Oct 20, 2024
H Back to Lectures Bombs, Baccy and Buddhism: The First World War Diary of Sergeant Kleuap Kaysorn Kleuap Kaysorn was from Phetchaburi and worked in animal medicine before volunteering to join the Siamese Expeditionary Force in the First World War. He kept a diary of...
Sep 24, 2024
H Back to Lectures Serving the Kingdom and Fandom: The Reinvention and Hybridisation of the Ramakien in Thai Internet Literature The Ramakien, from the Indian epic Ramayana, is essential to Thai literature and is aligned with Thai national identity or Thainess (khwam...
Sep 23, 2024
H Back to Lectures War Slaves and Cultural Transformations: How Ayutthaya’s Captured Artisans and Performers Transformed Burmese Society In 1936, Prince Damrong Rajanubhab travelled to Burma on something of a cultural mission. A decade earlier, Damrong had come to...
Sep 21, 2024
H Back to Lectures Tracing Pali and Thai Manuscripts from Japan to Ireland: Collections, Collectors, and Connections When travelers from Europe, North America, and Japan among other places started exploring Southeast Asia, they often brought back manuscripts to their...
Sep 20, 2024
H Back to Lectures Journey to Southern Thailand and Burma Explorer, Oriental scholar and diplomat, Pierre Lefèvre-Pontalis (1864-1938) was a member of the Pavie Mission to Laos in the 1890s and participated in drawing up the borders between French Indochina and...
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