Organizer: Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Type/Location: Virtual

Description:

Emplacing East Timor explores the relationship between the cycle of regime change and that of knowledge production, offering an alternative framework to periodize the history from 1850s to 2010s. Kisho Tsuchiya shows that the prevailing perceptions of East Timor have been shaped by large-scale wars, postwar consolidation, and the dominance of foreign observers. The transitions that construct what we know about East Timor have followed the rhythm of devastating violence and regime transformations.

Join the discussion moderated by Dr. Ehito Kimura, Associate Professor, with comments from Ariel Mota Alves, Ph.D. Candidate. Both are at the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.

About the Speaker:

Kisho Tsuchiya is a historian and Southeast Asian area studies scholar specializing in colonialism, the Cold War, race and ethnicity, social warfare, place and space, borderlands, identity politics, community formation, religious transformation, human rights, and multiculturalism. In his ongoing and future research, he anticipates delving further into studies of inter-Asian connections, gender, migration, infrastructure, and technology. Throughout his research thus far, he has provided perspectives and contexts concerning relatively marginalized spaces in relation to global and transnational issues.

Registration:

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