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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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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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Social Dreaming: Ukrainian Civil Society and the Russian Invasion

Synopsis: Much of the western and Russian commentary on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine leaves out the agency of Ukrainian civil society. In this talk, sociologist Halyna Herasym centers the…

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SMU THINKS BIG

SMU Thinks Big honours and showcases the excellent educators in our midst. These are some of the best scholar-teachers among us who help to deliver the SMU Core Curriculum and are winners of the OCC…

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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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Surveying Memory

Synopsis: After violence, of whatever kind, after war, after genocide, one doesn’t think, “peace”; one thinks, “to live” or “to survive.” One cannot live…

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Annual Ikeda Peace and Harmony Lecture: After Afghanistan - What's Next?

Synopsis: Stewart will discuss the recent happening in Afghanistan. This marks the end of 30 years of intervention in a project that has engaged some of the most powerful countries in the world in…

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Why We Killed: Security, Authority, and Opportunity in the Rwandan Genocide

*This lecture is sponsored as part of The Ngee Ann Kongsi Annual Lecture Series Rwanda’s tragic and shocking violence of 1994 indelibly etched itself on the global conscience. The violence…

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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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Pung Chhiv Kek

Dr Pung Chhiv Kek is the Founder and President of the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO). She was nominated in 2005 for the Nobel Peace Prize as part of the 1000…

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Chea Vannath

Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Chea Vannath fled Cambodia when the Khmer Rouge attempted to arrest her husband. She returned to her homeland twelve years later and began working to help heal her war-torn…

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