IPS Conference on Managing Diversity in Singapore

The conference brings together scholars, policy makers and community leaders to examine the realities, challenges and potentials of increasing diversity in Singapore. How can current and future policy measures enable us to navigate this terrain? Dr Janil Puthucheary, Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information and Ministry of Education, will be the Guest of Honour for this event.

There will be four panels. The first panel will deal with the management of multicultural Singapore and will discuss how we navigate cultural diversities and multilingualism. The second panel relates to new differences that come with globalisation. We will focus on how value pluralism and the differences that arise from socioeconomic class can be managed. Then we look at the desire for inclusion, which is integral in the discourse on diversity. Here we examine what counts as inclusion for the disabled and how marginal artists find voice, specifically through Youtube. The final panel examines how our diversities can be harnessed for a better Singapore.

Please click here to view the programme.


Downloads

• Report on IPS Conference on Managing Diversity in Singapore
• Presentation Slides of Dr Mathew Mathews, Managing Diversity in Singapore: Historical Foundations and Prospects
• Presentation Slides of Dr Lai Ah Eng, Navigating Disconnects and Divides in Singapore's Cultural Diversity
• Presentation Slides of Associate Professor Tan Ying Ying, Managing Multilingualism
• Presentation Slides of Associate Professor Tan Ern Ser, Class Issues in Singapore: Implications and Solutions
  
• Presentation Slides of Dr Johannis Auri Bin Abdul Aziz, Negotiating Singapore's New Pluralism 
• Presentation Slides of Dr Justin Lee, What Counts as Inclusion for People with Disabilities at Work?
• Presentation Slides of Dr Liew Kai Khiun, Giving Voice through Youtube

Media Coverage

• The Straits Times.  2016. Managing Singapore’s new diversities. 12 August
• The Straits Times. 2016. Demonising racist netizens not fruitful: Academics. 6 August
• The Straits Times. 2016. ‘Use stick, not just carrot’ to spur hiring of disabled. 6 August
• Channel NewsAsia. 2016. Singapore Tonight: Diversity is a strength. 5 August

Additional Information

• Photos from the conference are on Flickr. Please credit the Institute of Policy Studies when publishing the photos.