Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Dr. Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei

3pm, Tuesday

16th April 2014

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

Please register at dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io

Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei studied composition at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and received his MA in Linguistics from Leiden University, his MFA in Conceptual and Multimedia Art from the Royal Academy of the Arts in the Hague, and his doctorate in philosophy from the European Graduate School in Switzerland, completing his thesis on case summa cum laude under the supervision of Avital Ronell. Currently he is completing a second PhD at the University of Aberdeen under supervision of Christopher Fynsk on etymology and philosophy. He is an internationally active artist and curating and currently preparing two books, “Cross-Examinations” and :Five Legal Interventions,” and a large scale study of communist monumentality in Albania. Van Gerven Oei has recently edited the volume “Pedagogies of Disaster” (Punctum Books: Brooklyn,2013) and previously translated work of Jean Daive, Alessandro De Francesc, Herve Guibert, Dick Raaijmaker, Avital Ronell, and Nachoem Wijnberg, among others. HIs writings, dealing with theory & Event. Van Gerven Oei is director of the foundation Department of Eagles in Tirana and runs multilingual publishing house Uitgeverji, publishing among others works by Adam Stanley Groves and Jeremy Fernando. He is also one of the few specialists of the Old Nubian language in the world. Van Gerven Oei lives and works in Tirana, Albania