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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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𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗧 | 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 | 𝟭𝟭 𝗡𝗼𝘃, 𝟯:𝟱𝟬-𝟲:𝟬𝟬 𝗽𝗺
The Singapore Research Nexus at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) is holding ‘Singapore Heritage Roundtable’, an event featuring four research projects on Singapore Heritage: 1. ‘In Their Own Ways: Identification and Documentation of Singapore’s Chinese Medicine’ by Dr YANG Yan (Research Fellow, NUS Chinese Studies) 2. …
𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗧 | 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 | 𝟭𝟭 𝗡𝗼𝘃, 𝟯:𝟱𝟬-𝟲:𝟬𝟬 𝗽𝗺 Read More »
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 …
In Memoriam: Emeritus Professor John Miksic
Emeritus Professor John Norman Miksic, a distinguished scholar at NUS Southeast Asian Studies and Senior Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, passed away on 25 October 2025 at the age of 79. Professor Miksic first came to Singapore in 1968 while serving in the Peace Corps in Kedah, Malaysia, and …