Sponsors: Art, Activism, Authoritarianism in Contemporary Southeast Asia Interdisciplinary Working Group, University of California Riverside’s Center for Ideas and Society

Speakers:

Elisabeth Arti Wulandari, Assistant Professor of Humanities, Clarkson University

Talk title: “Where are we headed?”: The Cultural Activism of Teater Garasi

Joanne Leow, Assistant Professor of English, University of Saskatchewan

Talk title: “Tear Down the House”: Tania De Rozario’s Queer Literary Circumventions

Weihsin Gui, Associate Professor of English, University of California-Riverside

Talk title: Art and Cities as Speculative Space in the Liquid City Comics Anthology

Description:

The Art, Activism, Authoritarianism in Contemporary Southeast Asia Interdisciplinary Working Group and University of California Riverside’s Center for Ideas and Society will host three speakers to discuss different forms of artistic resistance in Southeast Asia. Elisabeth Arti Wulandari will analyze the cultural activism of Teater Garasi in post-1998 Indonesia. Joanne Leow will speak to Tania De Rozario’s queer literary circumventions in Singapore. Weihsin Gui will talk about the depictions of Southeast Asian urban life within the Liquid City comics anthology.

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