"On Marginality: Southeast Asia and its 'Elsewheres'"

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, and the mountain- and sea-spaces of Insular Southeast Asia, we get an idea of what is deemed to be "marginal" by scholars, and what is considered to be more "central". We can also compare these ideas to other locales more theoretically in other parts of the world, including in Japan."

• Speaker: Eric Tagliacozzo, John Stambaugh Professor, History Department, Cornell University (Author of “In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama".)

• Time: Wednesday, December 17th, 6:00 PM -7:30 PM (JST)

• Venue: Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus, Building10, Room 301

For registration, please access KASA Sustainability Website: https://www.kasasustainability.org/event-details/fall- or scan the QR code in the flyer.