Month: August 2013

Announcement on the National Day Award Recipients 2013

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The National Day Awards  recognizes those who have made outstanding contributions in public service or community work in Singapore.  This year, a total of 3,197 individuals in 19 award categories received National Day Honours.

FASS is pleased to announce the following National Day Honours awarded to our FASS colleagues.  Our warmest congratulations to:

The Commendation Medal

Ms Lim May Jiuan, Cheryl Senior Associate Director Dean’s Office

The Efficiency Medal

Ms Kamariah Bte Sumshuddin Management Support Officer Dean’s Office

The Long Service Medal

Mdm Kwong Ai Wah Operations Associate Chinese Studies
Assoc Prof Lee Cheuk Yin Associate Professor Chinese Studies
Mdm Lela Kaur Management Support Officer Centre for Language Studies
Assoc Prof Chin Theng Heng, Anthony Associate Professor Economics
Mdm Hasnah Bte Abdul Hadi Operations Associate English Language & Literature
Prof Patke, Rajeev Shridhar Professor English Language & Literature
Assoc Prof Talib, Ismail Bin Said Associate Professor English Language & Literature
Mrs Chong Mui Gek Management Support Officer Geography
Assoc Prof Huang Swee Lian, Shirlena Associate Professor Geography
Assoc Prof Huang Jianli Associate Professor History
Assoc Prof Lau Khoong Hwa, Albert Associate Professor History
Mdm Lelaytha d/o Chattukutty Nair Management Support Officer History
Assoc Prof Yong Mun Cheong Associate Professor History
Assoc Prof Hussin Mutalib Associate Professor Political Science
Assoc Prof Bilveer Singh Associate Professor Political Science
Assoc Prof Elliott, John Michael Associate Professor Psychology
Mdm Ow Soh Leng Management Support Officer History
Assoc Prof Ho Kong Chong Associate Professor Sociology
Mrs Rajamani Subramaniam Management Support Officer Sociology
Prof Tong Chee Kiong Professor Sociology
Assoc Prof Waterson, Roxana Helen Associate Professor Sociology

NUS Psychology Society 8th Annual General Meeting

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NUS Psychology Society will be holding their 8th Annual General Meeting on 2 September 2013.

You are cordially invited to join them in this special event as part of the NUSPsyche family!

 

Date: 2 September 2013, Monday

Time: 6.30pm – 9.30pm

Venue: FASS LT 14

The agenda of the AGM is as follows:

1. Introduction of the 7th Executive Committee

2. President’s Message

3. Annual Report

4. Financial Report

5. Introduction of Nominees

6. Election of the 8th Executive Committee

Light refreshments will be provided.

Please RSVP by filling in this form via

https://docs.google.com/a/nuspsyche.org/forms/d/1sruAgnA6nsdqM2unow9aBw0ZSpuRZ5cgg53LlekAqr0/viewform

by 31 August 2013,  Saturday.

If you have any queries regarding the AGM or nominations for the 8th Executive Committee, feel free to contact:

Jia Qi- treasurer@nuspsyche.org

Yu Xin- secretary@nuspsyche.org

 

Recruitment for Paid Focus Group Study

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Students are needed for a focus group study in relation to project work experiences.

Each session is approximately 1 hour long. Participants will be reimbursed with $10 for their participation.

There will be sessions conducted in the following timings.

Date and Time :

2 Sept (Monday): 1 – 2 pm / 2 – 3 pm

3 Sept (Tuesday): 1 – 2 pm / 2 – 3 pm

4 Sept (Wednesday): 1 – 2 pm / 2 – 3 pm

5 Sept (Thursday): 1 – 2 pm / 2 – 3 pm

6 Sept (Friday): 1 – 2 pm

There are limited seats per session.

Venue:

COM 1 #02-20, Discussion Room 12 (Next to Undergraduate Office)

Students who are interested, please register at this link: http://54.254.141.232

FASS Forward: Reading Articles & Writing Essays

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If you would like to learn how you can dissect academic readings or pick up tips on crafting your essay assignments, this session is just for you! 

Our very own FASS lecturers (Geography, Psychology, Sociology) together with top-performing Honours-level students will be there to share their personal experiences!

 

Register HERE

 

Upon registration, please be sure to attend the talk or find a replacement if you are unable to make it. 

 

If you have any queries, please contact Ms Lim Peiying at faslp@nus.edu.sg or 6516 7274.

 

Please come with any feedback and questions you might have.

 

Thank you and we look forward to meeting you soon.

 

 

 

NUS Blood Donation Drive 2013

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Calling out to ALL NUS students & staff!!!

Do you wish to give back to society? Do you want to save a lives? Here’s how you can do it!

NUS Red Cross Youth Chapter and Hindu Society proudly bring the bi-annual NUS Blood Donation Drive. This year, in conjunction with our blood drive, we will be partnering the Bone Marrow Donor Programme to hold a concurrent bone marrow donor recruitment drive. Please do mark your calenders and come down with your friends to support our cause!!! Every drop goes a long way to saving lives!!!!!

Venue: YIH Student Lounge, Lvl 4

Date: 3rd – 6th September 2013

Time: 12 – 6pm

Please bring along your NRIC/Donation Card/Passport/Student Pass for registration.

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/539019596154684/

‘Forefront Asia’ puts Southeast Asia and NUS at the forefront of Asian Studies

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Between August 14-16, FASS was delighted to present Forefront Asia: the Signature Series, an annual meeting for expert dialogues on Asia. Each forum in the annual series consists of focused workshops on topics of critical interest, as well as talks designed for a wider audience of scholars, graduate students and interested members of the public. The first workshop in FASS’s Forefront Asia Signature Series, “The Study of Southeast Asia Today: A Dialogue at NUS”, showcased the latest scholarship on Southeast Asia while creating a forum for dialogue and interaction among FASS colleagues working on this region, together with Southeast Asianists from the region and beyond.

Participants from NUS, the region and beyond

The first keynote speaker was Professor Anthony Reid (Emeritus Professor at ANU), whose talk on “Three Reasons Southeast Asian History Matters” drew on three unique historical, geographical and political facets of the region. Firstly Southeast Asia is unique due to the relative equality and autonomy of its women, especially in production and commerce in the period preceding 19th century modernisation. Secondly Southeast Asia warrants study due to its tectonics and the global climate impact eruptions and earthquakes have caused in the past and will continue to do so. Thirdly the region is unique in how the nation-state is only a relatively new import and so a deeper study of the region reveals how the concept of nation-state need not be the narrative core of a place’s history.

Professor Tony Reid

 

Following several paper presentations, Professor Jonathan Rigg (Durham University/NUS), the second keynote speaker presented his paper titled “Chasing after the wind: A cautionary tale of Southeast Asian success”, which addressed how the very success of the region’s economies has, however, bred new challenges and fresh tensions. These challenges, problems and tensions range from seemingly intractable pockets of poverty, to failures of government and governance, questions over the future sustainability of growth, new issues connected with emerging social maladies, environmental degradation and what some commentators perceived to be a declining quality of life.

On day two, Professor Abidin Kusno (University of British Columbia), the third keynote speaker,  gave his talk on “City of the Dammed” about flooding, or ‘banjir’ in Jakarta.  The talk touched on city planning and architecture while addressing  questions such as consciousness of time, space and politics, environmental justice, flood management, representation, climate change and North-South debates.

In between the other papers of the second day, the Dean was also delighted to officially launch the Faculty’s new PhD in Comparative Asian Studies.

The Dean,Professor Brenda Yeoh prepares to strike the gong while Professor Prasenjit Duara, A/P Maitrii Aung-Thwin, Professor Robbie Goh, A/P SHirlena Huang, A/P Vineeta Sinha, A/P Hendrik Meyer-Ohle and A/P Noor Aisha Abdul Rahan look on.

The third day of the conference concluded with a roundtable for Journal Editors who represented most of the top journals that cover Southeast Asian and the region.

Launch of the FASS Comparative Asian Studies PhD Programme

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Professor Brenda Yeoh, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, officially launched the Comparative Asian Studies (CAS) PhD programme, during the inaugural Forefront Asia conference on 15 August 2013.

The CAS PhD Programme is one of the few in the world to offer a comprehensive, multi-regional training in Asian Studies at the PhD level.  CAS PhD students will have an opportunity to acquire expertise in at least two geographical or cultural areas of Asia and will be expected to attain research level competency in two Asian languages.  The intensive, five-year programme will consist of both coursework and field research, supported by generous research and teaching fellowships.

Successful applicants will benefit from FASS’ established tradition in comparative research and teaching on South, Southeast and East Asia that have been a hallmark of its area-studies and disciplinary departments.  Featuring over 200 scholars whose research focuses on Asia, the FASS is home to eight interdisciplinary research clusters, extensive Asia-focused library resources, special collections, and language programs that contribute to its exceptional position as leader in the field of Asian Studies.

Associate Professor Maitrii Aung-Thwin, CAS Coordinator, noted that the programme’s location in Southeast Asia would continue to be an important factor for students and scholars who wanted to pursue Asian Studies from within Asia.

The launch was chaired by Associate Professor Shirlena Huang, FASS Vice Dean of Graduate Studies, who was involved in the formulation stages along with Professor Robbie Goh, FASS Vice Dean of International Relations and Special Duties, and Associate Professor Goh Beng Lan, Head of the Department of Southeast Asian Studies. The event also featured two distinguished scholars of Asia: Professor Bernard Arps, Professor of Indonesian and Javanese Language and Culture at Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), and Professor Prasenjit Duara, NUS Raffles Professor of Humanities and Director of the Asia Research Institute.

Applications for the CAS PhD Programme are open from May till November every year. Interested applicants can find more information at:

Overview and Admissions:

http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/cas/admissions/requirements.html

Academic Requirements:

http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/cas/curriculum/requirements.html

Enquiries can also be sent to seabox4@nus.edu.sg

Nominations of Office Bearers for NUS Psychology Society 8th EXCO

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Dear Undergrads,

It has come to the time when the 7th NUSPsyche Executive Committee will step down and the 8th Executive Committee step up to serve all of you.

From 19 August (Friday) to 26 August 2013 (Monday),1300 hrs, nominations for the 8th ExCo will be open.

If you have someone in mind to nominate, or would like to step up and nominate yourself, please download the nomination form, fill it in, and submit it to the NUS Psychology Society Mailbox, located at Psychology Department AS4 Level 2 (together with the Professors’ mailboxes), anytime during the nomination period. Please note that the link to download the nomination forms will only be released during the nomination period. The link will be released via our website, mailing list and facebook page.

Some positions that you can consider are as follows:
President
Vice-President
Honorary General Secretary
Assistant Honorary General Secretary
Honorary Treasurer

Directors (Proposed):
Academic Director
Welfare Director
Director of (Choice)

All nominations will require a seconder (preferably from the 7th Executive Committee) and to be submitted in hardcopy to our Psychology Mailbox together with a digital photo online. Details of submission can be found on the nomination forms itself.

If you have the passion to serve and to lead, join us now!

If you have any queries regarding the nominations for the 8th Executive Committee, feel free to contact:
Yu Xin 98583043  secretary@nuspsyche.org