KITLV Events

This workshop highlights a key feature of ‘Asian modernity’, by examining the implications of a very rapid move towards mass higher education in Indonesia (and other countries in Southeast Asia), where tertiary education systems are not only expanding, but also becoming more stratified, commercial and international.

Singapore’s high-density public housing estates, its relatively uniform urban morphology and infrastructural designs; as well as its tropical-equatorial location, all provide a unique stage for studying public perceptions about changing/changed city soundscapes.

In this talk, Chiara Formichi will illustrate how by asking the question of how (literate, engaged, middle/upper-class) Indonesians understood and deployed the concepts of modernity and progress, and how these intersected