Work In Progress Seminar with Dr. Jeremy Fernando

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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 …

WIP with Dr. Margaret Tan

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4 October, 6pm
Student Common Lounge, Level 1

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“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.

Fellow’s Tea with Mr Han Fook Kwang

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Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Han Fook Kwang

3pm, Wednesday

3rd October 2012

Master’s Common Lounge

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshment will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

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Mr Han Fook Kwang was appointed Managing Editor of the English & Malay Newspapers Division, Singapore Press Holdings Ltd on 15 February 2012.

He was Editor of The Straits Times from September 2002 to 14 February 2012.

He joined The Straits Times in February 1989 after a stint in the Singapore Government’s Administrative Service. He was made Political Editor in January 1995, in charge of political coverage in The Straits Times.

He graduated from the University of Leeds in Mechanical Engineering on a Colombo Plan Scholarship. He also holds a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University.

Mr Han is a member of the National University of Singapore Board of Trustees, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore, Raffles Institution Board of Governors and National Environment Agency Board. He is chairman of Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund Board of Trustees. He was awarded the Pingat Bakti Masyarakat (The Public Service Medal) in August 2000.

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Fellow’s Tea with Prof. Loh Ai Poh

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Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Loh Ai Poh

3pm, Wednesday

15th August 2012

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshment will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

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Associate Professor Loh Ai Poh
Deputy Head for undergraduate programmes at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore


A/Prof A P Loh is currently the Deputy Head for undergraduate programmes at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. She received her Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical, First Class Honours) degree from the University of Malaya at Kuala Lumpur in 1983, and her Doctor of Philosophy in Control from Oxford University, in 1986.

Her postgraduate work was made possible by a scholarship from the Kuok Foundation. From 1986-1989, she was with the University of Auckland, New Zealand, first with a postdoctoral fellowship followed by a lecturership. She has been a lecturer at NUS since 1989. From 1994 to 1997, she spent 3 years at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, as a visiting lecturer.

Her research interests are mainly in the areas of relay feedback systems, nonlinear control, auto-tuning and fault detection.

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Fellow’s Tea with Dr. Adam Staley Groves

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Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Dr. Adam Staley Groves

630pm, Wednesday

8th March 2012

Common Lounge,

Level 1, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

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Adam Staley Groves’s current postdoctoral research engages posthumanities, politics, and future ontology under the supervision of philosopher Christopher Fynsk at the University of Aberdeen, School of Language and Literature, Centre For Modern Thought. The author of Poetry Vocare, a full length volume of poetry with a forward by poetry scholar, Judith Balso, Adam is also contributing editor with the academic journal continent; and has published on topics such as media aesthetics, US politics, and the intersections of poetry and philosophy.

Adam received PhD and MA degrees from the European Graduate School, Wallis, Switzerland; BA in Journalism and International Studies at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. He has taught humanities and communication studies in the United States and Thailand.

Will the US Live in Peace with a Rising China?

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Topic: Will the US Live in Peace with a Rising China?
6pm – 730pm
Wednesday, 7th March 2012
Tembusu Multi-purpose Hall

Moderator:
Professor Tommy Koh, Rector, Tembusu College

Speakers:
His Excellency David Adelman
United States Ambassador to Singapore
U.S. Embassy in Singapore

Prof. Zheng Yong Nian
East Asian Institute, NUS

Prof. Terry Nardin
Head, Department of Political Science, NUS

Dr. Huang Jing
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS

Cultural Night 2011

Organised by the events committee, students held the first Cultural Night to bring a little taste of home to PGPR.

The evening was dedicated to showcasing the uniqueness of each student’s culture which included performances, traditional tea ceremonies and calligraphy demonstrations to name a few. Students served their local delights to Fellows who also attended.

Fellow’s Tea with Mr. Sat Pal Khattar

Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Mr. Sat Pal Khattar

5pm, Tuesday

3rd April 2012

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

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Sat Pal Khattar read law at the University of Singapore and graduated with an Honours degree in 1966 and a Masters degree in 1970. The prominent lawyer, Indian community leader and businessman, began his career in the civil service as a Deputy Public Prosecutor and State Counsel in the Attorney-General’s Chamber. Later in the same year, he became a Legal Officer at the Inland Revenue Department. He left public service in 1974 and set up his own law firm Sat Pal Khattar Co. The firm eventually became known as Khattar Wong & Partners, one of the largest law firms in Singapore today.

Though Mr Khattar retired from the firm in 2000, he continues to be Chairman of his private investment firm, Khattar Holdings. He also sits on the board of public-listed firms such as Haw Par Corporation and developer GuocoLand. Mr Khattar has held many distinguished positions over the years, such as Chairman of the Singapore Business Federation, board member of the Institute of South Asian Studies, member of the Presidential Council for Minority Rights and Vice-President of the Singapore Indian Education Trust.

In recognition for his contributions to the labour movement, he has been honoured on a number of occasions at the May Day Awards. For his contributions to the civil service, he was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Silver) at the National Day Awards in 1972. Since the early 1990s, he has been investing in India, and this experience has helped him to promote and support bilateral trade and investments between Singapore and India as Chairman of Network India and Co-chairman of the Singapore-India Partnership Foundation. In early 2011, he was awarded one of India’s top honours, the Padma Shri Award, for helping to develop business ties between the country and Singapore.

Mr Khattar is married with a daughter and two sons, and is a proud grandfather of four.

Fellow’s Tea with Mr. Khoo Teng Chye

Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Mr. Khoo Teng Chye

4.30pm, Monday

2nd April 2012

Student Common Lounge,

Level 1, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

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Mr. Khoo Teng Chye is the Executive Director for Centre for Liveable Cities since July 2010. He is concurrently the Chairman of Singapore International Water Week Pte Ltd since August 2009. He sits on the Boards of Tropical Marine Science Institute of National University of Singapore and the Director, International Desalination Association. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee and Adjunct Professor for the Nanyang Technological University School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, a member of the International Advisory Panel for the Institute of Water Policy and the Adjunct Professor under the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, a member of the Singapore Quality Award (SQA) Governing Council, SPRING Singapore. He is also a Director and Board member of Singbridge International Private Limited.

He was the Chief Executive, Board Member of PUB from December 2003 to December 2011. He was the Chief Executive Officer/Chief Planner from 1992 to 1996 at Urban Redevelopment Authority. He headed PSA Corporation as its Chief Executive Officer/Group President between 1996 and 2002, and Mapletree Investments as its President and Chief Executive Officer from 2002 to 2003. He was the Managing Director (Special Projects) of Temasek Holdings in 2003. Mr. Khoo graduated with First Class Honours in Civil Engineering from Monash University, Australia in 1975. A President-cum-Colombo Plan Scholar, he also holds a Master of Science in Construction Engineering and a Master of Business Administration from the National University of Singapore. He attended Harvard University’s Advanced Management Programme in 1992. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Singapore.

He was awarded the Public Administration (Gold) in 1996 and the Public Administration (Silver) in 1987. In 2008, he was awarded the inaugural “Outstanding PR Champion of the Year” at the PRISM Awards by the Institute of Public Relations of Singapore. He was also conferred the Meritorious Service Award by the National Trade Union Congress in 2008 for his contributions to the Singapore Labour Movement.

Fellow’s Tea with Prof. Wong Tien Yin

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Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Prof Wong Tien Yin

7pm, Friday

2nd March 2012

Student Common Lounge,

Level 1, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

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Prof Wong Tien Yin is Director of the Singapore Eye Research Institute and a Senior Consultant at the Singapore National Eye Centre and the National University Health System. He is also a Professor at the Department of Ophthalmology at the National University of Singapore where he mentors a generation of would-be clinician scientists embarking on a journey of scientific discovery.

A pioneer in the arena of clinician scientists with a keen interest in research, he has developed diagnostic platforms for retinal imaging to assess a patient’s cardiovascular and diabetes risk; findings of great significance to public health benefits for Singapore and other countries where cardiovascular disease and diabetes are the leading causes of death and morbidity.

Prof Wong has published more than 500 peer-reviewed papers, and has awards in ophthalmology, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. He is the only ophthalmologist worldwide to receive the Sandra Doherty Award from the American Heart Association for cardiovascular research, and the second ophthalmologist to receive the Novartis Prize in Diabetes Global Award. For his outstanding contributions in translational and clinical research in ophthalmology and his novel approach in linking retinal imaging to diagnose human vascular and metabolic disease, Prof Wong was awarded the 2010 National Outstanding Clinician Scientist Award, as well as the 2010 President’s Science Award.