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Dr. Gwee Li Sui, former senior tutor in our ELL department and a friend of the SRN (Gwee directed our 2012 SRN-produced documentary film ‘Writers Engaging the Social’ http://youtu.be/yxggMumdQnU ) was recently featured in the Straits Times asked about the books he’s reading. He is also giving an ongoing series at The Arts House, Sing Lit 101: How to …
There are more poor people in Singapore than the numbers provided by the government, said speakers at a National University of Singapore forum on 24 September, 2013. In order to highlight the importance of the poverty issue, MP Laurence Lien and labour economist Hui Weng Tat proposed a series of figures that show rising income …
On Tuesday 24th September 2013, the SRN hosted its most anticipated event to date. “Building an Inclusive Society: Understanding and Empowering the Poor in Singapore” brought together academics, practitioners and policy-makers to discuss who are the poor in our society and what might it take to help them cope with the daily necessities of living. …
How to deal with the relationship between efficiency and equity in the process of Singapore’s health-care financing system reform? A/P Tilak Abeysinghe , director of the Singapore Centre for Applied and Policy Economics at the Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, and his student, Yang Shu Wen, found that personal responsibility plays an important role …
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On September 19, 2013, Dr. D.S. Farrer, who was awarded as a PhD by the National University of Singapore, will deliver a talk about spiritual captivation in Singapore. More details can be found below.
This seminar to be held is to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Singapore’s independence from Britain and its merger with the Federation of Malaya, North Borneo, and Sarawak to form Malaysia. Thum Ping Tjin (“PJ”) is a Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, and Coordinator of Project Southeast Asia at …
In this paper Karen Lai (Geography) examines how the recent global financial crisis elicited uneven consequences for Singaporean investors. Using the case of the Lehman Minibonds crisis in Singapore, this paper aims to elucidate processes of financialisation and geographies of investor subjects by investigating the reshaping of retail banking consumers into investor subjects. Instead of painting all investor …
On September 24th, Singapore Research Nexus (SRN), Social Science and Policy Cluster (SSP) and Center for Social Development Asia (CSDA) are jointly organizing a forum, which brings together academics, professionals, and practitioners from the people sector and government agencies to discuss the issues affecting the poor in Singapore. The forum consists of two panels: Research and Conceptual …
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Genre: Literary Arts Co-presented by The Arts House and Gwee Li Sui Literary critic and poet Dr Gwee Li Sui will give six lectures, each focused on a major English poem from Singapore’s formative decades. He will introduce their writers and the times before unpacking these poems for a whole sweep of riveting and hidden …
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) of the National University of Singapore is committed to advancing knowledge of Asia, from within Asia. With our strategic position in the region, a faculty of more than one hundred experts in a variety of disciplinary and area studies departments (Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, South Asian Studies, …
Forefront Asia Signature Series: “The Study of Southeast Asia Today: A Dialogue at NUS” Read More »