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NEW PUBLICATION: On this Modern Highway, Lost in the Jungle by Jan Mrazek
The latest book by A/P Jan Mrázek aka Pak Jan is just out, about a Czech poet’s journey to colonial Java, and more broadly about Czech literary and artistic images of our region (and beyond). Says the book cover: “In [the] texts, poetic and often comic, both landlocked Bohemia and the colonized tropical islands …
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New Courses for the New Economy
NUS is offering a number of new programmes to prepare graduates for the future.
NUS Open House 2022: Interdisciplinary Offerings, In-person Activities and More!
NUS is offering a number of new programmes to prepare graduates for the future.
We Are NUS: 60 Fascinating Vignettes by Alumnus Yeo Tze Yang
Artist and NUS alumnus Yeo Tze Yang (Arts ’19) spent about two years to complete the 60 paintings constituting this installation.
FASS Inspiring Mentor 2021 Award Winners Announced
Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 FASS Inspiring Mentor Awards!
The e-STEER Programme: A Passage to Sub-Saharan Africa
Thanks to technology, in-depth experiences of faraway places are still possible despite COVID-19 slowing down international travel — as some 80 NUS students found out as participants of the latest, ‘virtual’, iteration of the NUS Study Trips for Engagement and EnRichment (STEER) programme travelled to Africa.