{"id":16891,"date":"2014-01-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2014\/01\/29\/srn-co-hosts-international-conference-on-heritage-in-asia\/"},"modified":"2021-01-27T16:05:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T08:05:21","slug":"srn-co-hosts-international-conference-on-heritage-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2014\/01\/29\/srn-co-hosts-international-conference-on-heritage-in-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"SRN co-hosts International Conference on Heritage in Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between 16-17 January 2014, the SRN was delighted to welcome delegates from many parts of the world to the International Conference on “State Policy and the Cultural Politics of Heritage-Making in East and Southeast Asia<\/strong>“. The two-day conference was co-hosted by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) and the International Institute of Asian Studies.<\/p>\n

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The conference focused on the role of the State in determining which places and practices are to be valued as ‘heritage’ over others, how this process varies across East and Southeast Asia and how heritage is contested by different groups\u00a0for political, identity or other\u00a0purposes.<\/p>\n

The second day afternoon was devoted to two panels on the very local topic of ‘Heritage in Singapore: Challenges, Conversations and Consequences’<\/strong>. The first panel on Articulating Singapore’s Cultural Resources<\/em>\u00a0first addressed heritage assessment in Singapore, a paper by FASS’ own\u00a0Dr. Chua\u00a0Ai Lin (Department of History) and co-author Dr. Yeo Kang\u00a0Shua\u00a0from SUTD.<\/p>\n

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SRN\u00a0Head A\/P Lim Sun Sun\u00a0(right) welcomes the first panel – Yeo Kang\u00a0Shua, Jonathan Sweet, Jack Tsen-Ta Lee and Wong Chee Meng (left to right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was then up to Jack\u00a0Lee from the School of Law at SMU to explore\u00a0the limitations of\u00a0Singapore’s present legal framework for preserving heritage sites, namely\u00a0through either the Planning Act “conservation area” scheme or the Preservation of Monuments Act. The third panelist to present was\u00a0Dr. Wong Chee Meng from\u00a0NTU whose paper concerned the challenges for a plural and global society like\u00a0Singapore to find an appealing\u00a0common shared history.<\/p>\n

After the first round of vibrant Q & A, the second panel on\u00a0Singapore – Sites of Aspiration and Memory <\/em><\/span><\/strong>got underway with the hottest topic on the whole programme – Bukit\u00a0Brown cemetery… <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Huang Jianli (right) delivers his much-anticpated paper on Bukit Brown while the other panellists listen on: (from left) Tan Teng Phee, discussant Liang Yongjia and Humairah Bte Zainal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A\/P Huang Jianli\u00a0(from FASS’ own Department of History) presented a very thorough paper encompassing local epigraphy, cemetery studies, the diversity and connectivity of the Chinese cultural-linguistic world, as well as the unprecedented civil society response to the forthcoming redevelopment of the site. Q and A though would have to wait as two further papers on local\u00a0Singapore\u00a0sites were shared, one on the contested nature of developments in <\/span><\/span>Geylang\u00a0Serai by\u00a0Humairah Zainal\u00a0from\u00a0UniSIM\u00a0and the final paper\u00a0of the conference on the cultural relevance of the\u00a0Sun Yat Sen Nanyang\u00a0Memorial Hall by Dr. Tan Teng\u00a0Phee (National Heritage Board).<\/p>\n

There followed a very dynamic Q &A session with many queries and comments relating especially\u00a0to Bukit Brown and with many activists sharing their passion for the site.<\/p>\n

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The vibrant Q & A session<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The session ran well over time but\u00a0 many in the audience would linger on to speak with the\u00a0presenters and fellow members of the audience. SRN’s A\/P TC Chang wrapped up the afternoon with a summary of the SRN’s interests in local culture and society and how we can look forward to more from both our website and future SRN events that promise to remain interesting and relevant to Singapore.<\/p>\n

For a full summary of the conference programme please see here: http:\/\/www.iseas.edu.sg\/event_detail.cfm?event_id=00429588-9B68-C04E-1C6362CB14600C51<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Between 16-17 January 2014, the SRN was delighted to welcome delegates from many parts of the world to the International Conference on “State Policy and the Cultural Politics of Heritage-Making in East and Southeast Asia“. The two-day conference was co-hosted by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) and the International Institute of Asian Studies. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":16892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4529],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16891"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27862,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16891\/revisions\/27862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}