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RSVP with the title “Awards” to nexus@nus.edu.sg by 3 September 2014! You are invited to attend the Award Ceremony of SRN’s Picture Singapore photography competition. Seating is limited, so please RSVP to reserve your place. To learn more about Picture Singapore, click here. The Award Ceremony will take place on September 4 from 11am-12pm at […]
It was reported that study findings released by the NUS Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities, FASS Sociology Department and the HDB showed that residents’ interactions in HDB estates tend to be incidental and minimal. Displays of trust, such as safekeeping of house keys and lending or borrowing of household items are seldom heard of, probably because […]
The new FASS-based Centre for Family and Population Research and the Asia Research Institute will co-host the forthcoming conference on ‘Growing Up in One-Parent Families in Asia’. Date : 1 – 2 July 2014 Venue : Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore Tower Block Level 10, 469A Bukit Timah Road […]
Picture Singapore Singapore Research Nexus Photography Contest – 1 July to 15 August 2014 Summer greetings from the Singapore Research Nexus (SRN)! We are pleased to announce the launch of Picture Singapore, a photography contest which is accepting entries from 1 July to 15 August, 2014. Open to current FASS students, faculty, and staff, as […]
The current dry season in Singapore fuels concerns of whether there would be a repeat of last summer’s unprecedented haze levels. The health, social and economic losses incurred from the haze make people question how haze affects Singaporeans and what policies Singapore should pursue. In a Straits Times article from June 05, 2014 titled ‘Multilateral […]
Building on the imperative to promote region-based Southeast Asian Studies, the Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia (SEASIA) is organizing its inaugural biennial conference in Kyoto, Japan on December 12-13, 2015. The conference will be the first biennial meeting that will be organized in the region during the coming years. SEASIA 2015 welcomes panel proposals dealing with […]
A wealth of FASS Professors feature in a recent article in the New York Times by journalist Jane A. Paterson. The article, ‘In New Textbook, the Story of Singapore Begins 500 Years Earlier’ describes how A/P John N. Miksic (Department of Southeast Asian Studies) is behind the revision of the new Singapore school text, “Singapore: The […]
Inaugural AAS-in-Asia Conference ASIA IN MOTION HERITAGE AND TRANSFORMATION Date : 17-19 JULY 2014 Venue : NUS UTown, National University of Singapore Town Plaza, CREATE TOWER Level 2, 1 CREATE WAY, Singapore 138602 The Asia Research Institute (ARI) and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) of the National University of Singapore, […]
It was reported that a study by two NUS researchers has found that patients with conditions that affect the muscles, bones and joints or those with cancer or heart disease face the highest risk of racking up large hospital bills. Associate Professor Tilak Abeysinghe from the Department of Economics at the NUS Faculty of Arts […]
This was an article contribution by Mr Lin Yuhui, a Masters student at the Department of Chinese Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at NUS, on the decline of Singapore literature. He noted that the decline may reflect certain shortcomings in our society that requires deeper reflection. He hoped that Singapore literature […]