Abhirada Komoot (PhD Candidate, University of Western Australia) and Do Truong Giang (Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences)

Abhirada Komoot will discuss The Phanom-Surin Shipwreck and Cultural Exchange between Mainland Southeast Asia and the wider Indian Ocean World, and Do Truong Giang will talk about Champa’s Long-distance Cultural Exchange: A View from Maritime Archaeology and History.

Dominic Goodall (Pondicherry Centre of the EFEO)

All of us start with misconceptions about what Khmer inscriptions and art can tell us, and most find ourselves asking: Why is it so hard to marry iconographic and epigraphic data?

Michael Falser (Heidelberg University/Technical University of Munich)

Michael Falser will take you on a journey, one that will give you the chance to see some of the results of his recent monograph Angkor Wat. A Transcultural History of Heritage (DeGruyter, Berlin 2020), which traced the multiple lives of Angkor Wat over a 150-year-long period from the 1860s to the 2010s, and presented for the first time a kind of visual anthology of the temple with more than 1,400 historic photographs, architectural plans and samples of public media.

Jos van Beurden (Researcher, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Hilmar Farid (Director General of Culture, Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia)

Jos van Beurden will present Lessons for the Future: Returns by the Netherlands to Indonesia in the 2010s and the 1970s, and Hilmar Farid will discuss The Future of Restitution: What is Possible?

Phacharaphorn Phanomvan (Lecturer, University of Oxford), Charlotte Galloway (Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University)

Phacharaphorn Phanomvan will present Plai Bat: Reclaiming Heritage, Social Media, and Modern Nationalism and Charlotte Galloway will discuss Repatriation, Restitution and Myanmar. 

This lecture series will explore what it means to decolonise the museum and curatorial practice in a Southeast Asian context. The speakers cover a range of topics, including the display of Buddhist and Hindu sculpture, ethnographic and colonial collections, curating contemporary art, and the use and exhibition of Southeast Asian material in western museums.

Stephen A. Murphy (Pratapaditya Pal Senior Lecturer in Curating and Museology of Asian Art, SOAS)

This event is part of the Decolonising Curating and the Museum in Southeast Asia lecture series (1 of 6).

Pamela N. Corey (Fulbright University Vietnam) and Vera Mey (SOAS)

This event is part of the Decolonising Curating and the Museum in Southeast Asia lecture series (2 of 6).

Conan Cheong and Faisal Husni (Assistant Curators for Southeast Asia, Asian Civilisations Museum)

This event is part of the Decolonising Curating and the Museum in Southeast Asia lecture series (3 of 6).

Duyen Nguyen (SOAS)

This event is part of the Decolonising Curating and the Museum in Southeast Asia lecture series (4 of 6).

Ricky Punzalan (University of Michigan)

This event is part of the Decolonising Curating and the Museum in Southeast Asia lecture series (5 of 6).

Marieke Bloembergen (KITLV and Leiden University) and Mathilde Mechling (Independent Researcher)

This event is part of the Decolonising Curating and the Museum in Southeast Asia lecture series (6 of 6).

Theara Thun (Kyoto University)