Events

Does Disability Really Make Us Worse-Off?

Is disability bad? We certainly seem to think so. Most of us try to avoid disabilities in ourselves and our children, and our governments spend considerable resources on preventing and attempting to…

Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley

Most of us will work for most of our waking hours, for most of our life. Over the past forty years, highly skilled workers have been devoting more time and energy to their jobs than ever before,…

The Cloud is a Factory: An Environmental History of Computing

From Charles Babbage's Difference Engine to Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to the emergence of the ecological sciences and the modern petrochemical industry, information technologies have…

Disruptions in Biopharma and the Lifesciences - Surviving the Innovations of the Early 21st Century

The last 2 decades have seen giant leaps and transformations in the biopharma and lifesciences industry. At the start of the 21st Century, drug hunting and drug making still bore many of the vestiges…

9th Annual SMU-Ikeda Peace and Harmony Lecture - Achieving Peace Among the Major Powers

Geopolitics today is fraught with crisis, threats, and fear. The Ukraine War is a proxy war between Russia and the US, the two largest nuclear powers. US-China tensions threaten to escalate to war,…

Construal of Suffering Through Spaces Associated with Death

Through the autoethnographic aspects of her research in death studies, Khyati aims to discuss how death and suffering within the cultural, institutional, and ritual-based spaces associated with death…

How Much Happier Would You Be If You Were Richer?

We often think that money is synonymous with happiness. But is it? And if it is, how much happier would we be if we suddenly become richer over night? In this lecture, I will be talking about the…

CIS Thinks Big Dreams Big 2023

The inaugural CIS Thinks Big Dreams Big marks the start of a new academic year and welcomes our pioneer batch of students.

A Cool History of Asia: Technologies, Society and the Environment

Cooling technologies have revolutionised the modern world. Innocuous machines like electric fans, air-conditioners, and refrigerators have redesigned our homes, transformed our diets, and preserved…

Youth Ecosperity Dialogue (YED) 2023

Connect with global sustainability leaders and engage in a dynamic dialogue that creates space for new conversations on sustainability and prosperity!

Youth and the Law, Ethics and Morality - How does it all fit in?

This talk is presented by the co-authors of Youth and the Law. Youth and the Law is a book which surfaces common legal (and ethical and moral) issues faced by young people through analysing and…

Wealth, poverty, and virtue: Adam Smith’s case for (and against) the market

Adam Smith is famous today as a champion of free markets. But on what grounds did he, in fact, defend market society?