A joint talk by Dr. Virginia Henderson and photographer Tim Webster, co-authors of the book entitled “Yangon Echoes: Inside heritage homes” and co-curators of the current East-West Center Gallery exhibition

Today, Yangon – the Southeast Asian city formerly known as Rangoon – is probably changing more rapidly than any other urban space in the world, as the country of Myanmar (formerly Burma) confronts a flood of global capital after fifty years of isolation under socialist military rule.

In this talk, Dr. Virginia Henderson and photographer Tim Webster will discuss the topic of their book. An exhibition of the same name is showing at the East-West Center Gallery in Honolulu from January 29 – May 21, 2017, featuring photographs, stories of the residence, and artifacts representing aspects of lived heritage in contemporary Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma).