Thai-Tag 2025 / Thai Cultural Day 2025

Thai-Tag 2025 / Thai Cultural Day 2025
"Threads of Time: Preserving and Creating Thai Fashion"

Date/Time:
    June 14th, 2025 (Saturday), 09:00 – 17:00 (CEST/MESZ)

Place:
   University of Hamburg
   Asia-Africa-Institute (AAI)
   Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Ostflügel ("East Wing"), room O-221
   20146 Hamburg

Program:

09:00 - 09:30
    Registration
09:30 - 09:45
    Opening Ceremony
        – Miss Chompoonute Chompookam,
            Minister, Royal Thai Embassy, Berlin
        – Mr. Stefan Krohn,
            Honorary Consul, Royal Thai Honorary Consulate, Hamburg
        – Introduction by Prof. Dr. Volker Grabowsky,
            Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg
09:45 - 10:00
    Traditional Thai Dance
10:00 - 11:40
    – Prof. emer. Dr. M.L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati,
        former Director of the Asian Studies Program at California State University, Sacramento,
        and Honarary Editor of the "Journal of the Siam Society" (Keynote Speaker):
            Topic: "Royal Fashions: Reflections on Modernizing the Image of Siamese Women
                          in the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present"
    – Asst. Prof. Dr. Natawat Jatuphatwarodom,
        Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi
            Topic: "Agricultural Waste to Sustainable Textiles and Fashion in Thailand" (online talk)
11:40 - 12:00
    Cultural Program: Fashion Show (organised by Kukasina Kubaha and Karandeep Singh)
12:00 - 13:15
    Lunch
13:15 - 14:00
    Research Posters and Book Launch
14:00 - 15:00
    – "Career Opportunities for students of Thai and Southeast Asian Studies"
            by Royal Thai Embassy, Berlin,
            and Royal Thai Consulate-General, Munich
    – "Academic and Career Opportunities in Thailand: My Personal Journey as a Student"
            Speaker: Ms. Aline Theresia Bauer, University of Heidelberg
   –  Moderator: Ajarn Martin Schalbruch, Humboldt University of Berlin
15:00 - 15:15
    Traditional Thai Music performance
15:15 - 16:30
    Thai Students' Competition: 25 Quiz Questions on Thailand
16:30 - 16:45
    Lucky Draw
16:45 - 17:00
    Closing Ceremony

We would like to thank the Hamburg Society for Thai Studies for the cooperation. 

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