Programme

Welcome Address

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Panel 1: Public Policy and Public Administration

Chair: Jiajia Zhou (University of Toronto)

Discussant: TBC

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Opening Remarks by Chair

Sam Downes (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy). Has the UK become a Managerial State?.

Assel Mussagulova (Nanyang Technological University). Bureaucratic Professionalism and Quality of Public Good Provision.

Quah Say Jye (Nanyang Technological University). ‘Bread-and-Butter’ Politics: A Discursive Approach to PAP Dominance in Singapore (1965-1984).

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Panel 2: Identity and Political Participation
Chair: Jesslene Lee (National University of Singapore)
Discussant: Dr Ryu Yongwook (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy)

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Opening Remarks by Chair

Zhi Ming Sim (York University). From Acceptance to Rejection: Understanding Malaysia’s Shifting Approach to Displaced Rohingya Refugees.

Pradeep Krishnan (National University of Singapore). Audience Predispositions and Securitisation: An Experimental Study.

Leah Yu Du (University of Auckland). First-generation Chinese Immigrants’ Political Conceptions in New Zealand: An Interpretive Approach.

Aika Sato (Peking University, Yenching Academy). The Transnationalism-Nationalism Dichotomy in the “Comfort Women” Debate.

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Panel 3: Nationalism
Chair: Joana Ferreira (National University of Singapore)

Discussant: A/P Terence Lee (National University of Singapore)

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Opening Remarks by Chair

Daniel Balazs (Nanyang Technological University). Wars, Fought and Unfought: China and the Sino-Indian Border Dispute.

Bailey Marsheck (Peking University, Yenching Academy). Public Opinion in Modern Geopolitical Conflict: Lessons from the China-US Case.

Kim Soyoung (Nanyang Technological University). The Contestation and Decline of Japan's Strategic Culture.

Brian Charles (National University of Singapore). ‘Vox Populi, Vox Dei?’ A Genealogy of Populism: 1890-2020.

Isaac Neo (Nanyang Technological University). Pragmatic Resistance as Counter-Conduct: Civil Society Advocacy in Singapore.

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Panel 4: International Political Economy
Chair: Zhai Zheng (National University of Singapore)
Discussant: Dr Chonghyun Choi (National University of Singapore)

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Opening Remarks by Chair

Susan Kurdli (Nanyang Technological University). Globally Integrated Statism: How State-owned Enterprises are Driving Development through Outward Investment.

Barbora Valockova (Nanyang Technological University). ASEAN’s Limited Centrality in Connectivity: Managing Infrastructure Competition between China and Japan.