Monash Fellowships Program - for funding commencing in 2010
Applications are invited from researchers outside Monash University, in any discipline with two to eight years of post-doctoral research experience, and with demonstrated research outcomes at an international level. The Fellowships are tenable only at Monash University and it is expected that most of the time will be spent at the relevant department/centre. Up to four successful applicants will be awarded a fellowship.
Venue: Jenny Florence Room, 3rd Floor, Ross House, 247 Flinders Lane, Melbourne (between Swanston and Elizabeth Sts)
Topic:
Re-connecting Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Bird Flu, Swine Flu and the 1918 Global Influenza Pandemic with the Tradition of Chinese Medicine in Australia: A Cultural and Linguistic Translation of Da Wen Bing (Severe Warm Factor Epidemics) as Seasonal Viral Influenza Epidemics.
Speaker: Dr. Rey Tiquia, PhD.
"When one is afflicted by a ‘severe warm factor illness’, one will have fever, giddiness, blurring of vision, dry teeth, parched lips, deliriousness, coma; a sudden change of colour in the face to greenish black or red and a very rapid pulse. For this clinical pattern, the formula 'Chinese Rhubarb-Cattail Pollen Decoction' is indicated. However, if the throat is congested and the patient has difficulty swallowing, it is recommended that acupuncture and blood letting be performed on Lung acupoint [4.13]." Treatise on Febrile Diseases Caused by Cold Meteorological Influences (Classical Guilin On-line Edition, p. 77, circa 217 AD)
The above is China’s Hippocrates, Zhang Zhong Jing’s, description of a typical clinical pattern recorded almost two millennia ago during a Severe Warm Factor Epidemic da wen. Contemporary Chinese medicine researchers in Taiwan translate da wen as being similar to SARS or of a viral influenza epidemic like that of the 1918 global influenza pandemic. In this paper Dr Tiquia will explore this cultural translation and propose how the tradition of Chinese medicine in Australia and New Zealand, in the Southern Hemisphere, can make a contribution to the current preparations for a possible global flu pandemic.
Dr. Rey Tiquia is a practitioner and scholar of traditional Chinese medicine in Melbourne. He completed a bachelor’s degree on traditional Chinese medicine at the Beijing TCM College in 1979. He came to Australia in 1982 and began his private practice in traditional Chinese medicine in Melbourne. He is author of the book Traditional Chinese Medicine A Guide to its Practice (Greenhouse, 1996) as well as of numerous academic papers and newspaper and health magazine articles on Chinese medicine and its various healing modalities. Rey commenced his postgraduate studies at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne in 1992. He completed his Masters of Science degree (by Coursework) in 1996 and wrote his Master thesis entitled "Connecting Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Scientific Medicine". In the year 2005, Rey completed his PhD dissertation, which looked at traditional Chinese medicine as an Australian tradition of health care. Rey’s research focuses on how to achieve symmetry between the practice of traditional Chinese medicine, Western biomedicine and other complementary and alternative medical traditions. He is currently working on constructing a Chinese north-south hemispherical lunisolar calendar that reflects the 'continua of space-time' in the yuzhou (universe).
The talk is followed by an informal, inexpensive meal in a nearby Chinatown restaurant.
To mark a year since its premiere, the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at the Australian National University and the Centre for Historical Research at the National Museum of Australia present:
Baz Luhrmann's Australia Reviewed: An interdisciplinary conference on history, film and popular culture
7 & 8 December 2009National Museum of Australia, Canberra
Keynote Address:
Meaghan Morris, Chair Professor of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University (Hong Kong), and Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney
Confirmed speakers include Peter Stanley (National Museum of Australia), John Docker (University of Sydney), and Ann McGrath (Australian National University)
'In his fabulous hyperbolic film Australia, Baz Luhrmann has leaped over the ruins of the 'history wars' and given Australians a new past a myth of national origin that is disturbing, thrilling, heartbreaking, hilarious and touching'. Marcia Langton, 2008.
Arguably Luhrmann's epic film Australia is the most ambitious, creative, and expensive engagement with our nation's past since the opening of the National Museum of Australia in 2001. Even though it is ostensibly a 1940s romance between the English aristocratic fish-out-of-water, Lady Sarah Ashley and the Drover, a quintessential Aussie bloke, the film engages with recent debates in Australia's national history from the removal of Aboriginal children from their families to the bombing of Darwin. The backdrop to this mismatched romance is the contradictory racial frontier of northern Australia, where official segregation, casual and entrenched discrimination, and sexual and labour exploitation coincided with inter-racial friendships, illicit relationships and mixed-race children. Luhrmann's engagement with our nation's racial past is explicit; the film begins with a definition of the Stolen Generations, and concludes by commemorating Prime Minister Rudd's 2008 apology.
The film's release met with both praise and sharp criticism from film critics, politicians, and other public commentators. This conference presents an opportunity for scholars to review and extend these initial debates on Luhrmann's re-visioning of Australia's past. We invite scholars from the disciplines of history, Indigenous studies, Australian studies, literary criticism, cultural studies, gender studies, film studies, tourism studies, and anthropology to explore the myriad ways in which this film engages with Australia's national history, self-fashioning, and identity.
Themes and topics for 20 minute papers may include, but are not limited to:
Australia's national and popular imaginings
notions of genealogy and inheritance in national imaginings
reconciliation narratives and shared histories
land, sovereignty and questions of possession
the idea of home and belonging
sexuality and national imaginings
images of race on the northern frontier
Selling Australia through Australia
Australia and histories
histories of cattlemen and droving, including Aboriginal workers
imperial connections and dynasties
Aboriginal and Chinese labour on the frontier
World War II, including the bombing of Darwin, the Japanese 'threat', and
Aboriginal servicemen
frontier violence and racism
-'mixed-relations': inter-racial relationships and marriages
Stolen Generations
native title and dispossession
Australia's borrowings and the language of film
filmic references and histories, ie Wizard of Oz, Jedda etc
histories and representations of Indigenous people in film
melodrama and constructions of race
cinematic representations of country and landscape
material culture studies and film
Australia and Australian literary influences
We welcome proposals from post-graduate students and Indigenous scholars.
We will be looking to publish selected papers from this conference.
Please send a title, 200 word abstract and short biography to Shino Konishi by Friday 31 July 2009.
Rediscovered Past: China in northern Australia is a second, exciting publication by CHINA Inc. As its title suggests, this publication contributes to 'the important work of reporting on and disseminating the research into the involvement of early Chinese settlers with the development of northern Australia, largely during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries'.
CONTENTS:
Forward
Darryl Low Choy
Chinese ginger growing in Queensland
Leonie Ryder
Beyond the coast : Chinese settler patterns of the western gulf region, north Queensland
Sandi Robb
Behind the wattle fence : the Chinese market gardeners of early Cooktown
Kevin Rains
Queensland’s ‘Assassin of Gallipoli’ and other Chinese Australian heroes of World War One
Alastair Kennedy
Commemorative stelae from Cooktown south : an ancient form of Chinese historical record adapted to Australian conditions
Kevin Wong Hoy
Heritage as living culture : the Lit Sung Goong collection of Cairns
Mary Low, Julie Ramsbotham & Darryl Thomas
To order copies please complete the attached form.
Call for Submissions - Peril #8 - "Why Are People So Unkind?"
"Why Are People So Unkind?" has become a famous, perhaps notorious, Australian catchphrase. It's attributed to our kaftan king and iconic Australian performer, Kamahl. Among other things, this issue of Peril challenges you to think about the ways in which cultural icons are created and maintained - what and who ARE our Australian icons these days? Do you relate to celebrities like Hugh Jackman, 'Our Nic', and Warnie? What about Charlie Teo, Anh Do, or Penny Wong? Do flourescent dim sims and Chikko rolls fit into your life, and would you give up Tom Cruise for roast lamb? Did you know that Ned Kelly's armour is of Chinese origin, and that "Two Wongs don't make a White"?
Below are some prompts that we hope are only the start of what you might do with the theme:
Being UnAustralian - yes, please?
Represent! - Finding role models, creating your own, nixing cliches, forging new communities
Culture makes me / I make culture
The 'Asian' thing? Get over it.
Let's see and hear what you think about "Why Are People So Unkind?" – write, create, draw, compose, collaborate! We accept submissions of any kind of text, sound or visual art, as long as it can be presented online (e.g. essays, blog entries, reflections, poetry, fiction, memoir, spoken word tracks, photos, etc.). Text limit is 1000 words, preferably submitted in .txt format.
We are fortunate enough to have two issues sponsored by the Australia Council for 2009, and will be paying contributors for this issue. The deadline for Issue 8 material is September 30, to be published online by December 2009.
There will be impressive numbers of postgraduates presenting at this year's ASAL conference in Canberra. To take advantage of this gathering of Aust lit postgrads, we will be running a postgrad workshop on Wednesday 8 July from 11am to 1.30pm (including lunch).
This will be an opportunity for postgrads to discuss their research projects with others working in the field and with participating academics including Leigh Dale and Ian Henderson. Leigh (editor of Australian Literary Studies) and Ian (editor of Studies in Australasian Cinema) will provide some advice on getting your work published, and on Life After Thesis.
The cost for the workshop is $20 which you can pay when you register for the conference. If you have already registered, you can pay for the workshop on the day.
If you would like to attend, please fill in the attached form and return it to Julieanne Lamond by email to ensure the workshop is useful and pertinent to you.
Please feel free to contact Julieanne with any questions:
The new issue leads with Paul Genoni and Gaby Haddow's analysis of the contentious ERA journal rankings and Peter Otto on Romanticism and Virtual Reality. A special section on 'Naturecultures', inspired by the work of Bruno Latour and Actor-Network Theory, features essays by Gay Hawkins, Michael Dieter, Emily Potter and Zoë Sofoulis. The Ecological Humanities features Val Plumwood's 'Nature in the Active Voice', the essay she was working on before her untimely death in February 2008, and responses to Plumwood's work from Thom van Dooren, Kate Rigby, Gerda Roelvink and J.K. Gibson-Graham. And there is the usual range of book reviews, from Simon Robb's review of Ross Gibson's Summer Exercises to Ed Wright's appreciation of the new edition of G.A. Wilkes' Stunned Mullets and Two-pot Screamers.
The editors are seeking submissions for the 2010 issues of AHR:
We welcome proposals in the form of 250 word abstracts in the first instance, from across the range of humanities disciplines, including literary and film studies, cultural and media studies, gender studies, history, politics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and of course ecological humanities. Please note that we do not publish poetry or creative writing, though we do welcome fictocritical approaches to academic writing. Initial submissions for the May 2010 issue should reach us no later than 30 September 2009, and for the November 2010 issue no later than 31 March 2010.
Call for Papers/Abstracts/Submissions:8th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities
January 13 - 16, 2010
Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa and Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio Hotel
Honolulu Hawaii, USA
Submission Deadline: August 21, 2009
(Submit well in advance of the above deadline and take advantage of our NEW low early bird registration rate. See website for details!)
Sponsored by:
University of Louisville - Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods
The 8th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities will be held from January 13 (Wednesday) to January 16 (Saturday), 2010 at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa and the Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. The conference will provide many opportunities for academicians and professionals from arts and humanities related fields to interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines. Cross-disciplinary submissions with other fields are welcome.
Topic Areas (All Areas of Arts & Humanities are Invited):
Anthropology American Studies Archeology Architecture Art Art History Dance English Ethnic Studies Film Folklore Geography Graphic Design History Landscape Architecture Languages Literature Linguistics Music Performing Arts Philosophy Postcolonial Identities Product Design Religion Second Language Studies Speech/Communication Theatre Visual Arts Other Areas of Arts and Humanities Cross-disciplinary areas of the above related to each other or other areas.
Submitting a Proposal:
You may now submit your paper/proposal by using our online submission system! To use the system, and for detailed information about submitting see:
Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies ejournalCall for Papers – General Issue
The Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies (ACRAWSA) ejournal is currently calling for submissions for the ejournal’s general issue to be published in January, 2010. The ACRAWSA ejournal is a peer reviewed publication. It is published at least once a year. We welcome submissions of articles and review essays. As an online journal, we are also keen to accept submissions that utilise new media such as photography and film (subject to Copyright Requirements). The journal seeks to showcase innovative scholarship in the area of critical race and whiteness studies. The journal is multi-disciplinary in its approach and accepts papers from a wide range of areas in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Education and Law, including:
Indigenous and Native American Studies
Asian Australian and Asian American Studies
Race and Ethnic Studies
History and Historiography
Museum Studies
Tourism and Heritage Studies
Post-colonial Studies
Literary Studies and Comparative Literature
Cultural Studies and Media and Communication Studies
Psychology
Sociology and Boundary Studies
Anthropology
Women's Studies, Gender Studies and Queer Studies
Social Theory and Political Science
Legal Studies
Drama and Performing Arts
Visual and Design Studies
Submissions for the issue are welcomed from now until August 30th 2009.
Articles should be between 4,000-8,000 words in length (double spaced pages) including tables, notes and references. An abstract of 200-300 words should accompany the article. Submission guidelines can be found at ACRAWSA’s website: www.acrawsa.org.au
We also welcome shorter pieces of creative or analytical writing (up to 1000 words), visual material, or reviews of books, films, plays etc.
Submissions and enquiries about the issue should be sent to Dr. Holly Randell-Moon: postgraduate@acrawsa.org.au
Earlybird registration for this year's ASAL conference, 'Common Readers and Cultural Critics', at the ANU Canberra July 8-11, has been extended to 7 June.
Updated information can be found on the ASAL2009 website:
