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...
Sep 6, 2024
H Back to Lectures (February and March Mindfulness Workshops) Enlightenment in This Lifetime: Liberation Through the Practice of the Buddha’s Teaching The special series of talks on 19-22 November 2024 and extended to 11 and 13 December aimed to shed new light on...
Sep 3, 2024
H Back to Lectures Rendered Invisible: Pom Mahakan, Bangkok, and Cultural Rights This talk is a story about the demise of the Pom Mahakan community and some lessons learned. The Pom Mahakan community was one of thousands of urban communities around the world under...
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