HASS faculty represent a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
The Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) cluster is a vibrant community of research scholars and educators strongly supported by a dedicated staff of administrators. Recognising the value of a multi-dimensional education for success in every field of endeavor, HASS provides SUTD undergraduates with grounding in the methods of social and cultural inquiry, in rigorous evaluation of truth clai
13/07/2023
Dr Nilanjan Raghunath has been awarded the Fulbright Research Scholar Award and Grant for 2023. Congratulations! https://hass.sutd.edu.sg/research/research-highlights/dr-nilanjan-raghunath-awarded-the-fulbright-research-scholar-award-and-grant-for-2023
26/05/2023
Heartiest congratulations to Dr Zhao Zhenxing for being awarded the Prestigious Fulbright Awards for the Scholar-in-Residence Program 2023-2024! https://hass.sutd.edu.sg/research/research-highlights/dr-zhenxing-zhao-awarded-prestigious-fulbright-awards-for-the-scholar-in-residence-program-2023-2024
04/05/2023
*Research Highlights*: Dr. Rhema Hokama publishes new book Devotional Experience and Erotic Knowledge by Oxford University Press. Read about it here! https://hass.sutd.edu.sg/research/research-highlights/dr-rhema-hokama-publishes-new-book-devotional-experience-and-erotic-knowledge-by-oxford-university-press
21/02/2023
The Language and Social Cognition Lab held an on-site training workshop on the use of the NIRSport2 system that measures brain activity for neuroimaging research on 14 February 2022. Find out more about the NIRSport2 system here at https://hass.sutd.edu.sg/education/teaching-highlights/workshop-on-nirsport2-portable-fnirs !
Workshop on NIRSport2 (Portable FNIRS) The Language and Social Cognition Lab held an on-site training workshop on the use of the NIRSport2 system that measures brain activity for neuroimaging research on 14 February 2022. NIRSport2 by NIRx is an advanced fNIRS system to measure hemodynamic neuro-activation in the cerebral cortex using co...
12/01/2023
HASS is proud to have hosted postgraduate students from Hong Kong Baptist University School of Communication on 5 January 2023 as part of their study trip to kick-start the new year 😊https://hass.sutd.edu.sg/files/2023/01/HASS-is-proud-to-host-postgraduate-students-from-Hong-Kong-Baptist-University-School-of-Communication-on-5-January-2023-as-part-of-their-study-trip-in-Singapore-this-year.pdf
14/12/2022
2 in 3 S’pore residents not reporting scams on messaging platforms: WhatsApp survey Instead of reporting the incident, those surveyed blocked the sender, deleted the message or ignored it. Read more at straitstimes.com.
14/10/2022
Read Prof Sun Sun Lim’s op-ed on the how the liability of social media platforms for online content may be reassessed in light of the U.K.’s Molly Russell inquiry.
Online safety and social media liability: Has the tide turned? Last week, a United Kingdom coroner's court ruled that British teen Molly Russell died in 2017 "from an act of self-harm while suffering from depression and the negative effects of online content". The coroner determined that the social media content contributed to her death in a "more than minimal....
29/07/2022
The annual international ADHO Digital Humanities conference is currently taking place from 25-29 July in Tokyo (fully online). HASS Assistant Professor Setsuko Yokoyama leads its Social Media team, including the year-long programming efforts featuring " ." Check out Digital Humanities works from around the world via 22 short video clips (https://dh2022.adho.org/sns_programming), which mark the occasion of the very first ADHO DH conference held in Asia.
Also of note are additional contributions from the conference attendees that expand on the efforts initiated by Professor Yokoyama and her team. You can check out the ongoing responses via Twitter feeds, starting from this post here: https://twitter.com/DH2022_Tokyo/status/1549740913378951169.
22/07/2022
The book 'Celluloid Colony' by Dr Sandeep Ray has been shortlisted for the EuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize for the best academic book on Southeast Asia. Congratulations! https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feuroseas2022.org%2Fprogram%2Fbook-prize&data=05%7C01%7Cjane_zhang%40sutd.edu.sg%7Cd1191fe8cb3145dba33c08da6b8d0431%7C3476b776e9904f72b95062489831623d%7C0%7C0%7C637940550653466417%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=249rQwkR75L3mwrmEV2S3%2BeB1Bc%2BkORUYPUnuqMymMU%3D&reserved=0