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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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The Ngee Ann Kongsi Annual Lecture Series - Wealth and Poverty Through the Lens of the Current Situation in Ukraine

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is the largest conflict in Europe since World War II. One of the largest states on the planet has questioned the rights of sovereignty and territorial integrity of…

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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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Lien Fung's Colloquium presents "Water in/on my body, seeping through my bones": an artist talks on performance and politics.

In this talk, Dr Patricia Nguyen will discuss a selection of her solo and collaborative artistic projects that centre on water, earth, air, and fire as the core materials for her performance research…

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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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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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