THE 15TH ENGAGING WITH VIETNAM EVENT SERIESANNOUNCING THE GRAND EVENT:“Knowledge Production, Creative Industries, Education, and the AI Age in Vietnam: Looking Back and Moving Forward”, 10-13 December 2025, Hanoi, VietnamEngaging…
A couple of years ago, I published an article entitled “Rescuing History from Srivijaya: The Fall of Angkor in the Ming Shilu (Part 1).” A continuation of that article, “Rescuing…
I recently made an international move. In preparation for moving, I copied all of the important files from all of the computers and hard drives that I had onto a…
Years ago, when I was reading the Cambodian newspaper Nagara vatta, I remember seeing articles that showed the kinds of problems that the Cambodian elite discussed in the late 1930s…
A little over a year ago, I started learning about AI image generation. There are a lot of tools for creating AI images. Perhaps the most popular is Midjourney. You…
A long time ago I spent a few years studying Khmer. I reached the point where I was able to start reading a newspaper called Nagaravatta.Nagaravatta was published in the…
AI filmmaking is still in its infancy, but it is developing very rapidly. As a historian, I would like to be able to use AI to bring the past to…
In recent years I’ve written some articles about early Southeast Asian history, and I don’t like how have written those articles.When you write for a “scholarly” audience, there are certain…
I came across the above picture in the British Colonial Office archives. It is of Chinese miners in the early twentieth century in Borneo at a place called “Lobang Buaya,”…
When I think back on life, I realize that one of the most formative experiences that I had growing up was the time I spent listening.I grew up on a…