April 7, 2021
Dr Sandeep Ray publishes book titled ‘Celluloid Colony: Locating History and Ethnography in Early Dutch Colonial Films of Indonesia’
How should colonial film archives be read? How can historians and ethnographers use colonial film as a complement to conventional written sources? Sandeep Ray uses the case of Dutch colonial film in Indonesia to show how a critically-, historically- and cinematically-informed reading of colonial film in the archive can be a powerful and unexpected source, and one more easily accessible today via digitisation.
October 28, 2020
‘Virulent Zones’ – New book published by Dr Lyle Fearnley
Virulent Zones is an ethnography of the global plans to stop an influenza pandemic at its hypothetical source in rural China.
July 13, 2020
Dr Jeffrey Chan publishes book titled ‘Sharing with Design’
This book aims to recast sharing as a category of design. Many animals share resources. But no known animal is able to approach the scale and complexity that characterize human sharing.
May 15, 2020
Rewriting Buddhism – Dr Alastair Gornall publishes book on Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka
Rewriting Buddhism is the first intellectual history of premodern Sri Lanka’s most culturally productive period. This era of reform (1157–1270) shaped the nature of Theravada Buddhism both in Sri Lanka and also Southeast Asia and even today continues to define monastic intellectual life in the region.
June 20, 2019
Mobile app designed by Dr Lyle Fearnley for informal recycling sector wins two awards for good design
In March this year, the Design Business Chamber Singapore (DBCS) awarded Honk! an SG Mark, referred to as Singapore’s “benchmark of good design and quality.” At the DBCS Gala Dinner in May, the DBCS also awarded Honk! an SG Mark Special Mention, awarded to only four projects in 2019.
May 17, 2019
Dr Gabriel Tusinski awarded Visiting Fellowship at Australian National University
Dr. Gabriel Tusinski has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the Humanities Research Centre (HRC) in the College of Arts and Sciences at Australian National University from June-August 2019.
March 27, 2019
SUTD Launches Inaugural Digital Humanities Symposium
March 18, 2019
Dr Nazry Bahrawi awarded notable Toji Cultural Residency in South Korea
For his work on minority speculative fiction from Singapore, Dr Nazry Bahrawi has been conferred the Toji Cultural Residency award jointly offered by the National Arts Council of Singapore and the Toji Cultural Foundation in South Korea.
December 12, 2018
Dr Mihye Cho publishes book titled “Entrepreneurial Seoulite: Culture and Subjectivity in Hongdae, Seoul”on capitalism and new urban realities in Seoul’s post-Fordist period
Entrepreneurial Seoulite might be read as a memoir on Hongdae based on the author’s observations as a member of South Korea’s Generation X. During the 1990s, Hongdae became widely known as a cool place associated with discourses on alternative music, independent labels, and club culture. Today, Hongdae is well known for its youth culture and nightlife, as well as its gentrification.
November 21, 2018