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Title: \u2018Nation and Nation Building\u2019<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n Abstract<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/u>Human beings have a sense of shared identity when they work and live in a community.\u00a0 National identity refers to such shared identity of people living in a common territory called the nation-state, and nation refers to the community of people.\u00a0 \u2018Nation\u2019 as used today refers to a modern nation, a concept that has evolved in European history. The concept of a nation as the predecessor of a modern nation was in use in Europe at least as early as in the 16th<\/sup>\u00a0century.\u00a0 It refers to the cultural and political elites and not to the rest of the population.\u00a0 The distinction was social and political rather than ethnic and linguistic. The 19th<\/sup>\u00a0and 20th<\/sup>\u00a0century witness the emergence of two influential concepts of \u2018nation\u2019; one is based on citizenship and the other is based on race, culture, language, religion and common history.\u00a0 Their corresponding ideologies are civic nationalism and ethnic nationalism. Globalization has some features very different from the last two centuries.\u00a0 The new historical context suggests that it may be fruitful to explore possible new meanings of the \u2018nation\u2019. This seminar aims to view the nation in the historical context of globalization, to reflect on the past, and to suggest perspectives to analyse \u201cthe nation\u201d and to propose approaches to guide our thinking in looking forward.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n About the speaker<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Dr Michael Heng has held academic appointments in Australia, the Netherlands and at 6 universities in Asia.\u00a0He spends most of his working life doing teaching and research at universities. \u00a0In between, he has worked as a software engineer at a transnational company, a research scientist at the Dutch research agency TNO, and an associate editor of a business weekly magazine. He has published five books. His teaching and research interests are in business strategy, electronic business, supply chain, globalisation, Asian modernisation, and Nation Building.\u00a0He was a former Adjunct Professor at IKMAS for two years and currently is a Visiting Professor at Chiang Mai University, Thailand<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Title: \u2018Nation and Nation Building\u2019 Date: 15 March 2017 Time: 2.30pm \u2013 4.30pm Venue: Bilik Seminar IKMAS Speaker: Dr. Heng Siam-Heng (Visiting Professor at Chiang …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-1734","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","newscat-seminar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
\n Date: 15 March 2017<\/strong>
\n Time: 2.30pm \u2013 4.30pm
\n<\/strong>Venue: Bilik Seminar IKMAS<\/strong>
\n Speaker: Dr. Heng Siam-Heng (Visiting Professor at Chiang Mai University, Thailand)<\/strong><\/p>\n