Speaker: Prof Michael Aung-Thwin (Visiting Professor, Southeast Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore) Date: Wednesday, 11 March 2009 Time: 3:30pm – 5:00pm Venue: AS3, Level 6, SEAS Seminar Room (06-20) Synopsis “Burma” in the 15th Century was one of reformulation as well as newness:… Continue Reading
Speaker: Dr Tsai Yen-ling (Postdoctoral Fellow, Southeast Asian Studies Programme National University of Singapore) Date: Wednesday, 11 February 2009 Time: 3:30pm – 5:00pm Venue: AS3, Level 6, SEAS Seminar Room (06-20) Synopsis This seminar will explore the ways in which cross-racial interactions produce racial… Continue Reading
Speaker: Assoc Prof Goh Beng Lan (Head, Southeast Asian Studies Programme National University of Singapore) Date: Wednesday, 28 January 2009 Time: 3:30pm – 5:30pm Venue: AS3, Level 6, SEAS Seminar Room (06-20) Synopsis This presentation addresses the crisis of area studies from Southeast Asian… Continue Reading
Speaker: Professor Priscelina Patajo-Legasto (Professor, University of the Philippines-Diliman) Date: Wednesday, 21 January 2009 Time: 12:00pm – 2:00pm Venue: AS3, Level 6, SEAS Seminar Room (06-20) Synopsis Twenty first century Philippine Studies is a discursive field that critiques vestiges of supposedly “universalits” paradigms, that… Continue Reading
Date: Wednesday, 5 November 2008 Time: 2:30pm – 5:00pm Venue: AS3, Level 6, SEAS Seminar Room (06-20) Synopsis This module, a Faculty requirement since 2004, is intended to encourage scholarly interactions among the graduate research students. Under a lecturer’s guidance,… Continue Reading
Speaker: Professor Cheah Boon Kheng (Visiting Professor, Department of History, NUS) Date: Wednesday, 22 October 2008 Time: 3:30pm – 5:00pm Venue: AS3, Level 6, SEAS Seminar Room (06-20) Synopsis Historical discourses and politics are central to intellectual or public debate.… Continue Reading
Speaker: Dr Ambra Calo Date: Wednesday, 15 October 2008 Time: 3:30pm – 5:00pm Venue: AS3, Level 6, SEAS Seminar Room (06-20) Synopsis In this seminar we inquire whether bronze drums of the ‘Pejeng’ type played a role in rites associated… Continue Reading
Speaker: Dr Michelle Tan (Postdoctoral Fellow, Southeast Asian Studies Programmen, NUS) Date: Wednesday, 3 September 2008 Time: 3:30pm – 5:00pm Venue: AS3, Level 6, SEAS Seminar Room (06-20) Synopsis The political and social reform project in Thailand of the 1990s included an attempt… Continue Reading
Speakers: Elizabeth Moore & Terence Tan Date: Wednesday, 27 August 2008 Time: 3:30pm – 5:00pm Venue: AS3, Level 6, SEAS Seminar Room (06-20) Synopsis Elizabeth Moore and Terence Tan in their paper, the Transition from Bronze-Iron Age to Buddhism in Myanmar,… Continue Reading
Speaker: Assoc Prof Shawn McHale (George Washington University) Date: Friday, 9 May 2008 Time: 3:00pm – 4:30pm Venue: AS3, Level 6, SEAS Seminar Room (06-20) Synopsis Our understanding of the Vietnamese resistance war against the French (1945-54) is still heavily… Continue Reading