From: "Monika Lehner" <monika.lehner@UNIVIE.AC.AT>
To: <H-ASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 1:05 PM
Subject: H-ASIA: Kyoto-Cornell Joint International Workshop
> H-ASIA
> November 29, 2012
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> Kyoto-Cornell Joint International Workshop
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> From: "Mario Ivan Lopez" <marioivanlopez@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
>
> Kyoto-Cornell Joint International Workshop on Trans-national Southeast
> Asia: Paradigms, Histories, Vectors Sponsored by the Center for
> Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
>
> ("Southeast Asian Studies for Sustainable Humanosphere" Research
> Program), Research Project (B) 24330109 on "The Environmental
> Foundations of Postwar Asian Economic Development" (Organizer: Prof.
> Kaoru Sugihara, University of Tokyo), and the Southeast Asia Program,
> Cornell University
>
> Date: 11-12 January 2013
>
> Rakuyu Kaikan, Kyoto University
> (Access:
> http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/profile/intro/facilities/kyoshokuin/rakuyu/index.htm/)
>
> "Trans-national Southeast Asia" is a timely notion. Not only is the
> idea of the trans-national au courant in academic study across a
> variety of fields, but Southeast Asia as a region is perhaps the most
> trans-national of spaces in the global realm. In what ways? Southeast
> Asia has always existed at a crossroads position in the global trade
> routes; this has been true since the transmission of Hinduism and
> Buddhism more than a millennium ago. In the intervening centuries,
> Islam and then Christianity on a massive scale followed on these
> circuits (fully half of Southeast Asia's populace became either
> Christian or Muslim by the late seventeenth century). But the energies
> of trans-nationality have not only been religious in stream, of
> course: human beings, commodities, ideas, and pathogens have all moved
> in these channels as well. In the contemporary world, trans-national
> modes of governance and surveillance are also utilized, alongside
> traveling literatures of diasporic communities situated both inside
> and outside the region. Considering the important breadth and depth of
> these contacts, this workshop will try to flesh out the meaning of the
> trans-national in Southeast Asia over the long term, both as a
> constitutive process, and also as a way of knowing the past and the
> evolving present in Southeast Asia as an ever-evolving region.
>
> We are interested in trying to explore this notion of Trans-national
> Southeast Asia through a number of different windows. The workshop
> would be a great "moment" to try to define, with some theoretical
> rigor, what this paradigm could mean, especially over the longue
> durée. Crucially we see this exercise as a chance to connect the
> faculties and young researchers of CSEAS-Kyoto and SEAP-Cornell, and
> to begin a conversation that would then grow and take place over the
> long term across a number of different fronts. By focusing on
> "Trans-National Southeast Asia" as a broad but narrow-able theme to
> connect us, we hope that the workshop can help align intellectual
> agendas, and also – at the same time – eventually give way to a solid
> publication that charts the notion of this sub-field in interesting
> ways. We see the field of trans-national Southeast Asia stretching
> from Japan and China south to the region, and tendrils of the
> discussion also moving west in a great arc toward the Indian
> sub-continent and the Middle East. We see the time frame as pliable,
> starting perhaps in early centuries (depending on the kinds of
> research put forward) and tailing off in our own time. We are very
> hopeful that this workshop can be accomplished as the beginnings of a
> conversation, and we look forward to receiving feedback from Kyoto on
> how our strengths and aims might jibe with similar energies emanating
> from Japan.
>
> Abstracts can be accessed here
>
> http://sea-sh.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/trans-national-southeast-asia-paradigms-histories-vectors/
>
> Any inquiries to Mario Lopez <mlopez@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
>
> Mario Lopez Assistant Professor
> Center for Southeast Asian Studies,
> Kyoto University
> 46 Shimoadachi-cho Yoshida, Sakyoku
> Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
> TEL 075-753-7375 FAX 075-753-7392
>
>
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