Monthly Archives: March 2012

International Research Attachment with Northwestern University and International Internships in Mexico with Tecnologico de Monterrey

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This is an announcement on behalf of IRO. Please refer any query to them.

1. International Research Attachment with Northwestern University

Application deadline is next Friday, 6th April 2012. Students should refer to the attached PDF info sheet for programme information and application details, and submit their applications directly to IRO at irook@nus.edu.sg

i-RAP – Northwestern University

IRO Programme Application Form

Students can also visit the IRO website: http://www.nus.edu.sg/iro/opps/irap/northwestern/index.html

2. International Internships in Mexico with Tecnologico de Monterrey

Application deadline is next Friday, 6th April 2012.  Students should refer to the attached PDF info sheet for programme information and application details, and submit their applications directly to IRO at irook@nus.edu.sg.

i-Intern – Tecnologico de Monterrey

IRO Programme Application Form

Insider Story!!! Juicy Details!! Lecturers spill all about OdySEA 2012

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Good news! As part of our on-going summer school offerings, we have put together an exciting programme for you this summer called OdySEA 2012. The lecturers for this summer school are most eager to share with you their thoughts as well as their ideas on what you can learn from the courses that they will be teaching. They will also be able to tell you more about the 2 weeks on-the-road, in-the-field trip to Thailand and the Philippines. Do join us if you want to know more about the courses this summer.

All of this is happening on Tuesday 3 April at 6.30 pm at LT11 @ FASS. Also Amy and I will be on hand to answer any of your queries as well. And don’t forget as part of this summer school, both FASS and FOS will be giving all of you participating in this summer school a financial award of $500 to as well as a 50% reduction in your summer school tuition fees.

Do come down if you are still deciding on what to do this summer as OdySEA promises to be one that will be not just academically enriching but one that will you will remember most about your time at NUS.

Shirley

StudyAbroad @FASS

Graduate Students Announcement: Flying University of Transnational Humanities July 15 to 18 2012

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Please note that this is an announcement on behalf of Hanyang University. Please direct all query to them.

Please note that FASS considers this as  a workshop/conference and not a summer school.

This is to announce that the third Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH) will take place at Hanyang University from July 15 through 18, 2012.  FUTH is one of RICH’s most important academic events in the year, and provides a great opportunity for exchange and networking among graduate students and young scholars from around the globe.

 The total number of student participants will be limited to around 24 in order to give sufficient time for student presentations, and the extended deadline for student applications is March 30.

 FUTH 2012 will address an important yet less explored issue in the discussion of borders—namely, knowledge.  The production and use of knowledge are always embedded in specific social and historical contexts.  How then, does knowledge travel across borders?  How is it translated, appropriated, or contested in different contexts?  And how does locally-produced knowledge come to acquire the status of globality (or not)?  With these questions as a basis, FUTH 2012—under the title of “Borders of Knowledge”—aims to provide students with a unique opportunity to critically examine the theme of the making and unmaking of the (national, cultural, etc) borders of knowledge (including the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, law, and other forms of knowledge). 

As a graduate level global summer schoo, FUTH 2012 consists of lectures and student presentation & feedback sessions. All the lecturers have been confirmed, and their names and lecture titles are:

· Johan Heilbron (Centre Europeen de Sociologie et de Science Politique de la Sorbonne, France / Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands), “The Human Sciences as a Cultural World System”

· Christian Fleck (Department of Sociology, University of Graz, Austria), “Some Remarks on the Methodologies Used in Writing the History of the Social Sciences and Humanities”

· Alice L. Conklin (Department of History, Ohio State University, U.S.A.), “Race as Social Myth: The Emergence of International Scientific Anti-Racism after World War II”

· Fa-ti Fan (State University of New York-Birminghamton, U.S.A.), “The Global Turn in the History of Science”

· Yoav Di-Capua (University of Texas-Austen, U.S.A.), TBA

· Michael Kim (Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University, Korea), “Crossing the Linguistic Divide: The Boundaries of Knowledge Production in the Publications of Colonial Korea”

· Closing Remarks by: Frank Hadler (University of Leipzig, Germany)

 Please see the attached flyer and tentative program for a detailed description of FUTH 2012. 

 FUTH-2012-Flyer-Updated (2)

FUTH-2012-Tentative-Program_120309

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me, our research professor Eunhye Kwon (eunhyekwon1@gmail.com) or our academic coordinator, Ms. Sunghee Hong (shongshrong@gmail.com).

Call for application: EUC-RSIS Summer Programme 2012 “The European Union in Asia – Reflections on European Integration, Institutions and Influence”

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Please note that this is an announcement on behalf of the European Union Centre. Please direct your query to them.

EU Centre in Singapore and S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies are pleased to announce the 2012 EU Centre-RSIS Summer Programme, “The European Union in Asia – Reflections on European Integration, Institutions and Influence”. The summer programme, from 4 – 30 June 2012, comprise of a series of seminars and a 2-week field trip to Europe. The summer programme is open to Senior Undergrads (3rd / 4th year students) and Post-graduate students from NUS, NTU, RSIS students and Southeast Asian students (senior undergrads and post-graduate students) from universities that are part of the ASEAN University Network (AUN).

Applications are now open. There are only 24 places available. The application deadline is 15 April 2012. Details are available on the EU Centre website. 

Highlights of the Summer Programme Interesting seminars and discussions on:

• Perceptions of the EU from Asia • The EU’s Ideational and Institutional Design

• The Functioning of the EU Single Market

• The “Eurocrisis” and the EU’s continuing influence in the global economic order

• The EU’s relations with Asia and particularly ASEAN

• The EU’s integration experience and reflections for Southeast Asia 2-week tour of Europe including:

• Visits to key EU institutions

• Visit to historic and picturesque Strasbourg

• Dialogue with policy analysts and policy makers in Brussels

• Visit to universities in Belgium and other educational and cultural sites

Please refer to attached eflyer for more information.

SummerProg-eflyer

 

Call for Application: OdySEA 2012

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Dear students

This is an exciting and brand new summer school (18 June to 27 July 2012) that FASS and Faculty of Science is jointly hosting and launching. You will get a chance to spend up to 2 weeks on field studies with your lecturers in either Thailand or the Philippines. This summer school intends to bring you on an  intellectual journey to (parts of) Southeast Asia that will challenge you, prompt self-reflexivity, and lead to a return to Singapore with a new sense of self in relation to the region. You will take one capstone module and then select another fieldtrip course in this summer school.

Framed through an anthropological perspective, the capstone module examines topics like issues of economic adaptation to the varied physical environments of Southeast Asia; the influences of Indian, Chinese, and other cultures and their interactions with indigenous cultures; the organization of the states; and the interrelation between religious and political systems. And the other courses offers you  in-depth training in engaging your country of choice from the perspective of a particular issue, such as Language and the Preservation of Culture, Human Trafficking, and Biodiversity.  On the module fieldtrip, you will learn to apply your insights to guided fieldwork that will allow you to shape your own learning of the country and its culture and people.

The field trip cost  will be kept low and it is likely to be between $1500 to $2000 and there will be a financial award of $500 for every student and there will also also be additional financial assistance available to students on a needs-basis. We are also making an effort to lower the NUS tuition fees for our students and more information on this will be available soon. 

If this summer school sounds like a productive and yet fun way to spend your summer, then we encourage you to apply for it. You can find the course details as well as application information here as well as an FAQ to answer your query.   

If you have other query that the FAQ does not address, please feel free to email Ms Amy Tan at studyabroadfass@nus.edu.sg