This is an announcement to invite you to the CSEAS Colloquium for May 2015.

Date & Time: 28 May (Thursday) 2015, 16:00~

Place: Middle-sized Meeting Room (No. 332), 3rd Floor, Inamori Foundation Building, Kyoto University

Title: Moments of Silence: the Unforgetting of the 1976 Massacre

Speaker: Dr. Thongchai Winichakul (Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Visiting Research Scholar at CSEAS of Kyoto University)

Abstract:
Forty years later, the 1976 massacre at Thammasat University in Bangkok remains a sensitive subject people cannot or do want to talk about openly in public. Silence is not forgetting but the inability for memory to find voices or a narrative not only due to suppression, shame, guilt, but also to the desire to move on, reconciliation, and for some silence is a way to remember. Given the changes in political environments over 40 years, memories and silence of victims and the perpetrators also change. This is a story of those different moments of silence.

Thongchai Winichakul is Professor of History at University of Wisoconsin-Madison. His book Siam Mapped (1994) was awarded the Harry J Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies in 1995, and the Grand Prize from the Asian Affairs Research Council (Japan) in 2004. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003. His research interests are in cultural and intellectual history of Siam. He currently works on the intellectual foundation of modern Siam (1880s-1930s) and also a book on the memories of the 1976 massacre in Bangkok. He was President of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) in the U.S. in 2013/14.

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