Hanifa Deen – “Muslim Fatigue, or Aren’t you Tired of the “M” Word Too?”http://ow.ly/2q5Ki
Hanifa Deen is fed up with writing about Muslims, reading about Muslims, defending Muslims and obsessing about Muslims in general but is having trouble getting off the ‘Muslim merry-go-round’.
In this Lunchbox/Soapbox presentation, Deen offers her vision for extending multiculturalism beyond tokenism. She also warns against oversimplification and the temptation to see ‘communities’ rather than individuals, and suggests a marketing campaign for Muslims – including a handful of star recruits who might help to bring Islam to the Australian heartland.
Feminist and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali brought her controversial take on Islam to Melbourne. She spoke to Jennifer Byrne about her personal journey from Islam, how “multiculturalism is a form of racism” and how human rights and cultural belief clash.
Hirsi Ali looks at how “Liberal societies enable, enhance, ignore what is going on” and asks why Australia’s politicians are ignoring the debate about Muslims in favour of “cosmetic debates” about burqas and minarets.
Since 1971, the UCLA Press has published Amerasia Journal, the leading interdisciplinary journal in Asian American Studies. After almost four decades and over 20,000 pages, Amerasia Journal has played an indispensable role in establishing Asian American Studies as a viable and relevant field of scholarship, teaching, community service, and public discourse. Amerasia Journal, according to founding publisher and AASRN member Don T. Nakanishi, “has benefited from and reflected a wide array of profound social changes that have occurred among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders—be it their unprecedented growth and diversification, or their ever-increasing levels of access, representation, and achievement in American society’s institutions and sectors that had long excluded, marginalized, or demonized them.”
A treasure trove of music, dance, theatre, film, food and exhibitions unveiled at the 2010 OzAsia Festival Program launch
The Adelaide Festival presents the best of Asia’s arts and culture while celebrating Australia’s diverse multicultural society and its position within the Asia Pacific region. It is proudly supported by Major Festival Partner Santos.
Come join the celebrations in September, when once again the Adelaide Festival Centre will be transformed into a cultural melting pot. Experience this ground breaking festival that promotes cultural understanding and tolerance through creative collaboration. The Festival is now the nation’s pre-eminent platform for Australian/Asian dialogue and collaboration in the performing arts.
The 2010 program features 133 artists from Korea, Indonesia, Tibet, Malaysia, India, Vietnam, China, Hong Kong and the best from Australia. There will be 11 shows plus 6 special events, 3 food events, 8 forums, 19 films, 6 short films and 5 exhibitions. 11 Adelaide premieres, including 3 Australian premieres and 1 world premiere.
Including: from the maker of Chika (OzAsia Festival 2008) comes AASRN member Mayu Kanamori’sIn Repose, an artistic homage to Japanese migrants who lived and died in Australia since the late 1800s and have been buried here. In Repose, merges story-telling, photography, soundscape, koto, music and dance inspired by old Japanese cemeteries in Australia. A Kuyo – a Japanese term describing an act of ceremonial offering to respect, honour and calm the spirits of the deceased – In Repose also honours the local Australian Indigenous communities who to this day are looking after the graves of these Japanese migrants, buried far away from their native land. 1 – 2 October, Space Theatre.
Brown Rabbits and Yellow Butterflies: “Yellow Peril” in Australia
Presenter: NAKAMURA, Kazue, Professor of Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan (Comparative Literature and Culture)
Date: 10 September (Fri) 2010 Time: 16:00-17:00 Venue: Japanese Studies Centre (Bldg.54), Monash University, Clayton
Abstract:
Discourse of “Yellow Peril” includes the myth of promiscuity, which makes Asians both appalling and attractive. On the appalling side Asians are “brown rabbits” invading white Australia with their fertility and the devastating power of their masses. On the attractive side Asians are mostly effeminate or “en-butterflied.” The analysis of such stereotyped images of Asians is a popular theme for Australian cultural history. Interestingly, however, Japanese studies on “Yellow Peril” often underestimate, or even disregard, the role of Australia in this much discussed problematic ideology. This seminar presentation was first conceived as a response to Anxious Nation: Australia and the Rise of Asia 1850-1939 by Prof. David Walker (Deakin University), and tries to understand the tenacious fantasy called “Asians” from a Japanese viewpoint. Racial and sexual imageries used to support Orientalism in Australia and some other countries are discussed, from Charles H. Pearson’s famous National Life and Character(1893), Milca Eliade’s Maitreyi (1933) to Alison Tilson’s recent film Japanese Story (2003).
Profile:
Nakamura Kazue specializes in the study of comparative literature and culture, with special interest in ethnic and sexual minorities. She also is the author of the collection of poetry Lazrus the Lizard as well as two collections of columns and essays, writer of short stories, translator of Caribbean, Black British and other transcultural literatures in English. She is currently in Melbourne as a visiting researcher to the Japanese Studies Centre of Monash University.
Research Grants & Awards For Postgraduate & Postdoctoral Students
The following grants are available to academics or postgraduates in Australia and New Zealand, to conduct research in/on Canada and, in some cases, to promote teaching and publications about Canada or facilitate workshops between researchers in Canada and abroad.
ACSANZ Postgraduate Travel Award Deadline: 30 September
Up to five grants are awarded each year to postgraduate students for a short research trip to Canada. Research must be in Canadian Studies and related to the student’s thesis topic. The value of each grant is up to A$3000. Available to ACSANZ members only (new members welcome).
ACSANZ Canadian Studies Undergraduate Essay Prize Deadline: 29 October
The essay must be on Canada or have a substantial Canadian component (e.g. a comparative study between Canada and another country/region) and be submitted by an undergraduate student enrolled in any faculty at universities in Australia and New Zealand. Entries should aim to demonstrate an understanding of Canada. We welcome entries from across a broad range of faculties, however the competition is especially suited to the humanities and social sciences. Students are encouraged to submit an essay which has been prepared as part of their assessment for an undergraduate course. The competition has a cash prize of AUD $1,200.
ICCS Best Doctoral Thesis in Canadian Studies Deadline: 30 September
This International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS) Award is designed to recognize and promote each year an outstanding PhD thesis on a Canadian topic, written by a member (or one of his/her students) of a Canadian Studies Association or Associate Member, and which contributes to a better understanding of Canada.
ICCS Canadian Studies Postdoctoral Fellowships Deadline: 30 September
This program enables Canadian and foreign academics who have completed a doctoral thesis on a topic primarily related to Canada to visit a Canadian or foreign university with a Canadian Studies program for a teaching or research fellowship. Fellowships are for a minimum of one month and a maximum of three months. Applicants must not be employed in a full-time university teaching position and must agree not to accept honoraria or salary during their fellowships. The grant will be C$2,500 per month plus the cost of a return airline ticket.
ICCS Graduate Student Scholarship Deadline: 30 September
Up to twelve grants are awarded world-wide to Masters and Doctoral candidates to undertake thesis-related research on Canada at a Canadian university for 4-6 weeks. Up to C$3,500 is available for all expenses.
Australians Abroad: An interdisciplinary conference University of Queensland, 10-11 February 2011
Hosted by the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, UQ
Keynote speakers:
Emeritus Professor Ros Pesman, author of Duty Free: Australian Women Abroad and co-editor of Australians in Italy: Contemporary Lives and Impressions and The Oxford Book of Australian Travel Writing.
Associate Professor Martin Thomas, ARC Future Fellow, author of The Many Worlds of R.H. Matthews: In Search of the Australian Anthropologist (in press) and The Artificial Horizon: Imagining the Blue Mountains. Award-winning writer/producer of radio documentaries. Martin will speak on the export of images of Aboriginal culture by non-Aboriginal people, focussing on Charles Mountford’s US lecture tours (1944-45) and their enduring impacts.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
If myths of national identity have focused on travel to Australia (‘discovery’, invasion/settlement, transportation, migration), it is worth noting that travel from Australia has been a significant phenomenon for just as long. From Yolngu people accompanying Macassan fisherman to the islands of Indonesia, from those First Fleeters who made the return journey ‘home’ to Europe, to today’s travellers, tourists and expatriates, residents of Australia have left its shores for a multitude of destinations and reasons and in very different roles. Descendants of migrants and refugees, soldiers, nurses, artists, authors, brides, chaperones, utopians, sportspeople, students, teachers, backpackers, cruise-ship travellers, journalists, IT professionals: some have sought to rejoin family, others to escape it; some have sought renown, others have been head-hunted.
We invite papers that explore the conference theme from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including: auto/biography, travel writing, history, language learning, intercultural communication, sociology, tourism, literary/cultural studies.
Possible topics might include:
analyses of fiction, memoirs, letters, diaries, interviews relating to travel by Australians
patterns of travel/writing, configurations of gender and desire at different times, in different places
Aboriginal travel to various destinations and its purposes
the search for Utopia and its construction by Australians
contemporary discourses displacing the ‘cultural cringe’ of the 1960s as the motivation for travel
reflections on Australia from an overseas vantage point
Australian experiences in non-English speaking territory, language-learning memoirs, the relation between language and cultural identity
the extent to which belonging is sought in the destination culture, accommodation to local cultures
representations of particular cultures by Australians
New Zealand travel/expatriate experiences (this might form a panel broadening the conference theme to Australasians Abroad)
Abstracts of 250 words or panel proposals (3 x 20 minute papers on a common theme with an abstract for each) with full contact details should be sent by 31 August 2010 to Dr Juliana de Nooy at: j.denooy@uq.edu.au
Conference registration will open in October 2010 and will include earlybird registration fees. Participation by postgraduate students is particularly welcome.
Call for Papers: Inaugural issue of New Scholar: An International Journal of the Humanities, Creative Arts and Social Sciences
New Scholar is a peer-reviewed online journal of emerging scholarship and intellectual practice from the humanities, creative arts and social sciences. Based in Australia, but with international scope, the journal has a particular focus on new scholarship: work by ‘early career researchers’ as well as innovative or even radical interventions from more established scholars. New Scholar encourages original approaches to disciplinary methodologies, as well as interdisciplinary scholarship and the breaking down of traditional disciplinary boundaries. New Scholar also encourages creative scholarly works. The journal aims to facilitate scholarly exchange and the strengthening of international research communities.
The editors of New Scholar invite submissions for the inaugural issue, the theme of which is ‘New Scholarship?’ The question mark after the phrase ‘New Scholarship’ signals the central problematic of the issue: what counts as ‘new scholarship,’ who gets to say so and on what basis? This issue will examine claims for originality within contemporary contexts for intellectual practice. It will provide a space for investigations of the power structures that frame scholarship, the institutionalisation of scholarly authority and the necessarily circumscribed nature of innovation.
Papers addressing the following ideas are particularly encouraged:
(New) scholarship
* What counts as ‘new scholarship’?
* The dialectical positioning of ‘new scholarship’ in relation to ‘old scholarship’
* What is the relationship between critical and creative scholarship?
* The politics of scholarship
* The figure of the scholar
* Controversy: paradigm shifts, iconoclasm, fringe scholarship and dissent
Scholarship and institutions
* Disciplinarity, institutionalisation and its discontents
* New scholarship in relation to educational institutions as state apparatuses
* The role of ‘new scholars’ and ‘new scholarship’ in the contemporary university (economically and/or intellectually)
* Scholarship inside and outside of the university
* Scholarship and institutional imperatives
Discourses and methodologies of scholarship
* Critical discourses of ‘progress’, ‘development’ and ‘evolution’ in current scholarship
* Shifting values in scholarship
* Examinations of the concept/category/act of ‘scholarship’ (historiographic, genealogical, ethnographic, psychoanalytical, discipline-specific, interdisciplinary, empirical, creative, etc)
* Economies of thought, modes of discourse, intellectual fashions Methodological praxes, disciplinary practices
(Emerging) research and intellectual practices
* ‘Emerging’ research and ‘emerging’ researchers
* ‘Early career research’ and ‘Early Career Researchers’
* The figure of the intellectual, the ‘public intellectual,’ intellectual movements and coteries
* Interrogations of newness and novelty in relation to scholarly work or intellectual practices
* Scholarship and innovation/originality
* Translating scholarship beyond the page
* Scholarship and career
Research communities, social contexts and scholarship
* Scholarship across cultures/languages
* Indigenous knowledges and scholarship
* Indigenous knowledges in the western academy
* Research communities and the scholarship ethic
* Intersections between research and creative practice, research and teaching, research and social activism, research and finance; research and community, research and audience, research and the public sphere
* Scholarship and material realities
* Collaborative research across nations and disciplines
Please submit papers along with an abstract of 200-300 words and short biographical note of less than 100 words by 1 September 2010 to the following address: bridie@deakin.edu.au
Papers must conform to the New Scholar Style Guide (appended below) and must be previously unpublished and not currently under consideration for any other publication. Please consult the Journal Policies (in the document below) before submitting work.
Monash is seeking an outstanding Lecturer in Literature to assume teaching roles in undergraduate and graduate courses, to supervise graduate research and to contribute to the School’s research profile through internationally benchmarked publications and research projects. You will have a PhD, a competitive record of publications and research outcomes and evidence of achievement in tertiary teaching.
Areas of specialisation of interest to the School include:
• Contemporary authorship
• Feminist literary studies
• 20th Century American literature
• 20th Century Australian literature
All applications should address the selection criteria. Please refer to “How to Apply for Monash jobs' at the link above.
The University Monash University has a bold vision – to deliver significant improvements to the
human condition. Distinguished by its international perspective, Monash takes pride in its commitment to innovative research and high quality teaching and learning.
The Benefits
Remuneration package: $86,306 – $102,488 pa Level B (includes employer superannuation of 17%)
This role is a full-time position, however flexible working arrangements may be negotiated.
Monash offers a range of professional development programs, support for research, study and overseas work, generous maternity leave and flexible work arrangements.
Call for papers: “Secular Discomforts: Religion and Cultural Studies.” Special edition of Cultural Studies Review
Guest co-editors:
Sophie Sunderland (University of Western Australia);
HollyRandell-Moon (Macquarie University)
Secularisms shape the way in which religion is placed in community, challenged politically, and lived privately and publicly. Whilst Cultural Studies has long focused on the micropolitics of everyday life that shape discourses in intimate, relational, sensual and politically charged ways, secularism has largely escaped attention. The need to challenge the conceits of secularism is indicated in Stuart Hall’s keynote address for the 2007 ‘Cultural Studies Now’ conference. Reflecting on the importance of the politics of representation, Hall argued that Cultural Studies' next challenge was to explain why an Islamic fundamentalist movement has so far constituted the only significant opposition to neo-liberal capitalism. See: https://owa2003.admin.uwa.edu.au/exchange/smsunderland/Drafts/?Cmd=new#_ftn1 So what keeps secularism in the Cultural Studies closet? And, more importantly, what complications are set in motion when ‘doing Cultural Studies’ with religion? This issue heeds Hall’s call for Cultural Studies' engagement with the politics of religion and neo-liberal capitalism from the perspective of discomfort. Whilst discomfort signals uncertainty and change, it is also a catalyst for exploration, enquiry, anxiety and frustration. What might make explorations of religion and secularism uncomfortable, undesirable, unorthodox, and perhaps unnamable? What privileges accompany closeting the religious body, or the secular body? What forms of disquiet and discomfort create ‘religious’ and ‘secular’ responses in the media and political sphere? What might it mean to be ‘relaxed and comfortable’ in relation to the religious? How do specific cultural, political and corporeal economies position intellectual engagements with the secular and religious? What do representations of religion communicate about living religion, living secularism, and doing Cultural
Studies?
Possible areas of analysis include:
Pedagogical engagements with religion
Postcolonial secularisms
Secularism and gender politics
Religious corporealities
Religion and emotion
Religion and economy
Secular constructions of medicine, health and wellbeing
Secularism’s influence on the academy
Please send abstracts of 300 words maximum to Dr Sophie Sunderland and Dr Holly Randell-Moon by 1st October 2010 for consideration. Full papers of maximum 8000 words will be due at the beginning of May 2011.
Australian Studies Copenhagen, Distinguished Visiting Chair, 2011
The Centre for Australian Studies at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for a Visiting Professorship in 2011. The Distinguished Visiting Chair in Australian Studies was founded in 2006, with the generous financial assistance of the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment, and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). The appointment is for the European autumn semester of each year (five months from September to January), and the position is next available from 1 September 2011. The post comes with a travel, accommodation and subsistence allowance worth up to AUD 25,000. Office and computer facilities will also be provided by the University.
The Chair holder is required to teach one course at postgraduate level in a subject area of his or her choice. This entails the delivery of one two-hour per week seminar over a period of 12 weeks, beginning in the first week of September with a one week break in mid-October. The Chair holder will also be responsible for examining the course in early January. Additionally, the Chair holder will be expected to take part in the activities of the Centre, and present a research paper at an appropriate time at one of our departmental seminars. The position is open to scholars currently serving at an Australian University in one or more disciplines of relevance to Australian Studies, including but not limited to Literature, History, Politics, International Relations, Film and Media Studies.
Applicants are invited to submit the following documentation in support of their application:
A curriculum vitae, including list of publications
A brief description of at least one postgraduate level course in Australian Studies that they propose to offer at Copenhagen University (approx. 1 A4 page)
The names of at least two referees who might be contacted in support of their application.
Applications will be assessed by a committee consisting of representatives of the University of Copenhagen and the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. The Chair will be appointed according to the following selection criteria:
Research and teaching excellence in one or more disciplines of relevance to Australian Studies
Suitability of the proposed course of postgraduate study for Copenhagen University students
Experience in teaching Australian Studies to non-Australian students
A capacity to forge enduring scholarly links between Australia and Europe
Please note that this is a non-salaried post, and that it is the applicants’ own responsibility to obtain the necessary leave to take up the position. The deadline for applications is Friday 22 October 2010 at 5pm (GMT + 2).
Applications and enquiries should be e-mailed (with supporting documentation in the form of Word attachments) to:
Australian Studies Centre Convener:
Dr Claire McLisky
Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies University of Copenhagen
e-mail: australianstudies@hum.ku.dk
The University of Copenhagen acknowledges the financial and other support it has received from the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.
