ISEAS at 50: Understanding Southeast Asia Past and Present
About this ebook
This book presents three public lectures given to commemorate the Institute’s Golden Anniversary. Professor Leonard Y. Andaya delivered the first lecture entitled “Developments in the Scholarship of Southeast Asian Studies” on 21 February 2018. The second public lecture was delivered by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on 13 March 2018. Professor Wang Gungwu delivered the final public lecture entitled “Before Southeast Asia: Passages and Terrains” on 3 October 2018. Collectively, these three public lectures exhort ISEAS to continuously reflect on its research agenda, the region, as well as the contemporary landscape and challenges it has to operate in.
About the author
•Lee Hsien Loong is Prime Minister of Singapore.
•Wang Gungwu is National University of Singapore (NUS) University Professor and Emeritus Professor of Australian National University (ANU). He is also the Chairman of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute Board since 2002.
•Leonard Y. Andaya is Yusof Ishak Professor in the Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, and Professor of Southeast Asian History, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
