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: Imperial Intoxication: Alcohol and the Making of Colonial Indochina by Gerard Sasges
Sasges, Gerard, Imperial Intoxication: Alcohol and the Making of Colonial Indochina, Hawaii: University of Hawai’i Press, 2017 Imperial Intoxication provides a unique window on Indochina between 1860 and 1939. It illuminates the contradictory mix of modern and archaic, power and impotence, civil bureaucracy and military occupation that characterized colonial rule. It highlights the role Indochinese played in …
Voyage to the Seven Isles (Tue, 5 September 2017)
ALL HANDS ON DECK! LIFE VESTS ON! WHY ARE YOU STILL SITTING THERE???!!! Listen – in less than a fortnight some of us novice seafarers will be reliving our May 2017 STEER voyage on a sailing boat in and around the waters of Riau Islands and Sumatra, Indonesia. We’ll be storming through our trip ONCE AGAIN …
Voyage to the Seven Isles (Tue, 5 September 2017) Read More »
Fear and Ambivalence in Singapore: Mapping the Saltwater Crocodile in the Singapore Consciousness (Wed, 13 September 2017)
Speaker: Kate Pocklington (Conservator, NUS Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum) Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2017 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: AS8, Level 6, Conference Room (06-46) Synopsis In the 1820s, William Farquhar’s dog was eaten by a crocodile on the bank of the Rochor River. The 1849 autobiography Hikayat Abdullah, by Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir, stated this was ‘the …
SEAS Alumnus Dr Kyle Latinis featured in The Straits Times, Thursday 3 August 2017
How S’pore team hit pay dirt in Angkor Wat, The Straits Times, Thursday 03 August 2017. An archaeological field school from Singapore which set up a 12-day excavation at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat has helped unearth a rare, late 12th-century statue. Buried in a pit about 40cm deep, the approximately 2m-tall sandstone statue, sculpted in the …
SEAS Alumnus Dr Kyle Latinis featured in The Straits Times, Thursday 3 August 2017 Read More »
Celebration for Southeast Asian Studies Graduating Class of 2017
On 10 July 2017, the Department of Southeast Asian Studies hosts a graduation tea party to celebrate and recognize our graduate’s achievements and their transition to an important new phase of life. Members of the faculty and student got together at the AS8 Level 4 Foyer for an al fresco tea reception before their commencement …
Celebration for Southeast Asian Studies Graduating Class of 2017 Read More »
Wang Gungwu Medal & Prize
The Department of Southeast Asian Studies is delighted to announce that Mr Goh Aik Sai has been awarded the Wang Gungwu Medal & Prize (AY2016-2017) for the Best Masters thesis in the Social Sciences/Humanities for his thesis entitled ‘Enlightenment on Display: The Rise and Fall of Singapore Buddhist Museums’. (Advisor: Professor John N Miksic.) Congratulations …