WIP with Dr. Connor Graham, Salima Nadira and Junni Chen

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Work in Progress Seminar

Blogging Consumption, Consuming Blogs (in Singapore)

31st October 2013, 6pm

First Floor Common Lounge

Dr. Connor Graham, Salima Nadira and Junni Chen

What can blogging tell us about consumption in Singapore? This presentation reflects on the progress of ongoing work investigation bloggers and consumption in Singapore. Through focusing on three established Singaporean bloggers this presentation will consider firstly how blogs exert influence and secondly how blogs are influenced.

The first line of enquiry has involved conducting a street survey in Singapore when shoppers were asked questions about their knowledge of Singaporean bloggers and the influence they have on them. The ‘look’ of the shoppers surveyed was also observed during this study. The second line of enquiry has involved ongoing visual analyses of the blogs through which attempts are being made to establish distinct visual elements of the selected blogs and the bloggers themselves. The most exploratory part of this line of enquiry has involved attempts to trace influences on the blogs and the bloggers through considering regional fashion sub-cultures.

Fellow’s Tea with Mr. Yanyun Chen and Ms Sara Chong

Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Speakers: Yanyun Chen & Sara Chong

Date: Thursday, 20th October 2011

Venue: Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Time: 4pm

Yanyun and Sara are a pair of nomadic, symbiotic creatures filled to the brim with drawings, ideas, inks, wood, beer, caffeine and shisha smoke, otherwise known as Stick and Balloon. They sort of look that way too.

Stick and Balloon take on all kinds of projects: illustrations, animation, trading card games, flash games, books, packaging design etc. etc. They really do stuff. Lots of stuff. Their clients include Propellerfish, Lucas Foods (Asia) Pte Ltd, and Anila Angin. They also collaborate with writers, artists, and storytellers.

A preview of their work will be featured during the tea.

Stick and Balloon is also on flavors.me, kickstarter.com and facebook.

Master’s Tea with Dr. Jeremy Fernando

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Of Music, Community Service and, Internet Fiction

Song Yu Chuan is a freshman Architecture student at Tembusu College. He is a singer-songwriter and member of the Composers and Authors Society of Singapore (COMPASS). In 2008 he won Best Composition and Best Performance at the National Inter-JC Chinese Songwriting Competition. In 2010 he officially entered the music industry through a long-term songwriter contract with VI Music, under Warner Chappell Music. Since then, Yu Chuan has been actively involved in the local mandopop music scene and has been featured on Playlist. Yu Chuan firmly believes that good music and good performers do not seek to impress others, but to express themselves.

Yeshey Choden is a freshman Civil Engineering student at Tembusu College. She was raised and taught in an authentic Bhutanese environment where she learnt about Buddhism and own her culture and tradition. Two distinct features of the Bhutanese are their dedication and loyalty to the King and the government and their pursuit of a unique path of development: Gross National Happiness. In 2011 Yeshey came to Singapore to pursue her tertiary education through the King’s Scholarship. Since being in Singapore Yeshey has developed particular interests in social work and community service.

Cedric Chin (ejames) is a senior Computing student at Tembusu College. He works on web-based books. In 2006 he started Novelr.com, a site devoted to Internet fiction and in 2008 he helped create the Web Fiction Guide. His latest venture, founded in 2010, is Pandamian.com, an online publishing service. He was the youngest speaker at the Books in Browsers conference in San Francisco in 2010 and 2011, and currently contributes to the OPDS and Readium working groups. Cedric is a member of the Reading2.0 mailing list, an invitation-only listserv of book technologists maintained by Peter Brantley, founder of the Open Book Foundation.

Work In Progress Seminar with Dr. Michitake Aso

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Topic: Floods and Storms, Scalpels and Livers: Looking for Climatologists and Medical Doctors in Vietnam
Speaker: Dr. Michitake Aso

Abstract:
For many reasons, getting access to information in Vietnam is not always a simple task and doing historical research there can be both a very rewarding and frustrating process. Historians everywhere, but especially in societies such as Vietnam, have to be equal parts detective and diplomat. In this talk, I reflect on initial findings from my current research. The first strand of this research is on the history of climate in Vietnam. How governments and individuals view natural disaster management can reveal a lot about the relationship between the two and I am interested in how people were governed in the Red River Delta in post-1954 socialist Vietnam. The second strand of this research is on intellectual networks in the twentieth-century socialist world. Personal documents left behind by Vietnamese medical doctors point to surprising ways in which socialist experts travelled, mentally and physically, through the Cold War era. I will also reveal some of the trials and tribulations of my research.