Category: Transcripts S3

Chris This is Home on the Dot, the podcast about the meaning of home in Singapore, as told through the lives of students from the National University of Singapore. I’m Chris McMorran.  I’ve spent the past two weeks cleaning closets and packing boxes, preparing to move to an apartment half…

Chris When Covid lockdowns began around a year ago, some people joked that homebodies didn’t even notice. While many young people bristled at being stuck at home, it was thought that homebodies were glad to no longer attend class in person or pretend to have fun at parties. In this…

Chris This is Home on the Dot. I’m Chris McMorran. As a professor at the National University of Singapore, I created this podcast to better understand what home means to my students. So my student producers and I have shared stories about objects and spaces associated with home, like paper…

Chris How will you remember 2020? I’ll remember it as the year of staying home. Working from home, teaching from home. No overseas travel. Fewer visits to friends’ homes. Less eating out. More TV, more time rearranging the furniture, and definitely more home cooking. I will also remember 2020 as the…

Chris This is Home on the Dot. I’m Chris McMorran. On 17th December 2020, at the end of this otherwise depressing year, Singapore receives some welcomed news. Singapore’s Hawker Culture was added to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. That’s quite a mouthful. This new…

[Dialing ringtone playing in the background] Samantha Hello! Cameron Hello, how are you? Samantha I’m good, I’m good. Cameron Mmm, how was your evening? Samantha Evening was fine. I had a D&D session just now which was… you know, very eventful. Cameron Mmmm, right right, yes you mean, you are…

Chris This is Home on the Dot. I’m Chris McMorran. My students know that I love visiting people’s homes. I love checking out the spaces that help make people who they are; seeing the traces they leave behind and the connections they have to distant places and people that are…

Chris What will university look like this year? How will universities keep students, staff, and faculty safe amid the ongoing pandemic? And how will they protect or replace the in-person learning, extra-curricular activities, and just hanging out with friends that define the university experience?  Everyone wants to know, but no…

Chris Welcome to Home on the Dot. I’m Chris McMorran. I admit it. I’m obsessed. I’m obsessed with the seismic shift the Covid-19 pandemic is having on higher education. In particular, I’m obsessed with how Covid-19 has transformed what I consider a central element of higher education: leaving home.  For…