Programme and schedule

Note: all times are in Singapore time (GMT +8)

Monday 27 October 2025 

4.00PM – 4.10PM | Welcome Remarks (Simon Soon and Roger Nelson) 

4.10PM – 5.40PM | Panel 1. Chair: Prof Patrick D. Flores (National Gallery Singapore) 

  • Anna Koshcheeva (PhD candidate, Cornell University): 'Printing, Filming, and Broadcasting Future in the Communist Caves'
  • Conan Yongneng Cheong (PhD candidate, SOAS University of London): 'Photography as a “mutually experienced process”: Hans Georg Berger’s Contact Sheets from Luang Prabang '
  • Syaza Nisrina (MA student, The University of Melbourne): 'Threads of Power: Batik, Nationhood, and the Politics of Display in Singapore’s National Museums'

5.50PM – 7.20PM | Panel 2. Chair: Prof Iftikhar Dadi (Cornell University) 

  • Asep Topan (PhD candidate, University of Sydney): ‘The Origin of Art as a Form of Resistance in Pre-Independent Indonesia’
  • Michelle Wun Tin Wong (PhD graduate, University of Hong Kong), ‘Artists Negotiating Cultural Belonging Through Travels in Southeast Asia and China’
  • Nurul Kaiyisah (MA student, Nanyang Technological University): ‘The Jiwa Pelukis, Malaya’s “Artistic Soul”: An Analysis of Malay-language Art Writing from Malaya and Singapore in the 1950s–60s’

 7.30PM – 9.00PM | Panel 3. Chair: Prof Ashley Thompson (SOAS University of London)

  • Sinta Ridwan (PhD candidate, Universitas Indonesia): ‘Visual Dimensions and Materiality of Old Sumatran Scripts: An Art Historical Perspective on Inscriptions from the 7th to 14th Centuries CE’
  • Methaporn Singhanan (PhD candidate, University of California Santa Cruz): ‘Threads of Merit: Manuscript Textiles and the Visual Cultures of Buddhism in Mainland Southeast Asia’ 
  • Syakirah Aqilah (MA student, Nanyang Technological University): ‘Picture This!!! : The Intermedial Brawl between Text and Image and the Visibilised Woman in Dyan Anggraini’s Artworks’

 

Tuesday 28 October 2025 

4.00PM – 5.30PM | Panel 4. Chair: Prof Jeff Hou (National University of Singapore)

  • Gillian Daniel (PhD candidate, Australian National University): ‘Looking For The Builders: The Asian Labourer in Maritime Pictures of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore’
  • Kiko del Rosario (PhD candidate, University of California Berkeley): ‘Outward Over: Protuberances on Architecture in the Philippines’
  • Eloisa N. Penner (PhD candidate, University of California Berkeley): ‘Building BLOCs: Postwar Architecture of the Buddhist Tripitaka Library in Rangoon’

5.40PM – 7.10PM | Panel 5. Chair: Prof May Adadol Ingawanij (University of Westminster) 

  • Kukasina Kubaha (MA student, University of Hamburg): ‘When We Gaze Back: De-obscuring the Camera, Illuminating Queer Countervisuality’
  • Toby Wu (PhD candidate, Harvard University): ‘Siting Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba’s Memorial Project series (2001–14)’
  • Liang Luscombe (PhD candidate, Monash University): ‘Pontianak’s Shadow’
  • Zulkhairi Zulkiflee (PhD candidate, Nanyang Technological University): ‘Trailing Singapore: A Lens-Based Inquiry on Singapore, Michigan’

7.20PM – 8.50PM | Panel 6. Chairs: Roger Nelson and Simon Soon. 

  • Ahmad Kholdun Ibnu Sholah (MA student, SOAS University of London): ‘A Ganesha Statue Far from Home: Colonial Acquisition, Curating the Sacred, and Decolonising the Museum’
  • Jimin Lee (PhD candidate, Nanyang Technological University): ‘Reimagining Southeast Asian Art History through Ho Tzu Nyen: Against Regional Fixity, Toward Epistemological Fluidity’
  • Hue Nguyen (MA student, National Taipei University of Education): ‘Not To Be Framed As “Diasporic Art from Laos”’

8.50PM – 9.00PM | Closing Remarks (Simon Soon and Roger Nelson)