Ryota Sakamoto (Field Medicine) When I was a child, my mother always read picture books to my sister and me be…
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Kimiya Kitani (Assistant Professor, CSEAS Kyoto University)
The SEASIA (Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia) is an international consortium of leading research institutions in Northeast and Southeast Asia. Since SEASIA’s establishment in 2013, …
Toshihiko Kishi (Asian History)
During my primary school years, I was very much a “TV kid,” deeply enamored with the program Kanetaka Kaoru Sekai no Tabi (Kaoru Kanetaka’s Journey Around the World), which I watched religiously with my family each week. …
Tomoko Takahashi (International Relations)
A New Phenomenon: Global South as Protagonist
International Relations (IR) as a field originated in discussions on how conflicts can be resolved peacefully through modern diplomacy (Carr 1939). …
Urszula Frey (Local Studies, Gender Studies, Media Studies, Sociology)
This spring, I had an opportunity to teach a new subject to undergraduate students, called cultural agility. I was interested in human communication before, …
Research Division and Affiliation: Social Coexistence, Assiatant Professor
I am pleased to have joined CSEAS as a librarian in July 2024. While attending university, I studied the religions and cultures of maritime Southeast Asia …
Interview with Youdiil Ophinni
Being a spoiled brat as I was in my childhood, my ophthalmologist mum was exceptionally protective of my physical well-being. She would caution me that, for example, …
Chika Yamada (Public Health, Area Studies)
The process by which foreign technology is transmitted and diffused to a particular region is truly complex. In my research on how a particular public health technology spreads in Indonesia, I find myself constantly grappling with how to interpret this process. …
Theara Thun (Historian based in Hong Kong)
Epistemology of the Past: Texts, History, and Intellectuals of Cambodia, 1855–1970 is based on more than seven years of extensive archival research and writing conducted in Cambodia, …