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This lecture is conducted as part of the 11th Annual SMU-Ikeda Peace & Harmony Lecture Synopsis Gouri Mirpuri, the Singapore founder of The Learning Farm, will…
Personal Learnings from the Ground in Rural…
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This lecture is conducted as part of the Lien Fung’s Colloquium Synopsis Most of us don’t really like to talk about our social class, but we live class…
The Secret Language of Social Class
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Synopsis For centuries, Christian theology cast greed and avarice as grave moral failings, corrosive both to the soul and to society. Yet in modern economic thought, a…
Is Greed Good?
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This lecture is conducted as part of the Lien Fung’s Colloquium Synopsis Dr Tan and his family spent approximately 15 years living and working in Yunnan, China,…
Village Lessons for City Living
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This lecture is conducted as part of the 9th Annual SMU-Soka International Peace Symposium Synopsis Standing at the crossroads of humanity, our work today requires us…
Global Wisdom: Reimagining Coexistence, Power,…
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This lecture is conducted as part of the Shaw Foundation Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series Synopsis This lecture explores the sophisticated theories of ritual and…
Ritual, Authenticity, and Human Flourishing:…
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In this lecture, we will journey through Bhutan's ongoing pursuit of Gross National Happiness (GNH), a development framework that prioritises not just…
Bhutan’s pursuit of Gross National…
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Chasing success, money, and power offers only brief satisfaction, trapping us in a cycle of endless craving with often grave mental health consequences. Studies on the…
FROM SUFFERING TO HAPPINESS: CULTIVATING INNER…
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Happiness not only feels good; it is good. Happy people are more productive, creative, and resilient; they have more friends and more stable marriages; and they show…
THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS: HOW CAN YOU BECOME…
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This lecture is conducted as part of the Shaw Foundation Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series Synopsis When it first started, positive psychology was mostly…
Designing Happiness: Building a Well-lived Joyful…
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This event is conducted in partnership with the Lien Fung's Colloquium Synopsis Can good design make people happier? Early 20th century architects and writers…
Happiness by Design?
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Keynote Lecture: Coping with Adversity [8th…
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Panel 3: Precarity of Work [8th Annual SMU-Soka…
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Panel 2: Planetary Suffering [8th Annual SMU-Soka…
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Panel 1: Pain and the Humanities [8th Annual…
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Synopsis Is disability bad? We certainly seem to think so. Most of us try to avoid disabilities in ourselves and our children, and our governments spend considerable…
Does Disability Really Make Us Worse-Off?
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