Mark Wong

Sr Specialist (Oral History) at the Oral History Centre, National Archives of S'pore, & PhD Student at University of Canberra, tweeting in my personal capacity

[Mark Wong @OHMarkWong]

Remembering the 1906 American massacre of "some 1,000 Moro men, women and children... in the crater of Bud Dajo, a mountain on the island of Jolo in southwestern Philippines"
https://t.co/Rz7fnOZdM4

[thomas cauvin @thomascauvin]

Check the programme and consider registering (free) for the hybrid 2024 World Conference of Public History (September 3-6, 2024). Thanks for sharing
https://t.co/6MCTo1ONpR

[Mark Wong @OHMarkWong]

My colleagues Sheerin and Ren Rong explain how we at the Oral History Centre record interviews and showcase selections online https://t.co/FKWMTsc3fo

[Mark Wong @OHMarkWong]

'... and different also from dreams. They are closer to subliminal flashes, things with no articulated substance until we create one for them. Memory becomes a creative act, a developmental fleshing-out of a fleeting glimpse or feeling.'
https://t.co/jT27qpIVME

[Mark Wong @OHMarkWong]

Finally delving into the astonishing films of Chinese director Bi Gan, which help illuminate the workings of memory, time and experience

[Mark Wong @OHMarkWong]

Bradshaw: 'Novels and movies have encouraged us to think of our memories as “flashbacks”: distinct, cogent scenes that we have mentally excerpted from a lost flow of time. But perhaps they are entirely different from that...'
https://t.co/jT27qpIVME

[Mark Wong @OHMarkWong]

The @nlbsingapore's fellowship/residency cycles are here again (deadlines end May), with stipends to support solid research and/or creative work - do consider using the national oral history collection in your proposals
https://t.co/Lk7niCKS2F

[Mark Wong @OHMarkWong]

CFP alert for the 23rd IOHA Conference, 16-19 Sep 2025 in Krakow, Poland! The theme is Re-Thinking Oral History, a call to oral historians worldwide to consciously rethink the idea and practice of their discipline. Deadline for proposals is 31 Jul 2024. https://t.co/p4zem4mv6C

[Mark Wong @OHMarkWong]

https://t.co/J75kLDxCTI great piece by Dan Koh and @MekongReview on the significance of Chinese Singaporean comedy legends Wang Sha and Ye Feng and how they reflected Chinese Singaporeans' struggle with language and identity

[Mark Wong @OHMarkWong]

Excited to deliver a keynote at the International Oral History Colloquium in Seoul. Thank you Korean Oral History Association for the kind invitation!

[Mark Wong @OHMarkWong]

https://t.co/NnXV1xLclX Just published – I co-authored this piece on the history of the beloved talent contest known in this part of the world as Talentime

[Mark Wong @OHMarkWong]

"long paper trail of secret documents recording [Henry A Kissinger's] policy deliberations, conversations, and directives on many initiatives for which he became famous—détente with the USSR, the opening to China, and Middle East shuttle diplomacy..."
https://t.co/rpNqlYI1tz

[Mark Wong @OHMarkWong]

Oral History Centre, National Archives of Singapore is hiring - we need experienced interviewers with deep knowledge of the history of politics and the public service in Singapore https://t.co/1znyqjhzoK

[Oral History Australia @oralhistoryaus]

The 2023 issue of our journal Studies in Oral History is now freely available online - https://t.co/OGszwyHTnh. And don't forget the deadline for peer-reviewed contributions for next year's journal 'Working Lives and Workplaces' is 1 December 2023. #oralhistory

[Mark Wong @OHMarkWong]

The amazing view from the top of the FGV building where the XXII IOHA Conference has just commenced #ioha2023

[Mark Wong @OHMarkWong]

@ekta2993 @OralHistorySoc @oralhistreview If you are researching Singapore and the region, you can consider @nlbsingapore 's Research Fellowships https://t.co/Lk7niCLpSd

[Mark Wong @OHMarkWong]

"It was silence that carved me into an oral historian, and a sensorial curiosity that made me a novelist... But essentially, both my forms of writing feel like forms of retrieval." Loved this piece by @AanchalMalhotra https://t.co/cifY23FcdY

[British Library @britishlibrary]

Looks like someone with buttered paws has been walking on the medieval manuscripts 🐾

🔗 https://t.co/YfItrMihOb

#butteredjorts

[Mark Wong @OHMarkWong]

"Memoria’s focus on sound, which vibrates through our whole bodies, its audible range only the tip of the iceberg, is a rich metaphor for the way we experience history—less as a narrative or collection of facts than as a 'rumble from the center of the earth'."

[Mark Wong @OHMarkWong]

Apichatpong's latest film sounds like a must-see, combining major interests of mine - sound, recording and history. Thread continues with two nice quotes from this Film Comment review.

https://t.co/A27Ac5X5C0

[Mark Wong @OHMarkWong]

"Memory is nothing like a filmed record of our lives: it is both fitful and obsessive, erasing some experiences while rehashing others to a disabling degree."