2009 Seminars 

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Topic China as an Engine of Recovery and Growth for Asia
Speaker Dr Donghyun Park
Senior Economist
Asian Development Bank
Date Monday, 16 November 2009
Time 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 6 (HSS-01-04)

Topic Financial Market Globalization And Endogenous Rise And Fall Of Nations
Speaker Asst Prof Tomoo Kikuchi
Department of Economics
National University of Singapore
Date 11 November 2009 (Wednesday)
Time 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 7 (HSS-01-06)

Topic Older Persons in Southeast Asia: An Emerging Asset
Speaker Dr Aris Ananta
Senior Research Fellow
Institute of South-East Asian Studies
Date 4 November 2009 (Wednesday)
Time 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 7 (HSS-01-06)

Topic No Interation of First-and Second-order Signals in the Extraction of Global Motion and Optic Flow
Speaker Dr. Carlos Cassanello 
Australian National University,
Department of Psychology
Date 30 October 2009 (Friday)
Time 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 3 (HSS-B1-10)

Topic Culture and the Concept of Mental Health
Speaker Associate Professor Chang Weining
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Date 29 Oct 2009 (Thursday)
Time 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Venue Lecture Hall, Level 1, Health Promotion Board

Topic ARI SEMINAR SERIES
Pronatalism in Singapore: Educational Attainment and Individual Childbearing Decisions
Speaker Dr Shirley Sun Hsiao-Li
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Date 27 October 2009 (Tuesday)
Time 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Venue ARI Seminar Room, NUS Bukit Timah Campus, Level 10 Tower Block, Bukit Timah Rd

Topic Functional Patterns of Attentive Brains
Speaker Dr. Michelle Liou
Institute of Statistical Science,
Academia Sinica
Date 27 October 2009 (Tuesday)
Time 11:30am – 12:30pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 3 (HSS-B1-10)

Topic 《单眼皮》（SEPET/Chinese Eyes）电影放映会及座谈会：Yasmin Ahmad 电影《单眼皮》的“华族（香港）文化”再现和“一个马来西亚”？
Speaker 座谈会发言人：游俊豪博士、关诗珮博士、许维贤博士，座谈会主持人：魏月萍博士
Date 23 Oct 2009, Friday
Time 12.30-2.15PM（放映电影），2.15PM-3.30PM（座谈会：45分钟嘉宾发言，30分钟公开自由讨论）
Venue HSS Seminar Room 9

Topic Incentivizing R&D: Prize or Subsidies?
Speaker Dr Qiang Fu
Assistant Professor
Department of Business Policy
National University of Singapore
Date Friday 23 October 2009
Time 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 7 (HSS-01-06)

Topic From "Emperor's Subjects" to Absence of the Self: Producing Knowledge of the Second World War in Taiwan, 1943-1953
Speaker Mike Lan Shi-chi, NTU
Date 21 Oct 2009, Wednesday
Time 5.30 pm - 7pm
Venue Meeting Room 2 (HSS-03-83), Level 3, HSS Building, NTU

Topic "They get free pupus over here!": Construction of local identity in Hawai‘i Creole TV advertisements
Speaker Professor Mie Hiramoto
Date 16 October 2009 (Friday)
Time 11:00am - 12:00pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 1 (HSS-B1-08)

Topic An Introductory on the state of the research on the Edition of Jin Yong's Swordsman Fiction
Speaker Wong Hoi Sing, City University of Hong Kong
Date 14 Oct 2009, Wednesday
Time 2pm - 3.30pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 7

Topic A new perspective for considering the formation of the Warring State text "Ziyi"
Speaker Huang Kuan-yun, University of Chicago
Date 13 Oct 2009, Friday
Time 9.30am - 11am
Venue HSS Seminar Room 3

Topic The Impossible Trinity and Krugman’s Balance of Payments Crisis Model
Speaker Professor Partha Sen
Professor of Economics
Director, Delhi School of Economics
Date Wednesday, 7 October 2009
Time 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 7 (HSS-01-06)

Topic The Quantitative Judgement of Literature Classics: with the example of Song Ci
Speaker 王兆鹏，武汉大学文学院
Date 02 Oct 2009, Friday
Time 3pm - 4.30pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 3

Topic State Hegemony and Curriculum Reforms——The Historical Cases of Chinese Schools in Postwar Singapore and Hong Kong
Speaker Ting-Hong Wong, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academic Sinica, Taiwan Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Chinese Language and Culture, NTU
Date 25 Sep 2009, Friday
Time 2.30pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 8

Topic Between Chinese Confucianism and American Democracy: Chinese Worldand the Chinese American Community in the Early Cold War Era
Speaker Guo Xilin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Date 25 Sep 2009, Friday
Time 9.30am - 11am
Venue HSS Seminar Room 3

Topic Phonetic Characteristics of the Apical Sounds in Standard Chinese
Speaker Prof Eric Zee, City University of Hong Kong
Date 15 September 2009 (Tuesday)
Time 10.30am - 12.00pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 3 (HSS-B1-10)

Topic The Cultivation and Cultural Identity of the Ming-Qing Elites
Speaker Wang Hong Ta(王鸿泰），台湾暨南国际大学历史系
Date 4 September 2009 (Friday)
Time 3pm - 4.30pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 3 (HSS-B1-10)

Topic No Stress Lah! A Study of Singaporean English Prosody
Speaker Daryl Chow, University of Ottawa
Date 4 September 2009 (Friday)
Time 3.00pm - 4.00pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 9 (HSS-B1-11)

Topic Beyond Diathesis-Stress :
Differential Susceptibility to Environmental Influences
Speaker Professor Jay Belsky
Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues
Birkbeck University of London
Date 25 August 2009 (Tuesday)
Time 11:30am – 12:30pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 8 (HSS-01-07)

Topic The Artificial Boundary of Humanities and Science: Arguments from Linguistics and Literature
Speaker A/P Wee Lian Hee, Hong Kong Baptist University
Date 24 August 2009 (Monday)
Time 11.30am - 12.30pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 3 (HSS-B1-10)

Topic Vision and Continuity of Structure in Natural Images
Speaker Professor Anthony Hayes,
Ph.D. College of Human Sciences, University College Dublin
Date 20 August 2009 (Thursday)
Time 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 7 (HSS-01-06)

Topic Further Extensions and Suggestions for Sorting Out Choice of Welfare Measure Issues
Speaker Professor Jack Knetsch
Emeritus Professor of Economics and Resource and Environmental Management
Simon Fraser University
Date Wednesday, 19 August 2009
Time 2:30pm – 4.00pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 7 (HSS-01-06)

Topic Visual Spatial Relationship Representation as a Sequence of Attentional Shifts
Speaker Dr. Steve Franconeri
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University
Date 18 August 2009 (Tuesday)
Time 10:30am – 11:30am
Venue HSS Seminar Room 3 (HSS-B1-10)

Topic Aims and Methods of Cultural Neuroscience
Speaker Dr. Joan Y. Chiao
Department of Psychology, Northwestern University
Date 18 August 2009 (Tuesday)
Time 11:30am – 12:30pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 3 (HSS-B1-10)

Topic New Theories on Stochastic Dominance and Mean-Variance Criteria with Applications in Economics and Finance
Speaker Professor Wing-Keung Wong
Department of Economics
Hong Kong Baptist University
Date 14 August 2009 (Friday)
Time 2.30pm - 4.00pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 6 (HSS-01-04)
(HSS Building, Level 1, Room No. 4)
Nanyang Technological University
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332

Topic Automatic Machine Translation Rule Acquisition From Dictionaries and Parallel Corpora
Speaker Eric Nicholas, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Date 13 August 2009 (Thursday)
Time 3:30pm – 5:30pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 3 (HSS-B1-10)

Topic Effects of Acute Ethanol and Allopregnanolone on Spatial Memory in Adolescent and Adult Rats
Speaker Vivien Chin, Ph.D. candidate
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Baylor University
Date 11 August 2009 (Tuesday)
Time 11:30am – 12:30pm
Venue HSS Meeting Room 5 (HSS-04-89)

Topic English: One Language
Speaker Dr Anthea Fraser Gupta,
School of English, University of Leeds
Date 31 July 2009 (Friday)
Time 10:30am – 12:00pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 6 (S3.2-B3-06)

Topic 新加坡医疗保健服务制度
Speaker Mr Yeo Chow Tong
Date July 31 2009 (Friday)
Time 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Venue LT 22, Lee Kong Chian Theatre

Topic 新加坡保健资助体系
Speaker Mr Yeo Chow Tong
Date July 24 2009 (Friday)
Time 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Venue LT 22, Lee Kong Chian Theatre

Topic Conversational Storytelling
Speaker Prof Neal R. Norrick, Saarland University, Germany
Date 21 July 2009 (Tuesday)
Time 2.30pm - 4.00pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 6 (S3.2-B3-06)

Topic 新加坡的党与政
Speaker Mr Chan Soo Sen
Date July 17 2009 (Friday)
Time 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Venue LT 22, Lee Kong Chian Theatre

Topic Different Approaches in Dealing with Financial Crisis in Singapore, China & U.S.
Speaker Prof Ngiam Tong Dow
Date June 24 2009 (Wednesday)
Time 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Venue LT 22, Lee Kong Chian Theatre

Topic The 9th conference of Science Council of Asia (SCA) Special Session: Popular Culture in Asia
Speaker 藤井省三，金良守，刘文兵，关诗珮
Date 18 Jun 2009, Thursday
Time 第一节：上午9点-12点 第二节：下午2点-6点30分
Venue Oriole meeting room, 4/F/ Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore

Topic An introduction to corpus-based translations studies
Speaker Ji Meng, Imperial College London
Date June 17 2009 (Wednesday)
Time 9.30am - 11am
Venue CCLC Conference Room

Topic The Role of Ministry of Finance
Speaker Prof Ngiam Tong Dow
Date June 17 2009 (Wednesday)
Time 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Venue LT 22, Lee Kong Chian Theatre

Topic
題目：		 娛樂與政治宣傳的空間－－殖民地時期臺灣電影史初探
Traversing the Space of Entertainment and Political Propaganda– A Preliminary Study of the History of Taiwan Movie in the Colonial Period
Speaker
主講者		 三澤真美惠 副教授（日本大學） 訪問學人（南洋理工大學人文及社會科學學院） Associate Prof. Misawa Mamie (Nihon University) Visiting scholar, the School of Humanities of Social Sciences, NTU
Date
時間		 2009年6月16日（星期二）下午 2 點至3點 30 分
16 June 2009 (Tuesday) 2:00 – 3:30pm
Venue 南大中華語言文化中心會議室
CCLC Conference Room

Topic Out of Poverty to Growth in the context of Singapore
Speaker Prof Ngiam Tong Dow
Date June 10 2009 (Wednesday)
Time 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Venue LT 22, Lee Kong Chian Theatre

Topic The Modern Pronunciation of the MC Rising-tone Words of Voiced Initials in Hakka and Gan
Speaker Xiang Mengbing, Peking University
Date 19 May 2009, Tuesday
Time 10am - 11.30am
Venue CCLC Conference Room

Topic Appreciation of Kun Opera – The Peony Pavilion
昆曲艺术面向国际：以青春版《牡丹亭》为例
Speaker Mr Bai Xianyong
著名作家白先勇先生
Date 6 May 2009 (Wednesday)
Time 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Venue LT 22, Lee Kong Chian Theatre
Nanyang Technological University
Registration https://wis.ntu.edu.sg/pls/webexe/REGISTER_NTU.
REGISTER?EVENT_ID=OA09042710152575

Topic 古典诗词创作讲座
Speaker 杨一肩
Date 05 May 2009, Tuesday
Time 2pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 1

Topic Heterogeneity and Metamorphosis: Playing with Meanings in the 100-Chapter Journey to the West
Speaker Liu Chiung-yun Evelyn, Harvard University
Date 05 May 2009, Tuesday
Time 2pm- 3.30pm
Venue CCLC Conference Room

Topic “我和中文系”分享会
Speaker 韩光伟，李慧玲，赖素春，余妙敏，钟竹梅
Date 04 May 2009, Monday
Time 9am - 11am
Venue SPMS LT 4

Topic Ideological Dilemma: Chinese Domestic Politics and Sino-Soviet Split
Speaker Li Mingjiang, Nanyang Technological University
Date 29 April 2009, Wednesday
Time 2pm- 3.30pm
Venue CCLC Conference Room

Topic 市长班与郑永年教授的对话
Speaker 郑永年教授
新加坡国立大学东亚研究所所长
Date 22 April 2009 (Wednesday)
Time 9:30 am - 12:00 noon
Venue Lecture Theatre 3
School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Nanyang Technological University

Topic 从《公案簿》看吧达维亚华人孤贫养济院美惜甘
The Chinese Weeskamer of Batavia: A Study on the Gong An Bu
Speaker 翁频 Weng Pin
新加坡国立大学中文系博士后
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore
Date 2009年4月17日（星期五）
Time 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 讲座以中文进行。有兴趣者，请向陈美莲女士报名 (CLBLTAN@ntu.edu.sg; 67906121)
The seminar will be conducted in mandarin. Please register your name with Mrs Tan Bee Lian (CLBLTAN@ntu.edu.sg; 67906121)

Topic How Genre to be Translated? A Study on Yüwai Xiaoshuo Ji(The Foreign Short Stories Collection)
Speaker Zhang Lihua, Peking University
Date 16 April 2009, Thursday
Time 2pm - 3.30pm
Venue CCLC Conference Room

Topic 新加坡政府结构和人民行动党
Speaker 曾士生教授
新加坡如切区国会议员，人文与社会科学学院客座教授
Date 15 April 2009 (Wednesday)
Time 9:30 am - 12:00 noon
Venue Lecture Theatre 3
School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Nanyang Technological University

Topic Ritual and Politic: The Reformation of the Sacrifice Ceremony in mid-Ming Dynasty
Speaker Hu Jixun, Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Date 14 April 2009, Tuesday
Time 1.30pm - 3pm
Venue CCLC Conference Room

Topic The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education
Speaker Dr Harry Anthony Patrinos
Lead Education Economist
World Bank
Date Thursday, 9 April 2009
Time 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Venue Executive Seminar Room 1 (S3.1-B1-01)
Nanyang Business School
Nanyang Technological University
Registration Christina (achristina@ntu.edu.sg; 6790-5689)

Topic Modernism/Modernity in Philippine Literature
Speaker Prof Maria Luisa Torres Reyes, Ateneo de Manila University
Date 7th April 2009, Tuesday
Time 2.00 pm - 3.00 pm
Venue NBS executive room 11, S3.1-B1-9/10
Registration https://wis.ntu.edu.sg/pls/webexe/REGISTER_NTU.
REGISTER?EVENT_ID=OA09032715304661

Topic Debating Paternalism: Revisiting Abraham's Promise
Speaker Nicky Garsten, London School of Oriental and African Studies
Date 3rd April 2009, Friday
Time 3.30 pm - 4.15 pm
Venue NBS executive room 11, S3.1-B1-9/10
Registration https://wis.ntu.edu.sg/pls/webexe/REGISTER_NTU.
REGISTER?EVENT_ID=OA09033023464775

Topic 关于中国古代散文研究的若干理论问题
Theoretical Issues on the Study of Chinese Ancient Prose
Speaker 谭家健教授 Prof Tan Jiajian
中国社会科学院文学研究所研究员
Researcher, Literature Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Date 2009年3月27日（星期五）
Time 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 讲座以中文进行。有兴趣者，请向陈美莲女士报名 (CLBLTAN@ntu.edu.sg; 67906121)
The seminar will be conducted in mandarin. Please register your name with Mrs Tan Bee Lian (CLBLTAN@ntu.edu.sg; 67906121)

Topic Perspectives in Affective and Cognitive Neuroscience:
How Emotion Colors Our Perception and Cognition
Speaker Ming Lui, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore
Date 26 March 2009, Thursday
Time 12:45pm – 1:45pm
Venue HSS Meeting Room (S3.2-B1-09)
Registration All are welcome

Topic Household Finance and Retirement Wealth Distribution
Speaker Zhou Jie, Ph.D.
Division of Economics
Nanyang Technological University
Date 25 March 2009, Wednesday
Time 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Venue S3 Seminar Room 5 (S3-B3B-41)
Registration Julianna Yik (syyik@ntu.edu.sg)

Topic Moves in Dyadic Task Conflict:
Integrating the Effects of Self Salience and Opponent’s Stance
Speaker Al Kin-Chung Au, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore
Date 24 March 2009, Tuesday
Time 11:30am – 12:30pm
Venue HSS Meeting Room (S3.2-B1-09)
Registration All are welcome

Topic Images of Urban Vagrants in Chinese Cinema since the 1990s
Speaker Chen Tao, Quah Sy Ren as supervisor
Date 20 Mar 2009, Friday
Time 2pm - 3.30pm
Venue CCLC Conference Room

Topic Stock Market, Tobin's Q and Hours Worked in a Model with Investment-Specific Technical Improvements
Speaker Professor Hoon Hian Teck
School of Economics
Singapore Management University
Date 20 March 2009, Friday
Time 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Venue Executive Seminar Room 5 (S3.1-B1-07)
Nanyang Business School
Nanyang Technological University
Registration Christina (achristina@ntu.edu.sg; 6790-5689)

Topic Guilt and Shame and the Workplace
Speaker Olwen Bedford,
Ph.D. Division of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University
Date 19 March 2009, Thursday
Time 12:45pm – 1:45pm
Venue HSS Conference Room (S3.2-B2-42)
Registration All are welcome

Topic Do East-Asians and Westerners Think Alike?
-- Evidence from Perspective-Taking & Probability Judgment
Speaker Shali Wu, Ph.D.
Olin Business School,
Washington University, St. Louis
Date 17 March 2009, Tuesday
Time 11:30am – 12:30pm
Venue HSS Conference Room (S3.2-B2-42)
Registration All are welcome

Topic Confounding effect of communication and transparency of peers' actions in teams
Speaker Assoc Prof Murali Agastya
University of Sydney
Date 13 March 2009, Friday
Time 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Venue Executive Seminar Room 5 (S3.1-B1-07)
Nanyang Business School
Nanyang Technological University
Registration Christina (achristina@ntu.edu.sg; 6790-5689)

Topic "Corporate Budget Allocation – Colonel Blotto goes Corporate” and “Pricing of Multi-Player Online Games – Two-part Pricing and Network Externalities"
Speaker Ernie Teo, Ph.D.
Division of Economics
Nanyang Technological University
Date 12 March 2009 (Thursday)
Time 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Venue Executive Seminar Room 4 (S3.1-B1-06)
Registration Julianna Yik (syyik@ntu.edu.sg)

Topic Exercising Discretion under Risk and Uncertainty: Redundancy, Sensemaking & Accountability as Adaptive Processes
Speaker Dr. Kuo Frank Yu
Haas School of Business,
University of California, Berkeley
Date 12 March 2009 (Thursday)
Time 12:45pm – 1:45pm
Venue Executive Seminar Room 5 (S3.1-B1-07)
Nanyang Business School
Nanyang Technological University
Registration All are welcome

Topic Biological underpinnings of the motivational needs for power and affiliation in humans
Speaker Professor Oliver Schultheiss, Ph.D
Friedrich Alexander University
Date 10 March 2009 (Tuesday)
Time 11:30am – 12:30pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 6 (S3.2-B3-06)
Registration All are welcome

Topic The Theme of "Travel" Revisted: Cultural Transformation of Chinese Literature in the 1940s
Speaker Kong Xinren, Crossland Guo Shuyun
Date 06 Mar 2009, Friday
Time 2pm - 3.30pm
Venue CCLC Conference Room

Topic Adaptation across cortical hierarchy: Low-level curve adaptation affects high-level facial expression judgments
Speaker Dr. Hong Xu, Ph.D.
Columbia University, Department of Neuroscience, New York
Date 5 March 2009, Thursday
Time 12:45pm – 1:45pm
Venue HSS Conference Room (S3.2-B2-42)
Registration All are welcome

Topic Translation and Language Ideology: A Case Study of Multilingual Literary Anthologies in Singapore
Speaker Lee Tong King, The University of Queensland
Date 02 Mar 2009, Monday
Time 9am - 10.30am
Venue CCLC Conference Room

Topic A Structural Estimation for the Effects of Uncertainty on Capital Accumulation with Heterogeneous Firms
Speaker Ms Guiying Wu
PhD candidate
University of Oxford
Date 27 February 2009, Friday
Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Venue HSS-Seminar Room 7 (Blk S3.2-B3-07)
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
Registration Christina (achristina@ntu.edu.sg; 6790-5689)

Topic Testing for Cross-sectional Dependence in Fixed Effects Panel Data Models
Speaker Mr Qu Feng
PhD candidate
Syracuse University
Date 26 February 2009, Thursday
Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Venue HSS-Seminar Room 7 (Blk S3.2-B3-07)
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
Registration Christina (achristina@ntu.edu.sg; 6790-5689)

Topic 新谣：我们的集体记忆和文化遗产
Speaker Liang Wern Fook
Date 20 February 2009, Friday
Time 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue National Museum of Singapore, The Salon Level 1
Registration Rachel @ 6332 3584
rachel_chen@nhb.gov.sg

Topic On the Distribution of Estimated Technical Efficiency in Stochastic Frontier Models
Speaker Mr Wang Wei Siang
PhD candidate
Michigan State University
Date 18 February 2009, Wednesday
Time 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Venue Executive Seminar Room 5 (Blk S3.1-B1-07)
Nanyang Business School
NTU
Registration Christina (achristina@ntu.edu.sg; 6790-5689)

Topic Processing of Syntactic and Anaphoric Gap-Filler Dependencies in Korean: Evidence from ERP, Self-Paced Reading Time, and Eye-Tracking Experiments
Speaker Dr Nayoung Kwong
Harvard University/Wellesley College
USA
Date 13 February 2009, Friday
Time 11:00 am - 12:00 nn
Venue HSS Seminar Room 8 (S3.2-B3-08)

Topic The Origin and Functions of Agentive Case Marking in Ao and Other Languages of Nagaland
Speaker Dr Alexander Coupe
La Trobe University, Australia
Date 13 February 2009, Friday
Time 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Venue HSS Seminar Room 8 (S3.2-B3-08)

Topic Fiscal Decentralization, Endogenous Policies, and Technology Adoption: Theory and Evidence from China and India's FDI
Speaker Mr Yong Wang
PhD Candidate
University of Chicago
Date 10 February 2009, Tuesday
Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Venue Executive Seminar Room 7 (Blk S3.1-B1-11)
Nanyang Business School
NTU
Registration Christina (achristina@ntu.edu.sg; 6790-5689)

Topic Translating What Isn’t There: Some Problems (and Solutions) in Machine Translation
Speaker Dr Francis Charles Bond
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Japan
Date 6 February 2009, Friday
Time 10:30 am - 12:00 nn
Venue HSS Seminar Room 8 (S3.2-B3-08)

Topic Magnet Schools and Student Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment in China
Speaker Mr Zhang Hongliang
PhD candidate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date 3 February 2009, Tuesday
Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Venue Executive Seminar Room 7 (Blk S3.1-B1-11)
Nanyang Business School
NTU
Registration Christina (achristina@ntu.edu.sg; 6790-5689)

Topic Echolocation of Visually Handicapped People
Speaker Dr. Bo N. Schenkman, Ph.D.
Stockholm University and Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Date 3 February 2009, Tuesday
Time 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Venue HSS Seminar Room 6 (S3.2-B3-06)
Registration All are welcome

Topic Modeling Quantile Dependence: Estimating the Correlations of International Stock Returns
Speaker Mr Nicholas C.S. Sim
PhD Candidate
Boston College
Date 29 January 2009, Thursday
Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Venue Executive Seminar Room 7 (Blk S3.1-B1-11)
Nanyang Business School
NTU
Registration Christina (achristina@ntu.edu.sg; 6790-5689)

Topic Talk on Poetry
Speaker Edwin Thumboo
Emeritus Professor
National University of Singapore
Date 21 January 2009, Wednesday
Time 10:30 AM
Venue Lecture Theatre 29
NTU

Topic Decriminalization and Marijuana Smoking Prevalence: Evidence From Australia
Speaker Dr Kannika Damrongplasit
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
UCLA and RAND Corporation
Date 20 January 2009, Tuesday
Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Venue Executive Seminar Room 7 (Blk S3.1-B1-11)
Nanyang Business School
NTU
Registration Christina (achristina@ntu.edu.sg; 6790-5689)

Topic Revolving Doors: Signaling and Reputation
Speaker Dr Seung Han Yoo
Postdoctoral Fellow
National University of Singapore
Date 16 January 2009, Friday
Time 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Venue HSS-Seminar Room 7 (S3.2-B3-07)
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
NTU
Registration Christina (achristina@ntu.edu.sg; 6790-5689)

Topic Opening Connections:
Developing Nodal Praxis, or, New Zealand Poetry and the Thousand Eyed Eel
Speaker Dr Jen Crawford
University of Auckland
Date 14 January 2009, Wednesday
Time 12.30pm
Venue HSS Conference Room (S3.2-B2)

Topic Piracy, Entry Deterrence and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Protection
Speaker Assoc Prof Sougata Poddar
Department of Economics and Finance
Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
Date 14 January 2009, Wednesday
Time 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Venue Executive Seminar Room 7 (Blk S3.1-B1-11)
Nanyang Business School
NTU
Registration Christina (achristina@ntu.edu.sg; 6790-5689)

Topic Ambition and Delay: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s “Turkish Embassy Letters”
Speaker Dr Fiona Murphy
University of California, Berkeley
Date 12 January 2009, Monday
Time 11.30am
Venue HSS Conference Room (S3.2-B2)

Topic Conversion Exercise for M.A. Candidate: Cultural Capital Accumulation and Transfer of Singapore Chinese Businessperson
Speaker Long Jian, Lee Guan Kin, Yow Cheun Hoe as supervisors
Date 9 January 2009, Thursday
Time 2.30pm - 4pm
Venue CCLC Conference Room

Topic Sources of FDI Flows to Developing Asia: The Roles of Distance and Time Zones
Speaker Assoc Prof Ramkishen S. Rajan
School of Public Policy
George Mason University
Date 8 January 2009, Thursday
Time 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Venue Executive Seminar Room 1 (Blk S3.1-B1-01)
Nanyang Business School
NTU
Registration Christina (achristina@ntu.edu.sg; 6790-5689)