Asian CORE Workshop
onInterface, Negotiation, and Interaction
in Southeast Asia
Sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University(JSPS Asian Core Program “Asian Connections”)

22-23 February 2013
Inamori Memorial Hall, CSEAS, Kyoto University(Access: http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/about/access_en.html)
Quite a few studies have recently examined how people, ideas, and commodities flow beyond
the borders between different states and systems in many parts of the world. Although thosestudies have emphasized how porous the borders are, it does not mean that people, ideas, andcommodities can flow in a vacuum, without any check. Neither does it mean that they always
meet insurmountable barriers or conflicts in different states and systems. It rather seems thatmoving people (and other creatures too), ideas, commodities, and systems, and receiving humansocieties and natural environments experience some sorts of interface in their encounters, andthat they engage in constant negotiations with each other. Such negotiations lead to interaction,
which affects all the parties involved, often leading to adjustments and adaptations at various
levels, such as legal or institutional arrangements, technological devices, social groupings andcommunalities, ideological discourses, or transient but concrete on-the-ground practices.
These kinds of interface, negotiation, and interaction deserve scholarly attention as acentral theme of research, and this will provide new insights into another side of theabovementioned “flow.” This seminar aims to discuss interface, negotiation, and interaction
between multiple groups of people, states, and systems in relation to movements of people andother creatures, ideas, technologies, capital, and commodities and any sorts of objects inSoutheast Asia in the past and present. Discussed topics therefore include (but are not limitedto) local politics and economy, migration, trade, religion, hybrid culture, ecology,
non-traditional human security, and so forth.

PROGRAMFEBRUARY 22, FRIDAYWELCOME REMARKS
13:30-13:40

Hiromu Shimizu, Director, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto

UniversityOpening Remarks
13:40-13:45

Yoko Hayami

SESSION１ Riverine and Maritime Interfaces
Convened by Noboru Ishikawa
13:45-14:30

Noboru Ishikawa, “Riverine Interfaces and Social Formation in Maritime

Southeast Asia.”14:30-15:15

Atsushi Ota, “Connection of the regional trade and the riverine trade inWest Kalimantan, c. 1820-1850”

Coffee break

15:30-16:15

Atsushi Kobayashi, “Transformation of Regional Economy and Riverine

Networks in Sarawak 1900-40”

16:15-17:00

Jun Akamine, “Whaleshark Used to be Food: How it has become aneco-icon representing marine environmental conservation movements in thePhilippines”
17:00-17:45

Kazufumi Nagatsu, “Genealogy of the Maritime Creole and its

Socio-ecological Settings in Wallacea”(tentative title)

DINNERFEBRUARY 23, SATURDAYSESSION 2 From Religion to Everyday Practice
Convened by Yoko Hayami
9:30-10:15

Kwanchewan Buadaeng, “Interfaces of Burmese and Thai Buddhism inThai-Burma Frontier”
10:15-11:00

Tatsuki Kataoka, “Millenarianism, Ethnicity and the States: Khruba

Bunchum Worship among the Lahu in Thailand and Burma”
11:00-11:45

Takahiro Kojima, “Cross-boundary Dynamics and Local Buddhist

Practices on the China-Myanmar Border: A Case of Tăi Dehong, Yunnan”
LUNCH
13:00-13:45

Chih-hui Liang, “The Flow of Bujan: Negotiation and Adat Nikah among

the Temuan Villages ”
13:45-14:30

Yoko Hayami, “Between Religion and Customary Practices among

Buddhist Karen”
14:30-15:30

FINAL DISCUSSION SESSION