The Resona Foundation for Asia and Oceania
NIHU-MAPS & JSSEAS Joint Symposium

Resilience of Sea Peoples in Southeast Asia and Oceania:
Comparative Studies and Dialogue with Practitioners of the Disaster-Affected Sanriku Region in Japan

Date: 30-31 January
Venue: 125 Memorial Hall, Floor 7, Building # 8, Hakusan Campus, Toyo University (https://www.toyo.ac.jp/about/access/hakusan/)
*The event will also be live-streamed online through Zoom
Language: English (Simultaneous Japanese-English translation will be available for session 4 on the second day.)

We are delighted to announce that we will host an international symposium titled “Resilience of Sea Peoples in Southeast Asia and Oceania: Comparative Studies and Dialogue with Practitioners of the Disaster-Affected Sanriku Region in Japan.” The symposium is jointly organized by the Resona Foundation for Asia and Oceania, NIHU-MAPS: National Institutes for the Humanities; JSSEAS: and Japan Society for Southeast Asian Studies, JSSEAS: Japan Society for Southeast Asian Studies; with support from ACRI: Asian Cultures Research Institute, Toyo University.

　1月30日および31日の２日間にかけて、上記の国際シンポジウムを東洋大拠点にて開催いたします。対面・オンラインどちらの参加も可能です。

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PROGRAM (tentative)

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Day 1: January 30（Fri)

<Session 1> Perspectives of the Next Generation: 

Sea Peoples and Nature in Southeast Asia and Oceania

Chair and Moderator: Waka Aoyama (Tokyo University)

10:00-10:10 Opening Remarks — Kazufumi Nagatsu (Toyo University) 

10:10-10:30 Was it a “Disaster”?: The Experience of the Sama-Bajau People in Banggai Islands, Indonesia

  — Makibi Nakano (Konan Women’s University)

10:30-10:50 From Homeseas to Urbanities: The State of the Sama-Bajaus across the Philippines amidst Socio-Ecological Changing Realities

— Amiel Jay Lopez (Ateneo de Davao University)

10:50-11:10 Political Ecology of Marginalization: Sea Nomad Resilience Against Coastal and Marine Extraction in Southeast Asia

— Wengki Ariando (KITLV: Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asia and Caribbean Studies) 

11:10-11:30 Living with Disasters: A Case Study of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

— Shinichi Fujii (National Museum of Ethnology)

11:30-11:45 — Break —

11:45-12:00 Comments — James F. Warren (Murdoch University)

12:00-12:30 Discussion

12:30-13:30 — Lunch —

13:30-14:10

<Keynote Speech>

In Search of Consilience: Thomas Forrest, the MaKaturing Eruption 

circa 1762-65, and the Rise of the Iranun

14:10-14:20 Question and Comment

<Session 2> The Dynamics of Nature-Society Interaction among the Sea Peoples

Chair and Moderator: Fujii Shinichi (National Museum of Ethnology)

14:20-14:30 Introduction — Fujii Shinichi (National Museum of Ethnology) 

14:30-14:50 On Indigenous Resilience: The Orang Suku Laut

— Cynthia Chou (University of Iowa)

14:50-15:10 Boat as a Nexus Linking Maritime Societies and the Environment: A Case Study of the Moken in the Andaman Sea, Thailand

— Yuki Suzuki (Kokushikan University)

15:10-15:25 — Break —

15:25-15:45 Presentation Title: Perception of the globally changing environment among Vezo fishers of Madagascar

–Taku Iida (National Museum of Ethnology)

15:45-16:45 Discussion

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Day 2: January 31（Sat)

<Session 3> Vernacular Meanings of Living on the Sea

Chair and Moderator: Hisashi Shimojo (Kobe University)

10:00-10:10 Introduction — Hisashi Shimojo (Kobe University)

10:10-10:30 The Bajau’s Art of Not Being Subjugated in Wallacea

  — Kazufumi Nagatsu (Toyo University)

10:30-10:50  Bajau Laut of made invisible via institutionalised knowledge production about social and environmental threats

 — Fadzilah Majid and Greg Acciaioli Greg Acciaioli (The University of Western Australia)

10:50-11:40 Discussion

11:40-13:00 — Lunch —

<Session 4> Dialogue with the Intellectuals of Sanriku: Resilience of Coastal Communities after the Great East Japan Earthquake and its Lessons for     Southeast Asia and Oceania

Chair and Moderator: TBA

13:00-13:10 Introduction — Kazufumi Nagatsu

13:00-13:40 Seawall and Civic Action

Tomoyuki Miura (Project Rias, Kesennuma)

13:40-14:10 Rethinking Community Resilience beyond Seawalls: Tsunami Recovery, Coastal Protection, and Environmental Conservation in Kesennuma–Mōne

  Makoto Hatakeyama (NPO Mori wa Umi no Koibito, Kesennuma)

14:10-14:30 From recovery to resilience: post-tsunami and post-Covid lifeways of the Moken in Thailand

— Narumon Arunotai (Chulalongkorn University)

14:30-14:45 — Break —

14:45-15:05 Bridging Three Decades of Discourse and Reality: Community-Based Coastal Management in Maluku and Papua

— Dedi Adhuri (National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia)

15:05-15:20 Comments — Furusawa Takuro (Kyoto University)

15:20-16:20 Round Table Dialogue: Chair Kawai Hironao (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

16:20-16:40 Wrap-up Remarks — Rintaro Ono (National Museum of Ethnology)

16:40-16:50 Closing Remarks — Kazufumi Nagatsu (Toyo University)