Workshop with Prasenjit Duara

Opening: 28.02.2014 @10AM – 3PM Exhibition on view until 01.03.2014 Location: San Art Laboratory 40/18 Phạm Viết Chánh, Bình Thạnh , HCMC, Vietnam     Circular versus Competitive Histories.  History is not only the history of nations and civilizations. History is not tunneled and bounded by the nation. Since the earliest times, events have had their impact far across the borders of their location. How can we understand this other view of history, which in some ways, existed before the modern era?  What are the implications for understanding history in...

Asia as network: futures of the past

Opening: 26.02.2014 @6:30pm Location: University of Social Sciences and Humanities Room C.103, USSH 12 Dinh Tien Hoang, D1   Historically this region known as Asia had no strict boundaries, it was densely interconnected by trade and religion, evidenced in cultural practice (their rituals, arts and crafts). These informal networks had profound implications on the relationship between culture and society across this region. Today, there is an emerging consensus that continuing our pursuit of existing modes of production, consumption and the political economic arrangements that underpin them will endanger planetary sustainability...