LA LETTRE DU 9 novembre 2016

LA LETTRE DU 9 novembre 2016

Revues/périodiques

Asian Perspectives – Volume 55, Number 1, 2016

New issue of Asian Perspectives 55(1) includes a reanalysis of Spirit Cave fauna by Conrad et al. Other articles include bioarchaeological health assessment in the Mariana Islands by Pietrusewsky et al., a sophisticated assessment of ceramic production in Papua New Guinea by Vilgalys and Summerhayes, and a nuanced assessment of changing colonial period power relations in Java by Ueda et al. Don’t miss this meaty issue!

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Articles

• Palaeoecology and Forager Subsistence Strategies during the Pleistocene – Holocene Transition: A Reinvestigation of the Zooarchaeological Assemblage from Spirit Cave, Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand Cyler by Conrad, Charles Higham, Masaki Eda, Ben Marwick

• Sex and Geographic Differences in Health of the Early Inhabitants of the Mariana Islands by Michael Pietrusewsky, Michele Toomay Douglas, Marilyn K. Swift, Randy A. Harper, Michael A. Fleming

• Do Hiccups Echo?: Late Holocene Interaction and Ceramic Production in Southern Papua New Guinea by Gabrielius Vilgalys, Glenn Summerhayes

• Paths to Power in the Early Stage of Colonialism: An Archaeological Study of the Sultanate of Banten, Java, Indonesia, the Seventeenth to Early Nineteenth Century by Kaoru Ueda, Sonny C. Wibisono, Naniek Harkantiningsih, Chen Sian Lim

• Obituaries

• Pochan Chen 陳伯楨: (29 October 1973–28 June 2015)

• Rowan K. Flad

WORDS without BORDERS, novembre 2016

Revue en ligne et en libre accès

Modernization and Its Discontents: Contemporary Thai Writing

Thaï literature has had a long tradition of delivering social critique and promoting activism.

http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/issue/november-2016-thailand

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• Modernization and Its Discontents: Contemporary Thai Writing by Mui Poopoksakul (non-fiction)

• Monopoly by Duanwad Pimwana (fiction)

• Life’s lexicon: everyman’s Bangkok edition by Win Lyovarin (fiction)

• Untilted: #13 and #14 by Phu Kradat (poetry)

• Light splash sound by Uthis Haemamool (fiction)

• Ei Ploang by Prabda Yoon (fiction)

• Tanoo by Sri Daoruang (fiction)

• An essay on prayers by Chart Korbjitti (fiction)

• Interview with Suchart Sawadsdsri by Mui Poopoksakul (non-fiction)

Asian Ethnicity, vol. 18, no. 1, janvier 2017

Vient de paraître en ligne :

Asian Ethnicity, vol. 18, no. 1, janvier 2017

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http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/caet20/18/1

Articles sur l’ASE :

• The other side of Malaysia’s enviable economic and multiethnic stability: the obstinate resilience of ‘money politics’ by Hussin M. Mutalib

• To be Karen in the Thai–Burma borderlands: identity formation through the prism of a human rights discourse by Karen Sharples

• The connectivity of ethnic displays: new codes for identity in northern Laos by Guido Sprenger

• Identities beyond ethnic-based subordination or conflict in the Southeast Asian borderlands: a case study of Lao villagers in northeast Cambodia by Sarinda Singh

Livres

Dr Mandy Sadan « War and Peace in the Borderlands of Myanmar: The Kachin Ceasefire, 1994–2011 »

500 pp., maps and illustrations

NIAS Studies in Asian Topics # 56

Available from NIAS Press worldwide

Hardback - 2016, Recently Published

ISBN 978-87-7694-188-8, £65

Paperback - 2016, Recently Published

ISBN 978-87-7694-189-5, £25

• Offers important insights into Myanmar and its ethnic situation.

• A must-read for anyone working with conflict issues.

In 2011 armed hostilities between the Kachin Independence Organisation and Myanmar Army ended a 17-year ceasefire agreement. The unwillingness of local Kachin people and the Kachin political-military leadership to bow to pressure for a speedy renewal of the ceasefire frustrated many observers and policy makers, who hoped to see a national ceasefire agreement signed between the Myanmar government and the country’s principle armed ethnic organisations. Yet since the ceasefire collapsed, surprisingly little attention has been paid to understanding in detail the experience of the previous 17 years of ceasefire in the Kachin region and how this has influenced local political and military attitudes, or the continuing significance of these experiences in relation to the ongoing national peace process in Myanmar. This book brings together local activists with international academics and acclaimed independent researchers to reflect on these experiences from a variety of cultural, political, economic and social perspectives. Collectively, the authors shed critical light upon the reasons why an area that was once considered an important collaborator in the goal of political transition in Myanmar should most recently have seen the return of significant popular support for a resumption of armed conflict. The arguments and insights that the book offers raise important questions about the social, economic and political development of Myanmar’s ‘border regions’ in recent years that will be relevant long into the future, including after a nationwide ceasefire may be signed. Crucially, the chapters provide important lessons about the dangers inherent in ceasefire agreements when an ‘armed peace’ is implemented that is not accompanied by a substantive commitment to political change.

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Jean Michaud, « Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif »

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 594 • Size: 6 x 9

978-1-4422-7278-1 • Hardback • October 2016 • $140.00 • (£95.00)

978-1-4422-7279-8 • eBook • October 2016 • $139.99 • (£95.00)

Series: Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures

Subjects: History / Asia / General, Reference / Dictionaries, Social Science / Customs & Traditions

Jean Michaud; Meenaxi Barkataki-Ruscheweyh and Margaret Byrne Swain

Dwelling in the highland areas of Northeast India, Bangladesh, Southwest China, Taiwan, Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and Peninsular Malaysia are hundreds of “peoples”. Together their population adds up to 100 million, more than most of the countries they live in. Yet in each of these countries, they are regarded as minorities.

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THE LAO SANGHA AND MODERNITY, Research at the Buddhist Archives of Luang Prabang, 2005 to 2015 - Edited by Volker Grabowsky, Hans Georg Berger, Khamvone Boulyaphonh and Bunleuth Sengsoulin

Soft Cover, First edition December 2015; 404 pages

ISBN 978-1-941811-02-3

RRP: US$ 20.00 English, with photographs

A scholarly resource for Lao history, religion, literature, art and photography, this book assembles leading experts in the field with their analysis of rare collections of manuscripts, photographs, notebooks and printed material. A long-awaited contemporary study on the monastic community and its role in modern society.

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Colloques/Workshops/Séminaires

Conférence : Catherine (Kati) Basset – « Le cosmos et le jeu : contenus des traités et modalités scéniques du théâtre indo-javano-balinais (Indonésie) » - 14 novembre 2016

Dans le cadre du groupe de recherches sur les Poétiques,

le CIRRAS (Centre International de Réflexion et de Recherche sur les Arts du Spectacle) est heureux de vous inviter à la conférence de Catherine (Kati) Basset "Le cosmos et le jeu : contenus des traités et modalités scéniques du théâtre indo-javano-balinais (Indonésie)"

le 14 novembre 2016, 14h, salle 3, CIRRAS, Bâtiment Le France, 190 avenue de France, Paris 13^e

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Conférence : Dr. Azyumardi Azra – « Islamic Studies Paradigms: Indonesian, Western, and Middle Eastern Compared » -15 novembre 2016

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Journée d’étude sur les pratiques et les représentations du temps – 18 nov. 2016 - INALCO - 2 rue de Lille 75007 Paris

Pour connaitre le programme

Rencontres de l’AFRASE 2016 Mardi 13 décembre 14h-18h Maison de l’Asie

Corpus et langues d’Asie du Sud-Est : traitement et exploitation numériques

Accueil à partir de 13h30

Pour connaire le programme

Séminaire “Mémoires d’Indochine” 2016 : Séance 6 - mardi 15 novembre 2016

Année universitaire 2016-2017 / Master Asie Orientale Contemporaine (ASIOC) / Semestre 1

ENS de Lyon / Sciences Po Lyon

Mémoires d’Indochine :

Imaginaires nationaux : de l’empire colonial aux états-nations d’aujourd’hui

Marges, ethnies minoritaires et frontières

Séance 5 : mardi 15 novembre 2016

Il a été beaucoup question dans ce séminaire de l’espace indochinois, de sa géographie (physique, humaine et culturelle), de ses marges, de sa composition ethnique ou de ses frontières. Cette séance poursuivra l’investigation en rappelant les principales révoltes montagnardes qui ont secoué l’espace transnational indochinois de la fin du XIXe siècle jusqu’à une période récente pour tenter de saisir les multiples revendications identitaires qui entendent s’inscrire dans la durée.

Rappel des prochaines dates des différents séminaires organisés par les membres du CASE

Séminaire général du Centre Asie du Sud-Est Anciennes et nouvelles élites en Asie du Sud-Est : statuts, pouvoirs, légitimités et concurrences

17 novembre 2016 (salle Jean-Pierre Vernant, 8e étage, bât. Le France

190 av de France 75013 Paris) - 9h30-12h30

David Delfolie

« Les dynamiques sociohistoriques d'un siècle de reconfiguration des élites en Malaisie »

Mael Raynaud

« Birmanie: vers une "normalisation" de la sociologie politique des élites ?"

24 novembre 2016 (salle 638, 6e étage, bât. Le France, 190 av de France 75013 Paris) - 9h30-12h30

Présentation des travaux étudiants

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Séminaire EHESS (CASE/CEIAS) "Modes d’autorité et conduites esthétiques de l’Asie du Sud à l’Insulinde"

14h-17h - salle 662 Bât. Ehess, 190 av. de France - 75013 Paris

Lundi 21 novembre 2016 : Autorité et oralité(s)

Introduction par Dana Rappoport et Tiziana Leucci

Delphine Ortis (INALCO) : Pakistan, La pratique de la danse est-elle suffisante pour faire autorité chez les ascètes de la qalandariyya (Sindh-Pakistan) ?

Dana Rappoport (CASE) : Autorité et Oralité en Indonésie : regard comparatif sur deux sociétés austronésiennes

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Histoire sociale de l’Asie du Sud-Est à l’époque moderne et jusque dans ses développements contemporains : Hommes et forêts en Asie du Sud-Est : pratiques et représentations d’une relation privilégiée

Jeudi de 14 h à 17 h

Salle 221, INaLCO, 2 rue de Lille, 75007

Jeudi 17 novembre

- Florence Bretelle-Establet (Université de Paris-Diderot / SPHERE): « Paysages, forêts, miasmes de la Chine du Sud, entre observations et perceptions (fin XVIII^e-début XX^e siècles) ».

- Gilles Delouche (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales / CERLOM) : « Mystique et mystère : la forêt dans la littérature classique siamoise (XVI^e-XVIII^e siècles) ».

Appels à contributions/ appels à propositions

Doctoral and Post-doctoral Workshop Theravada Civilizations Project

March 15, 2017

University of Toronto

Deadline: 1 January 2017

Applicants should send a current cv and a ten-page proposal to s-collins@uchicago.edu.

The Theravada Civilizations Project is pleased to announce plans for an intensive Doctoral and Post-doctoral workshop, which will be held on March 15, one day prior to the Association for Asian Studies, March16-19, 2012 at the University of Toronto. We will pay for roundtrip airfare and two nights in a hotel, March 14 and 15.

Theravada Buddhism is practiced throughout the world with over 150 million practitioners settled primarily in Cambodia, Laos, Sri Lanka, Burma, Nepal, and Thailand. Diaspora communities from South and Southeast Asia as well as the global interest in Insight (vipassana) meditation has led to the growth of Theravada Buddhism in the Americas, Australia, Japan, and Europe. The scholarly study of Theravada Buddhism began with the scrutiny of Pali and Sanskrit literature, but now covers many disciplines including literature, ethics, anthropology, philology, philosophy, history, cultural studies, political science, urban studies, and art and material culture.

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Call for Applications – Weaving Knowledge

Call for Applications – Deadline 1 December 2016

This two week workshop aims to engage both the theory and practice of craft knowledge by teaching participants the Lanna techniques of weaving alongside expert weavers, at the same time engaging with the scholarly challenge of making embodied craft knowledge explicit. As the students are trained in crafts by practitioners in a weaving workshop near Chiang Mai, they will discuss concepts such as tacit expertise and technological literacy, pedagogy in sensory and material knowledge, innovation and sustainability in traditional technological cultures, with the practitioners, as well as invited scholars and activists in history, anthropology, and sociology from around the world. Set in the rural environment around Chiang Mai, this workshop will bring together three conveners: one historian of science and technology, one weaving/craft expert, and one scholar of development practice in craft, to guide the group of doctoral candidates in reflexive practice – both of weaving and writing.

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Call for Applications – « New Frontiers in Asian Economic History »

The AAS is pleased to invite applications to participate in the first workshop in its new workshop series “Emerging Fields in the Study of Asia” supported by the Luce Foundation. The first workshop, entitled “New Frontiers in Asian Economic History,” will take place on May 11-15, 2017 at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan.

Deadling : 6 janvier 2017

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Call for papers – University of Oxford – Conversations In Singapore History – A Symposium of Current Research – Saturday, 25th February 2017

If you would like to present a paper, please register your interest here by 10th December 2016. Selected papers will be notified by end December 2016.

After a successful run in 2016, Conversations in Singapore History returns in 2017 to bring together undergraduate and graduate students with a research interest in Singapore and its past. The one-day symposium aims to bridge different academic fields and thus present diverse perspectives on the history of the island.

We hope to encourage our colleagues researching Singapore’s history in various capacities to share their ideas, sources and experiences, fostering a community of knowledge. We also hope to encourage participants to look at Singapore in a wider context: how Singapore in world and regional histories can be seen as part of global economic and social development, as well as trends in political and intellectual thought, cosmopolitanism, and ethnic and cultural identities.

Papers will be grouped under three broad themes:

• • Looking Out: Singapore in World History

  • Looking About: Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean

  • Looking In: Culture and Society in Singapore

To attend, please sign up for a place here.

All suggestions and queries can be sent to conversationssghistory@gmail.com – we look forward to hearing from you!

Call for Papers “Crossings in Southeast Asia” - Cornell Southeast Asia Program’s -19th Annual Graduate Student Conference

Abstract Submission Deadline: December 15, 2016

Notification of Acceptance: January 15, 2017

Confirmation of Attendance Deadline: February 1, 2017

Full Papers Due: February 15, 2017

Please submit abstracts to the following email address: seapgradconf@gmail.com

All abstracts should be limited to 250 words and sent in MS Word format. Do not send a .pdf. Please name your abstract using your first and last name together (for example, janedoe.doc for Jane Doe’s abstract). The subject of the message should specify “Abstract” and the body should include the following information:

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Call for Papers Reflecting (on) the Asia-Pacific: Places, Relations, Systems

Early application deadline: December 30, 2016

June 9-11, 2017

Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC) Conference

Willamette University, Salem, Oregon

Web announcement: www.willamette.edu/centers/cas/aspac/index.html

The organizers invite proposals for organized panels, roundtable discussions, individual papers or poster presentations on historical or contemporary topics in the humanities, arts, social sciences, education, health, law, business, environmental sciences or other allied disciplines related to East, South, or Southeast Asia and their diasporas.

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

Deadline: 31st January 2017

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To submit a paper, please send paper titles, abstracts of c. 500 words and a 2-page CV to reframingthearchive@gmail.com

Organiser: Centres & Programmes Office

Contact email: centres@soas.ac.uk

Contact Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4892

Call for Papers – Explorations Volume 14

Theme: “Seas, Oceans, Rivers, and Springs: Perspectives on Water in the Study of Southeast Asia”

Deadline: February 4, 2017

Constituting more than 70% of the area of Southeast Asia, water has long played a fundamental role in shaping the history, culture, politics, and development of the region. Monsoon rains influenced agricultural practices and determined migrations. Maritime trade routes attracted both local and foreign merchants, while kingdoms and empires sought control over strategic waterways and port cities to project their power over global commerce. For coastal communities, the seas and rivers continue to provide livelihoods and connections to the broader world. In recent years, issues relating to water security, rising sea levels, devastating floods, and maritime border disputes have dominated news stories about Southeast Asia. These issues, trends, and phenomena invite scholars to explore the multitude of ways that water influences and helps define Southeast Asia in every field of study.

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Bourses/Postes

3 PhD positions: The Bureaucratization of Islam and its Socio-Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia - Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

The Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology is one of the leading centres for research in social anthropology. Common to all research projects at the Max Planck Institute is the comparative analysis of social change; it is primarily in this domain that its researchers contribute to anthropological theory, though many programmes also have applied significance and political topicality.

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

Deadline : 15 decembre 2016

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Bourses de courte durée au Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin)

Bourses de courte durée à l´intention de doctorants et de chercheurs

Durée de la bourse : 3 mois maximum

date limite de dépôt de dossier : 2 décembre 2016

Pour un séjour débutant dans la période : 1er février au 31 décembre 2017

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UPOU to Offer MOOCs on Philippine Arts and Culture

The University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) will be offering three Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as follows:

• Understanding Philippine Art and Culture: This MOOC talks about the relationship of arts and culture.

• Critical Approaches to Philippine Art and Culture: This MOOC discusses Philippine art in a cultural critical perspective through grounding research, teaching, and learning approach in a multidisciplinary platform and making use of interpretive areas of History, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Media Studies and Art Studies in making sense and meaning of art, artworks, artifacts, and artists as situated in public and private spaces.

• Philippine Art as Cultural Text: This MOOC examines Philippine art as cultural text — social practice, popular culture, and also looks at art and the other disciplines. It likewise takes up Philippine art and culture in the global context, the region, the nation, and art in diaspora and transnationalism.

These MOOCs will be offered from November 15 to December 29, 2016, and can be accessed at the UPOU MODeL site. As these are MOOCs, anyone interested can enroll in these courses for free. A certificate will be given upon completion of an individual MOOC and upon completion of all three MOOCs within the course.

Through discussions from various experts in art and culture, the course seeks to reinforce a sense of Filipino identity by understanding the role of Philippine art in life, its relationship with cultural practices in national communities, and its evolution in the context of societal changes. The student will be expected to read literary texts, listen to music, watch films or videos, theater plays, and performances, visit galleries and museums, experience art in the immediate environment, and create a cultural map of these art forms.

For more information, e-mail eidr-mooc@upou.edu.ph

Podcast : Professor Mark Thompson « Duterte’s Bloody Democracy in the Philippines »

Tuesday 25th October 2016, 6.00 – 7.30pm; Room 9.04, Tower 2

Speaker: Professor Mark Thompson; Chair: Dr Jürgen Haacke

Over the last three decades the Philippines has gained much favorable global attention – from the “people power” uprising which toppled a dictatorship to its recent rapid economic growth. But since newly elected Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte launched a bloody anti-drug campaign that has cost a reported 3,000 lives in the first few weeks of his presidency alone, the views of most Filipinos and foreigner observers have diverged starkly. While more than 90% of Filipinos approve of Duterte’s performance in office, the United Nations, human rights groups, the foreign media, and Western governments have criticized the extrajudicial killings as a violation of basic human rights.

This talk will look at why Duterte won the recent presidential election and has “stuck to his guns” in waging a violent war on drugs as well as exploring its implications for the future of democracy in the Philippines and beyond.

écouter le podcast de la conférence ici

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