Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences - Migration Cluster

News & Events

11 April 2012

Mapping 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 2012

Onto-governance: the Objects of Accountability

by Professor Steve Woolgar, University of Oxford

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1st and 2nd march 2012

First Singapore Workshop on Integrated History and Philosophy of Science in Practice

1st march 2012

Passions 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 2012

Categories and Names for Landscape Features acrossLanguages and Cultures

a talk by Professor David Mark, Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellow and SUNY Distinguished Professor
Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Jointly organized by the FASS Science, Technology & Society Cluster and the Department of Geography

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6th and 7th december 2011

Climate Change, Disaster Management and Urban Sustainability: Science, Technology and Society Approaches to Three Asian Challenges

Registration closed

10th october 2011

Forensic genetics – issues and practices

a talk by Dr Victor Toom

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 2011

Workshop on "Patients On The Move: Medical Tourism In Asia And The UK"
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28th January 2011

Seminar 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 2011

Graduate Student Roundtable:"History in the Service of the Philosophy of Science" with Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd
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11th January 2011

Public Lecture on "Humanity Between Gods and Beasts?Ontologies In Question" by Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd
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10th January 2011

Seminar 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 2010

Seminar on "New"Knowlege and the "New India:Lessons from the Past by Prof. Deepak Kumar
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20th october 2010

Seminar on Constructing & Deconstructing Diseases In A Dish by Dr. Krishabu Saha
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9th April 2010

Seminar on Biotechnology by Prof. Herbert Gottweis
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9th April 2010

Talk by Prof. Herbert Gottweis:
Resisting Research Populations: The Case of Taiwan Biobank
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8th April 2010

Talk by Dr. Haidan Chen:
Regenerating China: Stem Cell Politics in Transition
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5th March 2010

Talk by Prof. Graham Button:
Engineering Investigations: Plans
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2nd February 2010

Talk by Dr. Brian Rappert:
Science and Secrecy: The Place of the Absences in Ethnography
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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.