Wellness Workshops

Mindfulness – The No 1 Differentiator (26Aug, Tue, 6.30 – 7.30pm, MCL, register here)

A lively interactive practical session open to all those keen to find out the No 1 Differentiator in life, studies, wellness and work. How to ride the pressures of study, relationships, finances, family and your future. A talk you’ll never forget.

Research: Mindfulness on BBC Breakfast (on Mindfulness, brain scans and how it impacts wellness, self centeredness, stress and pain.)

PRESENTERS (from The Potential Project)

Jane Grafton has worked with workplace mindfulness since 2003. She is British, has been based in Singapore since 2000, has trained and coached a wide range of professionals in Asia Pacific, USA, South Africa, India, Europe and UK. Jane has experience in project management, training and development, HR Management and Leadership. She spent 4 years with the British Council in Singapore as a Corporate Trainer, 6 years as a Registrar with The John Lewis Partnership in UK and 16 years in the British Army retiring as a Major in 1994. Jane is also a comedy actress and laughter yoga instructor.

David Chung has 20 years of experience in implementing IT solutions across Asia and the USA. 16 of those years were spent at Intel Corporation where he held regional to global portfolio responsibilities in a variety of roles: from Web Site Manager, IT Business Analyst, and IT Project/Program Manager, to Business Analytics IT Manager and Business Operations Manager. His breadth of experience in serving Sales & Marketing stakeholders ranges from marketing resource management, digital marketing, channel marketing, to lead and opportunity management, e-commerce, revenue management, supply chain management, and customer support.

Zumba (27Aug, Wed, 7 – 8pm, MPH, register here)

Yoga (29Aug, Fri, 8 – 9pm, MPH, register here)

Tembusu Inaugural Dinner 2014

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Tembusu College

Inaugural Dinner 2014

28 August 2014

Tembusu Dining Hall

Please be seated by 7pm

Dress Code:

Formal (office attire or national dress)

Please contact your respective GFs to register for the event and indicate your meal choice by 22nd August. Registrational is compulsory.

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Fellow’s Tea with Ms Noor Azura Zuhairah Bte Abdul Aziz

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Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Ms Noor Azura Zuhairah Bte Abdul Aziz

4.30pm, Thursday

21st August 2014

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

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

Azura was a senior student at Tembusu College in 2011-2012, and was part of the pilot class for the senior seminar ‘Biomedicine and Singapore Society’. Upon graduating from NUS with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in chemistry, she embarked on an internship of 11/2 years with the Division of Human Health (NAHU) at the International Atomic Energy Agency, an international organization under the United Nations that promotes the peaceful use of nuclear energy. There, Azura was part of a team that coordinated two major projects related to education, communication, and interactions between science, technology and society, in the Fukushima nuclear accident recovery efforts. Under the direct supervision of the Director of NAHU, Rethy Chhem, Azura assisted in the organization of conferences and technical meetings, and co-authored two chapters of the book Radiation Disaster Medicine – Perspective from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident, which was published in 2013. Throughout the internship, she also worked closely with Associate Professor Gregory Clancey, the Master of Tembusu College. Azura has just ended her internship and is back in Singapore for a few weeks before she will go on to pursue a Master’s in Drug Discovery and Development at University College London, UK in September.

Fellow’s Tea with Ms Pamela Devan

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Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Ms Pamela Devan

3.30pm, Tuesday

19th August 2014

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

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

Pamela Devan received a Bachelor’s degree in sociology from the National University of Singapore in 2008, a Master’s degree from the same department in 2011, and a Master’s in social sciences from the University of Chicago in 2012. She has also been a TA at NUS, teaching introductory sociology and sociological theory; an RA researching global East Asian universities and women in academia, among other things; and a program assistant at a queer public charity in New York City. She is currently a PhD candidate at Boston University. Her research interests are in the fields of gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, and community and identity. Most of her work revolves around questions of belonging. Her Previous work has included research on how a type of global ethnic Indian identity is formed through being part of a cricket fandom; how gender and sexual identities are understood, negotiated, and managed within Singaporean lesbian communities; and how mixed white/Asian student identities are shaped through college and family experiences. SHe is currently carrying out research on if, and how, community is understood and shaped among Singaporean resident in HDB areas. Her PhD research will focus once again on gender and sexuality in the form of a comparative case study between New York City and Singapore, examining how different gender identities link to sexual identity with regards to connection to community and place.

IARU NUS Global Summer School Programme

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Asia now!

IARUS NUS Global Summer Program

23 June – 11 July

The Archaeology Of The Future City

Hosted by Tembusu College University Town, NUS

Apply Now!

DEADLINE EXTENDED

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The IARU Global Summer Program (GSP) is an opportunity for student from IARU universities – an alliance of ten of the world’s leading research universities – to take part in an intensive four credit short course over the summer holiday.

Tembusu College will be hosting the 2014 IARU GSP. Tembusu College students are encouraged to apply for this competitive programme for the opportunity to work with outstanding peers from around the globe to explore the most urgent challenges and opportunities for humanity in the 21st century.

For more information on the GSP, please see:

http//www.iaruni.org/gsp/courses-2014/gsp2014-nus2

DEADLINE EXTENDED

Click on the poster or this link to apply.

For more info on GSP access this link

Master’s Tea with Dr. Sonja Lutz

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Fellow’s Tea with Dr. Rosalind Fredericks

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Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Dr. Rosalind Fredericks

3pm, Thursday

10th April 2014

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

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

Rosalind Fredericks is Assistant Professor at New York University, where she conducts research and teaches on topics ranging from the political economy of development, global urbanism, and postcolonial identities in Africa. As an urban geographer, her primary research is an ethnography of the culture politics of garbage collection as a way to understand struggles of urban citizenship in Dakar, Senegal. She shows how attempts to govern through garbage have been met with creative ‘arts of citizenship’ through which women, labourers, and youth mobilize their politics in Dakar, which shows how urban artists and musicians have wielded important influence in national politics in one of Africa’s most important democracies.

Fredericks has co-edited two books on citizenship in Africans cities, Les Arts de la Citoyennete au Senegal, and Infrastructures ans Spaces of Belonging: The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities. Before joining NYU, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. She holds a BS from Brown University and an MS from the London School of Economics. Her PhD is in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently writing a book titled trash Matters: Urban Infrastructures and the Arts of Citizenship in Dakar, Senegal.

WIP with Dr. John Elliot

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Work in Progress Seminar

Singapore’s national flower: What Science does and does not tell us about the origins of Vanda Miss Joaquim

Dr John Elliot

Associate Professor,

Department of Psychology, NUS

3rd April 2014, 6pm

Vanda Miss Joaquim was reported as a new hybrid orchid in 1893. In 1981 it was selected as the National Flower of Singapore, partly because it was thought to be a natural hybrid, not man-made. Thus, no race or community could claim credit for it, or it would be favoured by choosing it. However, the horticultural records suggest it was a deliberate hybrid, not a natural one, created by the lady for whom it named, Agnes Joaquim. There has been a vigorous debate about this in recent years, in which some scientists have argued that scientific data shows that Miss Joaquim found the orchid, but did not create it. However, I shall argue that science has been misused in this claim; that properly used, science leaves the question open; and that history and horticulture are more likely to provide a clear answer.

Fellow’s Tea with Dr. Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei

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Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Dr. Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei

3pm, Tuesday

16th April 2014

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

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

Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei studied composition at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and received his MA in Linguistics from Leiden University, his MFA in Conceptual and Multimedia Art from the Royal Academy of the Arts in the Hague, and his doctorate in philosophy from the European Graduate School in Switzerland, completing his thesis on case summa cum laude under the supervision of Avital Ronell. Currently he is completing a second PhD at the University of Aberdeen under supervision of Christopher Fynsk on etymology and philosophy. He is an internationally active artist and curating and currently preparing two books, “Cross-Examinations” and :Five Legal Interventions,” and a large scale study of communist monumentality in Albania. Van Gerven Oei has recently edited the volume “Pedagogies of Disaster” (Punctum Books: Brooklyn,2013) and previously translated work of Jean Daive, Alessandro De Francesc, Herve Guibert, Dick Raaijmaker, Avital Ronell, and Nachoem Wijnberg, among others. HIs writings, dealing with theory & Event. Van Gerven Oei is director of the foundation Department of Eagles in Tirana and runs multilingual publishing house Uitgeverji, publishing among others works by Adam Stanley Groves and Jeremy Fernando. He is also one of the few specialists of the Old Nubian language in the world. Van Gerven Oei lives and works in Tirana, Albania