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.

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.

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.

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.

NUS Presidential Young Professor Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine hopes to build a community of scholars dedicated to the study of understudied languages of Southeast Asia.