Seventeenth-Century Siam in Light of New Evidence
The contribution of foreign historical accounts to the formation of the history of Siam has been well established in previous scholarship. Various reports are available in different languages concerning the Siamese court, people and culture, especially during the Ayutthaya period. This lecture, which is part of the researcher’s long-term project, presents new evidence in relation to Siamese earlier social and cultural contexts. Based on this discovery, we are now able to identify some of the foreign residents of Siam of the time and how they contributed to Siamese society from Tenasserim to Ayutthaya.
About the speaker
Majid Daneshgar is Associate Professor of Area Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, former Munby Fellow at the University of Cambridge and alumnus of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. He has published several works on Southeast Asian Collections in private and public libraries, including his recent monograph “Reconstructing Erpenius’ Library: The First Collection of Oriental Manuscripts at Cambridge University Library” (Brill 2024).
When
Thursday, 20 August 2026 at 19:00
Where
Admission
Members and Students (to undergraduate level) — Free of charge
Non-Members — THB 300
For more information, please contact
Tel: 02 661 6470-3 ext 201
or e-mail: lectures@thesiamsociety.org
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