Online Lecture: Dr. David M. Malitz – "Siam in the Japanocentric World Order: The Japanese Village of Ayutthaya and Relations between the Courts of Ayutthaya and Edo in the early 17th Century"

10 August 2023, 2:00 pm, by AAI Webmaster

Photo: David M. Malitz, cropped

We kindly invite you to this online lecture on Thursday, August 10, 2023, at 14:00–16:00 h (CEST/MESZ).

Topic: "Siam in the Japanocentric World Order: The Japanese Village of Ayutthaya and Relations between the Courts of Ayutthaya and Edo in the early 17^th Century"

Lecturer: Dr. David M. Malitz
Affiliation: German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), Tokyo

Date/Time: 10.08.2023 (Thursday), 14:00–16:00 h (CEST/MESZ).
Language: This online lecture will be held in English.

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

Topic:

The site of the former Japanese village in Ayutthaya with its small museum is a well-known and popular tourist attraction. The muban yipun, as it is known in Thai, was one of the most important Nihon machi or Japanese settlements in early modern Southeast Asia. As such, it has received considerable scholarly attention in the early 20^th century. Historical documents not only in Japanese and Dutch but also in Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish were gathered and analyzed in much detail.

This talk will first provide a summary of the settlement’s overall history. It will then offer a reinterpretation of the official relations between the kings of Ayutthaya and the early Tokugawa shoguns based on the literature on Tokugawa foreign relations, which has largely ignored Siam, while also being ignored itself in Thai Studies.

Photo: David M. Malitz, cropped

Photo: David M. Malitz, cropped

Lecturer:

Photo: David M. Malitz, cropped

David M. Malitz is a Senior Research Fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) in Tokyo, where he works on the past and present of Japanese-Southeast Asian relations with a focus on Thailand. He received his doctoral degree in Japanese Studies from the University of Munich. Prior to joining the DIJ, David taught at the Faculty of Arts of Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. He is also a non-resident Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, and a member of the Modern Monarchy in Global Perspective Research Hub at the University of Sydney.

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

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