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A series of activities was planned to celebrate
this auspicious occasion. Among them were
several international conferences including
the Kuala Lumpur-Shanghai Conference
(in Collaboration with the Shanghai Normal
University) in July; the 9th International
Conference on Food in December, and the
8th International Conference on Southeast
Asian Studies (ICONSEA) in December. A
distinguished alumnus, Tan Sri Razali Ismail,
gave a well-attended Public Lecture, with a
grand finale when a fund raising campaign
was launched and raised.

On 30 November 2019, the Faculty of Arts and 2
Social Sciences organised the 60th Anniversary
Homecoming Day. The theme of the celebration
was to commemorate the past, and to look
forward to the future by continuing to strive for
Faculty of Arts and academic excellence. The Faculty had invited
its Alumni among others, dignitaries, business
magnates and eminent scholars. A total of
Social Sciences 300 alumni, including six from the first batch of
students in 1959, attended the event. The main
gathering was held in Dewan Kuliah F where
60 Anniversary a video featuring illustrious alumni and former 3
th
staff was shown, followed by reminiscences
shared by four alumni representing different
generations of students who had passed
Homecoming through the Faculty in the last 60 years. They
included Dato M. Shanmughalingam, Professor
Lee Kam Hing, Professor Azizah Hamzah, and
Dr. Roy Anthony Rogers. The meeting also 1. Exhibition at ‘Elder’ among the former Deans in attendance
History stall
Oleh: Professor Datuk Dr. Danny Wong Tze Ken acknowledged alumni from different decades 2. The super at the event. Followed by lunch at the
and era. seniors Common Room (fondly remembered by many
3. Exhibition as Bacha’s Place), the alumni then returned to
From Dewan Kuliah F, the Homecoming then their respective departments where different
adjourned to the historic Dataran Sastera activities were organised including talks, and
(Arts Concourse) where each department had sharing by alumni. Post-meeting tours were
put up an exhibition highlighting their histories also organised, to the Universiti Malaya Art
and their specialisations. The exhibition was Gallery and the Main Library.
graced by YBhg.Emeritus Professor Dato’
Tengku Shamsul Bahrin Tengku Shamsul, the The Faculty was encouraged by the excellent
turnout of alumni and their families throughout
the day including into the late afternoon,
despite the heavy downpour. Efforts were
made to register the alumni so as to strengthen
the Faculty’s Alumni database. The Faculty
would like to thank the Centre for Alumni
Relations and Institutional Advancement
(CARIA) for their kind assistance and support
given throughout the event. It is hoped that
with the availability of a working alumni
database, the Faculty will be able to carry out
1 alumni engagement in a more systematic and
effective manner.

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