William Willetts Lectures

According to the Minutes of the 135th Council Meeting held on 29 April 1999:

“Point 3b. Name of Annual Lecture Following the Annual General Meeting: It was unanimously agreed to name the lecture which follows the AGM The William Willetts Lecture in memory of Mr Willetts who founded the Society.”

The First William Willetts Lecture was held in 1999.

List of Speakers and Topic of their Lecture

1999 Mr. Christopher Frape: “The Jade Culture of Ancient Vietnam”
2000 Mrs Jean Martin: “Chinese Blue and White Ceramics: Singapore 1978 in Retrospect”
2001 Mr Dorian Ball “Salvage from Shipwrecks – Recovering Antique Porcelain for Collectors”
2002 Mr Anthony Lin: “The Imperial Porcelains of the Kangxi Era”
2003 Dr Kenson Kwok: “Blanc de Chine – the Hickley Collection”
2004 Mr Kwa Chong Guan: “The Indianisation of Southeast Asia”
2005 Heidi Tan: “New Insights on Rare Vietnamese Ceramics in the Asian Civilisations Museum Collection”
2006 Professor Wang Gungwu: “Tribute and Trade: The Ming Dynasty”
2007 John Guy “Asian Ceramics in Production and Trade in Southeast Asia's 'Age of Empires' “
2008 Dr John Miksic “Strange Discoveries: Mysterious Artefcats in Singapore”
2009 Professor Peter Y. K. Lam “Putting Broken Pieces Together: Dating evidences for 14th - 19th Century Chinese Ceramic Finds in Singapore”
2010 Rose Kerr: Chinese Ceramics made for export to Southeast Asia in the Victoria & Albert Museum