Tag: 2012

WIP WITH DR. JOHN VAN WYHE

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Dr. John van Wyhe
Wallace’s mystery flycatcher at NUS
30th August 2012, Thursday, 6.00pm

Abstract:

The famous Victorian naturalist Alfred Wallace discovered the theory of evolution independently of Darwin as well as a line that divides Asian and Australian animals (the ‘Wallace Line’). Using Singapore as his base, Wallace collected an astonishing 125,000 specimens of birds and insects in South East Asia between 1854 and 1862. Out of all these thousands, only one is now in Singapore, in the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research at NUS. It’s a little bird- a Brown Flycatcher. For many years the Museum has proudly declared that it was collected by Wallace in Malacca in 1862 (as a tag on its leg states) and donated to the Museum in the same year. But! Wallace never went near Malacca in 1862 and he never gave any specimens to local museums.

So where did this mystery bird come from? Was it really collected by Wallace? How did it get into the collection in Singapore? Historical research allows us to solve these mysteries and reveal the extraordinary voyages this little bird made from Asia, to Europe and back to Asia again. Along the way this small example tells us a lot more about how science really works.

WIP with Dr. Connor Graham

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12th November 2012, Monday


6pm
Tembusu Common Lounge, Level 1

Abstract:

Social media is strange. Really. And blogs are among the strangest form.
Indeed.

Blogs are at once personal and public documents, a hybrid of history, diary letter journalism and faction. However, far from being simply ‘text online’ today, they are a collection of different media (e.g.text, photos and videos) through which a presentation of the self, often prismatic, is crafted. Blogs also support an odd relationship between author and audience – they are open to potentially millions of people, an anonymous audience consuming familiar yet unfamiliar pseudo-celebrities. Thus, as the source of inquiry blogs need to be treated carefully.

This presentation examines a particular kind of blog – blogs by young Singaporean women with rich media content. It argues that these blogs have a particular crafted form that is both parochial and global. It also suggests that these blogs, as material supporting inquiry, provide surprising, if weird insights into the young women’s lives. Even if they are another form of advertisement.

We suggest these blogs are, precisely because they are prismatic and crafted, a means of peering into these particular young women’s views on lots of things. We explore, with your help, some of ‘these things’…

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Master’s Tea with Ms. Selena Tan

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Tembusu College Master’s Tea

Selena Tan

11th October 2012

3pm, Thursday

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

Selena Tan started performing onstage at age 14. Since then, she has appeared in numerous local theatre productions such as The Snow Queen, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, Godspell, Into the Woods, The Jungle Book, Little Shop of Horrors, Army Daze, Sing to the Dawn, Love Calls, A Twist of Fate, BALLS!, Ah Kong’s Birthday Party, Nunsense, Haunted, Ang Tau Mui, Blithe Spirit and A Single Woman, which she also wrote and directed. She has toured Beijing, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur with Chang and Eng as well as performed with Animal Farm at the New Zealand International Arts Festival 2004.

Apart from performing, multi-talented Selena is also a prolific writer. She has penned two pantomimes, Cinderellah and Aladdin, and several hit stand-up comedy/cabaret shows such as­ Selena EXPOSED, Broadway Baby Kailan, Wanton Me andIt Takes Two, to name a few. Her first stab at playwriting, Pillow Talk, was nominated for Best Play at the 2002 Life! Theatre Awards.

Selena is also a familiar face in local film and television, appearing in both of Jack Neo’s hits, I Not Stupid and Homerun. For her work on the small screen, she hosted­ All Change and Art Factory, and acted in Under One Roof and Daddy’s Girls for which she was awarded the Asian Television Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series.

Most of all, Selena is best known for her role in Dim Sum Dollies®. The Dollies have had 8 successful years, starting at the Esplanade Theatre Studio in 2002 with A Single Woman, followed by Steaming at the Jubilee Hall and then, the smash box office hit of 2004, Revenge of the Dim Sum Dollies. Most recently, the Dollies made history in two sold-out runs of The History of Singapore, and were made the Land Transport Authority’s Graciousness Programme ambassadors for 2010-2011.

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University Town Residential Programme Outreach

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PROGRAMME:
1.30pm: Registration (For event and sample seminars)
2.00pm: UTRP Talk, by Angsana College and Tembusu College
3.00pm: Sample seminars (Session 1), by Angsana College and Tembusu College
3.30pm: Sample seminars (Session 2), by Angsana College and Tembusu College
4.00pm: Tea
4.30pm: UTown tour (Optional)
6.00pm: End of programme

Join us at University Town (UTown) to catch a glimpse of residential college life and to find out more about our distinctive UTown Residential Programme (UTRP) offered by both Angsana College and Tembusu College.

Date: 11 May 2012 (Friday)
Venue: Town Plaza Auditorium, UTown

 

Don’t miss out on this opportunity if you are looking to enrich your campus experience through a new, innovative curriculum that extends your learning beyond the classroom. Expect to reside alongside faculty members and discover your potential, interact with distinguished visitors and have fun with your peers through a host of exciting events!

Experience a College seminar by registering for a sample seminar on event day!

A confirmation email will be sent to you by 10 May 2012 if your registration is successful.

For more information, please visit University Town at NUS.

 

 

WIP with Dr. Axel Gelfert

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15th November 2012, Thursday
6pm
Tembusu Common Lounge, Level 1

Abstract:

It is a commonplace that mathematical proofs or theorems are beautiful. Even in popular (non-expert) accounts we hear about the ‘beauty’ of a theorem, or the superior ‘elegance’ of one proof over another. An air of mystery surrounds these invocations of ‘mathematical beauty’. But such aesthetic judgments require a considerable familiarity with mathematics. In the philosophy of science and mathematics, this debate has a parallel in discussions about ‘the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences’ (to use the title of an influential paper by Nobel Prize winning mathematical physicist Eugene Wigner).

In this talk I will turn the tables and look at the considerable – yet at the same time elusive – appeal that the aesthetic dimension of mathematics has had on artists and scientists alike. My talk will contribute both to the systematic philosophical discussion and discuss specific examples from the sciences to the arts. I will also emphasise the aesthetics of formats and representations – whether material, diagrammatic or otherwise – and the reality of mathematical, artistic and scientific practice.

Fellow’s Tea with Mr. Marco Mazzi

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20th November 2012, Tuesday, 3pm

Master’s Common Lounge
Only 30 Seats available

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Bio:

Marco Mazzi (Florence, Italy, 1980) is an Italian essayist, art theorist and photographer living and working in Tokyo. He worked as an editor in the publication of books of contemporary Japanese poetry, such as The Other Voice, the first Italian translation of Yoshimasu Gozo’s poetry. Mazzi studied Contemporary literature at the University of Florence and visited Japan, where he studied Japanese avant-garde art and visual poetry.

He held exhibitions at the 798 Art District in Beijing (China), the Komaba Art Museum of Tokyo and the Torino ArtissimaArt Fair(Italy). In January 2008 The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art of Tokyo held the first solo exhibition of the artist in Japan. In October 2009 the Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea (MLAC, Rome) held Mazzi’s exhibition Seeing and Knowing, the Naturalization of Vision, curated by the Italian writer and art critic Lorenzo Carlucci. In March 2010 he took part to the exhibition Il medium disperso(MLAC, Rome) together with Keren Cytter and Clemens Von Wedemeyer. In 2008 Mazzi founded the non-profit organization Relational Cinema Associationwithin the University of Waseda in Tokyo.

The project involves screening of films and videos by the following artists: Francesca Banchelli, Eric Baudelaire, Johanna Billing, Josef Dabernig, Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio, Harun Farocki, Marine Hugonnier, Mark Lewis, Amie Siegel, Apichatpong Weerasethakul. In 2010 Mazzi shoot a documentary film Kiju Yoshida and a Vision of Fear, in collaboration with Kiju Yoshida, the well-known Japanese film director.

Master’s Tea with Mr. Zack Denfeld and Ms. Catherine Kramer

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Tembusu College Master’s Tea

Catherine Kramer and Zack Denfeld

10th September 2012

3pm, Monday

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

Zack is an artist and educator who has worked extensively in the U.S., India and Europe. He is currently researching and making work about the human food systems on Spaceship Earth with the Center for Genomic Gastronomy. Zack has helped create and launch the Center for Experimental Media Art (CEMA) in Bangalore, India and the graduate program in Collaborative Design at PNCA in Portland, Oregon, USA. Zack holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Syracuse University.

Catherine Kramer
Catherine is an artist, designer, researcher and curator working internationally. With a focus on food, technology and ecology, her experimental practice employs a range of objects, performance, digital media, graphics, animation, collaborations and gastronomy to uncover the good, the bad and the ugly of life on Spaceship Earth. Most recently, she has been working collaboratively on the development of the Center for Genomic Gastronomy and is a visiting lecturer in the Design & Environment MA at Goldsmiths College, London.

The Center for Genomic Gastronomy was founded by Cat and Zack in 2010. It is an independent research institute that studies the genomes and biotechnologies that make up the human food system on planet earth. The Center presents its research through public lectures, research publications, meals and exhibitions. In 2012 the Center curated the EDIBLE exhibition at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, and was recently commissioned by the AND festival to create the Spice Mix Super Computer, a mobile food caravan. The Center has completed research and presented its findings in Ireland, Netherlands, India, USA, UK, Spain and Germany. See http://www.genomicgastronomy.com/ for more information.

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Tembusu Formal Dinner 2012

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A night to remember what we have accomplished for the last one year, to thank students for their hard work in making all these happen, and to say goodbye to our first batch of alumni.

Tembusu College

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University Town, NUS
28 College Avenue East, #B1-01
Singapore 138598

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Background image of Tembusu (Fagraea fragrans) flowers and fruits in Leenhouts, P W (1960) Loganiaceae. Flora Malesiana, Ser. 1, Vol. 6/1, Fig. 6 (CC-BY 4.0).
Background image of Tembusu (Fagraea fragrans) flowers and fruits
in Leenhouts, P W (1960) Loganiaceae. Flora Malesiana, Ser. 1, Vol. 6/1, Fig. 6 (CC-BY 4.0).