Dr Lai Chee Kien will be delivering a
talk on Researching Southeast Asia. It is on Friday 27th September, 9am
to 10:30am, at convention hall, B12. He is an assistant professor from
Department of Architecture, NUS.
The synopsis of the talk is as follows:
Southeast Asia, as an academic
category, is a rather late one amongst various disciplines including
space, landscape and architectural studies. Because of its relatively
young and undeveloped circumstances since the post-war and Cold War era,
its researchers and students tend to borrow or adapt methods and models
from more established academic disciplines, and chiefly from Western
models. In recent years, however, there is growing scholarship of the
region not only by local but worldwide scholars who have advanced
forthright, progressive and new strategies to structure or guide
research work. In this talk, I try to trace and share some of these
trajectories that we may consider in our own paths to research the
region.
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