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Work In Progress Seminar
Thai Sci-Fi Comics
Ms Birgit Buergi
30th October 2014, 6pm
Level 1 Common Lounge
Register at tembusu.nus.edu.sg
‘On top of Volcano Olympus, at a height of 26 kilometres (six times higher than Mount Everest), Captain Ariya, unknowingly, is holding Dr Darin’s hand. Dr Yoshi glance at the couple and smiles secretly thinking of the day he took his own lady there’.
This passage is taken from a graphic science fiction novel in the Thai language. It’s part of collaborative sci-art project that embraces the ‘Science, technology and innovation encluturation’ and the ‘Youth-driven innovation’ motto, which the Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN adopted in 2010. In this talk, I will Show how the power of sci-fi comics can be used to analyze Thailand’s market-oriented research communities and their production of a ‘new breed of scientists and engineers’.
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