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 Fellow’s Tea
Irina Aristarkhova
3pm, Tuesday
21st January 2014
Master’s Common Lounge,
Level 3, Residential Block
Refreshments will be served.
Only 30 seats available!
Please register at tembusu.nus.edu.sg
Irina Aristarkhova is an Associate Professor of Art & Design, HIstory of Art, and Women’s Studies and an affiliate faculty at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prior to Michigan, Aristarkhova taught at Penn State University; at the National University of Singapore and Laselle College of the Arts. Her book Hospitality of the matrix: Philosophy, Biomedicine, and Culture (Columbia University Press, 2012) poses the old question “Where do we come from?” through the most recent perspectives in the study of generation. Aristarkhova’s current writing project engages aesthetics of hospitality in contemporary art, focusing on the works of Lee Mingwei, Ana Privacki, Kathy High, Faith Wilding, and Mithu Sen. Her creative blog www.russianfeminist.com explores issues of Soviet and Post-Soviet cultutre and sexuality. Aristarkhova’s work has been translated into Romanian, German,Chinese,Greek,Slovenian,Spanish and Portuguese.
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