Dr Peter Borschberg teaches history at the National University of Singapore and is presently a visiting associate professor at the Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya.
Dr Borschberg specializes in Europe-Southeast Asia relations and globalization during the period 1400-1900 and has authored several works touching on trade, war and diplomacy in the Singapore and Melaka Straits region.
Speakers
When was Melaka founded and was it known earlier by another name? Exploring the Debate between Gabriel Ferrand and Gerret Pieter Rouffaer, 1918-1921, and its Long Echo in Historiography