research interests
Film Studies, Cultural Memory Studies, Media and Culture, Indonesian Popular Culture, Dutch East Indies Literature
Events
INMS 2026 Conference: (De)Coding Memory, Canon, and Heritage
At this year's Indian Network for Memory Studies Conference, I will present the paper "Colonialism and the Codes of Culinary Canon Formation: Remembering the Rice Table as Dutch and Indonesian Intangible Heritage".
Global Cuisine: Stirring the Pot and the Past - Southeast Asian Food Stories
This talk is at a special event at the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Moderated by Vina A. Lanzona, I am talking in a panel with Marlon Martin and Stephen B. Acabado on how food can change how we tell the history of Southeast Asia. The panel is part of programming for the current Mountain Spirits: Rice and Indigeneity in the Northern Luzon Highlands, Philippines exhibition.