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This forum is organised by the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore; with funding support from the Henry Luce Foundation, USA.

This Forum is one of ARI’s flagship events, a three-day workshop for graduate students who work on Southeast Asia. Held toward the end of the Asian Graduate Student Fellowship Programme 2016, it provides a platform for postgraduate students who are at an advanced stage to present their work, and also to communicate and interact, as they mature into the next generation of academic leaders. The participants include ARI’s Asian graduate student fellows, as well as graduate students from Singapore and other parts of the world. The unifying factor is that the research is on Southeast Asia, although the sessions are organised thematically around issues in Asian dynamics of religion, politics, economy, gender, culture, language, migration, urbanism, science and technology, population and social change, etc. Keynotes will be delivered by professors J. Neil Garcia (University of the Philippines), Mary Beth Mills (Colby College), and Henk Schulte Nordholt (Leiden University, KITLV), who will share their insights on challenges and issues facing contemporary social science scholarship in Southeast Asia. In addition, there will be a roundtable session on the second day of the Forum on How to be an Excellent Researcher chaired by Professor Engseng Ho and with professors Donald Nonini, Gerald Sim and Michele Thompson.

The Asia Research Institute (ARI) was established as a university-level institute in July 2001 as one of the strategic initiatives of the National University of Singapore (NUS). It aims to provide a world-class focus and resource for research on the Asian region, located at one of its communication hubs. ARI engages the social sciences broadly defined, and especially interdisciplinary frontiers between and beyond disciplines. One of ARI’s aims is to foster research on Southeast Asia, in particular by scholars from the region. To this end, it conducts the Asian Graduate Student Fellowship Programme, bringing 34 such graduate students to Singapore each year for an eight-week period of research, mentoring and participation in an academic writing workshop. Towards the end of this period, we hold the Graduate Forum.

REGISTRATION

Admission is free, and seats are available on a first come, first served basis. Please email to minghua.tay@nus.edu.sg to indicate your interest to attend the forum.

CONTACT DETAILS

Conference Convenors

Dr Michiel BAAS, Asia Research Institute, NUS (Chair)
Dr Michelle MILLER, Asia Research Institute, NUS
Dr Maria Wendy PLATT, Asia Research Institute, NUS
A/P Titima SUTHIWAN, Centre for Language Studies, NUS
Dr Amelia FAUZIA, Asia Research Institute, NUS
Dr Bernardo BROWN, Asia Research Institute, NUS
Dr Celine CODEREY, Asia Research Institute, NUS
Dr Marie Anne Madeleine GIBERT, Asia Research Institute, NUS
Dr Nurfadzilah YAHAYA, Asia Research Institute, NUS
Dr Rita PADAWANGI, Asia Research Institute, NUS

Secretariat

Ms TAY Minghua
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
E | minghua.tay@nus.edu.sg