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The human physical touch is irreplaceable. The Straits Times reported last week on research conducted by Associate Professor Annett Schirmer (Dept of Psychology) and her team that demonstrates that children who receive more physical touches from their mothers were more socially attuned. Over the course of two years, the team studied 39 mother-child pairs. Each […]
A chapter titled, ‘Celebrating Singapore’s Development: An Analysis of the Millennium Stamps’ (2004) in the book ‘Systemic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis: Studies in Social Change’ by A/P Chng Huang Hoon’s (NUS Dept of English Language & Literature) studies the Singapore Stamp Millennium Collection which was commissioned on 20 December 1999. Chng illuminates the messages […]
A review of Mrs Anne Wee’s (Dept of Social Work) memoir, A Tiger Remembers: The Way We Were in Singapore, was published in the Straits Times. The title alludes to Mrs Wee’s inauspicious Chinese zodiac and her 66 years of memories as a Singaporean. For the vivacious 90-year-old Wee, her first book is the result […]
‘Cardiovascular Reactivity of Singaporean Male Police Officers as a Function of Task, Ethnicity and Hostility’ authored by Dr Y P Why, former faculty at the FASS Department of Psychology, along with G.D. Bishop, H.C. Enkelmann, M.W.E. Tong, S.M. Diong, M. Khader and J. Ang, was published in the International Journal of Psychophysiology (2003). This research examined […]
Dr Edna Lim (NUS Dept of English Language & Literature) analyses two local films titled ‘Counterperformance: The Heartland and Other Spaces in Eating Air and 15’. The heartlands arose out of Singapore’s urban development plans in the 1960s, which were aimed at developing public housing estates to foster social cohesion and communal living, and serve […]
Delve into Southeast Asia’s early history with Prof. John Miksic (NUS Dept of Southeast Asia) and Assoc. Prof Goh Geok Yian’s (NTU, School of Humanities and Social Sciences) latest publication – Ancient Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2016). Launched on 11 November at the National Library, the authors explained their motives for writing the book and […]
‘Performing the ‘Lifeworld’ in Public Education Campaigns’ (Pragmatics and Society, 2010) by A/P Michelle M. Lazar (NUS Dept of English Language & Literature) explores the Singapore government’s use of a popular local television character, Phua Chu Kang, to address and connect with the public as someone belonging to the ‘lifeworld’. The government used Phua Chu […]
Deepavali is an important event marked by Hindus which symbolises the triumph of light over darkness, good over evil, and hope over despair. In the days leading up to Deepavali, Singapore’s vibrant Indian arts scene celebrates the festivity of the holiday season. A major and world-renowned Indian performing arts company in Singapore is Apsaras Arts. […]
‘The Reduplication of Chinese Names in Singapore English’ (RASK, 2003), by Dr Jock Wong, Lecturer at the Centre for English Language Communication, discusses how one can find a range of culture-specific address forms in Singapore English that are not found in any other culturally Anglo variety of English (i.e. Australian English, British English, etc.). These […]
Professor John N. Miksic (NUS Dept of Southeast Asian Studies) and Associate Professor Goh Geok Yian (NTU HSS) will talk about their latest book, Ancient Southeast Asia, published by Routledge Area Studies, on Fri, 11 Nov, at Level 16, The POD, National Library Building. Discounted copies of the book will be available at the launch. […]