Webinars

PSROctober 20, 2021
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[Webinar] Intercultural Intimacies – The Everyday Social Cohesion of Malaysian Popular Music in the 1970s and 1980s

Date: 20th October 2021 (Tuesday)Time: 8:30pmPlatform: Zoom Discussion Abstract: This presentation considers a conceptual merging of interculturalism and cultural intimacy to analyse a history of Malaysian popular music as an…
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PSRSeptember 23, 2021
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[Webinar] Reframing Ethnic Diversity in Malaysia: What Could We Learn from Cultural Politics?

Date: 21st September 2021 (Tuesday)Time: 8:30pmPlatform: ZoomAbstract: Malaysia is often understood as a country that is deeply divided along ethnic lines. This webinar examines cases studies in the politics of…
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PSRAugust 24, 2021
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[Webinar] Dari Sindiran ke Satira: Bahasa Satira di Malaysia

Tarikh: 17 Ogos 2021 (Selasa)Waktu: 8:30pmPlatform: ZoomAbstrak:Pada 14 April 2017, Mantan Timbalan Perdana Menteri Malaysia, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi dalam sebuah Forum Menteri Dasar Awam di Institut Tadbiran Awam Negara (INTAN)…
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PSRAugust 23, 2021
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[Webinar] Multicultural Narrative from Oral History Accounts

Date: 27th July 2021 (Tuesday)Time: 8:30pmPlatform: ZoomAbstract: What is the meaning of “multicultural way of living”? This presentation is a sharing of some findings from my PhD thesis. Following recent…
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PSRJune 22, 2021
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[Webinar] WRITING HIS OWN CULTURE: AKIYA – a postcolonial indigenous storyteller on Orang Asli enslavement in the Malay World (video)

Date: 21st June 2021 (Monday)Time: 8:30pmPlatform: Zoom & FB Live Abstract: This discussion explores a postcolonial indigenous storyteller from the historic margins of the Malaysian nation-state- AKIYA. Akiya (Mahat Anak…
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PSRJune 16, 2021
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[Webinar] “Chinese Go Home” – The Malayan Emergency between history and memory (video)

Speaker:Dr. Rachel Leow is a Senior Lecturer (Assoc. Prof.) in Modern East Asian History at the University of Cambridge, and author of Taming Babel: Language in the Making of Malaysia.…
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PSRMay 17, 2021
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[Webinar] Student Activism: Reclaiming the Narrative (video)

Date: 20 April 2021Time: 8:30pmPlatform: Zoom Abstract: Student activism is not a new topic of interest for advocates of reform and groups working towards a more empowered electorate. In 2020,…
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PSRMay 17, 2021
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[Webinar] Representation of Cosmopolitan Malays in 1930s Newspapers (video)

Date: 23 February 2021Time: 8:30pmPlatform: Zoom and FB Live Speaker: Razan RosmanCommentator: Dr. Simon SoonModerator: Adriana Nordin Manan Abstract: The term “sporting spirit” was largely used by Kajai and people…
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PSRMay 17, 2021
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[Webinar] Stories of History from a Borneo Longhouse: Genre and Method (video)

Date: 23 February 2021Time: 8:30pmPlatform: Zoom and FB Live Abstract: I was given by chance three historical narratives on cassette to listen to while visiting my husband’s longhouse at the…
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PSRJanuary 20, 2021
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[Webinar] Oral history, testimony, and memory (video)

Date: Tuesday, 19 January 2021Time: 8:30pm to 10:00pmVenue: Online Oral history is more than just a tool for collecting historical “data”. Through conversation with a narrator, oral historians collect the…
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