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Sustainable Consumerism

In the wake of the Covid pandemic, governments around the world closed borders, shuttered economies, and enforced curfews. The unintended result was a restoration of nature to its former glory, a…

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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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Digital Humanities: New Techniques, Approaches, and Transformations

In 1946 a Jesuit scholar, Father Roberto Busa, began work on an index of 179 works of philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas. He enlisted the help of IBM to index over 10 million words, a project…

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6th Annual Wee Kim Wee Soka International Seminar on Global Peace and Understanding

The Office of Core Curriculum and the Wee Kim Wee Centre, with the support of Soka Gakkai Singapore, are proud to present the 6th Annual Wee Kim Wee Soka International Seminar on Global Peace and…

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G-Plus Governance for a Multiplex World

The concept of G-Plus governance describes the increasingly pluralistic, hybrid and decentered nature of global governance. G-Plus means “Governments Plus”. It reflects changes such as…

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URBAN TECHNOLOGIES

One frequently overlooked aspect of today's world is the extent to which the specialized differences of cities matter to the global economy. There is no perfect city that can provide an enormous…

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National Constitutions: Between Global and Local

Constitutions are supposed to express “the Soul of the Nation”, as one of the authors of the South African Constitution put it. Embodying local values, a constitution can bind people…

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The Annual Wee Kim Wee Soka International Seminar 2021

The Office of Core Curriculum and the Wee Kim Wee Centre are proud to present the first virtual 5th Annual Wee Kim Wee Soka International Seminar on Global Peace and Understanding edition on 21…

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Responding to Global and Local Challenges with Compassion and Equanimity: The Role of Mindfulness

Mindfulness practices develop a calm, clear, balanced mind with the capacity for increased insight into the challenges we face right now, from global public health to local economies. Mindfulness…

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Living and Thinking Through the Current Pandemic: The Local, the Global, and the Planetary

This lecture will propose that situating the current pandemic historically requires us to think through two connected but distinct sets of worldwide processes that today impact on human lives…

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REMAINING OURSELVES IN THE GLOBAL CITY

How is the nature of home changing around us—and inside us—as more and more of us have parts of ourselves in many cultures? What does it mean to live in a global neighbourhood, in which…

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T Y Lee Mindfulness Series: Mindfulness-based Pain Management as a method to reduce suffering and enhance happiness and well-being

Vidyamala has been practising mindfulness since 1985. She is a specialist in mindfulness for health and well-being, and pioneer of Mindfulness-based Pain Management (MBPM). Drawing on her own…

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Pain: Historical Reflections on Suffering

What is pain? This is a more difficult question to answer than you might think. In 1939, the famous surgeon René Leriche observed that pain is “like a storm…. the patient is…

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Epicurus on Pleasure, a Complete Life, and Death: A Defence

Abstract: The Ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus argued that the good life is the pleasurable life. He also argued that ‘death is nothing to us’. These claims appear in tension. For if…

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Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending

Shaw Foundation Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending Date: 25th October 2019 Location: SMU Hall Time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm Can money buy happiness?…

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Private Injustice: Enlarging the Boundary of Justice

The Ngee Ann Kongsi Annual Lecture Series 2019: Private Injustice: Enlarging the Boundary of Justice Date: 26th September 2019 Location: Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium Time: 5:30pm to 7:00pm How does…

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