He Who Is Made Lord: Empire, Class and Race in Postwar Singapore

October 8, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Moore Hall 258

Author Muhammad Suhail Yazid talks about his newly released book, He Who is Made Lord, which focuses on late colonial Singapore to uncover the politics of the island’s titular office. As the representative of the British Crown, the institution connected Singapore not only to the United Kingdom but also to different global and regional orders. Muhammad Suhail demonstrates how the office came to concurrently represent many things: a symbol to support and subvert imperialism, to conserve and contest class distinctions, to buttress and break racial barriers. The book offers an intimate perspective on the awkward process of decolonization, not just in Singapore, but in many places struggling with the end of empire. Speaker Bio: Muhammad Suhail is a Fellow at the Harvard University Asia Center. His research explores how leaders from the Global South challenged the rules of the international system in the decades after colonialism. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge, where he was the Prince of Wales Student at Trinity College. His second book project traces how Malaysians in the 1960s tried to reform global institutions, reimagining the nationalist leaders as ‘anticolonial worldmakers’. At Harvard, Suhail is researching the early years of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), uncovering its roots as a platform for pan-Islamic solidarity.


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ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥M Center for Southeast Asian Studies , Mānoa Campus

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Teri L Skillman, 8089562676, skillman@hawaii.edu,

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