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Assistant Professor Jack Meng Tat Chia (NUS Department of History) provides historical context to modern Buddhism in Singapore and a focused look at the Buddhist College of Singapore (BCS) in ‘Teaching Dharma, Grooming Sangha: The Buddhist College of Singapore’ (Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 2009). ‘Reformist Buddhism’, a direct analogue of the Protestant …
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The significance and importance of maritime trade to Singapore’s economy cannot be understated. For over 150 years, Singapore was designed to be a free port, serving as an indispensable calling station between India and the so-called ‘West Asia’ and ‘Far East’. Since independence, Singapore has ranked as the world’s second busiest port in terms of …
As Buddhists in Singapore and around the world prepare to celebrate Vesak Day, a Special Issue of the journal Religions edited by Assistant Professor Jack Meng-Tat Chia (NUS History) has been published, titled ‘Beyond the Mainland: Buddhist Communities in Maritime Southeast Asia’. It features five articles by Southeast Asian-based scholars in Anthropology, Chinese Studies, Communication …
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Professor James D. Sidaway, political geographer from NUS Geography, NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), has been conferred the prestigious Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers [IBG]) 2022 Busk Medal.
Marking a cautiously calibrated return of the University to the normalcy of hosting large on-site events, this year’s CHS Open House is a two-day hybrid programme: 11 May on Zoom (and viewable on CHS’ Facebook page) and 14 May on several locations across the NUS Kent Ridge campus, specifically the areas around the Faculty of Arts and Social Science (FASS), and the Faculty of Science (FoS).
Dr Natalie Pang and Dr Jinna Tay of NUS Communications and New Media offer learned insights in this The Sunday Times feature on the TikTok communities “created to subvert mainstream cultures” and some of their more notable denizens.
Researchers from NUS Sociology deem that Singapore’s public housing provisions build a greater sense of togetherness among residents, which translates into stronger and more robust nationalistic sentiments.
The NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) honoured five eminent alumni on 29 April 2022, presenting each with a FASS Distinguished Arts and Social Sciences Alumni Award 2021.
Dr Nala Lee (NUS alumna and Assistant Professor of Linguistics) who is Peranakan Chinese by birth, tells us more about her language documentation work on her heritage language, Baba Malay.
Dr Azhar Ibrahim, Senior Lecturer from the Dept of Malay Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at NUS College of Humanities and Sciences, explains why ‘Malay History’ is one of the best works in the world of Malay literature and remains relevant to our modern times.
Suria News Online, 24 April 2022