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2025-11-17 Lee Guan Kin

Founding director of NTU Chinese and the Centre for Chinese Language and Culture, Dr. Lee Guan Kin, Publishes Academic Imprint on Collected Works

Published on 17 Nov 2025
2025-11-03 Expert Voice Luke Lu

SoH Expert Voice: Asst. Prof. Luke Lu Discusses the Use and Misuse of Singlish in Societal Issues

Published on 03 Nov 2025

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Env Hum - 2025-11-24
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Agrarian Aspirations Among Ageing Farmers: An Ethnographic Inquiry of Fruit Gardening in Rural Chiang Mai, Thailand

24 Nov 2025 04.30 PM - 06.00 PM SHHK Conference Room (05-57)
Env Hum - 2025-11-20
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A Water History of Hong Kong

20 Nov 2025 04.30 PM - 06.00 PM Lee Foundation Lecture Theatre (WKWSCI, Level 1)
Med Hum - 2025-11-11
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Ontology, Medicine, and Sociopolitical Practices: An Ontological Anthropology of Medicine

11 Nov 2025 02.30 PM - 04.00 PM
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The making of a perfective marker: The case of təʔ⁴ in the Huai’an dialect of Lower Yangtze Mandarin

24 Oct 2025 03.00 PM - 05.00 PM SHHK Conference Room (05-57)
Hishikaa Moronobu. Procession of a Daimyo. Art Institute of Chicago. Public Domain.
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Christianity, Translation and War

16 Oct 2025 10.00 AM - 12.00 PM
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History Book Talk - Connected Cartographies: World Geography and the Sino-Western Translation of Knowledge, 1580-1842, Cambridge University Press, 2025

09 Oct 2025 04.30 PM - 06.00 PM SHHK Conference Room (05-57)
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If You’re Happy, Clap Your Hands!

09 Oct 2025 01.30 PM - 03.00 PM SHHK Meeting Room 3 (03-94)
2025-10-07 Gastrospaces Launch Panel
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Book Launch Panel Discussion: Gastrospaces - A Philosophical Study of Where We Eat (Routledge 2025)

07 Oct 2025 03.30 PM - 05.00 PM SHHK Conference Room (05-57)
LMS - 2025-10-07
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The issue of metaphorical universality

07 Oct 2025 03.30 PM - 05.30 PM Hive TR+47
Philosophy - 2025-09-25
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Measuring Effectiveness to Inform Decision-Makers

26 Sep 2025 01.30 PM - 03.00 PM SHHK Meeting Room 5 (04-94)
Medical Humanities - 2025-09-23
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Spatial Perception and Situational Awareness as Transcendental Design Paradigms (or how to get out of your head)

23 Sep 2025 11.30 AM - 01.00 PM South Spine, Seminar Room 4 (S4-SR9)
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Clinical nudging as informing

18 Sep 2025 01.30 PM - 03.00 PM SHHK Meeting Room 2 (03-93)
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An Exploration of ‘kan’ in Singaporean Colloquial Malay

12 Sep 2025 03.00 PM - 05.00 PM SHHK Conference Room (05-57)
Philosophy - 2025-09-11
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Grief Utterances

11 Sep 2025 01.30 PM - 03.00 PM SHHK Meeting Room 1 (03-65)
Chinese - 2025-09-11
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Global China's Dark Side? Challenging Racialised Readings of the Online Scam Industry in Southeast Asia

11 Sep 2025 01.00 PM - 02.30 PM SHHK Meeting Room 2 (03-93)
MTI - 2025-09-09
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A city and its tongue: the forgotten world of Portuguese-Chinese translators in early modern Macau and beyond

09 Sep 2025 03.30 PM - 05.30 PM Zoom
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Book Talk Imperial Weather: Meteorology, Science, and the Environment in Colonial Malaya (Pittsburgh University Press, 2025).

04 Sep 2025 04.30 PM - 06.00 PM SHHK Conference Room (05-57)
Philosophy - 2025-09-04
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Understanding in the Social Sciences

04 Sep 2025 01.30 PM - 03.00 PM SHHK Meeting Room 6 (04-95)
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HBM Murphy and the early days of psychiatric epidemiology between colonial medicine and sociology (1950s Singapore)

01 Sep 2025 11.00 AM - 12.30 PM SHHK Conference Room (05-57)
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Does Ethnicity Matter? Contesting Perspectives on Phonetic Variation in Singapore English

29 Aug 2025 03.00 PM - 05.00 PM SHHK Meeting Room 3 (03-94)

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