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Book Launch – Strangers in the Family-Gender, Patriliny & Chinese in Col Indonesia by Dr Seng Guo-Quan

January 2, 2024

Here are some of the highlights from the book launch of ‘Strangers in the Family: Gender, Patriliny, and the Chinese in Colonial Indonesia‘ by Dr Seng Guo-Quan (NUS History)! In Strangers in the Family, Dr Seng Guo-Quan provides a gendered history of settler Chinese community formation in Indonesia during the Dutch colonial period (1816-1942). At …

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Placemaking in the polycrisis: The effects of irregular migration trajectories of refugees in Southeast Asia

January 2, 2024
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Associate Professor Gerhard Hoffstaedter, 2024 LKC NUS-Stanford Fellowship awardee, is visiting FASS from 1 January to 22 March 2024. He is working on ‘Placemaking in the polycrisis: The effects of irregular migration trajectories of refugees in Southeast Asia’, a research project and book that examines 1) how refugees in Malaysia experience life in situations of …

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Forest City is Awakening, with New Settlers of an Unexpected Kind

January 2, 2024

Op-Ed in The Straits Times by Dr Serina Rahman, NUS Southeast Asian Studies.

Bringing the Common Good Closer Together

January 1, 2024

Article in Lianhe Zaobao by Huang Jiaqi, an undergraduate student from NUS Chinese Studies

Stamford Raffles and the “Founding” of Singapore: The Politics of Commemoration and Dilemmas of History

January 1, 2024

Photo: istock/Wirestock On 1 January 2018, the Singapore government announced the establishment of a Singapore Bicentennial Office under the Prime Minister’s Office to commemorate 200 years of Singapore history, beginning from Raffles’ founding of Singapore. This way of remembering Singapore’s history has been contested in various ways. In ‘Stamford Raffles and the “Founding” of Singapore: …

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Developing a Deeper Appreciation for Classical Chinese Philosophy…in English

December 29, 2023

Offered in the first semester of every academic year (AY), PH2301 Classical Chinese Philosophy I (PH2301) delves into the ethics and politics of the great Chinese philosophers such as Confucius, Mozi, Yang Zhu, Mencius and Laozi.

Wall dressed up: Graffiti and street art in Singapore

December 23, 2023

On 23 December 2013, the Urban Redevelopment Authority, the National Arts Council (NAC), and the Singapore Land Authority announced plans to make two walls along Rail Corridor available for street artists to develop their work. In 2014, the NAC established the Public Art Trust with funding from the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, which …

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Southeast Asia’s Path in an Age of Limited US Leadership

December 22, 2023

Op-Ed on CNA Online by Associate Professor Chong Ja Ian from NUS Political Science.

When Saving $50 a Month Brings Stress: Families Need Compassion, not Charity

December 18, 2023

Director of Melrose Home at the Children’s Aid Society and FASS alumna Cindy Ng (NUS Social Work) draws from her experience piloting a debt and savings programme and research – including that led by Associate Professor Irene Ng (of NUS Social Work and NUS Social Service Research Centre) – to argue for a more considered approach to tackling poverty and alleviating the plight of low-income families, in this Op-Ed in The Straits Times.⁠

What the Fairwork Framework Means for the Gig Economy

December 18, 2023

Editorial in Lianhe Zaobao by Dr Hong Renyi from NUS Communications and New Media; Prof Jack Qiu Linchuan from the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at NTU and Shaw Foundation Professor in Media Technology; and Dr Adam Badger, Postdoctoral Researcher from the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford.

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