Upcoming Speeches:

• September 11, 2010
  Speech
  12:00 Noon
  
  U.S. Chinese Art Museum
  4690 Tompkins Ave.
  Oakland, CA
  
  Contact Information: Walter Loo - success8383@aol.com or 510-301-8383
   

• September 13, 2010
  Speech
  7:00 PM
  
  Cerritos Public Library
  18025 Bloomfield Ave
  Cerritos, CA 90703
  
  Sponsored by:
  California Historical Society of Southern California
  
  Contact Information: Padmini Prabhakar - pprabhakar@cerritos.us or 562-916-1389
   

• September 14, 2010
  Speech
  7:00 PM
  
  Ventura County Maritime Museum
  2731 Victoria Ave.
  Oxnard , CA
  
  Sponsored by:
  World Affairs Council of America, California Central Coast
  
  Contact Information: Jessica Kolstad - jessica.j.kolstad@gmail.com or 805-984-6260
   

• September 16, 2010
  Speech
  2:00 PM
  
  Asian Centre Auditorium
  1871 West Mall
  Vancouver, BC, Canada
  
  Co-sponsored by:
  Asian Studies Library, UBC
  St. John's College, UBC
  Historical Map Society of British Columbia
  Vancouver, BC, Canada
   

• September 20, 2010
  Speech
  7:00 PM
  
  Vancouver Island University (formerly Malaspina)
  Building 356, Room 109
  Nanaimo, BC, Canada
  
  Contact Information: Imogene Lim - Imogene.Lim@viu.ca

Recent Speeches:

• July 5, 2010
  Zheng He Symposium
  Melaka, Malaysia
   

• July 9, 2010
  National Library of China
  Exhibition Hall of Rare Collections
  
  Beijing, China
   

• July 19, 2010
  Symposium: "Ancient China's Navigation Science-Technology and Impacts"
  
  Tsinghua University
  Institute of Transportation Engineering
  Beijing, China
  
  

Mrs. Rees has previously spoken at several locations including the Library of Congress, Stanford University, China Institute NYC, and Simon Fraser, Vancouver, BC. Her book Secret Maps of the Ancient World was listed in fall 2008 as a new publication by WCILCOS (The World Confederation of Institutes and Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies.) This book appeared in March 2009 at the National Library Show for American College and Research Libraries in Seattle, at the London (England) Book Fair in April 2009, and at the book fair of the American Library Association in Chicago in July 2009. Plans are currently being made for speeches in Asia in summer 2010.