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The Sociology Graduate Students’ Committee is happy to announce the 2nd installment of the Sociology Movie Screening. This time we will be screening Hard Candy, . The rest of the movies to be screened for the remainder of the semester will be announced shortly. In the meantime, we leave you with the film’s synopsis, trailer video link, and other information below:
Screening Information:
Date 10 March 2009, Tuesday
Time 6:00 PM
Place TBA
HARD CANDY
Synopsis:
A smart, charming teenage girl, Hayley probably shouldn’t be going to a local coffee shop to meet Jeff, a 30-something fashion photographer she met on the Internet. But Hayley’s ready to have fun, and soon she’s mixing screwdrivers at Jeff’s place and stripping for an impromptu photo shoot. It’s Jeff’s lucky night – until his vision blurs and he passes out. Turns out Hayley isn’t as innocent as she looks after all. In fact, she has a lot on her mind. Like getting Jeff to confess to his penchant for teenage girls – and to what he did to Donna Mauer, the girl who disappeared from Jeff’s favorite coffee shop. When Jeff awakens, he’s tied to a chair. If he doesn’t cooperate, Hayley has something to help him along–a little surgical procedure she picked up on the Internet. All she needs is an ice pack. And a knife…
An edge-of-your-seat psychotic thriller, HARD CANDY exposes the visceral terror and violence that lie at the heart of the battle of the sexes. Starring Patrick Wilson (Jeff) and Ellen Page (Hayley Stark) and Sandra Oh (Judy Tokuda), HARD CANDY is directed by David Slade, written by Brian Nelson, produced by David Higgins, Richard Hutton and Michael Caldwell, and executive produced by Jody Patton, Rosanne Korenberg and Paul G. Allen. It is the latest film from Vulcan Productions (FAR FROM HEAVEN, TITUS) in association with Launchpad Productions. The director of photography is Jo Willems, the editor is Art Jones, the production designer is Jeremy Reed. The original music is by Harry Esscott and Molly Nyman, and the casting is by Valerie McCaffrey.
Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-C2H4ipxz0
Important note:
This is a private screening activity. Those who are interested to see the film are requested to send us an email to have your name included in the guest list. An open forum will follow after the discussion of the film by a designated person. Comments and ideas are welcome!
For more information, please contact the Sociology Graduate Students’ Committee at socigradsg@gmail.com
Hello Everyone!
AIESEC Singapore is calling for applications to their 2009 Sustainability Projects.
AIESEC Oversea Project is a special project that provides excellent opportunities for local university students to undergo short term overseas internships in the countries having similar projects. Under BEADS project, the students will work on HIV/AIDS related project, and for SFC, the students will be engaged in sustainability related projects.
For more information, please click on the PDF below.
Jean Yeung has almost 20 years of university teaching and research experience up her sleeve. She joined the department and ARI last year (summer) and started working on her project on demographic surveys in China and India. Couched on the fact that these two countries have become the recent boom towns, the study, according to her, will take advantage of her previous experience in studying families and incomes across the United States. Previously, she worked at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and transferred to New York University later on.
You’ve probably bumped into her at some point. Be it along the Sociology department’s AS1 halls, in the printer room, or even in the Graduate Students’ Research Seminar. Catelijn Coopmans, the occupant of AS1/04-28 has certainly been a present figure everywhere.
We are excited about a Sociology Graduates Reading Circle just for us where we can come together to discuss, critique and analyse the works of some great sociological thinkers, together. Please see below for details and do come up with a reading wish-list for our sessions and we will decide the selected work to be discussed based on popular demand/interest. Think of it like a book club of sorts 
In session one we did Haraway, the next session on the 19th of November will be on post-colonial theory.
Day/Date: The 3rd Wednesday of every month
Time: 5pm-7pm
Venue: Sociology Lounge
Public figures in many societies are usually demystified when you meet them face-to-face, either because we’ve set high expectations for them to meet, or because they’re really not pleasant to rub elbows with, meaning their ego is probably highly inflated or something to that effect. But in some cases, you are surprised by the kindness that they exhibit, their gentle tone and demeanor that would make you listen intently as you are shown one of the better facets of the human condition.
Bubble Burst!
February 10, 2009 in Commentary | by vagabondmeanderings | 1 comment
This was posted in our class blog for SC 6192 (Social Theory) as part of our commentary on the topics discussed during the 4th week of the semester. Comments are most welcome!
-Janssen, Fiona, & Johan
In one of those random nights when you meet up with your friends and have dinner and drinks afterwards, Fiona, Janssen, Johan, Weida, and Mel decided to go to get cozy in a conspicuous place – a playground right next to Fiona’s block (which had a police post at the void deck). Now who would ever have 3 bottles of Dutch beer in a children’s playground (next to the cops’ nest) while watching an old Schwarzenegger movie titled “Kindergarten Cop” at around 2145h. It takes 5 crazy soci grad students, we would surmise (composition: 3 Singaporean-Chinese [according to their ICs, 1 ang moh [with no ID whatsoever], and a Filipino who happened to have his social security card with him).
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