# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Marginalised Voices: Discourses of Belonging in Malaysia
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 09 Apr, 2015 at 07:30 pm – Thu, 09 Apr, 2015 at 10:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Questions of identity, citizenship and belonging are a perennial part of what we might call the ‘human condition’. However, these questions are thrown into even sharper relief than usual within the context of countries such as Malaysia, where diversity is regularly mobilized as a core component of national identity and unity, but in a form that is more often than not circumscribed and controlled. This dual movement between homogeneity and heterogeneity sets up difficulties and tensions, particularly for those whose identities fall outside or on the margins of what we might understand as the sphere of ‘permitted difference’. 

This panel brings together speakers who work with these marginalized voices and communities, in order to explore the ways these communities struggle with the exclusionary and often severely limited forms of of belonging and citizenship offered to them by dominant discourses. It will explore not just the difficulties they face, but also the tactics and discourses they themselves mobilise in their efforts to be heard and recognised as legitimate components of Malaysian society.

This event will take the format of a panel discussion followed by Q&A.

Moderator:
:: Ahmad Fuad Rahmat

Panellists:
:: Fadiah Nadwa Fikri
:: Pang Khee Teik
:: Petra Gimbad
:: Uthaya Sankar SB

AHMAD FUAD RAHMAT is currently researching towards a PhD with University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, with his doctoral research utilizing a psychoanalytic framework to study the intersections of drug addiction in the Malay community and state-driven modernization.
He earned his M.A. in Politics from University College Dublin and his M.A. in Social Philosophy from Marquette University. He has been published in Monthly Review Zine, Radical Philosophy, the Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Critical Muslim. 

He currently researches in critical theoretical engagements with Malay pop culture. He maintains a keen interest in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. He was also the instructor and organiser of Sekolah Falsafah, a grassroots initiative aimed to promote Western Philosophy to a wider Bahasa speaking audience which ran for three a hours a week from January to June 2014. 

He is editor in chief for projekdialog.com, the leading online publication on intercultural relations and politics in Malaysia. Night School, his show on BFM radio, discusses philosophy and social theory, and airs on Wednesdays at 9 p.m. He was a delegate at the 2010 World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia and has presented at various conferences on issues relating to the politics of freedom at home and abroad. He has been quoted in the Edge, Channel News Asia, Foreign Affairs and the Star.

FADIAH NADWA FIKRI is a social activist and currently working as Protection Associate at UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. She is a member of the Bersih 2.0 Steering Committee, a coalition of 89 civil society organizations for free and fair elections. Fadiah practiced law for 8 years and has worked with various human rights NGOs such as the Bar Council Human Rights Committee, the Bar Council Legal Aid Centre (Kuala Lumpur), SUARAM and GMI (Abolish ISA Movement). 

PANG KHEE TEIK is a Malaysian arts consultant, activist, curator, photographer, and writer. In 2008, together with fellow activists and artists, he co-founded sexuality rights festival Seksualiti Merdeka as a multi-arts platform for discussion and expression on issues of sexual orientation, gender identity and human rights in Malaysia. It was subsequently banned by the police in 2011. 

Pang was formerly the arts programme director of The Annexe Gallery and editor of arts website Kakiseni.com. In 2010, he received the Cross Cultural Champion of the Arts Award at the Boh Cameronian Arts Awards. Presently he is leading a small team called The Special Bunch to organise arts-activism events, projects and campaigns. 

Under the Chevening Scholarship, Pang recently graduated with an MA in Gender & Sexuality from Birkbeck, University of London, where he received the Dissertation prize for Gender & Sexuality studies at Birkbeck (2013). He will be speaking about his dissertation, "Sexual Citizenship in Conflict: Sexual rights activists in Malaysia and the gays who resist them."

PETRA GIMBAD holds a BA in English Literature and a Masters in Human Rights and Democratisation. She has worked with disabled youth, physically and sexually abused children, refugee families, sex workers and street youth in both paid and voluntary capacities, and is also a freelance writer and yoga instructor. She has also lectured at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, and is currently lecturing at Monash University Malaysia.

UTHAYA SANKAR SB is a Malaysian writer who writes in Bahasa Malaysia.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/kuala-lumpur/marginalised-voices-discourses-of-belonging-in-malaysia/1427652154195323
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Kuala Lumpur
- **country**: Malaysia
- **location**: University Of Nottingham (KLTC) Chulan Tower
- **lat**: 3.1492545812898
- **long**: 101.716242853
- **full address**: University Of Nottingham (KLTC) Chulan Tower, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Marginalised Voices: Discourses of Belonging in Malaysia being held?
  - **A:** Marginalised Voices: Discourses of Belonging in Malaysia takes place on Thu, 09 Apr, 2015 at 07:30 pm to Thu, 09 Apr, 2015 at 10:00 pm at University Of Nottingham (KLTC) Chulan Tower, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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