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Tobunken Seminar: Lecture by Emiko Stock on Iran-Cambodia Connections
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 are pleased to co-host a lecture by Dr. Emiko Stock (Kyoto University), entitled “Beyond the Trace, Beyond Area Studies: Iran-Cambodia Connections in Cham & Inter-Asian Studies,” on Tuesday, June 23, 2026. The event is also supported by the Japan Office of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies. This in-person event is open to the public, and no pre-registration is required.
Lecture Title:
Beyond the Trace, Beyond Area Studies: Iran-Cambodia Connections in Cham & Inter-Asian Studies
Speaker:
Dr. Emiko Stock (Visiting Scholar at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University; https://kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/staff/emiko-stock/)
Date and Time:
June 23 (Tuesday), 2026, at 17:30-19:00
Venue:
Room 302 (3F), Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, Hongo Campus, University of Tokyo (東京大学東洋文化研究所3階、第二会議室)
Chair:
Dr. Kazuo Morimoto (Professor in Islamic and Iranian History, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo)
Lecture Abstract:
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.
About the Speaker:
Emiko Stock is a multimodal and historical anthropologist whose research span feminist and experimental documentary production, sonic ethnography, sketchnoting, and poetic musings. They have been working closely with Cambodian Cham Muslims in Southeast Asia and the Middle East asking how can research truly attune itself to silenced and disrupted histories conveyed with and through images. They have taught at The American University in Cairo, Hamilton College, and Cornell University, where they earned their PhD, and co-founded CoMMPCT (Collective for Multimodal Makers, Publishers, Collaborators, and Teachers), and co-curated The Virtual Otherwise Conference & Film Festival. Advocating for experimental and sensory ethnography, their short films The Wedding (2021) and Commute (2015) have been screened in international film festivals and in academic seminars. Emiko is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University, working on their book project For This Cannot Be Told, Written Or Seen: Cham Resonances & Disrupted Histories. More info and contact: emikostock.com
How to Participate:
No pre-registration is required. Please arrive by 18:00, as the Institute's entrance doors are locked from the outside after that time.
Contact Person: Naoki Nishiyama (nishiyama[at]ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
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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