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[Book Talk/Launch] Emotion and Passion in Gender Policy: The Medium is the Message

Marshall McLuhan’s famous phrase, “the medium is the message,”, argues that the form through which we communicate shapes society more deeply than the content itself. Feminist media theorist Sarah Sharma ...(2022) revisits his work to show how media technologies reproduce and amplify inequality. Drawing on these debates this talk will explore themes from the book, Sexuality and Islamic Spirituality in Early Malay Texts (2025) which traces how concepts of intimacy evolved from sixteenth-century Malay manuscripts—syair, hikayat, kitab—to early twentieth-century printed works.

Using two issues, “marital rape” and “wife-beating” as focal points, the talk examines how they are understood and transformed moving through the medium of spiritual text to instructional poetry to gender policy to legal code. How can the experience of the same story —its emotional force, social habits, disciplinary effects, and moral imagination— differ through the medium it is conveyed?Show More
[Book Talk/Launch] Emotion and Passion in Gender Policy: The Medium is the Message
[Book Talk/Launch] Emotion and Passion in Gender Policy: The Medium is the Message
Marshall McLuhan’s famous phrase, “the medium is the message,”, argues ...
[Talk] Just What Is A Productivity Commission, And Does Penang Need One?
[Talk] Just What Is A Productivity Commission, And Does Penang Need One?
Over the last two decades, many governments have established ...
[Talk] Southeast Asia between the Superpowers: Who is Where and Why
[Talk] Southeast Asia between the Superpowers: Who is Where and Why
In an era of extreme competition between the United States and China, ...
Documenting Two Centuries of Transformation: The Story of Seh Tek Tong Cheah Kongsi, Penang
Documenting Two Centuries of Transformation: The Story of Seh Tek Tong Cheah Kongsi, Penang
Penang, a gem for historical studies in this region, is home to some ...
[Book Launch] Who was James Richardson Logan?
[Book Launch] Who was James Richardson Logan?
Book title: Spiky, Like a Durian (Entrepot Publishing, 2025) Mike ...
[Book Launch] Silk Silver Opium: The Trade with China that Changed History
[Book Launch] Silk Silver Opium: The Trade with China that Changed History
In his latest book, Silk Silver Opium, Michael Pembroke explores the ...
[EP 38] 20载新闻路：王义展谈媒体转型、挑战与不变的伦理初心
[EP 38] 20载新闻路：王义展谈媒体转型、挑战与不变的伦理初心
20 Years in News: Ong Ghee Tien on Media Transformation, Challenges, ...
[EP 37] 阅读、音乐创作与想像力：马来西亚爵士音乐家郑泽相
[EP 37] 阅读、音乐创作与想像力：马来西亚爵士音乐家郑泽相
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[Book Talk/Launch] Hong Kong: The Tropical Mixing That Made It
[Book Talk/Launch] Hong Kong: The Tropical Mixing That Made It
Has Hong Kong ‘always been a Chinese city’? Was it a model British ...
[Book Launch] The Making of A Feminist
[Book Launch] The Making of A Feminist
Feminism Undaunted: 50 Years as a Muslim Feminist offers a candid ...
[EP34] Buku dan Kedai Buku Bebas, b/sama Nazir Harith Fadzilah
[EP34] Buku dan Kedai Buku Bebas, b/sama Nazir Harith Fadzilah
Izzuddin Ramli dan Israr Khalid bersama Nazir Harith Fadzilah, pemilik ...
[Talk] Charting Alternative Paths: How Far Would You Go for Art?”
[Talk] Charting Alternative Paths: How Far Would You Go for Art?”
Curator and creative producer Vanini Belarmino reflects on her journey ...