Event details
Feb
13
Fung Public Seminar Series | The Emergence of a Civil Society: Law, Gender and the Media in 1950s Singapore
In 1950, the annulment of the Muslim marriage of a 13-year-old Dutch Eurasian girl to a Malay schoolteacher in a British court in Singapore led to the most violent anti-colonial riots in the colony’s history. Through this case study, the seminar will focus on how intermarriage, religion, and child welfare had important bearings on Singapore’s colonial past and post-colonial present.
Speakers
Jialin Christina Wu / 2024-25 Fung Global Fellow; Lecturer (Tenured), Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
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