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Under The Banana Tree Zine #1 – Archival Fragments
Deriving from assemblages of archival praxis from Under The Banana Tree Archival Network, the inaugural zine entitled 'Archival Fragments' locates multi-lingual illustrations, texts, printed materials, images, objects, a practical podcast-making process, to tools for collective learning in evoking the idea of archive as methodologies.
PUBLIC SEMINAR RECORDING: Under The Banana Tree Archival Network – Records of Resistance: Looking Through Writings of Political Prisoners & Stories of Torture Survivors
In drawing attention to multiple forms of archival resources: from letters, writing materials, testimonials and lived experiences of political detainees and torture survivors, how does such materials provide transnational insights to the socio-political contexts in the region? What goes behind the process of confronting the traumatic past, present and future within our milieu? How do we perceive the challenges in disseminating such materials in the struggle for truth and reconciliation?
WEBINAR RECORDING & SUMMARY: Under The Banana Tree Archival Network x Scholar Chronicles Webinar #5 – Genocide in Indonesia and Beyond
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.
Imagined Malaysia: Compiling Histories, Reshaping Narratives
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
A [Trail and] Tale of Thai Grassroots Women’s Archive and Research (TGWAR)
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.