Tembusu College
Inaugural Dinner 2013
2nd September, Monday
7pm, Dining Hall
Dress Code: Formal (national dress, business or lounge suit)
To help us prepare for the event prevent food wastage, please register for the event by 25th August with your respective House RA’s:
GAJA – Lim Siew Ying
TANCHO – Song Yu Chuan or Pearl Lee
SHAN – Eugene Chum
ORA – Roy Koo
PONYA – Loo Zhi Wen
Work In Progress Seminar
Colourful clues of health, ageing and disease
19th September 2013, 6pm
Master’s Common Lounge
Assoc Prof M.Prakash Hande
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Abstract: Everyone knows that our bodies experience the wear and tear of daily life. But this wear and tear also affects our DNA, the blue print of life. A biomarker is a detectable characteristic of DNA and proteins. Biomarkers change during ageing, disease and exposure to toxins such as arsenic and radiation. Biomarkers are important for predicting future health problems. Such clues can be used in diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of diseases. The recent Fukushima disaster has dramatically shown the power of biomarkers to estimate the long-term health risks of nuclear accidents. Based on our current research on chromosomes and telomeres (colourful clues), I will discuss the possible use of biomarkers in disease management and ageing.
Tembusu College Master’s Tea
Mr Alan Chan
3pm, Thursday
18th September 2013
Master’s Common Lounge,
Level 3, Residential Block
Refreshments will be served.
Only 30 seats available!
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After hopping around a few jobs, just a few, for a couple of decades. I settled down in 1970 to found a shipping service from scratch. It was run for 37 years ending with 10 short-sea tankers. The operation was somehow aided by techniques picked up from the Advanced Management Program at Harvard. The business was sold in2007 when the shipping crisis was clearly looming large. I turned to scholarly pursuits, my true passion in life.
Recently appointed.
Director, Confucius Neo-Institute, Qufu, birthplace of the Sage. Senior Fellow, Bond University, Australia.
Books written: Philosophy Revamped, Analects Renovated, Dictional Flaws Idiomatic Idioms, Tropical Topics 2012.
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Book Launch of Dispelling
The Darkness
Voyage in the Malay
Archipelago and the Discovery of Evolution by Wallace and Darwin
by John van Wyhe
Date: 15 August 2013,
Thursday, 3.30pm.
Reviews for Dispelling the
Darkness:
“The story of wallace
will never be the same again John van Wyhe has delved deeply into the
archives and brings Wallace’s travels his voyage back to life by discovering
new facts about his voyage and theories. Without downplaying the impact of
Darwin, van Wyhe’s book reveals Wallace as a great evolution thinker in his own
right, who truly deserves to be considered in content.”
Janet Browne
Aramont Professor of the
History of Science
Harvard University
” This book greatly
advances our knowledge of Wallace by correcting a plethora of myths, by
reconstructing Wallace’s travels, experiences and reflections with
authorities precision, interpretive sophistication, archival documentation and
by insightful clarification of Wallace and Darwin’s interaction, divergences
and convergences. The overall result is a major scholarly contribution to the
intellectual and social history of Wallacean science and of Darwinian science
in their original, distinctive cultural contexts”.
Jonathan Hodge
Honorary Fellow, History
and Philosophy of Science University of Leeds
About the Speakers :
John van Wyhe is one of
the world’s leading experts on Darwin, Wallace and the history of evolution. Currently
a Senior Lecturer at the National University of Singapore, he is the author or
editor of Darwin Online, Wallace Online. Darwin’s Notebook from the Voyage of
the Beagle, Darwin’s Shorter Publications, Darwin in Cambridge, Wallace’s
Letter’s from the Malay Archipelago and the Illustrated biography: Darwin.
Gregory Clancey is concurrently
an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Leader of the STS
(Science, Technology and Society) Research Cluster at the Asia Research
Institute (ARI). He formerly served NUS as Assistant Dean of the Faculty of
Arts and Social Sciences, and as Chairman of the General Education Steering
Committee, on which he’s still a member. A/P Clancey received his PhD in the Historical
and Social Study of Science and Technology from MIT , has been a Fulbright
Graduate Fellow at Tokyo University, and a Lars Hlerta Fellow at the Royal
Institute of Technology (KtH) in Stockholm, ‘Sweden. He has won three NUS teaching
awards.
Assoc Prof. Clancey’s
research centers on the cultural history of science & technology,
particular in modern Japan and East Asia. His book Earthquake Nation: The
Cultural Politics or Japanese Seismicity (Berkeley: U . of California Press,
2006) won the Sidney Edelstein Prize from the Society for the History of
Technology in 2007, and was selected as one the “11 Best Books about Science”
for the UC Berkeley Summer Reading List, sent to all Incoming Freshmen in 2009.
He is co-editor of Major Problems in the History of America Technology (Boston:
Houghton-Mifflin, 1998) and Historical Perspectives on East Asian Science,
Technology and Medicine (Singapore: Singapore U, Press & World Scientific
2002).
REACH
Dialogue Session with Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan
Topic: Defining Education in the 21st Century
Date: Wednesday, 14th August 2013
Venue: Reading Room, Learn Lobe
Refreshments: 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Dialogue: 7:30pm – 9pm
Dr Balakrishnan has been a Member of Parliament Since 2001. He currently the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources. He previously held appointments as the Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, Second Minister for Trade and Industry, Minister responsible for Entrepreneurship, Second Minister for information, Communications and the Arts and Minister of State for National Development.
During the early years of his political career, he served as Chairman of the “Remaking Singapore” committee and Chairman of the National Youth Council. He also served as Chairman of the Young PAP.
In Parliament, he has moved several pieces of new legislation. These include the Competition Act, Community Care Endowment Fund Act, Mental Capacity Act, the International Child Abduction Act and the Energy Conservation Act. He has also moved amendments to the children Development Co-Savings Act, Children and Young Persons Act, Women’s Charter, Charities Act, Hindu Endowment Board, Postal Services Act, Animal and Birds Act, Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority Act, Sale of Food Act, the Public Utilities Act and the Sewerage and Drainage Act.
Dr Balakrishnan has overseen the establishment of the Comcare Endowment Fund; refinement of the Comcare Social Assistant framework; the Enabling Masterplan for person with disability; the establishment of the Central Youth Guidance Office; the expansion of Family Service Centres and the Accreditation of Social Workers.
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Tembusu College Master’s Tea
Dr. William Tan
3pm, Wednesday
21st August 2013
Master’s Common Lounge,
Level 3, Residential Block
Refreshments will be served.
Only 30 seats available!
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Dr William Tam personifies both passion and compassion. He contracted polio at the age of two and is paralysed from the waist down. Notwithstanding his disability, he has shown outstanding strength in overcoming adversities. From a kindergarten drop-out, he topped Selegie Primary School and went to Singapore’s Premier School namely Raffles Institution on a Ministry of Education Scholarship for his Secondary and Junior College education. The National University of Singapore Alumnus who majored in Life Sciences joined the Civil Services after graduation in 1980. In Pursuit of his dream to become a scientist and medical doctor, he venture abroad for postgraduate studies in 1989. Holder of a First Class Honours in Physiology, this Harvard University’s Fulbright Scholarship and Oxford University’s Chevening Scholar has also trained at the world-renowned Mayo Clinic in USA.
Prof. Cathy Davidson, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of interdisciplinary Studies and Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English
Cathy N. Davidson’s main contributions have been in the areas of history and theory of technology, including history of the book, history of industrialism and post industrialism, and history of new technologies and society. As Vice Provost of Interdisciplinary Studies, innovative new cross-campus technologies for research and teaching were part of charge and she has had an impact in this area both at duke and nationally, including as a leader in national policy on digital media and learning. Her interest in issues of race, gender, and sexuality cross all her work, from eighteenth-century literature to envisioning the future of digital media and learning institutions in a digital age.
Mr. Ken Wissoker, Editorial Director, Duke University Press
Ken Wissoker is the Editorial Director of Duke University Press, acquiring books in anthropology, cultural studies, and social theory; globalization and post-colonial theory; Asian, African, and America studies; music, film and television; race, gender and sexuality, and other areas in the humanities, social sciences, media, and the arts. He moved to Durham to join the Press as an Acquisitions Editor in 1991; became Editor-in-Chief in 1997, before being named Editorial Director in 2005.
Two of his books, Richard Klein’s Cigarettes are Sublime and Walt Odets’s In the Shadow of the Epidemic, were named by the New York Times as books of the year. Among the authors whose books he has published are Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Halberstam, Charles Taylor, Joan Scott, Lauren Berlant, Brian Massumi, Arjun Appadurai, Aihwa Ong, Kuan-Hsing Chen and Lawrence Grossberg.
Stage Magic: A Site to Study the Interplay of People and Technology? By Dr Wally Smith (University of Melbourne)
Chair: Dr Catelijne Coopmans (Tembusu College, NUS)
Friday 12 July 2013, 4:00pm
Master’s Common Room, Level 3,Tower Block, Tembusu College, NUS
Abstract
This talk will examine the apparatus and performance of stage magic and will ask what it reveals about the interplay of people and technology. The main source of evidence is a small body of instructional writings relatings to a modern style of conjuring that emerged in the 19th century, a time when conjuring eagerly appropriated new optical, mechanical and electrical technologies. Drawing on Lucy Suchman’s work, conjuring is interpreted here as an early form of simulation in general to be deceptive. The account traces how magicians working in the modern style developed a naturalistic manner of dramatic representation becomes the thing that it purports to represent. Allied to this were new deceptive techniques of dissimulation took the form of apparently transparent apparatus and stage sets, and a fabricated natural manner of performance. The talk will consider the general significance of conjuring’s format of inverted theatre, and its related techniques of dissimulation, for simulations and technologies in general.
About speaker
Wally Smith is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Conjuring and Information Systems at The University of Melbourne. His teaching and research interest are in sociotechnical systems and the design of interactive technologies. Current research projects are on the use of social media for smoking cessation, and design of a mobile apps for student fieldwork. Related to the present talk, he is interested in way technologies displayed and performed.
All are welcome.
The Tembusu College UTRP Graduation Ceremony will be held on 12th May 2013, 4pm to 6pm, at Auditorium2, Stephen Riady Centre.
Eligibility
All Tembusu students who are on track to successfully complete the five modules of the University Town Residential Programme (UTRP) by the end of this semester are eligible to graduate in May. This includes students retained for a third year.
Eligible students must file for graduation by Thursday 2nd April. Details of the process are sent by email.
What to wear at graduation
The graduation is a formal occasion; an appropriate standard of dress is required.
For males:
White shirt, tie, dark pants and dress shoes
For females:
White blouse, dark pants or skirt (knee length) and court shoes
Guests
Each student is entitled to two transferable invitation cards for two guests. Details on when and how to collect the invitations will be released nearer the date.
On 12th May 2013, guests are to be seated in the Auditorium by 3.30pm. For those driving to University Town, they are to park at the Stephen Riady Centre Basement carpark. Charges apply.
Procession
Graduating students are to assemble at the Tembusu Multi-purpose Hall at 3pm. They will be lined up alphabetically, according to family name first. Students will then proceed in a procession from the MPH to the Auditorium led by the College Fellows.
Once in the Auditorium, students are to be seated until it is time to go on stage to receive their UTRP certificates.
Reception
A small reception will be held outside the Auditorium after the graduation ceremony.
Photographs and Videos
We are engaging professional photographers and videographers to document the occasion. You will be able to order your photographs and/or video of the occasion during the reception.
Detailed Itinerary:
3.00pm: Graduands to assemble at the Tembusu Multi-purpose Hall
3.30pm: Guests to be seated in Auditorium2
3.40pm: Tembusu video
4.00pm: Graduands enter Auditorium2, led by Fellows
4.10pm: Speech by A/P Gregory Clancey, Master, Tembusu College
4.15pm: Graduands to receive their certificate and have their picture taken with Prof Tommy Koh, Rector, Tembusu College
5.55pm: Winning speech on the theme “What does it mean to be a Tembusu Graduate?”
6.00pm: End of ceremony followed by reception outside Auditorium2
7.00pm: End of reception
Bookhaven Specials for Tembusu College UTRP Graduation Day
Bookhaven UTown is offering Tembusu graduates and their family a special 10% discount for the Tembusu mug and plate, and 20% discount on all other items. They will be open from 4pm-8pm.
Graduation Speech Competition
The graduation ceremony committee invites graduating students to submit 600-700 word speeches addressing the theme “What Does it Mean to be a Tembusu Graduate?” The winning speech will be read during the graduation ceremony. Email your essay to Dr. Adam Groves at rctasg@nus.edu.sg with the subject title “Graduation Speech” by 2nd May.
Getting here
Please visit http://utown.nus.edu.sg/contact/getting-here/ for directions to the event venue.
Tembusu College Office University Town, NUS 28 College Avenue East, #B1-01 Singapore 138598
tembusu@nus.edu.sg
