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Newsletter of the Association of Southeast Asian Studies in the United Kingdom N0 NEWSLETTER OF THE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM N0. 58 AUTUMN 2015 ASEASUK EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Chair: Professor Matthew Cohen Co-opted members Royal Holloway, University of London Professor Graeme Barker Email: [email protected] University of Cambridge Email: [email protected] Secretary: Dr Janet Cochrane Leeds Beckett University Dr Michael Charney Email: [email protected] SOAS, University of London Email: [email protected] Treasurer: Ian Scholey SOAS, University of London Dr Kirsten Schulze Email: [email protected] London School of Economics and Political Science Email: [email protected] Membership Secretary: Manuel Jimenez SOAS, University of London Dr Matthew Walton Email: [email protected] University of Oxford Email: [email protected] Dr Margaret Coldiron University of Essex PG Liaison: Tito Imanda Email: [email protected] Goldsmiths, University of London Email: [email protected] Dr Alan Collins University of Swansea Newsletter editors Email: [email protected] Tamara Aberle and V.T. King Email: [email protected] Ms Jana Igunma British Library Aseasuk website South East Asia Library Group (SEALG) Content editor: Manuel Jimenez (SOAS) Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Dr Deirdre McKay Institutional host Keele University SOAS, University of London. Email: [email protected] Contact: Professor Elizabeth Moore, Department of South East Asia, Faculty of Claudia Merli Languages and Cultures, SOAS, Thornhaugh University of Durham St/Russell Sq., London WC1H 0XG, UK Email: [email protected] ASEASUK RESEARCH GRANTS SUB-COMMITTEE Chair: Professor V.T. King Professor Matthew Isaac Cohen SOAS: University of Leeds Royal Holloway, University of London Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Secretary: Dr Deirdre McKay Keele University Email: [email protected] Membership by subscription Aseasuk News, an electronic and bi-annual publication emailed to members and posted on ASEASUK website. For membership information and renewal of subscriptions contact Manuel Jimenez - [email protected] or check the Aseasuk website <http://aseasuk.org.uk/v2/membershipapplcn> Cover: Image provided by Indonesian documentary filmer Rhino Ariefiansyah, whose current research interest is in the impact of commodities and children games in Indonesia Aseasuk News no. 58 Autumn 2015 2 NEWS UK Southeast Asianists Dr Susan Conway (SOAS, School of Contents Oriental and African Studies, London) is currently working in Hungary in NEWS ______________________________ 2 association with the Hungarian Southeast UK Southeast Asianists _________________ 2 Asian Research Institute and the Zelnik Southeast Asianists Abroad _____________ 6 collection, Budapest, to produce a FORTHCOMING EVENTS __________________ 7 catalogue on gemstones and textiles RECENT PUBLICATIONS ___________________ 8 related to to supernatural practices. BOOK REVIEWS ___________________________ 11 Professor Roy Ellen (University of Kent, Institutional Engineering and Political Canterbury) has conducted fieldwork in Accountability in Indonesia, Thailand South Seram on Nuaulu cultural resilience and the Philippines (1-26 April 2015, funded by the British The Politics of Accountability in Academy). He presented a paper on Southeast Asia: The Dominance of ‘Pendekatan Etnografi dan Etnobotany Moral Ideologies untuk memahami Perubahan Landscape di Between harmony and discrimination: Maluku’ (Ethnographic and Ethnobotanical negotiating religious identities within Approaches to the Understanding of majority-minority relationships in Bali Landscape Change in Maluku) at Pattimura and Lombok University, Ambon, Indonesia, 27 April Tuked Rini, Cosmic Traveller. Life and 2015. On 29 April 2015 he spoke at Legend in the Heart of Borneo Padjadjaran University, Bandung, A Critical Study of Thailand’s Higher Indonesia, on ‘Anthropological fieldwork in Education Reforms: the culture of Indonesia: reflections on the first 45 years’. borrowing Furthermore he gave a paper on ‘Nuaulu Contemporary Islamic Law in Indonesia: ritual regulation of resources, ‘sasi’ and Sharia and Legal Pluralism forest conservation in eastern Indonesia’ at Conservation and Development in Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia, Cambodia: Exploring Frontiers of Change in Nature, State and Society on 4 May 2015 and on 29 May 2015 he spoke about ‘Landscapes of exchange and COMMUNICATION (with a foreword by the domestication of Kenari (Canarium V.T. King)_________________________________ 24 indicum)’ at the. Clusius Symposium on ‘Other ways of gardening’, University of Leiden, The Netherlands. Dr Tilman Frasch (Manchester Metropolitan University) is in cooperation with Rylands Research Institute, Manchester, working on a catalogue of Burmese manuscripts. 3 Aseasuk News no. 58 Autumn 2015 He also spoke at the WiMya meeting in Zurich, July 2015 on ‘Pali in Pagan: A lingua franca for the Buddhist Cosmopolis’. In July 2015, he presented a paper entitled ‘Zarter Schmelz in heissen Zonen: Kakao und Schokolade im kolonialen Asien, ca. 1850-1930’ at the South Asia Institute Heidelberg, Dept. of History. In July 2015 he spoke about ‘Pali inscriptions from Bagan’ at the EurASEAA Conference in Paris. Other presentations and conference attendances include: ‘It’s BED time! Towards a new list of inscriptions from Bagan’ (EurASEAA Conference, Paris, July 2015) ‘Bagan, Angkor, and the Spread of Theravada on the Southeast Asian Mainland’ (London, Khmer Theravada Symposium, July 2015) ‘Die buddhistische Kosmopolis. Kunst und Kultur von Bagan‘ (Munich, Museum Five Continents, April 2015) ‘Monumente für Metteyya. Architektur und Glaubenswelt im Reich von Bagan‘ (Lindenmuseum Stuttgart, March 2015) ‘Mon – Pyu – Burman. Soundings in the Ethno-Archaeology of Myanmar’ (Keynote, Symposium “Myanmar – Current Debates on a Society in Transition”, Lindenmuseum Stuttgart, March 2015) ‘Out in the Dark. Nocturnal Spaces and Electricity in Asian Colonial Cities, c. 1880-1920s’ (Conf. “History of Electricity”, Paris, Dec 2014) ‘Gruß aus der Ferne. Empire, Tourismus und Bildpostkarte 1890-1930’ (Conf. „Fernweh“, FernUni Hagen, Oct 2014) Link: http://www.fernuni- hagen.de/videostreaming/ksw/literatur/20141023.shtml Dr Alexandra Green (British Museum) is currently doing research on Southeast Asian shadow puppets for an exhibition at the British Museum (8 Sept 2016 – 29 January 2017). Her Exhibition: ‘Pilgrims, healers, and wizards: Buddhism and religious practices in Burma and Thailand’. The British Museum, 2 October 2014 – 11 January 2015. She has presented a variety of papers during 2014-15: ‘Felicity, Power, and Piety: Ritual and Commemoration in Late Burmese Paintings,’ Linden Museum, Stuttgart, Germany, March 2015. ‘From India to Independence: The Formation of the Burma Collection at the British Museum’, Ideas of Asia in the Museum conference, University of Southern California and LA County Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA, January 2015. ‘Honoring the Buddha: Indian Trade Textiles and Burmese Wall Paintings’, India and Southeast Asia from 7th – 16th centuries, K.R. Cama Institute, Mumbai, India, January 2015. ‘Conserving and Sharing Myanmar’s Heritage: Nyaungyan and Konbaung Dynasty Wall Paintings’. Buddhism conference, Lumbini, Nepal, November 2014. ‘The Shan Collections at the British Museum’, ASEASUK, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK, September 2014. ‘Pilgrims, healers, and wizards: Buddhism and religious practices in Burma and Thailand, an exhibition at the British Museum’, ASEASUK, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK, September 2014. ‘The religious material cultures of Burma from art historical perspectives’, Center for Burma Studies conference, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. Aseasuk News no. 58 Autumn 2015 4 Dr Lee Jones (Queen Mary, University of London) was Lee Kong Chian Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the National University of Singapore and Stanford University from January to April 2015. He used this opportunity to start developing a new project on state transformation and the rise of China. Furthermore, he continued to advise government agencies like the Foreign Office, Ministry of Defence and DFID on Southeast Asia, and has provided training to the Royal College of Defence Studies and the Indonesian Foreign Ministry. He gave the following papers and presentations: ‘Governing Non-Traditional Security, Rescaling the State in Southeast Asia’, Stanford University, 26 February 2015. ‘Rising Powers and State Transformation: The Case of China’ (co-authored with Shahar Hameiri), International Studies Association convention, New Orleans, 18-21 February 2015; Stanford University, 5 and 10 March 2015; Association for Asian Studies convention, Chicago, 26-29 March 2015; Stanford University, 5 and 10 March 2015. ‘China as a “Post-Westphalian” Rising Power’, National University of Singapore, 29 January 2015. ‘Explaining FATF’s Superficial Success and Deep-Seated Failure’ (co-authored with Shahar Hameiri), From Anti-Money Laundering to Global Governance: Consequences and Outlook of 25 Years of Financial Action Taskforce Activities, International Studies Association workshop, New Orleans, 17 February 2015. ‘China as a “Post-Westphalian” Rising Power’, National University of Singapore, 29 January 2015. ‘Governing Borderless Threats: Southeast Asia’s “Haze” Crisis as a Non-Traditional Security Problem’, National University of Singapore, 21 January 2015. ‘Murdoch
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