CMS Conferences
2nd Annual Malaysia Round Table 2008
Monday 20 October 2008, Monash University Caulfield Campus
Call for Presentations
The 2nd Annual Malaysia Round Table, organised by the Centre for Malaysian Studies, Monash Asia Institute, with the support of the Malaysian Students Department and the Victorian Malaysian Postgraduate Association, provides a forum for Melbourne-area postgraduate students working on Malaysia from all disciplinary backgrounds.
This year’s Round Table will begin with morning presentations on research skills by senior PhD supervisors from Monash University in the social sciences, arts and humanities and the natural sciences. Professor Denise Cuthbert, the former Associate Dean (Higher Degrees by Research), Faculty of Arts, Monash University, will talk on strategies for post graduate research candidature. Professor Cuthbert was the recipient of the Monash Vice Chancellor’s Award for Post Graduate Supervision in 2007. This will be followed by a presentation focusing on the natural sciences by Associate Professor Tony Patti, the Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) of the Faculty of Science. Both speakers will take questions from the floor.
The afternoon Round Table of student presentations will provide an ideal opportunity for Malaysian and non-Malaysian postgraduate students researching on topics related to contemporary Malaysia to present their research before an audience of peers from a diverse background ranging from I.T., Law, the Humanities, Engineering, Fine Arts, Performing Arts and Media, and Medicine. We would like to invite all Melbourne-area postgraduate students to contribute by presenting their thesis abstract/research proposal at the Malaysia Round Table on Monday, 20th October 2008. Presentations are scheduled to last between 10-15 minutes, including a brief question time.
RSVP essential for catering arrangements. Kindly confirm your attendance and please provide an abstract of your presentation to Sven Schottmann (sasch4@student.monash.edu.au) by Friday 10 October 2008.
All welcome. Lunch and light refreshments (halal) will be served.
Round Table Details
Date: Monday 20 October 2008
Time: 10 am to 4.30 pm
Location: Room H 235, Building H, Monash University Caulfield Campus
Contact: Please ring 0430 148 747 for further information.
Getting to the conference venue
Monash University Caulfield Campus is conveniently located in the suburb of Caulfield, nine kilometres south of Melbourne’s city centre.
Printable campus map (Grid A3)
http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/maps/2-Caulfieldcolour.pdf
Transport
By car: A user pay, multi-level car park is available on campus for staff, students, visitors and the general public. Entry to the car park is from Princes Avenue. Ticket machine parking ranging from one to five hours is also available in surrounding streets. Over Dandenong Rd, four blocks away to the north in the residential area, all day parking is free (10 minute walk to H Building).
By public transport: the Caulfield Railway Station is adjacent to the campus. Four lines stop at the station: Cranbourne, Dandenong, Frankston and Pakenham. Trams (number 3) and buses (routes 624 and 900) also leave from nearby.
International One Day Workshop (2004)
hosted by the Department of Management,
Faculty of Business and Economics and
Centre for Malaysian
Studies, Monash Asia Institute
"Social Protection in South Asia, China and Malaysia"
10 June 2004, 9.00 am - 6.00 pm
Room E269, Faculty of Business and Economics
For full details.
International Symposium on Malaysian Masculinities (2001)
In 2001, the Centre for Malaysian Studies, with the help of ATMA, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) organised a successful conference in Kuala Lumpur on the subject of Malaysian masculinities. The symposium was opened by Y.B Dato' Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, Minister of Women and Family Development, and keynote addresses were given by Prof. Ashis Nandy of the Center for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi on "Culture and Politics of Masculinities and by Professor Thomas Eriksen of the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Norway on "The Sexual Life of Nations"
Abstracts from twenty two particpants are available.
The conference papers will be published as a monograph - information about the forthcoming book will be posted on this site when more details become available.