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Mr. Seng Guo Quan, a doctoral candidate at the Department of History, University of Chicago, will give a talk about “The birth of the modern diasporic subject: law, knowledge, family reform and the overseas Chinese in British Malaya and Netherlands East Indies (1870-1942) – A Preliminary Report “. More details can be found below.
Dr. Andrea Marion Pinkney, Assistant Professor from South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, will deliver a speech about Buddhism in Singapore. More details can be found below.
Ms Lee Wei Fen, a MA candidate from South Asian Studies Program, National University of Singapore, will deliver a speech about the relationship between Hindu sacred spaces and community formation. More details can be found below.
In this journal article Axel Gelfert (Philosophy) examines how Singapore’s biotech ambitions have been pitched as the country moves towards modernization. Singapore’s foray into biotechnology is generally considered an economic and scientific success, its most visible sign being Biopolis, launched in 2003 as an integrated cluster of research facilities in an urban setting. Biopolis, however, …
Ho Chi Tim who graduated from Department of History, National University of Singapore shows great interest in historical development of social welfare in colonial Singapore, and he will deliver a speech about the Singapore Department of Social Welfare on April 3, 2013. More details can be found below.
Two very different films garnered the top prizes at FASS’ inaugural ‘Singapore on Screen’ Undergraduate Short Film competition when the final eight films were screened in competition on Saturday at the NUS Open Day at UTown . The winner in the fiction category was “Fire”, a moving piece that touched on intergenerational student activism and the …
National University of Singapore researchers Vincent Chua and Irene Ng performed a study which showed that Malay Singaporeans had less social capital than their Chinese counterparts. Social capital contributes to social mobility and is a significant factor in somebody’s ability to move from one class of society to another. More details can be found below. …
Thursday, March 21st 2013, 9am – 1pm at AS7, Shaw Foundation Building, Seminar Room B Singapore’s Connections with Asia and the World addresses Singapore’s diverse connectivities within the region and around the world. Without the luxury of geographic resources and physical land mass, Singapore’s social, economic and cultural diversity has nevertheless enabled the city-state multiple …
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How can academics from the social science work together with policy makers to address issues in Singapore? This was the main theme discussed at the inaugural workshop by the new Social Science and Policy (SSP) Cluster at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) on 4 March. More details can be found here.
Dr. Jessica Pan, an assistant professor of economics at the National University of Singapore, led a discussion about the gender equality in education. She argued that the gender gap in education was likely to narrow thanks to the improvement of job market. In the past years, women were reluctant to persue higher education due to labour …