Don’t miss this talk by Kevin Chew, a PhD candidate in Film and Screen Studies as a Gates scholar at the University of Cambridge. Find out how you can also benefit from the range of scholarships offered by the Gates Trust for your postgraduate studies.
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Join us for this special Alumni-Student Networking Evening with your FASS seniors as they share their SCHOOL TO WORKPLACE TRANSITION journeys.
Register here!
Registration deadline: 3 Mar 2017, Friday
FASS Bookshare is back for 2017! Check out the Bookshare catalogue here and reserve your seats here.
Programme
11:45am-12pm: Registration and Refreshments
12-12:05pm: Lionel Wee introduces the authors and books
12:05-12:20: Khairudin Aljunied presents Muslim Cosmopolitanism: Southeast Asian Islam in Comparative Perspective
12:20-12:35: Tim Bunnell presents From World City to the World in One City: Liverpool Through Malay Lives
12:35-12:50: Jamie Gillen presents Entrepreneurialism and Tourism in Contemporary Vietnam
12:50-1:05: Q & A session
1:05: Light Bites
On 2 December 2016, the Department of Chinese Studies, FASS, NUS, celebrated the opening of the Wan Boo Sow Centre for Chinese Culture. The Centre was set up to actively promote in-depth cultural research by both local and overseas scholars, and to raise research efforts and output in Chinese culture to a higher level in order for NUS to establish itself as a leading institution in the field in Asia and beyond. Through visiting fellowships, it seeks to attract renowned scholars to Singapore to conduct interdisciplinary research with academics both in and outside the Department of Chinese Studies.
In his speech during the opening ceremony, Guest-of-Honour, Mr Sam Tan, Minister of State, Prime Minister’s Office & Ministry of Manpower, said he hopes that the setting up of this new research centre for Chinese culture will strengthen the bilateral cooperation between Singapore and other countries, in addition to encouraging exchanges between academics and non-academics. He added that NUS’ facilities, and bilingual and bicultural advantage will enable it to become an international centre for Chinese cultural studies.
The Centre is named in honour of the late Mr Wan Boo Sow (1918-1992), a pharmacist in the 20th century. Born and bred in Singapore, Mr Wan obtained a Diploma in Pharmacy from the then-King Edward VII College of Medicine, before starting his own pharmacy along High Street. Mr Wan recognised the importance of education and his children—upholding their late father’s view—contributed generously to the set-up of this Centre.
To mark its official opening, the Centre organised an inaugural conference on the 2 and 3 December 2016. The conference had six panels reflecting the current research focus of the six research clusters in the Department of Chinese Studies. Professor Benjamin Elman of Princeton University and Professor Ge Zhaoguang of Fudan University were the keynote speakers for the conference. More than 20 preeminent scholars from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Peking University, Xiamen University, University of London, University of Manitoba etc., presented their research outcomes in the field of Chinese history, literature, culture and linguistics.
On 5 November 2016, the Department of Japanese Studies and the Japanese Studies Alumni Group organised a dinner party at the NUSS Suntec City Guild House to celebrate the Department’s 35th anniversary. More than 60 former and present staff, alumni members and guests attended the special event. Participants were treated to an awesome night of good food, exciting games, and attractive prizes.
For more photos, visit the Department’s Facebook page!
The Faculty would like to congratulate all the award recipients for their outstanding academic achievements in the past academic year!
Click here to view the photos taken at the FASS Awards Ceremony on Saturday, 20 August 2016.
Authors from the NUS Department of Philosophy will be speaking about their recent books on April 7th, Thursday at 1-2pm in the RD Seminar Room, AS7. Read more at the link below.
FASS Bookshare is coming soon! On March 28, Professor Jonathan Rigg (Geography) will be speaking about Challenging Southeast Asian Development: The Shadows of Success, Associate Professor John Whalen-Bridge (ELL) will present on his new book, Tibet on Fire: Buddhism, Protest, and the Rhetoric of Self-Immolation, and Assistant Professor Annu Jalais (SAS) will talk about The Bengal Diaspora: Muslim Migrants in Britain, India and Bangladesh.
Be there at 4pm at the Faculty Lounge!
RSVP to fassresearchevents@nus.edu.sg
Additional details and Bookshare catalogue available here.
Date and Time: November 24 (Tuesday), 1-2pm
Venue: FASS Faculty Lounge
This edition of FASS Bookshare features three single-authored books focusing on Asia by political scientists at NUS. The Bookshare Catalogue is available here.
If you would like to attend Bookshare, RSVP with your full name and email, along with the subject line “Bookshare” to fassresearchevents @ nus . edu . sg.
More information about each book and author can be found here.