CAPSTRANS: Research News and Events May 2004

CAPSTRANS Research News and Events

May 2004

In this issue:

Research activities
2004 seminar program
Visitors

Research Activities

2004 Grant Successes

ARC Discovery Grant awarded to Associate Professor Adrian Vickers
Associate Professor Adrian Vickers has been awarded an ARC 2004 Discovery Grant for his project, “Re-Writing the Nation: The Politics of Indonesian History since Suharto” ($89,000 over three years). (Read more).
URC Small Grant awarded to Dr Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase
Dr Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase has just been awarded a URC 2004 Small Grant for her project, “Gendered Exclusion: Women and Forced Migration in Eastern India” ($6,000). (Read more).
URC Small Grant awarded to Dr Lenore Lyons and Dr Michele Ford
Dr Lenore Lyons and Dr Michele Ford (Flinders University) have been awarded a URC 2004 Small Grant for their project, “Becoming Trans/national citizens: Indonesian female domestic workers in the IMS-GT” ($11,000). (Read more).
Newcastle Project Grant awarded to Dr Santi Rozario
Dr Santi Rozario has been awarded a Newcastle Project Grant for her project, “The Bangladeshi Health and population Sector Programme, 1998-2003: Is it really improving health care for the rural poor” ($6,000).
Newcastle Project Grant awarded to Professor Linda Connor and Associate Professor Nick Higginbotham
Professor Linda Connor and Associate Professor Nick Higginbotham have been awarded a Newcastle Project Grant for their project, “Psychological and Social Monitoring of Hunter Environmental Change” ($14,000).
Newcastle Infrastructure Funding awarded to Dr Santi Rozario
Dr Santi Rozario has been awarded Newcastle Infrastricture Funding for her project, “Religious Cultures, Ethics and Reason Research Group” ($8,000).

Networks

Professor Christoph Antons involved in Australian Network for Asian Studies
Professor Christoph Antons participated in a successful ARC Special Research Initiative application convened by Professor John Fitzgerald and Professor Robin Jeffrey at La Trobe University to develop an Australian Network for Asian Studies. (Read more)

Staff Activities:

Professor Christoph Antons

Guest lectures and seminars:

10-11 March 2004: Visiting Professor at the Research and Training Institute, Ministry of Justice, Osaka, Japan
17 March 2004: Visiting Professor at the Intellectual Property Academy, Singapore
29 March-1 April 2004: Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane (teaching an intensive course on “International and Comparative Intellectual Property Law (Asia Pacific)”)
13 April 2004: guest lecture at New York University Law School
3-7 May 2004: lectures in workshop on “Intellectual Property Enforcement and Border Control”, organised by Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention, University of Wollongong in Hong Kong

Presentations:

“Traditional knowledge and intellectual property rights in Australia and Southeast Asia”, 4th IEEM Seminar on “IP and National Heritage”, Institute for European Studies, Macau, 29 January 2004
“The relationship between Australia and Southeast Asia: Legal and Political Implications”, University of the Third Age, Wollongong, 5 February 2004
“Intellectual Property Harmonisation in the EU, ASEAN and APEC”, Research and Training Institute, Ministry of Justice, Osaka, 10 March 2004
“Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in Indonesia”, International Symposium on Civil and Commercial Law “Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in Asian Countries: Now and in the Future”, Research and Training Institute, Ministry of Justice; International Civil and Commercial Law Centre Foundation; Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), Osaka, 12 March 2004
“An Overview of Indonesian Intellectual Property Law”, Seminar at the Intellectual Property Academy, Singapore, 17 March 2004
“Can Culture Be Copyrighted?—Some Thoughts on Strategic Essentialism”, New York University, School of Law, 13 April 2004
“Recent Developments in and Enforcement of Indonesian Intellectual Property Law”, Conference on “Recent Developments in and Enforcement of Asian IP Law”, Intellectual Property Academy (Singapore) and Fordham University, School of Law, New York, 14 April 2004
“Civil Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights” (with Dr. Cita Citrawinda Priapantja), Conference on “Indonesian Legal Institutions”, Asian Law Center, University of Washington, Seattle, 22 April 2004
“International Intellectual Property Law”, “Copyright Law”, “Comparative Law”, Workshop on “Intellectual Property Enforcement and Border Control”, Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention, University of Wollongong, Hong Kong, 3-7 May 2004

Other conference participation:

16 April 2004: Commentator and panel member of panel on EU community design legislation, 12th Annual Conference on International Intellectual Property Law & Policy, Fordham University School of Law, New York

Dr Lenore Lyons

Visiting Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the National Universtiy of Singapore in February-March 2004. Research in Singapore on foreign domestic workers as part of her URC Small Grant with Dr Michele Ford “Becoming trans/national citizens: Indonesian female domestic workers in teh IMS-GT”.

Conferences/seminars:

Lyons, L. and Ford, M. (2004) “Becoming trans/national citizens: Indonesian female domestic workers in Southeast Asia” presented at the Cultures, Nations, Identities, Migrations Conference, Humanities Research Centre, Canberra, 15-16 April 2004.
Lyons, L. (2004) “Organizing for domestic worker rights in Southeast Asia: Feminist responses to globalisation” presented at the Global Challenges and Local Responses: Trends and Developments in Asian Societies and Sociology Conference, National University of Singapore, 15-16 March 2004.
Lyons, L. (2004) “Women's Activism in Singapore”, Department of Geography Seminar Series, National University of Singapore, 11 March 2004.

Recent Publications

Korea's Development under Park Chung Hee: Rapid Industrialization, 1961-1979

Dr Hyung-a Kim, Korea's Development under Park Chung Hee: Rapid Industrialization, 1961-1979, RoutledgeCurzon, 2004 (256pp).

2004 seminar program 2004

28 April: Adrian Vickers: “Problems of Writing the History of Colonialism in Indonesia ” (Abstract)
14 April: Kathleen Weekley: “Migration and the Nation: Is there a Filipino Diaspora?” (Abstract)
31 March: Heather Sutherland: “Approaches to Indian Ocean History: themes, networks and systems” (Abstract)
17 March: Julia Martínez: “Human Rights in the 1950s: Indonesian criticism of Australian indenture” (Abstract)
3 March: Terence Halliday: “Conformity, Contestation and Culture in the Globalization of Insolvency Regimes: International Institutions and Law-making in Indonesia and China”
12 May: Peter Kell: “The Post-September 11th Politics of Global Fundamentalisms: Localism/Globalism, Mahathir and the Malaysian State” (Abstract)
13 May: Luke Nottage: “The Hermeneutics of (Japanese) Law: Modernity and Community—Translating Tanase” (Abstract)
26 May: Adrian McNeil: “Corporatisation and Hindustani Music: Cultural Consequences of Marketing Tradition” (Abstract)

Upcoming seminars:

2 June: Kyung-Sup Chang: “The Social Investment Family in Crisis: Education, Modernity and Globalization in South Korea”(Abstract)

Visitors

Professor Chang Kyung-Sup joins us from the Department of Sociology at Seoul National University. He is visiting CAPSTRANS from February 2003 to February 2004 and will be involved in collaborative research in the transformation of urban-rural relationships and the peasant perception of social and economic opportunity structure in late industrialisation.
Dr Jakkrit Kuanpoth, from the School of Law, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand, joins us at CAPSTRANS from May to November 2004. He will be working on a joint research project aimed at strengthening the academic collaboration between CAPSTRANS and Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University.
Dr Luke Nottage joins us from the Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney. He is visiting CAPSTRANS from February to December 2004, presenting a seminar on 13 May. His research interests include contract law, product liability, civil dispute resolution (especially arbitration), corporate governance, cyber-law, and legal education, mostly comparing developments in Japan or transnationally.