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Dear HSHH friends,

This February, your monthly Human Sciences Happy Hour meeting will be co-organised in collaboration with Manolis House. We invite you to discover - or re-discover - this new space dedicated to archictecture and urbanism in the heart of our beloved Phnom Penh.

 

 

The lecture will be on Wednesday 16th February at 6pm at Manolis House:

7 st 13, just in front of the Central Post Office of Wat Phnom.

 

 

We apologize for this last minute notice but we are convinced you will not regret it.

 

If any questions, you can contact us, your usual HSHH team:

 

hshhpp@gmail.com

Emiko Stock & Pascale Hancart-Petitet & Leo Mariani

012 521 093 – 092 399 273 - 077 62 06 74

 

Or the Manolis team:

 

Stefanie Irmer

mobile: +855 (0) 92 870 005

@ manolis house

street 13 # 7, daun penh (opposite the post office)

mon, thurs, sat 2 - 5 / tues, wed, fri 9 -11.30 

www.manolishouse.wordpress.com 

 

See you on Wednesday, to listen to:

 

 

Michael Falser from the University of Heidelberg, Germany: 

WHOSE HERITAGE?

The translation of Angkor Vat for the Universal and Colonial Exhibitions in France 

(1889 - 1937)

 

Angkor Vat temple from the 12th c. in Cambodia is the largest religious stone monument in the world. Despite its massive architectural structure in situ, Angkor Vat is one of the most "travelled" objects in Southeast Asia through its reproduction in models and moulds. This phenomenon is tightly linked with the modern notion of nation building, the invention of the concept of cultural heritage and the increasingly commercialised cultures of display. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Angkor Vat became the most important monument and archaeological fetish in the French mission civilisatrice of the Indo-Chinese Protectorate: its surface was copied through the technique of moulding and transferred for scientific study and display to the new-found Parisian Musée Indochinois and after being partially reconstructed for earlier World Exhibitions, it reached its most spectacular transcultural translation in the 1:1-scale model for the state-propagandistic Colonial Exhibition in Paris in 1931. 

 

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Human Sciences Happy Hours in Phnom Penh

email: hshhpp@gmail.com
web: http://hshhpp.pbworks.com/

Coordinating team:
Emiko Stock, Pascale Hancart Petitet, Gabriel Fauveaud, Leo Mariani