BAE Yooil, Assistant Professor of Political Science, presented Making Public Policies without Evidences: ‘Threats’ and ‘Securitization’ in Public Policymaking at the 2011 Korean Association for Policy Studies (KAPS) International Conference on “Fairness in Public Policy: Efficiency, Equity and Beyond” in Seoul, Korea in June 2011.

Margaret CHAN, Assistant Professor of Theatre/Performance Studies (Practice), presented The Spirit-mediums of Singkawang: Performing Peoplehood at the International Conference on Chinese Overseas: Culture, Religions and Worldview in Hong Kong in June 2011.

CHENG Shih-Fen and Pradeep VARAKANTHAM, Assistant Professors of Information System, were speakers at the Workshop on Taxi Service Analytics held at the School of Information Systems on 15 June 2011.

Adeline CHONG, Assistant Professor of Law, presented The Scope of Exclusive Jurisdiction Clauses at the 2011 International Law Association – Asia-Pacific Regional Conference in Taipei, Taiwan in May 2011.

Davin CHOR, Assistant Professor of Economics, was awarded the Sing Lun Fellowship from October 2010 to March 2012.

CHUNG Wai-Keung, Assistant Professor of Sociology, presented Preliminary Analysis on the Policy Making Process of the Institutionalization of Social Work Profession in China at the International Conference on The Cognition and Decision of Public AdministrationinChina,in Guangzhou,China in May 2011, and Whither the Laissez-faire Economy? Hong Kong and the Development of a Knowledge Economy at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics in Madrid, Spain in June 2011.

Robert DENG, Professor of Information Systems, was General Chair at the 7th Information Security Practice and Experience Conference (ISPEC 2011) in Guangzhou, China from 30 May to 1 June 2011.

DO Quoc-Anh, Assistant Professor of Economics, presented a paper on Politicians and Directors in Social Networks: Regression Discontinuity Design Evidence from Close Elections at the Indiana University at Bloomington, the North American Econometric Society Summer Meeting in St. Louis, Michigan, USA, and the 10th journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet in Marseille, France in April, June and July 2011 respectively.

John DONALDSON, Assistant Professor of Political Science, published a new book Small Works: Poverty and Economic Development in Southwestern China, Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, in May 2011.

Christine HO, Assistant Professor of Economics, presented a paper on Optimal Disability Insurance with Informal Child Care at the 2011 Scottish Economic Association Conference in Scotland, UK in April 2011.

HOON Chang Yau, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies, presented By Race, I am Chinese; and by Grace, I am Christian: Negotiating Chineseness and Christianity in Indonesia at the International Conference on Chinese Overseas: Culture, Religions and Worldview in Hong Kong in June 2011, and Between Evangelism and Multiculturalism: The Dynamics of Christianity in Indonesia at the 31st International Society for the Sociology of Religion in France in June and July 2011.

Pasha HSIEH, Assistant Professor of Law, co-organised the 2011 International Law Association Asia-Pacific Regional Conference in Taipei in May 2011.

Kenneth HUANG, Assistant Professor of Strategic Management, was awarded the Sing Lun Fellowship from October 2010 to March 2012.

Howard HUNTER, Professor of Law, published the revised 25th Anniversary Edition of Modern Law of Contracts (2 vols., Thomson Reuters 2011), and presented Singapore Contract Law in an Interdependent World of Commerce: The Example of the Convention on the International Sale of Goods at the Singapore Academy of Law conference on 24 February 2011, and From Coronations to Sand Bans; Force Majeure and the Frustration Excuse in the 21st Century at the Journal of Contract Law conference in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia on 10 June 2011. He was Visiting Professor at the Central European University, Budapest from 18 to 29 April 2011, where he delivered an intensive LLM course on comparative sales law.

Eduard JORDAAN, Assistant Professor of Political Science, presented Global Justice and the Ethics of Care at the 8th Convention of the Central and East European International Studies Association in Istanbul, Turkey in June 2011.

Robert KAUFFMAN, Visiting Professor of Information Systems & Strategy, was a keynote speaker and spoke on Who will ‘Bell the Cat’? IT, Channel Conflicts, Transparency and the Theory of Strategic Decommoditisation at the 5th China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM 2011) in Harbin, China from 25 to 26 June 2011.

Ivy LAU, Assistant Professor of Psychology (Practice), presented Influence of Inter Subjective Perceived Norm on Mate Preference at the Association for Psychological Science 23rd Annual Convention in Washington DC, USA in May 2011.

Jack Tsen-Ta LEE, Assistant Professor of Law, presented A Presence of the Past: The Legal Protection of Singapore’s Archaeological Heritage at the 8th Asian Law Institute (AsLI) Conference with the theme “Law in a Sustainable Asia” held in Fukuoka, Japan on 26 to 27 May 2011. He also chaired a panel on cultural diversity, and represented SMU at an open forum for AsLI member institutions.

Angela LEUNG, Assistant Professor of Psychology, presented Physically (And Psychologically) Enacting Metaphors for Creativity Promotes Creative Performance and Cultural Differences and Cultural Switching on Social Networking Sites at the Association for Psychological Science 23rd Annual Convention in Washington DC, USA in May 2011.

LIM Ee-Peng, Professor of Information Systems, was Programme Co-Chair of the Workshop on Data Mining for Healthcare Management at the 15th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2011) in Shenzhen, China on 24 to 27 May 2011.

LIM Kian Guan, Professor of Finance, was awarded the OUB Professorial Chair from October 2010 to March 2014.

Ian MACDUFF, Associate Professor of Law (Practice) and Director, Centre for Dispute Resolution, attended an invitation-only forum on “Rethinking Negotiation Pedagogy”, cohosted by the Dispute Resolution Institute of Hamline University School of Law, the JAMS Foundation, in Beijing on 5 to 10 May 2011, and hosted and presented at a workshop for the International Mediation Institute [The Hague] to establish accreditation criteria for theIMI’sIndependentStandardsCommission on 20 to 23 May 2011.

T. Brian MOONEY, Associate Professor of Philosophy (Practice) and Mark NOWACKI, Assistant Professor of Philosophy (eds.), published a new book Understanding Teaching and Learning: Classic Texts on Education by Augustine, Aquinas, Newman and Mill, UK, Imprint Academic, in May 2011.

Grace PARK, Assistant Professor of Psychology, presented The Effect of Different Team Discussion Styles on Inter-team Cooperation at the 26th Annual Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology Conference in Chicago, USA in April 2011.

Clara PORTELA, Assistant Professor of Political Science, presented EU-US Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy After September 11th at the 18th International Conference of the Council for European Studies 2011 in Barcelona, Spain in June 2011.

Tobias RETTIG, Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, presented Commemorating the Vietnamese First World War Dead, 1915-2011: French Hegemony Uncontested? at the Association for Asian Studies – (AAS)-International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) Joint Conference in Hawaii, USA in April 2011, and In the Capillaries of a French Imperial Nation-State in Crisis: Vietnamese Workers and Soldiers in Shanghai and France, 1940-46: Microcosms of Things to Come? at the Vietnam in the Cold War: New Perspectives and Sources Conference organised by Hawaii Pacific University, Hawaii, USA in April 2011.

Christie SCOLLON, Associate Professor of Psychology, presented To Be Happy or Rich? Culture, Context-Sensitivity, and the Good Life at the Association for Psychological Science 23rd Annual Convention in Washington DC, USA in May 2011.

Kirpal SINGH, Associate Professor of English Literature, presented a keynote address at the Creativity and Change Conference organised by the American Creativity Association in Florida, USA in March and April 2011. He was also an invited speaker for the Roundtable Meeting on “Ethnic Literatures and Transnationalism” organised by the United States Chapter of the International Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies and Association for Multi-Ethnic in Florida, USA in April 2011.

Eugene KB TAN, Assistant Professor of Law, published “Keeping Politics and Religion Separate in the Public Square” in The Politics of Religion in South and South East Asia (Routledge, 2011), and presented a paper on regulating foreign domestic workers in Singapore at the Law & Society Association annual meeting in San Francisco in June 2011. He appeared on a live panel discussion “Question Time with the Prime Minister” on 12 April 2011, broadcast on Channel NewsAsia, and commented on Singapore’s general election for the local and foreign media.

Melvyn Teo, Co-Director of Centre for Asset Securitisation and Management in Asia (CASA), Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics, Director of BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre and Professor of Finance, chaired the SKBI Public Lecture on Global Economic Outlook for H2, 2011 and beyond by Dr Nouriel Roubini, on 13 June 2011. TU Jun, Assistant Professor of Finance, was awarded the Sing Lun Fellowship from April 2011 to March 2012.

TU Jun, Assistant Professor of Finance, was awarded the Sing Lun Fellowship from April 2011 to March 2012.

Kapil TULI, Assistant Professor of Marketing, was awarded the Sing Lun Fellowship from April 2011 to March 2012.

Ann VOGEL, Assistant Professor of Sociology, presented Film Festival Sprawl Sign of Global Modernity? at the Annual Conference of the American Association of Geographers in Washington, USA in April 2011.

Serena WEE, Assistant Professor of Psychology, presented When Openness to Experience and Neuroticism are Related to Occupational Choice: An Interactional Approach at the 9th Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference (IOP) in Brisbane, Australia in June 2011.

YU Jun, Director, Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics and Professor of Economics and Finance, presented Bias on Estimating Multivariate and Univariate Diffusions at the Interdisciplinary Workshop on “Econometric and Statistical Modelling of Multivariate Time Series” held at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium in May 2011; Dating the Timeline of Financial Bubbles During the Subprime Crisis at the Inaugural Shanghai Econometrics Workshop held in Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China in June 2011; and Testing for Multiple Bubbles at the Frontiers in Financial Econometrics Workshop held at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia in July 2011.

Forrest ZHANG, Assistant Professor of Sociology, presented Local Government Policies and Local Paths of Agrarian Transition in China at the Second Conference of Chinese Scholars of Public Administration in Xi’an, China in June 2011.