Singapore after LKY at Deadpoet’s Cave

This event was highlighted in my Asialink email newsletter. Too bad I won’t be in Sydney; it should be an interesting dialogue.

14. SINGAPORE: Singapore after Lee Kuan Yew
Wednesday 16 August

All are invited to attend this Young Professionals Project Asia Dialogue event where Dr You Souchou, University of Sydney, will speak about Singapore after Lee Kuan Yew.

As Singapore’s economy re-invents itself, moving from high technology manufacturing to ‘knowledge-based’ industries of computer-aided design and bio-technology, Dr Yao looks at the questions: What is the future of Singapore after Lee? Are decades of economic prosperity re-shaping Singapore’s political and social future?

The speaker: Dr Yao Souchou teaches social anthropology at the University of Sydney. His talk is based on his forthcoming book Singapore: The State and the Culture of Excess, to be published by Routledge end of 2006. Yao has written extensively on the culture and politics of Southeast Asia. His research on Chinese business behaviour is recounted in Confucian Capitalism: Discourse, Practice and Myth of Chinese Enterprise (2002).

WHEN: Wednesday 16 August 2006
TIME: 5.30pm for 6.00pm start
WHERE: Harbour Room, The American Club, Level 15, 131 Macquarie Street, Sydney
RSVP: Please RSVP by 14 August to Eugene Sebastian 02 9351 8567, esebastian@riap.usyd.edu.au. Please advise your name, contact number and organisation when responding.
EVENT FLYER (download):
http://www.riap.usyd.edu.au/documents/singaporelky.pdf