Fall 2025 Environmental Change Workshop
Wed, Dec 17
|Sophia University, Bldg. 10 - Room 301
Sophia University (in-person): "On Marginality: Southeast Asia and its 'Elsewheres" by Eric Tagliacozzo, John Stambaugh Professor, History Department, Cornell University. See more info below.
Time & Location
Dec 17, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Sophia University, Bldg. 10 - Room 301, 7-1 Kioichō, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 102-8554, Japan
About the event
Theme: On Marginality: Southeast Asia and its 'Elsewheres by Eric Tagliacozzo
Speaker workshop: December 17 (Wednesday, 18:00 - 19:30)
Venue: Sophia University (in-person) - Building 10 / Room 301
About the theme:
What counts as central, and what is marginal in Southeast Asia? In this talk, Eric Tagliacozzo 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."
About the speaker: