HCAP 2007:
Date: 24 – 31 March 2007
Venue: USP, NUS
The Harvard College in Asia Project (HCAP), founded in October 2003, consists of exchange conferences between Harvard College and selected Asian partner universities. These exchange conferences are very different from typical academic conferences: they are holistic experiences that combine academic, cultural and social activities with a strong emphasis on student-to-student Interaction. The National University of Singapore (NUS) is pleased to be chosen as a partner institution for HCAP.
The Singapore Exchange Conference (SEC) 2007 was organized by the University Scholars Programme (USP) of NUS and its student club, the University Scholars Club (USC), and was held from 25 March to 31 March 2007, during which USP students hosted 20 Harvard student participants.
The theme of the conference was "Building Communities: Harmony in Diversity". It focused on Singapore's special multi-racial, multi-cultural, and multi-religious environment and touched on how our lives are shaped by this. Harvard participants were also asked to draw comparisons with their own experiences with multi-racialism and multi-culturalism in the US, which is similarly an immigrant society.
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