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“Systems, Environments, Regimes, and Orders”
We are pleased to announce the Capstone Seminar Series, Term 2, this academic year. The Series is both a teaching and a public forum, addressing in weekly held seminars current social issues through research from multiple disciplinary perspectives. It aims to foster scholarly interactions among students and the faculty of the School as well as the broader SMU community, other researchers and members of the public of Singapore. Our Capstone seminars are conducted by invited speakers who interact with our students and the wider audience. Following the series of the first term of this Academic Year (17 August-10 November), which was headed by the concepts "Action, Agency, Agendas, and Activisms", this second term is organized around the set of the following concept group: "Systems, Environments, Regimes, and Orders". As theoretical categories these are common across the social sciences and the humanities, which centrally organize debates, research programs, methodologies, and bodies of theories. Our diverse seminar topics allow the audience to take a set of social phenomena as starting point for explorations of systems, environments, regimes, and orders.
In this part of the Series we particularly pay attention to these concepts by looking at the relationship between humans, technology, nature and economy and discuss environmental challenges. Copenhagen deserves particular attention, serving our final year students as a gateway to an individual project on environmental challenges. Importantly, reflecting on disciplinarity in the social sciences as a starting point for intellectual endeavour will be part of the seminar.
We look forward to seeing you at our seminars!
Assistant Professor of Sociology
School of Social Sciences
Most sessions below will be held on Tuesdays at 3:45 (arrive for 3.30pm) and will last for about two and a half hours. The venue is the SMU School of Accountancy/School of Law, Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium. Some events will be presented on Monday evenings, 7-9 pm. Please check the calendar below.
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Speakers: , School of Art, Design and
Media, College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University,
, Coordinator Media Lab, Faculty of Media Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
23 March 2010
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Speaker: , Nanyang Technological University
Topic: Wrapping it Up: Social Sciences and the Environment
Speaker: TBC
Completed Seminar
Topic:The Social Sciences and the Question of Disciplinarity
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Topic: Back from Copenhagen: SMU Students in Dialogue with Local Environmental NGOs on Climate Change
Speaker: Eleina Hema d/o Abdullah Ailmchandani and LEE Yi Hui Eileen (SMU Students) and Mr. Wilson ANG, Founder/President, (Singapore)
Topic: Public Provision for Urban Water: Getting The Fundamentals Right
Speaker: , Assistant Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Commentator: , (MBA, MSc Engineering), Director, Black Moon Pte. Ltd. Management Consulting & Training
Moderator:
Topic: Smart Textiles
Speakers: , (MBA, MSc Engineering), Director, Black Moon Pte. Ltd., Mr. LOW Cheng Sing, (SMU, School of Information Systems), Ms Celine Tiffany Lim QUE (SMU, School of Economics) and Mr. Daniel GRUBER (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany)
Topic: Selfish Self for Better Commons: The Psychology Behind Recycling
Speaker: Jolene TAN (SMU Student)
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Topic: Mapping Christianity within Indonesia's Religious Environment
Speaker: , Free University Amsterdam,
Topic: Sociological, Political, and Historical Perspectives on the Moral Economy Concept
Speakers:,
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