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 tembusu.nus.edu.sg

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.

Photos taken may be used for Tembusu publicity materials