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Sang Nila Utama and the Court of Indra
Sang Nila Utama is widely remembered in Singapore as the legendary founder of a pre-colonial kingdom, yet the origins of his name — and what it reveals about early ideas of kingship — are far less commonly understood. In his article “Sang Nila Utama and the Court of Indra,” Assistant …
New Centre for Computational Social Science and Humanities at NUS to advance interdisciplinary research on complex societal challenges
By combining technological innovation with human insight, the Centre for Computational Social Science and Humanities (CSSH) aims to generate research that improves lives, strengthens institutions, preserves cultural knowledge, and shapes more inclusive and resilient societies in Singapore and beyond.
Recording now available: Singapore Heritage Roundtable (11 November 2025)
As part of the “Celebrating Singapore Studies: Sixty Years of Nationhood” campaign, the Singapore Research Nexus hosted a richly informative Heritage Research Roundtable that featured four National Heritage Board Heritage Research Grant recipients from FASS and brought fresh scholarly light to lesser-known chapters of Singapore’s past. The full video recording …
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Walking Through a Songline
Walking Through a Songline is an immersive digital experience that introduces visitors to the Seven Sisters Songline, one of the foundational stories of Australian Aboriginal culture. Songlines map the routes taken by Ancestral beings as they travelled across Australia, creating the land and its people. Known also as Dreaming, these …