2.00 pm-12.00 pm

   Registration & Tour Desk at The Lobby, Ground Floor

   07.00am-11.00pm
   08.00am-10.30pm
   08.00am-04.00pm
   10.00am-10.00pm

   Secretariat at Sri Nilam, 3rd Floor
   All-Day Conference Registration
   Registration & Tour Desk at The Lobby, Ground Floor
   Information, Exhibition & Merchandising at the Foyer of Sri Mas Ballroom, 4th Floor

   9.30am
   
   
   

   TOURS (4 options) starting from The Lobby, Ground Floor
   • Museum & Carpenters' Guild
   • Fort & Commercial Waterfront
   • Five Great Clans
   • Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion

   03.00pm
   04.00pm-10.30pm

   Close of Tour Desk, Transfer of Registration Desk upstairs
   Registration at the Foyer of Sri Mas Ballroom, 4th Floor

   




   07.00am
   07.00pm-8.15pm
   07.30pm
   07.45pm
   08.00pm
   08.15pm
   
   

   Cocktail Reception, Sri Mas Ballroom & Foyer, 4th Floor
   Entertainment: International Favourites, performed by Nancy & Albert Yeoh
   Arrival of dinner guests
   Arrival of VIPs
   Arrival of Deputy Chief Minister of Penang
   Arrival of Yang Dipertua Negeri Pulau Pinang Yang Dipertua Negeri
   Pulau Pinang T.Y.T.
   (Governor of Penang) T.Y.T. Tun Dato' Seri Haji Abdul Rahman Haji Abbas
   SMN, DUPN, DMPN, DJN dan Toh Puan Datin Seri Hajah Majimor Shariff
   Welcoming Speech by Dato' Kamal Hashim, Chairman, Penang Story project
   Speech by the T.Y.T.
   Official Launching of Penang Story - International Conference 2002 by T.Y.T.
   Presentation of Souvenirs
   Powerpoint on 'The Penang Story'
   Dinner at Sri Mas Ballroom
   Entertainment:The Music of Jimmy Boyle,
   performed by James Rozells & Kathleen Rodrigues,    
   Dinner Talk: Illustrated History of Bangsawan,
   by Cikgu BahroodinDeparture of the T.Y.T.

   10.30pm
   10.30pm
   11.00pm

   Dinner Ends
   Close of Registration, Information, Exhibition & Merchandising
   Close of Secretariat

  
   07.00am-11.00pm
   08.00am-09.30am
   09.30am-06.00pm
   

   Secretariat at Sri Nilam, 3rd Floor
   All-Day Conference Registration
   Information & Exhibition at the Foyer of Sri Mas Ballroom, 4th Floor & Sri Perak Rooms
   Merchandising at the Foyer of Sri Mas Ballroom and outside Sri Perak Rooms,
   4th  Floor

   PANEL I
   8.30am-10.00am

   
   
   

   Chinese Clanhouse Development
   Chair: Khoo Salma Nasution
   Huang Lan Shiang, A Comparison on the Urban Spatial Structure of the British    Colonial Port Cities among Calcutta, George Town and Singapore Chen Kuo-Wei,    Meaning in architectural and urban space of the Penang Kongsi enclaveLim Gaik    Siang and Huang Lan Shiang, Khoo Kongsi Clanhouse and Community:    Transformation of Social and Spatial Relationships

   Heritage, Memory, Imagination
   Chair : Neil Khor
   Carolyn van Langenberg, Writing PenangChee Li Lian, Another Case of    Homesickness : The Architecture of Childish DesiresPeter Zabielskis, At the    Crossroads of History and Development: 'Unseen' Heritage and The Built
   Environment  in An Urban Kampung in Penang

   10.00am-10.30am

   Morning Tea

   PANEL I I
   10.30am-01.00pm

   
   
   

   Early Penang : Trade & Shipping
   Chair : Carl Trocki
   Geoff Wade, New Ways of Knowing : The Prince of Wales Island Government    Gazette-Penang's first newspaperNordin Hussin, Social Life in Two Colonial    Port-   towns : English-Penang and Dutch-Melaka 1780-1830 Constance
   Mary Turnbull, Penang's Changing Role in the Straits Settlements,
   1826-1946Loh Wei Leng, Penang's Trade and Shipping in the Imperial
   AgeMary Quilty, Penang, Free Trade and    the Antislavery Movement : The East    Indies Versus the West Indies

   Architectural & Social Heritage Conservation
   Chair: Laurence Loh
   Jon Lim, Typologies of Historical Exploration: Constructing Architectural
   History from Documents, Narratives and Memories Patricia Tusa Fels,
   Conserving the Shophouse CityYushi Utaka, Conserving Living Culture,
   The Case of Little India Historic EnclaveOoi Bok Kim, Growth of Urban Areas in    Penang As Traced From 19th Century MapsChan Lean Heng, Conserving and    Commemorating Historic Communal Sites - The Case of the Clan Jetties

   01.00pm-02.00pm

   Lunch

   2.00pm-2.45pm

   Keynote I : Tan Liok EeConfluences, Conjunctures,
   Contestations: a Perspective on the History of Penang

   PANEL I I I
   2.45pm-4.45pm

   
   
   

   Penang as a Regional Centre
   Chair : Tunku Ismail Jewa
   Phuwadol Songprasert, The Implication of the Penang Connection in Southern    ThailandPhil King, Penang and the geography of development in the southern Thai    provinces: Historical processes and contemporary trends Khoo Kay Kim, Tanjong,    Hilir Perak, Larut and Kinta: The Penang-Perak Nexus in HistorySalina Haji Zainol,    Penang Traders in Sumatera, 1780-1870

   Secret Societies
   Chai r: Tan Pek Leng
   Jean Debernardi, Expanding the Boundaries of Europe and China: European    Freemasons and Chinese Sworn Brotherhoods in Penang Anoma Pieris,    Reconstructing 'History from Below": Doubtful Associations: Reviewing Penang    through the 1867 RiotsHo Engseng, Gangsters Into Gentlemen: The Breakup of    Multiethnic Conglomerates and the Rise of A Straits Chinese Identity in Penang
   Leong Yee Fong, Secret Societies and Chinese Politics in Colonial Malaya with    Special  Reference to the Ang Bin Hoey in Penang (1945-1955)

   4.45pm-5.15pm

   Afternoon Tea

   4.30pm-5.30pm
   5.15pm
   
   
   

   Tour Desk at The Lobby
   TOURS (3 options) starting from The Lobby
   • Historical Enclave
   • Little India Spice Tour
   • Cheong Fatt Tze & Christian Cemetery

  
   07.00am-11.00pm
   08.00am-09.30am
   09.30am-06.00pm
   

   Secretariat at Sri Nilam, 3rd Floor
   Registration for Day Participants
   Information & Exhibition at the Foyer of Sri Mas Ballroom, 4th Floor
   Merchandising at the Foyer of Sri Mas Ballroom and outside Sri Perak Rooms,
   4th  Floor

   PANEL I
   8.30am-10.00am

   
   
   

   Contrasting worldviews: Nusantara & European perceptions
    of colonial Penang
   Chair: Sumit Mandal
   Christina Granroth, Early Penang in British writing: ethnographic knowledge
   and the  tropical picturesque.
   Abdur-Razzaq Lubis, Perceptions of Penang from across the Straits of Malacca.
   Ariffin Omar, British Colonialism and the Marginalization of the Malays in Penang.

   Indian Diaspora
   Chair : M. Nadarajah
   K. Anbalakan, Penang Indian Middle Class and the Quest for Ethnic Identity.
   Himanshu Bhatt, Little India of George Town.
   Paul Gnanaselvam Pakirnathan, The Tamil Festival in Penang: Tamil Cultural Identity    and Development.

   10.00am-10.30am

   Morning Tea

   PANEL I I
   10.30am-01.00pm

   
   
   

   Overseas Chinese Networks & Revenue Farming
   Chair : Wang Gungwu
   Carl Trocki, Koh Seang Tat and the Asian Opium Farming Business.
   Wu Xiao An, A Prominent Penang Chinese Towkay From Kedah 1857-1916: A Case    Study of the Entrepreneur Choong Cheng Kean.
   Stephanie Chung Po-Yin, Chinese Family Business in a Colonial Frontier Society -
   Eu Yan Sang in Penang.
   Lee Pui-Tak, Migration, Trading and Revolutionary: Cantonese Networks in
   Hong Kong and Malaya.
   Shinozaki Kaori, Re-examination of the "Chinese nationalism"
   and Categorization of the Chinese in Malaya: The Case of the Chinese in Penang,    1890s-1910s.

   Environmental history
   Chair: Dzulkifli Abdul Razak
   S. Robert Aiken, Penang Hill: Landscape, Heritage and Conservation
   Nazima Versay Kudus and Mohamad Rashidi Pakri, Penang Hill in Colonial
   Memory: A Critical Perspective.
   David Jones, Colonial Botanic Gardens and World Heritage: the significance of the    Penang 'Waterfall' Botanic Gardens.
   Ric Francis, Introduction to Penang Transport History.
   Lee Yow Ching, A Brief History of the Development of Water Supply in Penang    Island.

   01.00pm-02.00pm

   Lunch

   2.00pm-2.45pm

   Keynote I I : Anwar Fazal
   The Life and Death of a City - the Story of George Town, Penang, Malaysia

   PANEL I I I
   2.45pm-4.45pm

   
   
   

   Roundtable on Historical Recovery
   Chair : Cheah Boon Kheng
   Paul H. Kratoska, Penang during the Japanese Occupation.
   Lee Kam Hing
   Badriyah Salleh
   Tan Liok Ee

   Roundtable on Cultural Diversity
   Chai r: Wazir Karim Jahan
   Christian Giordano, Penang As Utopia: The View from Europe.
   M. Nadarajah, The Present as Multiple Pasts and
   Possible Futures: Making Sense of  the Penang Experience .
   Sumit Mandal, IKMAS.
   Abdur-Razzaq Lubis, API Fellow, Nippon Foundation.
   Multiethnic Conglomerates and the Rise of A Straits Chinese Identity in Penang.

   3.45pm
   4.30pm
   
   

   Bus transport to lecture venue at Caring Society Complex, Jalan Utama
   Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Lecture Prof. Wang Gungwu :
    Education & Excellence - Challenges for the 21st Century

   4.45pm-5.15pm

   Afternoon Tea

   4.30pm-5.30pm
   5.15pm
   
   
   

   Tour Desk at The Lobby
   TOURS (3 options) starting from The Lobby
   • Historical Enclave
   • Little India Spice Tour
   • Cheong Fatt Tze & Christian Cemetery

  
   07.00am-11.00pm
   08.00am-09.30am
   09.30am-06.00pm
   

   Secretariat at Sri Nilam, 3rd Floor
   Registration for Day Participants
   Information & Exhibition at the Foyer of Sri Mas Ballroom, 4th Floor
   Merchandising at the Foyer of Sri Mas Ballroom and outside Sri Perak Rooms,
   4th  Floor

   PANEL I
   8.30am-10.00am

   
   
   

   Evidence & Interpretation
   Chair: Geoff Wade
   Annabel Teh Gallop, The British Library,
   Identifying a possible 'Penang style' of Malay manuscript art.
   William Shang, The China Trade Paintings: Analyzing methods of Visual Records of    Penang.
   Raimy Ché-Ross, A Penang Kaddish: The Jewish Cemetery in Georgetown :
   A case study of the Jewish Diaspora in Penang (1850s-1950s).

   Post-Colonial History
   Chair : Francis Loh
   Tan Kim Hong, Riding the Storms: Radicalisation of the Labour Party of Malaya,    Penang Division, 1963-1969.
   Sikko Visscher, Meeting of economic worlds: Foreign and local business in
   Penang during the NEP period.
   Suriati Ghazali, 'I am hungry, mum': A new division of labour in Penang Malay    households.

   10.00am-10.30am

   Morning Tea

   PANEL I I
   10.30am-01.00pm

   
   
   

   Performing Arts & Popular Culture
   Chair : Khoo Kay Kim
   Mohd Anis Md Nor, Artistic Confluence and Creative Challenges:
   Inventing Dances for Boria, Bangsawan and Ronggeng in Penang 1900s-1970s.
   Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof, The Evolution of Traditional Malay Theatre in Penang.
   Tan Sooi Beng, Cultural Diversity and Change: Performing Modernity in
   Penang in the 1920s and 1930s.
   V. Thilagavathi Gunalan, From Pullers to Pedlars: An Historical Perspective.
   Gitu Chakravarthy, The Elephant Trophy: Fending Off and Fighting On .

   Religious Communities & Historical Minorities
   Chair: Yeoh Seng Guan
   K. Ramanathan, Temple and Festival of the Hindu Diaspora: Changes
   and Challenges.
   Marc Receretnam, Colonialisation and Christianised Indians in Penang: A study of    parish communities at the Church of St. Francis Xavier in the early 20th century.
   Anthony Sibert, The Catholic Church and La Salle Education.
   Judith Nagata, The Changing Perceptions of Waqf, as Social, Cultural and Symbolic    Capital in Penang.
   Clement Liang, The Pre-War Japanese Community in Penang (1890 - 1940).

   01.00pm-02.00pm

   Lunch

   2.00pm-2.45pm

   Special Address : Richard Engelhardt, UNESCO Regional Advisor for Culture in
   Asia & the Pacific Is the Penang Story also a World Heritage Narrative?
   Implications of World Heritage Nomination for future research, conservation and    development

   2.45pm-3.30pm

   Findings

   3.30pm-4.00pm

   Afternoon Tea

   4.00pm-6.00pm

   Panel on the World Heritage Nomination : Conclusions

   7.30pm
   8.00pm
   

   Bus transport to dinner venue

   Closing Dinner at the Khoo Kongsi Officiated by the Chief Minister of Penang
   • Cultural & Acrobatic Performances