Tag: 2012

Green Legacy Hiroshima Project in Singapore

Tembusu College, National University of Singapore, is proud to partner with Singapore Botanic Gardens to initiate the Green Legacy Hiroshima Project in Singapore.

In order to engage all those committed to a greener planet, to future generations living free from nuclear threats, to honoring victims of wars past and present or to simply creating peace gardens in their communities, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), ANT-Hiroshima and a group of other dedicated partners and individuals have come together under the banner of ‘Green Legacy Hiroshima’. Green Legacy Hiroshima is an initiative to spread worldwide the seeds – and the peace message – of trees that survived the atomic bombing. Singapore received its first batch of Camphor (Cinnamomum Camphora)seeds in June 2012 that is currently housed at the Singapore Botanic Gardens.

We are now looking for 8 Tembusu students to be involved in working with the Singapore Botanic Gardens to germinate and grow these seeds into saplings that will eventually be planted at Tembusu College, Singapore Botanic Gardens and possibly other spaces in Singapore. Students will be required to document (photograph, blog, video, etc.) the whole process, work with the Singapore Botanic Gardens team in their other nursery work, including soil preparation and plant propagation.

Students will pair up and work at the Singapore Botanic Gardens by rotation. Expected workload is approximately 3 hours a month for a year, starting mid-October 2012. There are also opportunities for senior students to turn this project into a 4-Credit Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP).

Registration is now closed. Thank you for your interest!

Master’s Tea with Mr. Paul Tan

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Tembusu College Master’s Tea

Mr. Paul Tan

1st March
2012

4pm, Friday

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

An NUS graduate in English Literature and Language, Paul has worked as a broadcast journalist, news presenter, and more recently as a marketing and communications director in the Singapore Tourism Board.

Paul Tan has published three volumes of poetry. The first two, Curious Roads (1994) and Driving into Rain (1998) won the Commendation and the Merit Awards at the Singapore Literature Prize in 1993 and 1997 respectively. His third volume, First Meeting of Hands, was published in 2006. His poetry, fiction and journalistic writing have appeared in various anthologies, newspapers, magazines and literary websites such as QLRS.com. 

He is currently Director at the National Arts Council in charge of the literary arts and the annual Singapore Writers Festival. He is happy to talk about why we should read literature, why Singapore literature needs your support and suggest what aspiring writers can do to get published and noticed.

More information at dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io

International Holocaust Memorial Day 2012

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International Holocaust Memorial Day 2012
3pm – 5pm
Friday, 27th January 2012
Tembusu Multi-purpose Hall

Moderator:
Professor Tommy Koh, Rector, Tembusu College

Speakers (15 minutes each):
Her Excellency Angelika Viets
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Singapore
• The historical significance of the Holocaust to Europe and the world

Mr Richard Magnus
Member of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights
• The significance of the Holocaust to our struggle against all forms of racial discrimination and for human rights

Professor Mahdev Mohan
Assistant Professor, School of Law, Singapore Management University
• The significance of the Holocaust to our combat against genocide and other mass atrocities

Mr Zainul Abidin Rasheed
Former Senior Minister of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• The Holocaust and the importance of inter-faith dialogue, harmony and mutual respect

Fellow’s Tea with Mr. Tim Hoffman

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Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Mr. Tim M. Hoffman

3pm, Monday

29th October 2012

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshment will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

Please register at: dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io

Tim Hoffman was born in the USA and spent 40 years in Asia (Japan 28, India 8, etc). He has trained extensively in piano and Western music, in shakuhachi by Japanese Living National Treasure Yamaguchi Goro, and in Hindustani vocal music by Benares gharana head Pdt Ganesh Prasad Mishra.

He performs Indian classical music on shakuhachiand koto – authenticated by the government and institutions in India and through scores of major events throughout India, Japan, USA, Europe. He also sings and publishes in languages of a few Asian cultures.

An honors graduate of four major universities of USA, India and Japan, Tim Hoffman was also a lecturer in ethnomusicology in leading universities such as Musashino Music Academy and Keio University since 1992.

He has also garnered major international awards as a musician and a scholar. As founder/director of the Indo-Japanese Music Exchange Association, Hoffman has produced many international/intercultural events in Asia, USA & Europe.

Work In Progress Seminar with Dr. Axel Gelfert

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Topic: Rumours – Which Ones Can You Trust?
Speaker: Dr. Axel Gelfert

Abstract:
Rumours don’t usually get a good press in academic circles. Spreading rumours is typically dismissed as morally blameworthy, yet at the same time rumours have been described as ways in which social communities ‘make sense’ of situations of uncertainty. Either way, for better or worse, rumours are an important element of public discourse. In this Work-In-Progress seminar, I will focus on rumours as a possible route to knowledge rather than as a social or political problem. That is, I will discuss the question of whether (and if so: when) rumours may be reasonably thought of as a source of knowledge — even if we cannot, and should not, always take them at face value.

Fellow’s Tea with Prof. Janet Browne

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15th October 2012, 3.00pm

Master’s Common Lounge, Level 3
Only 30 seats available!
Refreshments will be served.

Register here!

Bio

Prof. Janet Browne’s interests range widely over the history of the
life sciences and natural history. At Harvard she teaches an
introductory history of Darwinism, from Darwin’s day to now. She is
greatly interested in the history of animal and plant collecting, old
museums, voyages of exploration, garden history, and the science and
religion controversies. Up until six years ago she lived and worked in
England, mostly Cambridge and London. During that time she specialised
in reassessing Charles Darwin’s work, first as an associate editor of
the early volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, and more
recently as author of a biographical study that integrated Darwin’s
science with his life and times. The biography was received generously
both in the UK and USA, and awarded several prizes, including the James
Tait Black award for non-fiction in 2004 and the Pfizer Prize from the
History of Science Society.

Welcome Dinner

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A welcome dinner was jointly organized for the students of University Scholar Programme (USP) and Tembusu pilot programmes at Prince Georges Park Residence. The students were greeted by the Masters of both colleges and spent the evening mingling with their peers from USP.

Work In Progress Seminar with Dr. John P. DiMoia

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Topic: K-pop, and the Culture of South Korean Plastic Surgery
Speaker: Dr. John P. DiMoia

Abstract:
Why do so many Korean pop stars and singers opt for plastic surgery? How did this culture of changing one’s body for economic gain develop? Starting with the elite clinics of Kangnam-gu (SE) in Seoul, this talk will offer an alternative history for cosmetic surgery in Korea.Following the history of one specific practice, the double eyelid surgery, the talk will briefly trace the procedure from its origins in Meiji Japan, to the Korean War, and through the subsequent development of a South Korean biomedical and surgical culture after 1954. From the original goal of “round eyes,” to the present-day goal of possessing “big eyes,” South Korean clients have adopted plastic surgery as a means of self-fashioning, transforming themselves to fit their own desired self-image.The question remains as to what this culture means for these individuals, as well as others in the region now exposed to it through the medium of popular culture.

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.

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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).