Events
October 2024
The Global Winter School Edition IV in Pali (Rajasthan), India
GWS organized by Cultural Bridge is an immersive and transformative educational experience in rural Rajasthan. Together, we address vital social issues, discuss inequality at length, and unite people from around the world to jointly envision change. GWS is about learning glocally, and building a community of researchers and change-makers. Since its inception in 2020, it has brought together a diverse group of individuals, including students, professors, bureaucrats, social workers and industry experts from across India and different continents with the mission to put a global lens to a local issue and drive significant change in the world.
The program includes:
- lectures from distinguished professors, policymakers and activists
- field visits to villages, educational institutes and healthcare centres
- workshops on rural transformations, inequality, and enpowerment
Date: 3 -11 January 2025
Location: Pali (Rajasthan), India
Participation Fee: 350 Euros (excl. travel and visa cost)
Credit Points: 2- 6 ECTS
To register please visit: https://culturalbridge.net/index.php/the-global-winter-school-edition-iv/
For more information on Global Winter School and its previous editions as well as Cultural Bridge visit: https://culturalbridge.net/
Please feel free to connect with us at gws@culturalbridge.net.
August 2024
On August 22 at 18:00, Dr. Theara Thun will present his book Epistemology of the Past: Texts, History, and Intellectuals of Cambodia, 1855-1970.
The encounter of indigenous history-making tradition with Western historical practice has been long neglected in Southeast Asian scholarship. Epistemology of the Past: Texts, History, and Intellectuals of Cambodia, 1855–1970 offers one of the first critical and systematic studies of the interface between these two distinctive modes of historical presentation and their impacts on society. By examining historical discourses on Cambodia through the precolonial, colonial, and post-independence years, the book presents a compelling account of indigenous scholars, with varying perspectives, who advocated competing versions of history. It argues that precolonial history-making practices persisted alongside Western historical writings, leading to the development of a unique body of knowledge with its own distinct epistemology. The book makes an important contribution to scholarship on colonial and post-independence Southeast Asia, especially indigenous epistemologies, intellectual history, transculturation and translation, and on the collective historical imagination.
Link for the book: https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/epistemology-of-the-past-texts-history-and-intellectuals-of-cambodia-1850-1970/
July 2024
On Tuesday, July 2 at 18:00, Professor Dr. Sven Trakulhun presented his new book Confronting Christianity. The Protestant Mission and the Buddhist Reform Movement in Nineteenth-Century Thailand in room 117 of the IAAW.
On July 12, PD Dr. Daniel Bultmann gave the lecture "Towards an Analysis of the Cambodian Social Structure" at Paragon University in Phnom Penh.
June 2024
The German-Thai Society organized a weekend of activities in Berlin from 21 to 23 June. Events included a presentation of original Thai manuscripts at the State Library, an evening reception at the Royal Embassy of Thailand and a visit to the Humboldt Forum and Wat Buddhavihara. A big thank you to Martin Schalbruch, the lecturer for Thai language, for organizing these activities, which gave the students the opportunity to discover the diversity of Thai culture in Berlin!
On June 1, the annual Thai Day took place at the University of Hamburg with the topic "Sustainable Development in Thailand: Social and Cultural Paths". Several IAAW students as well as the Thai language lecturers Martin Schalbruch and Chanikan Charoensri were present. Two students took part in a Thai reading competition sponsored by the Krohn Foundation. Sarah Thouard won 1st place and David Dietrich came 3rd. Congratulations to both students!
May 2024
From May 22 to 25, 2024, the fourth workshop of the DFG network "Global Qualitative Sociology" took place at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. At the event, PD Dr. Daniel Bultmann presented his ongoing research on the structure of Cambodia's machelite. The research is part of a DFG-funded comparative project dealing with a "Global Sociology of Elite Conflicts". Felipe Garcia and Fabio Braun Carrasco have also been working on this project since the beginning of the year. The two doctoral students are working on power elites in Argentina and transnational networks of neoliberal and libertarian elites.
Important notice
The M.A. South and Southeast Asian Studies will no longer be offered from the winter semester 2021/22. Instead, the IAAW will offer a Master's in Asia-Africa Studies from the winter semester 2021/22, with the possibility to specialize in one region. You can find more information here: https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/de/studium/ma/institut/m-a-asien-afrikastudien