Day 2 of NAS-RSIS Joint Seminar on “The Role of Archives in Documenting a Shared Memory of the Cold War: Asia-Pacific Perspective”
14 May 2009, Reflections at Bukit Chandu
Presentations by historians on ‘Cold War: A Historical Perspective’
Professor Anthony Reid,
Founding Director, Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore
Currently Research Leader of Southeast Asia-China Interactions Cluster at the ARI
Paper Title: The Cold War as a theme for Asian Collaboration
Dr Michael Montesano
Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Paper Title: Thailand's Cold War Through Fiction: Counter-Insurgency and Loyalty in the Writings of Pol Gen Vasit Dejkunjorn
Dr Christian Ostermann
Director, Cold War International History Project
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Paper Title: In from the Cold: The Importance of Archives
Mr Malcolm Byrne
Deputy Director and Director of Research, National Security Archive at George Washington University
Paper Title: Cold War Research in the United States
Panel discussion chaired by Head, Humanities and Social Studies Education Academic Group of the National Institute of Education, A/P Ang Cheng Guan