Singapore War Crimes Trials Workshop

Dr Cheah Wui Ling, a USP alum who previously taught at USP and also the co-founder of the Singapore War Crimes Trials Project, has reached out to offer USP students an opportunity to participate in the “Singapore War Crimes Trials Workshop”.

This three-week workshop is an online not-for-credit creative writing programme for USP students interested in the trials. The idea and planning for this workshop comes from research fellow, Lim Jia Yi, who is also a USP alum. Workshop participants will learn about the Singapore war crimes trials and its broader historical context/repercussions, via historical materials and literature/film. They would then produce fiction and non-fiction creative works in response, that may be featured on the Project’s web portal. There is no limit to the genre or type of work produced. The broad weekly themes for the workshop are:

1) the trials in Singapore;
2) the Singapore trials in the broader history of post-WWII war crimes trials of the Japanese; and
3) the regional context for the war crimes trials, and the trials’ modern implications.