Conference Announcements
Dr Justin Watkins, Chair SOAS Centre of South East Asian Studies and workshop co-organiser

Welcome: Prof Peter Robb, Pro-Director, SOAS
Prof Koji MIYAZAKI, Vice-President of TUFS
Prof Masaru OSANAI, Director JSPS London Office

• SHIOYA Momo (TUFS) Rituals and Social Relations in Java: A Case Study of Gossip and Conflict.
• Dorothea SCHAEFTER (SOAS)
The Return of Indonesian Exile Writing: Writing in Exile during the New Order (1965-1998) and its return after 1998.
• TAKASE Nobuaki (SOAS)Mustsu Munemitsu: British Influence on Japanese State-Building in the Nineteenth Century.
•YANG Ikmo (TUFS)
The Tokugawa Shogunate's Daimyo Kaieki (attainder): Based on the 'Bakufu Nikki'.
• NAKAGAWA Tamiko (SOAS)
Reading Late Edo Erotic Prints.
• SHINE Toshihiko (TUFS)
Resettlement Programs in Vietnam's Central Highlands: Current Status and Problems.
• Julian BROWN (SOAS)
Down in the Basement: Cham Art in Context.
• HAYASHI Makiko (SOAS)
Constructing the Legal Profession in Meiji Japan.
•MA Jing (TUFS)
Study of Economics Magazines in the Later Stages of the Meiji Era: Using Jitsugyo no Nihon as an Illustration.

SOAS/TUFS Symposium Public Lecture
• Professor Ben ARPS (University of Leiden)
Propaganda on and off the dance-floor: theorectical considerations and a Javanese case.
• Prof Masaru OSANAI (JSPS London Office)
JSPS Briefing

• CHU Xuan Giao (TUFS)Methods of Historical Anthropology and the Field of Japan.
• Tullio LOBETTI (SOAS)
Personal and Social Dimensions of the Akinomine Practice on Haguro Mountain.
• YOO Jongshin (TUFS)
The Spread of Otogibanashi in Modern Japan: With Focus on Otogi Recitation.
• May JURILLA (SOAS)
Entertainment after the war: Aliwan and the Tagalog novel.
• Mulaika HIJJAS (SOAS)
Reading the Romantic Syair: Women's Popular Literature in Nineteenth-Century Riau.
• Sarah HICKS (SOAS)
Swinging between traditions: tracing the origins and menaings of narrative motifs in the traditional Malay romantic poem Syair Selindung Delima.
•Francesca Di MARCO (SOAS)
A Society in Transition: Postwar Japan and Suicide's Evolution From a Ritual Act to a Spectacular Performance.
• HSIEH Chia-ling (TUFS)
The Part-Time Labour in Japan: Through the Eyes of a Taiwanese Woman.
• Duncan ADAMS (SOAS)
Resisting Analysis: Sexual Desire in Mishima Yukio's Forbidden Colours.
• Thu NANDAR (TUFS)
The Role of Witnesses in Thet-Kayit Contracts in Early Modern Myanmar.
• SAITO Ayako (TUFS)
The Concept of Citizins and Non-Indigenous Residents under the Ne Win Regime: From the 1982 Burma Citizenship Law and Related Materials.

Concluding Remarks and Thanks