[Recording] Cham Living Archives and the Long Nineteenth Century

Nicolas Weber, Associate Professor of Vietnam Studies at the Fulbright University of Vietnam, examines a 19th-century Cham verse narrative—The Rhyme of Looking Forward. This is one of 15 texts in his book project “Forbidden Voices, Silenced Memory: The Making of a Cham Century,” which 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.

This event was organized by the Weatherhead Institute of East Asian Studies at Columbia University, a NYSEAN Partner.