Stephanie Porras & Cheryl Naruse

Stephanie Porras (Art History) and Cheryl Naruse (English) will present short talks, followed by conversation. Together, they interrogate how "the global" is constructed and contested in Southeast Asia — challenging dominant  narratives of globalization by centering overlooked local actors and moments in early modern Manila and Cold War-era Singapore and Malaysia.

These two talks are in conversation with one another in their shared interrogation of how "the global" is constructed and contested in Southeast Asia — one through the lens of early modern print culture in Manila, the other through Cold War-era Singapore and Malaysia. Both challenge dominant narratives of globalization by centering overlooked local actors, objects, and moments as sites of negotiation, resistance, and meaning-making.