<div dir="ltr">Time: 12:30 - 1:30 pm in Melbourne time and 10:30 - 11:30 in Timor-Leste time. <div>Registration is required from this link <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/emplacing-east-timor-regime-change-and-knowledge-production-1860-2010-tickets-1061853605719">https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/emplacing-east-timor-regime-change-and-knowledge-production-1860-2010-tickets-1061853605719</a>  </div><div>All welcome! </div><div><br></div><div><div class="eds-l-mar-vert-6 eds-l-sm-mar-vert-4 eds-text-bm gmail-structured-content-rich-text" style="margin:24px 0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.25rem;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(57,54,79);font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><div class="eds-text--left" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">Book Talk: </span></span><a href="https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/emplacing-east-timor-regime-change-and-knowledge-production-1860-2010/" title="https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/emplacing-east-timor-regime-change-and-knowledge-production-1860-2010/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">Emplacing East Timor: Regime Change and Knowledge Production, 1860-2010</span></span></em><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"> (University of Hawaii Press, 2024)</span></span></a></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">Emplacing East Timor</em></em> 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. Playing a role as well are personal, institutional, and geopolitical interests and the creativity of Timorese and foreign observers. Acknowledging this cycle, Tsuchiya interweaves narrative of crucial events and political movements with an analysis of Timor’s connections to global circulations and historical transitions. He traces key persons and communities that shaped the contour of East Timor—from Portuguese colonial officers to anthropologists, Japanese occupiers to Australian activists, and Timorese poets to revolutionaries. Their experiences and imaginations of (East) Timor have been expressed through scholarly works, secret documents, policy statements, ceremonies, revolutionary songs, and museums. Using multi-archival historical research, the author introduces sources in several languages and provides missing links, including secret documents in Portuguese archives and the National Archives of Timor-Leste, Japanese wartime sources, and Timorese sources in the Archives of Timorese Resistance. <em style="box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">Emplacing East Timor</em></em> skillfully synthesizes nationalism studies and borderland studies, creating a comprehensive approach to modern East Timorese national imaginings, the historical role of territorial borders, and its postcolonial problems.</p></div></div><div class="eds-l-mar-vert-6 eds-l-sm-mar-vert-4 eds-text-bm gmail-structured-content-rich-text" style="margin:24px 0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.25rem;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(57,54,79);font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><div class="eds-text--left" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">Partners</span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)">Kyoto University</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)">Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) - School of Japan Studies</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">Speakers, presenters</span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)">Facilitator: <span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">Professor Akihiro Ogawa</span></span>, Asia Institute</p></div></div><div class="eds-l-mar-vert-6 eds-l-sm-mar-vert-4 eds-text-bm gmail-structured-content-rich-text" style="margin:24px 0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.25rem;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(57,54,79);font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><div class="eds-text--left" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)"><a href="https://kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/staff/tsuchiya/" title="https://kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/staff/tsuchiya/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">Kisho Tsuchiya</span></span></a><span style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">, </span></span><em style="box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">Assistant Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University</em></em></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5rem;color:rgb(111,114,135)">Kisho Tsuchiya is an assistant professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. He earned PhD (History) and MA (Southeast Asian Studies) from the National University of Singapore. He authored many journal articles on Southeast Asian history in addition to his recent book, <a href="https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/emplacing-east-timor-regime-change-and-knowledge-production-1860-2010/" title="https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/emplacing-east-timor-regime-change-and-knowledge-production-1860-2010/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color:transparent;box-sizing:border-box;padding-top:0px">Emplacing East Timor: Regime Change and Knowledge Production, 1860-2010 (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2024)</a>. His ongoing research, "Analysis of the Formation of the Grassroots Conservatives in the 20th c. - 21st c. through Life-Histories of Mindanaoan People" was awarded a multi-year research funding from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.</p></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div>