Synopsis:
The following webinar is part of the Decolonising Curating and the Museum in Southeast Asia lecture series, jointly organised by the Southeast Asian Art Academic Programme, SOAS University of London, and the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore. 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.
Speaker: Ricky Punzalan, Associate Professor of Information, University of Michigan