{"id":188,"date":"2026-03-04T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaaconference.com.au\/2025\/?page_id=188"},"modified":"2026-03-07T04:08:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:08:01","slug":"public-lecture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aaaconference.com.au\/2025\/public-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section section_has_divider et_pb_bottom_divider\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_code_0 et_pb_code et_pb_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_code_inner\"><style>\n  #artworkpage{display:none;}\n<\/style>\n<script>\n  function toggleDivs() {\n    const artwork = document.getElementById(\"artworkpage\");\n    const disclaimer = document.getElementById(\"disclaimer\");\n\n    artwork.style.display = \"block\";\n    disclaimer.style.display = \"none\";\n  }\n<\/script><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_flex_module headertext\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h2>Public Lecture<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_bottom_inside_divider et-no-transition\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_section_1 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_1 et_pb_row et_pb_equal_columns et_block_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_1 et_pb_column et_pb_column_3_5 et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_1 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h3>Public Lecture<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_blurb_0 et_pb_blurb et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_blurb_position_left et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_blurb_content\"><div class=\"et_pb_main_blurb_image\"><span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap\"><span class=\"et-pb-icon et-waypoint et_pb_animation_top et_pb_animation_top_tablet et_pb_animation_top_phone\">b<\/span><\/span><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_blurb_container\"><h4 class=\"et_pb_module_header\">Topic: Preservation, Representation, and Transformation of Southeast Asian Indigenous Maritime Heritage in the Digital Era<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_blurb_1 et_pb_blurb et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_blurb_position_left et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_blurb_content\"><div class=\"et_pb_main_blurb_image\"><span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap et_pb_only_image_mode_wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aaaconference.com.au\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AbhiradaPookKomoot.png\" width=\"468\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaaconference.com.au\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AbhiradaPookKomoot.png 468w, https:\/\/aaaconference.com.au\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AbhiradaPookKomoot-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/aaaconference.com.au\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AbhiradaPookKomoot-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" class=\"et-waypoint et_pb_animation_top et_pb_animation_top_tablet et_pb_animation_top_phone wp-image-190\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_blurb_container\"><h4 class=\"et_pb_module_header\">Presenter: Abhirada Pook Komoot, Maritime Asia Heritage Survey, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_blurb_2 et_pb_blurb et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_blurb_position_left et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_blurb_content\"><div class=\"et_pb_main_blurb_image\"><span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap\"><span class=\"et-pb-icon et-waypoint et_pb_animation_top et_pb_animation_top_tablet et_pb_animation_top_phone\">\ue023<\/span><\/span><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_blurb_container\"><h4 class=\"et_pb_module_header\">Monday 1 December 2025<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_blurb_3 et_pb_blurb et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_blurb_position_left et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_blurb_content\"><div class=\"et_pb_main_blurb_image\"><span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap\"><span class=\"et-pb-icon et-waypoint et_pb_animation_top et_pb_animation_top_tablet et_pb_animation_top_phone\">}<\/span><\/span><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_blurb_container\"><h4 class=\"et_pb_module_header\">6.00pm - 7.00pm<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_blurb_4 et_pb_blurb et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_blurb_position_left et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_blurb_content\"><div class=\"et_pb_main_blurb_image\"><span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap\"><span class=\"et-pb-icon et-waypoint et_pb_animation_top et_pb_animation_top_tablet et_pb_animation_top_phone\">\ue01d<\/span><\/span><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_blurb_container\"><h4 class=\"et_pb_module_header\">WA Maritime Museum Theatre, Victoria Quay Road, Fremantle WA 6160<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_blurb_5 et_pb_blurb et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_blurb_position_left et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_blurb_content\"><div class=\"et_pb_main_blurb_image\"><span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap\"><span class=\"et-pb-icon et-waypoint et_pb_animation_top et_pb_animation_top_tablet et_pb_animation_top_phone\">\ue0ed<\/span><\/span><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_blurb_container\"><h4 class=\"et_pb_module_header\">Complimentary (pre-registration required)<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_toggle_0 et_pb_toggle et_pb_toggle_item et_pb_toggle_close et_pb_module et_block_module\"><h5 class=\"et_pb_toggle_title\">Further Info<\/h5><div class=\"et_pb_toggle_content clearfix\"><p><strong>Topic:<\/strong> Preservation, Representation, and Transformation of Southeast Asian Indigenous Maritime Heritage in the Digital Era<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Abhirada Pook Komoot, <em>Maritime Asia Heritage Survey, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This presentation considers key aspects of maritime cultural heritage in Southeast Asia as they encounter the forces of digital transformation. The growing use of digital documentation and archival platforms has become central to efforts to protect fragile material traditions and oral histories, particularly when such heritage is threatened by environmental and human-made risks. The introduction of technology into the practices of preservation and representation has not only altered methods but has also reshaped the ways indigenous heritage is seen, shared, and sustained. Digital media, ranging from online archives and websites to immersive technologies and social networks, extends the access of local traditions beyond their immediate communities or boundaries, opening new platforms for recognition, exchange, and participation.<\/p>\n<p>The promise of digitisation is wide-ranging: it provides a stage for indigenous voices and narratives, offers resilience against loss from climate change, conflict, or globalisation, enables cross-generational transmission through youth-oriented media, and builds networks of recognition and solidarity that extend across the globe. Nevertheless, seeing the sea in reverse, these transformations also surface challenges. The uneven distribution of technology, coupled with societal divisions, risks reproducing imbalances in how heritage is mediated, represented, and remembered.<\/p>\n<p>This talk raises critical reflections on these tensions. It calls for balancing the depth of traditional maritime heritage with the reach of technological innovation by embedding digital awareness and literacy into academic discourse. In doing so, it contends that the safeguarding of heritage in a digital age must remain not only a matter of technical preservation but also of ethical care, an ongoing negotiation between memory and modernity, shoreline and screen.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_toggle_1 et_pb_toggle et_pb_toggle_item et_pb_toggle_close et_pb_module et_block_module\"><h5 class=\"et_pb_toggle_title\">Presenter Biography<\/h5><div class=\"et_pb_toggle_content clearfix\"><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aaaconference.com.au\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AbhiradaPookKomoot-300x300-1.png\" width=\"150px&quot;\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2774 alignnone size-medium\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 20px; border-radius: 4px;\" \/><strong>Abhirada Pook Komoot<\/strong> is a maritime archaeologist and cultural heritage specialist, currently serving as Project Coordinator for the Maritime Asia Heritage Survey (MAHS) in Thailand. The project, a collaboration between the Faculty of Architecture, Silpakorn University, and the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) at Kyoto University, seeks to document, preserve, and share maritime heritage through the creation of an open-access digital archive.<\/p>\n<p>Abhirada\u2019s expertise bridges maritime archaeology, cultural heritage law, and heritage management, positioning her as a recognised authority in her field. Her interdisciplinary training allows her to examine heritage not only as physical remains but also as a living practice deeply connected to identity, memory, and cultural resilience. She is also committed to fostering international dialogue, regularly engaging with scholars, practitioners, and local communities to strengthen collaborative approaches to heritage safeguarding.<\/p>\n<p>With years of intensive fieldwork across Thailand and the wider Southeast Asian region, Abhirada has dedicated her career to uncovering the often-overlooked dimensions of indigenous maritime heritage. Her work has highlighted the critical gaps that persist in heritage digitisation and the frequent misinterpretation or marginalisation of minority cultures in comparison to mainstream heritage narratives. 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