Day 1: 5 September 2024 

Keynote Presentation (Chair: Ng Bee Chin) 
08:15 – 09:00 Registration 
09:00 – 09:10 Yeo Puay Hwa Jesvin
Deputy Associate Provost (Strategy) 
Welcome Speech 
09:10 – 10:00 Hong Ying-Yi The Impact of Multiple Cultural Exposure on Human Psychology 
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break  
Panel 1: Multilingualism and cognition (Chair: Kastoori d/o Kalaivanan) 
10:30 – 11:00 Georgios Christopoulos  The role of multilingual experiences in social interactions: Cooperativeness and perceived social support 
11:00 – 11:30 Setoh Pei Pei Filial Piety: A Transcultural Journey Across Disciplines 
11:30 – 12:00 Nastassja Lopes Fischer and Nadhilla Velda Melia The Relationship between Multilingualism and Creativity from Adolescence to Adulthood 
12:00 – 12:30 Discussion 
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch 
13:30 – 15:30 Poster presentations  
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break 
Panel 2: Multilingualism and cognition (Chair: Jasper Sim) 
16:00- 16:30 Xu Hong Effect of Social Cues on Trust in Speaker and Content on Social Media 
16:30-17:00 Ng Bee Chin In Singlish we trust? Real news, fake news, trust and language. 
17:00-17:30 Discussion 

Day 2: 6 September 2024 

Panel 1: Multilingualism and diversity (Chair: Hong Ying-yi) 
09:00 – 09:30 Jasper Sim Acquiring and processing multi-accent Singapore English 
09:30 – 10:00 Luke Lu On the social memory of the Speak Mandarin Campaign and historical accounts of living through it 
10:00 – 10:30 Nala Lee A view of Baba Malay’ endangerment through the lens of multilingualism and its loss 
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break 
11:00 -11:30 Goh Geok Yian and John Miksic Categories of social complexity in texts and artifacts 
11:30 -12:00 Patrick Williams Subcultures as multicultural phenomena 
12:00 -12:30 Discussion 
12:30 -13:30 Lunch 
Panel 2: Multilingualism and digital humanities (Chair: Tan Ying Ying) 
13:30 – 14:00 Setsuko Yokoyama Accented DH: Localized Analytical Frameworks for Singlish Automated Speech Recognition. 
14:00 – 14:30 Erik Cambria and Xulang Zhang  Multilingual Emotion Recognition: Discovering the Variations of Lexical Semantics between Languages 
14:30 – 15:00 Rae Koh, Tan Ying Ying, and Chng Eng Siong Emotional expressions of bilingual speakers in spontaneous speech: Evidence from Singapore English 
15:00 – 15:30 Dennis Tay Machine learning meets metaphor – a case study of metaphor association rules in trauma vs. non-trauma talk 
15:30 – 16:00 Discussion 
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break 
16:30 – 17:30 Round table discussion (Chairs: Jesvin Yeo and Hedren Sum)