Upcoming events
July 2024
On Tuesday, July 2 at 18:00, Professor Dr. Sven Trakulhun will present 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 will give the lecture "Towards an Analysis of the Cambodian Social Structure" at Paragon University in Phnom Penh.
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/