以下の通り、第169回目の東文研・ASNET共催特別セミナーを開催します。
| 日時／Date | 2017年6月20日（火） 17:00-18:30 June 20 (Tue), 5:00-6:30 p.m. |
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| 会場／Venue | 東京大学 東洋文化研究所 1階 ロビー Ground Floor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo |
| 報告者／Speaker | Ali Humayun Akhtar (Bates College, USA) |
| 題名／Title | Reorienting the Dutch East India Company: Europeans as Inter-Asian Brokers in Jakarta and Nagasaki
オランダ東インド会社再考―アジアをつなぐ文化的仲介者としてのヨーロッパ人 |
| コメンテーター ／Commentator | 松井洋子氏（東京大学史料編纂所・教授）
Yoko Matsui (Professor, Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo) |
| 要旨／Abstract | This talk aims to reconceptualize the role of European maritime companies in inter-Asian cultural history. At the heart of this talk are two questions: In the era of Japan’s sakoku (seclusion) period in the 1600s, why did Japanese diplomats choose to wear silk textiles with Persian, Indian, and Southeast Asian designs? Given that Japan developed cultural connections with other parts of Asia long before the arrival of the Dutch, can historians understand the early Dutch merchants as “inter-Asian cultural brokers”? Bringing together visual examples of textiles and objects, this presentation highlights the two-way movement of objects and ideas between Japan and various parts of Asia during the Edo era. |
| 報告者略歴／Short Bio | Dr. Ali Humayun Akhtar, PhD is a a professor Bates College (USA). He received a PhD in History at New York University and a BA at Cornell University. Dr. Akhtar has taught previously at New York University, Bard College, and Ewha Women’s University (Seoul), where he taught a course on women’s movements and modernity across Asia. His most recent research on world history, including his first book on the politics of the Middle East, has been published by Cambridge University Press. Dr. Akhtar is currently writing two new books on global silk trade as a window into early modern political debates about modernity. |
| 使用言語／Language | 英語／English |