This was the seventh seminar in the Arts in Southeast Asia Seminar Series. ISEAS warmly welcomed Dr Phoebe Scott, curator at the National Gallery Singapore (NGS) for a presentation titled “Colonials or Cosmopolitans? Vietnamese Artists in Paris in the 1930s-1940s”. More than 20 participants from local museums, universities, and the public attended the talk.
In this seminar, Dato’ Dr Mujahid pointed out that Malaysia is the only country in the world where one finds a constitutionally-defined ethnicity. Click on to read more.
In this seminar, Dr Teren Sevea, Visiting Fellow at Nalanda–Sriwijaya Centre, delivers a lecture on the vital roles of Muslim miracle-workers within the socio-economic fabric of 18th – 9th century Malaya. His research is based on Malay-Jawi manuscripts pertaining to the esoteric practices of these miracle-workers or “pawang”, which are replete with relevant socio-economic information of the contemporaneous world that the pawang lived and practised his/her art and profession.
In this seminar, the sixth in the Arts in Southeast Asia Seminar series, Prof Jérôme Samuel, co-director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CASE) and co-editor of French scientific Review Archipel, delivered a seminar on “Representations of the Ottomans in Javanese reverse glass painting”.
This seminar looked at questions of Soviet and European influence on art, and the roles of social realism and socialism in delimiting the content of art and explored the legacy of LEKRA in the depiction of social issues in Indonesian art of the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries.