​[Around the Tok Panjang Chat]​ Negotiating Social Identities in Heritage Spaces

Date: Saturday, 3 December
Time: 10.30am - 11.45am
Location: NUS Baba House
Free with registration, Registration link: https://bhtokpanjangchat_dec22.eventbrite.sg
Speakers: Dr Kamalini Ramdas (Senior Lecturer, NUS Geography Department), Ms Vivian Lim (CEO and Founder, the Idea Co)
Moderator: Ms Clara Ang (Programmes Manager, NUS Baba House)
 

In this final Tok Panjang Chat of the year to conclude the Women and the Baba House series, we situate the heritage house as an experimental space to inspire inquiry and speculate possibilities for topics surrounding social identities.

Join Dr Kamalini Ramdas, Ms Vivian Lim and Ms Clara Ang as they look back on their involvements in the Around the Tok Panjang series in relation to their respective fields, as well as their negotiations across the museum and heritage, education, and community sectors.

This talk is presented as part of the Around the Tok Panjang programme in collaboration with the Idea Co. 
 

Around the Tok Panjang: A Guided Tour on Women and the Baba House

Dominant discourses in popular culture often place Nonyas as authoritative and feisty matriarchs. Yet, some narratives speak of a strict patriarchal belief system deeply anchored in Chinese traditions that suggests the relegation of women to the domestic sphere. How do we make sense of these two seemingly contradictory positions? Making use of the provenance, spaces, and artefacts of the Baba House, as well as contextualising gender relations within the wider historical contexts, we seek to open up conversations surrounding gendered norms and practices in the Straits Chinese culture.
 

Around the Tok Panjang: Post-Tour Conversations

This post-tour conversation, facilitated by NUS student volunteers, provides an interactive and dialogic aspect to the tour. Here, participants will be able to articulate their thoughts and voices through the gameplay session using the Generally Speaking Card deck, as well as their written comments on the community wall. Discussions will pivot around the participants’ experiences and responses to the tour content, as well as the spaces, objects, and artefacts they encounter in the Baba House.
 

Please note that this is a two-part event. Participants will need to participate in both the tour and post-tour conversations. The age advisory is 17 years and above.

Registration opens 1:45pm . Tour will begin promptly at 2:00pm