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 Nov 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: Dr Mathew Mathews | 22 September 2026
Speaker: Speaker: Professor Tan Eng Chye | 17 September 2026
Speaker: Speaker: Dr Aaron Maniam | 9 September 2026
Speaker: Speaker: Assoc Prof Gabriel Kor | 9 September 2026
Speaker: Speaker: Professor William Hwang | 5 September 2026
Speaker: Speaker: Professor Teo Yik Ying | 2 September 2026
Speaker: Speaker: Asst Prof Tan-Soo Jie-Sheng | 27 August 2026
Speaker: Speaker: Dr Ben Chester Cheong | 25 August 2026
Speaker: Speaker: Professor Teo Yik Ying | 18 August 2026