Almost every week, members of Tembusu College are invited to meet and chat with guests – both local and international – through a variety of hosted events. There is a huge diversity of backgrounds amongst our visitors, who range from politicians to diplomats, artists, writers, poets, and academics. Select an event category on the left to find out more.
As a Residential College, residents of Tembusu College live and learn together with their peers under the same roof. Integral to the learning is the University Town College Programme (UTCP) where residents read five Seminar-style Modules over their two year residency. Find out more About the Programme or browse available modules on the left.
Concerned about the workload? Find out How UTCP Fits with your faculty-based degree programme at NUS.
Living and learning together at Tembusu happens as part of our ‘Out-of-Classroom Teaching‘ programme.
Keen to continue residing at the college after completing the UTCP? Find out what lies ahead in the Senior Learning Experience.
Tembusu College Master’s Tea
Prof. Timothy Barnard
3pm, Thursday
22nd October 2015
Master’s Common Lounge,
Level 3, Residential Block
Refreshments will be served.
Please be seated by 2.50pm.
Please sign up at dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io
Tembusu College has declared the Komodo dragon to be the ‘Animal of the Year for AY2015/2016. Come and meet Assoc Prof Timothy P. Barnard to find out about these giant lizards and more.
Timothy P. Barnard is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore, where he specializes in the environmental and cultural history of island Southeast Asia. He has just finished writing book on the history of the Singapore Botanic Gardens, and is currently working on a social history of the Komodo dragon.
Assoc Prof Barnard has researched on range of topics including state formation in the eighteenth-century Straits of Melaka, Malay identity throughout history, Malay film in the 1950s, and the environmental history of Singapore. His publications include numerous book chapters and articles, as well as the book Multiple Centres of Authority (KITLV,2003) and the edited volumes Contesting Malayness (NUS Press, 2004) and Nature Contained (NUS Press, 2014), which focuses on the environmental history of Singapore.
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