The seminar will feature talks of our research in Central Africa and Southeast Asia on how ‘frontiers’ are shaped by colonial path dependencies, investments and policy discourses, and met with everyday resistance of local populations.

We will hold a photo exhibition at the RIHN lobby from October 8-23. The exhibition features photovoice with local and indigenous communities in Campo Ma'an, Cameroon; South and West Sulawesi, Indonesia; and Pitas, Sabah, Malaysia; where they express their everyday lived experiences of living in frontiers.

The seminar will be available on Zoom. For more details on the seminar and Zoom registration, see the link.

https://fairfrontiers.sakura.ne.jp/home/index.php/2025/09/17/seminar-the-making-and-un-making-of-frontiers/

Date	Wednesday, October 16th, 2025, 9:00-12:30
Venue	Lecture Hall, RIHN / Zoom
Registration	Zoom Registration link:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/eIzGbw0mT7658zF9Uz9QSA Free of charge
Organizers	RIHN FairFrontiers Project
Language	English
Program	9:00-9:10 Introduction 9:10-9:25 Immaterial flows shape land use change and sustainability in frontier regions  Speaker: Ole Mertz 9:30-9:45 Chinese trade and boom crops in Northern Laos Speaker: Sithong Thongmanivong 9:50-10:05 Everyday resistance and everyday responses: Case of UHEF in Sulawesi Speaker: Muhammad Alif K. Sahide 10.10-10.25 Socio-Environmental Changes in Campo, Cameroon: Concerns, Responses and Aspirations Speaker: Veronique Mbole Coffee break 10:50-11:30 Brief comments and Q&A 11.30-12.10 Panel discussion: What have we learned? What are the possibilities for an equitable development pathway? Moderator: Helena Varkkey 12:20-12:30 Closing Ole Mertz - Professor of Geography, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Sithong Thongmanivong - Dean of Faculty, Faculty of Forest Science, National University of Laos, Lao PDR Muhammad Alif K. Sahide - Professor, Head of Forest and Society Research Group of Forestry Faculty at Universitas Hasanuddin, Indonesia Veronique Mbole - Assistant Project Officer, Green Development Advocates, Cameroon Helena Varkkey - Associate Professor, Universiti Malaya
Related URL	https://fairfrontiers.sakura.ne.jp/home/index.php/2025/09/17/seminar-the-making-and-un-making-of-frontiers/
Contact	FairFrontiers Project ayami.kan[at]chikyu.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @.)