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東文研セミナー「 Lecture by Emiko Stock on Iran-Cambodia Connections」が開催されました
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2026年6月23日に、Emiko Stock博士を講師とする東文研セミナーが開催された。「Beyond the Trace, Beyond Area Studies: Iran-Cambodia Connections in Cham & Inter-Asian Studies」と題されたストック博士の講演は、ストック氏とカンボジアの少数民族であるChamとの間の長期間にわたる民族誌的な関わりをベースに氏が準備を進めている著書の一部を素材とするものであった。研究者側の過剰な読み込みによりシーア派的・イラン的とされてきたさまざまな文化要素に対するチャム・ムスリム自身の理解と態度／素振りを民俗誌的に記述する作業を通じ、そうした学説の誤謬を示すのみでなく、間アジア交流をめぐる研究のあり方に提言を行い、アーカイブの不在のなかで作動する「歴史」に考察を加える、野心的かつ刺激的なものであった。本セミナーはハイブリッド形式で行われ、合計7名の参加を得た。
On 23 June 2026, the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia hosted a Tobunken Seminar featuring Dr. Emiko Stock. Entitled “Beyond the Trace, Beyond Area Studies: Iran–Cambodia Connections in Cham & Inter-Asian Studies,” Dr. Stock’s lecture drew on part of a monograph she is currently preparing based on her long-term ethnographic engagement with the Cham, an ethnic minority in Cambodia. Through an ethnographic examination of how Cham Muslims themselves understand and engage with various cultural elements that scholars have often overinterpreted as Shiʿi or Iranian, the lecture not only demonstrated the shortcomings of such interpretations but also offered broader reflections on the study of inter-Asian connections and on the ways in which “history” emerges and functions in the absence of an archive. The presentation was both ambitious and intellectually stimulating. The seminar was held in a hybrid format and was attended by a total of seven participants.
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題目：Beyond the Trace, Beyond Area Studies: Iran-Cambodia Connections in Cham & Inter-Asian Studies
講演者：Dr. Emiko Stock（京都大学東南アジア地域研究研究所招聘研究員）
司会：森本一夫（IASA / Japan Office, ASPS）
日時：2026年6月23日（火）17:30-19:00
会場：東洋文化研究所第二会議室
要旨；
How does one take seriously a connection the archive can barely see, and the observer can barely imagine? This presentation begins from method, with a Cham counter-archival practice of deep attunement that privileges silence, absence, fragmented histories, and ethnographic refusals—images and resonance over texts and documentation. Grounded in long-term ethnography and “Inter-Asian concepts” (Ho 2017), this approach offers a pathway out of area studies and away from the binaries that have remained along the way—Iran/Persianate, Sunni/Shia, Southeast Asia/Middle East. Motivated by a long-term ethnographic involvement with Cambodian Cham Saeths—Sayyid descendants of the Prophet—this method operates through the sustained, affectively charged relationality with Iran: a connection that surfaces time and again in movement, memory, and intimate identification, even across distance and time. To ask what Iran is to Cambodia, or Cambodia to Iran, is ultimately to ask what Inter-Asian studies can look like when we follow the threads that conventional archives and observation refuse to hold.
This lecture was co-organized by the JSPS Kakenhi Project “ ‘Sunnis’ and ‘Shi‘is’: Historical Inquiries into Confessional Identities and Mutual Perceptions” (23H00674), the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University and supported by the Japan Office, Association for the Study of Persianate Societies.
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登録日時：MonJun2911:02:332026
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