SEASREP held a panel at the 11th International Convention of Scholars on July 17, 2019 at the Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands.
The panel on “Hansen’s Disease in Colonial Southeast Asia” consisted of:
- Maria Serena Diokno, Panel Convenor and Chair, Southeast Asian Studies Regional Exchange Program (SEASREP)
- Heong Hong Por; Panelist; University of Malaya; Re-Picturing Colonial Benevolence: Portraits of Persons Afflicted with Hansen’s Disease in British Malaya
- Pham Van Thuy; Panelist; Vietnam National University Hanoi; The Peril of Hansen’s Disease: Management of the Disease in French Indochina, 1900-1940
- Ma. Mercedes G. Planta; Panelist; University of the Philippines-Diliman; Victor Heiser, Hansen’s Disease and the Development of Modern Medicine in the Philippines and Southeast Asia