Programme
23 February, 2021
Online
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9.00am - 9.05am
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9.05am - 10.40am
9.05am - 9.10am
9.10am - 9.40am
9.40am - 10.10am
10.10am - 10.40am
10.40am - 12.45pm
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10.40am - 10.45am
10.45am - 11.15am
11.15am - 11.45am
11.45am - 12.15pm
12.15pm - 12.45pm
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12.45pm - 3.20pm
12.45pm - 12.50pm
12.50pm - 1.20pm
1.20pm - 1.50pm
1.50pm - 2.20pm
2.20pm - 2.50pm
2.50pm - 3.20pm
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3.20pm - 4.25pm
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3.20pm - 3.25pm
3.25pm - 3.55pm
3.55pm - 4.25pm
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Welcome Remarks
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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.