Rebecca Wai, a Ph.D. candidate in political science (University of Michigan – Ann Arbor) examines pro/anti-immigration sentiments.

Our Junior Scholar Seminar examines how the Shirkers contributes to a cultural and spatial imagining of Singapore.

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?

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 […]

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 by Jeremy Siow (Oxford University).