Ryota Sakamoto (Field Medicine)
When I was a child, my mother always read picture books to my sister and me before we went to sleep. Even when I was in elementary school, I was often taken to the library, where I chose books eagerly. …
Newsletter No.82
Kimiya Kitani
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, …