POSTGRADUATE NEWS September 2005
CONGRATULATIONS
Chris Fayers' PhD thesis "Corporate Environmental Reporting inAustralia: The Role of Stakeholders" has been accepted.
Cassandra Star who has recently submitted her PhD thesis.
CONTACT DETAILS FOR HDR STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES
Liam Brady: Liam.Brady@arts.monash.edu.au
Eddie Cheng: Eddie.Cheng@arts.monash.edu.au
Duane Duncan: drdun1@student.monash.edu
Cassandra Rowe: crow1@student.monash.edu
Please feel free to contact any of them to discuss any aspects of your research, ask questions or voice concerns. They are more than happy to share their experiences, answer your questions or point you in the right direction.
Conference
A DIALOGUE
WITH JUDITH BUTLER
Duane Duncan and Michele
Lobo
Judith Butler is a well known American feminist and post structural philosopher and someone we really admire. We have read almost all her books such as The Psychic life of power, Gender trouble and Excitable speech. You can imagine our elation when we heard she was giving a public lecture in Sydney, entitled 'Giving an Account of Oneself". We decided we had to go to this event, which was held on the 18th of June in the heart of Sydney city.
It was an experience we will always treasure. It was a visual delight just to see her but a far greater pleasure to listen to her. Using the photographs taken at Abu Ghraib prison and widely published in the media, she asked the question, "What does it mean to be ethically responsive to the suffering of Others?
We were invited to reflect on whether the photographs of the prisoners being tortured and shamed led to a moral indifference. Was this indifference a result of norms of civilisation and racialisation, that 'framed' meanings of the prisoners and the war, in ways that blind us? It was really enthralling to listen to how she communicated so effectively with us, even though she seemed to be in conversation with herself too. Her humility as well as her deep insights and wisdom are something that we will always remember.
Seminar
PROGRESS SEMINAR
Friday
2nd September, 2 - 5pm in SGO2
The following
students will be presenting:
2.15
Shaun Berg
"The effect of
wildfire on hydrological behaviour and soil properties in the alpine
zone, North-eastern Victoria."
2.45
Ari Soemodinoto
"Relationship
between tourism in national parks and community-based conservation:
The case of West Bali National Park, Indonesia
3.15
Chris White
"Lake Surprise
- a 30,000 year record of vegetation responses to
landform, climate and human influences"
3.45
Andrew Coutts
"Impact of increasing
urban density on local climate: spatial and
temporal
variations in the surface energy balance in Melbourne,
Australia"
SEMINARS
IN SEPTEMBER
Sustainability
Forum Wednesday 7th September, 5-7pm in R2
"The Future of Melbourne Water"
Guest Speaker: Mr. Rob Skinner, the recently appointed Chief Executive
Officer of Melbourne Water
For more details go
to:
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ges/about/sustforum.html
Tricks of the Trade
TUESDAYS 5-6.30pm in E457
6 September
2005 Confirmation of Candidature
7
September 2005 The political ecology of international
development; developing tools and assessing impacts
Simon Batterbury
14 September
2005 Savannah Fires, Seminar location at Biological
Sciences (Venue S4)
Amanda Lynch
21 September 2005 PhD Confirmation
of Candidature
Kenichi Kurioka
SGES Lunchtime
Seminars
WEDNESDAYS
1-2pm in SGO2
Details of other research seminars in related disciplinary areas can be found at:
SCIENCE
FACULTY
http://www.sci.monash.edu.au/students/postgrad/sem_news.html
ATMOSPHERIC
SCIENCE
http://www.meteorology.monash.edu.au/research/seminar2.shtml
BIOLOGICAL
SCIENCES
http://biolsci.dbs.monash.edu.au/seminars/departmental.html
GEOSCIENCES
http://www.earth.monash.edu.au/news+seminars/news+seminars.html