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Date Event abstract:  New Mandala and the Southeast Asia Institute at ANU are pleased to present this seminar by Professor Adrian Vickers, who is a Visitor in the School of Culture History and Language. As a historian researching modern Southeast Asian art, the field has presented me with three key problem areas: first, how to track art history as the history of styles deriving from influences; secondly, the history of modernism and its relationship to modernity; thirdly, the question of whether there is art that links Southeast Asia as a region. In addressing these problems, we ar...

Photo by Laura Gildner Haema Sivanesan is a curator at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (AGGV), British Columbia. She has held leadership and curatorial positions in public galleries and visual art centers across Canada, as well as in Australia and South Asia. Her curatorial work typically focuses on art from South and Southeast Asia and its diasporas, with an interest in non-Western post-colonial and trans-national histories, world views, and practices. Recent exhibitions include:  Imagining Fusang: Exploring Chinese and Indigenous Encounters (2019),  Fiona Tan: Ascent (2019) Sup...

What led Japanese and Indonesians in Western Australia 100 years ago to spill blood in the Broome race riots Joseph Lam life@scmp.com Workers grade and sort mother-of-pearl shells at Broome, Western Australia, in 1953. The town, long a centre of the pearling industry, drew migrants from Japan and Southeast Asia, who several times came into conflict. Photo: Frank Hurley for National Library of Australia The largest Japanese cemetery outside Japan is in a small seaside town in Western Australia, 2,000km (1,250 miles) and a 22-hour drive north of the state capital, Perth. Roughl...