2008 Seminars 

Topic Competition to Default? Racial Discrimination and Inefficient Competition in the Market for Online Peer-to-Peer Lending
Speaker Mr. Walter Edgar Theseira
PhD Candidate, The Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania
M.A. in International Relations,
University of Chicago
Date 19 December 2008, Friday
Time 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Venue Executive Seminar Room 4 (S3.1-B1-06)
Nanyang Business School
NTU
Registration Evelyn (eveyeo@ntu.edu.sg; 6513-8138)

Topic Joint Exhibition on the History of Chinese-Medium Schools
Speaker Lee Guan Kin, Yow Cheun Hoe. Quah Sy Ren as Chair
Date 30 Nov 2008, Sunday
Venue 华侨中学
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Topic 清代女性道德权威与论辩策略
Valorization as Rhetoric:  Women’s Moral Authority in the Qing “Querelles des Femmes”
Speaker 杨彬彬  Yang Binbin
中国社会科学院文学研究所助理研究员
Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Date 14 November 2008, Friday ; 2008年11月14日（星期五)
Time 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm ; 下午2点至3点30分
Venue 南大中华语言文化中心会议室CCLC Conference Room
Registration Mrs Tan Bee Lian (CLBLTAN@ntu.edu.sg; 67906121)

Topic Co-movement, Correlation and Volatility Spillover: Evidence From Asian Markets
Speaker Dr Gamini Premaratne
Department of Economics
National University of Singapore
Date Postponed
Time 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Venue Executive Seminar Room 4 (S3.1-B1-06)
Nanyang Business School
NTU
Registration Christina (achristina@ntu.edu.sg; 6790-5689)

Topic Politics of Urban Space in Indonesia After Reformasi
Speaker Dr. Rita Padawangi
Date 7 November 2008, Friday
Time 14.00 - 16.00
Venue HSS Conference Room (S3.2-B2-42)

Topic Toward More Active Management of Developing Asia's Foreign Exchange Reserves
Speaker Dr Donghyun Park
Senior Economist
Economics and Research Department
Asian Development Bank
Date 4 November 2008, Tuesday
Time 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Venue Executive Seminar Room 5 (S3.1-B1-07)
Nanyang Business School
NTU
Registration Christina (achristina@ntu.edu.sg; 6790-5689)

Topic On Choice of Technique and Development Planning: Optimal and Stiglitz Policies in the RSS Model
Speaker Professor Ali Khan
Abram Hutzler Professor of Economics
The Johns Hopkins University
Goh Keng Swee Visiting Professor
National University of Singapore
Date 31 October 2008, Friday
Time 3.30 pm - 5.00 pm
Venue Executive Seminar Room 7 (S3.1-B1-11)
Nanyang Business School
Registration Christina (achristina@ntu.edu.sg; 6790-5689)

Topic The digital image as picture and data
Speaker Asst Prof Catelijne Coopmans, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore
Date 31 October 2008, Friday
Time 14.00-16.00
Venue HSS Conference Room (S3.2-B2-42)

Topic Private Pensions, Retirement Wealth and Lifetime Earnings
Speaker Dr Zhou Jie
Assistant Professor of Economics
Division of Economics
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Date 24 October 2008, Friday
Time 3.30 pm - 5.00 pm
Venue Executive Seminar Room 7 (S3.1-B1-11)
Nanyang Business School
Registration Christina (achristina@ntu.edu.sg; 6790-5689)

Topic Visual-spatial Ability in Parkinson’s Disease
Speaker Dr Gregory Crucian, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology, College of Science, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Date 28 October 2008, Tuesday
Time 11:30am – 12:45pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 7 (S3.2-B3-07)

Topic WHEN THE SUN RISES:   A TORAJA PRIEST OF THE ANCESTRAL WAY (Video Screening)
Speaker Assoc Prof. Roxana Waterson, Department of Sociology, National  University of Singapore
Date 21 October 2008, Tuesday
Time 17.00 - 18.30
Venue SPMS (School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences) Lecture Theatre 3

Topic 《淮南子》高诱音注的音系分析
A Phonological Analysis on the Sound Glosses in Gao You's Huai-Nan-Zi Commentary Notes
Speaker 邱克威  Khoo Kiak Uei
北京大学中文系汉语史博士研究生
PhD candidate, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University
Date 17 October 2008, Friday
Time 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Venue 南大中华语言文化中心会议室CCLC Conference Room
Registration 有兴趣者，请向陈美莲女士报名, Mrs Tan Bee Lian (CLBLTAN@ntu.edu.sg; 67906121)

Topic The Transformational Recession under a Resources Mobility Constraint
Speaker Dr John Lane
Senior Fellow
Division of Economics
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Date 17 October 2008, Friday
Time 3.30 pm - 5.00 pm
Venue Executive Seminar Room 7 (S3.1-B1-11)
Nanyang Business School
Registration Christina (achristina@ntu.edu.sg; 6790-5689)

Topic Is the measurement of subjective well-being valid in Asia?
Speaker Dr Christie Kaye Scollon, Ph.D.
Singapore Management University
Date 7 October 2008, Tuesday
Time 11:30am – 12:45pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 8 (S3.2-B3-08)

Topic "Protest and Repression in South Korea (1970-1979): the Dialectics of Movement Emergence and Evolution"
Speaker Assistant Prof Paul CHANG, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University
Date 3 October 2008, Friday
Time 16.00 - 17.30
Venue HSS Conference Room (S3.2-B2-42)

Topic Full and Federal Integration of Nations
Speaker Dr Ernie Teo
Assistant Professor of Economics
Division of Economics
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Date 3 October 2008, Friday
Time 3.30 pm - 5.00 pm
Venue Executive Seminar Room 7 (S3.1-B1-11)
Nanyang Business School
Registration Christina (achristina@ntu.edu.sg; 6790-5689)

Topic Development Policy, Poverty and Fundamentalism 
Speaker Dr Nadeem Ul Haque
Division Chief
Asian Region IMF Institute
Date 19 Sep 2008, Friday
Time 3.30 pm - 5.00 pm
Venue Executive Seminar Room 7 (S3.1-B1-11)
Nanyang Business School
Registration Christina (achristina@ntu.edu.sg; 6790-5689)

Topic Testing Applicability of Eye-tracking Technology as a Useful Method for Translation Studies
Speaker Mr Chieh-ying Chang
Imperial College
Date 8 Sep 2008, Monday
Time 2pm - 3.30pm
Venue Conference Room, CCLC, NTU

Topic Pictorial Biography: Initial Exploration and Inspection
Speaker Mr Ho Yi Kai
Nanjing University
Date 5 Sep 2008, Friday
Time 2pm - 3.30pm
Venue Centre for Chinese Language & Culture, Conference Room
Registration Mrs Tan Bee Lian (CLBLTAN@ntu.edu.sg; 67906121)

Topic Consumption Tradeoff vs. Catastrophes Avoidance: Implications of some Recent Results in Happiness Studies on the Economics of Climate Change  
Speaker Professor Yew-Kwang Ng
Visiting Professor, Division of Economics
Nanyang Technological University
Monash University, Australia
Date 29 Aug 2008, Friday
Time 3.30 pm - 5.00 pm
Venue Executive Seminar Room 2 (S3.1-B1-02/03)
Nanyang Business School
Registration Christina (achristina@ntu.edu.sg; 6790-5689)

Topic The "Broadway" as the Superior "Other": Situating South Korean Transnational Theatre in the Era of Globalization
Speaker Dr Hyunjung Lee from
Yonsei University, Seoul
Date 19 Aug 08
Time 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 8 (S3.2-B3-08)

Topic Non-Economic Engagement and International Exchange: The Case of Environmental Treaties  
Speaker Professor Andrew K. Rose
Professor of International Trade and Economic Analysis and Policy,
Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley
Date 15 Aug 2008, Friday
Time 3.30 pm - 5.00 pm
Venue Executive Seminar Room 7 (S3.1-B1-11)
Nanyang Business School
Registration Christina (achristina@ntu.edu.sg; 6790-5689)

Topic Reflective Practice for Educators
Speaker Prof Thomas S.C. Farrell
Professor of Applied Linguistics
Brock University, Canada
Date 7 August 2008
Time 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 8 (S3.2-B3-08)

Topic What is kiw-ling (killing) about OT ah?
Speaker Dr. Lian Hee Wee
Baptist University, Hong Kong
Date 7 August 2008
Time 10.00 am – 11.30 am
Venue HSS Seminar Room 8 (S3.2-B3-08)
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Topic Sovereign Risk and Symmetry Breaking through Bond Market Integration
Speaker Professor Volker Böhm
Professor of Economics
Bielefeld University
Date 6 August 2008, Wednesday
Time 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Venue Executive Seminar Room 5 (S3.1-B1-07)
Nanyang Business School
Registration Christina (achristina@ntu.edu.sg; 6790-5689)

Topic New Stochastic Dominance and Mean-Variance Theory and its Applications in Finance and Economics
Speaker Professor Wong Wing-Keung
Department of Economics
Hong Kong Baptist University
Date 23 Jul 2008, Wednesday
Time 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Venue Executive Seminar Room 5 (S3.1-B1-07)
Nanyang Business School
Registration Christina (achristina@ntu.edu.sg; 6790-5689)

Topic Painting, Drama and the Actress: "Put Down Your Whip" painted by Xu Beihong
Speaker Associate Professor I Lo-fen
Divison of Chinese, Nanyang Technological University
Date 4 Jul 2008, Friday
Time 7.30pm
Venue Singapore Arts Museum
Registration Mrs Tan Bee Lian (CLBLTAN@ntu.edu.sg; 67906121)

Topic Imagination and Perception of New Movements: A Common Coding Approach
Speaker Dr Sanjay Chandrasekharan, Ph.D.
Department of Kinesiology and Hotchkiss Brain Institute,
University of Calgary, Canada
Date 27 May 2008, Tuesday
Time 11:30am - 12.45pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 5 (S3.2-B3-05)

Topic Mental Health in Primary Care Settings: Enhancing Treatment Delivery to Chinese Immigrants
Speaker Dr Wendy J. Y. Cheng, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
Department of Educational Psychology, California State University
Date 26 May 2008, Monday
Time 11:30am - 12.45pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 5 (S3.2-B3-05)


Topic Neo-Confucianism in History
Speaker Professor Peter K. Bol
Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations,
Harvard University
Date 16 May 2008, Friday
Time 3pm - 4.30pm
Venue Centre for Chinese Language & Culture, Conference Room
Registration Mrs Tan Bee Lian (CLBLTAN@ntu.edu.sg; 67906121)

Topic Xu Beihong's Paintings: "The Foolish Old Man Who Removed the Mountains" and "Put down Your Whip"
Speaker Prof I Lo-fen
Associate Professor,
Division of Chinese,
Nanyang Technological University
Date 05 May 2008, Monday
Venue HSS Seminar Room 1

Topic Workshop on the Transferability of Lexical Properties between Two Languages in Bilinguals
Speaker Assistant Professor Helena Gao
Date 17-18 Apr 2008, Friday
Time 10am - 4.30pm
Venue Conference Room of the Division of Chinese (Chinese Heritage Centre)

Topic Facilitating Moral Government - the Political Function of Han Confucian Cosmological Theorizing
Speaker Dr. Douglas Edward Skonicki
National University of Singapore
Date 9 Apr 2008, Wednesday
Time 11.30am - 1pm
Venue Conference Room, CCLC, NTU
Registration Free admission

Topic What did Xiao Jun Really Say in Yan'an?--An investigation into the Chinage of "Lu Xun Tradition" in China
Speaker Dr. Cheung Chiu-yee
The University of Queensland
Date 31 Mar 2008, Monday
Time 3pm - 4.30pm
Venue Conference Room, CCLC, NTU
Registration Free admission

Topic Privatization of China's Health Care: Problems and Implications
Speaker Mr. Tam Waikeung
The  University of Chicago
Date 17 Mar 2008, Monday
Time 3pm - 4.30pm
Venue Conference Room, CCLC, NTU
Registration Free admission

Topic Sino-Japanese trade during the early and Mid Qing period - Was Japan a Tiny-dwarf-country?
Speaker Dr. Angela Schottenhammer
Munich University
Date 3 Mar 2008, Monday
Time 2.30pm - 4pm
Venue Conference Room, CCLC, NTU
Registration Free admission

Topic Emperors' Cemetery: The Sentiment and Writing by the Subjects from the Previous Ming Dynasty
Speaker Professor Chu Hung
Department of History, National Taiwan Normal University
Date 22 Feb 2008, Friday
Time 2.30pm - 4pm
Venue Conference Room, CCLC, NTU
Registration Free admission

Topic  Chinese Masculinities and Semantic Shift of the Term "Tongzhi": A Discussion Starting from "Tongzhi" Stories in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong during the Late 20th Century
Speaker Mr. Hee Wai Siam
Peking University
Date 11 Feb 2008, Monday
Time 4pm - 5.30pm
Venue Conference Room, CCLC, NTU
Registration Free admission

Topic An Analysis of Literature Archives at Graduate Institutes of Translation and Interpretation in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
Speaker Yang Cheng-shu
Director, Fu-Jen Catholic University Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation Studies
Date 24 Jan 2008, Thursday
Time 2.30pm - 4pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 6 (S3.2-B3-06)
Registration Mrs Tan Bee Lian (CLBLTAN@ntu.edu.sg; 67906121)

Topic A Respone to Ancient-style Learning: Qisong's Conception of Political Order 
Speaker Douglas Skonicki
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore
Date 18 Jan 2008, Friday
Time 2.30pm - 4pm
Venue CCLC Conference Room
Registration Mrs Tan Bee Lian (CLBLTAN@ntu.edu.sg; 67906121)

Topic Various topics related to contemporary Chinese literature, ancient Chinese literature and history, translation and linguistics
Speaker Graduate students from NTU and NUS
Date 11-12 Jan 2008, Friday and Saturday
Time 9am - 5pm