hybrid presentations, screenings, and a roundtable discussion about otherness in Singapore—past, present, and otherwise.

The Southeast Asian island city-state of Singapore is known for being exceptionally multiracial, multilingual, multicultural, and multireligious, and many commentators insist that a Singaporean can look or sound like anything. However, in practice, this potentially boundless difference is regimented, simplified, and constrained in various ways. Participants in this series will ask: what does it mean to be other in global Singapore — whether officially or not? Participants will share reflections from their research, creative and professional practice, activism, and advocacy focused on otherness — official and unofficial, both their own and/or others’.