Chairperson: Assoc Prof Goh Beng Lan Date: Wednesday, 19 October 2016 Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm Venue: AS8, Level 6, Conference Room (06-46) Of Ports and Starboards: Rethinking Women’s Integration in the Singapore Navy Speaker: Audrey Yong Hui Ling Synopsis The advocacy for… Continue Reading
Speaker: Dr Samson Lim (Assistant Professor in History, Singapore University of Technology and Design Date: Wednesday, 2 November 2016 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: AS8, Level 6, Conference Room (06-46) Synopsis This talk presents a history of the visual culture of policing… Continue Reading
Speaker: Assoc Prof Jan Mrazek (Department of Southeast Asian Studies, NUS) Date: Wednesday, 5 October 2016 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: AS8, Level 6, Conference Room (06-46) Synopsis The seminar juxtaposes voyages of Czechs to Southeast Asia in colonial times and… Continue Reading
Speaker: Dr Fiona Williamson (Research Fellow, NUS Asia Research Institute) Date: Wednesday, 14 September 2016 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: AS8, Level 6, Conference Room (06-46) Synopsis This presentation considers the nineteenth century history of flood disasters in colonial Singapore and, to a… Continue Reading
Speaker: Dr Eli Elinoff (Postdoctoral Fellow, NUS Department of Sociology & Asia Research Institute) Date: Wednesday, 12 April 2016 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: AS3, Level 6, SEAS Seminar Room (06-20) Synopsis In May of 2014, the Thai military deposed elected Prime… Continue Reading
Speaker: Dr Alicia Izharuddin (Senior Lecturer, University of Malaya) Date: Wednesday, 23 March 2016 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: AS3, Level 6, SEAS Seminar Room (06-20) Synopsis This paper examines the modern history of veiling in Malaysia using the continuum… Continue Reading
Speaker: Dr Céline Coderey (Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute and Teaching Fellow in Tembusu College, NUS) Date: Wednesday, 2 March 2016 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: AS3, Level 6, SEAS Seminar Room (06-20) Synopsis Next to Thailand and Cambodia, Myanmar has the… Continue Reading