By NUS Office of Corporate Relations, Friday 21 June 2019 for NUS News Professor John Miksic’s love of archaeology began as a small boy. Growing up on a farm in the United States, his grandfather would often find arrowheads from… Continue Reading
Mrazek, Jan, Wayang and Its Doubles: Javanese Puppet Theatre, Television and the Internet, Singapore: NUS Press, 2019 Much has been said about how Javanese puppet theatre, wayang kulit, richly reflects the Javanese world, and how changes and tensions in performance practice… Continue Reading
Kammen, Douglas, Independent Timor-Lest Between Coercion and Consent, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019. This Element explores the primary modes by which rulers have exercised power and shaped political relations in Timor-Leste across four distinct periods. The contrast between coercion under… Continue Reading
Prof John N Miksic was recently featured in the NUS Centre For the Arts 25th Anniversary Commemorative Publication. Check it out here. “The NUS Museum makes it possible for me to add a whole new dimension to my teaching. The… Continue Reading
Veteran archaeologist to conduct six-week dig at Fort Canning. Saturday, 1 September 2018, Straits Times The lives of Singapore’s ancient rulers and people who worked in the royal Malay palace at Fort Canning Hill are being probed further by a… Continue Reading
Muzaini, Hamzah and Claudia Minca (eds.), After Heritage: Critical Perspectives on Heritage from Below, UK and US: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018 Focusing on the practices and politics of heritage-making at the individual and the local level, this book uses a wide… Continue Reading
Prof John Miksic was recently interviewed by Mothership.SG, a Singapore Internet media company with one of the largest digital platforms in Singapore. Check out his interview here where he recalls his first archaeology dig in Singapore with NSFs who went… Continue Reading
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