NTU, History
Goh Geok Yian is associate professor of History and Associate Chair (Faculty) at School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University. Geok has published works on Buddhist kingship in Myanmar, hell in Burmese murals, urbanization, and co-authored Ancient Southeast Asia with John Miksic. She is the principal investigator for a project funded by the National Heritage Board to create databases for Singapore’s archaeological sites: https://www.epress.nus.edu.sg/sitereports.
Categories of social complexity in texts and artifacts
How have archaeologists developed categories for studying social complexity? What linguistic categories exist to denote different levels of social complexity? Scholars and students of archaeology have undertaken studies of ancient and early modern groups in Southeast Asia through the use of words (inscriptions) and visual language (architecture, sculpture, artifacts). In this talk Miksic and Goh will share their experiences in teaching and research on the historical archaeology of Singapore and the region.