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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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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

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

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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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Master’s Tea with Mr Koh Buck Song

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Tembusu College Master’s Tea

Mr Koh Buck Song

3pm, Wednesday

15th October 2014

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

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Mr Koh Buck Song is the author and editor of 23 books, including the recently-launched Learning For Life: Singapore’s Investment in Lifelong Learning Since the 1950s. His other books also capture slices of Singapore’s history, including 100 years of electricity and energy policy, 50 years of economic development strategy and 40 years of public housing, in addition to three poetry volumes and several literary anthologies. His book Brand Singapore: How Nation Branding Built Asia’s Leading Global City (2011) was published in China in Chinese in 2012.

Mr Koh holds a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard Kennedy School, and degrees in English from Cambridge and in education from London University . He was Adjunct Associate Professor in leadership at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Adjunct Faculty in media policy at Singapore Management University. Previously, he was a political and arts editor and regular columnist at The Straits Times.

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Student’s Tea with Mr Sean Hesh

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Tembusu College Student’s Tea

Mr. Sean S. Hesh

7.30pm, Thursday, 30th October 2014

Common Lounge, Only 30 Seats Available!

More About Mr Hesh:

Mr Sean Hesh is currently the Regional Head of Network Management, and is responsible for Citibank’s Issuing and Acquiring relationship with all of the Card Networks. Additionally, he is also the Regional Head of the Merchant Acquiring business for Citibank in Asia Pacific.

Mr Hesh graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science, from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master’s Degree in International Relations from San Francisco State University.

He has held the positions of CEO and Managing Director of Merchant Solutions Pte. Ltd.; CEO of Wells Fargo Merchant Services; Chief Operating Officer of Cardservice International; Senior Vice President of TASQ Technology; and Vice President and General Manager of Alliances at First Data Corporation, before joining Citibank in 2010.

In his free time, Mr Hesh also enjoys travelling, playing golf or simply chatting over a good drink with his friends.

Highlights:

Come down and hear Mr Hesh share about his past working experiences, provide insights and tips on networking, which kind of alcohol is superior and much more!

Student’s Tea with Mr Lawrence Low

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Tembusu College Student’s Tea

Mr. Lawrence Low

7-8pm, Tuesday, 21st October 2014, Seminar Room 4

Only 30 Seat Available!

More About Mr Low:

Mr Lawrence Low is currently the Managing Director of Alphatron Asia,

which handles the distribution, system integration for Satellites and broadcast, along with Software Development.

Awarded the ASME Entrepreneur of the Year in 2007 and Enterprise 50 in 2012, he is also previously worked as the Regional Sales Manager for Richardson Electronics in USA.

Mr Low graduated with a Masters of Science (Electronics), and a Diplome d’Engenieur (equivalent of a Master’s in Engineering) from the Universite de Valenciennes in France, and MBA in NUS.

In his free time, Mr Low enjoys playying tennis, video games such as FIFA 14 and Winning Eleven, and spending time with his family.

Highlights:

Come down and hear Mr Low share what engineering is about, how he started his own business and won the ASME Entrepreneur of the Year, his working experience, possible career options as an engineer, beating you at FIFA 14 and much more!

Fellow’s Tea with Mr. Davide Benvenuti

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Tembusu College
Fellow’s Tea

In association with the Living Online Mediastream

Davide Benvenuti

6.30pm, Wednesday

29th October 2014

Reading Room

Level B1, Learn Lobe

Refreshments will be served

No registration necessary

Davide Benvenuti is a classically trained animator accomplished in 2D animation, with practical training and experience in 3D developed at Dreamworks Studio, Los Angeles. Currently he is an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University in the School of Art, Design and Media. Previously he was engaged as a 3D Senior Animator at Ubisoft in Singapore. Before coming to Singapore he worked as Senior Animator at Disneytoon Studios in Sydney.

He has organised and conducted forums on lip-sync and realistic speech of animated characters, using animation and live action examples approaches and methodologies for handling long scenes and inherent acting problems and animation. He received special credit for the character “Myrtle” in “Lilo & Stitch 2” (2005). A list of his movie credits iss available from his IMDB page at: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0073045/.

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