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Department for Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia
Asien-Afrika-InstitutLanguages and Cultures of Southeast Asia

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PD Dr. Sven Trakulhun

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Contract University Teacher

Address

University of Hamburg
Faculty of Humanities
Asia-Africa Institute
Sprachen und Kulturen Südostasiens
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, East Wing
20146 Hamburg

Office hours

Consultation hours (PDF)

Contact

Tel: +49 40 42838-2104

Key aspects of activity

  • Thai History
  • History of Europe-Asia relations and encounters
  • Global History of Religions and Ideas
  • Colonial and postcolonial history

My field of expertise is the history of contacts between Europe and Asia, in particular Thailand, focusing on the mutual processes of appropriation and demarcation in politics, culture and religion from the 16th to the 19th century. I have received scholarships and external funding from a range of national and international foundations, including the German Research Foundation, the European Research Council and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

My present research considers the history of diplomatic relations between Southeast Asia and Europe from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.

CV (PDF)

Academic Career

  • Since 2021 principal investigator at the AAI, Centre for Thai Studies, Universität Hamburg
  • Since 2020 Adjunct professor in early modern history, department of history, University of Potsdam
  • 2014-20 Adjunct professor in modern history, department of history, University of Konstanz
  • 2008 Assistant professor in modern Asian history, department of history, University of Zurich
  • 2003 Lecturer and Postdoctoral Fellow, Moore Institute, NUI, Galway
  • 2000 PhD in early modern and modern history, University of Gießen