LA LETTRE DU 20 JANVIER 2017

LA LETTRE DU 20 JANVIER 2017

Périodiques

Péninsule, no. 72, 2016 (1)

Sommaire

I. Rencontres et échanges

Avec le monde indo-musulman

• À propos des musulmans et d’Ayudhya (1350-1767) par Gilles Delouche

• Le chant occulte des pantouns, interprétations de poèmes malais dans l’œuvre d’Henri Fauconnier par Yann Quero

Entre nationalismes asiatiques

• Bùi Quang Chiêu à Calcutta (1928), le miroir brisé des nationalismes vietnamien et indien par Agathe Larcher-Goscha

II. Dents noires et sang rouge : représentations et interdits

• Le chasseur, sa femme et les interdictions par Bernard Dupaigne

• Le noircissement des dents chez les chiqueurs de bétel vietnamiens. Quelques observations préliminaires de la documentation par Nguyen Xuân Hiên, Jane D. Chang & Margret J. Vlaar

Comptes rendus

Plus d’informations sur : http://peninsule.free.fr/pages/peninsule_72pag.html

Critical Asian Studies, vol. 49, no. 1, March 2017

Thematic Issue: Rethinking Marriage Migration in Asia: Development, Gender and Transnationalism, Part II

Table of contents : http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcra20/49/1

A signaler :

• Three Islamist generations, one Islamic state: the Darul Islam movement and Indonesian social transformation by Andi Rahman Alamsyah & Vedi R. Hadiz

• President Jokowi and the 2014 Obor Rakyat controversy in Indonesia by Adam Tyson & Budi Purnomo

Philippine Political Science Journal, vol. 37, no. 3, december 2016

Table of contents

Articles

• The relationship between IRA and local government expenditures: evidence from a cross-section of Philippine cities by Tristan Canare

• The erosion of the political dominance of an entrenched political clan: the case of the Felix political clan of Cainta, Rizal by Raymund John P. Rosuelo

• “The greatest workers of the world” : Philippine labor out-migration and the politics of labeling in Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s presidential rhetoric by Oscar Tantoco Serquiña Jr

Year-end Country Report

• The Philippines in 2015: the calm before the political storm by Julio C. Teehankee

Book Reviews

Voir : http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpsj20/37/3

Obieg, no. 2 (2016) : Special Issue : Parallel contemporaries : The art of Southeast Asia

Editor : Krzysztof Gutfranski

Obieg is a bilingual Polish-English online quarterly that deals with the humanities.

A lire sur : http://obieg.u-jazdowski.pl/en/azja

Table of content

• • Parallel Contemporaries: The Art of Southeast Asia by Krzysztof Gutfranski

  • The Distances of Our Time: Reflections on Art Criticism and Southeast Asia by Lee Weng Choy

  • Rethinking Curatorial Colonialism by Simon Soon

  • Public Play: Audience Involvement and the Decoding of Concept in Socially-engaged Southeast Asian Contemporary Art by Iola Lenzi

  • Affective Labor and the Philippine Body by Patrick D. Flores

  • Defining the Thai Territory through Monuments: The Counter-insurgency in the Highlands Border by Thanavi Chotpradit

  • Playing with National Politics: Vietnamese Artists’ Visions of War by Nora Taylor

  • The Chorus of Idle Footsteps by Ron Hanson

  • Currencies of the Contemporary: Biennials and the International in Southeast Asia by David Teh

  • Comparative Contemporaries by Lee Weng-Choy, Sue Acret, Patrick D Flores, Ho Tzu-Nyen, Ly Daravuth, Keiko Sei

Voices 2016 (2) : Global modernity and the (re-)emergence of ghosts

La deuxième livraison pour 2016 de la revue Voices de l’Université de Cologne, revue en ligne et en libre accès, est un numéro spécial, « Global modernities and the (re-)emergence of ghosts » très largement consacré à l’Asie du Sud-Est.

Editeurs : Oliver Tappe, Andrea Hollington, Sinah Kloß, Tijo Salverda, Nina Schneider (Global South Studies Center)

Abstract

Are ghosts modern? It seems that modernization and spirituality do not contradict each other in most parts of the world. Animist beliefs and ghost rituals often form part of people’s everyday lives vis-à-vis a globalized economy. For them, the unpredictable forces of ‘the market’ correspond with the elusive world of spectral entities. Facing economic risk, flexibility, and precarity, people address the ghosts for protection and luck. This issue of “Voices” will explore the interplay of economic and ritual practice, of everyday uncertainties and ghostly agency, of emerging modernities and (re-)emerging spiritualities.

A télécharger sur : http://voices.uni-koeln.de/2016-2/globalmodernitiesand

Table of contents :

• Introduction by Oliver Tappe, Andrea Hollington, Sinah Kloß, Tijo Salverda, Nina Schneider (GSSC)

• Spirits in Cambodian politics by Paul Christensen (University of Göttingen)

• Ghosts can be people : physicality and spirits in Thailand’s Northeast by Andrew Alan Johnson (Princeton University)

• Ghosts, modernities and transformations : a case study of Mahendipur Balaji by Karan Singh (Govt. College For Women, Mahendergarh, Haryana, India)

• Ghosts in the Bangkok night by Edoardo Siani (SOAS, University of London)

• Fansipan legend, Indochina summit : a spiritual landscape in the making by Kirsten W. Endres (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany)

• Brâu ritual practices : performing culture, seeking solutions, and trying « more powerful bhuddhism » by Tran Hoai (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Germany)

• Ghosts in Yogyakarta, Indonesia : reflections from a semi-urban field, a city in transition by Patrick Keilbart (University of Cologne)

• The immeasurable debt to the dead : insights from Kmhmu spirits economies by Jean M. Langford (University of Minnesota)

• Essai photographique : Learning « shamanistic healing » among the Lanten (Yao Mun) of Laos by Joseba Estevez (University of Münster)

• The new way : protestantism and the Hmong in Vietnam by Tam T. T. Ngo (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Goettingen, Germany)

• The song of the ghost in its bamboo craddle by Erik Mueggler ( University of Michigan) (avec enregistrement) (Yunnan)

• Global and local : the locus of sorcery in Far East Java by Nicholas Herriman (La Trobe University)

• On ghosts, jumbies, and phantasmagoric presences in Guyana by Marcelo Moura Mello (Federal University of Bahia)

• Bombs and business : interactions with spirits in Laos by Oliver Tappe (GSSC, University of Cologne)

• Don’t play with food : an anecdote on understanding spirit belief by Michael Kleinod (University of Bonn) (Katang, Laos)

• Breezes of contagious death in Nguyen Huy Thiep’s « Biggest prey » (1971) by Christophe Robert (CET Academic Programs, Ho Chi Minh City)

• Fighting trailer (filmtrailer) by Barbara Meier (University of Münster) (Uganda)

• Ghost movies in Southeast Asia and beyond by Peter J. Bräunlein (University of Göttingen)

• To catch a nyus vais forest spirit with a cellphone by Pao Vue (University of Wisconsin-Madison) (Hmong)

• An image of a child bedroom by Anthony Heathcote (Adelaide University) (Vietnam)

• Ancient sound imprints by Hjorleifur Jonsson (Arizona State University) (Etats-Unis)

• Blurred spirits, VHS aesthetics and nostalgic expectations in the trading zone of trance by Anja Dreschke, Martin Zillinger (University of Cologne) (Maroc)

Journal of Burma Studies, vol. 20, no. 2 (december 2016)

Site : https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/34237

Table of contents

Editor’s note by Alicia Turner, Lilian Handlin

Yesterday Once More: Tracking (un)Popular Music in Contemporary Myanmar by Jane M. Ferguson

A Lacquered History of the Kings of Pagan from an Illustrated Glass Palace Chronicle by Sylvia Fraser-Lu

“Burmanization” and the Impact of J.S. Furnivall’s Views on National Identity in Late-Colonial Burma by Carol Ann Boshier

A Buddha Image for Exorcism by Richard M. Cooler

Southeast Asian Studies, vol. 5, no. 3 (december 2016)

Revue en ligne et en libre accès

Site : https://englishkyoto-seas.org/

Table of contents :

Special Focus

Global Powers and Local Resources in Southeast Asia:

Political and Social Dynamics of Foreign Investment Ventures

Guest Editor: Morishita Akiko

• Introduction by Morishita Akiko

• Economic Development via Dam Building: The Role of the State Government in the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy and the Impact on Environment and Local Communities by Andrew Aeria

• Political Dynamics of Foreign-Invested Development Projects in Decentralized Indonesia: The Case of Coal Railway Projects in Kalimantan by Morishita Akiko

• Rare Earth Plant in Malaysia: Governance, Green Politics, and Geopolitics by Kai Lit Phua

Articles

• When Memory Speaks: Transnational Remembrances in Vietnam War Literature by Quan Manh Ha

• The Case of Regional Disaster Management Cooperation in ASEAN: A Constructivist Approach to Understanding How International Norms Travel by Muhammad Rum

• Highland Chiefs and Regional Networks in Mainland Southeast Asia: Mien Perspectives by Le Jiem Tsan, Richard D. Cushman, and Hjorleifur Jonsson

Book Reviews

Anthropological Forum : A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology, vol. 26, no. 4 (december 2016)

Table of contents : http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/canf20/26/4

A signaler :

Houses of Worship in Central Sulawesi: Precedence, Hierarchy & Class in the Development of House Ideology by Albert Schrauwers

When the Tutelary Spirit Objected: Conflict and Possession among the Using of East Java, Indonesia by Robert Wessing

Journal of contemporary Asia, vol. 47, no. 1 (2017)

Table of contents : http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjoc20/47/1

A signaler :

Articles

• Local Value Chain Development in Vietnam: Motorcycles, Technical Learning and Rents Management by Christine Ngoc Ngo

• Jakarta’s Precarious Workers: Are they a “New Dangerous Class”? by Diatyka Widya Permata Yasih

Commentary

• Flirting with Authoritarian Fantasies? Rodrigo Duterte and the New Terms of Philippine Populism by Nicole Curato

Contemporary Southeast Asia, vol. 38, no. 3 (december 2016)

Site : https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/2199

Table of contents

Roundtable

• The Arbitral Tribunal’s Ruling on the South China Sea – Implications and Regional Responses by Clive Schofield, Lowell Bautista, Nong Hong, Ann Hsiu-an Hsiao, Nguyen Thi Lan Anh, Prashanth Parameswaran, Evan Laksmana

Articles

• Deciphering the Shift in America’s South China Sea Policy by Phuong Nguyen

• Xi Jinping’s Foreign Policy Dilemma: One Belt, One Road or the South China Sea? by Wenjuan Nie

• Russia’s Image and Soft Power Resources in Southeast Asia: Perceptions among Young Elites in Laos, Thailand and Vietnam by Alexander Bukh

• Campaigning for All Indonesians: The Politics of Healthcare in Indonesia by Eunsook Jung

• Reflections of a Reformed Jihadist: The Story of Wan Min Wan Mat by Kumar Ramakrishna

Book Reviews

Livres

David Delfolie, Nathalie Fau et Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux (dir.), Malaisie – Chine : une « précieuse » relation, IRASEC, 2016

A télécharger sur : http://www.irasec.com/ouvrage135

Le cas de la Malaisie est particulièrement révélateur de l’influence politique et économique croissante de la Chine sur l’Asie du Sud-Est. Le rapprochement entre la Malaisie et la Chine, longtemps entravé par des divergences idéologiques, s’est renforcé au cours de cette dernière décennie. Dans un contexte d’intégration régionale de l’Asean sur fond de conflits territoriaux en mer de Chine méridionale, l’examen de leur relation prend ses distances avec l’idée d’une simple manœuvre hégémonique chinoise et révèle une alliance porteuse de nombreux bénéfices réciproques.

Trois spécialistes de la Malaisie – une économiste, une géographe et un sociologue – décryptent ici les multiples facettes de cette « précieuse » relation du point de vue malaisien. Leur enquête montre comment, au cours de la période 2008-2016, cette alliance a été méthodiquement construite sur la base de partenariats déployés dans des secteurs économiques clés et sur des territoires stratégiques. Elle interroge les rapports d’État à État, les dimensions socioculturelles des échanges bilatéraux et les enjeux liés aux gigantesques projets d’aménagement immobiliers et aux investissements industriels. Cette analyse éclaire les logiques du déploiement de l’activité chinoise en Malaisie autant que les efforts du parti conservateur malais pour en tirer bénéfice.

Pál Nyíri et Danielle Tan, Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia : How People, Money, and Ideas from China Are Changing a Region, Irasec et University of Washington Press, 2016, coll. Etudes transnationales

This is the first book to focus explicitly on how China’s rise as a major economic and political actor has affected societies in Southeast Asia. It examines how Chinese investors, workers, tourists, bureaucrats, longtime residents, and adventurers interact throughout Southeast Asia. The contributors use case studies to show the scale of Chinese influence in the region and the ways in which various countries mitigate their unequal relationship with China by negotiating asymmetry, circumventing hegemony, and embracing, resisting, or manipulating the terms dictated by Chinese capital.

Table des matières : http://www.irasec.com/ouvrage134

Yuan Phai, the Defeat of Lanna: A Fifteenth-Century Thai Epic Poem, translated and edited by Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit, Silkworm Books, janvier 2017

Yuan Phai, the Defeat of Lanna, may be the oldest work of literature from Siam, most likely written after a battle fought in approximately 1475. The poem recounts many details of fifteenth-century events not found elsewhere. It has the earliest and most detailed description of a Siamese army, the most elaborate eulogy of an early Thai monarch, and a fascinating discussion of the concept of loyalty. The scenes of personal treachery, quiet heroism, bloody combat, and looting after victory give an absorbing image of early Siam and its ethos.

This translation by a prize-winning team shares a remarkable but little-known work with a wider audience. It is fully annotated to explain many obscure words and concepts, and it is rendered in blank verse to convey the rhythm and atmosphere of the original. The introduction and afterword provide historical background, analyze the poem’s form and content, and discuss its literary and historical significance.

“Baker and Phongpaichit have done it again. Here we read a masterful translation of a notoriously difficult poem that is a major contribution to the history of Ayutthaya, Sukhothai, and Chiang Mai, as well as being an unexpected blending of two often-disparate subjects: Buddhism and military arts. The introduction and afterword highlight what the poem teaches us about the art of debating, poetics, statecraft, religion, weapons, magic, and the importance of reading the stars.”—Justin McDaniel, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Voir : https://silkwormbooks.com/products/yuan-phai

Alfred Gerstl, Mária Strašáková (eds), Unresolved Border, Land and Maritime Disputes in Southeast Asia : Bi- and Multilateral Conflict Resolution Approaches and ASEAN’s Centrality, Brill, 2016

Unresolved Border, Land and Maritime Disputes in Southeast Asia, edited by Alfred Gerstl and Mária Strašáková, sheds light on various unresolved and lingering territorial disputes in Southeast Asia and their reflection in current inter-state relations in the region. The authors, academics from Europe and East Asia, particularly address the territorial disputes in the South China Sea and those between Vietnam and Cambodia and Thailand and Cambodia. They apply International Relations theories in a wider regional and comparative perspective. The empirical analyses are embedded in a concise theoretical discussion of the principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity and borders. Furthermore, the book discusses the role of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and other multi-track mechanisms in border conflict mediation.

Contributors are: Petra Andělová, Alica Kizeková, Filip Kraus, Josef Falko Loher, Padraig Lysaght, Jörg Thiele, Richard Turcsányi, Truong-Minh Vu and Zdeněk Kříž.

http://www.brill.com/products/book/unresolved-border-land-and-maritime-disputes-southeast-asia

Sélection d'articles

« Divide and rule: the racist roots of Malaysia’s Redshirt movement » by Paul Millar, 03/01/2017, Southeast Asia Globe

With an election looming and the 1MDB scandal still hanging over Najib Razak’s head, the Redshirt movement has proved a useful pawn in silencing dissent.

Ross Tapsell, a lecturer and researcher at Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific, said the Redshirt movement had been cynically created to drive a wedge between Malaysian voters.

“The Redshirts and their backers are trying to polarise Malaysian politics further, mostly on ethnic and religious grounds, by claiming the Bersih supporters, or ‘Yellowshirts’, are predominantly opposition voters of Chinese heritage, and the Redshirts are the ‘pro-Malay’ group,” he said.

Rather than allow Bersih’s demands for clean elections to resonate with the public, Tapsell said, the Redshirt movement had redrawn the battle lines into something more closely resembling a tribal brawl – with predictable consequences. “Bersih’s goals and the ethnic background of their supporters are much more diverse than the Redshirts give them credit for, but the effect has been to make these protests [about] free and fair elections to be more of a street ‘battle’ between coloured shirts of political parties – think Thailand,” he said.

According to Gerhard Hoffstaedter, a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Queensland and the author of Modern Muslim Identities: Negotiating Religion and Ethnicity in Malaysia, it is a tactic that has been used to stifle real reform for more than half a century.

“By collapsing important human rights issues and the demand for free elections into the racial politics that have dominated Malaysian politics since independence, the Redshirts aim to discredit universal claims to freedoms and mire their demand in a zero-sum game,” he said. “That game rests on pitting ethnic groups against each other and has proven a potent electoral tool.”

Lire la suite : http://sea-globe.com/malaysia-redshirt-movement/

Play on ontologies – Beetle contests in Thailand by Stephane Rennesson, 16/12/2016, Societies and environments in Southeast Asia

Societies and environments in Southeast Asia : Cosmic orders, knowledge systems and social relations

This IRASEC research blog discuss the relationship between societies and the natural environment in the Southeast Asian region. The sociological approach explores the forms that connect social and cosmic orders within an hindo-buddhist context. We will consider contemporary socio-political challenges in regard to climate change, development practices and technical knowledge.

Play on ontologies – Beetle contests in Thailand

Anthropology has been recently shaken by a so-called “ontological turn” that amends the central idea of sociocultural perspective of “one world, many worldviews” to invest the networking and the articulation of multiple worlds! Drawing on my ethnography of uncanny games in which animals are the cornerstone, I would like to show that this alternative approach can give groundbreaking understandings of the relation Southeast Asian societies build with their environment, the new worlds they elaborate from within their milieu should I say in order to explicit the kind of methodological shift I advocate on the basis of pioneer works the like of Philippe Descola’s. As we shall see, his hypothetico-deductive apparatus can prove very valuable when it comes to specify that animals can act along human agents to participate to a community, a localized nature.

Lire la suite sur : https://nature.hypotheses.org/214

Malaysia’s Federal Court rules against Dayaks on Native Customary Rights by Annette Gartland, 21/12/2016, Changing Times

In a pivotal judgement, Malaysia’s Federal Court has ruled that the Native Customary Rights (NCR) of the indigenous Dayak people apply only to a limited area of farmland and not to the forest areas around their traditional longhouses.

The ruling will have major repercussions for all current and future native title cases in the country.

The Dayaks say they have customary rights over the “territorial domain” around their longhouses, including primary forest within that domain, which is usually owned by the community.

Lire la suite sur: https://time2transcend.wordpress.com/2016/12/21/malaysias-federal-court-rules-against-dayaks-on-native-customary-rights/

Islam and Christianity in Southeast Asia 1600-1700 (22 december 2016) by Barbara Watson Andaya, ISEAS Working Paper 2016 no.3

« The population of contemporary Southeast Asia is around 618 million, spread across eleven countries. An estimated 40 percent are Muslim, and 21 percent Christian. Although there are Muslim and Christian minorities in mainland Southeast Asia (Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam), it is in the island areas (Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei and Timor Loro Sae) where Christianity and Islam are most strongly established.The seventeenth century was decisive in these developments, for it was during this period that Islam consolidated its hold over most of modern Malaysia, Brunei, the southern Philippines and Indonesia (the world’s most populous Muslim country). At the same time, Christianity established an impregnable position in the Philippines, where today 93 percent of the population is Christian (notably Roman Catholic), with tiny Timor Loro Sae a distant second. »

PDF à télécharger sur : https://iseas.edu.sg/articles-commentaries/iseas-working-papers

Old Javanese copper charters in the British Library by Annabel Teh Gallop, 20/12/2016, Asian and African Studies Blog, British Library

The British Library holds three separate copper charters in Old Javanese, all of which have now been digitised. The two charters held as Ind. Ch. 57, both incomplete, relate to a man named Ugra in a village called Pabuharan. Although undated, there are textual indications that these charters may date from the 9th century. The plate which can properly be termed the ‘Pabuharan inscription’ (Prasasti Pabuharan), Ind. Ch. 57 (B), records a grant of the attributes of the Brahman-order and Kṣatriya-order by the king to Ugra’s children named Dyah Kataywat and Dyah Nariyama in the domain (sima) of Pabuharan. On this occasion several ceremonial gifts of cloth and gold were presented to various officials, and are listed in the inscription.

The accompanying plate, Ind Ch 57 (A), records the making of a canal in the lěmah asinan of Pabuharan by Ugra, who is described as a a teacher, with some rights and regulations to be maintained for it.

Lire la suite sur : http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2016/12/old-javanese-copper-charters-in-the-british-library.html?

« Indonesia’s Growing Islamist Populism » by Marcus Mietzner, Devin T. Stewart, 19/12/2016, Asia Dialogues, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs

DEVIN STEWART: You are in New York City this week talking about the general situation in Indonesian politics. Can you give us a sense of the state of Indonesian politics today and where it is headed as we move toward the 2019 elections?

MARCUS MIETZNER: Yes. There are two rather contradictory trends that we have seen in Indonesian politics this year. On the one hand, President Jokowi [Joko Widodo] has consolidated power after what was widely considered a disastrous first year in office. He became president in October 2014. He struggled really heavily in the first year. He was isolated from his own political party. He had a minority government, only 37 percent support in Parliament. He had one scandal after another…

However, since around September/October, we have seen an additional development, and that was the reintroduction of popular mobilization as an instrument of power play in Indonesia. That is something we really have not seen since 1998, when longtime dictator Suharto fell. Since then, the focus of Indonesian political analysis has been on the state institutions—who is controlling the Parliament; who is controlling the parties; who is winning elections; who is controlling the oligarchy. All of that was important so far, and we have neglected in that analysis what is happening in terms of popular mobilization.

Lire la suite sur : http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/studio/multimedia/20161219/index.html

« UNESCO recognises Worship of Mother Goddesses », 02/12/2016, Viet Nam News

The ancient Vietnamese tradition of worshipping Mother Goddesses has been recognised as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.

The recognition will motivate the Vietnamese people and its cultural mandarins to preserve and promote the tradition, said, Phạm Sanh Châu, Secretary General of Việt Nam National Commission for UNESCO, losing no time in sharing the good news on his Facebook page.

Châu led a Vietnamese delegation to submit the dossier on Worshipping the Mother Goddesses at the 11^th Conference of the Inter-governmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. The meeting took place at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from November 28 to December 3.

The dossier indicated that the tradition satisfies all criteria for the recognition. It has been passed through generations, is constantly recreated by communities and groups in response to their environment, and it provides communities and groups involved with ‘a sense of identity and continuity’.

Lire la suite sur : http://vietnamnews.vn/life-style/347311/unesco-recognises-worship-of-mother-goddesses.html

« Team digs into Cambodia’s ‘dark ages' » by Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon, 16/12/2016, The Phnom Penh Post

A team of archaeologists hope the discovery of a bronze foundry near the ancient site of Longvek will yield information about an era thought to be lost to history.

A footnote, a hunch and a land development project near Boeung Samrith led to the discovery this month of an ancient bronze foundry that served Cambodia’s 16th-century kings at Longvek.

The find in Kampong Chhnang province could yield insight into Cambodia’s Middle Period, the era between the fall of Angkor and the beginning of the French protectorate often called the “dark ages” because few records of it exist.

The discovery culminates a two-year search by a team of researchers led by Dr Martin Polkinghorne of Flinders University in Australia, whose first hint came from a footnote in the Cambodian Royal Chronicles, which were compiled centuries after the foundry’s existence.

Lire la suite sur : http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/team-digs-cambodias-dark-ages

Séminaires/Conférences

Talk: Yangon Echoes – Heritage Homes, 30 january 2017, EWC Gallery, John A. Burns Hall

A Joint Talk by Dr. Virginia Henderson and photographer Tim Webster, co-authors of the book entitled Yangon Echoes: Inside heritage homes.

Yangon Echoes: Inside heritage homes, an oral history listening project, investigates multicultural diversity and individual everyday lived experiences, revealing the vulnerabilities and pressures on Yangon’s people and its heritage today. The storytellers share thoughts and feelings, speaking of joy and tragedy, simple pleasures and aching issues. Told with courage and charm, the informal stories of home offer insight into what has happened and is happening to the city.

In this talk, Dr. Virginia Henderson and photographer Tim Webster will discuss the exhibition based on their book at the East-West Center Gallery. The exhibition, which will be from January 29 to May 21, 2017, will feature photographs, stories of the residence, and artifacts representing aspects of lived heritage in contemporary Yangon Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma).

Lire la suite : http://www.cseashawaii.org/2017/01/yangon-echoes-inside-heritage-homes/

Talk: Yangon Echoes – Heritage Homes, 30 january 2017, EWC Gallery, John A. Burns Hall

A Joint Talk by Dr. Virginia Henderson and photographer Tim Webster, co-authors of the book entitled Yangon Echoes: Inside heritage homes.

Yangon Echoes: Inside heritage homes, an oral history listening project, investigates multicultural diversity and individual everyday lived experiences, revealing the vulnerabilities and pressures on Yangon’s people and its heritage today. The storytellers share thoughts and feelings, speaking of joy and tragedy, simple pleasures and aching issues. Told with courage and charm, the informal stories of home offer insight into what has happened and is happening to the city.

In this talk, Dr. Virginia Henderson and photographer Tim Webster will discuss the exhibition based on their book at the East-West Center Gallery. The exhibition, which will be from January 29 to May 21, 2017, will feature photographs, stories of the residence, and artifacts representing aspects of lived heritage in contemporary Yangon Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma).

Lire la suite : http://www.cseashawaii.org/2017/01/yangon-echoes-inside-heritage-homes/

Conférence – Du riz gluant à la pizza: les évolutions de l’alimentation au Laos en milieu urbain » conférence du CCL, 26 janvier

Jeudi 26 janvier 2017de 18h30 à 20h30 – INALCO,

65, rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris, me tro « François Mitterrand »

(Amphi 3, 2ème étage)

Le Laos connaît actuellement des mutations profondes, entre autres dans les domaines économique, démographique, social et culturel. Le pays s’urbanise, s’industrialise, les infrastructures se développent, ainsi que les circuits commerciaux. Les échanges avec l’extérieur s’amplifient, les modes de vie se modifient, et avec eux les structures familiales, les modes de convivialité, les rythmes quotidiens. Ces transformations touchent directement l’alimentation, que ce soit au niveau de l’approvisionnement des familles, du déroulement des repas, du rôle de la restauration hors foyer, de l’évolution des goûts. L’alimentation s’est modifiée en profondeur, surtout chez les enfants, les adolescents et les jeunes adultes citadins.

Florence Strigler est ingénieur en alimentation et nutrition. Depuis une vingtaine d’années, elle mène des recherches en anthropologie de l’alimentation, sur les pratiques alimentaires au Laos et leur évolution.

Inscription souhaitée par mail à l’adresse : cclparis@club-internet.fr

Conference Programme : From Malacca to Manchester: Curating Islamic Collections Worldwide, 23-24/02/2017, Manchester Museum, University of Manchester

The conference will be preceded by a day of workshops and visits on Wednesday 22nd.

Main conference program : https://networks.h-net.org/node/22055/discussions/158143/conference-programme-malacca-manchester-curating-islamic

A signaler :

23/02/2017

Panel: Pushing the limits: defining islamic art and material culture

Chiara Formichi, Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian Studies, Cornell University, New York, USA; Islamic Art or Asian Art?

Mirjam Shatanawi, Curator, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam and Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, The Netherlands; Islamic Art and Ethnographic Collections

Panel: Faith and identity on display

Heba Nayel Barakat, Head Curator, Curatorial Affairs Department, Islamic Arts Museum, Malaysia; Representation of Faith in Islamic Galleries: Where Do We Go Wrong?

Ana P. Labrador (Deputy Director and Chief Curator) and Cyril A. Santos (Museum Researcher), National Museum of the Philippines; Representing the Bangsamoro in an Exhibition of Ethnography at the National Museum of the Philippines.

24/02/2017

Panel : Case studies: new installations worlwide

Venetia Porter, Curator, Islamic and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art, Department of the Middle East, The British Museum, UK; From Mali to Malacca: Redisplaying Islamic Material Culture at the British Museum.

Anthropologie et histoire : Chine et Asie du Sud–Est : Des cultures maritimes, des Voyages et leurs conséquences

INALCO / EHESS « CENTRE CHINE »/ MUSÉE DU QUAI BRANLY

2016-2017

Nicole REVEL & Danielle ELISSEEFF

Anthropologie et histoire : Chine et Asie du Sud–Est

Des cultures maritimes, des Voyages et leurs conséquences

Prolongeant la réflexion de l’année 2015-2016 sur les supports matériels et immatériels de la mémoire collective, et en abordant quelques exemples sur les territoires des îles et du littoral se déployant entre la Chine et l’Asie du Sud-Est continentale et insulaire ces trois journées proposent une réflexion anthropologique et historique sur les voyages et leurs conséquences dans des temps différents : les routes et les relations interculturelles, les échanges matériels et immatériels, le commerce et les conflits qu’ils ont pu susciter.

Le rythme de ces rencontres : 1 journée/trimestre avec 4 intervenants par séance.

Journée 2, Mardi 28 Février 2017 Salle de cours 1

Journées 3 Mardi 18 Avril 2017 Salle de cours 1

Le matin de 10h à 12h30

L’ après-midi de 14h à 17h30

Appel à contributions

Call for papers – Reframing the Archive: The Reuse of Film and Photographic Images in Postcolonial Southeast Asia

Date: 1 June 2017

Time: 10:00 AM

Finishes: 1 June 2017

Time: 6:00 PM

Venue: Room: TBC

Type of Event: Symposium

Site de l’annonce

*Call for papers*

In recent years, the decision to engage with colonial and postcolonial archives has become increasingly commonplace within Southeast Asian film, photography and visual culture. Whilst this renewed interest in archival materials has resulted in an increased awareness of the complexities of lens-based media, it has also allowed practitioners to challenge both the dominant narratives of colonialism and their neo- and postcolonial legacies. In the case of Cambodia and its diasporas, this archival impulse – and its accompanying modes of (re-) appropriation – is exemplified by films such as Rithy Panh’s La France est notre patrie [‘France is our Homeland’] and Davy Chou’s Golden Slumbers. Whereas the former offers an insight into the hypocrisies of French colonial rule, the latter takes its lead from the development of twentieth century Cambodian cinema. Yet despite differing in their aims and emphases, these projects share a number of common characteristics – namely, a desire to foreground the importance of preserving and revisiting archival materials: two imperatives which have acquired a particular significance in the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime.

Chulalongkorn International Student Symposium in Southeast Asian Linguistics

On the occasion of Chulalongkorn University’s and the Faculty of Arts’ centenary, the Department of Linguistics will host Chulalongkorn International Student Symposium in Southeast Asian Linguistics in collaboration with Cornell University, University of Sydney, and Nanyang Technological University on June 8-9, 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand. This event will be organized in conjunction with Chulalongkorn Summer School of Southeast Asian Linguistics 2017 (ChulaSEALing2017), the first Summer School dedicated to Southeast Asian Linguistics. It will provide an opportunity for students from all over the world to present their research topics relating to Southeast Asian linguistics, establish links among linguistics students and meet distinguished linguists in the fields.

Deadling : 23 janvier 2017

Site de l’annonce

Call for Papers: Graduate Student Workshop for Southeast Asian Studies

Deadline : 30 janvier 2017

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Two-day writing workshop to be held Friday-Saturday, May 5-6, 2017 at UCLA

The Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA and the Center for Southeast Asia Studies at UC Berkeley are accepting applications for participation in a two-day writing workshop for M.A. and Ph.D. candidates currently enrolled at UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Santa Cruz and UC Riverside whose research in the humanities and social sciences focuses on Southeast Asia.

Call for papers: International Conference ‘Adat Law 100 years later: towards a new interpretation?’, 22-23 may 2017, Museum Volkenkunde (The National Museum of Ethnology), Leiden

Deadline for submission of abstracts : 31 january 2017

The Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society (VVI), in collaboration with the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), will organize a two day conference on the continued importance of adat law in present day Indonesia on 22 and 23 May 2017.

In 2017 it will be exactly a century ago that the Adat Law Foundation (Adatrechtstichting) was established by the renowned Leiden scholars Van Vollenhoven and Snouck Hurgronje. Altogether this foundation would publish some 43 volumes on adat law, as a result of the probably largest legal research project ever carried out at Leiden University. Although the Foundation was dissolved in 1974, adat law has continued to be a highly topical and socially relevant theme in present day Indonesia. It still provides the legal basis for the state’s recognition of indigenous communities and their land rights. However, such use of adat is contested. Some argue that it offers the only pathway to justice for many marginalised groups, whereas others question the exclusive and often hierarchical nature of adat communities in a multi-cultural society. This has led to sometimes bitter debates between proponents and opponents of a continued role for adat.

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Appel à communication – International Symposium Mapping Asia – Cartographic Encounters between East and West on 15-16 September 2017

Deadline : 15 février 2017

Leiden University Libraries and The Commission on the History of Cartography of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) kindly invites you to attend the International Symposium Mapping Asia – Cartographic Encounters between East and West on 15-16 September 2017.

The central theme of the conference is the mutual influence of Western and Asian cartographic traditions. The focus will be on where Western and Asian cartographic history meet. Geographically, the topics will be limited to South Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia with special attention to India, China, Japan, Korea and Indonesia.

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Call for papers : The remains of a dictatorship : an international conference on the Philippines under Marcos, 3-4 august 2017, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines

Organized by Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints and the Dean’s Office, School of Social Sciences, Loyola Schools

Deadline for submission of abstracts and panel proposals : 15 February 2017.

A wealth of historical works on the Marcos period exists, yet much remains to be written about it. Indeed, present circumstances compel us to revisit this era. On the one hand, new source materials about the Marcos state have surfaced in recent years in the form of published biographies of key personalities (such as Juan Ponce Enrile, Cesar Virata, and Vicente Paterno) and unpublished compilations of documents that have been made available to the public, such as the martial law papers of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) and those of the Commission on Human Rights. On the other hand, current events have demonstrated how profoundly relevant the Marcos regime is to present-day politics. The meteoric rise of former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., who has not conceded his loss in the vice presidential election in May 2016, and the burial of the elder Macros’s remains in the Libingan ng mga Bayani (Heroes’ Cemetery) on 18 November 2016, as well as the protests that have followed it, reveal the tense contestations over the memory of an autocratic dispensation that ended thirty years ago. EDSA People Power might have shattered the edifice of tyranny in 1986, but the remains of the dictatorship continue to haunt postauthoritarian Philippine society.

Lire la suite sur : http://www.philippinestudies.net/ojs/index.php/ps/announcement/view/30

Call for Papers : The Palimpsestic Past and Present of Southeast Asia: Rewriting Lives Beyond Boundaries, 24-25 March 2017, Southeast Asia Center at the University of Washington-Seattle

Abstract submission deadline : 13 February 2017

The Southeast Asia Center at the University of Washington-Seattle is pleased to announce its Graduate Student Conference, which will be held at the Southeast Asia Center (directed by Professor Celia Lowe) on the UW campus in Seattle, Washington, on March 24-25, 2017. In order to commemorate the contribution of Professor Benedict R. O’G. Anderson (1936-2015) to the field of Southeast Asian studies and facilitate constructive engagement with his intellectual legacies, the theme of this conference will be “The Palimpsestic Past and Present of Southeast Asia: Rewriting Lives Beyond Boundaries…”

This conference hopes for scholars to engage with these intellectual legacies and habits of thought, and papers that are thematically congruent with Professor Anderson’s ideas are most welcome. We also encourage students in various disciplines and fields of study to submit their papers: political science, history, anthropology, philosophy, literary studies, art history, film and visual studies, ethnomusicology, sociology, geography, architecture and urban studies, etc.

Lire la suite sur : https://jsis.washington.edu/seac/

CFP : International Symposium, Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories, 11-13 October 2017, Power Institute, University of Sydney, Australia

Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories is convened by Yvonne Low, Roger Nelson, Clare Veal, and Stephen Whiteman. The event is generously supported by the Asian Studies Association of Australia, the Power Institute, the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, and the School of Literature Art and Media at the University of Sydney.

Proposals due 28 February 2017

Studies focused on gender in Southeast Asian societies have emerged, in recent decades, in approximate concurrence with the development of regionally focused Southeast Asian art histories. The founding premise of this international symposium is that there has hitherto been insufficient discursive intersection between these two fields.

Topics discussed may include:

1. Accounts of individual artists and collectives whose work engages with gender;

2. Investigations of gender in the exhibitionary, critical, and historiographical receptions of works of art, from any period

3. Considerations of the relationships between artists and/or works of art and larger Southeast Asian cultural constructs of gender, as enacted in political, economic, religious and other domains.

Lire la suite sur : http://www.powerpublications.com.au/cfp-gender-southeast-asian-art/

CFP: 9th Annual International ADI Conference University of Copenhagen,Trade and translation of Buddhist material culture across Asia, 26-28 June 2017

Conveners of panel “Trade and translation of Buddhist material culture across Asia”:

Trine Brox, Deptartment of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen

Emma Martin, Institute for Cultural Practices, University of Manchester

Deadline for submitting abstracts : 1 March 2017

Historically, trade routes served as transmission belts for Buddhist theology. The nexus between trade and Buddhism is most commonly understood in the spread of Buddhist theology and art across Asia. Today, this practice continues to grow and diversify. The spread of Buddhism has contributed to the development of new markets and a growing industry in Buddhist objects, artefacts, paraphernalia, and merchandise. Moreover, Buddhism is also a value that is traded. This traded value includes statues and scriptures, but also comes in the form of immaterial value; namely in the promises or potential that are ascribed to objects, artefacts and paraphernalia that are considered or are branded as Buddhist.

This panel calls for papers dealing with the translations and transformations of Buddhism in relation to the trade in Buddhist things. Such objects can be Buddhist because they represent commodified Buddhism, are objects needed for Buddhist practice, or products marketed as Buddhist. By engaging in discussions regarding the trade and translation of Buddhist material culture we want to develop new analytical approaches and ask how trade practices translate and transform objects related to Buddhism. We aim to build a broad geographical understanding of practice. Therefore, possible subjects might include the trade in amulets in Thailand, Japan, and Vietnam, or the global trade in Tibetan painted scrolls produced in Nepal, India and China. We are also interested in other Buddhist objects that are traded, including offerings for the Buddhist altar, religious images and statues, prayer beads, charms, monastic paraphernalia, and so forth.

Lire la suite sur : http://asiandynamics.ku.dk/english/adi-conference-2017/panels/trade-and-translation-of-buddhist-material-culture-across-asia/

CFP: Edited Volume on “Coming of Age in Sinophone Studies”

The submission deadline for full paper (6,000-7,000 words) is 18 March, 2017.

This volume seeks to understand Sinophone literary, cinematic and broader socio-cultural fields since the 1950s by examining Coming of Age narratives covering the geohistorical span of Chinese modernities. By including both structural and cultural parameters of analysis, the volume will test the notion of the European Bildungsroman, in light of, and against, a range of theories addressing the individual’s transition to modernity and postcoloniality, and will deploy to this end tools taken, among others, from literary and film narratology, sociology, cultural studies, and discourse and textual analysis.

By transposing the concept of the Bildungsroman, and its epistemological status for Chinese literature and culture, the workshop hopes to offer cross-cultural dialogues that work towards reconstructing and reconceptualizing Sinophone literary, cinematic and artistic canons. At the same time, it also aims to decenter and revalue a western generic category that has so far infiltrated into, and further developed within, non-western or hybrid contexts without attracting academic attention.

With a selection of academic papers from a forthcoming international workshop of the same title in University of Zurich, we are now looking for additional papers that focus particularly on the following thematic points of discussion:

• Bildungsroman, Human Rights and Exploitations

• Bildungsroman in Southeast Asia (e.g. Singaporean and Malaysian Sinophone literature)

• Comparative, Cross-cultural approaches in Coming of Age studies

• Coming of Age studies in Art and New Media

• Etc.

Contact Info:

You are strongly advised to contact the editors and discuss your ideas before submitting: Andrea Riemenschnitter (andrea.riemenschnitter@aoi.uzh.ch) and Kiu-wai Chu (kw.chu@aoi.uzh.ch).

Contact Email:

kw.chu@aoi.uzh.ch

Call for papers – New York Conference on Asian Studies, call for papers, deadline for submissions 1 April 2017

New York Conference on Asian Studies, NYCAS 2017

September 22-23, 2017

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Theme: Consuming Asia

The Hobart and William Smith Colleges will host the 53rd annual meeting of the New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS) on September 22-23, 2017.

The NYCAS 2017 program committee invites proposals for panels, roundtables, and individual papers on all aspects of Asian and Asian-American history, culture, and contemporary life, representing disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and professional schools. Interdisciplinary proposals are also welcome. Graduate students are especially encouraged to apply. The theme of the conference is “Consuming Asia.” Sessions that address this theme are especially welcome, but proposal on any topic relating to Asia will be considered.

Deadline: The deadline for all paper, panel, and roundtable submissions is April 1, 2017.

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Call for Submissions: Oxford-SOAS Graduate Student Workshop: “New Directions in Research on Myanmar” - 26-28 May 2017

Hosted by the Programme on Modern Burmese Studies, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford and supported by SOAS, University of London

Submission opens: 21 December 2016

Submission deadline: 1 February 2017

Notification of acceptance/rejection: 15 February 2017

Final draft deadline: 1 May 2017

Workshop dates: 26-28 May 2017

The “New Directions in Research on Myanmar” Graduate Student Workshop is a rare opportunity for a small group of graduate students to workshop in-progress writing with peers and faculty from a range of disciplines and universities in the UK.

We welcome submissions from PhD and Masters students from any university in the world at any stage of their research. For those at an early stage in their research, submissions should clearly state the problem or research question the student aims to address, while providing a theoretical, methodological, and conceptual foundation for the proposed work. Students who have begun research or who are writing up should concretely describe the work undertaken, while providing necessary context for readers from a variety of disciplines. Standalone articles, conference papers, and dissertation chapters will all be accepted, if edited to fit within the requirements listed below.

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Postes/Bourses

Contrats doctoraux et post-doctoraux – Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), Germany

Applications must be submitted online at https://admissions.bigsss-bremen.de until January 31, 2017.

Up to 3 Postdoctoral & 2 PhD Positions

The Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) invites applications to its Postdoctoral and Ph.D. program. BIGSSS is an inter-university institute of the University of Bremen and Jacobs University Bremen and is funded by the German Excellence Initiative.

BIGSSS is part of an international network of highly acknowledged graduate programs. It supports its doctoral and postdoctoral fellows in achieving early scientific independence and provides funds for the conduct, presentation, and publishing of their research. The language of instruction is English. Fellows are expected to choose Bremen as their place of residence.

Up to three Postdoctoral Positions

BIGSSS offers up to three postdoctoral positions. The BIGSSS Postdoc Program provides Postdocs with the opportunity, resources, and support to

• • present their research at international conferences and build up international networks,

  • disseminate their research finding in scientific publication outlets

  • write grant proposals,

  • organize a conference or workshop,

  • teach and supervise,

  • participate in transferable skills training (e.g., didactics, media, career) and establish a mentoring relationship with senior faculty.

BIGSSS expects their Postdocs to

• • engage with the BIGSSS PhD-fellows (discussion, mentoring, supervision),

  • actively participate in BIGSSS courses (doctoral colloquium, lecture series) as well as academic and social events,

  • produce a significant scientific output (e.g. to publish a journal article or book, write a grant proposal, organize a conference or workshop).

Postdoctoral positions are paid in line with TV-L E13 and may be taken up for a period up to 24 months. We expect our candidates to conduct English-language research projects and to have full professional proficiency. Competition is open to candidates who have received a doctorate in political science, sociology, psychology, or related social science disciplines within the last three years. Applicants need to have graduated prior to commencing their postdoctoral stay and have to apply to one of BIGSSS’ three Thematic Fields:

A. Global Governance and Regional Integration

B. Welfare State, Inequality, and Quality of Life

C. Changing Lives in Changing Socio-Cultural Contexts

Two Ph.D. Stipends/Fellowships

BIGSSS offers two fellow positions in its Ph.D. program. Successful applicants will pursue a topic in BIGSSS’ Thematic Field:

C. Changing Lives in Changing Socio-Cultural Contexts

We seek candidates with innovative, interdisciplinary research topics who are interested in the interplay of individual attitudes, capabilities, and behavior with changing demographics, cultures, and institutions. BIGSSS seeks candidates with strong academic abilities and a Master’s degree (or equivalent) in psychology, sociology, political science, or a related social science discipline. We offer Ph.D. stipends of € 1300/month for 36 months, contingent on successful completion of each year.

Application

More information and lists of required application materials can be found at www.bigsss-bremen.de. For additional inquiries, please check the online FAQ and feel free to contact our Admissions Officer at admissions-officer@bigsss-bremen.de.

Postdoctoral positions and Ph.D. fellowships will start on September 1, 2017. Non-German students are strongly encouraged to apply. As an equal opportunity employer, BIGSSS particularly encourages applications from women and persons with disabilities.

AAS SEAC Southeast Asia Translation Subventions – The Translation Project Group of the Southeast Asia Council

The Translation Project Group of the Southeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies intends to award honoraria to support the translation of key texts in the social sciences and humanities from a Southeast Asian language into English. Texts, which may be of any length, will be evaluated according to their importance within a disciplinary study of Southeast Asia, or for their decisive impact on the region and the study of it.

The application deadline is 5 pm February 5th 2017.

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Bourses – Programme de bourses pour séjours en Indonésie, Darmasiswa RI

Deadline : 9 fevrier 2017

Le Ministère indonésien de l’éducation et de la culture organise chaque année le programme Darmasiswa RI, programme de bourses destiné aux étudiants étrangers souhaitant étudier la langue, l’art & la culture indonésiens au sein d’établissements d’enseignement supérieur en Indonésie.

L’inscription auprogramme est désormais ouverte pour l’année académique 2017/2018.

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Full-Time Lecturer in Cultural Studies at an international program (based in Bangkok, Thailand) – Chulalongkorn University

POSITION VACANT: LECTURER IN CULTURAL STUDIES

Application Close: 28 February, 2017

The Faculty of Arts at Chulalongkorn University is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Cultural Studies to teach in its Bachelor of Arts in Language and Culture (BALAC) International Program. Applicants should have a completed PhD in a related field and be ready to start on 1 August 2017.

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3 PhD positions at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

The DFG Emmy Noether Junior Research Group: ‘The Bureaucratization of Islam and its Socio-Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia’, led by Dr. Dominik M. Müller, is offering 3PhD positions starting 1 April 2017.

The deadline for applications for these funded PhD positions (3 years) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology has been extended until 5 January 2017.

Following the popular waves of Islamic resurgence, state-sponsored Islamic bureaucracies have become influential societal actors in Southeast Asia, particularly in countries where Muslim populations play a significant political role. The governments of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore have in diverse ways empowered ‘administrative’ bodies to guide Islamic discourse. Although their approaches, motivations and spheres of influence differ widely, they share the intention to formalize classificatory schemes of Islam and create binding rules for engaging in public communication about it. The Junior Research Group will investigate the bureaucratization of Islam and its socio-legal dimensions from an anthropological perspective, with a particular focus on the state’s exercise of ‘classificatory power’ and its actual workings on the micro-level. The project argues that the bureaucratization of Islam far transcends the boundaries of its institutions.

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Ressources

Nouveau blog : Cornell in Vietnam

Ce blog a été créé par les étudiants du Southeast Asia Program de Cornell qui suivent au Vietnam le cours « Climate change and service learning in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam » pour partager leurs idées et leurs expériences sur le terrain.

A découvrir sur : http://cornellinvietnam.weebly.com/

Malay literary manuscripts in the John Leyden collection by Annabel Teh Gallop, 09/01/2017, Asian and African Studies Blog (British Library)

The collection of Malay manuscripts formed by the Scottish poet and scholar of Oriental languages John Leyden (1775-1811), now held in the British Library, is an exceptionally important resource for Malay literature. Leyden spent four months in Penang from late 1805 to early 1806, staying in the house of Thomas Stamford Raffles, initiating a deep friendship which lasted until Leyden’s early death in Batavia in 1811. The 25 volumes of Malay manuscripts in the Leyden collection contain 33 literary works, comprising 28 hikayat in prose and five syair in narrative verse, with some titles existing in multiple copies. Nearly all the manuscripts come from the environs of Kedah, Perlis and Penang and were collected by Leyden or Raffles, while a few were copied in Melaka, where Raffles was stationed in 1811 and where Leyden spent some weeks en route to Batavia. 24 of the works are dated to between 1802 and 1808, and over ten names of scribes are found in the colophons. The collection thus affords a remarkable snapshot of literary activity along the northwest coast of the Malay peninsula in the first decade of the 19th century.

Lire la suite et accéder aux mss numérisés : http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2017/01/malay-literary-manuscripts-in-the-john-leyden-collection.html

Expositions/Iconographie/Blog

Khmer Battleground by Aizzat Nordin, 17/01/2017, Invisible Photographer Asia

Aizzat Nordin was a Malaysian recipient of the Angkor Photo Travel Grants. Khmer Battleground was made during the 2016 Angkor Photo Workshop in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Pradal Serey or Kun Khmer is a form of ancient martial arts practiced by the Kingdom of Angkor army since the 9^th century to wage war against their main enemy, the Vietnam-based kingdom of Champa, and later Siam, resulting in the domination of what is now known as Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos. In an effort to erase this art, many Kun Khmer lok kru (Masters) were targeted by the vicious Khmer Rouge Regime and executed in the 70’s, leaving Cambodian struggling with poverty and socioeconomic growth after the regime era. Today, Kun Khmer fighters fight hard with pride and dignity in the arena or at the pagoda in the rural areas for extra money, hoping that it’s enough to feed their loved ones.

Interview avec Aizzat Nordin et portfolio sur : http://invisiblephotographer.asia/2017/01/17/khmerbattleground-aizzatnordin/

Site d’Aizzat Nordin : http://cargocollective.com/aizzatnordin

Exhibition : « Secrets of the Sea: A Tang Shipwreck and Early Trade in Asia », 7 March – 4 June 2017, Asia Society, New York

This exhibition brings the precious contents of a shipwreck discovered off Belitung Island in the Java Sea to American audiences for the first time. The remarkable cargo of spice-filled jars and all together more than 60,000 ceramics produced in China during the Tang dynasty (618–907), plus luxury items of gold and silver, was bound for Iran and Iraq. Selected objects illustrate the story of the active exchange of goods, ideas, and culture in Asia more than one thousand years ago. The exhibition will bring to light how this discovery—one of the most important archaeological revelations of the twentieth century—has changed the way we understand ninth-century Asia.

Secrets of the Sea: A Tang Shipwreck and Trade in Early Asia is jointly organized with the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore. Objects are from the Khoo Teck Puat Gallery, Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore. The Tang Shipwreck Collection was made possible by the generous donation of the Estate of Khoo Teck Puat in honor of the Late Khoo Teck Puat.

Voir un échantillon des objets exposés : http://asiasociety.org/new-york/exhibitions/secrets-sea-tang-shipwreck-and-early-trade-asia#!artworks

Brotherhood – The Drug War in Philippines by Alex Baluyut, 16/07/2016, Invisible Photographer Asia

Voir : http://invisiblephotographer.asia/2016/07/16/alexbaluyut-brotherhood/

Brotherhood

In 1994, I received a grant from the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) to shoot a documentary on the Manila Police. I focused on the Western Police District Headquarters (WPD) as it is the premier police station located in the tourist district in a sprawling metropolis with millions of inhabitants.

The resulting photo book, titled Brotherhood, ultimately garnered me a second national book award along with Gemma Luz Corotan who wrote the text.

After Delays, Indonesia’s First Modern and Contemporary Art Museum to Finally Open by Sarah Cascone, 10/01/2017, artnet News

Voir : https://news.artnet.com/art-world/museum-macan-opens-november-2017-811448

Page Facebook du musée : https://www.facebook.com/MuseumMACAN/?fref=ts

Pusaka Collection : Online Museum of Indonesian Ikat Textiles

Curator Peter Ten Hoopen

Ikat textiles from the Indonesian Archipelago

An archipelago wide collection

The Pusaka Collection, a private non-profit creation, has a narrow focus on ikat textiles from Indonesia. Unlike most collections, generally based on a selection of stellar pieces from a limited number of different localities, the Pusaka Collection aims to show the region’s ikat culture as a whole, using antique and vintage examples made with traditional methods. It spans the entire arc of the Indonesian archipelago, from Sumatra in the west till the Moluccas in the east. In fact it reaches beyond Indonesia’s borders to include the Malaysian state of Serawak, and the Democratic Republic of East Timor.

The collection is modest in size, but comprises numerous rare treasures – such as one of the best preserved of only a dozen known ‘elephant patola‘, old birth sarongs from tiny Raijua, late 19th C silk and gold brocade heirlooms from Bangka, fragile double ikat geringsing from Bali, cloths from Borneo that radiate intensity, and old pieces from remote little islands such as Alor, Kisar, Lembata, Ndao, Pantar, Semau, Solor, and Seram.

The collection is presented island by island, but you may also browse around at random, using the Gallery or the rapid access points above, including the addictive [RANDOM]. For those unfamiliar with ikat textiles, we recommend the menu option ‘What is ikat?‘ To understand the values and aims that shape this collection, read the page on Collecting Philosophy.

Lire la suite sur : http://www.ikat.us/