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Complicating raciolinguistics: Language, Chineseness, and the Sinophone

February 1, 2022

Chinese New Year, which falls on February 1 in 2022, is also known as the Spring Festival or Lunar New Year. It is the most important festival to Chinese people, and celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. ‘Chinese’ is often used interchangeably as designations of race, ethnicity, and […]

Being and Becoming Female in the Malay World: Interrogating and Curating the Photo-Archives of Early Singapore

January 31, 2022

Apart from being a port of call and a hub for trade and industry, Singapore was also a centre for photography in its early days. Photographers descended from Europe looking to document their travels to Southeast Asia. Photography presented another way of documenting history and was instrumental in visualising the world. Before photography became popular […]

SRN Virtual Event: Diaspora and Cosmopolitanism, Religion and Place, and Language and Multiculturalism in Singapore and the Region

January 25, 2022

The virtual event hosted by the Singapore Research Nexus at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, took place on Friday, 7 January 2022. The webinar featured three different panels focusing on the themes of Diaspora and Cosmopolitanism, Religion and Place, and Language and Multiculturalism. A wide variety of researchers from […]

Singapore Families and Residents Living In/Through the COVID-19 Pandemic

January 24, 2022

On 23 January 2020, Singapore recorded its first-ever case of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, on the anniversary of the first-recorded case of COVID-19, the effects of the pandemic still live on in the lives of those whom it has disturbed. In light of this, additional studies need to be conducted on more than just the […]

Minority Gangs in Singapore Prisons: Prisonisation Revisited

January 17, 2022

The Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act was passed by Parliament on 15 January 2019. One of the Act’s provisions allows repeat drug offenders who are without concurrent offences a chance for rehabilitation at the Drug Rehabilitation Centre. The Singapore Prison Service hopes that the enhanced rehabilitation measures for such offenders will lower the recidivism rate. […]

FASS Inspiring Mentor 2021 Award Winners Announced

January 14, 2022

Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 FASS Inspiring Mentor Awards!

HIGHLIGHTS: ICT4Good/Asia Workshop

January 11, 2022

The virtual ICT4Good/Asia Workshop, jointly hosted by the CivicTech Lab, the Department of Communications and New Media, and the Singapore Research Nexus at the National University of Singapore, took place on Wednesday, 17 November 2021. This workshop brought together researchers and practitioners pursuing ICT4Good in Asia to discuss the interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral development of the […]

Application of MORUSES single-layer urban canopy model in a tropical city: Results from Singapore

January 10, 2022

On 10 January 2020, the Singapore Structural Steel Society organized an international symposium on ‘Advances in Steel and Composite Structures’ (http://www.ssss.org.sg/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=67&Itemid=78). Steel and composite construction are usually employed in high rise buildings due to their high strength-to-weight ratio, structural efficiency, and robustness. The symposium offered international experts the opportunity to discuss and reveal new knowledge […]

Winners of AY2020-21 Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards Unveiled

January 6, 2022

The NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is proud to announce the 37 winners of the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award for their work in AY2020‐21, 16 of which have also been nominated for the Annual Teaching Excellence Award(ATEA) and Annual Digital Education Award (ADEA).

FASS Announces New Additions to Leadership Team

January 3, 2022

The NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is pleased to announce the most recent appointments to the Faculty’s leadership team.