Speaker: Dr. Amelia Fauzia, Asia Research Institute, NUS Date: Wednesday, 22 November 2017 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: AS8, Level 6, Conference Room (06-46) Synopsis Despite bringing suffering, hardship, human loss and large-scale destruction, disasters that have struck Indonesia during the Post New Order… Continue Reading
Speaker: Teofilo C Daquila (Associate Professor, Department of Southeast Asian Studies) Date: Wednesday, 1 November 2017 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: AS8, Level 6, Conference Room (06-46) Synopsis “Internationalisation at the national/sector/institutional level is the process of integrating an international, intercultural or global dimension… Continue Reading
Speaker: Kate Pocklington (Conservator, NUS Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum) Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2017 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: AS8, Level 6, Conference Room (06-46) Synopsis In the 1820s, William Farquhar’s dog was eaten by a crocodile on the bank of the Rochor… Continue Reading
Speaker: Dr Rita Padawangi (Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute) Date: Wednesday, 5 April 2017 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: AS8, Level 6, Conference Room (06-46) Synopsis Riverine settlements are commonly found in cities of Southeast Asian and has experienced transformation along with urban developments.… Continue Reading
Speaker: Assoc Prof Steve Ferzacca (Visiting Associate Professor, Yale-NUS College) Date: Wednesday, 22 March 2017 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: AS8, Level 6, Conference Room (06-46) Synopsis This talk examines the making of rock music in Singapore by a community of amateur and semi-professional… Continue Reading
Speaker: Dr Hun Kim (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute) Date: Friday, 10 February 2017 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: AS8, Level 6, Conference Room (06-46) Synopsis Buoyed by the reform mandate to commodify what was once collective land, Saigon’s government agencies have partnered with… Continue Reading
Jointly organized by the Malaysia Study Group of Asia Research Institute, Department of Southeast Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, and ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore. Date: Monday, 23 January 2017 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: Asia Research Institute Seminar Room,… Continue Reading