Some of the world’s leaders, and leading thinkers from NUS and overseas, regularly gather and add to the rich diversity of thoughts and ideas on our campuses, in Singapore and across the globe. Here’s what they had to share.
Speaker: Mr Ben Chester Cheong 8 November 2025
Local dramas are closer to home and that proximity can make local productions feel somehow less remarkable, even when they are objectively strong. Mr Ben Chester Cheong, Associate Academic Fellow at the Faculty of Law at NUS, weighs in on the risk of the generation gap widening when we don't share common cultural references from media content, and how if we all consume global stories but rarely our own, we risk losing the emotional continuity that local storytelling once provided.
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Speaker: Speaker: Mr Bjorn Low | 14 November 2025
Speaker: Speaker: Mr Ben Chester Cheong | 8 November 2025
Speaker: Speaker: Assoc Prof Zhang Weina and Mr Yannis Yuan | 6 November 2025
Speaker: Speaker: Dr Daniel Chan | 6 November 2025
Speaker: Speaker: Asst Prof Daniel Rabetti | 3 November 2025
Speaker: Speaker: Asst Prof Nur Hani Zainal | 28 October 2025
Speaker: Speaker: By Dr Chew Han Ei, Senior Research Fellow and Head of Governance and Economy Cluster at the Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS; and Prof Lim Sun Sun, Vice President for Partnerships and Engagement and Lee Kong Chian Professor of Communication and Technology at the College of Integrative Studies at SMU | 27 October 2025
Speaker: Speaker: By Assoc Prof Liu Nan from the Centre for Quantitative Medicine and Director of the Duke-NUS AI + Medical Sciences Initiative at Duke-NUS Medical School; and Ms Jasmine Ong from SingHealth | 14 October 2025
Speaker: Speaker: By Dr Chew Han Ei, Senior Research Fellow and Head of Governance and Economy, from the Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS; and Assoc Prof Vincent Chua from the Dept of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at NUS | 14 October 2025
Speaker: Speaker: By Mr Nicholas Thomas, Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS | 13 October 2025