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The Singapore Research Nexus is pleased to announce the second Singapore on Screen FASS Student Film Competition. Submissions are now open and will end on December 15th 2013. You can learn more about the top entries for the first Singapore on Screen competition here. You need not be from FASS to participate; the competition …
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Since The Studios was established in 2003, a total of almost 52,000 people have seen its offerings. To mark its 10th anniversary, the series will present nine theatre productions over the next four months that survey the past, as well as anticipate the future. Paul Rae, Assistant Professor of theatre studies, National University of Singapore, …
Recently, a heated debate surrounding whether the country is devoting too much land and resources to transport was held at the National University of Singapore. Some distinguished scholars, including panelist Anthony Chin from NUS, Professor Paul Barter of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, as well as Professor A.P.G Menon from the Nanyang …
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. …