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AR5951M 

Spaces of Malaya and Nanyang
   2013/2014, Semester 1
   School of Design and Environment (Architecture)
Modular Credits: 4
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Learning Outcomes

TopThis module is conducted at the time of Singapore and Malaya’s 50th anniversary of merger with the Bornean states, as well as the 50th anniversary of the book "A Brief History of Malayan Art." It explores the spaces known as “Malaya” and “Nanyang” as theoretical, inscribed and physical ideas, and has objectives of their critical differentiation or merging. It is conducted in conjunction with the exhibition at NUS Museum titled “Between Here and Nanyang: Marco Hsu’s Brief History of Malayan Art” which will open in August 2013.

More broadly, we seek to interrogate
  • Theories of Southeast Asian Space and Art
  • Diaspora and Socio-cultural Space
  • Inter-Ethnic and Cross Comparisons across the different sites of “Malaya” and “Nanyang”

It is hoped that students may appreciation the different contexts and issues within the historical and contemporary imaginations in Southeast Asia of that period.

Prerequisites

TopNone

Teaching Modes

TopThis is a seminar in which members are expected to shuttle between assigned texts and for discussion during each session. Museum visits and other activities are organized as well during the course of the module.

Schedule

TopEvery Thursday, 10am - 12 noon

Seminar 1:
 Introduction and Methods discussion
Seminar 2: Imagining "Nanyang"
Seminar 3: Imagining Malayan
Seminar 4: Colonial Period
Seminar 5: On Art
Seminar 6: On Culture
Seminar 7: Print Capitalism/Education
Seminar 8: The Malayan Emergency/Race Riots
Seminar 9: Sports and affiliations
Seminar 10: Defining Overseas Chinese Space
Seminar 11: Independence and Nationalism
Seminar 12: Plural and Multi-ethnic identities

Syllabus

TopMartin Heidegger, 1977. “The Age of the World Picture”. In The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, translated by William Lovitt, New York: Harper & Row.
Benedict Anderson, 1983. Imagined Communities: reflections on the origins and spread of nationalism. London: Verso.
Sudhir T. Vadaketh, 2012. “Introduction,” in Floating on a Malayan Breeze: Travels in Malaysia and Singapore, pp. 1-14. Singapore: NUS Press.
etc.

Assessment

TopAssignment 1: Description and Analysis of museum works (40%)
Assignment 2: Essay (60%)

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