28 Sep 2020, 7.30pm | Livestreamed on the National Museum’s Facebook page Presented in conjunction with the 75th anniversary of the Japanese surrender during World War Two, Dr Hamzah Muzaini will share about the evolving ways in which the global conflict… Continue Reading
Associate Professor Douglas Kammen has been appointed as Dean’s Chair in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2023. The Dean’s Chair appointment is in recognition of Assoc Prof Kammen’s outstanding and impactful… Continue Reading
Prof John Miksic was conferred the Emeritus Professorship by Provost Prof Ho Teck Hua on 4 October 2019. The award of Emeritus Professorship is conferred to full professors on retirement in recognition of their sustained contributions in to teaching, research… Continue Reading
Douglas Kammen and Jonathan Chen, Cina Timor: Baba, Hakka, and Cantonese in the Making of Timor-Leste, New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 2019 Although they were a tiny minority in the most backward of European colonies, the ethnic Chinese… Continue Reading
Sasges, Gerard and Ng Shi Wen (eds.), Hard at Work: Life in Singapore, Singapore: NUS Press, 2019 For most of us, work is a basic daily fact of life. But that simple fact encompasses an incredibly wide range of experiences. Hard at… Continue Reading
By NUS Office of Corporate Relations, Friday 21 June 2019 for NUS News Professor John Miksic’s love of archaeology began as a small boy. Growing up on a farm in the United States, his grandfather would often find arrowheads from… Continue Reading
Mrazek, Jan, Wayang and Its Doubles: Javanese Puppet Theatre, Television and the Internet, Singapore: NUS Press, 2019 Much has been said about how Javanese puppet theatre, wayang kulit, richly reflects the Javanese world, and how changes and tensions in performance practice… Continue Reading
Kammen, Douglas, Independent Timor-Lest Between Coercion and Consent, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019. This Element explores the primary modes by which rulers have exercised power and shaped political relations in Timor-Leste across four distinct periods. The contrast between coercion under… Continue Reading
Prof John N Miksic was recently featured in the NUS Centre For the Arts 25th Anniversary Commemorative Publication. Check it out here. “The NUS Museum makes it possible for me to add a whole new dimension to my teaching. The… Continue Reading
Congratulations to Dr Oona Paredes on being awarded the FASS Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (FTEA) 2018 for her work in AY2017/2018. Well done Dr Oona!