The seminar provided a background of the implications of the Arbitral Tribunal Award in the Philippines vs. China Case on the South China Sea.
The seminar provided an analysis of Malaysia’s capitalism form the perspective of the Régulation framework, which is used to assess two major changes since 2009, namely, ambivalence of the changing State-Business ties and the China-oriented shift of international integration.
The National Gallery’s inaugural exhibition on Singapore art, SIAPA NAMA KAMU?, which opened in November 2015, pushes the beginnings of art in Singapore back to the nineteenth century. This seminar presentation builds on an essay which Mr Kwa Chong Guan was invited to contribute to a forthcoming National Gallery publication.
This lecture discussed the philosophy of the historic Nalanda University and the challenges of transmitting its philosophical praxis in the revived Nalanda University. Dr Anjana Sharma shared about the ways which the university planners impart the Nalanda spirit and philosophy to its curriculum, from the design of the new campus to the crafting of a conference concept.
Negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) were successfully concluded on 5 October 2015. The free trade agreement has potentially far-reaching economic and geo-political consequences for member and non-member countries. Two distinguished scholars will examine these consequences in the seminar.
As part of the annual Southeast Asia Study Abroad Program, students from Georgia Institute of Technology attended a roundtable discussion with ASEAN Studies Centre to learn more about community-building in ASEAN in the 21st Century.
This seminar sought to explain why Christianity was relatively slow to appeal to overseas Chinese, and why it did not gain any significant following until the 20th century.