An Imperial Sake Cup and I

Charnvit Kasetsiri

Charnvit Kasetsiri has had a distinguished career as History Professor of Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, and as a prominent historian and Thai studies scholar. After obtaining his Bachelor’s degree in Diplomacy with Honors from Thammasat (1963), he pursued a Master’s in Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College, Los Angeles, California (1967) under a Rockefeller scholarship, and a Ph.D. in Southeast Asian History at Cornell University (1972). His thesis “The Rise of Ayudhya and a History of Siam in the 14th and 15th Centuries” was published by Oxford in Asia in 1976. He served as Lecturer of History at Thammasat from 1973 to 2001, founded the Southeast Asian Studies Program in 2000, and was President of Thammasat University from 1995 to 1996. His latest work deals with questions of war and peace, and relations between ASEAN countries, especially between Thailand and Cambodia. He is the co-author, along with Pavin Chachavalpongpun (Kyoto) and Pou Sothirak (Phnom Penh), of “Preah Vihear: A Guide to the Thai-Cambodian Conflict and Its Solutions” (2013). A Thai social studies textbook he co-authored has also been translated into Japanese (“World Textbook Series 6: Thai history: Thai high school social studies textbook,” published by Akashi Shoten in 2002, supervised by The Institute of Policy and Cultural Studies, Chuo University with Japanese translation by Chiyo Kakizaki). Charnvit was awarded the Fukuoka Academic Prize in 2012, as well as the award for Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies by the Association for Asian Studies, USA in 2014.

Teerawat ʻKa-geʼ Mulvilai

Teerawat ‘Ka-ge’ Mulvilai is a co-founder and artistic director of Bangkok- based theatre group B-Floor Theatre as well as a director and performer. He serves as lecturer in Devised Theatre at Thammasat University’s Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts. He has received numerous awards including the Silpathorn Award (2018) presented by Thailand’s Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Ministry of Culture in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the world of Thai theatre. Blending plastic and performing arts, Teerawat creates critical works that deal with structural issues that affect people's lives, such as violence and injustice in society and politics. In Japan, he has performed with internationally active directors such as Hiroshi Koike, Oriza Hirata, and Toshiki Okada. He recently appeared on stage in Japan in “Pratthana: - A Portrait of Possession” (2019)

Nontawat Numbenchapol

Film director. He has produced a number of socially conscious documentaries that have been highly acclaimed internationally. His first documentary film, BOUNDARY (2013), screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, and many other festivals. His second film, BY THE RIVER (2013), was the first Thai film to win the Special Mention Award at the Locarno International Film Festival. #BKKY (2016) premiered at the Busan International Film Festival and later won the Jury Award for Best Feature Film from the Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage in Hamburg, Germany.