In October 2017, the Power Institute hosted Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories, the first symposium of its kind. The three day program was launched by a keynote address from Professor Ashley Thompson. Thompson’s lecture, Figuring the Buddha, examined the historical unfolding of the Buddha’s story in a range of Cambodian contexts.
Videos of the ‘Asian Art Research in Australia and New Zealand: Past, Present, Future’ symposium are now available on our youtube channel.
In January 2016, as part of the Power Institute’s research project Ambitious Alignments: New Histories of Southeast Asian Art, a two-day public symposium was hosted at the National Gallery Singapore with fifteen scholars presenting on their original research papers.
