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Designing Happiness: Building a Well-lived Joyful Life

This lecture is conducted as part of the Shaw Foundation Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series Synopsis When it first started, positive psychology was mostly concerned with the study of happiness…

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Happiness by Design?

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 believed it to be possible.…

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若无闲事挂心头 | Aging Well in Singapore

与廉凤讲座联合主办 This event is conducted in partnership with the Lien Fung's Colloquium Synopsis “离苦得乐”是所有生物的本能。身为万物之灵的我们 -…

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Keynote Lecture: Coping with Adversity [8th Annual SMU-Soka International Peace Symposium: Happiness in Times of Crisis: Pain, Precarity, and Planetary Suffering]

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Panel 3: Precarity of Work [8th Annual SMU-Soka International Peace Symposium: Happiness in Times of Crisis: Pain, Precarity, and Planetary Suffering]

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Panel 2: Planetary Suffering [8th Annual SMU-Soka International Peace Symposium: Happiness in Times of Crisis: Pain, Precarity, and Planetary Suffering]

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Panel 1: Pain and the Humanities [8th Annual SMU-Soka International Peace Symposium: Happiness in Times of Crisis: Pain, Precarity, and Planetary Suffering]

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Does Disability Really Make Us Worse-Off?

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 resources on preventing and…

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Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley

This event is conducted in partnership with the Lien Fung's Colloquium Synopsis Most of us will work for most of our waking hours, for most of our life. Over the past forty years, highly…

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Achieving Peace Among the Major Powers

Synopsis Geopolitics today is fraught with crisis, threats, and fear. The Ukraine War is a proxy war between Russia and the US, the two largest nuclear powers. US-China tensions threaten to…

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Construal of Suffering Through Spaces Associated With Death

Synopsis Through the autoethnographic aspects of her research in death studies, Khyati aims to discuss how death and suffering within the cultural, institutional, and ritual-based spaces associated…

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CIS Trailer

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CIS Big Questions

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FREE

Event Synopsis: Free is an engrossing memoir of coming of age amid great political upheaval. With acute insight and wit, Lea Ypi traces the limits of progress and the burden of the past, illuminating…

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Well-being

Professor William Tov is currently Associate Professor in School of Social Sciences in SMU, he is a psychologist who studies emotional and cognitive Well-being - from the micro-level process of…

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Cross-Cultural Trust

How and why do people trust each other? Does trust develop differently across cultures? Why is it important for organisations to develop a culture of trust? Professor Tan Hwee Hoon shares insights…

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