Dribble Through the Community, Strengthen Bonds Amongst Singaporeans
Wed, 17 May | 7 - 8pm

Venue: Zoom (online)
Fee: Free with Registration
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/dribble-through-the-community-strengthen-bonds-amongst-singaporeans-tickets-610982474027

Playing football or any team sports can be a wonderful opportunity for Singaporeans to form bonds with people of different races and religions. Football can break down barriers created by race, ethnicity, class, and educational status. The focus of the presentation will be on growing up in the Singapore of the 1970s. It explores how, through the medium of football, children can develop a deeper understanding of culture and form bonds of interactions in the parallel societies that tend to exist in a multiracial/multi-religious environment, thereby forming outlooks that can become the basis of deepening integration for future generations of Singaporeans. 

About the Speaker
Leonard C. Sebastian is Senior Fellow and Coordinator of the Indonesia Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS). He is author of Realpolitik Ideology: Indonesia’s Use of Military Force (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and Cambridge University Press, 2006 and 2015).

His latest books are two co-edited volumes Rising Islamic Conservatism in Indonesia: Islamic Groups and Identity Politics and The 2018 and 2019 Indonesian Elections: Identity Politics and Regional Perspectives published by Routledge on January 2021 respectively. He recently co-edited a special issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs on the theme “Indonesia’s Foreign and Maritime Policies: Domestic and External Determinants” for publication in late 2021.