Tag: 2014

Biomedicine & Singapore Society: Special Teaching Session

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Biomedicine And Singapore Society

Special Teaching Session

11 Nov

Seminar Room 4

7-740 Eh Sick Already See Doctor Or Sinseh?

8-840 Social Egg Freezing in Singapore

9-940 Clinical Trials in Singapore

 

Seminar Room 6

7-740 Is Dementia Village a Viable Option in Singapore?

8-840 Printing My 3(D) Parents

9-940 Therapy Without License

 

Seminar Room 4

7-740 Child Obesity

8-840 Obesity and Stigma

9-940 Mental Illness in a Posthuman World

 

Seminar Room 6

7-740 Do We Create Our Own Diseases: Economics of Biomedicine

8-840 Understanding the Institutionalization of Alternative Medicine

9-940 You Are What You Eat

 

All are welcome

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Fellow’s Tea with Mr Terence Chia

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Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Mr Terence Chia

5pm , Tuesday

7th October 2014

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

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Hosted by Dr Kelvin Pang & Dr Kuan

Terence served as an Industrial Relations Officer in the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) previously. He worked closely with union leaders, members and management partners to handle grievances, resolve conflicts and negotiate collective agreements to secure the welfare of workers.

He also involved in developing programmes to enhance the leadership of union leaders and in expanding union outreach to Professionals, Managers and Executives.

Terence will be sharing his perspectives on Singapore’s system for industrial relations, the role of unions in Singapore,and the importance of relationship-building before, during and after negotiations.

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Fellow’s Tea with Dr Cheong Wai Kit

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Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Dr Cheong Wai Kit

3pm, Thursday

2nd October 2014

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

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Hosted by Prof. Prakash Hande

To screen or not to screen: cancer surgeon’s perspective

Dr Cheong Wai Kit is a Senior consultant in the Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, National University Hospital . He is also Clinical Lecturer at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Besides his daily work as a colorectal surgeon and lecturer, Dr Cheong has been heavily involved in raising awareness month recently to reach out to the young to spread the importance of early screening to the old. He is also a member of the Public Education Committee of the Singapore Cancer Society. Dr Cheong graduated from the University of Malaya and obtained his postgraduate qualifications from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons.

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WIP with Dr. Jolynna Sinanan and Dr. Connor Graham

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Work In Progress Seminar

Celebrity Blogs in Singapore

Dr Jolynna Sinanan & Dr Connor Graham

22nd October 2014, 6pm

Master’s Common Lounge

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In Recent years there has been a proliferation of self-proclaimed celebrity bloggers in Singapore, from the experienced to the debutant. Many of these blogs are widely read by Singaporeans,provoking the question: why? In previous work we have explored the appeal and influence of these blogs through focusing on aesthetics and content. Now we turn our attention to the audience. Our aim is to uncover the influence and politics of these blogs. What does the nature of this influence tell us about the role of consumption in Singapore society?

WIP with Dr. Jolynna Sinanan

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Works In Progress Seminar

What They Post: Social media as ethnography?

Dr Jolynna Sinanan

16th October 2014, 6pm

Master’s Lounge

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Social media has provided a huge entry point for ethnography into forms of communication, but it also has grounds to count as participant observation in itself, Can we use this material in way that is similar to move ‘traditional’, ‘offline’ ethnography?

This presentation will introduce a book I am currently working on with Danny Miller called ‘What They Post’, contrasting posting on social media in England and Trinidad. If we compare my work on current social media photographs in Trinidad with Miller’s previous ethnography of Trinidad, we find to a surprising degree this corresponds to the analysis with a dual logic he previously called ‘transcience’ the world of the street and reputation the ‘transcendence’ the values around the home and family.

The claim to ethnography is strengthened by the contrast between these sites.

While there are common genres such as celebrations and baby photos, Trinidadian postings are dominated by topics such a religion and moral homilies on the other hand and an emphasis on style and sexuality on the other, topics that are almost absent in English postings

Master’s Tea with Mrs Lim Hwee Hua

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Tembusu College Master’s Tea

Mrs Lim Hwee Hua

3pm, Tuesday

28th October 2014

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

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Hwee Hua was elected to Parliament in December 1996 and served till May 2011, during which she served in various roles – Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, Second Minister for Finance and for Transport, Deputy Speaker of Parliament, and Chairman of the Public Accounts Commitee.

Hwee Hua is currently a non-executive director of UOB Bank, Jardine Cycle & Carriage Ltd, Stamford Land Corporation and BW Group Limited, and Honorary Chairman of SIAS. She is a Senior Advisor to Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts and a Member of the Asia Advisor Board of Westpac Institutional Bank.

Drawing on her experience in the Government and Private Sector, Hwee Hua published her book Government in Business: Friend or Foe? in October 2013. She holds a Master of Arts (Honours) in Mathematics/Engineering from the University of Cambridge and a Master of Business Administration, major in Finance, from the Anderson School of Management, University of California at Los Angles.

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WIP with Ms. Birgit Buergi

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Work In Progress Seminar

Thai Sci-Fi Comics

Ms Birgit Buergi

30th October 2014, 6pm

Level 1 Common Lounge

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‘On top of Volcano Olympus, at a height of 26 kilometres (six times higher than Mount Everest), Captain Ariya, unknowingly, is holding Dr Darin’s hand. Dr Yoshi glance at the couple and smiles secretly thinking of the day he took his own lady there’.

This passage is taken from a graphic science fiction novel in the Thai language. It’s part of collaborative sci-art project that embraces the ‘Science, technology and innovation encluturation’ and the ‘Youth-driven innovation’ motto, which the Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN adopted in 2010. In this talk, I will Show how the power of sci-fi comics can be used to analyze Thailand’s market-oriented research communities and their production of a ‘new breed of scientists and engineers’.

Master’s Tea with Dr. Irene Lee

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Tembusu College Master’s Tea

Dr. Irene Lee

3pm, Monday

13th October 2014

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

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Dr. Irene S.M.Lee is presently an entrepreneur in the renewable energy/solar and art businesses. Art is her passion and she has won art competitions and exhibited internationally. Her latest venture is founder and CEO of a social enterprise Little Sun Asia that combines art and solar power (www.littlesun.asia). She is also the President of the Harvard Club of Singapore, and Vice President of the Distinguished Universities Alumni League (DUAL).

Dr. Lee obtained her Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Architecture degrees at the National University of Singapore, Masters of Architecture in Urban Design at Cornell University, and doctorate at Harvard University where she majored in environmental management and technology. Subsequently, she was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the United Nations University in Tokyo to do research on urban ecosystems, a postdoctoral fellowship at the Tokyo Medical and Dental University for interdisciplinary research, and a third postdoctorate at kassel University in Germany for research on environmental sustainability.

Dr. Lee has held top management positions in the environmental and renewable energy industries, and has project experience in Europe, USA,China,India,Indonesia,Korea,Malaysia,Taiwan,Thailand and Vietnam, in the areas of environmental management, architecture/engineering, infrastructure/urban planning and renewable energy. She was also a scientist at the University of Heidelberg in Germany.

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WIP with Dr. Michiel Baas

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Work In Progress Seminar

The New Indian Man

Dr. Michiel Baas

23rd October 2014, 6pm

Level 1 Common Lounge

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India’s economic growth has come with new ideas of the ‘ideal’ male body.

Portrayals of such bodies have become extremely prevalent. In this talk I will deiscuss what this new ‘visibility’ reveals about India. Using examples from recent fieldwork in a small neighbourhood gym in Delhi among members of a bodybuilding federation., I will focus on the profession of fitness trainer. Who are these Indians who find employment in the fitness industry, where do they come from in terms of personal and family backgrounds, and where are they heading? The shapes and size of their bodies is not only a new way of generating income, it can also lead to social mobility. But, even though this body can make up for an apparent lack in ‘middle classness’, climbing up the social ladder is complex. The process of the new Man climbing reveals the complex layers of class and status in Indian society.

Master’s Tea with Minister of Manpower Tan Chuan-Jin

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Tembusu College Master’s Tea

Min. Tan Chuan-Jin

3.30pm, Monday

20th October 2014

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

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Mr Tan Chuan-Jin served in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) for nearly 24 years before retiring in 2011.

When the Indian Ocean Tsunami struck on Boxing Day 2004, Mr.Tan led the SAF’s relief effort to Meulaboh, Aceh in Indonesia. As chairman Executive Committee, Mr. Tan was also responsible for organising the National Day Parade in 2009.

In May 2011, Mr. Tan was elected as one of the Members of Parliament for the Marine Parade Group Representation Constituency and subsequently appointed Minister of State for National Development and Manpower.

On 1 August 2012, Mr. Tan was appointed Acting Minister for Manpower,concurrently Senior Minister of State for National Development. Mr. Tan relinquished his National Development portfolio on 1 September 2013, but he continued to helm the Ministry of Manpower as Acting Minister. He was made full Minister on 1 May 2014.

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in Leenhouts, P W (1960) Loganiaceae. Flora Malesiana, Ser. 1, Vol. 6/1, Fig. 6 (CC-BY 4.0).