Anthropological studies rarely make use of sound archives, despite their value as historical sources. The neglect arises from the absence of systematic documentation activities on the numerous recordings made by prior...
DeCoSEAS Archives Committee kicked off its activities in october 2024 with a training session on licensing opportunities for digital heritage and a debate on the ethical and legal issues surrounding the sound archives...
The ERC-selected and UKRI-funded project SoundDecisions is seeking proposal for a PhD position at the University of Birmingham. Using the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam as a case study, the project applies an...
Yesterday, after almost one hundred years, sound recordings, photographs, and film from the Jaap Kunst Collection at the University of Amsterdam were restituted digitally to the Government of East Nusa Tenggara (NTT)...
We are excited to invite you to the upcoming Mari Ber-Lenso exhibition, an event dedicated to exploring Lenso. Lenso, a musical genre that emerged during the Soekarno era reflecting the cultural and political landscape...
1-6 July 2024 The Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives consortium gathered for the third and last time in Bali on 1-6 July 2024. This year’s workshop is organized by DeCoSEAS project partner Citra Research...
This essay explains the author’s creation of an exhibition of wind instruments from Laos’s ethnic minorities, and the ethical issues she encountered. In 2017 Marie-Pierre Lissoir, ethnomusicologist and museum curator at...
Layan Nijem, DeCoSEAS Project Coordinator, will be an inspirational speaker at the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) 2024 conference! On 24 July at 08:30 (CET), Layan will speak about the...
Radio broadcasting was a tool of soft power in the American colonization of the Philippines in the first half of the 20th century. An analysis of the structure and content of broadcasting in the Philippines then, and...
Join us for a celebration of Penang’s vibrant Eurasian musical heritage at “Yesterday Once More”, curated by Jarrod Sim in collaboration with the Penang Eurasian Association (PEA), the Penang House of Music...
