[LJ] The Dark Knight

Since we are doing crime and punishment this term, I thought that it will be apt to watch the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight, who is the vigilante of Gotham City.
Proposed date is this coming Friday evening 5 or 6 plus, West Mall.
Interested peeps, please inform me.

[LJ] Terrorism talk on 21 Aug

Resisting the Temptation of Military Force: Non-Military Strategies to Manage Global Risks in the Other War on Terror

> Speaker: Mr. Yee-Kuang Heng (Lecturer inInternational Relations & Research Fellow, Centre for the Study ofTerrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), School of InternationalRelations, University of St. Andrews, U.K.)

> Date: Thursday, 21 August 2008

> Time: 12.15 p.m. - 1.30 p.m

> Venue: Seminar Room 3-5, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772

> Synopsis: Critics of American unilateralism and its predominant focus on ‘hard’ military force tend to overlook multilateral practices that have emerged to combat global terrorism. These have unfortunately gone largely unnoticed, quietly slipping under the radar screen of both public opinion and academic scrutiny. President Bush’s address to the Joint Session of Congress on 20 September 2001 made clear that his war on terror would include dramatic ‘hard’ military strikes which have inevitably garnered the lion’s share of attention, but other initiatives would be less publicised, ‘secret even in success’. This paper seeks to address this imbalance by examining some less noticed cooperative ‘soft’ initiatives against global terror, and reflecting on the implications for International Relations theory, in particular risk and security studies.

Anyone wanna go? Tag or tell me personally.

[LJ] Bioethics Forum 16 Aug (Sat)

Invitation to a Public Forum on "Mixing Human and Animal Tissues: Is such research ethical?”

The Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) has a public forum on human-animal combinations in biomedical research on 16 August 2008, from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm.

If you would like to go, please inform me (in person or tag my blog) by 18 July (Friday)

The Forum seeks to promote discussion on ethical issues relating to human-animal combinations that were raised in the BAC's consultation paper issued early this year, on this subject.

A copy of the Consultation Paper is available at the BAC website: http://www.bioethics-singapore.org/uploadfile/55655%20PMHuman-Animal%20Combination.pdf

[PW] Heritage Fest

"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."
Christopher Reeves (1952 - 2004)

The Singapore HeritageFest has a segment on "Who's Your Hero?” which is related to the Task 1 on ‘Journeys’. The exhibition is at Suntec City from July 12 to 27.
Anyone interested to go? We can do a learning journey. =D

Another contest which you might be interested in joining is the Heritage Marathon, ala Amazing Race to learn about local heroes and have fun at the same time.

Date	Saturday, 19 July 2008
Time	8.30 to 2.30pm (Registration from 7.45am to 8.15am)
Start Point and End Point	Suntec City Mall's Fountain of Wealth
Registration Fee	$25 (inclusive of GST) per team of four
Registration Closing Date	17 July 2008