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Linguistic Anxiety in Singapore: Negotiating the boundaries between Standard English, Singlish, and Broken English

November 6, 2012

Creating ourselves online

October 19, 2012

A/P LIM, deputy head at the Department of Communications and New Media, FASS, attempted to explore the relationship between online spaces and social fabric. To be more specific, using social media, we strategically present a persona to our digital audience. Here, we discover the link between self-curation and self-consciousness. To see how this link works, …

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FASS Alumnae win Cultural Medallion

October 19, 2012

Conducting choirs for love Jennifer Tham graduated from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, majoring in philosophy and sociology. In 1995, she returned to Singapore and introduced a new direction for the SYC Ensemble Singers. Under her leadership, the choir has excelled at several international choral festivals. Now, she is one of the most …

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Making S’pore a more elder-friendly place

October 11, 2012

The STRAITS TIMES reported that experts were participating in a discussion on “Aging-in-place:how prepared are we?” held at the National University of Singapore on 9 October , 2012. A/P Chia Ngee Choon claimed that the Government should allow the elderly to sublet part or all of their flats, while A/P Paulin Straughan preferred giving the elderly the option of moving …

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Inflated housing prices should ease

October 5, 2012

A/P Tilak Abeysinghe, Director of the Singapore Center for Applied and Policy Economics at the Department of Economics, NUS, has voiced insights regarding the high housing prices in Singapore. According to his survey on private and HDB property prices, actual housing prices have outpaced the fundamental trend price since mid-2006. In order to explain this phenomenon, some fundamental …

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Why so ungracious?: Living Together

October 2, 2012

Daniel Goh, Assistant Professor from the Sociology Department at the National University of Singapore, has voiced insights regarding Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s appeal on Singaporeans to be big-hearted towards one another and to foreigners. The Prime Minister set the moral tone of the national conversation by taping into notions of social cohesion, social capital …

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PMB Lecture Series: Lecture by Assoc. Prof. Maurizio Peleggi – Longing for Inconspicuousness: Nation-Building, Built Heritage and Collective Memories in Singapore

October 1, 2012

Seminar by Professor Sebastian Hoffman – The Corpus of Historical Singapore English

September 12, 2012

Roundtable on ‘Ageing in Place – How Prepared is Singapore?’

August 31, 2012

*Registration for this event has closed* Please note there will be no on-site registration for this event.

Deadline for Singapore on Screen short film submissions

August 31, 2012

Singapore on Screen The FASS Undergraduate Short Film Competition 2012 is a new initiative organized by the Singapore Research Nexus (SRN). Undergraduates who are taking a FASS module which has an original short film component are encouraged to submit their entries. The winning film will receive a prize of $500! The requirements for the entries …

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