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Year: 2020
SRN Virtual Event on 26 Nov: Humanities and Social Sciences Research on Singapore
The Singapore Research Nexus (SRN) at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Research Division, NUS invites you to a Virtual Event featuring recent research in the humanities and social sciences on Singapore.
Academics from NUS will present their studies on the themes of 1) Cultural Policy and Heritage, 2) Citizenship, Community, and the Public Sphere, and 3) Pedagogy, Education, and Development.
Please register early through the link below. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing instructions about joining the webinar. You are free to join and leave the webinar at a time of your convenience.
Please note that the webinar may be recorded by the Singapore Research Nexus. For enquiries, please contact us at nexus@nus.edu.sg.
Date: Thursday, 26 November 2020
Time: 10 AM to 4:50 PM (SGT)
Registration at Zoom: https://nus-sg.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IlxCcG5eR4CbHbMkDST7fw
Full Programme available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/187NzhwQJyImvHVxJwgRVADETJVVcFtvu/view?usp=sharing
Schedule
| 26 NOVEMBER 2020 (Thursday) | |
| 10:00 – 10:10 | REGISTRATION |
| 10:10 – 10:15 | WELCOME REMARKS |
| Lionel Wee | Professor and Vice Dean of Research, NUS FASS | |
| 10:15 – 12:20 | PANEL 1 – CULTURAL POLICY AND HERITAGE |
| 10:15 – 10:20 | Introduction of Researchers
Priya Jaradi | Lecturer, NUS History |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | White Walls Don’t Say Much: Creative Placemaking in Singapore
T.C. Chang | Associate Professor, NUS Geography |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Singapore Chronicles: Theatre
Robin Loon | Associate Professor, NUS English Language and Literature |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Heritagescaping the Southern Islands of Singapore “from below”
Hamzah Bin Muzaini | Assistant Professor, NUS Southeast Asian Studies |
| 11:20 – 11:40 | Community Arts and Culture Initiatives in Singapore: Spatial Opportunities and Impacts
Zdravko Trivic | Assistant Professor, NUS Architecture |
| 11:40 – 12:20 | Q & A |
| 12:20 – 13:20 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 13:20 – 14:55 | PANEL 2 – PEDAGOGY, EDUCATION, AND DEVELOPMENT |
| 13:20 – 13:25 | Introduction of Researchers
Lee Li Neng | Lecturer, NUS Psychology |
| 13:25 – 13:45 | Getting Ahead in Singapore: How Neighborhoods, Gender, and Ethnicity Affect Enrollment into Elite Schools
Vincent Chua | Associate Professor, NUS Sociology |
| 13:45 – 14:05 | The Promise and Pitfalls of Gradeless Learning: Responses to an Alternative Approach to Grading
Chris McMorran | Associate Professor, NUS Japanese Studies |
| 14:05 – 14:25 | Research from the Generative Space of the Classroom: Balancing Time and Impact
Kamalini Ramdas | Senior Lecturer, NUS Geography |
| 14:25 – 14:55 | Q & A |
| 14:55 – 15:10 | TEA BREAK |
| 15:10 – 16:45 | Panel 3 – CITIZENSHIP, COMMUNITY, AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE |
| 15:10 – 15:15 | Introduction of Researchers
Elvin Ong | Senior Tutor, NUS Political Science |
| 15:15 – 15:35 | Perceived Electoral Fairness and Media Use: Evidences from two General Elections
Weiyu Zhang | Associate Professor, NUS Communications and New Media |
| 15:35 – 15:55 | The Burdens of Ethnicity: Chinese Communities in Singapore and Their Relations with the PRC
Chong Ja Ian | Associate Professor, NUS Political Science |
| 15:55 – 16:15 | Citizenship and multilingual (homo)nationalism in Singapore’s Pink Dot discourse
Michelle M. Lazar | Associate Professor, NUS English Language and Literature |
| 16:15 – 16:45 | Q & A |
| 16:45 – 16:50 | CLOSING REMARKS |
| Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho | Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of Research, NUS FASS | |
About the Participants
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Associate Professor T. C. Chang is a tourism geographer by training, and has research interests in urban, social-cultural and tourism geographies. His research interests include Southeast Asian tourism, vernacular architecture and heritage, arts, culture, and creativity in Asian cities. A/P Chang was Assistant Dean (Alumni and External Relations, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS) in 2008-2010 and Vice Dean (External Relations and Student Life, June 2010-December 2015). He was awarded the NUS Outstanding Educator Award 2006 and the Annual Teaching Excellence Award 2008. |
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Robin Loon is Associate Professor at the NUS Department of English Language and Literature. His current research/teaching interests include popular culture and performance, Singapore Theatre (with special focus on Singapore English Language Theatre), media, and performance. An active participant in the Singapore English Language Theatre scene since 1991, he has also written for the local stage. His work in theatre now mainly involves dramaturgy and play-writing.
A/P Loon conceptualized and ran Singapore’s first Dramaturg Apprentice Programme at Centre 42 in 2015 and co-organized the inaugural Asian Dramaturgs’ Network Symposium in 2016, founded by Dr Lim How Ngean. In 2014, together with Casey Lim, Chiu Chien Seen, and Michele Lim, A/P Loon set up Centre 42, a up-stream content-creation centre for Singapore theatre in partnership with the National Arts Council. |
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Assistant Professor Hamzah bin Muzaini is a cultural geographer at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, NUS. His primary work explores the politics of remembering and forgetting, particularly as this intersects with issues of war, heritage, landscape, and postcoloniality. While his primary work has been centred on how the heritage of the Second World War has commemorated in Singapore and Malaysia, he is also broadening this into understanding the phenomenon of cultural theme parks in East Malaysia, migrant heritage making ‘from below’ among the Moluccans in the Netherlands, and the practices and politics of heritagizing the Southern Islands in Singapore (with emphasis on St John’s, Lazarus, and Seringat Islands). He has published in internationally refereed journals and is co-author/editor of Contested Memoryscapes: the Politics of Second World War Commemoration in Singapore (2016, Routledge, with Brenda Yeoh) and After Heritage: Critical Issues of Heritage from Below (2018, Edward Elgar, with Claudio Minca). |
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Zdravko Trivic is Assistant Professor at the NUS Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment (SDE). He works closely with CSAC (Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities), CARE (Centre for Ageing Research in the Environment) and CFA (Centre For the Arts), NUS. His research interests include: multi-sensorial urbanism, health-supportive and ageing-friendly design, urban space in high-density contexts, creative placemaking and community participation. Dr Trivic is the author of Community Arts and Culture Initiatives in Singapore: Understanding the Nodal Approach (NY, London; New York: Routledge, 2020) and the co-author of Re-framing Urban Space: Urban Design for Emerging Hybrid and High-density Conditions (with Cho and Heng; New York: Routledge, 2016), among other publications. He is the recipient of two outstanding paper awards at the UIA 2017 Seoul World Architects Congress. |
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Priya Jaradi is senior lecturer at the Department of History. She is Convenor for Art History, a collaboration between National University of Singapore (NUS) and the National Gallery Singapore. Former Curator at the Asian Civilisations Museum, she combines her curatorial and scholarly interests in teaching and research. Her past publications with Oxford University Press and Marg reveal her interests in art collecting and princely modernities in South Asia. Her current research for the NUS Museum examines India-Singapore museum exchange within the context of Cold War diplomacy, the Non-Aligned Movement, and decolonization. She is a recipient of the Getty Foundation Grant for 2020 and 2021. In keeping with the multi-disciplinary ethos of her past projects, Dr Jaradi hopes to grow the Faculty’s Art History Minor and inspire students to emerge as practitioners, curators, and scholars. |
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Vincent Chua is Associate Professor at the NUS Department of Sociology. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Toronto in November 2010. His main research area is social networks with an emphasis on social capital – primarily how institutional factors such as labour markets and education affect the job search and networking practices of people. His other research area is the sociology of education. |
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Chris McMorran is Associate Professor at the NUS Department of Japanese Studies. A cultural geographer of contemporary Japan, his research analyzes how identity and meaning are built, practiced, experienced, and read in cultural landscapes. He has studied these processes through the lenses of tourism and labor, which has led to publications in Mobilities, Landscape Journal, Area, Tourism Geographies, and in a 2018 volume titled Rethinking Japanese Feminisms. This work will appear in the forthcoming book, Last Resort: Labor, Tourism, and Identity in Japan (University of Hawai’i Press).
A/P McMorran is also interested in the geographies of teaching and learning. Along these lines, in 2018 he was awarded a LIFT Grant ($70K) to research podcasting as a teaching and learning tool and to produce the “Home on the Dot” podcast, which takes inspiration from student research projects to analyze the multifaceted meanings of home in Singapore. In 2020, Season 3, which is devoted to stories of how Covid-19 has impacted home, began airing. |
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Kamalini Ramdas is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Geography. She teaches modules in social and cultural geography. Dr Ramdas is particularly interested in the spatialities of gender, sexuality, and ‘race’ and the application of social theory in geography. Her specific areas of interest include feminist care ethics, critical geographies of familyhood, and community and queer politics. |
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Dr Lee Li Neng is a Lecturer at the NUS Department of Psychology. He is interested in looking at how education shapes perceptions on learning and developing the youth holistically, especially in the areas of critical thinking, curiosity, and creativity. Concurrently, he is also interested in innovations and advances in education, and how technology can be utilised to provide a more personalised form of education for individuals and support the development of good teaching. |
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Weiyu Zhang is Associate Professor at the Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication from Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on civic engagement and ICTs, with an emphasis on Asia. She is the author of the book The Internet and New Social Formation in China: Fandom Publics in the Making (Routledge, 2016). Her published articles have appeared in Journal of Communication, Communication Theory, Communication Research, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Information, Communication, & Society, New Media & Society, Computers & Education, Public Understanding of Science, the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, and many other journals. She recently completed a project that develops and examines an online platform for citizen deliberation. #CivicTech #OnlineDeliberation #FanActivism |
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Chong Ja Ian is Associate Professor at the NUS Department of Political Science. The focus of his teaching and research is on international relations, especially IR theory, security, Chinese foreign policy, and international relations in the Asia-Pacific. Of particular interest to him are issues that stand at the nexus of international and domestic politics, such as influences on nationalism and the consequences of major power competition on the domestic politics of third countries. A/P Chong is author of External Intervention and the Politics of State Formation — China, Indonesia, Thailand, 1893-1952 (Cambridge, 2012), which received the 2013 Best Book Award from the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association. He was a Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholar in 2019-2020. |
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Michelle M. Lazar is Associate Professor and Head of the NUS Department of English Language and Literature. A linguist, she specialises in critical discourse studies, gender and sexuality, media and politics, and multimodal discourse analysis. Michelle is founding editor of the Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse monograph series, is an advisory board member of the Oxford Language, Gender, and Sexuality book series, and is on the editorial boards of Critical Discourse Studies, Discourse & Society, Social Semiotics, and Gender & Language. |
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Dr Elvin Ong is Senior Tutor in the Department of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. He was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute of Asian Research (IAR) at the University of British Columbia. His primary research interests are in the politics and policies of authoritarian regimes, with specific focus on the formation of opposition coalitions contesting against a dominant incumbent. His book manuscript, Opposing Power: Building Opposition Alliances in Electoral Autocracies, is under contract with the University of Michigan Press, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Series. |
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Lionel Wee is Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore and Vice Dean of Research at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. A linguist, he is interested in language policy (especially in Southeast Asia), the grammar of Singapore English, metaphorical discourse, and general issues in sociolinguistics and pragmatics. He has published in the Journal of Pragmatics, Discourse Studies, Language in Society, Journal of Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, and Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, among others. |
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Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography and Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore. She is also Assistant Dean (Research Division) at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Her research addresses how citizenship is changing as a result of multi-directional migration flows in the Asia-Pacific. She is author of Citizens in Motion: Emigration, Immigration and Re-migration Across China’s Borders (2019, Stanford University Press). Her current research focuses on two domains: first, transnational ageing and care in the Asia-Pacific; and second, im/mobilities and diaspora aid at the China-Myanmar border. She is Editor of Social and Cultural Geography, and serves on several journal editorial boards. |
Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards (FTEA) 2020
Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
The Faculty Teaching Excellence Award is awarded to faculty members who have displayed a high level of commitment to their teaching. Each year, a select few colleagues are recognised for their teaching based on peer reviews, student feedback and exposition of their teaching philosophy.
We congratulate the following colleagues on their achievements in teaching. These FASS faculty members have been awarded the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award for their work in AY2019-20.
| Name | Department |
| A/P Izumi Walker | Centre for Language Studies |
| Dr Osamu Amazaki | Centre for Language Studies |
| Mr Appriou Yannick | Centre for Language Studies |
| Mr Yuzuru Hamasaki | Centre for Language Studies |
| Ms Sasiwimol Klayklueng | Centre for Language Studies |
| Mr Muzzammil Bin Mohamed Yassin | Centre for Language Studies |
| Ms Nina Melero | Centre for Language Studies |
| Dr Alex Mitchell | Communications and New Media |
| Dr Hong Renyi | Communications and New Media |
| Dr Shobha Avadhani | Communications and New Media |
| Mr Tan Kai En | Communications and New Media |
| Dr Georgios Georgiou | Economics |
| Dr Ong Ee Cheng | Economics |
| Dr Seah Kah Cheng, Kelvin | Economics |
| A/P Graham Wolfe | English Language and Literature |
| A/P Loon Seong Yun, Robin | English Language and Literature |
| A/P Starr, Rebecca Lurie | English Language and Literature |
| Dr Lee Huiying Nala | English Language and Literature |
| A/P Chang Tou Chuang | Geography |
| A/P Long Shi Ruey, Joey | History |
| Dr Chia Meng Tat Jack | History |
| Dr Donna Maree Brunero | History |
| Dr Priya Jaradi | History |
| Dr Chin Chuan Fei | Philosophy |
| Mr Sim Yeow Huat Jonathan | Philosophy |
| A/P Terence Lee Chek Liang | Political Science |
| Dr Lepori, Matthew Aaron | Political Science |
| Dr Soul Park | Political Science |
| A/P Lim Wee Hun, Stephen | Psychology |
| Dr Jia Lile | Psychology |
| Dr Matthew Lim Sheng Mian | Psychology |
| Dr Nina Laurel Powell | Psychology |
| Dr Wong Yuh Ju Peace | Social Work |
| A/P Son Joon Mo | Sociology |
| Dr George Baylon Radics | Sociology |
| Dr Noorman Abdullah | Sociology and Malay Studies |
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Congratulations to all our winners for their excellent work!
In Memoriam | Mr Ngiam Tong Dow
Mr Ngiam Tong Dow
Top Civil Servant of Singapore, Beloved Supporter of NUS and FASS
(Economics, ’59)
The NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) is greatly saddened by the passing of Mr Ngiam Tong Dow on 20 August 2020 at the age of 83.
A prominent alumnus of the Faculty, Mr Ngiam graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with First Class Honours in 1959. As a former civil servant of Singapore, Mr Ngiam contributed to Singapore’s economic development over four decades.
In recognition of his significant contributions to the Public Service, Mr Ngiam has been conferred various national public service awards, including the Public Administration Medal (Gold) in 1971, the Meritorious Service Medal in 1978 and the Distinguished Service Order in 1999.
Mr Ngiam was also actively engaged with the National University of Singapore (NUS). He had been serving as Pro-Chancellor of NUS since 2000 and was the Chairman of the NUS Centennial Campaign Advisory Board in 2003. Over and above his service to the NUS community, Mr Ngiam has also donated generously to university and FASS. In 2006, Mr Ngiam and his family across two generations established the Mr and Mrs Ngiam Fook Quee Memorial Scholarship in honour of their parents and grandparents who had migrated to Singapore from China in the last century with nothing but the determination to work hard and succeed.
FASS presented Mr Ngiam the FASS Distinguished Arts and Social Alumni Award in 2016 for his enormous contributions to Singapore’s nation-building efforts and his strong commitment to and support of the University and the Faculty. In 2019, NUS bestowed upon Mr Ngiam the prestigious NUS Eminent Alumni Award.
FASS Advisory Board Member Mrs Chua-Lim Receives Public Administration Gold Medal 2020
NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences’ Advisory Board Member, Mrs Chua-Lim Yen Ching, was conferred the Public Administration Gold Medal at this year’s National Day Awards by the Prime Minister’s Office for her numerous contributions to education in Singapore.
Mrs Chua-Lim is the Deputy Director-General of Education (Professional Development) and Executive Director of the Academy of Singapore Teachers Directorate at the Ministry of Education (MOE) of Singapore. This latest award follows the Public Administration Medal (Bronze) she received in 1999, and the Public Administration Medal (Silver) in 2017.
Her career in education spans 37 years, during which she has served as a teacher, principal and policy maker. Highlights include her leadership, as Deputy Director of the Sciences Branch of the Ministry of Education of Singapore, in the development of primary to pre-university curricula for mathematics, science, technical and physical education from 1998 to 2002, and the pivotal role she played as the founding principal of the NorthLight School, an institution offering enhanced vocational education from 2006 to 2011. She is now helming advancements in the professional development of teachers in Singapore.
At this year’s National Day Awards, Mrs Chua-Lim joins the ranks of illustrious NUS notables such as Former Deputy Prime Minister and current Senior Legal Adviser to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Prof S. Jayakumar, who received the highest Order of Temasek (with High Distinction) honour, and Prof Wang Gungwu, FASS Professor and former Chairman of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy as well as the East Asian Institute, who was awarded The Distinguished Service Order.
Other FASS awardees include the following:-
Public Administration Medal (Bronze)
Prof Lionel Wee Hock Ann, Vice Dean (Research) and Professor, Department of English Language & Literature
Commendation Medal
Ms Loo Bee Bee, Associate Director, Department of Psychology
Efficiency Medal
Ms Jane Ong Pei Hoon, Management Assistant Officer, Department of Sociology
Long Service Medal
- Prof Ong Chang Woei, Department of Chinese Studies
- Assoc Prof Loon Seong Yun, Department of English Language & Literature
- Ms Sakinah Bte Yusof, Management Assistant Officer, Department of Geography
- Ms Jasmine Sim Bee Lay, Management Assistant Officer, Department of History
- Assoc Prof Chen An, Department of Political Science
- Assoc Prof Irving Chan Johnson, Department of Southeast Asian Studies
- Assoc Prof Narayanan Ganapathy, FASS Associate Dean, and Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
HKUST-NUS: Navigating a World of Disruption
THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC HAS IRREVOCABLY changed the world, empowering us to take new approaches and employ new methods to do just about everything—from administering public policy and trade relations to managing economic and social activities.
The National University of Singapore’s Associate Professor Itty Abraham (Department of Southeast Asian Studies), Sooyeon Kim(Department of Political Science) and Prof David Taylor (Department of Geography) will be discussing this topic along with counterparts at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in the concluding episode of the HKUST Global Webinar Series.
During this session, “Navigating a World of Disruption”, the panel will be sharing their research and perspectives on the deep and varied effects of COVID-19 on food security, climate change, air quality, global trade, trends in international migration, remittances and scholarship.
Do not miss this! Register here https://bit.ly/HKUST_NUS_Webinar_Reg.
𝗙𝗔𝗦𝗦 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 & 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽𝘀: 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗜, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬-𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭
CALLING ALL FASS GRADUATE STUDENTS: Having trouble with your writing and need help? The Writing Programme continues through the new semester.
Please be on the lookout for an email from us asking for you to register!
Eminent NUS historian Professor Wang Gungwu receives prestigious Tang Prize
The 2020 Tang Prize in Sinology has been awarded to Professor Wang Gungwu, University Professor at NUS Arts and Social Sciences and one of the world’s foremost experts on the Chinese diaspora.
Announced on 20 June 2020 by the Tang Prize Foundation, this prestigious award was conferred on Prof Wang in recognition of his trailblazing and dissecting insights on the history of the Chinese world order, overseas Chinese, and Chinese migratory experience.
As a leading scholar on Sino-Southeast Asian historical relations, Prof Wang developed a unique approach to understanding China by scrutinising its long and complex relationship with its southern neighbours. His erudition and critical discernment have significantly enriched the explanation of China’s changing place in the world, traditionally developed from an internalist perspective or in relation to the West.
Prof Wang said, “It is a great honour to be awarded the Tang Prize in Sinology. When I was a student, Sinology was part of Oriental Studies and associated with classical studies, guoxue (国学) in China, Hanxue (汉学) in Japan and Europe. It was centred on ancient philology as the foundation for the study of literature, philosophy and history. The four previous awardees, Yu Ying-shih at Princeton, Ted de Bary at Columbia, Shiba Yoshinobu at Tokyo and Stephen Owen at Harvard, started with the study of classical Chinese. Yu and de Bary went on to enrich our knowledge of intellectual history while Shiba did the same for social and economic history. Although Owen is best known for his contributions to literature, his work on literary theory has illuminated key features of the historical imagination.”
“I am a historian who believes that China’s present cannot be separated from her total past. Living all my life outside China, I am fascinated by the way China had fallen and risen several times. Each time that happened had made a difference to the course of world history. For us to understand why that could happen requires us to go beyond the humanities to the social sciences. I am gratified that modern Sinology now recognises the centrality of shi (史) in Chinese civilisation,” he added.
One of Asia’s most important intellectuals
Prof Wang Gungwu has been University Professor at NUS Arts and Social Sciences since 2007, and Emeritus Professor of the Australian National University since 1988. He is Foreign Honorary Member of the History Division of the American Academy of Arts and Science and former President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Prof Wang received his BA and MA from University of Malaya (UM) in Singapore, and PhD at SOAS, London.
Spending much of his life immersed in different cultures gives Prof Wang diverse personae as a scholar. He is an “insider” in the academic tradition of Chinese Confucianism and British elite education, and an “outsider” in the interpretation of China’s perception of the world. His original approach to understanding China from the southern perspective is in part a natural choice given his personal experience. This same experience provided him with abundant inspiration in his formative years as he matured into an authoritative voice in the analysis of China’s worldview.
Besides being an outstanding scholar, Prof Wang has been an inspiring educator since he embarked on an academic career first at UM and subsequently at the Australian National University, before making his mark as Vice Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong from 1986 to 1995, Chairman of the Institute of East Asian Political Economy from 1996 to 1997, and Director of the NUS East Asian Institute from 1997 to 2007.
At 89 years old, Prof Wang is still very prolific as a scholar. “I am writing on Chinese hopes and fears following China’s opening and reforms, focusing on the period after the People’s Republic of China’s entry into the United Nations in October 1971,” he shared.
And when asked how COVID-19 has impacted him, Prof Wang said, “COVID-19 has moved me away from my routines and made me parcel my life more carefully and take into account how much time I might have to get my work completed.”
The biannual Tang Prize consists of four categories, namely Sustainable Development, Biopharmaceutical Science, Sinology and Rule of Law. It aims to promote the interaction and cooperation between cultural and technological research so as to find a 21st century path to the sustainable development of the world.
This article was first published on 22 June 2020 in NUS News at https://news.nus.edu.sg/highlights/eminent-nus-historian-professor-wang-gungwu-receives-prestigious-tang-prize.
𝗡𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗧𝗦𝗛 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world and forced us to reexamine, reengineer and innovate the way we work and live. Its impact probably most pronounced in healthcare and among medical professionals. To catalyse discussion and advance research on how medical social workers can continue to enhance their delivery of care to patients at this time, the Next Age Institute and Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) are running “At the Coalface of COVID-19, a Webinar Series for Medical Social Workers”.
With sessions on 20 June, 4 July, 18 July and 1 August, Associate Professor Corinne Ghoh of NUS Social Work and also NAI’s Steering Committee, will be delivering the Opening and Closing addresses of the webinar series. The lineup of speakers features representatives from Lee Ah Mooi Old Age Home, Singapore Muslim Women’s Association (PPIS), Institute of Mental Health Singapore, MSF Singapore, National Cancer Centre, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, Changi General Hospital, National University Health System, Singapore General Hospital, National Healthcare Group Polyclinics and Tan Tock Seng Hospital. Scan the QR code in the image above or visit https://bit.ly/NAI_COVID19Seminars to register.
FASS Inspiring Mentor 2019 Award Winners Announced
FASS Inspiring Mentor Award 2019 Winners Announced
Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 FASS Inspiring Mentor Awards.
- Professor Vineeta Sinha, Department of Sociology
- Associate Professor Loy Hui Chieh, Department of Philosophy
- Associate Professor Robin Loon, Department of English Language and Literature
- Ms Loo Bee Bee, Associate Director, Department of Psychology
Launched in 2018, the annual FASS Inspiring Mentor Awards are conferred on Faculty and Administrative staff who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to mentoring their junior colleagues and whose mentorship has been especially impactful on the good conduct, performance and professional growth of their mentees.
“Mentorship is a crucial factor in retaining and nurturing quality faculty and administrative staff, and in building up a strong and cohesive institutional culture. The role that such inspiring mentors play in this, is greatly appreciated,” said Professor Robbie B.H. Goh, Dean, FASS, in his announcement of the winners.
“There were a number of worthy nominees. Evidence showed that the nominees did not simply do the things which might be considered ‘in the course of duty’ but went above and beyond that, and really sacrificed their own time and energy for the sake of their mentees,” added Professor Goh. “I hope that we will all try to do our part as mentors, and build up an institutional culture that we can all be proud of.”
The winners of the inaugural FASS Inspiring Mentor Awards were: Associate Professor Serene Tan (Economics); Associate Professor Chris McMorran (Japanese Studies); and Associate Professor Stephen Lim (Psychology).