FOR APAC participated in the Open Day at the University of Salzburg on 8th of March 2023. More information on this event can be found here.
For more Information on the visit of a top-class delegation from Taiwan on 14th of March 2023 please click
New Agorá-lecture on the 15th of March 2023:
„Unlocking Potential: A Comparison of Labour Market Integration of Skilled Migrants in South Korea and Japan“. For impresions, please click here.
The official launch of the Forum Asia Pacific (FOR APAC) will take place on the 15th of December 2022 at 10:00 am in the Bibliotheksaula of the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg.
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Prof. Sirijit Sunanta (Mahidol University, information) is coming to Salzburg from June 12-25, 2023 in the frame of an ASEA UNINET project led by Prof. Kyoko Shinozaki, PhD
Call for mobility funds ASEA UNINET, closing date: April 20, 2023
The ASEA-UNINET project call 2023-2024 (project execution: 1st of October 2023 – 30th of September 2024) is now open.
For internal PLUS information, please click HERE.
SAVE THE DATE: FOR APAC Members Meeting, 23rd of June 2023, 1:00-3:00 PM
Zhejiang University Delegation led by Professor Hans-Peter COMES (Department of Environment and Biodiversity) paid a visit to FOR APAC on 7th of August 2023.
We are excited to announce that our Forum Asia Pacific Executive Director Mag. Judith Suchanek has recently been invited as a guest narrator of the video series „A Landscape with Chinese Character“, hosted by the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Chinaforschung (Ö.G.C.F.).
We are happy to share the video here:
FOR APAC Research Colloquium Talk by Prof. Kyoko SHINOZAKI, PhD, (PLUS) on 20th of October 2023:„Migration/Mobility and Gender in Asia Pacific: Research Agenda“. For more information please klick here.
Join us to the Meiji University Tokyo Information Day on 24th of October 2023!
Please find the session timetable here. Online Link: https://zoom.us/j/97511696985?pwd=YjBlT2oyM0xINnZ2M3JzQ2R2OFJIdz09Meeting ID: 975 1169 6985Pass code: 441667
FOR APAC Lecture Series Agorá Lecture by Dr. Zheng Cheng (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) on 3rd of November 2023: “Mapping Beijing between 1700 and 1910: a Czech Jesuit, a Russian Priest, a German Land Surveyor, and Other Stories“. For more information please klick here.
Welcome to FOR APAC Lecture Series Agorá talk by Professor Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen (University of Bath, UK) on the topic “‘妈妈, I Miss You’: Emotional Multilingual Practices in Transnational Families“, on 24 November 2023. For more information please click here.
Welcome to FOR APAC Lecture Series Agorá talk by Professor Lorna Carson (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) on the topic “Establishing Transdisciplinary Research and Teaching in Asian Studies: the Foundational Role of Languages and Linguistics” on 15 December 2023. For more information, please click here.
We cordially invite you to our next FOR APAC Research Colloquium talk by Professor Tanja Bührer (Department of History, PLUS) on the topic “The Age of Revolution from a South Asian Perspective, 1770-1815” on 15 December 2023. For more information, please click here.
The FOR APAC also cordially invites you to the next FOR APAC LECTURE SERIES talk on the 5th of April 2024. For more information, please click here.
Forum Asia Pacific cordially invites you to the next RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM Talk on the 12th of April, 2024. For more information please click here.
POSTPONED TO MAY!!
We would like to invite you to our next FOR APAC Lecture Series Agorá Talk on 26th of April. For more information, please visit our homepage.
Movie Festival “Japan in Film” 8-10 January 2026
Find out all about the film series “Japan in Film” organized by the Embassy of Japan in Austria.
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PLUS Special Screening
Special Screening at the University Salzburg
Unipark Nonntal, HS E.004 (Anna Bahr-Mildenburg), am 2026-01-08 at 6:00 PM – Movie: “Sea of Revival” – free admission!
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FOR APAC Guest Lecture: „Foremen, Labor Scout, and Overseas Worker Agent, Java 1870s – 2020s“
In Cooperation with the Department of Sociology and Human Geography
Prof. Dr. Pujo SEMEDI
Universitas Gadjah Mada (Indonesia)
Faculty of Cultural Sciences
Department of Anthropology
Tuesday, 16 June, 5:15-6:45 PM
Forum Asia Pacific, 3rd Floor, HS 888
Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse 18, 5020 Salzburg
Online Participation: Microsoft Teams
https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/339730244998567?p=WapgRsaW4l0BXyDzpi
Meeting-ID: 339 730 244 998 567
Passcode: uR3vK2id
Over the past century and a half, laborers from rural Java, Indonesia, have moved to various regions, near and far. Beginning with local migration in the mid-19th century to expand coffee cultivation, this evolved into overseas migration to all corners of the world. This migration was facilitated by middlemen known as mandor, werek, and migrant worker agents. Without those middlemen, the entire labor recruitment structure in and from Java would be impossible. Yet their role in labor governance remains underexplored. This research aims to uncover empirical evidence regarding the role of these intermediaries in labor migration governance in Java from the 1870s to the 2020s, and subsequently to develop a theoretical framework on intermediaries in labor migration governance, to offer a better understanding within scholarly debates on labor migration. On this occasion, I will present a discussion on mandor, drawing on archival data and participatory observations from tea plantations in the uplands of Central Java.
Photo: Doorman Family Collection
