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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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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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Bachelor of Science in Economics

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College of Integrative Studies - Introduction Video

Established in 2022, the College of Integrative Studies (CIS) emphasises the importance of integrating ideas and perspectives across disciplines to derive new solutions in areas related to…

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Building Strategic Awareness and Decision-making Competence for an Epoch of Disruptive Change – Training our Minds based on New Findings in Neuroscience

T Y Lee Mindfulness Series Synopsis Today’s fundamental questions of wealth and poverty and the ongoing tectonic changes in the world require a radically new, integrative mindset and…

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CIS Core Curriculum

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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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Bachelor of Business Management

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Rural Transition in China

In the past two to three decades, amidst a backdrop of changing food demand, sustained transfer of rural labour into urban jobs, decline of the natural birth rate in the rural population, rural…

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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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Poverty

Is (the lack of) money the reason for poverty? Or is it one of the underlying symptoms? How else can we think about poverty, other than it being an economic issue? In this video, Professor John A.…

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