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๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ก๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐๐ง๐๐ฌ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ก๐จ๐ซ๐๐ญ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐๐๐ฎ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐๐ญ๐ก ๐๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐๐ญ๐๐ฉ๐ก๐๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฉ๐ก๐ฒ
Tuesday, 16 July 2024, 7โ8 pm
ACM Ngee Ann Auditorium
This lecture is free. Seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis. No registration required.
The Khorat Plateau is a landscape of 155,000 square kilometres in northeast Thailand and central Laos. Despite rich evidence for the region's dynamism and development in the Metal Age, knowledge of subsequent developments on the plateau remains limited. The spread of Buddhism across the region has been overshadowed by the attention given the Dvฤravatฤซ culture of the Chao Phraya Basin to the west and the Zhenla and later Angkor civilisations to the south and southeast.
In this talk, Stephen Murphy discusses his new book, ๐๐ถ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด๐ต ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด๐ค๐ข๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ด: ๐๐ณ๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ณ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ข๐ต ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ข๐ถ, 7๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฐ 11๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด (NUS Press, 2024), as well as related objects in the ACM collection. The book builds on extensive fieldwork and archaeological surveys to reveal the distinctive Buddhist culture of the plateau, expressed in new forms of art and architecture, and investigates Buddhism's spread into the region along major river systems.
Stephen will illustrate how this history reads into and against the Khorat landscape, attending to the emergence of Buddha images and other forms of monumental architecture carved into the rockfaces of hills and mountainsides. This provides a new picture of the region in the first and early second millennia, adding to our understanding of the development of Buddhism in Southeast Asia.
About the speaker
๐๐ญ๐๐ฉ๐ก๐๐ง ๐. ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฉ๐ก๐ฒ is Pratapaditya Pal Senior Lecturer in Curating and Museology of Asian Art at SOAS, University of London. Prior to this he was Senior Curator for Southeast Asia at ACM from 2013 to 2020. He specialises in the art and archaeology of Buddhism and Hinduism in first millennium CE Southeast Asia, with a focus on Thailand and Laos. His museological focus engages with issues of restitution and curation in Asian art.
Stephen is the co-editor of Before Siam: Essays in Art and Archaeology (2014) and the author of a number of ACM catalogues, including ๐๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด: ๐๐ฏ๐ค๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐๐บ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ข๐ณ (2016) and ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ฑ๐ธ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฌ: ๐๐ณ๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐น๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ 9๐ต๐ฉ ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐บ (2017), with Alan Chong. He has contributed to several leading academic journals, including Antiquity, Asian Perspectives, the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society and the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the Siam Society.
About the respondent
๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฒ๐ ๐. ๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐ข is Senior Lecturer and Convenor for Art History, a collaboration between National University of Singapore, the National Gallery Singapore, and the Singapore Art Museum. Priya was Assistant Curator (South Asia) at the Asian Civilisations Museum from 2005 to 2007. She is the author of ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐ค๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด: ๐๐ฆ๐ท๐ช๐ด๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ 1959 ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช๐ข ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐บ๐ข (2024), ๐๐ข๐ด๐ฉ๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข ๐๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ณ๐ต: ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ขโ๐ด ๐๐ฐ๐บ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ต๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด (1875โ1924) (2016), and the volume editor of ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ข: ๐ ๐๐ฐ๐ด๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ, Mumbai: Marg Foundation (2015).
Priyaโs current research uncovers the contributions of collections, curricula, and pedagogies to revisionist art histories and historiographies of South and Southeast Asia, particularly India and Singapore.
About the moderator
๐๐๐๐ค๐ข๐ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ง๐ is Senior Curator of Fashion and Textiles at ACM and the Peranakan Museum. She holds an MA in Art History from SOAS University of London on the Alphawood Scholarship. She is currently serving on the International Council of Museums Costume Board. Her research interests focus on Singapore and Asia in global fashion history from the 20th century onwards.
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