Welcome to Southeast Asian Studies @ NUS
Life isn't divided up into neat disciplinary boxes. Learning about the world shouldn't be boxed in either.
The Department of Southeast Asian Studies offers an ideal alternative to students who find disciplinary approaches to learning narrow or restrictive, and those who prefer a more subject-oriented curriculum. Our department aims to offer a truly inter-disciplinary approach to learning which draws on different perspectives and methodologies from the humanities and social sciences, all thoroughly informed by local experience and knowledge.
News
New Publication: Hard at Work: Life in Singapore by Gerard Sasges and Ng Shi Wen (Eds.)
Sasges, Gerard and Ng Shi Wen (eds.), Hard at Work: Life in Singapore, Singapore: NUS Press, 2019 For most of us, work is a basic daily fact of life. But that simple fact encompasses an incredibly wide range of experiences. Hard at Work (2019) takes readers into the day-to-day work experiences of more than fifty working people in …
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NUS NEWS Education – Yeo Tze Yang: Award-winning artist with a heart for SE Asia
By NUS Office of Corporate Relations, Friday 12 July 2019 for NUS News What is an artist to do? Go to art school to perfect his craft, or to a university to enhance his substance? Graduating NUS Southeast Asian Studies student Yeo Tze Yang chose the latter. After spending six years of his education in …
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NUS NEWS Research – Prof John Miksic: Unearthing Singapore’s forgotten treasures
By NUS Office of Corporate Relations, Friday 21 June 2019 for NUS News Professor John Miksic’s love of archaeology began as a small boy. Growing up on a farm in the United States, his grandfather would often find arrowheads from the Native American Iroquois that used to live there. These artefacts from a different time …
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Javanese Gamelan for Beginners Workshop
The NUS Singa Nglaras Gamelan Ensemble will be conducting a Javanese Gamelan for Beginners Workshop on 20 July 2019. Limited places available. Please email to SingaNglaras@gmail.com to register.
New Publication: Wayang and Its Doubles: Javanese Puppet Theatre, Television and the Internet by Jan Mrazek
Mrazek, Jan, Wayang and Its Doubles: Javanese Puppet Theatre, Television and the Internet, Singapore: NUS Press, 2019 Much has been said about how Javanese puppet theatre, wayang kulit, richly reflects the Javanese world, and how changes and tensions in performance practice mirror those in culture and society. For decades, television has been as intensely part of …
Sea storms that could have cut short Singapore’s port history
Wednesday, 24 April 2019, Straits Times Online by Melody Zaccheus, Heritage and Community Correspondent Singapore, a renowned ancient port for Asian trade, could have failed numerous times after Sir Stamford Raffles’ arrival. The Dutch could have attacked and wiped out the outpost; pirates could have driven merchants away; and a blight which wiped out nutmeg …
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