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The School of Humanities at NTU-Singapore is a diverse and dynamic hub of research and education supported by a world-class faculty. We offer multiple single and double major undergraduate degree options and both MA and PhD degrees across multiple departments and centres. Our faculty and staff share a passion for the humanities, and a spirit of curiosity and creativity; they seek to cultivate an open intellectual outlook in our students and aim to build an educational community that encourages insightful ways of seeing and being in the world. We are dedicated to making a positive contribution to the university and to the broader social and cultural context of Singapore and the region.

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2026-03-27 Student Leaders Appre Night

Beyond Leadership: SoH Student Leaders Celebrate Community and Commitment

Published on 27 Mar 2026
2026-03-26 QS Subjects

Global Recognition: Celebrating Our Rise in the 2026 QS Rankings

Published on 26 Mar 2026
In Memoriam Eddie Kuo

In Memoriam: Professor Eddie Kuo

Published on 24 Mar 2026
2026-03-03 IdeasFest

“What Does It Mean to Be Resilient?” Bridging Medicine, Humanities and Lived Experience

Published on 06 Mar 2026
2026-03-04 New Book Hee Wai Siam2

New Book on Yunnan Garden and Nantah by Hee Wai Siam

Published on 04 Mar 2026
2026-03-04 Nantah Book Launch

Book Launch: 《云南园的前世今生：重述南大故事》Yunnan Garden, then and now : Revisiting the story of Nantah

Published on 04 Mar 2026
2026-03-04 NTU Leeds visit

NTU–Leeds 2+2: Advanced Entry to a PhD

Published on 04 Mar 2026
2026-03-02 Open House 2026

Inspiring Future Thinkers: SoH at NTU Open House 2026

Published on 02 Mar 2026
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Angel Chew Makes Waves with Silver Medal Finish at the SEA Games 2025

Published on 02 Mar 2026
2026-03-01 Lim Kim San Raulinder

Investing in Minds, Building Community: Applications Open for Lim Kim San Memorial Scholarship

Published on 01 Mar 2026
2026-02-05 History Mentor Mentee

Passing the Torch: History Sub-Club’s Mentor-Mentee Day

Published on 20 Feb 2026
2026-02-14 Festive

Community Engagement Spotlight at South West: Festive Cheers 2026

Published on 16 Feb 2026
2026-02-16 Jacob Stegenga Acting Chair

Professor Jacob Stegenga Appointed Acting Chair of NTU School of Humanities

Published on 15 Feb 2026
2026-02-10 Walsh Famagusta Book

New Book on Cultural Memory and Historical Imagination by Michael Walsh

Published on 12 Feb 2026
2026-02-05 Bowling

Striking Bonds: SoH Staff Welfare Day 2026

Published on 10 Feb 2026
2026-02-10 BFF SoH Staff Run

Humanities Hits the Ground Running at Best Foot Forward 2026!

Published on 10 Feb 2026
2026-02-09 Coffee

Brewing Bonds Over Coffee: SoH and SSS Alumni Associations co-host Specialty Coffee Appreciation Workshop

Published on 09 Feb 2026
2026-02-09 Custodians

Celebrating Our Everyday Heroes: Custodian Appreciation Day 2026

Published on 09 Feb 2026
2026-02-09 SoHAA Alumni LNY

Lohei and Lasting Connections: SoH Alumni Leaders at NTU Lunar New Year Reception 2026

Published on 09 Feb 2026
Best Foot Forward 2026

Move Together for A Great Cause - NTU Best Foot Forward 2026

Published on 28 Jan 2026

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2026-04-20 HK - Wayne Wong
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Project Sifu and Martial Arts Ecology

20 Apr 2026 02.00 PM - 04.00 PM SHHK Conference Room (05-57)
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Invisible Anatomy: Meridians and Math in Chinese Medicine

16 Apr 2026 03.30 PM - 05.00 PM SHHK Conference Room (05-57)
2026-04-09 Perception
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Perception, Memory, Imagination

09 Apr 2026 - 10 Apr 2026 SHHK Conference Room
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Book talk: Philippine Figurine: Image, Ornament, Art

06 Apr 2026 02.30 PM - 04.30 PM SHHK Conference Room (05-57)
2026-04-02 History - Darinee
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Book Talk: Sober State: Origins of Alcohol Prohibition in India (Cambridge University Press, 2026)

02 Apr 2026 03.30 PM - 05.00 PM SHHK Conference Room (05-57)
2026-03-31 Chinese - Book Talk
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Book Talk: East Asian Auteurism, Cinephilia and the Media Platform Era: Film Authorship Rethought

31 Mar 2026 03.00 PM - 05.00 PM City Book Room, 387 Joo Chiat Rd, #03-02 The Modules, S(427623)
2026-03-31 English - Geoffrey Baker
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Book Talk: Belief in Evidence and the Nineteenth-Century Novel

31 Mar 2026 03.00 PM - 04.15 PM SHHK Meeting Room 6 (04-95)
2026-03-30 Chinese - Dorothy Lau
Workshops & Classes

Rethinking Chinese Stardom In and Beyond Sinophone Media Culture: A “Linguaphonic” Paradigm

30 Mar 2026 03.00 PM - 04.30 PM
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The Law of AI Agents

30 Mar 2026 01.30 PM - 03.00 PM SHHK Meeting Room 6 (04-95)
2026-03-27 LMS - Cooper
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"Steph" or "stiff": factors influencing speech comprehension in the face of variation

27 Mar 2026 03.30 PM - 05.30 PM SHHK Seminar Room 6 (01-04)
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Daoist Studies Symposium

27 Mar 2026 02.00 PM - 06.00 PM
2026-03-26 English - Werner
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Bram Stoker’s Sources: Extraction Culture and the Circuits of Knowledge Production

26 Mar 2026 04.00 PM - 05.15 PM SHHK Meeting Room 6 (04-95)
2026-03-26 History - Ganguly
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Documenting a Freedom Struggle: Oral Histories and Indian Nationalism in Wartime South-East Asia (1940-1945)

26 Mar 2026 03.30 PM - 05.00 PM SHHK Conference Room (05-57)
John La Farge, Siva Dance: Triptych of Seated Single Figures, 1890/91. Art Institute of Chicago.
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Picturing Time: Temporality and US Imperialism in Oceania

23 Mar 2026 10.00 AM - 11.30 AM Zoom
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Book Talk: Earth’s Amphibious Transformation. The History and Present of the Oceanic Anthropocene

19 Mar 2026 04.30 PM - 06.00 PM SHHK Conference Room (05-57)
2026-03-13 English - Lee
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Critics versus Janeites

13 Mar 2026 09.30 AM - 10.45 AM Zoom
2026-03-11 Art History - Gupta
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Ca. 1945, when nothing seemed more certain than that “the towers of London, Vienna, and Paris were about to fall”

11 Mar 2026 10.00 AM - 11.30 AM Zoom
2026-03-02 Chinese Language Living Workshop
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Language as a Living System: Cognition, Data, Discourse, and Large Language Models

02 Mar 2026 02.00 PM - 05.30 PM HSS-TR+1 (HSS-B1-08)
2026-02-27 MTI - Gaenssbauer
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Translating Ye Si's 也斯 essay collection'Hui ge shi fei - Xianggang biji 灰鴿試飛：香港筆記'(The grey pigeon's pilot flight - Notes from Hong Kong)

27 Feb 2026 03.30 PM - 05.00 PM Zoom
2026-02-26 History - Prosperetti
Conferences & Seminars

Book Talk: An Anticolonial Development: Race, Schooling, and Emancipation in Twentieth-Century West Africa (Cambridge University Press, May 2026)

26 Feb 2026 04.30 PM - 06.00 PM SHHK Conference Room (05-57)

Teaching and Research Centres

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Centre for Chinese Language and Culture 中华语言文化中心
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Centre for Modern Languages
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