Crisis, Resilience and Morality in Tambora and Krakatoa

(Seminar is cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances)

Dear all,

You are cordially invited to the final session of the FASS Brown Bag Seminar Series in Semester 2 of AY22/23. Dr Faizah Zakaria (FASS Malay Studies) will be presenting on “Crisis, Resilience and Morality in Tambora and Krakatoa”.

Date: 31 March, 12 – 1pm
Venue: Online via Zoom
Register: Zoom

Crisis, Resilience and Morality in Tambora and Krakatoa
How did communities at a volcano’s epicentre perceive the causes and impacts of major eruptions? How was crisis defined and coped with? This seminar attends to these questions by comparing two rare Malay accounts - Syair Kerajaan Bima and Syair Lampung Karam - by eyewitnesses to Tambora and Krakatoa, reflecting on their chaotic aftermath.

Faizah Zakaria is assistant professor in the Departments of Southeast Asian Studies and Malay Studies. An environmental historian, her first monograph, The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia was published by University of Washington Press in March 2023.

If you have any queries, please email fassresearchevents@nus.edu.sg. We look forward to your attendance.