Tag: 2017

Student’s Tea with Mr Marcel Bandur and Mr Hossain Mahabub

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STUDENT’S TEA WITH MR MARCEL BANDUR AND MR HOSSAIN MAHABUB

Host: Deesha Menon

Marcel is a volunteer at TWC2 Discover Singapore, which is a programme that brings migrant workers on outings to various places of interest around the island. He is also a Research Assistant at the Asia Research Institute (ARI). He graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Masters (Soc Sci) in Political Science and at ARI, he supports research projects sponsored by the Singapore Ministry of Education (MoE) grant on ‘Governing Compound Disasters in Urbanizing Asia’. His research interests include Asian Urbanism, Maritime Security, and Southeast Asian Regionalism.

This tea session is intended to be a part of Migrant Workers Awareness Week, which is an annual event, slated to run in March 2017. The session (which will ideally be open to all UTown residents) will give students an opportunity to hear from a migrant worker (especially one from the construction sector – people we encounter every day but almost never interact with), as well as learn more about volunteering for their cause. Sign-ups will be disseminated at the end should students want to be further involved and volunteer for MWAW 2017.

6 February 2017, 4.30pm – 5.30pm

Level 1 Common Lounge, Tembusu College

Denise Goh Hui Jun on hospitality and the Rohingya Refugee in Berfrois

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Many congratulations to Denise Goh Hui Jun on the publication of her essay, ‘Welcoming Possibility: Hospitality and the Rohingya Refugee’ — which was first conceived as part of her Independent Study Module with Dr Adam Groves — in Berfrois: Intellectual Jousting in the Republic of Letters

Her essay can be read here : http://www.berfrois.com/2017/05/denise-goh-hui-jun-hospitality-rohingya-refugee/

the didactic will be the discussion: a conversation of poems …

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The Arts House

730pm
21.04.2017

Poets — Readers — Speakers

Philippe Beck is a contemporary French poet, writer, and philosopher. He is Professor of Poetry at The European Graduate School, and of Philosophy at l’Université de Nantes. Interested in the nature of the poetic experience, for Beck, the poetic today lies not only between scientific experience and common sense experience but allows for their communicability — and his work traverses poetry, poétologie, prose, and philosophy. He has published sixteen books of poetry and was awarded the Grand Prix de Poésie from the French Academy in 2015 in recognition of his poetic œuvre.

Lim Lee Ching teaches literature and interdisciplinary subjects at SIM University, Singapore. He is the author of The Works of Tomas Tranströmer: The Universality of Poetry (Cambria, 2017), and has edited Peter van de Kamp’s 2010 collection of poetry, Scratch & Sniff. Ching’s poems have been published in One Imperative, as well as been collected alongside Geraldine Song’s works, To Thee Do We Cry, Poor Banished Children (2013), and Semoga Bahagia (2015). Ching is the founding editor of The Singapore Review of Books.

Adam Staley Groves is the author of two complete volumes of poetry, Filial Arcade and Poetry Vocare. An individually published poem “Etui” was recently adopted to a contemporary classical music composition through Gaudeamus, in The Netherlands. 

Moderator

Jeremy Fernando is the Jean Baudrillard Fellow at the European Graduate School, where he is also a Reader in Contemporary Literature & Thought. He has written eighteen books; and has been translated into French, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, and Serbian. He is the general editor of the thematic magazine One Imperative; and is a Fellow of Tembusu College at the National University of Singapore.

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This event is brought to you by Voilah ! 2017 French Festival and Delere Press, in conjunction with The European Graduate School, and is supported by The Arts House

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With thanks, and much appreciation, to Mark Chua & Lam Li Shuen of Emoumie Productions for so very kindly helping us to film and record the conversation.

Bringing Interdisciplinary Learning to and Beyond Tembusu College

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In collaboration with FASS Science, Technology, and Society Cluster, Dr Margaret Tan convened the symposium Zero Day: Science, Technology, Society and the Imagination. The symposium wanted to fill a gap in STS studies by bringing art into the equation. It brought in theorists and practitioners straddling the fields of art, science, and technology and sought to uncover the relationships between new media artistic practices and research, as well as what we can learn from new media art practitioners. The symposium was successful in attracting quite a diverse group of graduate students and researchers from different faculties and institutions beyond Tembusu College and NUS. It is testament to the keen interest out there in interdisciplinary enquiry. In addition, three artists speaking at the symposium, and housed at Tembusu College, conducted RasberryPi and 360 degree VR workshops for our students.

Jeremy Fernando at the NUS Arts Festival 2017

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On 22 March 2017, as part of the Centre for the Art’s NUS Arts Festival 2017, Jeremy Fernando performed a talk, ‘On Interventions — or, space is only noise if you can see, which attempted to meditate on the notion of interventions, on the relationship between the one who intervenes and the site, peoples, spaces, sounds, of the intervention.

The performance, which was held at the NUS Museum, was moderated by Yanyun Chen from Yale-NUS College; and is dedicated to all the students who have taken the ‘Singapore as “Model” City?’ senior seminar over the years: without their intelligence, creativity, and warmth — alongside their wonderful intervention projects — none of this would have been possible.