Conference Programme

Time Activities Location
7 May, Friday
8.00am - 8.45am Registration Outside HSS Auditorium
8.45am - 9.45am

Conference Opening
GOH: Ms Grace Fu Hai Yien, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of National Development,
Ministry of Education

HSS Auditorium
9.45am - 10.30am Photo-taking and Tea Break HSS Foyer
10.30am - 12.10pm Keynote Lectures

By Professor Philip Kuhn,
Harvard University
(in English)

By Professor Tan Chee Beng, Chinese University of Hong Kong
(in Chinese)
HSS Auditorium
12.10pm - 1.30pm Lunch HSS Foyer
1.30pm -3.00pm Session 1 Seminar Room 1-8
3.00pm - 3.30pm Tea Break HSS Foyer
3.30pm - 5.00pm Session 2 Seminar Room 1-8
7.00pm - 9.30pm Welcome Dinner
Hosted by NTU
Grand Park City Hall Hotel
8 May, Saturday
9.00am - 10.30am Session 3 Seminar Room 1-8
10.30am - 11.00am Tea Break HSS Foyer
11.00am - 12.30pm Session 4 Seminar Room 1-8
12.30pm - 1.30pm Lunch HSS Foyer
1.30pm - 3.00pm Session 5 Seminar Room 1-8
3.00pm - 3.30pm Tea Break HSS Foyer
3.30pm - 5.00pm Session 6 Seminar Room 1-8
7.00pm - 8.30pm Book Launch (optional)
(in English)
Peranakan Chinese in a Globalizing Southeast Asia edited by Leo Suryadinata
NUS Museum
(2-way Transport provided) +
9 May, Sunday
9.00am - 10.30am Session 7 Seminar Room 1-8
10.30am - 11.00am Tea Break HSS Foyer
11.00am - 12.30pm Session 8 Seminar Room 1-8
12.30pm - 1.30pm Lunch HSS Foyer
1.30pm - 3.00pm Session 9 Seminar Room 1-8
3.00pm - 3.30pm Tea Break HSS Foyer
3.30pm - 4.15pm Closing Ceremony HSS Auditorium
Post-Conference Events
4.15pm - 5.00pm ISSCO Annual General Meeting HSS Auditorium
6.00pm - 8.00pm ISSCO Poetry Reading Night Chinese Heritage Centre Auditorium
7.00pm - 10.30pm Night tours *
10 May, Monday
9.00am - 8.00pm Post-conference one-day tour



+ From conference venue to NUS Museum and from NUS Museum to Nanyang Executive Centre or Grand Park City Hall Hotel. Please refer to Shuttle schedule.

* Night tours and post-conference tours are optional and subsidised for the first 100 sign-ups each. Please refer to post conference tour options on the website. Pickup locations are at Grand Park City Hall Hotel and Nanyang Executive Centre. Night tours include dinner and full-day tours include lunch and dinner.