NSC Highlights

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

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

Sept – Nov 2018

• Boat Traders and Vegetarians: Gender and Mobility in Guanyin Temple Nuns
• The Chingays of Old Singapore
• Toba’s Super-Eruption and the Environmental History of a Future
• Java Sea Wreck Dating
• Live Dig: Don’t Feed the Archaeologists! Investigations at the Singapore Art Museum

Jun – Aug 2018

• Buddhism on the Shan Plateau: Bawrithat and Intein
• The Indonesian Art Market: Is it out of control?
• Only Time Will Tell: The Precarity of Yangon’s Heritage Coalition in its Vernacular City
• The Mystery of the Pasir Panjang Pillbox

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

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?

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

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

• 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