Readers may be interested in this talk by Dr Horst Liebner on 26 August. Registration link below.
Dr Horst Liebner is an independent scholar associated with Indonesia’s Coordination Ministry for Maritime Affairs, studying the maritime traditions and history of Insular Southeast Asia. He received his PhD from University of Leeds, UK (2014) which focused on the examination of the 10th century Nanhan/Cirebon wreck. He is currently involved in documenting and preserving Sulawesi’s boatbuilding traditions, in 2017 inscribed in UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage, and maintains the website www.pinisi.org for this purpose. In 2019/20 he organised the building of two replica of 19th-century Makassan trading vessels for exhibitions and expeditions.
Source: Meeting Registration – Zoom