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BWM Talk Series: Cameron Highlands: The Making of Malaysia’s Largest Hill Station by Enzo Sim

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Organised by Badan Warisan Malaysia.

Live Webinar Details
Date: Saturday, 20 April 2024
Time: 11:00 AM (Kuala Lumpur, GMT+8)
Venue: Virtual – Zoom Webinar
Free Admission

Click HERE to register.

ABOUT THE TALK

As one of the most popular holiday destinations in Malaysia, Cameron Highlands receives an average of slightly more than 1 million visitors every year. However, much of its history has been rarely talked about despite its popularity among international and domestic travellers. The talk will dive deep into the early history of the Cameron Highlands and examine the early efforts of the British colonial administration in developing the Highlands as a large scale hill station serving as a convalescence spot, education hub, agricultural station and various other functions. The speaker will retrace the footsteps of the early explorers and uncover the rich heritage of one of the largest colonial hill stations in Southeast Asia.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Enzo Sim is a history and international politics researcher who has a lifelong profound interest in the field of Southeast Asian history. As the former Staff Writer at the Penang Institute, he was known for his various articles in Penang Monthly that published his findings on key historical events that occurred in Penang and Malaya as well as the historical background of forgotten historical sites in Malaysia. Due to his passion in documenting the history of Penang Hill, he had also singlehandedly drafted the historical contents of the funicular railway gallery at the Penang Hill Gallery following his appointment by the Penang Hill Corporation as a member of the Penang Hill Gallery consultative panel. After concluding his stint at Penang Institute, he went on to join Joe Sidek Productions where he curated and drafted the contents of the KL Story permanent historical gallery in Central Market KL and BUKU2BOOKS digitised historical archive exhibition in collaboration with the US Library of Congress and the British Library during the KLWKND Festival 2021, as well as being in charge of planning the Jawi Peranakan exhibition during the Peranakan Festival 2021.

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