75 Years On: Reflections on World War Two Commemoration in Singapore

First aired on 28 September 2020 as part of our HistoriaSG lecture series
Hamzah Muzaini
Assistant Professor, Department of Southeast Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Science, National University of Singapore

Presented in conjunction with the 75th anniversary of the Japanese surrender during World War Two, Dr Hamzah Muzaini will share about the evolving ways in which the global conflict has been commemorated in Singapore since achieving independence in 1965. He will then explore some of the issues and challenges of war commemoration that have emerged in the country over the years, as well as how these reveal our heterogenous and shifting attitudes towards the conflict, and how the conflict is remembered in Singapore today.

Image: Civilian War Memorial, 1970s. Collection of the National Museum of Singapore