Tag: 2013

Senior Seminar Workshop Series

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NUMBERING CLIMATE CHANGE

UNCOVER THE POLITICS BEHIND THE CARBON ECONOMY JOIN THE WORKSHOP AT TINYURL.COM/CARBON-WORKSHOP

 

Sign up for this workshop on politics of carbon economics (participation confirmation only after sign-up).

You will develop some in-depth understandings of the real people in carbon economics, the workings and contradictions around emission markets, accounting and quantification. Thus, this workshop offers you insights into the actual politics packaged into quantifying carbon emissions: We focus on micro and macro politics in emission markets and accounting.

Want a taste?: Check out this brief text on the political economy of carbon trading.

Workshop facilitator: Dr. Ingmar Lippert is Lecturer and Research Fellow at Tembusu College. Between 2008 and 2010 he has been working and researching in the carbon accounting unit of a Fortune 50 multinational corporation. His research focuses on the micro political economics of global emission trading. In particular, this involves opening up questions on who is given a voice in calculations and representations of climatically relevant emissions.

Student’s Tea with Dr. John van Wyhe

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Tembusu College Student’s Tea

Host: Ms Yoggaranjeni Vickraman

Guest: Dr John van Wyhe

6pm, Wednesday

2nd October 2013

1st Floor Common Lounge

Refreshments will be served.

In July, one of our Fellows, Dr John van Wyhe spent three weeks exploring various islands of Indonesia in the footsteps of victorian naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913). He travelled with a team assembled to film a documentary on Wallace in association with the forthcoming exhibition at the Singapore Science Centre. He wil shared some of the stories, photos and discoveries from their voyage. This will be the first Student’d Tea of the semester, hosted by our very own 1st year Tembusian, Ms Yoggaranjeni.

Master’s Tea with Ms. Sylvia Lim

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Tembusu College Master’s Tea

Sylvia Lim

3pm, Monday

28th October 2013

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

Sylvia Lim is a lawyer by training and currently a Member of Parliament for Aljunied GRC. She did her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the National University of Singapore and University College London respectively, and is currently enrolled on an M.Sc programme with Michigan State University’s School of Criminal Justice.

Her areas of policy interest include governance, social justice and criminal justice issues, and joined the Workers’ Party in 2001. She worked in law enforcement and a litigation practice, and thought school leavers and adult learners for 12 years at Temasek Polytechnic. Her leisure interest include sports, music and wine.

Master’s Tea with Dr. Laretna Adshakti

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Tembusu College Master’s Tea

Dr. Laretna T Adishakti

3pm, Wednesday

18th October 2013

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

Laretna T Adishakti (Yogyakarta, 19 October 1958) is a Lecturer and Coordinator of the Center for Heritage Conservation, Department of Architecture & Planning, Faculty of Engineering Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She is also a painter and an ikebana practioner. Laretna received her Doctorate in Engineering from Kyoto University, while her Master of Architecture degree is from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA.

Currently, Laretna is active in several roles as Board Member (Asia Representative) of the Association of National Committees for Blue Shield; Coordinator of the Indonesian National Committee of Blue Shield; Facilitator of the International Field School on Asian Heritage, Indonesian Heritage Cities Program, and the International Field School on Borobudur Saujana Heritage. She is also a Member of the Asian Academy for Heritage Management, UNESCO-ICCROM, the International Council on Monument and Sites (ICOMOS), the KERUPUK/Komunitas Peduli Ruang Publik Jogja (COmmunity of Jogja Public Space), and the Eisenhower Fellowship. She is the Chairperson and Co-founder of the Jogja Heritage Society, the Co-founder and a member of the Board of Directors for the Indonesian Heritage Trust. In 2002, Laretna was selected as an Eisenhower Fellow inUSA. She served on the Selection Committee for the Rolex Award for Enterprises in2006, received the Nikkei Asia Prize for Culture in 209

Master’s Tea with Mr. Jim Rogers

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Tembusu College Master’s Tea

Mr Jim Rogers

3pm, Thursday

24th October 2013

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

Jim Rogers, a native of Demopolis, Alabama, is an author, financial commentator, adventurer, and successful international investor. He has been frequently featured in Time, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Barron’s Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Business Times, The Straits Times and many media outlets worldwide. He has also appeared as a regular commentator and columnist in various media and has been a professor at Columbia University. After attending Yale and Oxford University, Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund, a global-investment partnership. During the next 10 years, the portfolio gained 4200% while the S&P rose less than 50%. Rogers then decided to retire – at age 37 Continuing to manage his own portfolio, Rogers kept busy serving as a full professor of finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and, in 1989 and 1990, as the moderator of WCBS’s ‘The Dreyfus Roundtable’ and FNN’s ‘The Profit Motive with Jim Rogers’.

Between 1990 and 1999, Rogers broke the Guinness Book of World Records three times by motorcycling across six continents and travelling for 3 years round-the-world passing through 116 countries. He chronicled his journeys in Investment Biker: On the Road with Jim Rogers and Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip. His other books include Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably In The World’s Best Market, A Bull in China and more recently Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets.

WIP with Dr. Adam Staley Groves

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Work in Progress Seminar

Poetic and Scientific Imagination

24th October 2013, 6pm

First Floor Common Lounge

Dr. Adam Staley Groves

Register at dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io

What is the relationship between poetry and technology? What are the ethical possibilities of the devices that are part of our everyday lives? Poetry can reveal much that is concealed in our use of devices and how we use them. In this talk, I shift the thinking of the poem from questioning technics toward a thinking of the scientific object. I am particularly in want of questions and ideas regarding the scientific imagination and the scientist who examines and encounters degrees of reality.

In my current research I compare the reader of the poem (as the poem is an object) to the scientist who investigated material reality in want of the elusive object. The poem is tested by thought and the experience of language, and the image of the poem is generated by the traits of its written form. What are the intersections for scientists who examine reality with equal intent? I will pay particular attention to Gaston Bachelard’s concept of ‘’reverie’’. All are welcome, scientist are encouraged.

WIP with Dr. Catelijne Coopmans & Dr. Ingmar Lippert

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Work in Progress Seminar

Eyes, emissions, and what makes them count

16th October 2013, 6pm

First Floor Common Lounge

Dr. Catelijne Coopmans & Dr. Ingmar Lippert

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What do you need to show that your company has done its fair share in ‘going green’?

What do you need to persuade the government that a new eye-health screening programme for diabetics should be funded?

The answer: hard numbers!

In our research, we go behind the scenes to the discover how these numbers are produced. The everyday life of numbers tells us a lot about how the world is organized. How does the quest for hard numbers affect the things being counted and the people doing the counting? Join us in exploring the surprises that counting ‘eyes’ and ‘emissions’ have in common.

Jeremy Fernando in conversation with Adam Groves

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Jeremy Fernando … in conversation with Adam Staley Groves

It’s hard to say whether a book has been understood or misunderstood. Because, after all, perhaps the person who wrote the book is the one who misunderstood it … (Michel Foucault)

To write is to scribble, to mark — An attempt to trace. But also, to cry, to tear, to open, wound — often erasing all traces. Which might well mean that one never quite knows if one has written, let alone what one has

Come join us on Thursday, 17th October, from 1-2pm when Adam Staley Groves attempts to read the writing of Jeremy Fernando.

Amongst other things, they will be speaking of, talking with each other about, poetry, reading, writing On Happiness … and love …

Fellow’s Tea with Ms Shirley Soh

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Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Shirley Soh

3pm, Thursday

12th Sept 2013

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

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

Shirley Soh, currently an independent art practitioner, received her degree in political science and her Master’s in new media and communication, both at NUS.

In between, she obtained her fine art degree from Singapore’s Laselle College of the Arts. Shirley was a television journalist, covering local current affairs issues, then a corporate executive working first in Sydney, then London where she caught the art bug and decided to pursue a life in the arts. Her artmaking began with ceramics and her earlier work focused on making functional vessels for their symbolic and cultural representations of their usage. This quickly led to working with others material – living vegetation, soil, soft sculptures, soap and videos – reflecting on recurrent themes such as biodiversity and sustainability. Shirley also worked at the Singapore Management University developing and managing the university’s co-curricular education programme, but since 2010, has returned full time to art practice. She has worked with migrant workers and is currently collaborating with women prisoners on a project for Singapore Biennale 2013.

At this tea, Shirley will also be discussing her commissioned work for the Downtown Line Botanic Gardens station, earmarked to open in 2015. In this work, titled the Ontology of Trees, Shirley reflects on what it means to be a tree and is inviting poems or quotations to be included in the visual work for the new station.

Hosted by Dr. Margaret Tan

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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).