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Tricycle Article on Sunthorn Phu
My article is published in Tricycle Magazine. It’s on Sunthorn Phu and it was an attempt to reclaim the apparent success of other articles the magazine had done on mad, bad drunken monks.
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Bangkok: Almost Utopia documentary
Check out a little documentary I made with Uf Svane. Together with historian of Bangkok Edward Van Roy it was an attempt to show Bangkok through it’s less often heard voices and was featured at PBIC Thammasat’s Conference “Bangkok Thi Rak (Beloved Bangkok)” in June 2026.
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Book now available
My book is now available from the University of Hawaii Press. I also did a little academic book tour, thanks to Edoardo Siani at Ca Foscari University of Venice and Tomas Larsson at the University of Cambridge and Stephen Murphy at SOAS, University of London. The book is available via the Press here and of…
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Academic conference on “Ghosts”
Consider submitting to or attending our academic conference on the topic of Ghosts. More information here: https://www.facebook.com/pbicthaiconferences
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Pre-order book
You can actually pre-order my (rather expensive!) book on understanding Buddhism via Thailand’s national poet here: https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/a-drunken-bee-sunthorn-phu-and-the-buddhist-landscapes-of-early-bangkok/
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Thai Amulets JSS Special Edition
I enjoyed being the guest editor to this Special Edition of the Journal of the Siam Society on Thai amulets. Even if it’s not something you’d think you’d be interested in, there’s a lot of quirky stuff in there and Thai amulets turn out to be much more relevant and popular than you might have…
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Digital Thai Temples website live
A new website is now live! The website contains presentations of particular temples in Bangkok, with videos and 3D models of their histories and explanations of artwork within. It is meant primarily as an educational resource and even includes quizzes on some temples for students. It also includes work by students and we highly encourage…
