Bulletin

NEW POSITIONS FOR THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE'S PROFESSOR LOUISE EDWARDS, PROFESSOR COLIN BROWN AND PROFESSOR MICHAEL WESLEY. CONGRATULATIONS – WE WISH THEM WELL!

Network Convenor, Professor Louise Edwards has accepted a position with Hong Kong University effective 1st September 2009. Professor Edwards will continue in her role as Convenor throughout this final year of operation for the Network to ensure its smooth operation and to deliver on all final reporting requirements to the ARC.

Congratulations also to Professor Colin Brown who takes up a position as Visiting Professor in the Department of International Relations at Parahyangan Catholic University, Indonesia and also to Professor Michael Wesley who leaves Griffith University to join the Lowy Institute for International Policy as Executive Director.

Our thanks to Professor Michael Dutton at Griffith University who steps in as Convenor of the Australia/Asia Node for the remainder of the year.

New contact details will be posted to the Network website www.sueztosuva.org.au as they become available.

Business as usual for the Network

Whilst Network Convenor, Professor Louise Edwards will be based in Hong Kong for the remainder of the year – it will be business as usual for the Network. Members can contact Professor Edwards via email and details will be on the website shortly:
http://www.sueztosuva.org.au/contact.php

Network grants scheme

If you have any outstanding administration in relation to your Network grant, please contact Professor Louise Edwards IMMEDIATELY via email louise.edwards@uts.edu.au

A reminder that the Network logo should feature on all materials (including your website) related to the sponsored event in order to acknowledge the assistance of the ARC-APFRN.

2009 Signature Event – early bird registration!

THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE TRADE AND INDUSTRY IN ASIA PACIFIC: HISTORY, TRENDS AND PROSPECTS WILL BE HELD AT THE ANU CAMPUS IN CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA BETWEEN 19TH AND 20TH NOVEMBER 2009.

This year's Signature Event is an exciting collaboration between the Arndt-Corden Division of Economics at the Australian National University (ANU) and The School of Economics and Finance, La Trobe University (LTU) supporting the Network's 2009 theme of Trade and Industry.

This conference will look at the regional and global market integration in trade and industry in Asia Pacific in the context of major changes in the global economy and its historical, institutional and political economy aspects.

CONFERENCE – International Numismatic Conference

JULY 17 2009 – CONGRATULATIONS TO DR NICHOLAS HARDWICK OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY, WHO SUCCESSFULLY CONVENED THE INTERNATIONAL NUMISMATIC CONFERENCE WHICH HAD ABOUT 50 PEOPLE IN ATTENDANCE.

Nicholas Hardwick and Saiful Sheikh after the presentation of the paper by Mohammad Younis. Photo: Ms Li Zhe.

L to R: (Speakers) Niv Horesh, Noriko Fujii, Nicholas Hardwick, Walter Scheidel, Kevin Butcher. Photo: Ms Li Zhe.

Sponsored by the Network, this event under auspices of the Oriental Society of Australia was held at the University of Sydney. The conference was opened by A/Prof Anne Dunn, Acting Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney with the Keynote Lecture given by Prof Walter Scheidel, Stanford University, 'Coin quality, coin quantity, and coin value in early China and the Roman world' and the Society of Antiquaries of London Keynote Speech by Prof Kevin Butcher, University of Warwick, 'Coinage and Communal Memory in the Roman East'. Other speakers included Ms Noriko Fujii, Bank of Japan, Dr Niv Horesh, University of New South Wales, Dr Michael Vickery, Cambodia/University of Sydney, Nicholas Hardwick, Mohammad Younis, Fayyum University, Egypt/ Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany. There were also visits to the numismatic collection of the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, and the Coining Complex, The Mint, Macquarie Street, Sydney.

SYMPOSIUM - Diaspora, Migration and Jewish Memories of China

CONGRATULATIONS TO PROF ANTONIA FINNANE AND DR GIDEON REUVENI FOR THEIR SYMPOSIUM HELD AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIA AND THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE LAST MONTH. THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE APPEARED IN THE AUSTRALIAN JEWISH NEWS (www.ajn.com.au) ON FRIDAY, JULY 31 2009.

Academic relates Chinese wartime testimonies
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L to R: Professor Jiang Jin with former Shanghai refugees Ernst and Edith Kohn and Professor Antonia Finnane at the symposium.

AUSTRALIAN Jews who were World War II refugees in Shanghai related their experiences and heard about China's studies of Shanghai's Jewish history at a Melbourne symposium this week. The July 26-27 event, "Diaspora, Migration and Jewish Memories of China", hosted by the Jewish Museum of Australia and The University of Melbourne, tackled issues, such as preserving landmarks in the wartime Jewish ghetto, and heard from keynote speakers Professor Jiang Jin and Professor Suzanne Rutland. Professor Jiang, of East China Normal University in Shanghai, detailed a project, completed in 2007, restoring the Ohel Moshe Synagogue building, after it had been used as government offices. She said normalised relations between China and Israel since the1990s and the country opening up after the Cultural Revolution, spurred "a small scholarly community studying Jewish history". However, the old Jewish quarter ison prime real estate, which could leave Jewish landmarks exposed to urban development, Professor Jiangs aid. Former refugees at the symposium expressed concern that their Chinese contemporaries recalled the prosperity of a small, "visible" fraction of the Jewish community, while most Jews in the ghetto were actually in poverty. Professor Antonia Finnane of The University of Melbourne, who has interviewed Australian Jewish immigrants from Shanghai, spoke of the perils faced by "stateless" Jews in occupied China.

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 TRADE AND INDUSTRY IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC: HISTORY, TRENDS AND PROSPECTS. 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!

Participants at the "Southeast Asian Exiles: Crossing cultural, political and religious borders" workshop held in Canberra earlier this year (17-18 March 09).

Back row L to R: Robert Cribb, Caroline Hughes, Jane Ferguson, Fridus Steijlen, Ashley Carruthers, David Hill, Amporn Jirattikorn

Front row L to R: Ana Dragojlovic, Vannessa Hearman, Antje Missbach, Hersri Setiawan.

A REMINDER THAT THROUGHOUT 2009 THE ARC APFRN IS SPONSORING BOTH ASIAN CURRENTS AND PACIFIC CURRENTS.

The latest issue of both publications can be found by following the links on the right-hand side of our homepage www.sueztosuva.org.au

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