Peter Borschberg

CISH Congress Sydney, 2005

“The Euro-Asian Trade in Bezoar Stones, approx. 1500-1700”, July 4, 2005, 20^th International Congress of Historical Sciences, Sydney, Australia.

Conference Papers

Selection of  invited papers presented at international conferences and colloquia over the past five years

Water in Mainland Southeast Asia, Siem Reap, 2005

“Fictitious Strait and Imagined Island: Singapura in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century”, Water and State in Mainland Southeast Asia, international colloquium organized by the Centre for Khmer Studies and International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden (IIAS), Siem Reap, Cambodia, 30 November to 2 December, 2005.

XII Indo-Portuguese Congress, Lisbon, 2006

“VOC Blockade of the Singapore and Malacca Straits. Diplomacy, Trade and Survival, 1633-1641”, XII Indo-Portuguese Congress, Universidade Nova and Universidade Catolica, Lisbon, Portugal, 23-26 October, 2006.

Malaysian Branch RAS, Kuala Lumpur, December 2008

“Raja Bongsu’s Liaisons Dangereuses”, Kuala Lumpur, address before the members of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Badan Warisan Malaysia, 13 December 2008.

Conference on 12 Years’ Truce, Tilburg, Netherlands, April 2009

“Left Holding the Bag. The Johor-VOC Alliance and the Twelve Years’ Truce, 1606-13”, international colloquium commemorating the 4^th centennial of the Twelve Years’ Truce (Treaty of Antwerp), 1609-2009, University of Tilburg (Netherlands), Law Faculty, 22-25 April, 2009.

The Makers and Gatekeepers of Singapore History, 2009

“The ‘Black Hole’ of Singapore History: Problems, Perspectives and Challenges on Pre-Raffles Singapore”, Asia Research Institute, 10 November, 2008.

The Reception of Netherlandish Art in the Indian Ocean Region and East Asia, Wassenaar, Netherlands, 2010

“Ethnicity, Language and Culture in Melaka after the Transition from Portuguese to Dutch Rule (Seventeenth Century). Presented at the International Colloquium held at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS), 14 January, 2010.

The Baltic Sea and South China Sea Regions: Incomparable Models of Regional Integration?, Singapore Asia-Europe Foundationb (ASEF), 18-20 February, 2010

“The Strait of Malacca as a Lieu de Mémoiré”. The reworked paper has been renamed “The Strait of Melaka Contextualised, c. 13th—21st Centuries”