Cham Living Archives and the Long Nineteenth Century

For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on Dec. 4 for campus access.

Names will be submitted for QR codes 1-2 days prior to the event. Registrants will receive an email from CU Guest Access with the QR code before or on the day of the event. NOTE: You cannot access campus using the QR code from Eventbrite.

Speaker: Nicolas Weber, Senior Faculty Member, the Vietnam Studies Major, Fulbright University of Vietnam

Moderator: John Phan, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University

Set within Professor Nicolas Weber’s book project Forbidden Voices, Silenced Memory: The Making of a Cham Century, this talk examines a 19th-century Cham verse narrative—The Rhyme of Looking Forward—one of 15 texts in the project. Read as a “living archive,” it restores Cham perspectives and memory to the making of modern Southeast Asia. Through this narrative, Cham voices recorded what they saw and lived, navigating upheavals and articulating their understandings of regional change across the 19th and 20th centuries.

Speaker’s Bio:
Nicolas Weber is a Senior Faculty member in the Vietnam Studies major at Fulbright University Vietnam. His research focuses on Southeast Asian history, ethnic history, and diasporic networks, with a particular emphasis on the Cham world. Before joining Fulbright, he taught at Sun Yat-sen University in China and the University of Malaya in Malaysia.

This event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and is co-sponosred by NYSEAN.

Registration: To attend this event in-person, please register HERE.