The Refugees Situation in Southeast Asia: What is the Solution?

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PROGRAMME:
6.50pm: All to be seated in Tembusu College Multi-purpose Hall
7.00pm: Assoc Prof Gregory Clancey, Master of Tembusu College, will introduce the Tembusu Forum
7.05pm: Prof Tommy Koh, Rector of Tembusu College, will introduce the topic and speakers
7.15pm: Ms Geraldine Ang
7.30pm: Ms Moe Thuzar
7.45pm: Dr Termsak Chalermpalanupap
8.00pm: Question & Answer session with students
8.45pm: Concluding remarks by 3 speakers and Chairman
9.00pm: End of forum

Brief Biography of Speakers:

Ms Geraldine Ang is the Private Sector Fundraising Officer with the Private Philanthropy Unit, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Prior to this role, she was with its Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, and has served in various field operations such as northern Ethiopia. She was also part of the emergency response teams following the Asian Tsunami in 2004 and the 2006 crisis in Timor-Leste.

Apart from UNHCR, Geraldine has worked at the Asia-Europe Foundation and the Singapore Economic Development Board. She holds a Master’s in International Humanitarian Assistance from Uppsala University in Sweden.

For the forum, Geraldine will share on the nature and causes of the refugee situation in the region and UNHCR’s response to it.

Dr Termsak Chalermpalanupap (เติมศักดิ์เฉลิมพลานุภาพ) joined ASEAN Studies Centre, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore, in July 2012 as a Visiting Research Fellow. His research interests concentrate on political and security issues in ASEAN and ASEAN’s external relations.

Prior to the ASEAN Studies Centre, Dr Termsak served nearly 20 years at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, where his last post was the Director of Political and Security Cooperation. He joined the ASEAN Secretariat in February 1993 and served as Assistant Director for Economic Research, and for External Relations, during the 1990s. From July 1999 to April 2009, he was Special Assistant to three Secretaries-General of ASEAN (Mr Rodolfo C. Severino, Ambassador Ong Keng Yong, and Dr Surin Pitsuwan). Before the ASEAN Secretariat, Dr Termsak worked at The Nation, an English language daily newspaper, off and on, since October 1972, in various positions, including political news reporter, chief reporter, news editor, and lastly, editor of the Editorial Pages until December 1992.

Born in Bangkok in September 1952, Dr Termsak received a B.A. in International Relations from Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Political Science in 1977 (the 27th Batch), and M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of New Orleans in 1982 and 1986, respectively.

For the forum, Dr Termsak will focus on possible solutions to the refugee problem, highlighting, in particular, the approaches of Thailand and ASEAN.

Ms Moe Thuzar is a Fellow and Lead Researcher (Socio-Cultural) at the ASEAN Studies Centre, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore. She joined the ASEAN Studies Centre in 2008, and in 2012 became a Fellow and the institute’s first coordinator of the Myanmar Studies Programme (Jul 2012-Oct 2013), of which she is still a member. At the institute, Moe has co-authored with Pavin Chachavalpongpun Myanmar: Life After Nargis (ISEAS, 2009), and has co-edited with Yap Kioe Sheng “Urbanisation in Southeast Asia: Issues and Impacts” (ISEAS, 2012). She has contributed to several compendia/volumes on ASEAN, and on Myanmar. She is currently working on a review of Myanmar’s foreign policy, focusing on the post-1988 period. Her research interests cover urbanisation and environmental cooperation in ASEAN, ASEAN integration issues, and ASEAN’s dialogue relations.

Prior to the ASEAN Studies Centre, Moe headed the ASEAN Secretariat’s Human Development Unit, which coordinates ASEAN cooperation in labour, youth, social welfare, education, women’s affairs, poverty reduction and rural development, health, and civil service matters. She was a Temasek scholar for the Master in Public Policy Programme at the National University of Singapore.

For the forum, Moe will touch on the issue of Rohingyas/Bengalis fleeing persecution and conflict in Myanmar, and if there are any prospects for solutions at the source.

WIP with Dr Janet Owen

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Work in progress seminar

Fuegian paints and papuan wood-carvings:

Collecting and recollecting natural selection

Dr Janet Owen

3rd September 2015,6pm,reading room,learn lobe

On 1 July 1858, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace first publically announced the theory of evolution by natural selection at a scientific meeting.

Underpinning their vision for natural selection was the detailed acquisition and study of specimens. These collections were an important part of a rich data pool, providing sparks of inspiration and concrete evidence. Today, their specimens are dispersed across museums in the UK and abroad.

I am examining two sub-sets of these collections that include rare ethnographic artefacts: from Darwin’s visits to Tierra del Fuego in 1833-4, and Wallace’s excursion to New Guinea in 1858.

I will explore the details of collecting to see how this might have influenced the development of Darwin and Wallace’s ideas.

Bearapy Workshop

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Tembusu College

Bearapy Workshop

Date: 24th September 2015

Time: 9-12.30pm

Location: Tembusu College

Sign up at tinyurl.com/bearapy

 

About the Workshop:

Confused about what to do after graduation? Bombarded by expectations? Feeling inadequate? Bearapy is a different approach to finding self-awareness and self-understanding – PLAY! – using objects that are part of participants’ daily lives to help them make decisions and gain self-confidence. Through play, the Bearapy workshop aims to:

 

  • Empower students to make decisions and develop deepened self-understanding
  • Guide students to self-reflect and increase self-awareness
  • Support students to gain self-confidence to make decisions, even if it goes against majority and expectations

Find out more about yourselves through play and fun! Activities include games, drawings, group discussions, and self-reflection.

 

About the Facilitator:

Based in Beijing, Enoch (Noch Noch) Li is consultant to MNCs, start ups, entrepreneurs and senior executives – advising them on implementing positive changes and injecting fun, creativity and innovation into their business operations and personal careers. In her consulting and facilitation work, Enoch emphasises play techniques that look at not only the conscious, but also the emotional and unconscious factors affecting executives’ decision makingf and the organisation’s culture.

 

Organised by TisSUES

Tembusu is Supporting U at Every Step

WIP with Dr. John van Wyhe

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Dr. John van Wyhe
Wallace’s mystery flycatcher at NUS
30th August 2012, Thursday, 6.00pm

Abstract:

The famous Victorian naturalist Alfred Wallace discovered the theory of evolution independently of Darwin as well as a line that divides Asian and Australian animals (the ‘Wallace Line’). Using Singapore as his base, Wallace collected an astonishing 125,000 specimens of birds and insects in South East Asia between 1854 and 1862. Out of all these thousands, only one is now in Singapore, in the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research at NUS. It’s a little bird- a Brown Flycatcher. For many years the Museum has proudly declared that it was collected by Wallace in Malacca in 1862 (as a tag on its leg states) and donated to the Museum in the same year. But! Wallace never went near Malacca in 1862 and he never gave any specimens to local museums.

So where did this mystery bird come from? Was it really collected by Wallace? How did it get into the collection in Singapore? Historical research allows us to solve these mysteries and reveal the extraordinary voyages this little bird made from Asia, to Europe and back to Asia again. Along the way this small example tells us a lot more about how science really works.

Fellow’s Tea with Ms. Tan Pin Pin

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Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Tan Pin Pin

4-6pm, Wednesday

23rd September, 2015

Reading Room, Learn Lobe

Refreshments will be served.

Only 40 seats available!

Film Screening followed by Fellow’s Tea

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

Hosted by Dr.Margaret Tan

Come catch one of Tan Pin Pin’s films followed a Q&A session with the filmmaker herself.

“Few Singaporean artist of any medium have trained their gaze as penetratingly and persistently on the nation’s identity. Self-examination – both its necessity and its limits, as well as the intersection between the personal and the public, are the thematic foundations to Tan’s work.” – Moviemaker.

Tan Pin Pin’s award-winning films include Moving House (2001), Singapore GaGa (2005), Invisible City (2007) and To Singapore, with Love (2013). The latter, about Singapore political exiles is banned from public screenings. Her films have earned awards and acclaim in festivals internationally.

Pin Pin has an MFA from Northwestern University. She is a board member of Singapore International Film Festival and is a founding member of filmcommunitysg, an independent film advocacy group.

Photo taken may be used for Tembusu publicity materials

WIP with Ms Crystal Abidin

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Work In Progress Seminar

Micro – microcelebrity: Personal Branded babies of the Internet

Ms Crystal Abidin

16th September 2015, 6pm

Level 1 Common Lounge

Register at dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io

Some babies and toddlers are amassing huge followings on social media, achieving microcelebrity status, and raking in five-figure sums. In East Asia, many of these lucrative ”micro–microcelebrities” rise to fame because their mothers are social media Influencers. Through personal branding, Influence mothers portrayals of their childrens’ lives ”as lived” is the canvas on which baby products and services are marketed to readers as “advertorials”. Based on ethnographic case studies in SIngapore, this talk will outline the career trajectory of “personal-branded babies” including their social media presence, personal-branding strategies and engagement with their following. What are the ethical considerations such child labour in the social medial age?

Celebrating 25 years of Diplomatic Relations between China and Singapore

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PROGRAMME:
6.50pm: All to be seated in Tembusu College Multi-purpose Hall
7.00pm: Assoc Prof Gregory Clancey, Master of Tembusu College, will introduce the Tembusu Forum
7.05pm: Prof Tommy Koh, Rector of Tembusu College, will introduce the topic and speakers
7.15pm: Ambassador Stanley Loh
7.30pm: Counsellor Zhai Xingfu
7.45pm: Mr Goh Sin Teck
8.00pm: Question & Answer session with students
8.45pm: Concluding remarks by 3 speakers and Chairman
9.00pm: End of forum

HE Stanley Loh was appointed as Singapore’s Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China in March 2012. Previously, he had served as Deputy Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Head of Mission in Taipei, Press Secretary to then Prime Minister and later Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, Deputy Chief of Mission / Minister-Counsellor in the Singapore Embassy to the USA and Director (Middle East) in Foreign Ministry. Mr Loh has extensive experience in Free Trade Agreement negotiations having served as Head of Delegation for Singapore’s negotiations with Chinese Taipei on an Economic Partnership Agreement and as Spokesperson and Deputy Head of the Special Congressional Taskforce for the US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement negotiations. Mr Loh graduated from the National University of Singapore with First Class Honours in Economics. He also attended Stanford University’s Sloan Masters Programme and graduated with a Masters of Science in Management. Stanley Loh is a member of the Lien Ying Chow Fellowship Council and Patron of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China.

HE Stanley Loh will give an account of how Singapore’s bilateral relations with China has evolved in a mutually beneficial and complementary manner over the past 25 years. He will also share his views on how we can raise our relations to an even higher level as we advance from our silver jubilee to the golden jubilee of Singapore-China partnership.

Mr Zhai Xingfu joined the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in 1994 immediately after graduating from the Institute of International Relations (Beijing) with a Master’s Degree in Law.He worked with three departments at MFA: the Department of International Organizations and Conferences (1994-1995); General Office (1999-2003); the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs (2006-2011). While at the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs, he was appointed a visiting scholar at the Australian National University for a whole year.

Mr Zhai also worked in several overseas diplomatic missions. These include the Chinese Embassy in Samoa (1995-1997); the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations and other international organizations in Vienna (1997-1999); the Chinese Embassy in Zambia (2003-2006); the Chinese Embassy in the Bahamas as Deputy Chief of Mission (2011-2013). In 2014, he joined the Chinese Embassy in Singapore in the capacity of a Counsellor.

For the forum, Mr Zhai will focus on the development of China and Singapore relations during the past 25 years and beyond.

Mr Goh Sin Teck joined Lianhe Zaobao, Singapore Press Holding’s Chinese flagship paper, in 1987 upon graduating from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. Mr Goh started as a crime reporter before assuming his current role as the Editor of Lianhe Zaobao in 2011. He also oversees zaobao.com, the online edition of Lianhe Zaobao.

Mr Goh has served in various committees including Housing Development Board, Public Transport Council, Primary Education Review and Implementation and many more. At present, he is also a member of Nanyang Technological University’s Board of Trustees, Urban Redevelopment Authority Board and National Translation Committee.

For the forum, Mr Goh will touch on the people to people aspect of Singapore China relationship.

A writeup by NUS News on the Forum can be found here: Celebrating strong Sino-Singapore relations


Audience to be seated by 6.50 PM

Register at dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io by 20th August 2015

Audition for the Shunji Matsuo Tembusu Show

The Shunji Matsuo tembusu Show 2015

3 August 2015

5.30PM – 7.00PM

Tembusu College Multi-Purpose Hall

Calling for Models & Performers!

If you want to see yourself transformed by famous hairstylist Shunji Matsuo and his team or if you would like to perform a musical set during the show

Register by 15 May at dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io

Auditions will be held in the evenings of late May or early June 2015

Kindly take note of the following:

Venue: Tembusu MPHDate: TBC (Late May or early June)

Time: From 7pm

1. You will need to be available on 3 Aug (the whole day) for styling, the full rehearsal and show itself.2. Selected models need to be open to styling by Shunji’s team.

3. Female student models need to be comfortable walking in heels and be in heels for the audition. 

Tembusu Inaugural Dinner 2015

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Tembusu College 5th Anniversary & Inaugural Dinner 2015

18 Aug 2015

7-9 pm

Formal (office or national dress)

Please be seated by 6.45 pm

Please help us prepare for the event and prevent food wastage. Register by 13 Aug with your respective RAs / GFs:

Shan: Liana or Zhimin

Gaja: En Chou or Heather

Ora: Arjun or Zann

Tancho: Benjamin or Cheryl

Ponya: Yu Chuan or Charlene