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.
Category: Events
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.
Junior scholar seminar on CCE and ethnic tolerance
Junior Scholar Seminar by Jeremy Siow (Oxford University).
Junior Scholar Seminar on Nantah
Joshua Tan’s presented his research on Nanyang University and American Cold War agendas. Watch the video.
Authoritarian populism, a bloody war, and public scholarship
Watch the video — SOL IGLESIAS and WALID JUMBLATT ABDULLAH talked about the challenges faced by academics engaging with controversial issues in the Philippines and Singapore.
Singapore Politics Webinar
Tuesday 12 December, 8pm Singapore Time, on Zoom As Singapore heads into leadership transition and an increasingly uncertain global environment, what are the key trends and developments in Singapore politics? What are the risks and opportunities the country and its citizens face? AcademiaSG and the Malaysia and Singapore Association of Australia (MASSA) bring together experts […]
AcademiaSG Lecture: Kenneth Paul Tan on looking at Singapore through the lens of ‘tragedy’.
Professor Kenneth Paul Tan suggests that Singapore’s survival needs the cultivation of a tragic imagination – an awareness of how heroic virtues can lead to downfall if one is so consumed by one’s idealised image that one ignores one’s critics. Watch the video.