1. Membership Matters – Registration Required
2. Fri 27 Apr 2007 – Nigel Thrift – former Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Oxford
3. Thu 3 May 2007 – Tharman Shanmugaratnum, Minister for Education Singapore
4. Annual Subscription for 2007 for Ordinary Members
1. Membership Matters – Registration Required
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2. Fri 27 Apr 2007 – Nigel Thrift – former Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Oxford – Public Lecture
Royal Geographical Society–NUS Department of Geography Lecture
Topic: Building New Kinds of Space for the Twenty First Century
Speaker: Prof Nigel Thrift, former Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Oxford
Date: Friday 27 April 2007
Time: 6 – 8 pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 32, National University of Singapore, Science
Drive 4, Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore
Light refreshments will be available before the lecture from 5.30 pm
“This talk will consider the ways in which information technology and mobile communications are changing the nature of space. In particular, it will concentrate on how they allow emotion to be transmitted and new kinds of social organization to be constructed”.
Professor Nigel Thrift was Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research at Oxford until June 2006. He has been the recipient of a number of distinguished academic awards including the Royal Geographical Society Victoria Medal for contributions to geographic research in 2003. Professor Thrift is an Academician of the academy of Learned Societies for Social Sciences, and was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003. His current research interests include the use of space and time by financial markets and the history of time.
ALL ARE WELCOME
Enquiries: Mrs Lim – 65166101
Organised by Henry Yeung and David Higgitt, Department of Geography, NUS
Co-sponsored by the Science Technology & Society Cluster, FASS, NUS
3. Thu 3 May 2007 – Ministerial Dialogue Session
Organiser: Alumni International Singapore
Topic: Making a Global City
Speaker: Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnum, Minister for Education and Second
Minister for Finance
Venue: Guild Hall, NUSS Kent Ridge Guild Hall, 9 Kent Ridge Drive
Date: Thursday 3rd May 2007
Time: 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Cost: $15/- per person (includes refreshments)
(No show fee of $15 will apply)
Oxbridge alumni may register by sending email to Angeline at angesofie@… stating your Name, Contact No and that you are an
Oxbridge alumnus.
4. Annual Subscription due for 2007 for Ordinary Members
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