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- 1965, Archiving, Communism, Education, Genocide, Knowledge Production, Memory, Oral History, People’s History
Centring on Soe Tjen Marching’s long-term engagement with oral history interviews; ranging from the 1965 massacres to the 1998 anti-Chinese riots in Indonesia, the webinar hosted by Loh Kah Seng of Chronicles Research and Education, explores the fragility of memory and archives, as well as the ethics of recording traumatic pasts.
- Archiving, Democracy, Education, Knowledge Production, Memory, Oral History, People’s History, Visual Culture
Imagined Malaysia democratises public history through inclusive and creative initiatives in challenging ethnonationalist narratives. By foregrounding layered histories of migration and marginalised voices, the organisation envision the idea of empowering Malaysians to critically reimagine the past together
- Archiving, Democracy, Education, Feminism, Knowledge Production, Labour, Memory, Museum-making, Peasants, People’s History, Proletariat, Rural
Drawing on decades of diaries, petitions, and letters from the Thai Grassroots Women’s Archive and Research (TGWAR), the writing explores herstories of personal struggle that form a people’s archive, preserving rural women’s voices, resistance, and everyday negotiations of power.
- 1965, Archiving, Communism, Decolonisation, Democracy, Education, Genocide, Knowledge Production, Labour, Memory, Museum-making, People’s History, Proletariat, Socialism, Visual Culture
Seperti apa Ruang Arsip & Sejarah Wanita (RUAS) memposisikan entitasnya sebagai laboratorium pengetahuan, ruang refleksi, dan medan perjuangan melalui proses pengarkibannya?
- Archiving, Decolonisation, Education, Knowledge Production, Labour, Memory, Oral History, People’s History, Proletariat, Rural, Visual Culture
Plantation Afterlives: Songs, Memories, and the Politics of Care is a conversation centered on the filmmaking practices exploring songs, memory, oral traditions, and the worlds of Tamil plantation histories in Malaya(sia).
Webinars
Explore our webinar series focusing on multifaceted archival praxis from the region and beyond.
WEBINAR RECORDING & SUMMARY: Under The Banana Tree Archival Network x Scholar Chronicles Webinar #5 – Genocide in Indonesia and Beyond
- 1965, Archiving, Communism, Education, Genocide, Knowledge Production, Memory, Oral History, People’s History
WEBINAR RECORDING & SUMMARY: Under The Banana Tree Archival Network x Pusat Sejarah Rakyat Webinar #4 – The Plantation Afterlives: Songs, Memories and Politics of Care
- Archiving, Decolonisation, Education, Knowledge Production, Labour, Memory, Oral History, People’s History, Proletariat, Rural, Visual Culture
WEBINAR RECORDING & SUMMARY: Under The Banana Tree Archival Network x Pusat Sejarah Rakyat Webinar #3 – ‘Emotional’ Archives: Exploring Sense and Facts
- 1965, Archiving, Decolonisation, Democracy, Education, Genocide, Indigenous, Knowledge Production, Labour, Memory, Museum-making, Oral History, People’s History, Rural, Visual Culture
Events
Highlighting events, ranging from workshops, discussion and publications organised by the network
- Archiving, Decolonisation, Education, Knowledge Production, Labour, Memory, Oral History, People’s History, Proletariat, Rural, Visual Culture
The webinar explores Gogularajaan Rajendran’s exploration of filmmaking on Tamil plantation histories, archiving as healing, and the politics of care and remembrance.
- 1965, Archiving, Collectivism, Communism, Decolonisation, Democracy, Education, Feminism, Genocide, Indigenous, Knowledge Production, Labour, Memory, Museum-making, Oral History, People’s History, Proletariat, Rural, Visual Culture
This webinar examines “emotional facts” in archives, reframing them as sites of affect, containing both fact and feeling. Through Kolektif Arungkala’s praxis, it explores how archival engagement generates collective sensing and affective knowledge beyond conventional understandings of factual records.