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Conference Presentations by Postgraduate
Researcher
By Ngoi Hui Chien The central theme that
undergirds the research of
Ngoi Hui Chien, a
postgraduate research
student in the Department of
English, is how the Japanese
Empire is represented in
contemporary English novels.
In the past few months, Ngoi
has presented his
dissertation research virtually
Ngoi Hui Chien, Masters student, at two international
Department of English UM conferences, namely the 1st

Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Conference organised by conference analysed Tan Twan Eng’s The Gift of Rain (2007),
Harvard University (6–8 April 2023) and the Global a novel about the Japanese occupation of Malaya. The
Complicities Symposium organised by the Technical Global Complicities Symposium was equally an
University of Dresden (5–6 June 2023). The Southeast Asian interdisciplinary event. At the symposium, Ngoi presented a
Studies Graduate Conference was a pre-read conference paper about Jackie Copleton’s A Dictionary of Mutual
whereby the panelists were required to submit their full Understanding (2015), which depicts America’s atomic
conference papers in advance so that the attendees could bombing of Nagasaki. In the paper, Ngoi examines the
understand the topics before the event. The conference ambivalent hibakusha victimhood experienced by the
brought together scholarly research from different fields in Japanese protagonist. The papers were derived from one of
the humanities and social sciences. Ngoi’s paper for the the chapters in Ngoi’s dissertation.

Virtual Postgraduate Colloquium Explores

Media, Culture, and Human Development

The Department of Media and Communication Studies, Chaired by Mr. Juang Rudianto Putra and Associate Professor
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (UM) and the Faculty of Dr. Kemtong Sinwongsuwat, the colloquium featured
Liberal Arts, Prince Songkla University (PSU Hatyai) engaging discussions and insightful presentations from the
successfully conducted a virtual postgraduate colloquium participating students. The postgraduate students delved
June 21, 2023. The event took place virtually through the into various facets of media and communication studies,
Zoom platform. The colloquium provided an excellent highlighting their research contributions to understanding
platform for 12 PhD students to showcase their cutting-edge the profound impact of media and culture on human
research topics, each centered around the themes of media, development.
culture, and human development.

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