Exhibitions · workshops · symposia · lectures
Events
Each event has its own short report, with photographs and links. From the sixtieth-anniversary celebration of Lat to parliamentary panels, teaching showcases and heritage exhibitions.
LAT 60: Sixty Years of Drawing Us Together
In September 2024, during Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Week, Monash University Malaysia celebrated sixty years of cartoons by Seniman Negara Datuk Mohammad Nor bin Mohd Khalid, known to all as Lat. The sixty years are counted from June 1964, when his first comic book, Tiga Sekawan, was published.
An exhibition of his work opened in the Library and Learning Commons. On 5 September Lat came to campus, spoke with Dr Jalaini Abu Hassan (Jai) in front of more than 300 staff, students and guests of all ages, drew at the easel, and signed autographs for a long queue.
The LAT 60 website, designed and edited by Dr Nazirul Hazim as curator, sets out his life in five chapters, Lat’s own words from the conversation, and 137 of his drawings. In the MONASH BY LAT collection Lat drew the word MONASH as six pieces of Malaysia; it launches with The Monash Shop (Malaysia) on Tuesday 20 October 2026, 11am–12.30pm.
Cartoons and artwork © Lat, used with permission on the LAT 60 site.
Innovative Education Showcase 2026
A week-long showcase of five teaching tools built in the Department of Econometrics & Business Statistics: Vector Studio, Econometrics Explorers, Econometrico, OSEM and the Chatbot Generator. It ran from 10am to 5pm daily, open to all students and staff, with twelve A1 posters, a trailer and a virtual-reality study.
Visitors completed a short pre-test, a summarised lecture, a session in virtual reality or the browser and a post-test, or simply tried any of the other tools for five minutes. Prizes were sponsored by MKB. The week drew 148 feedback responses; the 104 users of the Explorers or Vector Studio rated interactivity 4.40 out of 5 and informativeness 4.05. The Explorers and a headset station were also shown to prospective students and families at Monash Discovery Day.
SPARKLE Workshop 2026
The first research training programme of the Monash Complex Computational Modelling Laboratory: a five-day workshop on the mathematical modelling of infectious diseases, held with SPARKLE and the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity. Trainers came from Monash University Indonesia, the National University of Singapore and OUCRU Indonesia.
Researchers from 18 organisations were trained in outbreak modelling, among them the Ministry of Health’s Institute for Medical Research, the Department of Health and the Ministry of Higher Education. The sessions were hands-on in R, from differential equations to modelling interventions.
Simposium Harmoni 2026
Dr Nazirul Hazim was invited to speak at Simposium Harmoni 2026, held by the cross-party parliamentary group on racial and religious harmony with the Office of the Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat. He sat on Panel 2, “Media Sosial & Teknologi: Cabaran Algoritma dan Polarisasi”, with Senator Tuan Jufitri bin Joha, Harris Zainul (ISIS Malaysia) and Dr Nawab Osman (Meta), moderated by Dr Tricia Yeoh.
Bernama, the national news agency, reported his findings from the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia: during elections, reach and engagement rather than authenticity or reliability determine what spreads. He recommended that platforms limit the amplification of harmful content, for example by slowing the sharing of posts beyond a threshold. The research behind the talk was funded by the Monash Incubator, the Monash Data Futures Institute and the European Commission.
Kuala Sine: Cinema, Heritage and the City
A public panel at KL Festival 2026, organised by the School of Arts and Social Sciences, on Kuala Lumpur’s past cinemas: how people went to the movies in those venues and what those habits show about the social life of city residents during rapid globalisation. Assoc Prof Seng-Guan Yeoh moderated; the panellists were Dr Chrishandra Sebastiampillai, Dr Agata Frymus and Dr Nazirul Hazim A. Khalim. The session ran from 12:00 to 1:15 pm and discussed cinema culture and the legacy of P. Ramlee.
Photographs and poster from the School of Arts and Social Sciences post on LinkedIn.
Beyond the Degree: Alumni Insights on Careers & Employability
A School of Business networking session on careers and employability. Alumni spoke about changing career paths, employer expectations and the skills graduates need, as input to future updates of the business degree. Dr Nazirul Hazim moderated a panel of Prof. Nafis Alam, Head of the School of Business, and speakers from Luno, Gentari and Nestlé. The session ran from 10am to 1pm.
Photographs from the School of Business post on LinkedIn.
MOHE PPRN Conference 2026
The Ministry of Higher Education invited four speakers to its national Public-Private Research Network (PPRN) conference to present projects that have benefitted industry. Dr Nazirul Hazim presented “Building a Data-Driven Organisation: Data Warehouse, Machine Learning and AI for the HABIB Group” with Soon Jin Yee and Muhamad Aidan Bin Adam of Habib Jewelry Manufacturing Sdn Bhd. The aged-stock report fell from about five hours to 12 seconds and demand forecasts reached a 6.7% error.
P. Ramlee’s Madu Tiga ‘Live’ in Concert
The Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Ahmad Muriz Che Rose, played the full score live to a screening of P. Ramlee’s 1964 comedy Madu Tiga on 23 and 24 January 2026; a second performance was added because of ticket demand. The orchestra transcribed the soundtrack note by note, and every sound effect was performed live.
Nada, Jiwa, Pusaka, a free exhibition on the legacy of P. Ramlee, ran alongside the concert from 20 to 30 January 2026. It was presented by the MPO and DFP and jointly organised with Arkib Negara Malaysia, Pustaka P. Ramlee and Monash University Malaysia, the MPO’s official research partner. Dr Nazirul Hazim wrote the exhibition posters, which cover P. Ramlee’s life and times, his work at Malay Film Productions and Merdeka Studios, and summaries of the scholarship on him.
Exhibition posters written by Dr Nazirul Hazim for Nada, Jiwa, Pusaka (MPO, DFP, Arkib Negara Malaysia, Pustaka P. Ramlee and Monash University Malaysia).
MPO concert page ↗ The Star preview ↗ NST report ↗ MPO exhibition post ↗
Parliamentary Session with Meta and TikTok
The cross-party parliamentary group on racial and religious harmony invited Dr Nazirul Hazim as one of the experts at its special information session with Meta and TikTok on the governance of platform algorithms, following his research on disinformation in Southeast Asia.
Data & Democracy Dialogue 2025
An industry dialogue on digital transformation and democratic governance in the ASEAN region, held at Monash University Malaysia on 30 September and 1 October 2025.
Tanjak Warisan Jemala
A heritage exhibition on the tanjak and destar, with a public programme and scholarly context for one of the Nusantara’s most symbolically loaded textile traditions, featured in the heritage press.
Deconstructing P. Ramlee, Penang
A public lecture series on The Timelessness of P. Ramlee: scenes, songs and the contextualisation of the Ramlee canon. It was featured in Berita Harian and Dewan Budaya.
Cosmopolitan Arts of the Nusantara Series
Since August 2023 Dr Nazirul Hazim has co-organised more than 30 lectures and workshops with HARTA Space and Habib Jewels. The 13-programme exhibition series, The Cosmopolitan: Arts of the Nusantara Southeast Asia (2024–2025), covered silat, gamelan, wayang kulit, keris, Malay textiles, jewellery and P. Ramlee cinema. A companion exhibition site presents the arts of the Malay world from the 13th to the 20th century.
Data & Democracy: Geopolitical Security Forum
Chaired and organised by Dr Nazirul Hazim, with keynotes from the Election Commission of Malaysia and the CEO of IDEAS, as a multi-school, multi-campus collaboration with Monash University Indonesia.
P. Ramlee 50-Year Tribute
Monash University Malaysia marked fifty years since the passing of P. Ramlee (1929–1973) with an exhibition, a charity concert and a research symposium. The exhibition ran from 8 to 19 May 2023 in the Library and Learning Commons; the charity concert, with the Monash Chamber Orchestra, was held on 14 May and the research symposium on 15 May.
The symposium brought academic papers, film screenings and live performances together, supported by a research grant.
PRME Seminars on Data and Democracy
PRME Champion in Education seminars on how recommendation algorithms drive misinformation, political polarisation and manufactured consent, and how to push back, including “How Algorithms Impact Core Measures of Democracy”.
