Comprising the regions that more than 80% of the world call home, Afro Asia came to the political fore in the mid-1950s, calling for accelerated decolonization on the one hand and rejecting Cold War polarization on the other. Building on this history, this talk mobilizes Afro Asia as an epistemological grounds for rethinking geographical, social, and aesthetic worlds primarily through the worlds Black Read more.... The Geometries of Afro Asia
Category - annual lecture 2023
Comprising the regions that more than 80% of the world call home, Afro Asia came to the political fore in the mid-1950s, calling for accelerated decolonization on the one hand and rejecting Cold War polarization on the other. Building on this history, this talk mobilizes Afro Asia as an epistemological grounds for rethinking geographical, social, and aesthetic worlds primarily through the worlds Black Read more.... 
by Akshatha Rangarajan
Cambodia was the first Southeast Asian country to open its borders without restrictions, making it the favoured destination for a study trip for our class of 2022. Our travel was perfectly timed to a post-thesis period, giving a few of us a chance to pray for good grades for the entire class at the historic Wat Phnom pagoda, a symbol of Khmer identity. We were fortunate to 
We are delighted to announce that two of our alumni, Ramesh and Elaine (from the class of 2018 and 2017 respectively) will be presenting their research papers as part of the Chinese Art and Cultural Research Grant, a collaboration between the MA Asian Art Histories Programme at LASALLE and the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre. Under the grant, the candidates were given funding to do a one-year research 
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.
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