Night School

Shahrul Bahyah Kamaruzzaman shares findings from her latest landmark research to help us better understand what it means to grow old in Malaysia. Fuad and Sharaad come to terms with life, in critical fashion as always.

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How has traditional Malay performing arts fared amidst modernization and moral policing? How do we continue to critically think through the meaning of tradition as something that is dynamic and ever evolving? Lawrence Ross, an ethnomusicologist at Universiti Malaya joins Fuad and Sharaad this week to explore those questions.

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For legendary French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, we are always in a state of misrecognition, torn between our image of ourselves, and our physical embodied existence. Fuad and Sharaad explores the hows and whys of this famous theory called "the Mirror Stage".

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What are the ideas that are animating contemporary India as well as the ideas that established that nation but are now said to be superseded? Was Gandhi India’s greatest traveller and how did Narendra Modi move himself from the dangerous fringe to occupy power at the center. Today we speak to a novelist and political commentator. He is the author of “Arzee The Dwarf”, the editor of an anthology of Indian fiction “India: A Traveller’s Literary Companion” and a columnist with Bloomberg Views.

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Freud established psychoanalysis through his Interpretation of Dreams. This week Sharaad and Fuad go over his main claims to unpack its implications.

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We explore how urbanism is understood differently across cultures. Among the topics discussed: the costs of development, alternative models of progress and why architects should be engaging society. Caroline Bos of UNStudio and Tom Kvan of the University of Melbourne lead the way.

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Fresh off the press with his “The Iron Cage of Liberalism: International Politics and Unarmed Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa”, this assistant professor of politics and international relations walks us through his thesis on why unarmed revolutions succeed or fail. Invoking the godmother of the study of revolution, Theda Skocpol, Ritter invites us to consider some of the inter-linkages between states that make resistance to authoritarian rule potentially successful.

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Raja Ali Haji was the first and the last political theorist of the Malay classical tradition. Find out more as we explore his ideas and 19th century context with regular and old friend Syed Muhiyiddin Al-Attas.

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Because K-Pop (Hallyu) is looking for newer consumers as it stretches its reach further and wider into the region. Cultural theorist Mary Ainslie, co-editor of a book on the Korean Wave in Southeast Asia joins us today to help us better understand this phenomenon.

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We walk through the history of film studies from its early start from social reformers concerned about the leisure activities of the working-class. In three decades film was finding its place in art museums and not to long later its arrival at the university as part of the curriculum. One of the most successful products of the 20th century’s culture industry, film is at the confluence of capital, class and culture. Grieveson who is Reader in Film Studies and Director of the Graduate Programme in Film Studies, and author of numerous books on films, also put together the colonialfilm.org.uk project which features material from our own history.

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