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I hold a PhD in International Politics/International Public Policy from Osaka University. Currently, I am a postdoctoral Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University (2022-2023) where I am preparing a manuscript for book publication. I was a recipient of the Japanese Government Scholarship (MEXT) and was a graduate student fellow at the National University of Singapore and the New School, New York. My research lies in the intersection of critical international relations theory, international political sociology, and postcolonial and decolonial studies.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Carmina Yu Untalan

Citation names

  • Untalan, Carmina Yu

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
B716-9364-9349
ORCID iD
0000-0003-3082-7757

Email addresses

  • untalanmina@gmail.com (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Political Sciences
  • Social Sciences - Political Sciences
  • Social Sciences
Education
Degree Classification
2015/10/01 - 2020/09/25
Concluded
Osaka School of International Public Policy (Doctor)
Major in International Politics
Osaka Daigaku - Toyonaka Campus, Japan
"The Postcolonial Condition of East Asian International Relations: Mindanao, Okinawa, and the United States Hegemony" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Approved
2009/04/05 - 2014/03/31
Concluded
College of Liberal Arts (Master)
Major in Political Science
De La Salle University, Philippines
"Subverting the Past: An Analysis of the Construction of Japan’s State Identity" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Approved with GPA 3.8/4.0
2005/04/05 - 2009/03/31
Concluded
College of Liberal Arts (Bachelor)
Major in Political Science
De La Salle University, Philippines
"Idealization of Colonial Beauty: Placing the Filipina Under Surveillance in Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
With Honors
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2024/10/15 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2022/10/06 - 2023/08/06 Postdoc (Research) Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
International Institute for Asian Studies, Netherlands
2022/04/01 - 2023/08/01 Visiting Researcher (Research) Osaka Daigaku - Toyonaka Campus, Japan
Osaka Daigaku Daigakuin Kokusai Kokyo Seisaku Kenkyuka, Japan
2020 - 2022 Researcher (Research) Ippan Shadan Hojin IAFOR Nihon, Japan
Ippan Shadan Hojin IAFOR Nihon, Japan
2019/10 - 2021/03 Research Assistant (Research) Osaka Daigaku - Toyonaka Campus, Japan
Osaka Daigaku Daigakuin Kokusai Kokyo Seisaku Kenkyuka, Japan
(...)
2018/10 - 2019/03 Research Assistant (Research) Osaka Daigaku - Toyonaka Campus, Japan
East-West Center, United States
(...)
2015/10/01 - 2016/03/31 Visiting Researcher (Research) Nanyang Technological University S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore
Nanyang Technological University S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2021/04/01 - 2022/03/31 Associate Professor (University Teacher) Osaka Daigaku - Toyonaka Campus, Japan
Osaka Daigaku Daigakuin Kokusai Kokyo Seisaku Kenkyuka, Japan
2017 - 2020 Tutor (University Teacher) Osaka Daigaku - Toyonaka Campus, Japan
Osaka Daigaku Daigakuin Kokusai Kokyo Seisaku Kenkyuka, Japan
2009/04/01 - 2013/03/31 Lecturer (University Teacher) De La Salle University, Philippines
De La Salle University, Philippines
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2024/10 - Current Weaving a common world: rethinking International Relations with anticolonial figures Rizal, Cabral, Fanon, and Hatta
2023.08358.CEECIND
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2023/04 - 2024/03 Coercive and Emotional Diplomacy in East Asia
NA
Researcher
Norwegian Institute for International Affairs
2021/11 - 2023/03 (JSPS Grant ) The battle for Marawi City: Analyzing U.S.-China great power rivalry from the local perspective
21K2015
Principal investigator
Osaka Daigaku - Toyonaka Campus, Japan
Ippan Zaidann Hojin Kikai Shinko Kyokai Keizai Kenkyujo
Ongoing
2019/10 - 2021/03 Japan and Korea in U.S.-China Relations
Policy Research Project
Research Fellow
Ippan Shadan Hojin IAFOR Nihon, Japan

Osaka Daigaku Daigakuin Kokusai Kokyo Seisaku Kenkyuka, Japan
Korea Foundation
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Untalan, Carmina Yu. "Turtles amid Healing and Extinction". In International Relations and Question of Animal Agency in the South China Sea Disputes, edited by Teo victor. Routledge, 2023.
    Published • 10.4324/9781003212089
  2. Untalan, Carmina. "Japan's Human Security and Peacebuilding Diplomacy: Middle Power by Any Other Name". In The Niche Diplomacy of Asian Middle Powers, edited by Howe, Brendan, 17-34. Lexington (Rowman & Littlefield), 2021.
    Published
Book review
  1. Untalan, Carmina Yu. "Media and culture: global homogeneity and local identity". (2012): 108-110.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Carmina Yu Untalan. "Beyond Empire: Okinawa and the politics of American Military bases in Japan". Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences (PARISS) 5 1 (2024): 62-80. https://brill.com/view/journals/pari/5/1/article-p62_005.xml?ebody=article%20details.
    Open access • Accepted
  2. Untalan, Carmina Yu; Carmina Yu Untalan. "Perforating Color Lines: Japan and the Problem of Race in the Non-West". Review of International Studies (2023): https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210523000566.
    Open access • Published • 10.1017/S0260210523000566
  3. Untalan, Carmina Yu. "Philippine-US Alliance in Transition: Towards Polycentric Relations?". East Asian Policy 14 03 (2022): 58-71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1793930522000216.
    Published • 10.1142/s1793930522000216
  4. Untalan, Carmina Yu. "Okinawa Beyond the Hub-and-spoke Alliance System: A Reappraisal". East Asian Policy 12 04 (2020): 19-33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1793930520000288.
    Published • 10.1142/s1793930520000288
  5. Untalan, Carmina Yu. "Decentering the Self, Seeing Like the Other: Toward a Postcolonial Approach to Ontological Security". International Political Sociology 14 1 (2019): 40-56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ips/olz018.
    Published • 10.1093/ips/olz018
  6. Untalan, Carmina Yu. "The Curious Case of the Duterte Presidency: Turning the Demos Against Democracy?". Development 60 3-4 (2017): 168-173. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41301-018-0149-6.
    Published • 10.1057/s41301-018-0149-6
  7. Untalan, Carmina Yu. "The Philippines 2016: Democracy in dispute?". Asia Maior 17 (2017): 143-166.
    Published
  8. Untalan, Carmina Yu. Corresponding author: Untalan, Carmina Yu. "The Philippines 2014-2015: Domestic politics and foreign relations, a critical review". Asia Maior 16 (2016): 133-155.
    Published
Magazine article
  1. Untalan, Carmina. "What a Stronger Japanese Military Posture Means for Okinawa", E-IR, 2023, https://www.e-ir.info/2023/02/22/opinion-what-a-stronger-japanese-military-posture-means-for-okinawa/.
  2. Untalan, Carmina Yu. "Who's the Real Threat to Japan?", Open Asia, 2018, https://www.openasia.asia/whos-the-real-threat-to-japan/.
  3. Untalan, Carmina Yu. "Democracy for the "Bobotante"", Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies Dialogue, University of Nottingham, 2016, https://theasiadialogue.com/2016/02/24/philippines-2016-democracy-for-the-bobotante/.
  4. Untalan, Carmina Yu. "The Real Crisis of Philippine Democracy", Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia: Young Academics' Voice, 2015, https://kyotoreview.org/yav/crisis-philippine-democracy/.
Newspaper article
  1. Untalan, Carmina Yu. "False Empowerment in Duterte Society", Rappler, 2016, https://www.rappler.com/voices/imho/142324-empowerment-duterte-society/.
  2. Untalan, Carmina Yu. "The anti-dynasty law: A cosmetic measure", Rappler, 2015
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/10/22 Re-framing hegemony: Mindanao, Okinawa, and American preponderance in East Asia Perspective Asia Lecture Series
Lund University (Center for East and Southeast Asian Studies) (Lund, Sweden)
2024/10/04 Requiem for right-wing nationalism? Anxiety and postwar Japan's identity-making after Abe International Studies Association Annual Convention
International Studies Association (San Francisco , United States)
2023/08/17 Bringing the prodigal spoke back in: Japan approach to Duterte's War on Drugs as geostrategy 17th International Conference
European Association for Japanese Studies (Ghent, Belgium)
2023/03/22 Postcolonialism and International Relations Lecture
De La Salle University (Manila, Philippines)
2023/03/19 Beyond Empire: Okinawa and the Politics of American Military Bases in Japan IIAS Lecture Series
International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden, Netherlands)
2022/10/22 After Empire: Constituting the Outside of American Military Base Politics in Japan (Re)Writing the International: Interrogating Histories, Imagining Futurities Millennium Annual Conference
London School of Economics (online, United Kingdom)
2022/09/23 Discussant Protecting the Vulnerable: Human Security and Migration Policies
Osaka School of International Public Policy (Osaka, Japan)
2022/07/21 The Battle for Marawi City: Analysing U.S.-China great power rivalry from the local perspective Asia Pacific Political Science Research and Publication Conference
American Political Science Association (Bangkok, Thailand)
2021/12/15 History Rings Twice: What colonial and reconciliation issues between Japan and South Korea can teach us about Non-Traditional Security Southeast Asia and Japan: Bonds and Connections Toward 2030
Japanese Studies Association of Southeast Asia (online)
2021/11/27 Enhancing Japan-Korea Partnership in Non-Traditional Security Issues in Asia (roundtable) Operationalizing an East Asian Community of Peace and Development: Challenges and Opportunities
Asian Political and International Studies Association (online)
2021/10/21 Bases and Pandemic: Okinawa at the Forefront of Human Security Global Society Facing Pandemic: Towards Strengthening Governance and Participation
Mexican International Studies Association (online)
2021/07/21 The Integrated Subaltern: Mindanao, the Philippine and U.S. Hegemony in East Asia New Nationalisms in an Open World
International Political Science Association (online, Portugal)
2021/02/11 Taming the native(s): A critical perspective of American colonialism and democratization of the Philippines, Lecture
Pomona College (California, United States)
2019/07/24 U.S. Hegemony and the Politics of Subalternity: Locating Mindanao in East Asian International Order Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies
National University of Singapore (Singapore, Singapore)
2018/04/18 A useful hegemony: U.S. and the power of identity in East Asia Power of Rules and Rule of Power
International Studies Association (San Francisco, United States)
2018/03/22 The Attack of Killer Strawberries: Defamiliarizing Japan's History Problem through Machiko Kyo's Ichigo Sensou Annual Conference
Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference (Washington DC, United States)
2018/02/10 Europe is Dead, Long Live Europe! Revisiting E.U.'s Post-Westphalian Dream through Worldist View of International Relations Graduate Students' Conference
European Union Institute of Japan (Fukuoka, Japan)
2017/08/30 Security in Ambiguity: The Necessary "Otherness" of Japan in the US-Japan Alliance 15th International Conference
European Association for Japanese Studies (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/06/17 "(Un)Wanted Alliance: Foreclosing Japan's Democratic Imagination through Constitutional Revision Asia in Motion: Beyond Borders and Boundaries
Association for Asian Studies (Seoul, South Korea)
2016/10/22 Perforated Color Lines: "Orient" and the Vicious Cycle of Racialization Racialized Realities in Word Politics Millennium Annual Conference
London School of Economics (London, United Kingdom)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2023/05/11 - 2023/05/11 Conversation Sessions (2023/05/11 - 2023/05/11)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
International Institute for Asian Studies, Netherlands
2019/01 - 2019/03 Organized events for the project The U.S.-Japan- Southeast Asia Partnership in a Dynamic Asia Fellowship Program (2019/01/30 - 2019/01/31)
Symposium
East-West Center Washington, United States

Osaka Daigaku Daigakuin Kokusai Kokyo Seisaku Kenkyuka, Japan
2019 - 2019 Workshop on Japan and Korea in U.S.-China Relations with funding from Korea Foundation (2019 - 2020)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Osaka Daigaku - Toyonaka Campus, Japan

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/04/02 - Current Base Women and Beyond: Developing a Feminist Decolonial Approach to Nuclear/Military Assemblages
Workshop
International Studies Association Annual Convention
Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom

International Studies Association, United States
2023/11/29 - 2023/11/29 From the invitation: This seminar will assess the achievements and challenges of this partnership in the past five decades. It will also anticipate future challenges and opportunities in the effort to strengthen ASEAN-Japan partnership for mutual benefits and a more stable, vibrant and prosperous Indo-Pacific.
Seminar
EAI Seminar commemorating the Golden Jubilee of ASEAN-Japan Partnership
East Asian Institute, Singapore

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Embassy of Japan in Singapore, Singapore
2023/04/13 - 2023/04/14 Exploratory workshop on Diplomacy in East Asia
Workshop
Coercive and Emotional Diplomacy: Japanese Responses
Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
2021/07/24 - 2021/07/28 Workshop on Indo-Pacific Strategy (online)
Symposium
Australia-US-Japan Next Generation Policy Forum
Australian Institute of International Affairs National Office, Australia
2020/03/22 - 2020/03/31 Graduate Student Workshop on Asian Studies (cancelled due to COVID-19)
Workshop
Dissertation Workshop
University of California Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies, United States
2019/12/05 - 2019/12/06 Workshop for a book project
Workshop
Animal-Human Interactions in Anthropocene China and Asia: Interdisciplinary Approaches
The University of Hong Kong Department of Politics and Public Administration, Hong Kong SAR China
2019/06/16 - 2019/07/27 Graduate Student Fellowship on Asian Studies
Other
Asia Graduate Student Fellowship
National University of Singapore, Singapore
2018/07/23 - 2018/07/24 International Relations Theory Symposium
Symposium
Millennium Journal Annual Theory Symposium
National University of Singapore, Singapore
2016/07/11 - 2016/07/21 Seminar on Decolonial Studies
Seminar
Decolonizing Knowledge and Power: Postcolonial Studies, Decolonial Horizons, Center of Study and Investigation for Decolonial Dialogues
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Biblioteca de Ciències Socials, Spain
2016/06/12 - 2016/06/18 Seminar on Marx and Postcolonial Theory
Seminar
Why Marx Today?
The New School for Social Research, United States
2013/08/02 - 2013/08/14 Seminar on Peace and Human Security
Seminar
Peace and Human Security in Asia Program
Hiroshima Daigaku, Japan

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024 - Current Review of International Studies Cambridge University
2024 - Current Journal of International Relations and Development Palgrave
2023/05 - 2023/05 The International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs Instituto Affari Internazionali
2023/04 - 2023/04 Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs Sage
2022/03 - 2022/03 Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Wiley-Blackwell
2021/12 - 2021/12 Asia-Pacific Social Science Review De La Salle University
2021/10 - 2021/10 Reviewer for a Book Bristol University Press
2021/08 - 2021/08 East Asian Policy World Scientific
2021/02 - 2021/02 Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Nature
2020/09 - 2020/09 The Pacific Review Taylor & Francis

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2021 - Current International Studies Association
2020 - Current Association for Asian Studies
Distinctions

Award

2018 Best Graduate Student Paper
European Union Institute of Japan, Japan

Kyushu Daigaku, Japan

Other distinction

2021 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI Start-Up Research Grant
Nihon Gakujutsu Shinkokai, Japan
2019 Osaka University Graduate Student Internship Grant
Osaka Daigaku - Toyonaka Campus, Japan
2019 Fellowship Grant
National University of Singapore, Singapore
2018 Research Grant for International Cooperation
Osaka Daigaku - Toyonaka Campus, Japan
2018 Conference Participation Grant
International Studies Association, United States
2017 Conference Participation Grant
European Association for Japanese Studies, Germany
2016 Fellowship Travel Grant
The New School for Social Research, United States
2016 Conference Participation Travel Grant
Osaka Daigaku - Toyonaka Campus, Japan
2015 Japanese Government Scholarship Award (Ph.D.)
Monbu Kagakusho, Japan
2013 JASSO Scholarship
Dokuritsu Gyosei Hojin Nihon Gakusei Shien Kiko, Japan