{"id":1575,"date":"2017-11-21T17:33:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T08:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2017-11-17T14:55:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T05:55:36","slug":"zomia-research-group-31st-meeting-cseas-and-kindas-asafas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/2017\/11\/zomia-research-group-31st-meeting-cseas-and-kindas-asafas\/","title":{"rendered":"Zomia Research Group 31st meeting (CSEAS) and KINDAS (ASAFAS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Date<\/strong>: Tuesday November 21, 2017
\nTime<\/strong>: 15:00-18:00 (The room will be open at 14:30)
\nPlace<\/strong>: Inamori Memorial Hall, 3F, Mid-size meeting room.<\/p>\n

Program<\/strong>\uff1a
\n15:00-15:50<\/strong>
\nDr. Tam T. Ngo
\nDynamics of Memory and Religious Nationalism in a Sino-Vietnamese Border
\nTown<\/p>\n

15:50-16:40<\/strong>
\nProfessor Peter Van der Veer
\nLost in the Mountains<\/p>\n

Coffee break<\/strong><\/p>\n

17:00-17:20<\/strong>
\nCommentator Julius Bautista (CSEAS Kyoto University)
\nMasao Imamura (Yamagata University)<\/p>\n

17:20-18:00<\/strong>
\nDiscussion<\/p>\n

Dynamics of Memory and Religious Nationalism in a Sino-Vietnamese Border Town<\/strong>
\nTam T. Ngo<\/strong><\/p>\n

This paper analyses the dynamics of official and unofficial religious
\nnationalism in the Vietnamese border town L\u00e0o Cai. In 1979 L\u00e0o Cai was one
\nof many Vietnamese towns that were reduced to rubble during the short but
\nbloody war between Vietnam and China. The normalization in Sino-Vietnamese
\nrelation in 1991 allowed a booming border trade that let L\u00e0o Cai prosper
\nwhile the painful memory of this war continued to haunt the town and the
\ndaily experiences of its residents, both humans and gods. Since any
\nofficial remembrance of the war is forbidden by the Vietnamese state, L\u00e0o
\nCai residents have found a religious way to deal with their war memories
\nthat skillfully evades state control. By analyzing narratives about the
\nfate of the gods and goddesses that reign in the Father-God Temple and the
\nMother-Goddess Temple, two religious institutions located right next to the
\nborder, this paper shows that it is in the symbolism of the supernatural
\nthat one can find memories of the war and of the changing social landscape
\nof L\u00e0o Cai and reconstruct its history.<\/p>\n

Tam T. Ngo<\/strong> is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of
\nReligious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, Germany. She is the author of
\nthe monograph *The New Way: Protestantism and The Hmong in Vietnam*
\n(University of Washington Press, 2016) and co-editor of *Atheist Secularism
\nand Its Discontents: A Comparative Study of Religion and Communism in
\nEastern Europe and Asia *(Palgrave MacMillan, 2015)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Lost in the Mountains<\/strong>
\nPeter van der Veer<\/strong><\/p>\n

This paper engages the question of the relation between civilization,
\npolitical formation, and mountain people in the Southeast Asian mainland
\nmassif. The argument I want to present is that the fragmentary nature of
\nstate formation in the area does not allow us to capture it in a model of
\nstate versus nonstate actors. Nevertheless, political formations and
\nconnections of trade take precedence over civilizational expansion.
\nHowever, the fragmentary nature of social life in the mountains makes the
\nuse of general models difficult.<\/p>\n

Prof. Peter van deer Veer<\/strong> (b. 1953) is director of the Max Planck
\nInstitute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in G\u00f6ttingen. He
\nhas taught Anthropology at the Free University of Amsterdam, Utrecht
\nUniversity and the University of Pennsylvania. He received the Hendrik
\nMuller Award for his social science study of religion. He is an elected
\nFellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member
\nof several advisory boards, including The Prayer Project of the SSRC in New
\nYork. Van der Veer works on religion and nationalism in Asia and Europe. He
\npublished a monograph on the comparative study of religion and nationalism
\nin India and China, entitled The Modern Spirit of Asia. The Spiritual and
\nthe Secular in China and India (Princeton University Press, 2013) Among his
\nother major publications are Gods on Earth (LSE Monographs, 1988),
\nReligious Nationalism (University of California Press, 1994), and Imperial
\nEncounters (Princeton University Press, 2001). He was editor or co-editor
\nof Orientalism and Post-Colonial Predicament (University of Pennsylvania
\nPress, 1993), Nation and Migration (University of Pennsylvania Press,
\n1995), Conversion to Modernities (Routledge, 1997), Nation and Religion
\n(Princeton University Press, 1999), Media, War, and Terrorism
\n(Routledge-Curzon, 2003), Patterns of Middle-Class Consumption in India and
\nChina (Sage 2007). Most recently he edited the Handbook of Religion and the
\nAsian City. Aspiration and Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century
\n(University of California Press) Professor van der Veer serves on the
\nAdvisory Board of China in Comparative Perspective, Political Theology, and
\nthe Journal of Religious and Political Practice. He has just started a new
\njournal: Cultural Diversity in China.<\/p>\n

————————————————————–<\/p>\n

Zomia Study Group contacts: Koichi Fujita, Mio Horie, Hisashi Shimojo
\n(Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Kyoto University)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date: Tuesday November 21, 2017 Time: 15:00-18:00 (The room will be open at 14:30) Place: Inamori Memorial Hall, 3F, Mid-size meeting room. Program\uff1a 15:00-15:50 Dr. Tam T. Ngo Dynamics of Memory and Religious Nationalism in a Sino-Vietnamese Border Town 15:50-16:40 Professor Peter Van der Veer Lost in the Mountains Coffee break 17:00-17:20 Commentator Julius Bautista (CSEAS Kyoto University) Masao Imamura (Yamagata University) 17:20-18:00 Discussion Dynamics of Memory and Religious Nationalism in a Sino-Vietnamese Border Town Tam T. Ngo This paper analyses the dynamics of official and unofficial religious nationalism in the Vietnamese border town L\u00e0o Cai. In 1979 L\u00e0o Cai was one of many Vietnamese towns that were reduced to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8zquF-pp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1576,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/1576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}