Masterclass – Southeast Asian Studies | CHS @ NUS Open House 2022

Insights into Southeast Asia from the Martial Arts Perspective

Southeast Asia can be understood from many perspectives and studying the region through the lens of martial arts offers unique insights into how Southeast Asian communities have adapted to powerful forces that have shaped the region, such as colonialism, nationalism and globalisation. The masterclass will also demonstrate how the martial art perspective can be applied to further not students’ knowledge and skills but also to raise awareness about Southeast Asia’s socio-economic issues.

Speaker: Dr Mohamed Effendy Abdul Hamid Dr Mohamed Effendy Abdul Hamid is a historian, having graduated from University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2013. He did his undergraduate and post-graduate (Masters) education in NUS from 2000 to 2007. His primary research interests are in the areas of the scholarship of teaching and learning, Asian history, World History and Pre-colonial and Colonial Southeast Asian history of both Mainland and Maritime Southeast Asia.