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
Another video interview with Prof John Miksic by Mothership.SG, a Singapore Internet media company with one of the largest digital platforms in Singapore. Check out the video interview on their Facebook page 1819.
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
Archaeologist wins inaugural Singapore history prize Thursday, 11 January 2018, The Straits Times SINGAPORE – An archaeologist whose work refutes the common misperception that Singapore’s history started with the landing of Sir Stamford Raffles has been awarded the inaugural Singapore… Continue Reading
Congratulations to Dr Oona Paredes on being awarded the FASS Faculty Teaching Award (FTEA) 2017 for her work in AY2016/2017. Well done Dr Oona!
By Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar, Monday 16 October 2017 for Archaeology Magazine The Lion City’s Glorious Past The founding mythology of this city-state was once thought to be pure fiction—archaeology says otherwise In 1817, Sir Stamford Raffles, the governor of the British… Continue Reading
Pholsena, Vatthana and Vanina Boute (eds.), Changing Lives in Laos: Society, Politics, and Culture in a Post-Socialist State, Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2017 One of the lesser-studied countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has gone through momentous changes over… Continue Reading
Sasges, Gerard, Imperial Intoxication: Alcohol and the Making of Colonial Indochina, Hawaii: University of Hawai’i Press, 2017 Imperial Intoxication provides a unique window on Indochina between 1860 and 1939. It illuminates the contradictory mix of modern and archaic, power and impotence, civil… Continue Reading