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NSC Highlights #12
Mar – May 2019
- Knowledge Transfers in 14th and 15th Century Java
- Zheng He as the Symbol of Chinese Muslims in Indonesia
- Sang Sapurba/Maulivarmadeva, First of the Last Indo-Malay Kings
- The Two-World Problem: The Language of Archaeology in the Post-Colonial Landscape
- Ancient Money in Southeast Asia – Part 2

NSC Highlights #11
Dec 2018 – Feb 2019
- The Different Navigation Methods in the Pacific and Indian Ocean before the Age of Discovery
- Pots in Unexpected Places: Public Awareness of Ancient Ceramics in Lower Myanmar
- The Changing Landscapes of the Former Linyi in Provinces of Quảng Trị and Thừa Thien – Huế
- What Dr. John Crawfurd Saw on the “Forbidden Hill”
- New Light on the Karimun Besar Inscription (Prasasti Pasir Panjang) and the Learned Man from Gaur

NSC Highlights #10
NSC Highlights #9
NSC Highlights #8
Mar – May 2018
- Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre: Back to the Future
- Early Christianity and Asian Interactions
- Cultivating the Way in the Eastern Dragon Mountain
- Pulau Ubin Anti-Motor Torpedo Boat Battery: The Gun That Never Was
- Angkor World Heritage Site Management: Lessons Learned from Inception to Present

NSC Highlights #7
Dec 2017 – Feb 2018
- What was Islamic about Javanese Art in the Early Islamic period (15th-17th century)?
- On Some Early Javanese Batiks
- Sarsikyo – Tablet-Woven Dedicatory Ribbons of Myanmar
- An Early Buddha Image from Buluh Cina Plantation, Deli Serdang Regency, North Sumatra
- The Decorated Earthenware from the National Gallery Singapore Site
- Archiving Archaeological Materials: Whose Responsibility is it?

NSC Highlights #6
Sep – Nov 2017
- Uncovering a Hidden Temple: Ta Mok Shwegugyi, Kyaukse
- Legislation on Underwater Cultural Heritage in Southeast Asia
- Sema Stones and Mountain Palaces from the Dawn of Angkor
- Book Review: Nalanda, Srivijaya and Beyond: Re-exploring Buddhist Art in Asia
- New Visiting Researchers
- Archaeology Programme for Students

NSC Highlights #5
Jun – Aug 2017
- Excavations at the National Gallery Singapore
- Ceramics, Trade & Angkor in Decline
- LiDAR Imaging and Ancient Angkorian Capitals: new research goals for the hidden city of Koh Ker
- The Bomoh: Now and Then
- Lecture: Seeing Through the Forest: Lost Cities, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications in Archaeology

NSC Highlights #4
Mar – May 2017
- Sinitic Trends in Early Islamic Java
- The Overland Trading Route between the Khmer Empire and the Champa Kingdoms
- What’s in a Border?: The Chiang Mai World Heritage Initiative
- Not Just ‘Pots’: Understanding Social Complexity through Ceramics in Prehistoric Mainland Southeast Asia
- 2016 NSC Archaeological Field School
- Workshop: Circulating the Bay of Bengal, Miraculously

NSC Highlights #3
Dec 2016 – Feb 2017
- Distant Tales: Maritime Contacts in the Highlands of Sumatra
- A Street-Wandering Muslim Ecstatic in Colonial Singapore
- Dating Koh Ker: New Data from 10th century Angkorian capital
- The Southeast Asian Art History and Conservation Summer Programme
- Archaeology and Public Education in Singapore: Workshop with the Ministry of Education
- Conference – Imagining Asia(s): Networks, Actors, Sites
