Talk: Heroes, Villains and Ordinary Citizens: A Short History of Singaporean Dissent

Locus: Seminar Room, Degree 2
Date: SAT 24 OCT 2009 2: 00pm - 3: 30pm

What holds it intended to dissent in a Singaporean context, to dispute the prevalent, permeating orthodoxies of the day? Can one pen a history of Singaporean dissent and ought one to make so? Lesser-known, though no less compelling, historical personalities from the Singapore tale ( including angry poets, radicalised bourgeoisie and even early libbers ) contended their ain battles for the nation, oft against overbearing systems such as capitalism, imperialism or patriarchate in which they were themselves complicit. Make their endeavor to gainsay these systems correspond grounds of a locally-grounded dissenting tradition? Or were such endeavor as distinguishable and unparalleled as the historical times to which their writers belonged? These are enquiries that Score Ravinder Hoar will search therein talking, which will acquaint Singapore: A Life, a new work of history pulled from research attempted unitedly with the Subject Museum of Singapore.

Enrollment is postulate. Please e-mail
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Talker 's Life
Grade Ravinder Hoar analyzed history at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge before travelling to Singapore in 2002. Following three geezerhood with the Asia Research Institute at the Subject University of Singapore, he got a advisor to the Subject Museum of Singapore so Content Manager for its new Singapore History Gallery. Presently, he is Research Helper Prof at the University of Hong Kong.

Grade holds composed extensively on rational and cultural history in Singapore and the wide Indian Ocean part, and printed articles in diaries such as Modern Asian Surveys and the Diary of Southeastward Asiatic Studies. Also as Singapore: A Life ( indited unitedly with local Singaporean author Yu-Mei Balasingamchow. He is the writer of the outgoing Dreams of Other Empires: The cosmopolitan minute in the Indian Ocean existence, 1870-1920.

Moderator 's Life
Yu-Mei Balasingamchow analyse English and History at Northwestern University so worked as an English professor prior to composing full clip. Presently, she splits her clip between write on history, movie and civilisation in Singapore, and moving across Asia, researching and composing for publications such as Lonely Planet.

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