KASA Sustainability's Fall 2025 Environmental Change Workshop supported by ICC and GPGS. What counts as central, and what is marginal in Southeast Asia? In this talk I will look at several places that have appeared in foundational literature that are considered to be "marginal" in the region, and why that ascription seems to have worked in making such a designation. By moving between the Sino-Burmese frontier, the uplands of Luzon in the Philippines, the Vietnamese cordillera

Reclaiming a Woman’s Life Story Intermedially Fabien Arribert-Narce (University of Edinburgh) December 15th, 2025, 17:30-19:00 Room 301. 3F. building 10, Sophia University No registration required / In person only This talk will analyse intermedial (self-)reappropriation processes between images, words and sounds in Annie Ernaux’s The Super 8 Years . Directed by her son David and narrated by Ernaux herself, this 2022 documentary film is made up of archival family foot

An exhibition of transformations of communities, work, and habitability in Tokyo’s neighborhoods. ( 東京の町工場と地域社会：「Laborscapes（労働の風景）」から読み解くコミュニティ、労働、居住性の変容—展覧会・シンポジウム) You are warmly invited to Tokyo Work and Community: Machikoba and Beyond , a three-day exhibition and symposium exploring the transformations of communities, work, and habitability in Tokyo’s neighborhoods. Hosted at Shibaura House , this event brings together scholars, architects, artists, and community resea