Asia Collections and the Southeast Asia Collection.  He previously served as Research Officer at the Chinese Heritage Center in Singapore. Dr. Koh also completed a Master of Social Science at the National University of Singapore. Dr. Koh has acquired considerable expertise on the history and socio-cultural aspects of the Overseas Chinese through his past education and research. He also has a knowledge of English Dutch, Indonesian, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Hokkien.  He can be reached at koh@ohio.edu or 740-597-2530.

 

Jeff Ferrier, Curator Southeast Asia Collection

 

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South-East Asia Library Group

Annual Conference 2007

Naples

 

The 2007 SEALG Annual Meeting was held on 14-15 September in Naples, at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, in conjunction with the 2007 EUROSEAS Conference.

The Friday program started with a visit to the library of the Department of Asian Studies at the University “L’Orientale”.

Dr Giuseppe De Marco from the Department of Asian Studies gave us a very interesting tour of the library at the Palazzo Corigliano, which is certainly a highlight of Naples architecture. We were allowed to view a number of Thai manuscripts and rare archival material written and collected by G.E. Gerini, a father of Siamese archaeology.

The library tour was followed by the annual meeting at the Palazzo Mediterraneo, the main EUROSEAS conference site.

This year we had participants from the UK, the Netherlands, France, Denmark, Italy, and the USA.

 

Presentations

Jana Igunma welcomed the participants of the meeting.

First, Sud Chonchirdsin (British Library, London) gave a talk about “Vietnamese newspapers and periodicals at the