Hybrid Lecture: Catthiyakorn Sasitharamas – “Die Siam Society und ihre Rolle als Forum des Wissenstransfers zwischen Europäern und Thais"

6 June 2023, 4:00 pm, by AAI Webmaster

Photo: The Siam Society, cropped

We kindly invite you to this hybrid lecture on Tuesday, June 06, 2023, at 16:00 h (CEST/MESZ).

Topic: “Die Siam Society und ihre Rolle als Forum des Wissenstransfers zwischen Europäern und Thais"

Lecturer: Dr. Catthiyakorn Sasitharamas
Affiliation: Silpakorn-Universität, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand

Date/Time: 06.06.2023 (Tuesday), 16:00–18:00 h (CEST/MESZ).
Language: This hybrid lecture will be held in German.

Place: Universität Hamburg
             Asien-Afrika-Institut, room 232
             Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Flügel Ost (East Wing)
             20146 Hamburg

Zoom Link: https://uni-hamburg.zoom.us/j/64563521222?pwd=OEdSbENCOUV2Ynl5ZUdnNG5mM1pwQT09
Zoom Meeting-ID: 645 6352 1222
Zoom Passcode: hgtlecture

Topic:

Photo: The Siam Society, cropped

During the reign of King Chulalongkorn (1868–1910), various reform projects were carried out with the help of European experts in the Siamese civil service. The civil servants from different nations – Germans, French, Italians, English and others – worked in the newly formed ministries. In their free time, they therefore committed themselves to researching everything they needed to know, from wildlife, culture, language and literature to the history of the country.

In February 1904 they – among them German scholar Oskar Frankfurter – founded the Siam Society in the Oriental Hotel and placed it under the king's patronage. With the aim of "exploring and promoting art, science and literature relating to Siam and the neighboring countries", members should regularly give scientific lectures for subsequent publication in the Journal of the Siam Society. Due to its various activities, the Siam Society might be considered as a place of knowledge transfer between the European and Thai members. This lecture examines how deep this transfer went and what benefits both sides derived from it.

Lecturer:

Photo: Catthiyakorn Sasitharamas, cropped

Dr. Catthiyakorn Sasitharamas teaches European history, with a focus on 19^th-century European history and Nazi-era German history, at the History Department of Silpakorn University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand. In 2006 she completed her master's degree in modern and contemporary history at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and received her doctorate in 2011 at the University of Hamburg with a thesis on "German-Thai relations in the period of the Weimar Republic up to the end of the Second World War".

We thank the Hamburg Society for Thai Studies for the cooperation. 

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