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Keynote Speakers
The world’s top experts offer their views.
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Paul
Saffo
Director and Roy Amara Fellow Institute For The
Future
USA |
Paul is a forecaster and strategist with over
two decades of experience in exploring long-term technological
change and its practical impact on business and society.
His essays have appeared innumerous publications including
The Harvard Business Review, Fortune and Newsweek to
name a few. He serves on a variety of boards and advisory
panels like the Stanford University Library Advisory
Council, the Stanford Advisory Council on Science, Technology
and Society and the Long Now Foundation. As a member
of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences,
he has been an advisor for the Forum Fellow to the World
Economic Forum. In the late 1990s, he was named one
of its “100 Global Leaders For Tomorrow”.
Paul holds degrees from Harvard College, Cambridge and
Stanford University. IFTF is a 30-year old foundation
that provides strategic planning and forecasting services
to major corporations and government agencies.
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Kenneth
Yeang
Architect
T.R. Hamzah & Yeang International
MALAYSIA |
Kenneth Yeang is an architect who
specializes in the design and planning of signature
'green' ecologically-responsive large buildings and
masterplans. His firm Hamzah & Yeang*, has offices
in London, Kuala Lumpur, and Beijing. He was born in
Penang in Malaysia, and studied at the Cheltenham College
in Gloucestershire. His architectural education was
at the AA (Architectural Association School) in London,
followed by doctorate at Wolfson College, Cambridge
University in the UK. Dr Yeang's Cambridge doctorate
work on 'ecological design' was published by McGraw-Hill
(USA) as 'Designing With Nature'. This has been the
agenda for his life's work. He has lectured on ecological
design to audiences in over 30 countries worldwide.
His firm's expertise is in designing high-quality large
buildings that are ecologically "sustainable".
In this field, he has pioneered the "bioclimatic
skyscraper" as a new genre of tall buildings. Hamzah
& Yeang was formed with his business colleague,
Tengku Robert Hamzah in 1976. The firm employs over
80 staff in Kuala Lumpur in addition to the UK office
(in
association with Llewelyn Davies) and in China. The
firm has associate offices in Singapore, Australia and
Germany. The firm has received numerous awards including
the Prinz Claus Award (Netherlands), the Aga Khan Award
for Architecture (Geneva), the Royal Australian Institute
of Architects International Award (Australia), and others.
Dr Yeang is the author of several books on ecological
design and skyscraper design. His latest is "Ecodesign:
Instruction Manual", John Wiley & Sons (UK)
in 2005. Dr Yeang is an Honorary Fellow of the American
Institute of Architects (AIA) and has served on the
Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Council,
as President of the Malaysian Institute of Architects
and as Chairman of ARCASIA (Architects Regional Council
Asia).
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Michael
A. Keller
University Librarian and Director of Academic Information
Resources
Stanford University
USA |
Michael
A. Keller is Stanford’s University Librarian,
director of Academic Information Resources, founder/publisher
of HighWire Press, and publisher of the Stanford University
Press. He has been at Stanford since 1993, coming there
from Yale, UC/Berkeley and Cornell. Keller serves on
the boards for both profit (Ebrary, Alibris, and Groxis)
and non-profit (Long Now Foundation, Cisco Learning
Institute, and Hamilton College) organisations. He has
been a consultant on facilities, programs and recruitment
to numerous institutions including NewsWeek, the Singapore
Management University, Princeton University, Indiana
University and numerous scientific societies. He co-founded
in 1999 the Stanford-California State Library Institute
on 21st Century Librarianship, which focuses on issues
of leadership and technology in libraries.
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Howard
Besser
Professor and Director
Moving Image Archive and Preservation Program
New York University’s Tisch School of the
Arts
USA |
Howard Besser is a
Professor at New York University, where he is Director
of a new Masters Degree program in Moving Image Archiving
and Preservation. Previously he was a Professor of Library
Science at UCLA, where he taught and did research on
multimedia, image databases, digital libraries, metadata
standards, digital longevity, web design, information
literacy, distance learning, intellectual property,
and the social and cultural impact of new information
technologies. He has authored dozens of articles in
a wide variety of information technology and cultural
heritage journals. Dr. Besser has been active in the
development of metadata standards for resourced sharing
in digital libraries, archives, and museums. He has
served on 2 joint US/European Community metadata standards
work-groups. He was an organizer of both the Dublin
Core discovery standard meeting on digital images, and
the US National Information Standards Organization/Digital
Library Federation meeting to develop and promote technical
digital image standards. Besser has been in the forefront
of issues of digital longevity for cultural heritage
materials. He served on the 1995 "Commission on
Preservation and Access Task Force on Preservation of
Digital Information", he wrote the background paper
on digital longevity for the Getty's 1998
"Time & Bits" Digital Longevity
Conference, and he was a member of the prestigious National
Research Council panel that earlier this year released
their recommendations on electronic records preservation
at the US National Archives.
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Christine
Burblies
vascoda
GERMANY |
Christine Burblies
(M.A.) works in the vascoda office at the National Library
of Science and Technology (TIB) and University Library
Hannover, Germany. She started working for GetInfo,
which later became part of vascoda, in 2000. She studied
German Philology and Linguistics, American Literature
and Journalism. She has several years of experience
in publishing, working in marketing and as a trainer.
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Assoc
Prof Abdus Sattar Chaudhry
Head, Division of Information Studies
School of Communication and Information
Nanyang Technological University
SINGAPORE |
Abdus Sattar Chaudhry is Head of
Division of Information Studies at the School of Communication
and Information at Nanyang Technological University
of Singapore. He had earlier held several managerial
and professional positions at different types of information
organizations in USA, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Malaysia.
. Dr Chaudhry holds a master’s from University
of Hawaii and a PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
His areas of teaching and research include organization
and management of information and knowledge.
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Chan
Yeng Kit
Chief Executive Officer
Infocomm Development Authority
SINGAPORE |
Chan Yeng Kit is currently the Chief
Executive Officer of the Infocomm Development Authority
of Singapore (IDA). The IDA is a statutory board of
the Singapore Government. It operates under the Ministry
of Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA).
Among IDA's main responsibilities are fostering a competitive
world-class infocomm industry in Singapore, preparing
residents for living and working in the digital age,
spearheading the delivery of citizen-centric e-Government
services, and building and operating the Government's
IT infrastructure. Prior to his IDA appointment, Mr
Chan was the Deputy Secretary (Policy) in the Singapore
Ministry of Education. His responsibilities in the Education
Ministry included the formulation of educational policies,
strategic planning, organisational development and corporate
communications. Mr Chan's career has spanned a range
of appointments in Government, the labour movement,
and the private sector. He joined the Singapore Civil
Service in 1989 as an Assistant Director in the Public
Service Division of the Ministry of Finance. In 1991,
he was seconded from the Civil Service to the National
Trades Union Congress, an umbrella labour organisation
to which over 90% of labour unions in Singapore are
affiliated. He served as the Assistant Director of its
Research and Planning Department. In 1993, he was seconded
to Keppel Corporation, where he served as the Executive
Committee Secretary to the Singapore consortium developing
the Singapore-Suzhou Industrial Park in China. Mr Chan
assumed the appointment of Director, Industry Division
in the Ministry of Trade & Industry from 1995 to
1997. He served as the Director of Manpower in the Ministry
of Defence from 1998 to 2002.
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Choy
Fatt Cheong
Chairman
National Committee of Library and Knowledge Professionals
SINGAPORE |
Choy Fatt Cheong is
the University Librarian at Nanyang Technological University
and Chairman of the National Committee on Library &
Knowledge Professionals in Singapore (NCLIKPS). He has
working experience as an educator and librarian in technical
and senior management positions with a number of institutions,
including the National University of Singapore, Ministry
of Defence and Temasek Polytechnic. He has also worked
for 4 years as a consultant in his own companies, FC
Choy Consultancy and Choy Info-Libs Pte Ltd prior to
his present appointment. He was President of the Library
Association of Singapore from 1997 to March 2005 and
served as a Board member of the Singapore National Library
Board for 6 years until 2003. He obtained his Masters
degree in library and information science from the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA and his BSc(Hons)
in Engineering & Social Science from University
of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in UK.
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Schubert
Foo
Professor & Vice Dean
Nanyang Technological University
School of Communication & Information
SINGAPORE |
Schubert Foo is Professor
and Vice Dean of the School of Communication & Information
at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.
He received his B.Sc., M.B.A. and Ph.D. from the University
of Strathclyde, UK. He is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered
IT Professional, Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical
Engineers and Fellow of the British Computer Society.
He is a Board Member of the National Archives of Singapore
and the National Library Board. Dr Foo has over 140
publications in the research areas of multimedia technology,
Internet technology, multilingual information retrieval
and digital libraries. He is also a member of the Editorial
Advisory Board of the Journal of Information Science
and Journal of Information and Knowledge Management,
among others.
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Olaf
D. Janssen
Web & New Projects Manager
Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Royal & National Library of The Netherlands
THE NETHERLANDS |
Olaf D. Janssen (1973)
has worked in the National Library of the Netherlands
since 2001. He started as the editor in chief for Gabriel,
the web service of the 43 European national libraries
and the precursor of TheEuropeanLibrary.org. In 2004,
he joined The European Library and has since been involved
in launching the site and managing the networks across
Europe. With the advent of TELMEMOR - a project aimed
at bringing the 10 new member states of the European
Union into The European Library - he moved into project
management & planning, involving 10 more national
libraries. He has given presentations & lectures
across Europe and has recently spoken at the Digital
Resources for the Humanities conference in the UK.
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Doug
Johnson
Director of Media & Technology
Mankato Area Public Schools
USA |
Doug Johnson has been
the Director of Media and Technology for the Mankato
Public Schools since 1991 and has served as a faculty
member of Minnesota State University since 1990. His
teaching experience has included work in grades K-12
in schools both here and in Saudi Arabia. He is the
author of four books: The Indispensable Librarian, The
Indispensable Teacher's Guide to Computer Skills, Teaching
Right from Wrong in the Digital Age, and Machines are
the Easy Part; People are the Hard Part. His regular
columns appear in Library Media Connection and Leading
& Learning journals and his articles have appeared
in over forty books and periodicals. Doug has conducted
workshops and given presentations for over 130 organizations
throughout the United States as well as in Malaysia,
Kenya, Thailand, Germany, Qatar, Canada, Dubai, and
Australia and has held leadership positions in state
and national organizations, including ISTE and AASL.
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Gary
Kamemoto
Senior Associate, International Projects
Maki and Associates
JAPAN |
Gary Kamemoto was
born in Tokyo in 1961. After graduating from the School
of Architecture, University of Southern California in
1984, he joined Maki and Associates and is currently
Fumihiko Maki’s Senior Associate of International
Projects playing a central role in the office. Having
had extensive experience working in Japan and abroad,
he is currently assuming a leading role at Maki and
Associates in the design of the new campus for the Republic
Polytechnic in Singapore. Other projects he is involved
with are the United Nations Consolidation Building in
New York, the MIT Media Laboratory in Cambridge Massachusetts,
the Sam Fox Arts Centre at Washington University in
St. Louis Missouri, and the Delegation of the Ismaili
Imamat for His Highness the Aga Khan in Ottawa Canada.
He is also academically active as a lecturer at Hosei
University in Tokyo since 1999 and has served as a visiting
critic at several Universities in Japan and the United
States.
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Kan
Siew Ning
President
Information & Knowledge Management Society
SINGAPORE |
Kan Siew Ning is also the Director
of Technology in the Singapore Police Force. He was
previously Deputy Director of Knowledge Management,
and General Manager, Cap Vista Pte Ltd, in the Defence
Science & Technology Agency (DSTA). Before joining
DSTA, he was in charge of KM in the Infocomm Development
Authority (IDA). He graduated with a B.Sc. in Computer
Science and a M.Sc. in Management of Technology, both
from the National University of Singapore. Prior to
doing work in KM, he worked on infocomm projects for
the Ministry of Defence, and the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Mr Kan is an Assistant Professor (Adj) teaching in the
Master of Science in Knowledge Management program at
Nanyang Technological University. Mr Kan has served
on Exco as Treasurer and Vice President.
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Joseph
E. Kasputys
Chairman, President and CEO
Global Insight Inc.
USA |
Joseph E. Kasputys
formed Global Insight, Inc. in March 2001 to acquire
and join together the world's premier economic information
and forecasting firms, consisting of Data Resources
(DRI) and WEFA (formerly Wharton Economic Forecasting
Associates); DAFSA, a European market research company;
and GlobalInTech, a software company specialising in
data applications. In April 2003, he acquired the London-based
World Markets Research Centre, adding daily coverage
of country and industry intelligence on a global basis.
Kasputys serves as Chairman, President, and CEO of Global
Insight, Inc. Prior to his formation of Global Insight,
Kasputys served for fourteen years as the Chairman,
President and CEO of Primark Corporation, a leading
New York Stock Exchange listed company specialising
in financial and economic information. Before Primark,
Kasputys served as Executive Vice President of McGraw-Hill.
From 1977 to 1984, Kasputys held positions at Data Resources,
culminating in his election as President and Chief Executive
Officer. From 1972 to 1977, Kasputys served in the U.S.
Department of Commerce, rising to the position of Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Policy and Administration.
He holds both master’s and doctor’s degrees
from Harvard University.
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Patrick
Lambe
Principal Consultant & Partner
Straits Knowledge
SINGAPORE |
Patrick Lambe is a consultant, researcher and writer on
knowledge management. He is author of "The Blind
Tour Guide: Surviving and Prospering in the New Economy"
and his articles can be found at www.greenchameleon.com.
Patrick is past President of the Information and Knowledge
Management Society Singapore, and Founder of KM consulting
and research firm Straits Knowledge. He has spent the
past fourteen years working in learning, general management,
and knowledge management roles in Singapore. He is a member
of the Singapore government's Management Systems Standards
Committee, and is Adjunct Professor for the Hong Kong
Polytechnic University's MSc in KM programme.
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Ngian
Lek Choh
Deputy Chief Executive
National Library Board
SINGAPORE |
Ngian Lek Choh graduated from
the University of Singapore with a B.Sc (Honours) in Physics
in 1976, took a postgraduate diploma in Library Science
from the University of Wales, UK, in 1981, and a diploma
in System Science from the Institute of Systems Science,
National University of Singapore in 1985. She also spent
a month at INSEAD, France to study Advanced General Management
in 2000. Ms Ngian is currently the Deputy Chief Executive
of the National Library Board and the Director of National
Library. She played a leadership role in the transformation
of the NLB libraries, by increasing the accessibility,
reach and convenience of libraries. She believes that
library services will continue to evolve, to make library
resources more accessible to customers, and to ensure
that the use of library services remain as hassle-free,
painless, relevant and compelling as possible. She is
also confident that libraries will continue to remain
useful and relevant to people so long as we professionals
keep up-to-date with the fast-changing needs of our customers.
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Ruth
Pagell
Chief Librarian
Singapore Management University
SINGAPORE |
Ruth A. Pagell started her
academic career with Drexel University Library in Philadelphia.
She then moved across the street to the Lippincott Library
of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania,
where she served for over 12 years, rising to the rank
of Associate Director. In 1994, she joined Emory University
as Executive Director of the Goizueta Business Library.
During her final year at Emory, Ruth also acted as the
University Libraries Strategic Planning Coordinator. Ruth
spent 1999 at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
in Thailand where she was seconded by the American Library
Association (ALA) and the then United States Information
Agency to assist AIT and other Asian libraries in developing
new information technology in relation to library management.
Ruth has also been very active in publishing and teaching.
She taught graduate courses for Drexel's College for Information
Studies and Clark Atlanta University's School of Library
Studies and she also taught in Wharton's evening school.
She has published articles and given presentations on
business research and library issues and has taught numerous
short courses on these topics in the United States, Europe
and Asia. Along with her co-author, Michael Halperin,
she published two editions of "International Business
Information: How to Find It, How to Use It".
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Graham
Perkins
Specialist Consultant
School of Technology for the Arts
Republic Polytechnic
SINGAPORE |
Graham has been working within the design and media industries
for over 28 years. He started his career and worked in
the days of computer-less environments, through to the
birth and revolution of Desktop Publishing, and into the
pervasive age of technology today. His experience covered
areas such as design, management of departments, infrastructures
and workflows, and further across the technology chasm
to include 2 years at Adobe, and 3.5 years at Apple. Graham
has spent the last year as an external consultant on various
creative projects for organisations such as Apple, The
Idea Factory, Levi¹s and MTV Asia. He is now the
Specialist Consultant for the School of Technology for
the Arts at Republic Polytechnic with an external connection
with MTV Asia. During his nine years in Singapore, Graham
has been involved in many creative related activities.
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Bruce
Royan
Chief Executive Officer
Concurrent Computing Limited
UNITED KINGDOM |
Bruce Royan is CEO of the e-Culture
and e-Learning consultancy, Concurrent Computing Ltd,
whose clients include the British Council, Tate Gallery
and the BBC. He has been Interim Director of Knowledge
and Information at the Robert Gordon University, and University
Librarian and CIO at the University of Stirling. His career
in Library and Learning Technology has included British
Telecom, the London Borough of Camden, The British Library
and the National Library of Scotland, and during the mid-80s
he established the Singapore Integrated Library Automation
Service (SILAS). Outside Singapore, he is best known for
founding SCRAN, a networked multimedia learning resource
base of millions of objects, digitised from libraries,
museums, archives and the built heritage, and licensed
for educational use. Bruce is also Visiting Professor
of Communication Arts at Napier University, Edinburgh.
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Tay
Kheng Soon
Principal Partner
Akitek Tenggara
SINGAPORE |
Tay Kheng Soon has been a
professional architect since 1964. He was the Chairman
of Singapore Planning and Urban Research Group (SPUR)
and the President of the Singapore Institute of Architects.
His professional activities included a specialisation
in high density, lowrise, low-cost housing in Malaysia.
He did pioneering work in Urban Design and shopping centres
in the 70’s to the present. Tay is currently practising
as sole proprietor of his own firm. His abiding concern
is sustainable urbanisation and the evolution of a proper
design process factoring in human dimensions within the
Asian context. His scope of thinking and design compasses
politics, education, economics, the environment, culture
and modernisation. His enduring concern is in engendering
modernity though integrating human motivation, planning
and space design in a design language that is firmly based
on the local reality of climate, vegetation and life.
Mr Tay is currently the Adjunct Professor of Architecture
at the National University of Singapore. In 2003, he was
elected a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science
(WAAS), a global community of intellectuals dedicated
to considering, "The social consequences and policy
implications of knowledge". Mr Tay is also a member
of the World Ekistics Society, (WES) which focuses on
the study of human settlements.
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Susan
Whitfield
Director, The Dunhuang Project (IDP)
The British Library
UNITED KINGDOM |
Dr Susan Whitfield
is an historian of Tang China and the Silk Road in the
first millennium AD, with extensive experience in managing
digital projects. In 1994 she started the International
Dunhuang Project (IDP) at the British Library, a collaboration
to make manuscripts, artefacts, textiles and paintings
from the eastern Silk Road and dispersed in library
and museum collections worldwide fully accessible on
multilingual websites. IDP now has centres in China,
Russia, Japan and Germany as well as more than ten international
partners and is the largest digitisation project of
its kind. Susan Whitfield continues to research, publish
and lecture widely on the Silk Road, China, digital
projects and world history. Her latest book is ‘The
Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith’, the
catalogue to a major international exhibition she curated
at the British Library in 2004.
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Paul
Wu Horng Jyh
Senior Fellow
Division of Information Studies
School of Communication and Information
Nanyang Technological University
SINGAPORE |
Paul Wu is a Senior Fellow with the School of Communication
and Information at Nanyang Technological University. Presently,
he teaches and researches on the general areas of Archival
Informatics and Information Management Systems, with particular
emphasis on Web Archiving, Digital Preservation, Web Annotation,
Web Intelligence and Dialogic Web. Before joining NTU,
he was co-founder and principle consultant of Mustard
Technology, which specialises in multilingual search and
data quality technologies. He has two decades of experiences
in the theoretical and practical aspects of information
technology and information management. A graduate of University
of Michigan with majors in Artificial Intelligence and
Computational Linguistics, he became a Senior R&D
Member of Kent Ridge Digital Labs in the 90’s, during
which he gained two US Patents for his invention on search
and language technologies. Professionally, Dr. Wu has
also provided IT consultation service to several government
agencies, banks and telecommunication companies in Singapore
and around the region.
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Sylvia
Yap
Director
NUS Libraries
SINGAPORE |
Sylvia has participated in many of the NUS Libraries
milestone projects. Among others, in 1998 she led the
implementation of the Digital Library initiatives and
in 2000, she spearheaded the RFID (Radio Frequency Identification
Technology) project. The Digital Library initiatives
have had a major impact on the University community
resulting in convenient desktop accessibility for staff
and students to full text articles from journals, books,
conference proceedings and newspapers, as well as many
index databases and reference sources. The RFID project
resulted in self-service borrowing and returning, with
better shelf management and shorter queuing time for
our users. Sylvia also had extensive experience in the
building of new libraries and the renovation of existing
libraries. She was responsible for the layout and the
selection of furnishing for the Science Library, the
Chinese Library and the CJ Koh Law Library as well as
supervising the building of the Central Library Annexe.
The upgrading of the Central Library is her latest project.
She started work at the Library in 1973 as a library
officer in the Cataloguing Department. In 1975, she
obtained her diploma in Library and Information Science
from the University of London. Departments and special
libraries that she had worked in, throughout her 30
years of service, included Medical Library, Science
Library and the Reference Department in Central Library.
Sylvia was promoted to Deputy Librarian in 1991 and
was in charge of information technology, human resource
management, space planning and building maintenance
in the NUS Libraries. In recognition of her services,
she was awarded the Efficiency Medal in the National
Day Awards in 1988.
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Zhan
Furui
Deputy Executive Director
National Library of China
CHINA |
Zhan Furui has been the Director
of the National Library of China since January 2005.
After his graduation from the Chinese Language &
Literature Department of Hebei University in 1978, Dr
Zhan studied at the Institute of Ancient Book Preservation
at the same university for his M.A. and Ph.D. Since
May 1991, he has been the Communist Party Chief, Professor,
and PH.D Advisor at Hebei University. He is a celebrated
scholar in China, with considerable influence in academic
circles. Dr Zhan has a leading position in the research
field of the literature of Han, Weijing Nanbei, Sui
and Tang Dynasties, and in the field of ancient Chinese
literary theory. In recent years, he has published more
than 50 papers in prestigious Chinese journals, including
“Literature Comments”, “Culture Study”,
“Literary Heritage” and “Studies on
the Literature of the Tang Dynasty”. In addition,
he has published several books, including “Towards
Secularity --- the Trend of Poetic Thoughts in the Nan
Dynasty”, “Categories of the Ancient Chinese
Literary Theory”, “Elegy of the Feudal Families”,
and has written in collaboration with others “Annotation
and Comments on the Collected Editions of Libai”
and “Complete Interpretation of Libai’s
Poems”.
The Networking Night marks the start of the conference
and is a separate ticketed event. The Networking Night
Speech will be presented by Prof Tommy Koh, Ambassador-at-Large,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore. He will be presenting
on the topic 'Knowledge, Culture & Globalisation.
Delegates who wish
to attend the Networking Night can register by completing
the online registration form. Two-way free shuttle transfer
on air-conditioned coaches from Hotel to CHIJMES and
back will be provided for delegates who booked their
accommodation through the Official Travel Agent, Orient
Explorer (S) Pte Ltd. Please contact the Official Travel
Agent for more details.
Date : 13 November 2005
Time : 1900hrs to 2130hrs
Venue : CHIJMES Hall
CHIJMES,
30 Victoria Street, Singapore 187996
About
CHIJMES
Located in the heart of the city,
CHIJMES is just 10 minutes walk from the Conference
Venue and the National Library. After almost five and
a half years of painstaking conservation and construction
work, CHIJMES which was once the Convent of the Holy
Infant Jesus (CHIJ) and the seat of education for generations
of Singapore girls, will provide a unique ambience conducive
for networking.
Click
here for map of CHIJMES
We invite delegates to
sign up for free special guided tours to visit the state-of-the-art
libraries in Singapore. These tours are open to conference
delegates only on a first-come-first-serve basis. Choose
to join one of the tours by completing the online conference
registration form.
Date : 13 November 2005
Time : 1400hrs to 1700hrs
Tour 1 : National Library and library@esplanade
Or
Tour 2 : Jurong Regional Library and National Library
Contact: Stephanie Tan
Tel : +65 6332 4734
Email : Stephanie_TAN@nlb.gov.sg
All delegates are invited to attend the Storytellers
Showcase 2005 organised by the National Book Development
Council of Singapore. Special discounted ticket prices
have been negotiated and are offered to conference delegates
only.
First introduced in 2003, the Showcase
is entertainment at its purest with the best in storytelling.
It brings together some of the biggest names in storytelling
on stage to tell their fascinating tales. Storytellers
Showcase 2005 promises a journey through a world where
Asian tales come to life. More information can be found
on http://www.bookcouncil.sg/showcase.htm.
Date : 14 November 2005
Time : 1900hrs to 2100hrs
Venue : DBS Arts Centre
(Home
of Singapore Repertory Theatre)
Special Price: S$17.00 per ticket
Contact: Azrina Aziz / Anita Paul
Tel : +65 6848 8290 / 94
Email : showcase@bookcouncil.sg
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