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Network BULLETIN ISSUE 14: JUNE 2008 |
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- Management Committee annual meeting in Sydney
- Congratulations Vera Mackie – Postgraduate and ECR workshop
- Round three grant applications close June 30
- Round two grants - results
- Workshop – Inhabiting Diversity and the Asia Pacific
- Pacific Centre hosts successful conference at ANU
- Forthcoming events and sponsorships
If you have any comments or any contributions for future Bulletins - please contact Nicki Davies via email:Nicki.Davies@uts.edu.au
Network Management Committee meets in Sydney
THE ARC APFRN MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MET IN SYDNEY LAST MONTH FOR A FULL DAY’S DISCUSSION ON NETWORK ACTIVITIES. THE DAY BEGAN WITH PROFESSOR LOUISE EDWARDS PROVIDING AN OVERVIEW OF THE NETWORK TO DATE WITH EACH NODE CONVENOR PROVIDING AN UPDATE OF THEIR RESPECTIVE REGIONS.
The afternoon saw a lively discussion about the future of the Network with a plan to collect data from members about the value of the Network to help shape future strategy. Over the coming months, members will be asked to participate in a number of areas including a questionnaire about the Network, your areas of particular interest and recommendations for building Australia’s research capacity in South Asian Studies in the light of the rise of the region’s rapidly growing economic, cultural and political influence. Please refer to the website for further information as it becomes available.
Postgraduate & Early Career Researcher Workshop on Leadership and Management in Research on Asia and the Pacific 2008
CONGRATULATIONS TO VERA MACKIE FOR HER SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION TO HOST THIS YEAR’S POSTGRADUATE AND ECR WORKSHOP BETWEEN 8TH AND 10TH DECEMBER IN MELBOURNE.
The workshop will cater for around 20 early career researchers (ECRs) in the final year of PhD research, or having completed PhD research in the last three years.
Themes to be covered this year include:
Emerging Trends in Asia-Pacific Research; Planning Your Research Career; Funding for Asia-Pacific Research; Preparing Grant Applications; Project Management; Developing Collaborative Research Relationships; e-Scholarship; Sustaining International Research Collaborations
Applications are currently invited from researchers with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. CLOSING DATE MONDAY, 14 JULY 2008.
Contact Vera Mackie by email vmackie@unimelb.edu.au or check out our website for further details: http://www.sueztosuva.org.au/events/early_career_workshop.pdf
Round three grant applications closing shortly
APPLICATIONS FOR ROUND THREE ARE NOW BEING INVITED. CLOSING DATE JUNE 30.
Topics should be based on the signature theme for 2008 – Crossing Borders of Cultural Meanings in the Asia Pacific (Culture and Religion). Further information is available on the website: http://www.sueztosuva.org.au/grant_apps.php
Round two grants announced
PROFESSOR COLIN BROWN, PROFESSOR MARGARET JOLLY AND PROFESSOR LOUISE EDWARDS FORMED THE GRANTS SUB-COMMITTEE TO ASSESS A COMPETITIVE SECOND ROUND OF APPLICATIONS FOR 2008. PROJECTS WERE CAREFULLY REVIEWED AND DISCUSSED WITH FUNDING AWARDED TO EIGHT SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS:
| Applicant | Affiliation | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Gaik Cheng Khoo | ANU | Secularism and Islam in Malaysia |
| Professor Heather Goodall, Associate Professor Devleena Ghosh, Professor Jonathan Unger and Professor Geremie Barmé | UTS | Cities Nature Justice: crossing cultural boundaries on environmental justice, sustainability, social conflicts and world cities |
| Professor John Clark and Aaron Seeto | University of Sydney and the Asia–Australia Arts Centre | Workshop on Asian-Australian Art Now: Positioning the Field |
| Dr Pete Lentini and Dr Sayed Khatab | School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University | Radicalisation Crossing Borders: New Directions in Islamist and Jihadist Political, Intellectual and Theological Thought and Practice |
Associate Professor Paul Sharrad and Professor Stewart Firth |
CAPSTRANS | Writing the Pacific: Postgraduate Workshop |
| Antonia Finnane, Gideon Reuveni | University of Melbourne | Jewish Memories of China: transnationalism identity and the half-way port |
| Professor Wenche Ommundsen | University of Wollongong | Asia Pacific Transculturalisms: New Theoretical Perspectives |
| Professor Marika Vicziany | Monash University | Central Asia and Western China: Asian Crossroads |
AA reminder that a summary overview of the many network-funded projects is available online at www.sueztosuva.org.au/successful_apps.php
WORKSHOP – Inhabiting Diversity and the Asia Pacific
APRIL 21 2008 - THE CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON SOCIAL INCLUSION AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY HOSTED A SUCCESSFUL ONE-DAY WORKSHOP INHABITING DIVERSITY AND THE ASIA PACIFIC.
Successfully convened by Selvaraj Velayutham, this Network sponsored workshop critically explored experiences of cross-cultural negotiations and interactions in the Asia Pacific context (including Australia and New Zealand).
The workshop brought together scholars working on cross-cultural relations and encouraged the exchange of research ideas and insights as well as providing an opportunity for participants to develop a comparative understanding of the implications of crossing borders of cultural meanings both in Asia Pacific countries and Australia.
Participants included Goldie Osuri, Alberto Gomes, Li Ah Eng, Vijay Devadas, Khoo Gaik Cheng, Jean Duruz, Barbara Bloch, Judy Lattas, Justine Lloyd, Cameron McAuliffe, Greg Noble, Amanda Wise and Gillian Vogl.
CONFERENCE - Oceanic Connections at the ANU April 18-20
APRIL 16 -17, 2008 - THE PACIFIC CENTRE AT THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSTED THE 2ND CONFERENCE OF THE AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PACIFIC STUDIES (AAAPS), OCEANIC CONNECTIONS ORGANISED BY DR KATERINA TEAIWA, PROFESSOR STEWARD FIRTH AND PROFESSOR MARGARET JOLLY.
The conference was jointly funded by the Pacific Centre in College of Asia and the Pacific and the ARC APFRN with support from the Gender Relations Centre and the Pacific Studies Program in the Faculty of Asian Studies at the ANU.
This highly successful event attracted 140 registrants, 85 presenters and a vigorous program of cultural activities and dance performances. The conference began with a welcome to country by Ngunnawal elder Louise Brown. It was then formally opened by the Hon Duncan Kerr, Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs, who spoke to the Labour government’s approach to the Pacific as embodied in Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s Port Moresby Declaration and the Pacific Partnerships for Development plan. He was honoured by a moving song performance by Sunameke, a dance group led by Julia Gray from Darwin, who shares diverse family links to Australia and Papua New Guinea. ANU’s Pacific Librarian, Deveni Temu, led a PNG community group in welcoming the first keynote speaker Dame Carol Kidu, with a dance and a song in Motu to honour her connection to the family of her late husband.
The conference was punctuated by a series of exceptional keynote speakers: Dame Carol Kidu, the only female Member of Parliament in Papua New Guinea - spoke passionately about the contemporary challenges for community development in Papua New Guinea; Professor Matthew Spriggs of ANU explored Oceanic connections in deep time through the fascinating lens of Pacific prehistory and Ralph Regenvanu, Director of the National Cultural Council of Vanuatu, spoke brilliantly on the kastom economi and the threat to sustainable development occasioned by land speculation and real estate development by expatriates, including Australians, on coastal Efate and Santo. The conference also delivered an excellent plenary panel on undergraduate and graduate education in Pacific Studies including speakers from the ANU, the Queensland University of Technology, the University of the South Pacific, Auckland and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Further details available from the Pacific Centre website http://rspas.anu.edu.au/tpc
Louise Brown, Ngunnawal Elder, delivers a welcome to country
Deveni Temu and the PNG Community welcome Dame Carol Kidu with a song.
Katerina, Nicholas and members of Sunameke at the AAAPS conference dinner at the PNG High Commission
Conference Images courtesy of Stuart Hay, ANU Photography
Forthcoming events and sponsorships
DON'T FORGET THAT A VAST ARRAY OF ARC-APFRN FUNDED EVENTS ARE TAKING PLACE ALL THE TIME INCLUDING THIS YEAR’S SIGNATURE EVENT GLOBALISING RELIGIONS AND CULTURES IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC. DETAILED INFORMATION IS ON THE WEBSITE: www.sueztosuva.org.au
Your participation is most welcome and please don't hesitate to spread the word about all events far and wide!
A reminder that throughout 2008 the ARC APFRN will be sponsoring Asian Currents.
With the aim of building linkages between Asia experts in Australian universities and those working on Asia in government, business, the media and the wider community – Asian Currents offers a great channel to tell policy makers and others about your work.
If you would like to contribute - please contact the editor, Francesca Beddie, at fbeddie@infinite.net.au.
The latest issue of Asian Currents can be found by following the link on our homepage www.sueztosuva.org.au
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