EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENT
Dr Christopher M. Joll will be presenting a talk entitled “British Plans to Annex the Siamese-Malay Peninsula. A longue durée of competitive colonialisms between the nineteenth century 1950s”.
This will be a hybrid event. Those wishing to attend may reserve a place for the in-person event or for the related Zoom feed.
Date: Saturday 2 March 2024
Time: 4.00 p.m. MYT (GMT + 8)
To Attend in Person
Venue: Dean’s Meeting Room, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
Maximum seats: 20
Registration: info.mbras@gmail.com
To Attend Remotely on Zoom
Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvc-CvqjkrH9PtA75a_eHiGqMYTDw6G7d4D
LIST OF PAST LECTURES
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Name Title of Lecture Date of Lecture (dd/mm/yy)
Professor Ahmat Adam FASc Rereading the “Hikayat Melayu” (the Raffles Manuscript No. 18): Was the Sejarah Melayu written in Aceh? 18/11/2023
Professor Jerry Dennerline Discussion of methods and sources for a book entitled Between Heaven and Earth: Learning, Faith, Power, and Performance in the Chinese community of Malacca, 1795 – 1945 14/07/2023
Professor Margaret Sarkissian Discussion of Methods and Sources for a Book on Horace Sta. Maria and his World 14/07/2023
Professor Raja Iskandar Bin Raja Halid The Malay Nobat: A History of Power, Acculturation, and Sovereignty 24/06/2023
Professor Anthony Milner via Zoom Reviewing Islamization in the Malay World – Timing, Process, Impact 10/12/2022
Asst Prof Jack Meng-Tat Chia Diaspora’s Dharma: Buddhist Connections across the South China Sea (a hybrid event at ARI, National University of Singapore) 24/09/2022
Professor Dr Farish A Noor The Appendices of Empire: Attempting a Textual Forensics of Colonial-Era Writings 28/07/2022
Sofiyan Yahya In Search of a Nation’s Lost History: A Personal Journey 25/06/2022
Dr Farish A Noor Violent White Men and Heroic Asian Women 20/11/2021
Dr Hj Tassim Hj Abu Bakar Transformasi Kampung Ayer di Brunei Darussalam 23/10/2021
YB Dato’ Sri Wan Junaidi Bin Tuanku Jaafar The History of the Malaysian Constitution 26/6/2021
Julian Candiah The Straits of Malacca: A Cartographic Journey Through History Using Nautical Charts 29/5/2021
David Alfred The Malayan Emergency 04/24/2021
Dr Lynn Hollen Lees In the Public Interest’:Messages from Urban Civil Society in the Federated Malay States, 1900 – 1940 26/10/2019
Dr Tim Bunnell World City Routes: Liverpool and the Relational Remaking of Singapore 28/09/2019
Dr Suraya Ismail Rethinking Housing: Between State, Market and Society 29/06/2019
Assoc Prof Dr Lai Chee Kien From Stuffed Tigers to Weather Capsule: Displaying Malaya and Malaysia to the World, 1851 – 1972 29/09/2018
Dr Paul H. Kratoska The Japanese Occupation: Piecing Together What Happened 30/06/2018
Dr Arunima Datta Making of “Coolie” Identities: Indian Plantation Communities in Malaysian History 30/09/2017
Raimy Ché-Ross “Turun Takhta Buang Negeri”: The Exile of Tengku Musaeddin (1893 – 1955), Tengku Kelana Jaya Petra & Sultan Selangor Darul Ehsan VII (1942 – 1945)to the Cocos & Keeling Islands (1945 – 1946) 25/03/2017
Tuanku Zain Al-‘Abidin ibni Tuanku Muhriz “Founded Upon the Principles of Liberty and Justice”: The Development of the Democratic Mindset in Malaysia 18/02/2017
Dr Timothy P. Barnard “Not So Mad”: H.N. Ridley, Science and Colonial Society 24/09/2016
Dr Sandra Khor Manickam “Mr Inquisitive”: Ivor H.N. Evans’ Life in the Malay Peninsula and Borneo 25/06/2016
Dr Ahmat Adam The Krusenstern Manuscript of the Malay Annals (Sejarah Melayu) 26/03/2016
Dr Hans-Dieter Evers The Concept of Nusantara 12/12/2015
Ng Tze Shiung The Raffles Paradox: Liberal, Autocrat, or something else? 04/10/2014
Dr Patricia Sloane-White Gender at Work: sexualized banter and ‘polygamy talk’ in Malay-Muslim corporate space 28/06/2014
Dr Neil Khor The Malaysian Generation: Making Sense of 50 Years of Heritage 14/12/2013
Professor Wang Gungwu Malaya and New Paths to Nationhood 12/10/2013
YM Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah Malaysia and the Non-Fulfilment of the 20 and 18 Points Agreements with Sabah and Sarawak 25/09/2013
Marcus Langdon Napoleon Comes To Penang 30/03/2013
Pehin Dato Haji Abdul Aziz bin Haji Umar MIB (Melayu, Islam, Beraja) 08/12/2012
Dr John van Wyhe Wallace in Singapore 06/10/2012
Dato’ Dr Muthiah Alagappa Nation Making in Asia: From Ethnic to Civic Nations? 23/06/2012
Dr John Robertson The Battle of Penang 31/03/2012
Dr Sandra Khor Manickam A Russian in Malaya: Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay’s Malaya Expeditions (November 1874 – October 1875) and the Early Anthropology of Orang Asli 08/10/2011
Johan Nicholson Imperial Rivalry in 1930s Aviation 25/06/2011
Dr Mulaika Hijjas Reading against the Grain in the Malay Manuscript Tradition 25/05/2011
Dr Mokhtar Saidin Remnants of a Relationship: Significance of the Bujang Valley to Penang & Global Archealogy 18/12/2010
Dr Maznah Mohamad Like a Shady Tree Swept by the Windstorm: Reconstructing the Modern Malay Through Social Texts of Dissent 05/09/2010
Dr Ahmat Adam The Raffles Malay Letters 19/06/2010
Datin Patricia Lim Pui Huen From Johor Lama to Johor Bahru 27/03/2010
Dato’ Dr Shaharil Talib An Imagined History: Reconstructing the Batu Puteh Judgement 20/06/2009
Dr Peter Borschberg Raja Bongsu’s Liaisons Dangereuses: New Insights on diplomacy, politics and economics in the Johore River Region, 1600 – 1622 13/12/2008
Prof Chua Beng Huat Disrupting Hegemonic Liberalism: Singapore in Question 23/08/2008
Dato’ Henry Barlow Will The Real Lady Swettenham Please Stand Up 28/06/2008
Joe Studwell 50 Years of Malaysian Development: A Balance Sheet 13/06/2008
Professor Ronald Knapp Preserving and (Re) Presenting China’s Vernacular Landscapes 28/01/2008
Professor Abu Talib Ahmad Museums, Heritage Bodies and the Reproduction of Knowledge 30/06/2007
Prof Dato’ Dr Nik Hassan Shuhaimi Nik Abd. Rahman Current Status, Old Issues in Malaysian Archaeology 24/06/2006
Dato’ Henry Barlow The Tragic Story Of Lady Swettenham 25/06/2005
Raimy Che Ross The Lost City Of Kota Gelanggi : Its structure, purpose and the implications of this discovery 21/03/2005
Datuk Seri Lim Chong Keat In the Footprints of Ridley: an Overview of the History of Botanical Research in Malaysia 18/12/2004
Datin Patricia Lim Pui Huen In the Footsteps of the King: the Visits of King Chulalongkorn to Malaya 25/09/2004
Dr Barbara Watson Andaya Revisiting the History of Perak: A Thirty-year Retrosprective 29/06/2004
Gavin Menzies The Chinese Discovery Of America Pre – Columbus 01/11/2003
Dr Mahani Musa Malay Women in Kedah Economic Development, 1881 – 1940 20/09/2003
Christopher Gallop Brunei Darussalam and the Modern Novel 08/06/2003
Professor Anthony Milner Malayan Historiography 02/11/2002
Rehman Rashid The Fourth Constituency 17/03/2001
Dr Farish Noor From Majapahit to Putrajaya: The Evolution of the Keris in the Civilisation Development of the Malay World 30/09/2000