Official Opening of the AS8 Building

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Official Opening of the AS8 Building

October 3, 2017

On 2 October, FASS held an official opening ceremony for AS8, the new home to all Asian Studies departments. The event was opened by Dean Robbie Goh and included gamelan music and the unveiling of a mural on the 2nd storey. The opening ceremony was part of the AS8 Inaugural Conference: "Asia: The Region and the World," held 2-3 October.

As part of the celebrations for the opening of AS8, the Department joined its fellow Asian Studies departments in the AS8 Inaugural Conference: "Asia: The Region and the World." The two-day conference held 2-3 October featured presentations and discussions on themes like "The Oceanic Turn in Asian Studies" and "Theorizing from the Margins."

The Department hosted a session called "Transcultural Flows: Japan in Asia/Asia in Japan," which featured presentations by Timothy Amos, Timothy Tsu (former faculty member, currently at Kwansei Gakuin Uni), Ng Wai-ming (former faculty member, currently at Chinese University of Hong Kong), and Karl Ian Cheng Chua (former student, currently at Ateneo de Manila Uni).

For more info about the event: http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/latest-news/as8-building.html