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Li Na visited HAPP of Queen’s University Belfast from 20 April to 1 May 2026 as a Global Fellow. She explored China-related archives, discussed possible research collaborations, and gave a talk on Asian Public History at Queen’s Centre for Public History.
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On 20 May, Seng Guo Quan gave the presentation, "Hong Kong and the cross-border barter trade in Southeast Asia during the Cold War" at the "‘Cold War in Hong Kong, Asia, and Beyond’ workshop, organized by Hong Kong Research Hub (Nanyang Technological University).
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Kung ChienWen joined The Future of Sinophone Taiwan conference at UC Santa Barbara on 22–23 May,presenting research on how Taiwanese intellectual emigrants contributed to debates about Mandarin in Singapore before and during the Speak Mandarin Campaign,amid UCSB’s coastal scenery
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During Singapore Navy Day celebrations, Donna Brunero spent two afternoons at the Singapore Navy Museum on 1 and 2 May, moderating a panel on women at sea with Judy Kong and Jerica Goh. Goh, Singapore’s first female frigate commander.
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Gregory Clancey's Project "The History and Sustainability of Animal-Based Drugs in Asian Traditional Medicines" was completed in December. The details are accessible through this link: lnkd.in/g6jdbWxJ.
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Congratulations to Ian Gordon for being elected as Fellow of the Royal Historical Society!
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Joey Long's latest publication: “Engaging His Circles of Space: Lee Kuan Yew and Asia-Pacific Security,” published with World Scientific. The chapter examines Lee Kuan Yew’s thinking on Asia Pacific security and how he approached the region’s shifting security landscape
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Joey Long alongside fellow historians organized the inaugural Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)-in-Asia Pacific workshop, gathering U.S. foreign-relations scholars. The next workshop will be held in 2028.
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25 March (Museum Research Week 2026): HY5409 students shared creative/critical responses to Evocative Head at the Archaeology Library and discussed their process with Assistant Curator Ling Jia Le. With NUS Museum, the space became public history, seeding future collaborations.
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Wang Jinping's co-authored article (with Associate Professor Blake Atwood), “Stone Struggles: Toward a Media Theory of Steles in North China,” has recently been published in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, a flagship journal in media studies.
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Jack Chia organized a roundtable at the Association for Asian Studies conference to mark the launch of Figures of Buddhist Diplomacy in Modern Asia. The discussion explored how political leaders and royal figures have shaped Buddhist diplomacy across modern Asia.
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The NHB organised and hosted a public talk, "Boom or Bust? Society and Commerce in Singapore’s Great Depression" at the National Library on the evening of Wednesday, 25 March. The speakers were: Donna Brunero, Seng Guo Quan, and Loh Kah Seng.
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Dr Hattori's latest article, "A Progressive Retreat: US Educational Experts, Social Reconstruction, and the Second World War," is now available in print in the Journal of Contemporary History (after being released electronically in the "online first" section of their website)
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A/P Li Na shared that the University of Chicago and the National University of Singapore(NUS) hosted the first regional public history conference in Feb. She added that Asia has two established public history programs: one at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and one at NUS.
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Pa Kuan Huai, our graduate student, remotely co-organized the panel “Trespassing Colonial Boundaries:Gender,Morality,and Knowledge Production in Twentieth-Century Malaya” with Alison Fong, Nhung Tuyet Tran, Mu Rong, and Timothy Tan at the Association for Asian Studies Conference.
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At NUS Open House on 7 March, faculty took turns helming the department's booth at UTown from 9 am to 6 pm, ably assisted by History Society volunteers. Prospectives also had an opportunity to peruse sample syllabi and original primary sources.
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Jack Chia's first non-academic book, The Journey of Ashin Jinarakkhita, has been published. Illustrated by Choo Ruizhong, this bilingual children’s storybook traces the life of Tee Boan An, who later become the monk who founded the Buddhayana movement in Indonesia.
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Our alumnus, Dr Kisho Tsushiya's first book, Emplacing East Timor: Regime Change and Knowledge Production, 1860─2010 (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2024) won two book awards in Japan last year. Congratulations to him!
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Daniel Jew, in collaboration with with Lynette Tan and Phyllis Blumberg, has co-edited a book titled 'Making Learning-Centred Teaching Work in Asia and Beyond'. The book is now published and available digitally in NUS Library.
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Dr Masako Hattori had the pleasure of discussing her book at Princeton University and attended by students, faculty, and even U.S. military veterans. She discussed her book with The Way of Improvement Leads Home, an academic blog. thewayofimprovement.blog/202…
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