The Spice Route: Connected Histories in South and Southeast Asia

Category - forums
The MA Asian Art Histories Programme at LASALLE is collaborating with the London School of Economics on a series of roundtables on South Asia. The first one was held in November last year. The next session is on 16 June 2022 and is titled The Spice Route: Connected Histories in South and Southeast Asia. The Programme Leader of the MA Asian Art Histories Programme, Jeffrey Say, will be the discussant. Read more....

History, Truth, Memory: Trauma in Asian Contemporary Art

Category - forums
This symposium explores memory, trauma and the politics of the past in Asian contemporary art. It investigates the legacies of violence in the region, probing its continued, if repressed, imprint on Asia’s socio-political landscape. If history is written by the victors, who speaks for history’s victims? Art historians Dr Wulan Dirgantoro and Dr Nayun Jang team up with acclaimed Indonesian artist Read more....

MA Asian Art Histories Study Trip 2021

Category - overseas study trips
By Ashwariya Khemka and Masturah Sha’ari The year 2020 was struck with the horrifying global pandemic of COVID-19, which brought a dramatic stop to most lives across the globe. While most colleges were forced to shift to online-based learning in many countries, including Singapore, students here were eventually able to return to school, following the government’s clearly outlined directives Read more....

Winston Hauw (Graduated in 2021)

Category - alumni
Winston Hauw’s keen interest in the LASALLE Asian Art Histories programme arose from his passion and appreciation of Southeast Asian art. Winston’s MA thesis, completed days before his 67th birthday, is about the role of the allegory in the social realist artwork of Singapore artists. Winston is a quantity surveying practitioner by profession and an alumnus of the University of Reading, U.K. He Read more....

Prapan Jangkitchai (Graduated in 2021)

Category - alumni
Prapan Jangkitchai graduated from the Department of Art History, Faculty of Archaeology at Silpakorn University. He was a recipient of LASALLE’s SEAsia Scholars Award. His areas of interest include memory studies and contemporary art. Jangkitchai has published articles about art in Echo: Voice for Society, a magazine by students in the B.E. International Program of Thammasat University, The Momentum, Read more....