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2026-06-30 Expert TYY

Assoc Prof Tan Ying Ying Shares Observations About Dialect Learning Amongst Youths in Singapore Amidst Dear You Public Interest.

Published on 30 Jun 2026
2026-06-30 Expert Luke

Asst Prof Luke Lu Examines the Evolving Role of Chinese Dialects in Singapore’s Multilingual Landscape.

Published on 30 Jun 2026

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LMS - 2025-10-07
Conferences & Seminars

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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Deaf and Disability Activism in Tibet and the Himalayas

29 Aug 2025 01.00 PM - 02.30 PM SHHK Meeting Room 2 (03-93)
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Solving the Problem of Evil with Daoist-Idealist Immortality: Tan Teck Soon and the Oblivion of Straits Chinese Philosophy in Singapore

28 Aug 2025 03.00 PM - 04.30 PM SHHK Conference Room
LMS - 2025-08-18
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Category partitioning as a practical method to daily task accomplishments

18 Aug 2025 10.30 AM - 12.00 PM SHHK Meeting Room 3 (03-94)
English - 2025-08-13
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Empire of Culture: Lolita Fashion in Singapore and Other Post-imperial Incarnations of the Victorian

13 Aug 2025 03.00 PM - 04.30 PM SHHK Meeting Room 2 (03-93)
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Creativity at the edge of chaos: an emergentist generative perspective on contact morphosyntax

04 Aug 2025 01.30 PM - 03.00 PM SHHK Meeting Room 3 (03-94)
WWL Book Launch 3 May 2025
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Book Launch & Panel Discussion - The East Asian Economic "Miracle", Art Exhibitions and Popular Culture, 1979-2008

03 May 2025 02.00 PM - 04.00 PM National Gallery Singapore, Supreme Court Wing, Level 5, Glass Room
History - 2024-05-02
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A New Documentary History of Hong Kong, 1945–1997, edited by Florence Mok and Fung Chi Keung Charles (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2025)

02 May 2025 04.00 PM - 05.00 PM
Philosophy - 2025-04-17
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Yangming’s Philosophy of Heart-Mind and Heart-Nature Management

17 Apr 2025 11.00 AM - 12.30 PM SHHK Meeting Room 5 (04-94)

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Centre for Chinese Language and Culture

Research excellence in Chinese language and cultural issues that are of interest to the Chinese communities.

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