http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/Recent news from SEAFen-usPublic domainhttp://seaf.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/60http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2144More than any of his predecessors, President Obama has reached out to "the Muslim world." But what of the terms and the timing of that demarche? If, as expected, he visits Indonesia next year, he will try to build on his oratorical successes in Istanbul and Cairo by addressing Muslims in the country that has more of them than any other.]]>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2144?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2131John D. Ciorciari was a Shorenstein Fellow at APARC in 2007-08 and an affiliate of APARC and SEAF in 2008-09 while a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Upon leaving Stanford he took up a position as an assistant professor in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.]]>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2131?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2132Past, present, and future Southeast Asianists linked to SEAF have ignored the hoary joke about the contest whose first prize is one week in Philadelphia and whose second prize is two weeks in that city. Several of them are on the program of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) to be held, yes, in Philadelphia on 25-28 March 2010.]]>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2132?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2128Edited by SEAF Director Don Emmerson and co-published in 2008-09 by APARC at Stanford and ISEAS in Singapore, Hard Choices: Security, Democracy, and Regionalism in Southeast Asia continues to attract attention. Excerpted below are two differing but equally thoughtful recent reviews:]]>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2128?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2094Southeast Asia is something of a potpourri for foreign policymakers. The region includes the world's largest Muslim-majority nation in Indonesia, booming bilateral trade, terrorism, one of the world's most repressive regimes in Myanmar, and growing Chinese influence.]]>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2094?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1754Fall 2007 SEAF visiting scholar Joseph Liow’s study of Piety and Politics: Islamism in Contemporary Malaysia has been published by Oxford University Press. Liow is an associate professor in the Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He worked on completing the manuscript at Stanford. SEAF director Don Emmerson blurbed the book as “broad in coverage yet rich in detail, cautionary without being alarmist, [and] a cogent antidote to wishful thinking about religion, society, and the state, not only in Malaysia but in the wider Muslim world as well.”]]>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1754?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2028Here is what University of Queensland Prof. Alex Bellamy thinks of a recent book, Hard Choices: Security, Democracy and Regionalism in Southeast Asia, edited by SEAF Director Don Emmerson: "It is widely acknowledged that Southeast Asia stands at a fork in the road. The ratification and adoption of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Charter in 2008 has given the regional body new found legal status, ...]]>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2028?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2025Ony Avrianto Jamhari taught the Indonesian language at Stanford in 2005-06 as a Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) under Fulbright sponsorship. He was active on campus in other ways as well, including organizing an Indonesian film festival. SEAF Director Don Emmerson enjoyed working with him on research projects in Indonesia. In 2009 Ony began teaching Indonesian language and culture at Woosong University, Daejeon, South Korea.]]>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2025?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2027Jim Castle is a friend of mine. I have known him since we were graduate students in Indonesia in the late 1960s. While I labored in academe he went on to found and grow CastleAsia into what is arguably the most highly regarded private-sector consultancy for informing and interfacing expatriate and domestic investors and managers in Indonesia. Friday mornings he hosts a breakfast gathering of business executives at his favorite hotel, the JW Marriott in the Kuningan district of Jakarta.]]>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2027?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2024In an interview with Boston's WBUR90.9, Don Emmerson, the director of the Southeast Asia Forum at Stanford University, discusses theories connecting the recent deadly hotel bombings in Jakarta with Indonesia’s July 8 presidential election.]]>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2024?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1989The 2008-09 academic year was a busy time for the Southeast Asia Forum (SEAF). A dozen on-campus lectures by Southeast Asianists from Australia, Germany, Malaysia, Thailand, and the United States ranged from country-specific topics such as labor resistance in Vietnam, political opposition in Malaysia, and the 2009 elections in Indonesia, to broader-brush treatments of Southeast Asian identities and modernities, regional repercussions of the global economic slowdown, and the wellsprings of "late democratization" across East Asia.]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1989?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1988US President Barack Hussein Obama's speech on 4 June 2009 in Cairo, the second of three planned trips to Muslim-majority countries, was outstanding.]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1988?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1798Christopher Taylor, an award-winning freelance journalist from New York and author of the Everything Indonesia blog, interviews Don Emmerson about upcoming elections in Indonesia and the prospect of U.S.-Indonesia relations during the Obama administration.]]>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1798?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1783Kaneko Yoshiki is a professor at Dokkyo University in Saitama, Japan. SEAF hosted him as a visiting scholar at Stanord for part of 2007 to continue or complete the research and writing of several Japanese-lanaguage manuscripts on Southeast Asia that are now in print or awaiting publication. They include three chapters in edited volumes.]]>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1783?http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1680Five Southeast Asia scholars are slated for residence at Stanford for the upcoming academic year. Shorenstein APARC and the Southeast Asia Forum will host four of them: three were selected under the Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Initiative on Southeast Asia, and one is a recipient of a 2008-09 Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellowship. A fifth scholar will be on campus as a National Fellow of the Hoover Institution.]]>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://seaf.stanford.edu/news/1680?