Year: 2014

Caucasian bags role as NUS Chinese Studies head

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Monday, 3 November 2014

My Paper

This was a report on the appointment of Professor Kenneth Dean as the first non-Chinese head of the Department of Chinese Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. It reported that Professor Dean plans to introduce courses on Chinese religions and temples, and take students to temples so that they can better understand Singapore’s unique Chinese temple culture. On being the first Caucasian to head the department, he said: “Chinese studies has become a more international field. Many foreigners have had big achievements in the past, so it’s a field that’s not limited by boundaries.”

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Appreciate the beauty of Malay literary writing at annual Writers’ Festival (Page 16)

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Saturday, 1 November 2014

Berita Harian

This was a report on this year’s Singapore Writers’ Festival, which will be held at SMU. Among the special activities held at the event is the Malay Literature Conference, organised by the Department of Malay Studies at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, which will feature two papers presented by researchers of Malay literature.

NUS economics don: Sharp rise in property prices will exacerbate income disparity (Page 15)

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Saturday, 1 November 2014

Lianhe Zaobao

This was a report on the Singapore Economic Policy Forum, which was organised by the Department of Economics at NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Economic Society of Singapore. Associate Professor Tilak Abeysinghe, who is from the NUS Department of Economics, spoke on housing prices and income inequality. He noted that when property prices soar, the income of those buying property to stay flows to property developers, owners of apartments for rental and the financial sector. This form of income redistribution widens income disparity in the society.

NUS Teaches Chinese Communication Creatively through “Kungfu Hustle”

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Friday, 24 October 2014

Lianhe Wanbao

This was a report on the creative use of film on the module “Bridging East and West: Exploring Chinese Communication” offered by the NUS Department of Chinese Studies from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. This is an exciting module, one of its kind that is designed for students who feel that they are weak in Chinese but would like to learn more about how Chinese is applied in the various fields of Chinese communication. The module facilitator Assoc Prof Lee Cher Leng says that students will benefit in the workplace if they are able to code-switch effectively between East-West cultures. The report highlights the creative use of film (“Kungfu Hustle”) in the module to teach the basics of Peking opera, the discussion of the origins of the students’ names through interviewing their grandparents, as well as effective Chinese business communication.

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Congratulations to FASS Geography’s Rachel Oh on her Oral Presentation Award!

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Rachel Oh (FASS Geography, MA student) competed against almost 100 other presenters and won the Best Oral Presentation Award for her talk during the recent 3rd International Symposium on Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Antalya, Turkey.

Her presentation was based on her ongoing Master’s research project, “Restoring abandoned shrimp ponds to mangrove forests: a potential method for sustainable coastal management”. Her achievement also reflects very positively on the highly active mangrove research group (the Mangrove Lab) in TEC/the Geography Department.

Read more about the Mangrove Lab here: http://www.themangrovelab.com/

Photo Credit: NUS Geography Facebook Page

 

LSE-NUS Lecture Series: Prof Brian Farrell speaks at LSE in October 2014

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Cross-Border Cross Referencing: sorting out Indonesian confrontation in the field

On 8 October 2014 in the Alumni Theatre of the New Academic Building at the London School of Economics, Professor Brian Farrell gave a talk titled “Cross-Border Cross Referencing: sorting out Indonesian confrontation in the field”. Chaired by Dr Kirsten Schulze, the talk is viewable on the LSE YouTube channel here. Additionally, slides, audio, and video can be downloaded here.

Abstract: Indonesia ‘confronted’ the establishment of Malaysia in 1963 by waging an undeclared war, which included armed incursions across recognized international frontiers. The lecture will discuss the work of a military historian in the field and explore the role and perspectives of the local populations during this cross-border conflict.

About the Speaker: Brian Farrell is professor of military history and currently head of the Department of History at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore. His main areas of research interest are the military history of the British Empire, especially in the 20th century; the modern history of empires and imperialism, especially in Asia; the history of Western military power in Asia; and problems related to collective security and coalition warfare. He is currently acting as principal investigator on the major research project Empire in Asia: A New Global History, and serving as Asia-Pacific regional coordinator for the Society for Military History, the largest such professional organization in the world.

Congratulations to Prof Wang Gungwu!

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This year’s Economics and Social Science Prize (Asia Cosmopolitan Awards 2014) goes to Professor Wang Gungwu. The biennial Asia Cosmopolitan Awards, launched by the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) “aims to recognise on a biennial basis individuals or organizations that have made substantial and significant contributions to the development of a peaceful and stable East Asian Community, to narrow the developmental gaps in the region, as well as to establish the sustainable social growth towards economic and cultural integration within East Asia.” The awarding ceremony will be held on 21 December 2014 in Nara, Japan, at Noh Theatre.

Our heartiest congratulations on your achievement Prof Wang!

Congratulations to Our Alumni, 2014 Cultural Medallion Recipients Alvin Tan and Chong Fah Cheong!

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(Credit: National Arts Council)

Our heartiest congratulations to our alumni, Mr Alvin Tan and Mr Chong Fah Cheong! They were conferred the Cultural Medallion by President Tony Tan on 17 October 2014, for their contributions to the local arts and culture scene. Mr Tan is a prominent theatre director while Mr Chong is an accomplished sculptor.