The Half-life of Knowledge
How should a fresh graduate, filled with aspirations to change the world, deal with the harsh reality that a significant portion of their undergraduate training may be rendered irrelevant by the simple passage of time?
Call for Nominations | FASS Inspiring Mentor Award 2022
We invite NUS FASS members of staff to nominate the colleagues who have served as their truly inspiring mentors – who have gone beyond the call of duty to positively impact their work and life – for FIMA 2022 honours.
FASS Launches Podcast Channel to Engage Next Generation
Featuring a myriad voices from FASS’ diverse and dynamic community, FASSTalk is devoted to examining a host of topics ranging from academic life, students’ career aspirations to pressing global issues and strategies for their successful resolution.
NUS FASS Faculty and Alumni Bag Top Literary Awards
Professor Wang Gungwu and two FASS alumni – Yeow Kai Chai and Wong Koi Tet – won in three separate categories, and Emeritus Professor Edwin Thumboo was presented with the SBC Achievement Award at the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize ceremony last week.
Issue 7 of Margins is out now!
Dearest ELTS community, Issue 7 of Margins is out now! We’re excited to share with you a collection of brilliant, introspective writing by Chua Han Au, Kevin Khoe, Lune Loh, Ryan-Ashleigh Boey, Ryan Tan, and Viola Chee. As well as being the student journal’s first un-themed (and untitled) issue, this latest compilation of innovative undergraduate scholarship explores unbridled alterity. Individually, each of Issue 7’s articles consults established texts and contexts using a brand new pair of reading glasses. Collectively, they ask what it means to look afresh at that which has already been encountered before; they think about ways to do so, and reflect upon the ethical dimensions of performing critical re-looking. Click here to read Margins! You can read the issue in your desktop browser or download a PDF. Sincerely, The Margins Team *Visit our website or connect with us on Facebook! *Reach us with any questions you might have at marginsjournal@gmail.com. Cover art generated using DALL·E 2.
Discovering Invisible Rules Behind the World’s Languages
NUS Presidential Young Professor Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine hopes to build a community of scholars dedicated to the study of understudied languages of Southeast Asia.
Dylan Chng Wins the Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize
The Honours Thesis is a research project undertaken by some 4th-year ELTS majors. This year, our student Dylan Chng was awarded the Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize for his Honour Thesis on “horror storytelling.” We speak to Dylan about his thesis and future plans. What is your thesis about and what are one or two ideas in your thesis that you are happy with? I wrote about collaborative horror storytelling on various social media. My thesis posited that the horror engendered by creepypastas, r/NoSleep, and other similar transmedial formats is unlike that of “conventional” horror literature. Whereas readers typically encounter the latter as books and at relative distance, social media horror pronounces a more immediate, participative experience, mediated both by digital network technologies and the human relationships we form thereby. Through close readings of comments sections, my thesis proposed a theory of how this socially mediated horror concomitantly simulates the reader’s (and author’s) “descent” into the horrific world of the text and the horrific textual world’s “leakage” into reality. Out of everything, I’m happiest with a one-liner in my conclusion proposing the possibility of a methodology whereby to contemplate transmedial reading via a notion of interface—that is, of the human reader …
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FASS Students Dominate 2022 USP Awards
FASS students have taken 9 out of 14 prize categories in 2022 USP Awards, sweeping the USP Overall and Domain Prizes for sheer academic excellence.
NUS Confers Honorary Degrees on Prof Tommy Koh and Prof Wang Gungwu
The University also celebrates the achievements of 13,975 graduates from the NUS Class of 2022; Philanthropic gift to establish new professorship in humanities and sciences.
Commencement 2022: Kickstarting a Season of Celebration and Achievement
NUS celebrates the milestone accomplishments of 13,975 graduates through 28 in-person ceremonies.