HSS-GSC Presents
Constructing Asian Identity
SCHEDULE
Morning Session
​08:30 – 09:00
Registration and Networking
Venue: Lecture Theater at The Hive (LHS-01-04)
09:00 - 10:30 Venue: Lecture Theater at The Hive (LHS-01-04)
Welcome Remarks and Opening Address
Prof. Luke Kang Kwong Kapathy, Associate Dean (Research), College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, NTU
Keynote Speech
Prof. Kwok Kian Woon Anthony, Associate Provost (Student Life), President's Office; Professor, Division of Sociology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, NTU
10:45 - 12:15 Parallel Sessions
Stream A: Asian History: National Past and Contemporary Implications
Venue: Tutorial Room +27 (LHS-B2-04)
Marek W. Rutkowski: Averting the Third World War: Nehru, Colombo and the Vision of Non-aligned Indochina
Xiao-Lei Qu: Official Sacrifice and Nation-Building in Reform-Era China
Ji Yiwen: Invention of Food: The Reconstruction, Dissemination and Transformation of Hainan Chicken Rice and Hainan Coffee
Stream B: Understanding the Asian Mind: Culture, Brain and Cognition
Venue: Tutorial Room +28 (LHS-B2-05)
Shiwei Chen: Rethinking Ethnic, National Identities and Boundary Formation from Cognitive Perspectives: A Case Study of the Korean-Chinese in the North Korean-Chinese Borderland and South Korea
Yeo Rei-Chi Lauren: English in K-pop: Negotiating Local and Global Identities
Phoebe Pua: Your Government the Filmmaker
Stream C: Narratives and Poetry in Asian Literature
Venue: Tutorial Room +29 (LHS-B2-06)
Lu Siaowun: The Travels of a Poet : An Analysis on Gu Cheng’s Diasporic Poetry
Saravanan Mani: Migration, Redemption and Memory in Jacques Audiard's Dheepan
Victoria Yee: Erosion and Renewal: Identity in Romesh Gunesekera’s Reef
Stream D: Asian Philosophy, Thoughts and Culture
Venue: Tutorial Room +30 (LHS-B2-07)
Ma Xiaofen: By Comparison, What Are Similarities and Differences between Afrocentricity and Asiacentricity on the Path of Defending Eurocentrism and Eurocentricity?
Ang Wei Yang: Syncretism of the Three Teachings: Hsin-fa as a Means of Bridging Ching-shih and Chu-shih
Joshua Dao Wei Sim: Implementing John Sung’s Evangelistic Band Model: Establishing the Singapore Christian Evangelistic League and Chin Lien Bible Seminary in 1930s Singapore
Stream E: Economic Integration, Policy, and Governance in Asia
Venue: Tutorial Room +31 (LHS-B2-08)
Yusuf Can Bektas: Is Asian Cooperation and Dialogue Just a Name for an InterGovernmental Organization or Dream of Continent?
George Wong Boon Keng: The Management of Urban Success: Interpreting Modern Singapore through Urban Politics.
Xu Chengwei: The Non-intrinsic Motivations for Public Service: Empirical Evidence from China
HOT
12:15 - 13:30 Lunch and Networking
Afternoon Session
13:30 - 15:00 Parallel Sessions
Stream A: Asian History: National Past and Contemporary Implications
Venue: Tutorial Room +27 (LHS-B2-04)
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales: On Hokaglish and Its Features
Grace Chong: The Beneficiary Usage of Gen (è·Ÿ) in Singapore Mandarin: A Case Study of Brief Sociolinguistic History
Gao Ming: STDs, Condoms and Japanese Empire
Stream B: Understanding the Asian Mind: Culture, Brain and Cognition
Venue: Tutorial Room +28 (LHS-B2-05)
Kua Wui Sing: The Social Class Dimension of Value Orientations Among Singaporeans: Evidence from the World Values Survey Singapore 2012
Cherise, Shi Ling Teo: Being Singaporean: Positioning Self in Relation to Housing Space
Yanan Tan: Cybersociality and Sexual Subjectivity among Queer Singaporean Youth
Stream C: Narratives and Poetry in Asian Literature
Venue: Tutorial Room +29 (LHS-B2-06)
Zhou Hao: Confrontation and Convergence in Flight: Duality in the Networked (Con) text of “Phoenix”
Wong Wen Pu: Contesting Spatial “Asian-ness”: Buddhist Philosophy in T.S Eliot’s The Waste Land and Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha Eunice Lim Ying Ci: Expatriation and Repatriation of a Novel: Spider Boys and a Nation’s Language Policies
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Stream D: Asian Philosophy, Thoughts and Culture
Venue: Tutorial Room +30 (LHS-B2-07)
Mao Zhaohui: A Reflection on Utilitarianism in the Perspective of Xun Zi: Compared with Mill
Jonathan Sim: Is There a Social Justice Dimension in Li (禮)?
Xu Duoduo: Lunar Mansion Names in South-West China: An Etymological Reconstruction of Ancestral Astronomical Designations in Daba and Dongba Cultures Compared with Chinese, Tibetan, and Sanskrit Contexts
Stream E: Economic Integration, Policy, and Governance in Asia
Venue:Tutorial Room +31 (LHS-B2-08)
Paththinige Priyantha Lalanie: Role of Agriculture and Economic Growth
Chen Limin: East Asia - Southeast Asia Regional Tourism Integration
Alexander M. Hynd: Private Maritime Security Companies: Managing Risk to Commercial Shipping in East Asia?
15:00 - 15:20 Tea Break and Networking
15:20 - 16:45 Parallel Sessions
Stream A: Asian History: National Past and Contemporary Implications
Venue: Tutorial Room +27 (LHS-B2-04)
Christian Tablazon: Baguio as Haunt and Haunting: Locating an Imaginary in the Fictional Representations of the City in Philippine Mainstream Cinema
Stream B: Understanding the Asian Mind: Culture, Brain and Cognition
Venue: Tutorial Room +28 (LHS-B2-05)
Wei Yang: Gendered Migration in Asia: A Case Study of Women Migrant Workers from China to Singapore
Romit Chowdhury: Geographies of Masculinity in the South Asian City
Ningning Chen: Growing Old in the Countryside: Leisure, Work and the Everyday Life of the Elderly in Rural Wenzhou, China
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Stream D: Asian Philosophy, Thoughts and Culture
Venue: Tutorial Room +30 (LHS-B2-07)
Jael Mendoza: Locating the “Body” and the “Nation” in Sukob
Stream E: Economic Integration, Policy, and Governance in Asia
Venue: Tutorial Room +31 (LHS-B2-08)
Qian Lifeng: New Chinese Immigrants' Linguistic Integration in Singapore
Eunhye Choi : Reducing Welfare Stigma: Recipient-Sensitive Approach to Teen Welfare Recipients in South Korean Middle Schools
17:00 - 17:30 Closing Ceremony and Presentation of Awards
Venue: Lecture Theater at The Hive (LHS-01-04)
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Presentation of Certificate of Participation to presenters
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Presentation of Token of Appreciation to Chairpersons
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Presentation of the Best Presentation Prizes
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