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On October 24, 2013, a parellel event of the Singapore Biennale 2013 If The World Changed for Curatorial and Artists Tours with our four featured artists, Erika Tan, Michael Lee, Shimurabros and Charles Lim. More details can be found below:
Dr. Chua Ai Lin, of FASS’ own Department of History, has been elected as President of the Singapore Heritage Society. At only 39 years of age Dr. Chua is the youngest president in the society’s 27-year history. Dr. Chua will also be presenting at the Singapore Research Nexus’ Heritage Conference, co-organized with ISEAS, on the …
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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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