BY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MIGUEL ESCOBAR VARELA (NUS CENTRE FOR COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES) About a project that’s using AI to unlock Singapore’s history by digitising and producing searchable rare Jawi-script Malay newspapers for researchers and the public.

BY PROFESSOR IRENE NG, DR MATHEW MATTHEWS, MR ASHER GOH, MR TAN ZHI HAN, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR VINCENT CHUA, DR GERARD CHUNG, MS CARYS CHAN AND MS LIVIA LIM
Singapore’s young low-wage workers face a stark work-life polarity, lacking the flexibility and security afforded to their higher-income counterparts.

BY JENNIFER YIP (NUS HISTORY)
One historian reveals how China’s WWII survival hinged on massive civilian grain mobilisation, challenging Eurocentric views of total war.

BY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ANDREW HUI (NUS ENGLISH, LINGUISTICS AND THEATRE STUDIES)
Exploring how Renaissance studies and Jesuit missions shaped our global, modern psyche by tracing the movement of ideas across cultures and centuries.

BY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR TAOMO ZHOU (NUS CHINESE STUDIES)
Shenzhen’s story is a global history of migration and market experiments, transforming it from a factory into a tech hub that reshaped China and the world economy.

BY DR CYNTHIA SIEW (NUS PSYCHOLOGY)
Human word associations offer unique, culturally-rich insights that AI models cannot replicate, revealing the true depth of our minds.

BY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DEBORAH SHAMOON (NUS JAPANESE STUDIES)
The four-panel comic strip is a deceptively simple, globally understood narrative structure that gives powerful shape to stories.

BY PROFESSOR DARIUSZ WÓJCIK (NUS GEOGRAPHY)
After 5,000 years of finance, the first-ever atlas reveals its hidden patterns, global power, and profound human impact.