Seminar Series

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 →

Speaker: Dr Samson Lim (Assistant Professor in History, Singapore University of Technology and Design Date: Wednesday, 2 November 2016 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: AS8, Level 6, Conference Room (06-46) Synopsis This talk presents a history of the visual culture of policing… Continue Reading →

Speaker: Assoc Prof Jan Mrazek (Department of Southeast Asian Studies, NUS) Date: Wednesday, 5 October 2016 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: AS8, Level 6, Conference Room (06-46) Synopsis The seminar juxtaposes voyages of Czechs to Southeast Asia in colonial times and… Continue Reading →

Speaker: Dr Fiona Williamson (Research Fellow, NUS Asia Research Institute) Date: Wednesday, 14 September 2016 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: AS8, Level 6, Conference Room (06-46) Synopsis This presentation considers the nineteenth century history of flood disasters in colonial Singapore and, to a… Continue Reading →