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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. […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Boo Junfeng is a Singaporean film maker well known for his award-winning short films, which often deal with topics such as identity, memory, sexuality. Sandcastle is his first feature-length film, which made its international premiere Cannes Film Festival in 2010. Details can be found here.
On Wednesday 13th February all of the local media’s eyes were on Prof Wolfgang Lutz, demographer and Founding Director of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital. Prof Lutz’s was giving a seminar in FASS, hosted by the Department of Sociology, where he discussed Singapore’s fertility rate, a topic which has been widely debated in the wake of the […]
In February, Bee Thiam will talk to us about why he makes films and how keeping film in our conversation helps keep our history alive. Details can be found here.
Conducted by Professor Wolfgang Lutz of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, this seminar entitled “Is Singapore’s Birth Rate Too Low?” aims to examine the question from various perspectives. Professor Wolfgang Lutz proposes that a fertility level somewhat below replacement level may be optimal for a highly educated modern society such as Singapore’s. More details […]
You are invited to watch the final eight shortlisted films, all produced in 2012, and see the judges decide who wins the $500 prizes! Click here to view a trailer of these eight short films. NUS Open Day, 16 March 2013, 1.30pm – 4.30pm, UTown, Global Learning Room (Seminar Room 12), Level 2, Town Plaza. […]