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

WIP with Dr. Graham Button

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Dr. Graham Button
Marrying Sociology and Systems Design: The Road to True Happiness or the Divorce Courts?
23rd August 2012, Thursday, 6.00pm

Register here

Abstract:
I am a sociologist who works with engineers, computer scientists and designers of computer systems. Computer systems are everywhere- in Facebook, Twitter, SMS or e-mails. However, anyone who has used a computer system will have been frustrated by it because it either will not let them do what they want to do, or makes them do something in an annoying way. This talk is about how I, as a sociologist who is interested in how people go about doing the things they do, can make the those building systems take notice of the people who use them.

Work In Progress Seminar with Prof. Gregory Clancey

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Title: Japanese and their Earthquakes

Speaker: Associate Professor Gregory Clancey

Abstract:
My talk will be about a project that I thought was completed, but has become a ‘work-in-progress’ because of events. I published a book on the history of Japanese earthquakes in 2006, but then turned my attention to other topics. But with the ‘Great East Japan Earthquake’ and tsunami in March of this year, I was pulled back into discussions, and discovered I had more to think about, and more to say. The people who initially pulled me back in were reporters, who wanted to interview me about the Japanese peoples’ response to the disaster, and to previous ones. My talk to all of you will start with controversial questions that came up in these interviews and my reactions as an historian of Japan.

Fellow’s Tea with Mr. Younes Bouadi

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Tembusu College Master’s Tea

Mr. Younes Bouadi

3pm, Wednesday

24th October 2012

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

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

Mr. Younes Bouadi is an independent producer and researcher of contemporary art based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Bouadi’s theoretical engagement is toward an excavation of the layers of bureaucratic resistance to pinpoint ideological forces that drive and obstruct artifacts displaced from their site of origination. Bouadi’s artistic productions put theory into practice as his focus on displaced art in the context of a globalized world gives rise to a broader conversation about the role of art in the 21st century.

Younes has organized artistic exhibitions on multiple continents in a variety of stations and currently works as the producer of the renowned Dutch Artist Jonas Staal, while simultaneously earning a Master of Philosophy of Science in Art History with The University of Amsterdam.

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

 

Work In Progress Seminar with Assoc. Prof. John Phillips

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Topic: Pop Music (John Cage, Elvis and 2NE1)
Speaker: Assoc. Prof. John Phillips

Abstract:
This talk is an overview of the meaning of the “popular” in the evolving context of pop music from the early days of the twentieth century to the present. The word popular, implying the communal, practical and often political activities of a people, has evolved during more than a century of rapid media development. I aim to show why there exist invariable principles behind what may be called the pop music event (e.g., Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Dusty Springfield, Bob Marley, Utada Hikaru, S Club7, 2NE1). The talk puts critical theory to work with a selection of pertinent cases to show the argument of the book I am currently writing.

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.

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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).