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) |