by PSR | Jul 29, 2026 | Events, Webinars
Webinar Abstract: This webinar examines the history of RIDA’s national ‘kampong leaders’ programme, a series of experimental home economics classes for rural Malay women in Peninsular Malaya. The programme was a site of Cold War debates aimed to reform domestic labour...
by PSR | Jun 30, 2026 | Events, Featured, Lecture / Syarahan, Lecture / Syarahan
Lecture Summary by Abdul Rahman Shah and edited by Hyojin Pak Professor John Rossa is a historian of modern Indonesia, particularly on the 1965 massacres. He teaches at the University of British Columbia in Canada. Joining him as the moderator during the lecture...
by PSR | Apr 16, 2026 | Announcements, Events, Webinars
Discussion Abstract: What does “development” sound like across generations? How do young people narrate development from the ground up? Suara ((( Pembangunan ))) (Malay language, stylised to mean “Voices of Development”) is a participatory oral history and sonic...
by PSR | Feb 10, 2026 | Announcements, DEMO, Oral History, Publications
By Jeremy Lim Jiang Shen, DEMO Project Researcher and Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Asia This article is made possible with the support of APPGM-SDG Case Study Small Grants for Young Researchers Programme Abstract: Malaysia’s rapid urbanisation has...
by PSR | Jan 10, 2026 | Announcements, Events, Video, Webinars
Abstract: Soe Tjen Marching joins Loh Kah Seng on the Scholar Chronicles podcast, co-organised with Under The Banana Tree Archival Network, to discuss the 1965-1966 mass killings in Indonesia. Soe Tjen will relate her efforts, along with others in Indonesia, to...
