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?
Economists LINDA LIM and PANG ENG FONG welcome Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s call for a “major reset” in Singapore’s policies. They argue that the country’s “extensive growth model” is inefficient, inequitable and unsustainable.
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 […]
MOHAMED IMRAN MOHAMED TAIB and NURUL FADIAH JOHARI discuss the deep and distinguished roots of women’s rights in the Islamic tradition. This article is an edited excerpt of their chapter in the book, Why Not? Thinking About Singapore’s Tomorrow, published by World Scientific.
MATILDA GABRIELPILLAI traces the ups and downs of Singapore women’s movement. This article is an edited excerpt of her chapter in the book, Why Not? Thinking About Singapore’s Tomorrow, newly published by World Scientific.
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.
EUSTON QUAH and TAN JUN RUI argue that proper accounting for the value of household production would help the government devise policies more responsive to people’s needs.
WILLIAM GIBSON, author of the first scholarly book-length work on keramat in Singapore, explains the often‑tense relationship between keramat and authority, both secular and religious, from colonial to modern times.
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.
For her report to the Human Rights Council on academic freedom, the Special Rapporteur invited contributions from
