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What's New 2006ARC Discovery Project “Selling Their Souls”CAPSTRANS hosted a meeting of the researchers and consultants associated with the ARC Discovery Project “Selling Their Souls”. The authors and consultants met to work on a book of the same name.
International Higher Education Policy Research and Management Forum 2006CAPSTRANS co-sponsored the second International Higher Education Policy Research and Management Forum titled “Higher Education in the Asia Pacific and Networked Society”. The Forum was successfully organized by the National Higher Education Research Institute and Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), with the cooperation of the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia and CAPSTRANS. The USM Penang HE Forum was held on 8th – 11th November 2006 at Universiti Sains Malaysia. The forum provided an opportunity for higher education policy researchers and administrators to discuss issues pertaining to higher education in the Asia Pacific region. The Forum was attended by 120 participants from 13 countries and was highly rated by participants in terms of organization, academic substance and contents.
CAPSTRANS Sponsors Public Lecture by Dr Merlyna LimCAPSTRANS was pleased to sponsor a public lecture by Dr Merlyna Lim at the Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference held in Brisbane in September 2006. Dr Lim is Assistant Professor at Arizona State University School of Social Justice and Social Inquiry in joint appointment with Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes. The title of Dr Lim’s public lecture was “Democracy, Conspiracy, and Pornography: Politics of the Internet in Indonesia”. Abstract of lecutre [pdf 256kb]
Internationalizing Internet Studies (27 September 2006)CAPSTRANS was a co-sponsor of the “Internationalizing Internet Studies” Workshop held in conjunction with the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Annual Conference held in Brisbane in September. The workshop brought together a collection of scholars and postgraduate students working on different aspects of the Internet's internationalization, surveying exemplary Internet language groups and cultures. Understanding the Internet in the Asia-PacificCAPSTRANS hosted a one-and-a-half-day Early Career Researcher (ECR) seminar on “Understanding the Internet in the Asia/Pacific” on 25-26 September 2006. The purpose of the workshop was to acknowledge that Internet use and Internet studies take place “elsewhere” in various national and international contexts. By bringing together researchers whose daily experience of the Internet is mediated through Asian languages and cultures as well as researchers situated within the Anglophone academy whose work focuses on cultures in our region, the workshop aimed to promote the visibility of work already being done outside the Anglophone world.
The Political Economy of Development in Asia: Comparing The Chinese And Indian Middle Classes Workshop (11 August 2006)Together with CAPSTRANS Senior Visiting Fellow, Professor Hu Xiaobo, CAPSTRANS hosted a workshop that brought together key scholars examining the dynamic relationship between the middle class and the state in face of modernization, privatization, and globalization in China and India. The participants focused on such questions as how the middle classes develop (or not so) in response to the state policies and what impacts their relationship with the state has on political and economic reforms. News Article >>
Winter Workshop on Gender and Border Security in the Asia-PacificCAPSTRANS successfully hosted its second Winter Workshop for doctoral students and early career researchers from 30 June - 1 July 2006. The Winter Workshop was supported by the Asia Pacific Futures Research Network (APFRN) and was jointly organised by Professor Vera Mackie (University of Melbourne) and CAPSTRANS Director Associate Professor Lenore Lyons. Volunteering Abroad in the Asia-Pacific: Postgraduate Writing Workshop (30 June - 1 July 2006)This workshop followed-up our earlier (November 2005) successful workshop on: Human Security and Development in Marginal Communities: A National Workshop on Volunteering Abroad in the Asia-Pacific (sponsored by the APFRN and CAPSTRANS). Selected postgraduate papers and presenters were chosen to refine their topic and papers, and prepare them for publication in an academic journal of international repute. Culture, Identity and Performance: Diaspora South Asians
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Workshop delegates: Front row (L-R): Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase; Devleena Ghosh; Lakshmi Subramaniam; Kalpana ram; Lenore Lyons; Heather Goodall
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More than 350 overseas and Australian participants took part in the 16th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) from June 26-29.
The conference was officially opened by the Governor of NSW, Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir, AC, CVO. Other members of the official party at the opening ceremony included the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wollongong, Professor Gerard Sutton; the Lord Mayor of Wollongong, Cr Alex Darling; ASAA President, Dr Robert Cribb; and Indigenous Elder, Mrs Rita Curtin, representing the Wodi Wodi Elders Corporation.
The opening also featured a Balinese gamelan performance and the world premiere of Candrakirana, a Balinese dance performance.
Photo Gallery
UoW Media Release, 26 June 2006
Conference Website
During late 2005 and early 2006 Professor Adrian Vickers took part in 3 workshops and conferences on Southeast Asian historiography. The first of these was as a Fellow of the KITLV's project on ‘Rethinking Indonesian Historiographies', which involved participation in a planning workshop in June 2005 and then after a period of research in Leiden, a joint workshop held at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 12-14 December 2005. Professor Vickers' paper was on ‘Rethinking the 1950s in Indonesian history', and will be published as part of the joint book in Indonesia coming out of the workshop. Publication for an English-language version of the paper is currently underway.
The second conference was the ‘Writing Social Histories: Asian Historiographies and Political Regimes', jointly organised by by Gadjah Mada University and the International Institute of Social History, held 16-17 December 2005 at Gadjah Mada University. Professor Vickers presented a paper on ‘Reconsidering the Colonial State and Indonesia', and Professors Andrew Wells and Jim Hagan presented a paper from their current ARC project with Professor Rob Castle and Dr Roger Knight, ‘Historiographies of Plantations.' There will be a follow-up workshop on the same topic held late in 2005 at the University of Wollongong as part of CAPSTRANS' collaboration with the International Institute of Social History.
Professor Vickers also presented a paper entitled ‘ The Colonial State Reconsidered' at the Conference Southeast Asia: Past, Present and Future, which was a special invited international Conference in Honour of the 75th Birthday of Professor Nicholas Tarling, held by the New Zealand Asia Institute, University of Auckland, 1 – 3 February 2006.
Dr Ding Weiguo joins CAPSTRANS as a Visiting Fellow working on foreign direct investment in China.
The following new staff joined CAPSTRANS in 2006:
Dr Christine de Matos joins CAPSTRANS as a Research Fellow for two years, working on a project on Australia 's involvement in the Occupation of Japan.
Dr Mark McLelland recently joined the Faculty of Arts at the University of Wollongong. Mark is an expert on minority gender and sexuality community history in postwar Japan and Japanese popular culture and new media.
Dr Mike Donaldson recently returned to the University of Wollongong after a number of years serving the National Tertiary Education Union. Mike is working with Dr Richard Howson and Dr Pam Nilan on a study of Indonesian masculinity.
Dr Richard Howson, an expert on contemporary social and political theory and the study of masculinities and feminist theory, joins CAPSTRANS to work with Dr Mike Donaldson and Dr Pam Nilan on a study of Indonesian masculinity.
Dr Elizabeth Thomson, an expert on functional grammatical descriptions and applications of Japanese language, adds an exciting new dimension to CAPSTRANS work on social transformation through her work on genres of Japanese language.
Dr Anne Vo recently joined the Faculty of Commerce at the University of Wollongong. She is working on a study of international and comparative human resource management issues in Asian countries.
Dr Helen Kilpatrick, from the Japanese language program at the University of Wollongong, has joined CAPSTRANS to work on project related to the study of Japanese children's literature.
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