Asia’s Wet Natures: Past, Present, and Future – Session 3

With a focus on “water” — as method, source, and archive — the Asia’s Wet Natures: Past, Present, Future workshop explored the past, present, and future of Asia’s wet natures and cultivated an interdisciplinary conversation about the lives and legacies of water.

The workshop, held on 28th and 29th October 2021, was jointly organised by Yale-NUS Assistant Professor of Social Sciences (Environmental Studies) Anthony D. Medrano, and NUS Assistant Professor of Sociology Chitra Venkataramani.
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SESSION 3 AND CLOSING ADDRESS

SESSION 3

Moderator: Anthony D. Medrano – Assistant Professor of Social Sciences (Environmental Studies), Yale-NUS College; Research Associate, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

Colombo as a Wetland City
Sujit Sivasundaram – Professor, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
Prof Sujit’s segment was not recorded as his presentation was on an early-stage research. He joins the rest of the speakers during the Q&A session.

Fisheries Science and Law in the Raj: Forging Cultures of Fact
Aarthi Sridhar – PhD Candidate, University of Amsterdam; Programme Head, Dakshin Foundation

“They All Drank”: Water and the Foundation of Early Colonial Singapore
Timothy P. Barnard – Associate Professor, Department of History, National University of Singapore

The Many Meanings of the Cooum: Inventing Urban Hydropsheres in Chennai
Bhavani Raman – Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto
Aditya Ramesh – Presidential Fellow, Department of History, University of Manchester

CLOSING ADDRESS

Anthony D. Medrano – Assistant Professor of Social Sciences (Environmental Studies), Yale-NUS College; Research Associate, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
Chitra Venkataramani – Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore