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Title of Talk: Development of the Arts Institution in Singapore as a Global Creative City by Dr Kenichi Kawasaki, visitor to the FASS Cities Cluster Date: February 29th 2012, 3-5pm Venue: Exec Seminar Room, AS 7 level 1, NUS Kent Ridge Campus Chair: A/P Chang, FASS Geography Department About the Talk: Dr Kawasaki will first …
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NUS Librarian Tim Yap Fuan has recently compiled a handy list of essential resources for those researching Singapore. NUS Library Resources A Sense of History: a select bibliography on the history of Singapore Compiled by Tim Yap Fuan. This select bibliography lists primary and secondary sources on the history of Singapore from its earliest times …
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1. Describe your current research on Singapore. I have a number of different research and writing projects but they all centre on urban, cultural and tourism issues. One area is the adaptive re-use of historic shophouses as boutique hotels. Another pertains to the Arts Housing Scheme and how ethnic and cultural districts have been reconfigured …
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FASS’ very own Ann Wee, ‘Founding Mother of Social Work’ is featured in The Straits Times’ Singapore Pioneers series: click here
In this paper TILAK ABEYSINGHE (Economics) and Jiaying Gu deviate from conventional short-run indicators to develop an index that captures both short-run and long-run housing affordability. Using data from the Singapore Department of Statistics the authors developed a methodology to compute the lifetime income of different birth cohorts. The lifetime income of each household was …
Associate Professor Huang Jianli, (Department of History) is the 2011 Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Distinguished Fellow on Southeast Asia. The Fellowship provides an expert on the region the opportunity to travel, write and conduct their research in residence both at NUS and at Stanford University. What makes this year’s fellow so interesting is that Prof …
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Dr. Choo Hyekyung, (Social Work) recently received the Annals, Academy of Medicine Best Publication Silver Award 2010, based on her co-authored article ‘Pathological Video-Gaming among Singapore Youth’. This important new work understandably drew the attention of the media and is a topic which continues to generate much discussion, not only in academic circles. Below Dr Choo …
Daniel Goh (Sociology) looks at how Chingay and other state-sponsored parades have evolved in keeping with state’s needs of the period. Goh’s paper has ramifications for understanding past and future state-sponsored cultural events and soft power in Singapore and beyond. There is an inevitable political dimension to state carnivals. For Singapore they have been deployed …