京都市左京区吉田下阿達町46 京都大学東南アジア研究所 )
Tel 81-75-753-7336
Fax 81-75-753-7350
e-mail: hau@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Southeast Asia Seminar in the past
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