2024年4月11日開催：金沢大学エジプト学特別講演会2024-1
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金沢大学エジプト学特別講演会2024-1
日時：2024年4月11日（木）15:00〜17:30
場所：金沢大学人間社会第１講義棟301教室
発表者：Dr. Thomas L. Gerzen（ベルリン自由大学）
題目①：From ‘East’ to ’West’ & Back again: Near Eastern Studies in Japan & their multifaceted relationship with its ‘Western’ counterparts
「日本における古代エジプト・古代西アジア研究の形成と「西洋」との関係」
Abstract:
Near Eastern Studies and Egyptology in Japan developed around the mid-nineteenth century, being perceived as a part of ‘Western’ history. This – today somewhat peculiar – notion was due to the German concept of weltgeschichte, introduced by Historian Ludwig Riess (1861–1928), with its global, though Eurocentric perspective, but also to the fact that early Japanese archaeologists were trained by British scholars, such as Assyriologist Archibald Henry Sayce (1845–1933) and Egyptologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942).
By contrast, ‘Oriental’ Studies, originally focusing ancient China, but today covering the Islamic World with its Arabic, Turkish and Persian languages, belong to a different academic department. The appearance of a Japanese translation of “Orientalism” by Literary Historian Edward W. Said in 1986, rendered the situation more complex: Japan, once having been threatened by imperialism itself, had become a colonial power and is considered by many as part of the ‘West’. Consequently, scholars of European studies in Japan were the first to adopt Said’s ideas, creating a kaleidoscopic discourse around ‘Oriental’ and ‘Western’ identities. The lecture is going to highlight the impact of German and British intellectual ‘schools’ and methodology om disciplinary history in Japan, focusing on the role played by the above-mentioned scholars and their oscillating perspectives on ‘East’ and ‘West’.
題目②：‘Oriental Despotism’ at Amarna?: Historiographic Framing(s) of Akhenaten
「アマルナにおける「東洋的専制」？」
Abstract:
Early on in the history of historiography, scholars realized that their work was impacted by zeitgeist. However, it was only after Michel Foucault’s ‘linguistic turn’, inaugurating discourse analysis that historians had to realize that “all art has been contemporary”, as Italian artist Maurizio Nannuci put it. Mirroring their own times in(to) the past, scholars ‘framed’ history according to their weltanschauung. Within Egyptology, the reign of 18th dynasty pharaoh Akhenaten, dubbed as the Amarna period, probably inspired the greatest variety of interpretations in the history of ancient Egypt (British Egyptologist Margaret Murray stating that: “the Amarna period had more nonsense written about it than any other”). These projections were – and still are – centred around the concept of ‘Oriental Despotism’ and addressed different aspects of Akhenaten’s conduct as pharaoh: political, religious, gender-related and, most importantly, ethnic, with reference to a certain cultural heritage or identity. The lecture is going to address the background and development of these various historiographic framings, their effect on scholarly debates and public discourse and also the question, whether an authentic or historically accurate representation of this particular period of Egyptian history is still feasible.
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