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Barriers to Women's Religious Attainment in Japan: Issues and Prospects

This presentation draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to examine the difficulties Japanese female mountain practitioners have encountered within religious organisations that perpetuate patriarchal customs and hierarchical systems.

'Legal Resistance under Authoritarianism': Professional Awakening from Political Crisis

Dr Eric Yan-ho Lai talks about his new book 'Legal Resistance Under Authoritarianism: The Struggle for the Rule of Law in Hong Kong', which examines the decline of Hong Kong’s rule of law.

Dialogue of the Present

Ancientness, Myth, and Sonic Imagination: Making Persian Music Legible in Israel

In this talk Edoardo Marcarini will discuss how, through the mobilisation of a discourse of ancientness, Persian music has gained legitimacy in Israel.

Ancient Kedah As A Trans-Oceanic Economic Hub: Recent Findings In The Bukit Choras Archaeological Site

This lecture presents Ancient Kedah, specifically the Bujang Valley complex, not as a peripheral entity but as a pivotal trans-oceanic economic hub within the maritime Silk Road.

An introduction to North Korean art and challenges in assembling a collection

Nicholas Bonner has been collecting North Korean art since 1993 and will discuss his history of collecting and the challenges he has faced over the years.

Vintage Singapore: Souvenirs from the Recent Past

The Futures of Animism

This forum invites participants to reconsider the entanglements of materiality and life through the lens of animism as a mode of thought for the future.

Inaugural Lecture Series: Professors Awino Okech and Dan Plesch

In this Inaugural lecture, Professor Awino Okech and Professor Dan Plesch will be presenting lectures on "Feminist worldmaking: On knowledge infrastructures and social transformation" and "Weapons controls and Human Rights: Thinking globally acting globally" respectively.