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Sydney 2nd March 1999
Asia Society AustralAsia Centre Dinner
With guest speaker, His Excellency, Mr Goh
Chok Tong
Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore.
Melbourne 9th March
1999
Asia Society Cultural Event
Contemporary Bombay - An Artist’s
View
With guest speaker, Ila Pal, Bombay, Artist
& Poet, Bombay.
Melbourne 11th March 1999
Asia Society Cultural Event
Official Opening of Treasures of Asian
Art:
Selections from the Mr & Mrs John D Rockefeller
3rd Collection of the Asia Society, New York & Gala Dinner.
Melbourne 12th March - 10th May 1999
Asia Society Cultural Event
Treasures of Asian Art:
Selections from the Mr & Mrs John D Rockefeller
3rd Collection of the Asia Society, New York Presented in Collaboration
with the Asia Society AustralAsia Centre
National Gallery of Victoria.
Melbourne 13th March 1999
Asia Society Cultural Event
Symposium: Asian Art: Collections
And Collectors
With guest speakers:
Dr Vishakha Desai, Vice President and Director of the Galleries,
Asia Society, New York, Edmund Capon AM, Director, Art Gallery
of New South Wales, Professor William Coaldrake, Foundation
Professor of Japanese, Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and
Societies, University of Melbourne, Lesley Kehoe, Art Consultant
– Japan, Dr Mae Anna Pang, Curator, Asian Art, National
Gallery of Victoria, Introduction by Derek Gillman, Deputy
Director, National Gallery of Victoria
Discussion panel included key speakers
as well as Robert Bradlow, Marjorie Ho, and Lynette
Cunnington.
Sydney 18th March 1999
CEO Asia Update Forum
Luncheon speaker, Mr. Donald McDonald AO
Chairman, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Your ABC Across Asia and the Pacific
Melbourne 23rd March 1999
Asia Society Cultural Event
Asia Society Seminar
Chinese Diaspora – Enriching
Australia, A Look at Chinese Business Networks
Presented in conjunction with ABC’s Radio
Australia and the Australia Asia Management Institute of the Australian
National University. With guest speakers, Professor Anthony Reid,
Professor of Southeast Asian History in the Research, School of
Pacific & Asian Studies of the Australian National University,
Paul Macgregor, Curator, Chinese Museum, Professor Kee
Pookong, Director of the Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, Victoria,
University of Technology, Professor Gordon Redding, Professor
of Asian Business, INSEAD, France, Tsebin Tchen, Senator
Elect for Victoria.
Melbourne 14th April 1999
CEO Asia Update Forum
Luncheon speaker Mr. Ian Macfarlane, Governor,
Reserve Bank of Australia
Some Lessons from the Asian Crisis
Sydney 29th April 1999
Asia Society Cultural Event
Classical Asian Arts Lecture Series
Speaker Mr. Michael Abbott, QC
Indian Trade Textiles.
Sydney 11th May 1999
CEO Asia Update Forum
Luncheon speaker – Mr David Clarke AO,
Executive Chairman, Macquarie Bank
Australia’s Role in the Asian
Region as a Global Financial Centre.
Melbourne 12th May 1999
Private CEO Dinner
Guest of honour – Mr Washington
SyCip
President, SGV Group, and Honorary Life Trustee,
Asia Society.
Melbourne 26th May 1999
Private CEO Dinner
Mr. Palaniappa Chidambaram
former Finance Minister of India.
Sydney 27th May 1999
Asia Society Cultural Event
Reception and Asia Society Gala Opening
Dinner
for the Rockefeller collection at the Art Gallery
of New South Wales.
Sydney 28th May 1999
Private CEO Lunch
Mr. Roberto de O’Campo
former Secretary for Finance, the Philippines
.
Sydney 28th May 1999
Asia Society Cultural Event
Asia Society Rockefeller Lecture – Mr
Colin Mackenzie
Asian Ceramics.
Sydney 28th May – 17th August
1999
Asia Society Cultural Event
Opening for the Public of the Asia
Society’s Rockefeller Collection
at the Art Gallery of NSW.
Melbourne 2nd June 1999
Asia Society Cultural Event
Classical Asian Art Lecture Series
Dr Pratapaditya Pal, visiting Curator, Art Institute of Chicago
“The Ascetic Dancer and the Erotic
Flautist”.
Melbourne 10th June 1999
Private CEO Breakfast
Australian Ambassador to Japan, Mr.
Peter Grey
& Executive General Manager, North Asia, Austrade, Mr. Greg
Dodds
Sydney 10th June 1999
CEO Asia Update Forum
Luncheon speaker Mr Wal King, Chief
Executive
Leighton Holdings Limited.
Sydney July 1999
Asia Society Cultural Event
Classical Asian Art Lecture Series
Speaker Mme Maude Girard-Geslan, consulting Curator on
Indonesia Gold: Treasures from the
National Museum, Jakarta.
Melbourne 1st July 1999
Private CEO Luncheon
Robert Zoellick
Former US Under Secretary of State. In conjunction
with DFAT.
Melbourne 7th July 1999
CEO Asia Update Forum
Luncheon speaker – Mr Barry Cusack
Managing Director, Rio Tinto Limited.
Melbourne 15th July 1999
Asia Society Cultural Event
Classical Asian Art Lecture Series
Speaker Dr Royall Tyler, Reader in Japan Centre, Faculty
of Asian Studies, ANU,
“The Tale of the Genji”
Sydney 3rd August 1999
Asia Society Foreign Policy Update
Luncheon with Kevin Rudd MP, Federal Member
for Griffith & Richard Woolcott AC,
“Issues of Security in North
Asia with a focus on China, Japan, and North Korea”
Sydney 3rd August 1999
Annual Report Dinner for Sydney Founding
and Major Sponsor Members.
Melbourne 11th August 1999
Asia Society Cultural Event
Asian Restaurant Evening
Members & their guests only dinner with Elizabeth Chong
“A Culinary Tour of China”
at Bamboo House.
Melbourne 12th August 1999
Asia Society Cultural Event
Classical Asian Arts Lecture Series
Speaker Mr. Michael Abbott, QC
“Indian trade textiles”.
Perth 19th August 1999
Asia Society Foreign Policy Update
Luncheon with The Hon. Alexander Downer
Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Sydney 26th August 1999
Asia Society Cultural Event
Asian Restaurant Evening
An evening with David Thompson at
Darley Street Thai
Dinner for members & their guests.
Sydney 30th August 1999
CEO Asia Update Forum
Luncheon speaker – Richard Hein
AM, P& O.
Melbourne 3rd September 1999
CEO Asia Update Forum
Luncheon speaker – Professor
Allan Fels
Chairman, Australian Competition & Consumer
Commission.
Melbourne 23rd September 1999
Asia Society Cultural Event
Classical Asian Art Lecture Series
Speaker Dr Michael Brand, Assistant Director, Queensland
Art Gallery
Links with Classical Asian Art and
The Third Asia Pacific Trienniale of Contemporary Art
Sydney 8th November 1999
Asia Society Annual Dinner
With guest of honour, Rupert Murdoch AC
Chairman & Chief Executive, News Corporation Limited
Melbourne 10th November 1999
Asia Society Cultural Event
Classical Asian Art Lecture Series
Speaker, George Michell, International authority on Indian
art and architecture
“Deccan Islamic Architecture
and Art in 16thC India”
Sydney 18th November 1999
Asia Society Cultural Event
Classical Asian Art Lecture Series
Speaker George Michell, International authority on Indian
art and architecture
“Deccan Islamic Architecture
and Art in 16thC India”
Melbourne 26-27th November 1999
Conference “Democracy & Free
Markets in Asian in the 21st Century”
Jointly sponsored by Centre for Democratic Institutions,
ANU, The Australian APEC Study Centre and Asia Society AustralAsia
Centre.
Sydney 1st December 1999
CEO Asia Update Forum
Luncheon speaker – Mr Michael
Armacost
President, The Brookings Institution, Washington
DC.
Sydney
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