Events
Learn about sustainability and SMU's sustainability efforts by participating in events happening on campus throughout the year.
Events Calendar
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Reflections on Design, Ethics and Inclusion Humanising TechnologyWe created technology to enrich and enhance our lives, but have we ever paused to reflect on whether we are still in the driver’s seat, or if the very tools we built are now subtly steering us? Join Professor Sun Sun Lim at the launch of Humanising Technology: Reflections on Design, Ethics and Inclusion, a collection of 50 of her opinion editorials that interrogate the multifaceted social impacts of technology. Drawing from over two decades of research and public engagement, she offers insights into how technology intersects with human values and societal norms. It is an essential read for anyone interested in understanding how we can navigate the digital age responsibly, ensuring that technological progress aligns with and enhances our shared humanity. The session will feature a fireside chat moderated by Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at SMU’s College of Integrative Studies Dr Aidan M. Wong. Learn more |
Thu, 27 Nov to Thu, 27 Nov 2025
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Open to Public |
Inaugural GRASFI Asia ConferenceThis new annual conference series has a focus on sustainable finance and investment research relevant to Asia. The consistently above global average economic growth and leadership in sustainable finance and investment innovation in Asia is bringing capital providers to this region in larger numbers and with more long term commitment. As the capital looks for destinations here, the academic community must play a critical role in providing knowledge about the quality and impact of capital allocation choices. GRASFI Asia seeks to bring academic insights and thought leadership on sustainable finance and investment, from Asia and about Asia. |
Thu, 4 Dec to Fri, 5 Dec 2025
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Open to Public |
Past Events
Mumbai Dreams: Beyond Chaos to Common Ground through Experience Improvement Districts (XID)
India’s cities are growing and evolving rapidly—and invariably struggling under the pressure. Mumbai for example is the 17th wealthiest city in the world, but ranks 118th for Quality of Life—for various reasons. Achieving cities that are both liveable and sustainable demands urgency and fresh, systemic, collaborative thinking. The Donut Economics Model and Experience Improvement Districts (XID) offer frameworks to help Mumbai and other fast-growing cities realise their social, economic, and environmental potential. They highlight strategies to raise quality of life and well-being while minimising pollution, using resources efficiently, enhancing circularity, and staying fiscally responsible. The seminar will focus on how to apply these approaches in rapidly evolving urban contexts.
Speaker: Manas Rath, Founder of LEAP Cities and Mumbai Donut CoLAB
Moderator: Aidan Wong, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies (Education); Urban Fellow (Urban Experiences), SMU Urban Institute, Singapore Management University
12th NTHU-UNSW-SMU Symposium on Sustainable Finance and Economics
Join us for the final instalment of this year’s NTHU-UNSW-SMU Symposium on Sustainable Finance and Economics, a quarterly virtual platform where leading scholars from Asia and beyond share cutting-edge research on sustainability, climate change, corporate social responsibility, environmental protection, and social welfare and growth. This 12th edition features Nobel Laureate Philippe Aghion (Collège de France & LSE) as keynote speaker. Aghion was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his joint work with Peter Howitt in transforming the notion of creative destruction into a rigorous analytical framework that explains how innovation drives sustained economic growth.
Intergenerational Educational Mobility During the Twentieth Century
Intergenerational educational mobility, capturing the extent to which children’s education is associated with their parents’ education, has become a major global policy discussion. Studying its long-term patterns across countries remains difficult, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), due to limited early twentieth-century data. Analyzing about 53.7 million observations from 92 countries using mainly IPUMS census data, we find that recent cohorts exhibit increasing educational mobility across various world regions, with post-Soviet countries as exceptions.
Speaker: Hossain Mobarak, Assistant Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
Moderator: Liu Jaiqi, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Singapore Management University
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