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Long before modern archives and digital records, communities found powerful ways to preserve their stories.

As part of Immersia, join ������Ƶhistorian Dr Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan for the launch of The Precarious Past in Premodern Java — a compelling example of research excellence in action, revealing new ways to understand how societies record, transmit and remember their past.

Drawing on sources in Javanese, Sanskrit, Malay and other languages of the Indonesian archipelago, Sastrawan explores how Javanese communities between the fifth and fifteenth centuries preserved knowledge through manuscripts, oral traditions and cultural practices.

This groundbreaking research challenges assumptions about what counts as “history” and reveals the many ways language, culture and memory shape our understanding of the past.

Join us to celebrate a new perspective on Java’s history — and the power of research to bring forgotten stories back into view.