API Seminar（Related Conferences/Research Seminars）
Date: April 26, 2010 15:00-17:30
Venue: Meeting Room II, Inamori Hall, CSEAS, Kyoto University
Presentation 1:
By Arsenio Nicolas, PhD
Senior Lecturer
College of Music, University of the Philippines
“Musical Journeys to History, 2009-2010”
This short talk will present some of the highlights of field and library research on the histories of musical exchanges in Asia from the first to the sixteenth centuries, conducted last year in Java and Bali (July to September), West Malaysia (October), Cambodia (December), and Thailand (November to January). Drawing evidence largely from archaeology and historical texts, this long-term study focuses on exchanges of musical ideas and artefacts, particularly gongs, bells, cymbals, drums and other musical instruments across maritime cultures in Asia. Early twenty-first century contemporary music practices attest to the continuity of ancient musical traditions.
Arsenio Nicolas is currently a Nippon Foundation Senior API Fellow at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka. He has conducted music research in the Philippines (since 1973), Java (1979-83), Bali (1985-86), Singapore (1986), West Malaysia (1989-91), Thailand (1987) and USA (1999-2007). He is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Philippines College of Music, Archaeological Studies Program, Department of Anthropology and Center for International Studies.
Presentation 2:
By Ramon Guillermo, PhD
Associate Professor
College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines
“A Preliminary Translation Analysis of *Hikayat Robinson Crusoë *and *Ang
Bagong Robinson*, 19th Century Malay and Tagalog Translations of Joachim
Campe's *Robinson der Jüngere *(The New Robinson)”
One of the most well-known European adaptations of Daniel Defoe's *Robinson Crusoe* (1719) was the work entitled *Robinson der Jüngere* (The New Robinson, 1779-1780). Written by the enlightenment pedagogue and linguist Joachim Campe (1746-1818), it was the first work in the history of German literature conceived expressly for children. This two volume novel is said to have been even more popular than Defoe's original in many countries in Europe during the early nineteenth century and was translated into many languages including Malay (1875) and Tagalog (1879). This study aims to look at the historical background and significance of these two almost simultaneous translations within their respective contexts. Since *Robinson der Jüngere *also belongs to a literary genre associated with the birth of political economy (Campe's novel was in fact published only three years after the first German translation of Adam Smith's *The Wealth of Nations *(1776)) this preliminary investigation will also delve into the problem of translating some economic notions from late eighteenth century German into the Malay and Tagalog languages of the nineteenth century.
Presentation 3:
By Zawiah Yahya, PhD
Guest Scholar
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
“English Language and National Identity in Malaysia”
This paper attempts to explain Malaysia’s love-hate relationship with the English language as the country struggles with this colonial legacy to build its national identity through its own national language. The effort is further complicated by the current rise and rise of English as a global language. This linguistic dilemma is reflected in Malaysia’s changing language policies in education since Independence from British rule in 1957 in order to take care of conflicting national and international imperatives. The dilemma is also played out in literature, in the subterranean feuding between Malaysian literature in English on the one hand and, on the other, national literature in the national language, over the role of identity markers for a multi-racial nation. Although no closure to the issue is in sight at the moment, this paper argues for a middle path but one that starts firstly with a recognition of the role of the national language as a unifying factor and identity marker on the domestic stage, and secondly of the role of English as a necessary economic instrument on the global stage. Everything else should fall into place after that as the cookie crumbles.
API Seminar(2008/04/25)
Venue: E207 CSEAS, Kyoto University
Title: How Liberal Can You Go? - The Rise of Liberal Islam Network in
Indonesia
Commentator: Dr. Ken Miichi (Iwate Prefectural University)
Abstract
No one has ever doubted the swift ascent of the Jaringan Islam Liberal (JIL) in Indonesia, and how it has impacted recent discourse on the future of Islam in the world’s largest Muslim nation. Indeed, much of the hype and triumphalism that escorted JIL’s rise to prominence has contributed immensely to the intense contestation over the proper place and role of Islam in an increasingly democratic Indonesia post-reformasi and post- September 11. Yet, questions still abound as to how liberal JIL is, and how receptive can Indonesian Muslims be as far as JIL’s ideology is concerned. Perhaps, the ultimate question to pose is: can JIL replace the century old predominance and preeminence of NU and Muhammadiyah as the vanguard of traditionalist and modernist Islam in Indonesia?
About the Speaker
Dicky Sofjan, Ph.D. is an Asian Public Intellectual (API) Fellow 2007/8 from Indonesia. He graduated from the National University of Singapore and is the author of Why Muslims Participate in Jihad: An Empirical Survey on Islamic Religiosity in Indonesia and Iran (Australian Theological Forum Press and Mizan 2007). Sofjan worked for UNDP-Indonesia (2005-06) and The Nature Conservancy (2006-08). He is also an adjunct faculty member at the Magister Ilmu Politik (MIP) Program in Universitas Padjadjaran and the Departments of International Relations and Communication Science in Universitas Pelita Harapan.
API Seminar(2008/04/21)
Venue: K307 CSEAS, Kyoto University
Title：Old Wine in New Bottle: Subprime Mortgage Crisis Causes and Consequences
Speaker： Dr. Lim Mah Hui
Commentator: Prof. Shigeyuki Abe (Doshisha University)
Abstract:
This paper seeks to explain the causes and consequences of the U.S.
subprime mortgage crisis and how this has led to a generalized credit
crunch in other financial sectors that ultimately affects the real
economy. It postulates that despite the recent financial innovations,
the financial strategies that led to the present crisis are similar to
those found in the U.S. savings and loans debacle of the late 80s and
in the Asian financial crisis of late 90s. They are as the title
implies: old wine in new bottle – financial leveraging and funding
mismatch. Going beyond these financial practices, the underlying
structural causes of the crisis are located in the loose monetary
policies of central banks, financial deregulation, and excess liquidity
in financial markets that is a consequence of the kind of economic
growth that produces various imbalances – global current account
imbalance, financial sector imbalance, and wealth and income imbalance.
The consequences on risks, moral hazards and rolling bubbles are
discussed. Comparison of similarities and differences with banking
crises in Asia and Japan will be discussed.
Michael Lim Mah Hui taught political economy and sociology in various
U.S. and Malaysian universities before he joined international banking.
He has over twenty years experience as an investment, commercial, and
development banker. He worked in Chemical Bank (now JP Morgan Chase),
Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche and Asian Development Bank. He is
now a senior fellow with the Asian Public Intellectual Program of the
Nippon Foundation.
"Why the Oslo peace process failed, and what are the current prospects for meaningful peace negotiations?"[Regional Conflicts and Social Movements in the Islamic World] (2008/1/28)
Date:16:00-19:00, January 28 (Man.)，2008
Venue:Lecture Room I (AA401), Faculty of Engineering Bldg. No.4, 4th
Floor, Yoshida Campus, Kyoto Univerity
http://www.asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kias/contents/tariqa_ws/access_map.pdf
Speaker: Anthony Oberschall (Univ. of North Carolina)
Amr Hamzawy (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
Topic: "Why the Oslo peace process failed, and what are the current prospects for meaningful peace negotiations?"
"The Egptian Muslim Brotherhood's New Party Platform -Controversies and Factionalism"
Language: English
2nd Seminar for understanding fundamental concepts of Islam(2007/12/25)
Venue:Lecture Room I (AA401), Faculty of Engineering Bldg. No.4, 4th
Floor, Yoshida Campus, Kyoto Univerity
http://www.asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kias/contents/tariqa_ws/access_map.pdf
Lecturer: Karim Douglas S. Crow (Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore)
Title: Limits of Rationality in Muslim Experience
Language: English
Division of Socio-Cultural Dynamics(2007/12/19)
Date:16:30-18:30, December 19 (Wed.)，2007
Venue:Room 107, the 1st floor of East building, CSEAS
Speaker: Mika Toyota (Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore)
Title:"The Flow of Social Remittance: The Case of Unmarried Burmese
Health Care Workers in Singapore".
Language: English
Abstract:
Since the mid-1990s the number of migrant nurses and health care workers from Myanmar has been on the rise in Singapore. The majority of these health care workers are tertiary-educated single females, which reflects the non-marriage trend in Myanmar. The percentage of tertiary-educated females remaining single in Myanmar is 41.3 percent at age 35-44 and 34.1 percent at age 45-54. (Jones 2004) This paper focuses on the value of remittances not only to those who receive them but also for those who send them. A large part of the voluntary remittances are sent back to support the education of siblings, health care expenses for the elderly parents and relatives, as donations to temples, or to support ordination rituals of younger male relatives. By doing so, it seems that the ideology of women as ‘nurturing mothers’ in the Buddhist value system is symbolically sustained and reconfigured despite their unmarried status and the fact that they are far away from home. Thus, by extending the concepts of ‘family remittances’ and ‘global chain of care’, this paper argues that while these Burmese migrant nurses are employed to care for the elderly and sick abroad, at the same time it enables them to symbolically practice “nurturing” roles for the people in their home country without actually getting married.The research findings of this paper is based on the survey questionnaire (n=412) among foreign health care workers for the elderly in Singapore, in-depth interviews with Burmese health care workers in Singapore and the opinion survey (n=552) on late marriage and family relations in Myanmar conducted in 2006-2007.
"Central Asia viewed from Muslims in Yunnan"[Lingua-Culture Contextual Studies in Ethnic Conflicts of the World and the Kansai Association for Arabic Studies]
Venue:Meeting Room(604), Senri Life Science Center Building
Lecturer: Prof. Ma Lizhang（馬利章）(Yunnan University, China)
Title: Central Asia viewed from Muslims in Yunnan
Language: Arabic or Chinese (with simultaneous interpreting: Arabic or Chinese ⇔Japanese)
API Seminar(2007/10/31)
Place: K409 CSEAS, Kyoto University
Title: API Seminar
Program:
A). Current Developments on Philippine Cinema - with a special focus on the Rise of Philippine Independent Films
B). Screenings & Discussion of the following award-winning Filipino short films:
1) MANSYON by Joel Ruiz
A middle-aged couple, Ambo and Dolores, are hired as caretakers of a large, opulent house for the duration of three months. The couple has fallen into a psychic rut, mechanically doing their housework. Until one day, Dolores finds a red perfume bottle...
2) KULTADO (Boiling Point) by Lawrence Fajardo
Life in a wet market in the provinces spells danger. A young vegetable vendor and his family are oppressed by the market thugs. But things always have a breaking point.
3) PUTOT (Small Fry) by Jeck Cogama
A young boy cares for his mentally challenged father in a slum area that is about to be demolished. While trying to make a living selling shellfish, he meets Mayang, a girl slightly older than him. Soon he finds himself enamoured with the lass.
4) DOBLE VISTA (Double Vision) by Nix Lanas, Nisha Alicer & Caren Crisologo
A witty and visually exciting tribute to Godard and the Nouvelle Vague centering on a lovelorn writer and his mystery lady.
5) GABUN (Cloud) by Emmanuel Dela Cruz
The mystifying tale of a Muslim lass who is determined to attend her classes... no matter what.
Moderator: TANAKA, koji (CIAS)
Presenting research papers（2007/10/26）
Place: Presentation Room, General Research Building, 6th Floor, Minoh
Campus, Osaka University (the former Osaka University of Foreign Studies)
Language: Japanese
Speaker 1:
YAMANE So (Research Institute for World Language, Osaka University)
"The Role of Ijtihad in the Formation of Islamic Moderate Trends:
Maududi's Remarks in the International Islamic Colloquium in Lahore(1957-1958)''
Speaker 2:
YOKOTA Takayuki (The Japan Institute of International Affairs)
"Islamic Revival Movement in the Moderate Trends: Thoughts and
Practiceｓ of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt"
Ecology & Environment(2007/10/24)
Place: Room AA446, Seminar Room of Ecology & Environment,
the 4th floor of Faculty of Engineering Bldg. No.4
Speaker: Dao Minh Truong
Title: Human and Forest Resources over the Last Five Decades
in Vietnam Northern Mountain Region
Language: English
Socio-Economic Conditions in Rural India(2007/10/13)
Venue: Second Lecture Room (Daini Kogi shitsu), 4th floor, No.4
Engineering Building (kogakubu 4 gokan), Kyoto University
Speaker: Professor V.K. Ramachandran (Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)
Title: Socio-Economic Conditions in Rural India: A Report on Ongoing Research
Summary: In recent years, detailed empirical and theoretical
research has lagged behind the rapid and complex changes that are
taking place in the Indian countryside. This is a matter of concern,
and it is this context that frames my current research.
My colleagues and I are working on a village studies project whose
basic objectives are to characterise the nature of capitalism and
class relations in the countryside, to conduct specific studies of the
oppression of the Dalit and Scheduled Tribe masses and of women; and
to report on the state of basic village amenities and the access of
the rural masses to the facilities of modern life.
The study is to be conducted over a period of about five to six years.
The villages studied will represent a wide range of different
agro-ecological regions in the country. We have now completed surveys
in nine villages across four States.
In the 1970s and 1980s, efforts were made by different authors
including Sundarayya in Andhra Pradesh, Utsa Patnaik (using data from
Haryana), and Venkatesh Athreya and his colleagues and Ramachandran in
different parts of Tamil Nadu - to use empirical data to establish
criteria to analyse the differentiation of the peasantry. One aspect
of our present study is to re-visit some of the issues raised in that
discussion.
In my presentation, I shall attempt to
(i) give an overview of the data base as it now stands; and
(ii) review the issues in the discussion on peasant differentiation.
"Rethinking Tariqa?: What Makes Something Tariqa" [International Workshop](2007/10/12-13)
13 Oct, Sat. 9:00-12:30
Place:Workshop: Meeting Room (AA447), Faculty of Engineering Bldg. No.4,
4thFloor, Main Campus, Kyoto Univerity
Reception Party: Meeting Room III, Kyoto University Clock Tower Centennial Hall
*Participation fee (reception party)
Regular fee: 2,000 yen
Student fee: 1,000 yen
September 26 colloquium
Venue：East Building Room 207
Topic："The meek shall inherit the earth: Or, resource management for the poor in Cambodia."
Presenter：Lye Tuck-po (Visiting Research Fellow, CSEAS)
Cropping Systems and Agricultural Implements in Different（2007/09/25）
Regions of Myanmar"
Speaker:Prof. Khin Lay Swe, CSEAS visiting research fellow
from Agricultural Botany Department,
Yezin Agricultural University
Date and Time:September 25（Tue.）15:00～17:00
Place:Room 207 on the 2nd Floor of CSEAS East Building.
Coordinator:Kazuo Ando, CSEAS, Kyoto University
Abstract:
Myanmar is divided into seven States which mainly cover the hill
regions and seven Divisions which cover the plain areas. The
diversity of climate and soil types favors the production of a
relatively wide range of crops. Farmers have developed their farming
technologies together with farm implements over time. These largely
depend on agro-ecological suitability such as rainfall, soil type,
nature of the crops grown and socio-economic condition of local
people. Farm implements are mostly related to the production and
post-harvest operation of crops which have a direct impact on the
improvement of agricultural production as well as livelihood of local
farmers. The most predominant cropping system in Myanmar is still in
traditional. Subsistence farming of small holder farmers (below 2 h)
is most prevalent where farming is carried out in a traditional way
using with old and indigenous farm tools and little input. This
involves a great deal of hand labor and animal-drawn implements for
land preparation, sowing, transplanting, harvesting, and processing.
There are strong similarities in some implements, such as ploughs,
harrows, axe, hoes, and sickles among different regions. However, the
design and types of these implements used in one region are sometimes
significantly different from those of other regions. A certain
agricultural tool widely used in an area may not always be
appropriate in other areas and some tools are not available in all
regions. The use of animal-drawn power of today is a crucial stage in
realizing the current socio-economic conditions of Myanmar although
agricultural mechanization is necessary for the continual increased
production in future.