Department of Political Science
Past Workshops
Organising
Committee
William Tow,
ANU
(Chairperson),
Singh, Bilveer
(Assistant
Chairperson),
Lee Lai-To
(Assistant
Chairperson)
Organising
Dept
Political
Science,
FASS,
NUS; ANU
and Griffith
University
Title of
Date
Event
Exploring
1-OctNew
2008
Dimensions
of
Asymmetrica
l Security
Nardin, Terry Political
Warren
Science
(Chairperson)
Seminar on
Global
Political
Theory
1113 Sep2008
Hussin
Mutalib
(Chairperson),
Workshop, 29 to 31
The
March
Encyclopedia 2007
Place
No. of
Brief Report
Participants
Singapore, Local = 13
The workshop provides the conceptual overview, highlighting its
NUSS
Overseas = 7 objectives, mechanics and intended outcomes in the following
Kent Ridge Total = 20
sessions:
Guild
1. weighs how terrorism relates to the evolving challenge of
House
asymmetrical security.
2. examines incidences of chemical, biological and nuclear
terrorist acts and assesses the capabilities of Singapore,
Australia and Asia-Pacific, in general, in addressing and
responding to such threats.
3. discusses the experiences, national systems, strategies and
policies of Singapore and Australia in combating terrorism.
4. examines the compromises in ensuring human security to
effectively deter and fight terrorism.
Singapore, Local = 30
Distinguished participants from the London School of
Kent Ridge Overseas = 15 Economics, Australian National University, University of North
Guild
Total = 45
Carolina at Chapel Hill, Jawaharlal Nehru University, King's
House
College London, Princeton University, and Hong Kong University
joined scholars from Political Science, Philosophy, the Law
Faculty, and other NUS departments and programmes to
discuss modes of moral judgment and political practice that
invite rethinking universalism in the light of cultural differences.
The workshop explored such questions as: What do we mean by
‘universal’? How can we escape the fallacy of coding Western
principles as universal and others as local? On what basis can
we evaluate competing universalisms?
Singapore, Local = 15,
More than 15 overseas scholars were invited to discuss both
NUS,
Overseas = 15, the feasibility of producing this Encyclopedia and possible areas
Faculty
Total = 30
of collaboration with us at NUS. The resolutions at the end of
Bunnell,
Timothy
Gwyn
(Assistant
Chairperson)
of the Malay
Diaspora
Project
Lounge,
Shaw
Foundatio
n Building
the Workshop confirmed that both are feasible and desirable.
There will be more discussions to deliberate on various aspects
of this collaboration with partner universities and research
institutes, including sources of funding and editorial support.
Kun-Chin Lin
(Coorganizer)
“Globalisatio 27 to 28
n and the
October
Workplace” 2006
St.
Local = 1,
Anthony’s Overseas = 9,
College,
Total = 10
University
of Oxford,
UK
This workshop was held on 27-8 October 2006 at St. Anthony’s
College, Oxford, and received funding supp ort from The
Research Development Fund of Oxford University, Oxford
University Contemporary China Studies Programme, and The
Oxford Sasakawa Fund. It discussed the themes of increased
casualisation of the workplace, impact of globalisation on
unionization, changing labour practices and standards in the
context of China, India, Japan and other Asian countries. The
sessions consisted of presentations from Kun-Chin Lin (NUS),
Mark Rebick (St. Anthony’s College), Nandini Gooptu ( St.
Anthony’s College), Marc Blecher (Oberlin), Dorothy Solinger
(UC Irvine), Sarosh Kuruvilla (ILR Cornell), Jamie Cross (Sussex),
Geert de Neve (Sussex), Machiko Osawa (Japan Women’s
University), and Supriya Roy Chowdhury (ISEC Bangalore), The
workshop attracted a wide audience from the Oxford academic
community.