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SUMMARY:Central European Tropics: Physicians, Naturalists, and Diplomats in Search of Southeast Asia
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DESCRIPTION:This panel proposal draws on the session titled Revisiting Cent
 ral European “Classics” on Southeast Asia, convened at the EUROSEAS 2021 in
  Olomouc. However, in this proposed panel, we aim to place greater emphasis
  on the lives and accounts of explorers who, while perhaps less academicall
 y recognized, offer equally fascinating insights. Travelers from Bohemia, P
 oland, or Hungary to the East Indies and Further India were fewer in number
 s than their counterparts from the traditional colonial empires such as Bri
 tain or France but no less motivated in their search for “adventure”, knowl
 edge, or artifacts.\n\nOur line-up includes Czech physicians serving in Sum
 atra and Java under the Dutch Royal Colonial Army like Durdík and Czurda, w
 ho were not only prolific writers but also avid collectors, whose assemblag
 es of indigenous objects provided foundations for museum collections in Pra
 gue and Vienna. The Czech community also involved naturalists and diplomats
  including Jan Havlasa, who served as a member of the League of Nations´ Op
 ium Commission and was dispatched to Southeast Asia in 1929 as part of the 
 international effort to combat the drug trade. On the Hungarian side, there
  was Ernö Zboray, who lived in Java for 30 years and created a fantastic co
 llection of Javanese wayang puppets.\n\nThese explorers were once prominent
  public figures and it may be assumed that their names have faded into obsc
 urity ever since, but the opposite holds true: their books are being re-edi
 ted in their home countries, their life stories and accomplishments have be
 come subjects of students-cum-scholarly theses, exhibitions and public lect
 ures, and their overall legacy continues to be in high regard.
URL:https://euroseas2024.org/panels/central-european-tropics-physicians-naturalists-and-diplomats-in-search-of-southeast-asia
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