Author Description

"This book presents three public lectures given to commemorate the Institute⁰́₉s Golden Anniversary. Professor Leonard Y. Andaya delivered the first lecture entitled ⁰́₋Developments in the Scholarship of Southeast Asia⁰́₊ 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 ⁰́₋Before Southeast Asia: Passages and Terrains⁰́₊ 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"--Publisher's website.