{"id":9277,"date":"2014-08-04T14:16:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T06:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/?p=9277"},"modified":"2014-09-24T14:02:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T06:02:11","slug":"talks-for-bukit-brown-the-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bukitbrown.com\/main\/2014\/talks-for-bukit-brown-the-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Talks for Bukit Brown The Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of the exhibition, Bukit Brown: Documenting New Horizons of Knowledge<\/a>, a series of English\u00a0 (Sun 17 Aug’ 14) and Mandarin ( Sat 20th Sept’14) Public Talks\u00a0 have been programmed by the documentation team under Dr. Hui Yew-Foong.<\/p>\n

Location:\u00a0 Possibility Room on Level 5<\/span><\/span><\/span>
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(Look out for guided walks in English and Mandarin specially curated by\r\nAll Things Bukit Brown to complement the exhibition\/talk when you attend\r\nthe talks,details to be posted later)<\/em> <\/strong><\/pre>\n
Date: Sunday 17th August (English) Registration<\/strong> here<\/span> (through eventbrite) <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n
2-3pm Speaker: Dr Hui Yew-Foong<\/strong><\/p>\n
Bukit Brown: Documenting New Horizons of Knowledge<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
3-4pm Speakers: Dr Natalie Pang and Dr Liew Kai Khiun<\/strong><\/p>\n
The Internet and Bukit Brown<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
4-5pm\u00a0 Speakers: Lim Chen Sian and Angela Goh<\/strong><\/p>\n
Digging Bukit Brown<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
5-6pm\u00a0 Speaker: Mok Ly Yng<\/strong><\/p>\n
Documenting Bukit Brown: Maps and Mapping<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
Saturday, 20 September 2014 (Mandarin) Registration here<\/span> through eventbrite<\/span><\/a><\/span>
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2-3pm\u00a0 Speaker: Dr Lai Chee Kien<\/strong><\/p>\n
Tomb Architecture\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
3-4pm Speaker: Ang Yik Han<\/strong><\/p>\n
Story Telling Stones – Tales from the Stone Carvings of Bukit Brown Cemetery\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
4-5pm\u00a0 Speaker: Mok Ly Yng<\/strong><\/p>\n
Documenting Bukit Brown: Maps and Mapping<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0Selected Abstracts\u00a0 and Bios<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
Bukit Brown: Documenting New Horizons of Knowledge<\/em><\/p>\n
This talk introduces the various findings that have emerged from the multi-disciplinary study of Bukit Brown Cemetery. The speaker will share highlights from oral history interviews, field documentation of graves and fieldwork studying rituals performed at Bukit Brown. At the same time, the talk will demonstrate how various techniques and technologies employed in the course of documentation has enhanced the collection of data.<\/p>\n
Dr Hui Yew-Foong<\/em> is Lead Researcher of the Bukit Brown Documentation Project. He is an anthropologist by training, and has conducted fieldwork in Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Hong Kong and the US. Prior to taking up the documentation of Bukit Brown Cemetery, he was involved in leading a group of volunteers to document Kwong Hou Sua Teochew Cemetery before it was fully exhumed. Dr Hui is the author of Strangers at Home: History and Subjectivity among the Chinese Communities of West Kalimantan, Indonesia<\/em>.<\/p>\n
Tomb architecture<\/em>
\n<\/strong>The material culture at Bukit Brown cemetery, including tomb architecture, is unique and offer many insights on Singapore\u2019s social, cultural and economic connections to the region and to Southern China and Singapore. This talk discusses the documentation of tomb architecture at Bukit Brown and the importance of such records. There are also opportunities for children at this talk to learn about tomb architecture using paper models.<\/p>\n
Dr Lai Chee Kien<\/em> is a registered architect, and graduated from the National University of Singapore with an M Arch. by research [1996], and then a PhD in History of Architecture & Urban Design from the University of California, Berkeley [2005]. He researches on histories of art, architecture, settlements, urbanism and landscapes in Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n
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