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2026-10-09 New Book Roger Nelson

New Book on Artistic Art Histories in Southeast Asia by Asst Prof Roger Nelson

Published on 09 Oct 2026
2026-02-10 Walsh Famagusta Book

New Book on Cultural Memory and Historical Imagination by Michael Walsh

Published on 12 Feb 2026
2025-10-16 ELAH Exhibition

"Between Lands: Migration to Transformation”: A Student-Curated Exhibition by English Literature and Art History

Published on 16 Oct 2025
2025-09-19 Global Undergraduate Awards Bryen

ELAH Student Bryen Chen Wins Two Categories: Art History & Theory and Literature in Global Undergraduate Awards 2025

Published on 19 Sep 2025
2026-10-16 Art History - Bangkok
Conferences & Seminars

Bangkok as Method: Arnika Fuhrmann and Chairat Polmuk

16 Oct 2026 02.00 PM - 04.00 PM SHHK Meeting Room 2 (03-93)
2026-09-02 Art History - Flores
Workshops & Classes

Book talk: Philippine Figurine: Image, Ornament, Art

02 Sep 2026 03.00 PM - 04.30 PM LHS-TR+24
John La Farge, Siva Dance: Triptych of Seated Single Figures, 1890/91. Art Institute of Chicago.
Workshops & Classes

Picturing Time: Temporality and US Imperialism in Oceania

23 Mar 2026 10.00 AM - 11.30 AM Zoom
2026-03-11 Art History - Gupta
Workshops & Classes

Ca. 1945, when nothing seemed more certain than that “the towers of London, Vienna, and Paris were about to fall”

11 Mar 2026 10.00 AM - 11.30 AM Zoom
2026-02-09 Art History - Burchmore
Workshops & Classes

A Porcelain Aesthetic? “New Export China” in Contemporary Chinese Art

09 Feb 2026 10.00 AM - 11.30 AM
Palazzo Centrale, '27th International Art Biennal Exhibition 1954'. Source: Archivio Storico delle Arti Contemporanee (ASAC)
Workshops & Classes

Art from Asia at the Venice Biennale (1950s–1960s): Before the Infrastructural Turn

21 Jan 2026 02.00 PM - 03.30 PM
Subodh Gupta, Sat Samandar Par (Vehicle for the Seven Seas II). Cast aluminium and bronze, 2003.
Conferences & Seminars

Baggage Claims: Contemporary Art’s Migration Imaginary

20 Mar 2025 04.30 PM - 06.00 PM Gaia, LT 2
Tang Da Wu, Life Boat, performance, Singapore, 1989. Image courtesy Koh Nguang How.
Conferences & Seminars

Book Talk: Power, Politics and the Street. Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia after 1970

19 Feb 2025 02.30 PM - 04.00 PM SHHK Meeting Room 2 (03-93)
Wang Guangyi 王廣義, <i>Art and Politics<i>, 2006. Oil on canvas, 300 × 597.9cm. M Sigg Collection, Hong Kong.
Conferences & Seminars

Book Talk: The East is Red? Soviet Socialist Realism and Art in the Asia-Pacific

17 Jan 2025 10.00 AM - 11.30 AM Zoom
Installation shot of audience members amidst Chen Xiaoyun's Night/2.4KM (2009) and FIRE-3000KG (2009), single-channel video works.
Conferences & Seminars

Attempts at 'Decolonising Decolonialism': Artistic Responses to Neo-colonialism in Southeast Asian Art

16 Oct 2024 04.00 PM - 05.00 PM Zoom