Conferences: MondayTalks
Monthly free public talks at Alliance Francaise
Monthly free public talks at Alliance Francaise
Welcoming French and Malaysian experts, it aims at creating a space of dialogue between Malaysia and France and their cultures. These multi-voice conversations between scientists, intellectuals, writers or artists cover a great variety of topics.
Organised monthly by Alliance Française de Kuala Lumpur and the Embassy of France in Malaysia.
Talks conducted in English.
Free entrance - book online.
Note: Due to the latest MCO, this event has been postponed until further notice.
Book Launch: Diary of a French missionary. Penang during the Japanese Occupation by Serge Jardin
A handwritten Diary was meticulously kept by Father Marcel Rouhan, the Director of the College General in Penang, during World War
Two. While most Allied citizens were evacuated before the entry of the Japanese troops, the French missionaries remained behind as
‘neutral’ subjects. The Diary, therefore, is an exceptional eyewitness account of the Japanese occupation in Malaya.
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Author:
Serge Jardin
A memory smuggler. Serge Jardin is a trained geographer and
historian.Since more than thirty years, he is a Malaysia’s lover where he worked as tour leader, tourist guide, travel agent and hotelier.
Today living in old Melaka, he penned a few books: Rêver
Malacca ; Malaisie, un certain regard ; and Malacca
Style His
latest effort: Diary
of a French Missionary. Penang
during the Japanese Occupation.
He is working today on A
Fortuitous Encounter. Walks in the French Memory of Malaysia.
With the extraordinary participation of
Salma Khoo
Salma is a fifth
generation Penang Peranakan. A writer, publisher and heritage advocate. She is currently president of Penang Heritage Trust and custodian
of the Sun Yat Sen Museum, Penang, at 120 Armenian Street.
Past Events:
[Online] Conflict in Malaysian Forests: The Story of the Tapir and the Elephant
with Dr. Nurzhafarina Othman Director/Founder of Pertubuhan Pemuliharaan Biodiversiti Sabah (Seratu Aatai) and Mr. I S Shanmugaraj
Subramaniam Executive Director of Malaysian Nature Society
Moderator: Ms. Siew Lyn Wong Co-founder and editor of Macaranga
Pertubuhan Pemuliharaan Biodiversiti Sabah (Seratu Aatai): Study on the ecology and movement of elephants outside
protected areas and in particular in oil palm plantations in order to increase knowledge and awareness of local populations in the context
of human-elephant conflicts in Kinabatangan, Borneo.
Malaysian Nature Society : Relocate tapirs from small forest areas dispersed by rapid development and deforestation induced
by oil palm plantations to protected areas in order to contribute to the conservation of the species in Peninsular Malaysia.
Pertubuhan Pemuliharaan Biodiversiti Sabah (Seratu Aatai) and Malaysian Nature Society are partly funded by the Embassy of France in
Malaysia.
28
June 2021
Forests today. How about tomorrow?
with Marcel Djama (CIRAD) and Nur Sakeenah (Greenpeace Malaysia).
Moderator: Yao-Hua Law
12 April 2021
[Online] Women And COVID: A French-Malaysia Dialog
with Sandra Laugier and Nisha Sabanayagam.
Moderator: Freda Liu (BFM)
8 March 2021
[Online] Protecting wildlife in the Malaysian forest: HUTAN, a community-based solution
with Dr Marc Ancrenaz
15 February 2021
[Online] French Texts and Contexts of community life in 19th Century Malaya
with Dr. Shanthini Pillai, Dr. Liz Ng, Dr. Suziana Mat Saad, and Ms. Anne Vanessa Vincent
7 December 2020
24 October 2019
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with Gabriel Facal
24 June 2019
with Anne-Cecile Mailfert and Rozana Isa
Moderator: Freda Liu (BFM)
18 March 2019
by Dr. Mohd. Azam Mohd. Adil and Dr. David Delfolie.
Moderator: Zakiah Koya
with Prof. Soizic Prado
3 December 2018
with Jean-Christophe Rufin Moderator: Ahmad Fuad Ramat(BFM)
19 November 2018
by Dr. Jarina Mohd Jani
22 October 2018