Repoliticizing the mental health landscape through life writing
In our next Junior Scholar Seminar, Chan Li Shan explains the value of life writing to legitimise lived experience and challenge dominant biomedical frameworks.
Category: Events
Panel discussion: What Singaporeans should expect from the 15th Parliament
The Republic’s 15th Parliament opens on Friday 5 September. Our panelists share their independent perspectives.
Ow Yeong Wai Kit: ‘A.I. can memorise poems, so why should I?’
Monday, 22 September 2025, 8:00 PM SGT, via Zoom In an age of AI and digital devices, why would students bother memorising poems? This seminar will examine a pedagogical intervention in a Singapore neighbourhood secondary school where students practised learning poetry by heart. Findings show how memorisation, framed through Judith Langer’s envisionment-building theory, can enrich […]
GE2025: Our Morning After webinar analyses the PAP’s victory
Both the Peoples Action Party and the Workers Party held their ground. The results give the Lawrence Wong Government little incentive to change.
Rebecca Wai: The Immigration Consensus Revisited – Singapore Studies Webinar
Rebecca Wai, a Ph.D. candidate in political science (University of Michigan – Ann Arbor) examines pro/anti-immigration sentiments.
GE2025 Webinar: Keeping score in an age of push-button politics
Watch the video of our webinar featuring political scientists Walid J. Abdullah and Chong Ja Ian, and former Nominated MP Anthea Ong.
WEBINAR: Fair or Foul? Electoral Democracy and Boundaries in Singapore
View the recording of our webinar featuring constitutional law professor Kevin Tan.
Sarah Alwin on the indie film Shirkers as a critical Singaporean text
Our Junior Scholar Seminar examines how the Shirkers contributes to a cultural and spatial imagining of Singapore.
Huiying Ng on Singapore’s food industry connections
Huiying Ng (Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich) will discuss the Southeast Asian food systems Singapore is intertwined with. What connections could be drawn between locally-rooted practices and regional connections?
Tiffany Chuang on the true meaning of Singapore ghost stories
In a rapidly changing urban environment, how do communities legitimise their claims to the city through various memory projects? This presentation will explore this question through Russell Lee’s True Singapore Ghost Stories, and argues that place- and memory-making efforts are moral projects that involve normative claims to place. The central grievance within these ghost stories […]