Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences - Migration Cluster
News & Events
19 April 2013Backward Needle: Alternative Space of Japanese Reverse Compasses |
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20, 21 & 22 March 2013Nuclear Power in Asia: Two Years After Fukushima |
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12 March 2013Beyond Genomics: The Framingham Heart Study and Biobanks as Population Laboratories by Dr Erik Aarden (Harvard University and Masstricht University) |
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19 February 2013Bacteriophages and Beyond: Intellectual and Institutional Actors in the Immunological Career of Macfarlane Burnet by Dr Neeraja Sankaran (Underwood International College, Yonsei University) |
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25 january 2013Negotiating Global Change in the Asia Region Jointly sponsored by STS and Environment Clusters |
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27 november 2012In the Eye of the Beholder: Objectifying Seeing by Dr Catelijne Coopmans (Tembusu College and Asia Research Institute, NUS) and Dr Graham Button (Tembusu College) |
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14 November 2012Public Computational Media at Work: WaterBar by Marc Böhlen (University at Buffalo) |
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Call for papers: deadline 7 january 2013Knowing, Making, Governing Biannual Conference 2013 of the Asia-Pacific Science, Technology and Society Network (APSTSN) 15 -17 July 2013 Hosted by the National University of Singapore (ARI STS Research Cluster, FASS STS Research Cluster, Tembusu College, with support from HSS) |
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15 October 2012Reflections on the Structure of Scientific Revolutions and its Relevance to Twenty-First Century Sciences by Professor Govindan Parayil, United Nations University |
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21 september 2012STS Cluster Symposium Designing for the Anthropocene: Climate, Food, Health Partners: Tembusu College, Asia Research Institute, Department of Communications and New Media, Nanyang Technological University, Anclab.org, The HUB Singapore and Hackteria.org |
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15 August 2012Global Health in Local Context: How Does Biological Research Reflect Geographical Influence? by Professor Matthew Sparke, University of Washington, USA |
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11 April 2012Mapping Strategic Cyberspace by Dr Rex Hughes, Co-convenor, Cambridge Cyber Defence Project, University of Cambridge |
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4th April 2012"Disobedience" Workshop with Professor Steve Woolgar |
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3rd april 2012Onto-governance: the Objects of Accountability by Professor Steve Woolgar, University of Oxford |
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1st and 2nd march 2012First Singapore Workshop on Integrated History and Philosophy of Science in Practice 1st march 2012Passions and Punctilios: Models, Methods and Understanding in Physical Organic Chemistry by Professor Grant Fisher, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) |
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10th february 2012Categories and Names for Landscape Features acrossLanguages and Cultures a talk by Professor David Mark, Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellow and
SUNY Distinguished Professor Jointly organized by the FASS Science, Technology & Society Cluster and the Department of Geography |
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6th and 7th december 2011Climate Change, Disaster Management and Urban Sustainability: Science, Technology and Society Approaches to Three Asian Challenges Registration closed |
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10th october 2011Forensic genetics – issues and practices a talk by Dr Victor Toom |
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2ND AUGUST 2011"States of Ignorance: Public Health, Armed Violence, and the (un) Making of Death Tolls" a talk by Professor Brian Rappert |
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7TH AND 8TH JUNE 2011"Excessive Responsibility and the Crashing Events of Life" and "The Violent Imposition of Language - Strangers, Hospitality and Justice" talks by Professor Hugh J. Silverman |
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19TH APRIL 2011"DIYbio and the Reemergence of the Sci-Artist" |
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23rd March 2011Workshop on "Patients On The Move: Medical Tourism In Asia And The UK" |
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28th January 2011Seminar on "The Human Capacity to Reflect and Decide:Bioethics and the Reconfiguration of the Research Subject in the British Biomedical Sciences" By Dr David Reubi |
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13th January 2011Graduate Student Roundtable:"History in the Service of the Philosophy of Science" with Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd |
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11th January 2011Public Lecture on "Humanity Between Gods and Beasts?Ontologies In Question" by Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd |
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10th January 2011Seminar on " Regulatory Legitimization of GMOs in Australia and Civic and scientific Contestation :Redesigning Risk Governance for Environmental Sustainability" by Dr Richard Hindmarsh |
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8th november 2010Seminar on "New"Knowlege and the "New India:Lessons from the Past by Prof. Deepak Kumar |
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20th october 2010Seminar on Constructing & Deconstructing Diseases In A Dish by Dr. Krishabu Saha |
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9th April 2010Seminar on Biotechnology by Prof. Herbert Gottweis |
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9th April 2010Talk by Prof. Herbert Gottweis:Resisting Research Populations: The Case of Taiwan Biobank |
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8th April 2010Talk by Dr. Haidan Chen:Regenerating China: Stem Cell Politics in Transition |
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5th March 2010Talk by Prof. Graham Button:Engineering Investigations: Plans |
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2nd February 2010Talk by Dr. Brian Rappert:Science and Secrecy: The Place of the Absences in Ethnography |
About Us
S.T.S. stands for ‘Science, Technology, and Society’, an established interdisciplinary field first organized in North America in the early 1970s. Recognizing the need for social scientists and humanities scholars to study the immense influence of science & technology on modern social, political, and cultural life, STS normally serves as a meeting ground on which C.P. Snow’s ‘two cultures’ (the sciences on the one hand, and the arts and social sciences on the other) can come to critical terms with each others’ methods, histories, objects, and interests. The faculty of the STS Research Cluster at NUS consists of historians, sociologists, anthropologists, geographers, philosophers, critical theorists, media studies scholars, public policy scholars and others who share curiosity about how science and technology function in the social world.
Related to the STS Research Cluster is an Undergraduate STS Minor, which is open to students from any faculty in the university. NUS does not yet have an STS graduate program, but graduate students with this interest are accepted and supervised across a number of departments, and are free to participate in the activities of the cluster. The STS Research Cluster also sponsors post-doctoral and other visiting positions for scholars who share our research interests. Our cluster members also work wih two University level research institutes: ARI (Asia Research Institute) and IDMI (Interactive and Digital Media Institute).
Because Singapore is a center for cutting-edge scientific and technological R&D, we are particularly (though not exclusively) interested in social science and humanities research which contextualizes this phenomenon, not only in Singapore but in Asia generally. As the only English-language center of STS-related research in East and Southeast Asia, we provide a unique site for collaboration with overseas scholars who are curious about the sci/tech-society relationship.
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