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, …
Newsletter No.82
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, …
Kisho Tsuchiya (Southeast Asian Studies, Modern History)
When I was a 21 year-old undergraduate student, I had the special opportunity to work with the United Nations Electoral Support Team in East Timor (UNEST) for one year. …
Jean-Pascal Bassino (Economics)
Christopher Goscha, professor at the history department of the University of Quebec à Montréal, is a leading historian of 20th century Vietnam. …
I came to CSEAS in April 2024 after leaving the Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University. I study the modern history of Myanmar, particularly its transition from colonial rule to a nation-state. …
My first engagement with the Center was in mid-2020, during the early stages of the pandemic. As an Indonesian virologist, I wrote for the “Corona Chronicles: Voices from the Field” about the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Southeast Asia, …
Kisho Tsuchiya (Southeast Asian Studies, Modern History)
During my one-year secondment at Ateneo de Davao University (AdDU), my first priority was undergraduate education. …
Satoru Kobayashi (Area Studies, Anthropology)
My first visit to Kyoto was for a school excursion (to Kyoto and Nara) in the spring of my third year of middle school. The purpose of the trip was …