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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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Singapore Writers Festival 2012

August 29, 2012

The Singapore Writers Festival returns this November with a 10-day programme tackling the theme of Origins. The festival will run from 2 to 11 November 2012 and will see 185 writers involved in 200 programmes. Currently in its fifteenth edition, the festival will feature renowned international writers—including essayist Pico Iyer and Man Asian Literary Prize …

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Conference on ”Evidence-Based Public Policy Using Administrative Data”

August 29, 2012

The Department of Economics at FASS and the Civil Service College organised a two-day conference on ”Evidence-Based Public Policy Using Administrative Data” on 2 and 3 August 2012. The conference was aimed at providing an opportunity for local and international academics to meet with Singapore public policymakers to discuss the use of administrative data in …

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Flux! Mediating Asian Change through > Language, Literature and Performance

August 16, 2012

The NUS Department of English Literature and Literature is organising a two-day Graduate Student conference which seeks to explore the transformation of Asia’s nations. The last two decades have seen many of Asia’s nations rise dramatically to prominence on the world stage. The identities, practices and ways of life of the region’s inhabitants have changed …

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“Make nation-building a collective project”

August 15, 2012

Associate Professor Tan Ern Ser from the National University of Singapore’s Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has contributed an article to the Straits Times dealing with the issue of nation-building. Titled “Make nation-building a collective project,” the article envisions nation-building as a collective project shared by the Government and …

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Collection of Edwin Thumboo’s best poems released

August 15, 2012

A pioneer of Singapore English language literature, and currently Emeritus Professor at the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Edwin Thumboo has been a major cultural figure in Singapore over the course of decades. Fittingly, a collection featuring his best poetry has been published this year, providing a comprehensive reader for …

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