Kommende Veranstaltungen
Juli 2024
Am Dienstag den 2. Juli um 18:00 wird Professor Dr. Sven Trakulhun sein neues Buch Confronting Christianity. The Protestant Mission and the Buddhist Reform Movement in Nineteenth-Century Thailand in Raum 117 des IAAW vorstellen.
Am 12. Juli wird PD Dr. Daniel Bultmann den Vortrag "Towards an Analysis of the Cambodian Social Structure" an der Paragon University in Phnom Penh halten.
August 2024
Am 22. August um 18:00 wird Dr. Theara Thun ein Vortrag über sein Buch Epistemology of the Past: Texts, History, and Intellectuals of Cambodia, 1855–1970 halten.
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/