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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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大陆是飘浮的岛屿:新加坡、1990年代与王安忆南来寻根之旅的启发 | Geography Lessons: Singapore, the 1990s and Wang Anyi’s Root-Seeking Journey to the South

与廉凤讲座联合主办 This event is conducted in partnership with the Lien Fung's Colloquium Synopsis …

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SMU School of Computing and Information Systems Undergraduate Ceremony 1

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School of Accountancy Undergraduate Ceremony 3 and Postgraduate Ceremony

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廉凤讲座呈献: 在信息时代反思「华人」身分的流动性 Lien Fung's Colloquium: Who is “Chinese" in the Digital Age? Reflections on Identity and the Internet.

虽然亚洲是高科技社交媒体使用最活跃的地区,但是每当谈起科技或人类共同体,都是以欧美为重心。随着Clubhouse等新兴社交软件兴起,我们又开始讨论何为华人、何为华语等问题。谈到这些问题,就必然要跨越语言和政治的边界。我将在这次讲座上分享「时差」in-betweenness播客对于华语世界里共同经验的讨论,面对复杂的权力与身份认同问题,我们应该如何自处?让我们一同寻找答案。 …

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廉凤讲座:娜拉的女儿们

秋瑾/科学家王灿芝母女,黄素琼/作家张爱玲母女,都是女权意识里的娜拉和女儿们。从晚清到民国,从易卜生“玩偶之家”娜拉出走的摔门声给世界唤起了女权主义,鲁迅提问娜拉出走后又怎样,到去年我们对张爱玲诞辰百年的回顾,胡缨教授从两对母女的关系以及对母亲形象的再塑造,讨论中国女权主义的演进。 胡缨,…

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Guns and Roses: Educating Educators through Peer Coaching Programmes

This case is a two-part series on the value of faculty teaching forums and peer coaching programmes in resolving conflicting pedagogical philosophies.Case A is set in September 2009, shortly after…

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Advise for students

It's not about setting your career with what you study. That's one of the reasons SMU is so important. It’s got the four-year undergraduate programme, it’s the North American…

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Personal Impact

To me, personally, it's the people Iíve met, it's the connections Iíve made. My wife and I have had some great weekends at Banyan Tree Resorts, which I would not have been…

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Singapore's public policy in guiding universities

I see this in particular contrast to Hong Kong U, in contrast to Hong Kong. There I was on the University Grants Council, committee council, for nine years. I went off that about a year ago. And…

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Looking ahead

A particular image of SMU that many people will draw in is the jumping student. But sooner or later, that student comes back to earth, gravity prevails. You can’t beat gravity. And the move to…

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The role of the international Academic Advisory Panel

It looks at international and strategy and the university in a wider sense. QAFU looks at the operations of the university in a more functional sense. I think probably a couple of the comments I was…

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The role of QAFU

It is an external body of wise people who have standing in the eyes of the Government. And I have to say, whose academic and other profile also commends themselves, as a general rule, to the…

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Early days at SMU

By the very nature of an institution that started out living in one roomóI guess thatís the nature of thisópeople got to know one another very, very closely. And then of course…

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Admissions criteria

Well, certainly SMU was looking for a different style of student. And in a way that’s pretty well reflected in the marketing, the image programme of the jumping student. The way in which we…

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Responsibilities of the Finance and Remuneration Committee

Well, on finance, it was to oversee the budget, to ask the questions. The key question to me was: How can we make the budgeting process a strategic exercise? How can you design all of the boxes and…

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