Lawrence Chua, visiting assistant professor of art history, participated in several workshops recently. He presented from his ongoing research on leisure, race and nationalism in 20th-century Thai architecture at the Labour, Leisure, and Life Course from a Global Historical Perspective workshop at Humboldt University in Berlin, Feb. 13 to Feb. 15.
In October Chua presented at the Politics of Criticism in Thailand: Arts and Aan workshop at Cornell University, and he gave a paper titled “Chinks in the Works: Race, nationalism, and architecture in early 20th-century Bangkok” at the Urban History Association Conference at Columbia University. Most recently he lectured on race and architecture in modern Thailand at the University of Pittsburgh on Feb. 25.
