Emergency Ecology: Birds, Blood, War, and the Figuring of Malaya as Australian-Siberian Borderland, 1947-1974 Jack Greatrex Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Abstract A metal band from the leg of […]
Join us for "RE-MEMBERING HISTORIES REIGNITED: FIRST LOOK AT STUDENT FILMS," presented by the students of HIST2212: Performing History. How do we remember? Students in this course have explored history […]
Feeling stressed about your final assignments in History? We are here to help! Join us for an engaging session where we will share practical strategies for writing an effective history […]
The emergence of archaeology as a scientific pursuit in the nineteenth century significantly altered perceptions of the Ottoman Empire within foreign imaginaries. Cartography, like archaeology, provided a seemingly objective epistemological […]
Registration Now Open The modern world has been and is increasingly shaped by cross-border movements. People of various occupations and diverse gender, race, and national identities, in crossing paths beyond […]
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This talk, drawn from my ongoing research, focuses on several examples of male suicide from Qing period legal archives across the 18th & 19th centuries. Unlike early modern European societies, suicide was not inherently sinful […]
Soft power requires hardware. Radio can carry cultural content, news, and overt propaganda across national borders, seemingly effortlessly, but this requires substantial investment in infrastructure. Often, finding a place where […]
Building on my monograph, Reporting the Raj, the British Press and India, the focus here is on radio and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) over the climactic decades 1920s-1940s. It […]
A New Documentary History of Hong Kong, 1945–1997, Edited by Florence Mok and Fung Chi Keung Charles (Hong Kong University Press, 2025) Through analysing newly released archival records and underexplored […]