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Fellow’s Tea with Mr Bernard Harrison

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Tembusu College Master’s Tea

Mr. Bernard Harrison

5pm, Thursday

25th September 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

Hosted by Ms. Bertha Henson

Bernard has been in the zoo business for 38 years, hi last zoo position being CEO of Wildlife Reserves Singapore(WRS), one of the finest and most profitable, zoological institutions in the world which operates the Singapore Zoological Gardens, Night Safari, Jurong Bird Park and River Safari. He resigned in 2002 to set up Bernard Harrison and Friends Ltd, a specialist design company focusing on the Development and sustainable operation of zoological and botanic gardens, national parks and eco-tourism attractions.

Bernard did his undergraduate studies in animal behaviour and has a Master’s Degree in zoo planning. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award 2010, South East Asian Zoos Association, for his work with the organization over the past 20 years; American Creativity Association’s Champion of Creativity Award in 2008 for his work on developing the unique concept of the Night Safari; and the Outstanding Science Alumni Award from the National University of Singapore in 2007 for his work at Wildlife Reserves Singapore.

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Fellow’s Tea with Mr Zohar Lederman

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Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Mr. Zohar Lederman

4.30pm, Thursday

18th September 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

Hosted by Dr Celine Coderey

Zohar Lederman has studied philosophy in Israel, medicine in Italy, and is now a PhD candidate at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore. Zohar’s dissertation focuses on the ethics of One Health and infectious diseases. One Health, a novel biomedical approach, is the collaborative multidisciplinary effort to improve the well-being of non-human animals as well as human and to preserve the ecosystem.

In this talk, Zohar will discuss and challenge a common claim made by a certain group of bioethicists: that Asian, or Eastern bioethics is fundamentally different from ‘Western’ bioethics. These bioethicists, often calling themselves ‘familists’, make two claims: The first,descriptive claim, is that family values take precedence over all other values in Asia. This stands in stark contrast to the ‘West,’ where individual values are the most important. The second, normative claim, is that in Asia, familyvalues should take precedence over all other values. Consequently, familists call for the creation of a separate discipline: Asian Bioethics. Zohar will challenge both claims. Cultural tolerance yes, cultural relativism no.

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WIP with Ms Elizabeth Chee

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Work In
Progress Seminar

From Bear to Bile: The Commodification of Animals in ‘Chinese Medicine

Ms.Elizabeth Chee

18th September 2014, 6pm

Level 1 Common Lounge

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My doctoral dissertation aims to explain the increasing use of animal parts in ‘Chinese medicine’. Bear bile has been touted by Chinese pharmaceutical companies as effective for a number of ailments. Despite such claims, bear farming has become increasingly controversial in the last few decades. Outside China, endangered species are dwindling to be used for these purported healing properties. This project is the first academic attempt to reveal the origins of animal-based medicines. My working thesis is that Mao Zedong’s aim to build a pharmaceutical industry contributed to the rise in animal farming for medicinal purposes, a story I follow the 1980’s.

Tembusu Vertical Marathon

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PROGRAMME:

General Information

Eligibility: Participants must be above the age of 18 years as of 19th September 2014
Categories: Men’s Open, Women’s Open, Men Non-NUS, Women Non-NUS
Date: 19th September 2014, registration starts at 1700H
Payment: Secure credit card payment via Visa / MasterCard / Diners Club International Credit Cards

Sign up at dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io/tvm

Tembusu Ambassadors are recruiting!

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Tembusu College is seeking dedicated and enthusiastic students to serve as Tembusu Ambassadors!

*Note: this is a separate recruitment from the UTown Ambassadors.

Your Ticket to the World!

Are you proud to be part of Tembusu? Tell it to the world! As Tembusu Ambassadors, we promote and showcase our Home of Possibilities to prospective students during outreach events, such as NUS Open Day or Admissions interviews.

On special occasions, Tembusu Ambassadors also suit up to host local and foreign Ambassadors and diplomats when they visit Tembusu College or UTown. It’s a great opportunity to groom your leadership and communication abilities.

What do Tembusu Ambassadors do?

  • Connect with prospective students
  • Welcome visitors and distinguished guests
  • Provide campus tours around Tembusu College
  • Assisting in managing college events (e.g. Tembusu Forums)
  • Promote residential college education

Who is an ideal candidate?

  • Tembusu College students (Freshmen, Seniors, 1-year Exchange Students)
  • Good knowledge of Tembusu College and UTown
  • Personable, mature and confident in interacting with (new) people

* New Tembusu Ambassadors are to attend a two-day training retreat during Recess Week (tentatively 22nd & 23rd September).

How to apply:

  1. Download and fill in the application form
  2. Drop off the form at the Tembusu College Office reception between 3 September and 10 September 2014 (Wednesday), 12:00pm.
  3. Shortlisted candidates will be informed of their interview slots on 11 Sept 2014
  4. Interviews from 12 – 17 Sept 2014 (inclusive)

Period of Appointment: One Academic Year (subject to review after first semester of service)

Come to our information session on 3 September 2014 (Wednesday), 8:00PM at the Tembusu Master’s Common Lounge (Level 3). We’d love to tell you more about our experiences!

For any inquiries, drop an email to: tembusuambassador@gmail.com

Tembusu Reading Pods

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This semester Tembusu College organizes five Reading Pods in which you are invited to read one work of literature together with a Tembusu Fellow in a small group. Tembusu College fosters an atmosphere of individual and collective reading, and the Reading Pods are a great way to get to know your fellow students, Fellows, and most of all an original work of literature. The Reading Pods will meet every fortnight, at a time and place that is convenient to all participants. They will likely start in week 5 (second week of September), depending on the delivery time of the different books. More details will be sent to participants nearer the date.

Students from all four years can sign up for one of the following five Reading Pods at the Tembusu College Office by 1 Sep 2014. Be fast, because each Pod has a maximum of five participants. Each participant will pay $10 (cash only) for the book to the respective facilitator at the first reading pod.

Aeschylus: Oresteia (Facilitated by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei)


Arthur Rimbaud: A Season in Hell and A Drunken Boat (Facilitated by Adam Staley Groves)


Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (Facilitated by Connor Graham)


Mitch Albom: The Timekeeper (Facilitated by Lina Lim)


Aldous Huxley: Brave New World (Facilitated by Shamraz Anver)

Fellow’s Tea with Dr Leo Mariani

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Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Dr. Leo Mariani

4.30pm, Monday

8th September 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

Leo Mariani is an anthropologist . He holds a PhD from the University of Paris Descartes-Sorbonnes and is currently a F.R.S.-FNRS postdoctoral researcher at the University of Liege (Belgium). He is now in ARI-NUS as a visiting fellow for three months. He is the author of a book and several articles on Lao and Cambodian interplays. In between, he encountered a fascinating fruit: the durian. His current research thus focuses on sensory(especially olfaction) and emotional issues(especially disgust), with a comparative scope.

“I would say that the durian divides mankind into two categories”, the anthropologist Jacques Dournes claimed, those who hate it and those who love it. For Dournes, cultural relativity is the key to the problem as taste and smell result from habituation. I attempt to show that this explanation is clearly insufficient. Drawing from historical and contemporary sources (from the 16th to the 21st century), I discuss what one could call the modernization process of the durian. Put differently, I focus on the naturalization of the fruit’s smell and on the symmetrical culturalization of its taste. Concretely, this paper is the story of an encounter between Westerners and the durian. It recounts the trajectory from the fruit’s discovery by the first explorers of Southeast Asia, to the efforts that those who followed exerted to contextualize it within wider conceptions of living organisms on the one hand, and Asian otherness on the other hand.

CELC Writing Unit OPEN HOUSE

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CELC WRITING UNIT OPEN HOUSE

4th and 5th August 2014

9am to 4pm

#02-16 Education Resource Centre (ERC)

  • Meet our friendly lecturers and learn more about the various Ideas & Exposition topics.
  • Appeal for an I&E module.
  • Gather useful library resources that will help you write your I&E papers in the near future.
  • Tour the Writing Unit facilities: Writing Communication Hubs (WCH) and Study Area.

All CAPT and Tembusu students are welcome.

For enquiries, please email: IEM Enquiries or elcbox63@nus.edu.sg