State Policy and the Cultural Politics of Heritage-Making in East and Southeast Asia

16-17 January 2014, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore.

WHY IS IT THAT, AT THIS POINT IN HISTORY, heritage has become a pertinent issue across the world? What’s at stake in the process of heritage-making in our societies today? These were the two main questions raised during the conference on State Policy and the Cultural Politics of Heritage-Making in East and Southeast Asia, held on 16-17 January 2014 at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore, and co-organised by ISEAS, the Singapore Research Nexus and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS), and the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS).