tag:peatix.com,2011:1 2022-08-13T20:32:12+08:00 Peatix National Museum tag:peatix.com,2022:event-3288992 2022-07-14T19:30:00SGT 2022-07-14T19:30:00SGT

The Fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 was one of a handful events in the twentieth century that was immediately recognized as having world-historical importance. It sent shockwaves through the British empire, but it also had a profound effect on the people of Japan. Even in the immediate aftermath of the Fall, different Japanese actors got to work interpreting the significance of their empire’s victory to their countrymen. In this talk, Dr Clay Eaton will discuss this process of mythmaking, with a particular emphasis on Japanese actors occupying Singapore and Asia during World War Two. Speaker’s BioDr. Clay Eaton is a lecturer in the Department of Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore. He is a historian of the Japanese empire with a particular interest in the social and political effects of various imperial policies across Asia. His research focuses on the relationship between Japanese administrators and local social elites in wartime Singapore (1942–1945), and he uses Japanese, Chinese and Malay sources to analyse this relationship. This programme is organised in conjunction with the special exhibition Dislocations: Memory and Meaning of the Fall of Singapore, 1942. $5 per pax for on-site attendance of the programme at the museum will include light refreshments to take home. Participants are reminded to keep your mask on throughout the programme.This programme will be livestreamed concurrently free of charge on the NMS Facebook page.Image: Japanese propaganda postcard, c. 1940s. Collection of the National Museum of Singapore.

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