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Kenneth Paul Tan, PhD (Cambridge)
Talent100 Professor of Politics, Film, and Cultural Studies
Hong Kong Baptist University
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Kenneth Paul Tan speaks at Singapore Writers Festival to launch Movies To Save Our World
Penguin Random House SEA organized a dialogue to launch Kenneth Paul Tan's Movies To Save Our World, on 5 November 2022, 8-9pm, at The...

Kenneth Paul Tan
Nov 5, 20221 min read
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Kenneth Paul Tan analyzes the significance of zombie movies, reads from his latest book
Why are zombie movies so popular all over the world today? Like the zombies they feature, these movies never seem to die out. They keep...

Kenneth Paul Tan
Sep 7, 20221 min read
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Kenneth Paul Tan appears as guest in wide-ranging interview on Youtube channel Breaking The Spell
Recorded on 12 July 2022 Can Movies Save the World? A Conversation with Professor Kenneth Paul Tan Kenneth Paul Tan discusses his latest...

Kenneth Paul Tan
Jul 12, 20221 min read
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Kenneth Paul Tan speaks about movies on IG live chat with Penguin
Kenneth Paul Tan, author of Movies To Save Our World: Imagining Poverty, Inequality, and Environmental Destruction in the 21st Century...

Kenneth Paul Tan
Jul 8, 20221 min read
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Kenneth Paul Tan's latest book Movies To Save Our World (Penguin, 2022) out today
Available at bookstores like: 1. Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Movies.../dp/9815058312/ref=sr_1_1... 2. Kinokuniya:...

Kenneth Paul Tan
May 31, 20222 min read
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Kenneth Paul Tan analyzes the movie Parasite, reads from his latest book Movies To Save Our World
What does the Oscar-winning movie Parasite tell us about deeply unequal societies, social mobility, and crisis? Kenneth Paul Tan reads...

Kenneth Paul Tan
May 31, 20221 min read
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Kenneth Paul Tan's book on COVID-19 in Singapore published today by Palgrave Macmillan
Singapore's First Year of COVID-19: Public Health, Immigration, the Neoliberal State, and Authoritarian Populism, edited by Kenneth Paul...

Kenneth Paul Tan
Apr 13, 20222 min read
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Kenneth Paul Tan recommends Netflix's The English Game for insights on elitism in Singapore
Kenneth Paul Tan recommended Episode One of the Netflix series on the history of association football, The English Game (2022), as a...

Kenneth Paul Tan
Apr 10, 20221 min read
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Kenneth Paul Tan interviewed for Seoul National University's 3-part documentary on meritocracy
The documentary is titled "2021: Do You Live in a Fair World?". Kenneth Paul Tan appears in Episode 2 on 8 November 2021 ("The...

Kenneth Paul Tan
Nov 8, 20211 min read
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Kenneth Paul Tan talks about Penguin book project "Movies To Save Our World", 1 June 2021
Kenneth Paul Tan gave a presentation on his new book project Movies To Save Our World: Imagining Poverty, Inequality, and Revolution in...

Kenneth Paul Tan
Jun 1, 20211 min read
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Wrote a review of Irene Lim's 90 Years in Singapore, for JMBRAS, December 2020
Article can be found at https://www.mbras.org.my/journal.html 90 Years in Singapore, by Irene Lim, Pagesetters Services, 2020, 248pp,...

Kenneth Paul Tan
Jan 3, 20213 min read
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Wrote the Foreword to Yee Jenn Jong's book Journey In Blue, 17 October 2020
Kenneth Paul Tan wrote the foreword to former Workers' Party Nominated Member of Parliament Yee Jenn Jong's book Journey In Blue: A Peek...

Kenneth Paul Tan
Oct 17, 20203 min read
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Wrote an opinion piece on freedom from clothes and the pandemic, The Hindu, 15 August 2020
Article available here: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/cover/post-covid-19-clothes-dont-maketh-a-man/article32351049.ece

Kenneth Paul Tan
Aug 15, 20201 min read
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Wrote an opinion piece on the durian, The Hindu, 8 August 2020
Article available here: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/takeaway/a-king-called-durian/article32286399.ece

Kenneth Paul Tan
Aug 8, 20201 min read
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Collaborated with Arts Group Together To Gather on Quarantine Dreams, June/July 2020
Quarantine Dreamsis a series of four instalments of video letters and monologues that are reflections on inequalities, systemic...

Kenneth Paul Tan
Jun 20, 202016 min read
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Interviewed about his book Singapore: Identity, Brand Power, 13 June 2019
Singapore: Identity, Brand, Power (Cambridge University Press, 2019) can be purchased from Cambridge University Press at:...

Kenneth Paul Tan
Jun 13, 20201 min read
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Wrote a commentary on the pandemic and Singapore's migrant worker dormitories, The Hindu, 9 May 2020
Article available here: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/know/when-a-pandemic-entered-singapores-working-class-dorms/article315...

Kenneth Paul Tan
May 9, 20201 min read
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Interviewed about Migrant Workers in Singapore, for SocialService.Sg Podcast, 1 May 2020
Excerpts from "Moral Panic and the Migrant Worker Folk Devil in Neo-Authoritarian Singapore", a conversation with Kenneth Paul Tan,...

Kenneth Paul Tan
May 1, 20201 min read
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Research on ethnic stereotypes cited by Nominated MP Lim Sun Sun, The Straits Times, 3 Aug 2019
"As scholar Kenneth Paul Tan has identified, Malays tend to be portrayed as buffoons, Indians as disagreeable and fearsome, and Eurasians...

Kenneth Paul Tan
Aug 3, 20191 min read
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Lectured on "Governing Global-City Singapore", 14 August 2018
At the launch of the paperback edition of Governing Global-City Singapore: Legacies and Futures After Lee Kuan Yew (Routledge, 2018)....

Kenneth Paul Tan
Aug 14, 20181 min read
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