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.
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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 […]
How Art Commandos changed perceptions of performance art in 1980s Singapore
Our Junior Scholar Seminar features Goh Wei Hao, a PhD candidate in King’s College London, on the impact of a month-long experiment in 1988.
Junior Scholar Seminar: Notions of death in 1950s Malay magazines
Cultural historian Pow Jun Kai is our third presenter for 2024. His presentation focuses on the circulation of knowledge about death and its eschatology in Malay print publications of the 1950s.
Let’s explore knowledge production: Join us for our conference, 6-7 May 2024
Academics, artists, activists, journalists and others interested in “Knowledge Praxis” are taking part in our conference on 6-7 May 2024.