Category: Special Topics| Academia | SG
The Republic’s 15th Parliament opens on Friday 5 September. Our panelists share their independent perspectives. The post Panel discussion on 31 August: What Singaporeans should expect from the 15th Parliament appeared first on Academia | SG.| Academia | SG
Monday, 22 September 2025, 8:00 PM SGT, via Zoom In an age of AI and digital devices, why would students bother memorising poems? This seminar will examine a pedagogical intervention in a Singapore neighbourhood secondary school where students practised learning poetry by heart. Findings show how memorisation, framed through Judith Langer’s envisionment-building theory, can enrich […] The post Ow Yeong Wai Kit: ‘A.I. can memorise poems, so why should I?’ appeared first on Academia | SG.| Academia | SG
There is growing public interest in Singapore’s electoral system. AcademiaSG presents here scholarly articles and videos as resources for these discussions. VIDEOS In this AcademiaSG Lecture before the 2025 General Election, Constitutional law professor Kevin YL Tan (National University of Singapore) pointed out that the way electoral boundaries should be drawn is left to the […]| Academia | SG
KWOK KIAN WOON (University of the Arts) was the guest speaker at the Class of 2025 Convocation ceremony of Nanyang Technological University’s School of Humanities on 28 July 2025. This is the text of his speech. I am privileged to join you on this very special day for our graduands, and certainly also for your […]| Academia | SG
Sociologist JACK JIN GARY LEE (New School for Social Research) traces the double standards embedded in the colonial criminalisation of gay sex. Reflecting on the recent repeal of Section 377A of the Penal Code, Russell Heng, playwright, activist, and pioneering scholar of postcolonial Singapore’s queer history, recounted a past troubling encounter with the police at […] The post Misbehaving men in power: the story behind 377A appeared first on Academia | SG.| Academia | SG
Singaporeans voted for familiarity in May’s general election, expressing their confidence in a new Lawrence Wong Government that promises continuity on many fronts. However, the republic’s formula for managing its external environment was based on conditions that no longer apply, warns CHONG JA IAN (National University of Singapore).| Academia | SG
An Indian diplomatic offensive aims to rally international support for its chosen strategy to combat terrorism. But Singapore's approach to counter-terrorism is quite different. The post Why India’s war should not be Singapore’s appeared first on Academia | SG.| Academia | SG
Inequality needs to be understood as a shared, uneasy experience, even if different groups use different strategies to deal with it, argues TEO YOU YENN (Nanyang Technological University).| Academia | SG
CHERIAN GEORGE (Hong Kong Baptist University) takes stock after a General Election in which the People’s Action Party successfully checked the opposition’s momentum.| Academia | SG
Both the Peoples Action Party and the Workers Party held their ground. The results give the Lawrence Wong Government little incentive to change.| Academia | SG
As Singaporean academics, we have a professional as well as civic interest in spaces for public deliberation. We hope to see the state widening these spaces, and the people enlivening them for the public good. – From the Editors, AcademiaSG| Academia | SG
In August 2021, AcademiaSG published findings of a survey of Singapore-based academics concerning the state of academic freedom in the republic. This groundbreaking survey of Singapore-based academics sheds light on such questions as: Do academics in Singapore subscribe to international norms concerning academic freedom? How prevalent is the sense of being constrained? What are the mechanisms […]| Academia | SG
View the recording of our webinar featuring constitutional law professor Kevin Tan.| Academia | SG
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Only ministers can answer whether NUS is right or wrong in its judgment that there will be a political price to pay if university administrators do not properly screen “controversial” or “sensitive” events.| Academia | SG
LINDA LIM (University of Michigan) explains the risks and uncertainties facing Singapore and why these make a rethink of its economic model more urgent.| Academia | SG
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?| Academia | SG
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.| Academia | SG
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 […]| Academia | SG
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.| Academia | SG
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.| Academia | SG
Watch the video — SOL IGLESIAS and WALID JUMBLATT ABDULLAH talked about the challenges faced by academics engaging with controversial issues in the Philippines and Singapore.| Academia | SG
Category: Academic Views| Academia | SG
MAI SATO reviews Singapore studies that purport to show that capital punishment enjoys public backing and is an effective deterrent. Sato finds these studies provide weaker evidence than claimed.| Academia | SG
It is tempting to blame candidates and voters when Presidential Elections get too heated and threaten the dignity of the office. But the fault lies mainly with the system. Kevin Tan (National University of Singapore) and Cherian George (Hong Kong Baptist University) call for an overhaul.| Academia | SG
