Remarks by Prof. Tommy Koh at the United Nations Economic And Social Commission For Asia And The Pacific
An electronic version of the article can be accessed here.
A/P Gregory Clancey Prize Lecture: Telling Stories about Technology in an Asian Century
The Morison Prize in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) recognizes the accomplishments of an individual who has made major contributions at the interface between science and technology on the one hand and matters of societal concern on the other. It was endowed by the family of the late Professor Elting Morison, a renowned historian who helped found the STS Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the 1970s.
Associate Professor Gregory Clancey, who received his PhD from MIT in 1999, was awarded the prize for his scholarly work on the history of technology in Asia (especially Japan) and the US, and for his efforts as a programme builder at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the Asia Research Institute and Tembusu College – all at NUS.
On 11 May, Master Clancey was at MIT to deliver the Morison Prize Lecture. It was titled “Telling Stories about Technology in an Asian Century”.
Prof. Tommy Koh writes for Straits Times column: What Singapore can learn from Europe
An electronic version of the article can be accessed here.
The Margaret River Press is holding a special call for submissions for creative entries such as short fiction, poetry, photo essays and creative nonfiction submissions that illuminate the theme of "Fire".
The submissions will be edited by Delys Bird and Humphrey Bower.
Closing Date: August 31, 2012
More information can be found at Margaret River Press.
A Keynote Speech by Prof. Tommy Koh at ASEF 15th Anniversary Panel
An electronic version of the article can be accessed here.
Tembusu College Master’s Tea
Mr. Hossan Leong
5th September 2012
3pm, Wednesday
Master’s Common Lounge,
Level 3, Residential Block
Refreshments will be served.
Only 30 seats available!
Please sign up at dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io
Hossan Leong, a consummate performer, able to sing, dance, act and play the piano, is one of Singapore’s most highly sought after host and entertainer. Affectionately known as the ‘Singapore Boy’, he continues to delight audiences – whether starring in his yearly stage production The Hossan Leong Show or in more dramatic roles on Mediacorp’s Channel 8. In the Life Theatre Awards, Hossan received Best Ensemble in 2000 and 2010, as well as nominations for Best Actor in 2005 and Best Supporting Actor in 2006 & 2003.
Hossan has appeared in numerous stage productions such as The Rocky Horror Show, The Full Monty, The Importance of Being Ernest, Army Daze, Little Shop Of Horrors, Chang and Eng, Fiddler On The Roof, Beauty World and Sing To The Dawn, to name a few. His television and film credits include The Perfect Cut 2, Under One Roof, I Not Stupid, One Last Dance and ‘You Fu‘. Hossan also hosted Channel 5’s gameshow We Are Singaporeans, Arts Central’s Front and OKTO’s Squirks. Fluent in French, Hossan has worked with the Alliance Française and Sing’theatre, represented the Singapore Actors in Paris at the Asian Film Festival, and was named Ambassador for Paris 2012, and awarded the 2006 Prix des Ambassadeurs Francophones (Francophone Ambassador Award).
In 2003, Hossan made his directorial debut in Sydney with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song. More recent directing credits include Beauty & the Beast and Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs. Together with Paul Carr, Hossan wrote, directed and acted in a play for the launch of the 2006 Speak Good English Movement in Singapore. He was also the Speak Mandarin Campaign Ambassador for 2005/2006. On Radio, Hossan hosted The Gold Breakfast Show on Gold 90.5FM, and was previously a Producer/Presenter with Lush 99.5 and Power 98. As a co-founder of the Paul Carr Consultancy Pte Ltd – a Singapore-based Entertainment & Media Training Company – Hossan also offers motivational talks as well as corporate training to executives in drama and presentation techniques.
Topic: Call me …. or spectres of Debbie Harry
Speaker: Dr. Jeremy Fernando
Abstract:
This presentation attempts to address what it means to be called to present. In particular, what it means to speak on work that is happening, in progress, constantly changing. For this suggests that the work has not yet arrived. Does speaking about it already bring it into existence? Are we calling that work into being?
Another question that is examined is: whether a call is only a call if answered. Does there need to be a response for it to be a call? If so, does this mean that one cannot call out to another, unless the other person responds. Is your call dependent on another?
Which brings us back to where we began. If we are calling work into being, then who or what is doing the responding? Or are we just hearing voices in our heads …
4 October, 6pm
Student Common Lounge, Level 1
Register here.
“It is the created object which thinks us, and which sometimes thinks better than we do, and quicker than we do: which thinks us before we have thought it” Jean Baudrillard,The Intelligence of Evil and the Lucidity Pact, 42.
The Smart Apron is an artwork that materialised in 2004 under a five-month Artist-in-Labs residency programme in Switzerland. It is a technologically-enhanced apron that sought to address the issue of foreign domestic workers and their working environment in Singapore. Although many will regard this work as complete, to me this created object is still very much a work-in-progress. It speaks not only of where I came from but also where I am going: what started out as a feminist artefact on technological empowerment has become a technological probe into certain feminist politics and Singapore’s latest IT policy called the iN2015 Masterplan. This talk traces the journey I have taken thus far, mapping the thoughts and politics that inform who I am and what I am becoming – a work-in-progress.
The founders of the Singapore Proverbs project, along with a jury of creative heads, invite Singaporean students to submit cover designs for the first ever book on Singapore Proverbs!
Deadline 22 March 2012.
Details are provided in this factsheet.
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