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Dr. David M. Malitz
Curriculum Vitae (short)●

Since 1 September 2021: Senior Research Fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies,Tokyo.
oFall Semester 2021/22: Adjunct lecturer University of Freiburg.

●August 2017–July 2021: Lecturer in Global Studies with the international program (BALAC) ofthe Faculty of Arts of Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.

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January 2015–July 2017: Lecturer at the Martin de Tours School of Management and Economics,Assumption University of Thailand, Bangkok.

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June 2010–June 2014: Doctoral Student in Japanese Studies (Japanologie) at the Japan Center ofLudwig-Maximilians-University, Munich (degree formally completed with the publication of thedissertation in 2016).
oJuly 2013–June 2014: Visiting Researcher at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn Universityin Bangkok.
oFebruary 2012–January 2013: JSPS Fellow at the Center of Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto
University.
oJanuary 2011–January 2012: Visiting Researcher at the Faculty of Political Science,
Thammasat University in Bangkok.

●August 2008–December 2010: Positions in the private sector (finance) in London and Düsseldorf.

●October 2002–June 2008: Student of the dual degree program “Diplomstudiengang
Betriebswirtschaftslehre mit interkultureller Qualifikation Japanisch“ at the Universities ofMannheim and Heidelberg, Germany: 2002–2008.
oExchange student at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies and Hitotsubashi University(Tokyo).

Academic Events OrganizedInternational conference Health Infrastructure and Asia’s Epidemiological Transitions: Historical
Perspectives, 13–14 April 2022 at ARI, Singapore. Co-organized with Dr. Zhou Dongxin.
Double panel “New Perspectives on the History of Japanese-Thai (Siamese) Relations” at theJapanese Studies Association of Southeast Asia’s 7th Biennial International e-Conference:
Southeast Asia and Japan: Bonds and Connections towards 2030, 16 December 2021.
Virtual Symposium at the Occasion of the 130th Anniversary of the Opening of the Imperial Diet,
26–27 November 2020 held at the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo (jointly with theFaculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University)
Roundtable Global Intellectual History beyond Eurocentric Lenses: Connected PoliticalVocabularies across South and Southeast Asia, ca. 1800-2018, 4 August 2018 at LudwigMaximilians-University, Munich. Co-organized with Milinda Banerjee at (supported by BALAC).
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Publications

“‘Shinkoku’: Revisiting the Concept of Sentient Landscapes from Japan,” in: Simona Simona
Cotofana (Ed.) Xenophobic Landscapes: Sentience Reconsidered, Oxford: Berghahn, forthcoming.
“‘Siegreich und gewillt dem Gesetz unterworfen zu sein‘: Kaiser Meiji als Vorbild für die
Monarchien des halbkolonialisierten Asiens im Vorfeld deren konstitutionellen Revolutionen imfrühen 20. Jahrhundert,‘ in Daniel Schley (Ed.) Japans Moderne Monarchie – Eine
Bestandsaufnahme, Munich: Iudicum, forthcoming.
“The Franco—Siamese War and the Russo-Japanese War: Two Colonial Wars and the Political
Discovery of the Idea of Race in Absolutist Siam,” in Farish A. Noor and Peter Carey (Eds.) ‘Race’and the Colonial Wars in 19th Century Southeast Asia. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press,2021.
“The Sacred and the Secular-Economic: A Cross-Country Comparison of the Regulation of theEconomic Activities of Religious Organizations – Perspectives from France, Germany, Japan,
Thailand, Turkey, and the United States,” in Jayeel Serrano Cornelio et al. (Eds), Routledge
International Handbook of Religion in Global Society. London: Routledge, 2021.
“The Genesis of Dynastic Legitimacy in Absolutist Siam,” in Global Journal of IntellectualHistory, special issue edited by Milind Banerjee and Ilya Afanasyev, 5/2020.
“The Nation as a Ritual Community: Royal Nation-Building in Imperial Japan and Post-WarThailand,” In Elena Woodacre et al. (Eds.), The Routledge History of Monarchy (213–228).
Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.
“The Monarchs’ New Clothes: Transnational Flows and the Fashioning of the Modern Japaneseand Siamese Monarchies,” in M. Banerjee et al. (Eds.), The Royal Nation: Transnational Histories(155–176). London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Japanese-Siamese Relations from the Meiji Restoration to the End of World War II. Bochum andFreiburg: Projektverlag (Münchner Schriftenreihe Japanfoschung), 2016.
“Japanese Views of Siam/Thailand from the Tokugawa-Period to the end of World War II,” inCatching up with Southeast Asia’s New Body: States, Markets and Public Spheres. Joint
International Symposium by Chulalongkorn University, Kyoto University, Nottingham University,
IRASEC on 25-29 September 2013 in Phuket. Bangkok: Institute for Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn
University, 2014.
“An Angel Rising in the East” – Japan in the Early Twentieth-Century Siamese Nationalist
Discourse,” In Trans-national Southeast Asia: Paradigms, Histories, Vectors: Proceedings of theKyoto-Cornell Joint International Workshop on 11-12 January 2013, Rayuku Kaikan, Kyoto.
Kyoto: Kyoto University Center for Southeast Asian Studies, 2013.
“Japan in the Siamese Press - From the Russo-Japanese War to 1932,” in International Conference
on Asian Studies 2012 on 26-27 July 2012 in Negombo, Official Conference Proceedings.
Thalangama North (Sri Lanka): International Center for Research and Development, 2013.

Conference Papers and Guest LecturesConference paper “The First Visit of a Head of State: King Prajadhipok’s Visit to Japan in 1931” atthe Japanese Studies Association of Southeast Asia’s 7th Biennial International e-Conference:
Southeast Asia and Japan: Bonds and Connections towards 2030, 16 December 2021.
Research paper Chinese and Japanese Medical Diplomacy in Southeast Asia: The Case of2

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Thailand during the Covid-19 Pandemic at IN-EAST Research Forum, University of DuisburgEssen, 24 November 2021.
Conference paper “Japan in Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia in Japan – Transnational Perspectives
from Thailand and Japan,” presented at the conference Japanese Studies and Transnationalism
organized by the Consortium for Global Studies and the Centre Européen d’Études Japonaisesd’Alsace, 29–31 October 2021.
Lecture “The Multiple Identites of Maria Guyonar de Pinga: Quasi Martyr, Symbol of JapaneseThai Friendship,a nd Royalist Patriot” at the Doktorandenseminar of Professor Sabine
Dabringhaus, University of Freiburg.
Conference paper “Thai Fascism? Locating Thai Far-Right Thought Past and Present”, presented
at the online-workshop Online Workshop “Fascism in Motion: Concepts, Agents and Global
Experiences” organized by Kwansei Gakuin University and German Institute for Japanese Studies,
7–9 October 2021.
Conference paper “Framing a Scandal: Thai Reporting about Mori Yoshinori’s Resignation as
Chairman of the Japanese Olympic Committee,” presented at the research workshop
Internationalisation Interupted at the Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of East Anglia
and the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, 1–2 July 2021
Conference paper “Two Additional Observations about the Feudal Nature of the early 17thCentury Japanocentric World Order,” presented at the AUA-CU Conference on The Asian Melting
Pot: Asian History through the Multicultural Perspective, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok,
15–16 May 2021
Conference paper “Culture and Cons: Changing Perceptions of Financial Success and Ponzi
Schemes in Contemporary Thailand,” presented at the 2nd East Asian Popular Culture Conference,
Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 10–11 January 2021.
Conference paper “’What is Good about the Japanese System of Governance’: Imperial JapaneseConstitutionalism in Thai Political Thought, 1880s – 1940s” presented at the InternationalSymposium at the Occasion of the 130th Anniversary of the Opening of the Imperial Diet, 26–27
November 2020 held at the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo (jointly with theFaculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University).
Panelist at the roundtable 3rd Japan-ASEAN Relations: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic,organized by Asia Centre, Bangkok, 19 November 2020.
Lecture Japanese-Siamese Relations During the Absolute Monarchy presented online for thelecture series by the Hamburger Gesellschaft für Thaiistik, Asien-Afrika-Institut, University ofHamburg, 17 September 2020.
Panelist at the roundtable 2nd Japan-ASEAN Relations: Competing for Influence in Southeast Asia,organized by Asia Centre, Bangkok, 4 October 2019.
“Exceptional Japan, Japanese Universality,” paper presented at the 5th International Symposium
Japan in the World, the World in Japan: A Methodological Approach. Chulalongkorn University,Bangkok, 16–17 September 2019
An Archeology of the Trope of the Devarāja, guest lecture at the seminar on Thai society, OsakaUniversity, 23 July 2019.
The Aggañña Sutta as the Meta-Narrative of Thai Political Culture, guest lecture at the seminar onSoutheast Asian Area Studies, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, 17July 2019.
“Standing in the Emperor’s Light: ‘Weak’ Political Leaders and Strong Results,” paper presented
at the AAS in-Asia Conference 2019. Bangkok, 1–3 July 2019.
Picture-Book Democracy: Teaching Authoritarian Values in Thai 'Democracy-Picture-Books' for
Preschool Children, guest lecture at the Südostasien-Kolloquium, Universität Freiburg (Germany),3

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“The Good vs. the Bad: Theravada Ideas in the Thai Political Discourse and the Use and Power ofCharacter Assassinations in Present-Day Thailand,” virtual presentation of a paper at theconference Character Assassination and Populism: Challenges and Responses, George Mason
University, 15–17 March 2019.
“The Franco-Siamese War and the Political Discovery of ‘Race’ in Absolutist Siam (1893),” paper
presented at the workshop Racial Difference and the Colonial Wars of 19th Century Southeast
Asia, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and School of History at the Department ofHumanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 10 March 2019.
“Remembering the Japanese-Thai Alliance during World War II: Writing History, Making History,
Consuming History,” virtual presentation of a paper at the 6th JSA ASEAN Conference Jakarta, 5–7
December 2018.
“Imperial Nation: Japanese National Identity and Banal State Shintō,” paper presented at
Conference on InterAsian Connections VI: Hanoi, 4–7 December 2018.
“The Pursuit of Sukha: The Theravada Foundations of the Thai Political Discourse,” paper
presented at the roundtable Global Intellectual History beyond Eurocentric Lenses: Connected
Political Vocabularies across South and Southeast Asia, ca. 1800-2018, co-organized with Milinda
Banerjee, Ludwig-Maximilians-University. Munich, 4 August 2018.
“American Monarchism and Monarchical Anti-Communism: The Japanese and Thai Monarchies
and the Beginning Cold War,” paper presented at the Monarchy and Sovereignty in TwentiethCentury Asia: A Symposium, Duke University, 13 April 2018.
Die Metamorphosen des Yamada Nizaemon Nagamasa im Spiegelbild der JapanischThailändischen Beziehungen, guest lecture at the Center of Japanese Studies, University ofHeidelberg, 20 December 2017.
“Performing Kingship in (pre-)Modern Siam,” paper presented at The Modern Invention ofDynasty: A Global Intellectual History, 1500-2000. University of Birmingham, 21–23 September
2017 (virtual participation).
The 1895 Foundation of the Heian Shrine in Kyoto: Local and National Identity in Imperial
Japan, guest lecture at the Department of History of Chulalongkorn Univesity, 6 March 2017.
“Discipline and Progress: Thai-Buddhist Modernity and its Imagination of the Japanese,” paper
presented at the Second European Association of Japanese Studies Conference in Japan. Kobe
University, 24 September 2016.
“A Fishy Business: A Rational Choice Approach to Solving the Crisis of Thailand's FisheryIndustry,” paper presented at the Asian Conference on Business and Public Policy 2015, Kobe, 6November 2015.
The Invisible and the Third Hand: Conspiracism and Thai Politics, guest lecture at the Center forSoutheast Asian Studies, University of Kyoto, 4 November 2015.
“Relationship Status: It’s Complicated – The Village in the Thai Nation,” paper presented at theFirst Ateneo Center for Asian Studies Graduate Student’s Symposium: “The Asia Village:Challenges, Innovations & Reforms in East and Southeast Asia from Below”, Ateneo de Manila
University, Manila, 7 July 2015.
“A Short History of Thai Political Ideas,” guest lecture at the Southeast Asia Studies Program,
University of Freiburg, 25 June 2014.
“Japanese Views of Siam/Thailand from the Tokugawa-Period to the end of World War II,” paper
presented at the Chulalongkorn-Kyoto-Nottingham-IRASEC Joint International Symposium:“Catching up with Southeast Asia’s New Body: States, Markets and Public Spheres”. Phuket, 27
September 2013.
“An Angel Rising in the East” – Japan in the Early Twentieth-Century Siamese Nationalist4

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Discourse,” paper presented at the Kyoto-Cornell Joint International Workshop: “Trans-National
Southeast Asia: Paradigms, Histories, Vectors”. Kyoto University, 11 January 2012.
「１９３２年以前のタイのナショナリズムと日本」 [Pre-1932 Thai Nationalism and Japan],
paper presented at the Meeting of the Western Japan Southeast Asian Studies Association, Centerfor Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, 13 October 2012.
“Japan in the Siamese Press - From the Russo-Japanese War to 1932,” paper presented at theInternational Conference on Asian Studies, Negombo, Sri Lanka, 27 July 2012.
“The Monarch, Religion and the Formation of the Modern Nation-State in Japan and Thailand,”
paper presented at the workshop Nationizing the Dynasty – Dynastizing the Nation, University ofCalifornia in Los Angeles, 13 April 2012.

Fellowships, Grants and Scholarships●●●●

Postponed: July 2020: Short-term Fellowship (1 months) by the Japan Foundation to conduct
research on the history of Thai Studies in Japan at the Center of Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto
University (Host: Prof. Junko Koizumi).
February 2012–February 2013, JSPS-Fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Universityof Kyoto.
February 2006–February 2007: DAAD-Scholarship to spend one year at Hitotsubashi University,
Tokyo.
March 2004–August 2004: Scholarship by the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg to spend one
semester at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies.

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