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Results of the Goh Sin Tub Creative Writing Prize 2021 – DRAMA
Department of English Language & Literature National University of Singapore The Goh Sin Tub Creative Writing Prize 2021 – Drama We are very pleased to announce the results of the Goh Sin Tub Creative Writing Competition 20212 – Drama. Congratulations to the prize winners! 1st Prize ($10,000): Danial Matin B Zaini for “Circle Around a Square” 2nd Prize ($6,000): Soh Kai Xin for “Eclipse” 3rd Prize ($4,000): Firqin Binte Sumartono for “ADILA” Honourable Mention: Felix Cheong Seng Fei for “Inconvenience of Minor Parts” The prize winners will be notified by email and will be required to attend the Award presentation. Details of the event will be provided closer to the date. The biennial Goh Sin Tub Creative Writing Prize was established by the late Dr Sylvia Goh with an endowed gift to the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore in memory and recognition of her late husband, Goh Sin Tub, who was one of Singapore’s best-known local writers. Goh Sin Tub and Dr Sylvia Goh are both alumni of the University of Malaya (UM), one of NUS’ predecessor institutions. The Prize commemorates Goh Sin Tub’s life, achievements and support for …
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Read MoreAn Interview with Emeritus Prof S. Vasoo and Assoc Prof Winston Goh on The Strange Start of Psychology at the National University of Singapore
The Strange Start of Psychology at the National University of Singapore (NUS Department of Psychology, 2021), showcases the history of the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences’ Department of Psychology, Singapore’s oldest psychology programme. The programme, which kicked off during the 86/87 academic year at the Department of Social Work (renamed the Department of Social Work and Psychology), became a department in 2005. Author Dr John Michael Elliott (1945-2019), who was at the time a psychologist at the then Ministry of Social Affairs, joined the programme six weeks after it began and retired in 2018. As the book explains, in Singapore, historically psychology was viewed more as clinical work that supported psychiatry, and mental health care was deprioritized. Instead, during the island’s colonial era, patients requiring mental health treatment were institutionalized in The Insane Hospital, which commenced operations in 1841 with 30 beds. This hospital evolved into The Lunatic Asylum (1862, 100 beds), followed by The New Lunatic Asylum (1887, 300 beds), and then the Mental Hospital in 1928, which became Woodbridge Hospital in 1951. In 1993, Woodbridge Hospital moved to Buangkok Green, becoming the Institute of Mental Health‘s new inpatient facility. There was a definite need for trained …
Read Moremar/gins: Call for Submissions
Margins is gearing up for its seventh issue and we need your work once again! Why submit? As students, we write on the margins of professional research. Our papers and theses—the products of much devoted labour—hardly see the light of day once TurnItIn and LumiNUS get hold of them. But you can save your brilliant work from the exile of your hard drive or the cloud by letting us give your ideas a voice outside the classroom. If you’ve got a paper you’re especially proud of, a daring alt-take too risqué for class, a poetic incision on something you learned, photos or even footage of your blood, sweat, and tears, send it to us and let us, as your peers, celebrate you. You’ve already encountered your peers’ exciting ideas in Issue 6. Now it’s your turn. Head over to our website or our Facebook page to find out more! You may view our submissions guidelines here, and please do email us at marginsjournal@gmail.com with any questions you might have. We look forward to receiving your submissions! — The Margins Team
Read MoreLESSONS FROM THE DREAM FACTORY
Alumni entrepreneurs from the NUS Overseas Colleges programme share the profound influence the experience has had on them.
Read MoreMind Your Language
Education entrepreneur Ms Rilla Melati (NUS Theatre Studies, ’96) is reimagining the way Malay is learnt.
Read MoreChampioning Conscious Consumerism
Ms Bianca Tham (NUS English Language & Literature and University Scholars’ Programme, ’17) isn’t naive about the impact she can make on the environment — but that doesn’t curb her enthusiasm one bit.
Read MoreBringing Shakespeare in Asia to the World
NUS Department of English Language & Literature Associate Professor Yong Li Lan, who was also co-chair of the WSC Local Organising Committee, leveraged the Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive (A|S|I|A) to enhance the 11th World Shakespeare Congress programme significantly, highlighting the value of digital archives in the new normal of virtual events/conferences, home-based learning, and work-from-home arrangements.
Read MoreNUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences’ 18th Dean Takes Office
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Professor Lionel Wee, and other members of the Deanery take on their leadership roles today.
Read MoreIssue 6 of Margins is out now!
Dear fellow undergraduates, Issue 6 of Margins is out now! We’re excited to share with you the brilliant writing of Allison Hoe, Darcel Anastasia Al Anthony, Dan N. Tran, Tan Wei Lin, and Timothy Wan in Margins’s latest issue entitled “A New World”. The issue rallies a diversity of literary thought at the boundaries of the undergraduate literary classroom. Despite the issue’s title, we ultimately find ourselves in possession not of a map toward any one sort of new world, but an intimating sketch of its myriad possibilities—a sketch which is concomitantly frank about the uncertainties any foray into novelty must confront. Finally, the point of the issue is not to offer any sort of roadmap into whatever future lies ahead. Rather, our purpose is to offer specific directions on how to get lost, and then a reminder to enjoy it. Click here to read “A New World” now! 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 by EN alumnus Justin Tiang © 2021, www.tiangpong.com
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