===================================== MONASH ASIA INSTITUTE BULLETIN 11/2003 3 November 2003 ===================================== In this bulletin 1. Public Lectures on Tibetan Medicine 2. CSEAS Seminar 3. Emeritus Professor David Chandler 4. Japanese Studies Seminar 5. Annual India Update 2003 6. MAI Postgraduate Seminar 7. MAI International Conference, Mumbai 8. MAI Security Dialogue 9. Website in Memory of Dr Renuka Sharma 10. Meet the Author - Greg Sheridan 11. Community Development Conference 12. Conference: Imagining Diasporas 13. Website of the month ---------------------------------------------------- Item 1. Public Lectures on Tibetan Medicine 2003 5 - 9 November 2003, 6.30 - 9.00 pm Monash Conference Centre, Level 7, 30 Collins St, Melbourne CBD The public lectures in the 2003 Tibetan Medicine Tour will be delivered by Dr Nida Chenagtsang. Details are as follows: Wednesday 5 November 2003 "Diet and Behaviour - Therapeutic Approaches in Tibetan Medicine" Thursday 6 November "Birth and Death According to Tibetan Medicine" Friday 7 November, 2003 "Mantra Healing" The public lecture series is sponsored by Monash Asia Institute, in association with the Shang Shung Institute and the Dzogchen Community of Namgyalgar. The commentator on all three evenings will be David Templeman, an expert on Tibetan Buddhism. Entry fee collected by the Shang Shung Institute: $15/$10 conc. per session Enquiries: Julia Tilley , Mobile: 0417 477 050 Tel: (03) 9443 9447 or Jennifer Peters, Mobile: 0415 619 807 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Item 2. CSEAS Seminars Thursday 6 November 2003, 11.00 am - 12.30 pm SG02, Ground floor Menzies Building South, Monash University, Clayton campus. "Old traditions, New Ways: Village Midwives and Safe Motherhood in rural Cambodia." Dr Elizabeth Hoban, Research Fellow, School of Health Sciences, Deakin University. ------ Thursday, 13 November 2003, 11am - 12.30 pm SG03, Ground floor Menzies Building South, Monash University, Clayton campus. "Media coverage of Cambodia 1975-1991." Walter Burgess, PhD candidate, RMIT University. All welcome Enquiries: Dr Penny Graham, Director, CSEAS ---------------------------------------------------- Item 3. New Honorary Research Fellow at MAI: Emeritus Professor David Chandler David Chandler, Emeritus Professor of History, has returned to Monash after five years in the United States, where he held a succession of visiting appointments at the University of Wisconsin, John Hopkins University, Georgetown University, Cornell University and the University of Michigan. He also served as senior advisor to the Center for Khmer Studies in Siem Reap, Cambodia. In 1999 his book 'Voices from S 21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison' was published by the University of California Press. Professor Chandler is now working on a book examining state and society in Cambodia. He was appointed an Honorary Research Fellow of the MAI in October 2003. We take this opportunity to welcome Professor Chandler back to Monash and Melbourne. ---------------------------------------------------- Item 4. Japanese Studies Seminar Jointly presented by: Japanese Studies Centre Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movement Thursday, November 6, 2003: 11.45am - 1pm Japanese Studies Centre Auditorium, Building 54 Monash University, Clayton Campus "Ambiguities: Some Japanese Accounts of Australia" Dr Alison Broinowski Japanese and Australians have shared in an intense curiosity about each other throughout our recent histories. From Japanese reports about Australia emerge interesting suggestions about how the Japanese observe themselves. Early impressions of Australia remain enduringly influential for today's Japanese. It is at times when those images undergo revision that their power is most demonstrable. Such change-moments include the advent of Pauline Hanson and the Asian economic crisis, the Sydney Olympic Games, and the Tampa event. Australia has an image-problem in Japan, to which we have contributed by recent policies and by underestimating the need to change both reality and perception. Dr Alison Broinowski has written several works on Australian/Asian relations and has edited books on ASEAN. She is author of 'The Yellow Lady: Australian Impressions of Asia', (Oxford University Press, 1992). Her two latest books are 'About Face: Asian Accounts of Australia', and 'Howard's War', both published by Scribe in 2003. She has worked as Cultural Attaché, Tokyo; and, as an Australian diplomat. She was Director of the Australia-Japan Foundation in 1987-88. Dr Broinowski has also worked as a journalist and broadcaster. Dr Broinowski completed her PhD entitled "Asian Representations of Australia" in 2002. She is co-patron of the Asian Association of Australian Studies and is currently a researcher for the Faculty of Asian Studies at the Australian National University. All Welcome To register your interest, please contact Andrew Fernando: Telephone: 9905 1595 Email: globalmovements@education.monash.edu.au ---------------------------------------------------- Item 5. Annual India Update 2003 Thursday 27 and Friday 28 November 2003 Monash Conference Centre Level 7, 30 Collins St, Melbourne CBD A joint project of the Monash Asia Institute, University of Canberra, Curtin University of Technology, University of New South Wales and the Australia India Chamber of Commerce, Victoria. We are grateful to the support of the Australia India Council. This year's INDIA UPDATE 2003 is designed to focus on the 'tough questions' about Indian business and economics. Key speakers include: Professor Arun Kumar, Head, Department of Economics, Jawarhalal Nehru University, New Delhi and author of 'India's Black Economy' Mr Haseeb Prabhu, National Editor of the Business Standard in Mumbai. The tough questions include: 1 Is the pace and direction of economic reform in India too slow and misguided? 2 How big is the black economy and does it hamper international business? 3 Has the China market overtaken the Indian market in Australian business perceptions? What are the bilateral trends in trade and investment? 4 Has Hindu fundamentalism destroyed Indian secularism? What are the business implications? 5 Do Indian firms take corporate social responsibility seriously? The program details are as follows: Inauguration by His Excellency Mr Rathore, Indian High Commissioner to Australia, Canberra. Day 1 - Half day Public Forum on 'The tough questions about Indian Economy and Business' 9.30am to midday with morning tea included. The panel will raise the issues and the second half will be Q and A to the panel of experts. Registrations via Anthony.Mays@adm.monash.edu.au Registration fee: $60 Day 2 - Full Day Symposium on the tough questions about Indian Business and Economy Today involving our international experts. Registration fee $80 including lunch. Registrations via Anthony.Mays@adm.monash.edu.au Enquiries: Prof Marika Vicziany ---------------------------------------------------- Item 6. MAI postgraduate Seminar "Tibetan Buddhism" Friday, 5 December 2003, 10.00 am David Templeman David will be speaking about Tibetan Buddhism and a premodern text that he has recently translated and will be the basis of his historical-cultural research for his doctorate. Following this seminar will be an informal meeting of staff, students and associates to discuss the MAI in 2003-4. Kindly RSVP to Juliet.Yee@adm.monash.edu.au Enquiries: Juliet Yee ---------------------------------------------------- Item 7. MAI International Conference, Mumbai The First Annual Conference of the Monash Asia Institute 9 - 13 February 2004, Mumbai, Maharashtra State, India This is the first annual international conference held by the Monash Asia Institute (MAI). Based on the theme, "Cultures and Technologies in Asia - the paradigm shifts", the conference aims to identify how the relationship between cultures and technologies is changing. By holding the first conference in the commercial capital of India, the MAI also seeks to exchange ideas and promote international collaborative research on this subject in the Asia-Pacific region. It is hoped that a network of scholars and thinkers from across the disciplines will be established with a view to generating research results relevant to policy making in the region. For information about registrations, deadlines, the venue and accommodation at the Taj President see: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/mai/ructa/conference/index.html NOTE: THE DIRECTOR OF THE MONASH ASIA INSTITUTE IS WILLING TO ACCEPT LATE ABSTRACT AND PAPER SUBMISSIONS FROM PEOPLE WHO WERE UNAWARE OF THIS CONFERENCE BEFORE NOW. Email directly: marika.vicziany@adm.monash.edu.au We have 35 papers to date, making for a handsome collection of Conference Proceedings. Orders for conference proceedings from people who wish to follow the debates but cannot attend the Mumbai conference can be placed with Ms Juliet Yee via the email address below. For further information email Juliet Yee, ---------------------------------------------------- Item 8. MAI Security Dialogue The Monash Asia Institute will be holding its 3rd Security Dialogue in partnership with the Asia Pacific Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing on 3-5 March 2004. This event is supported by grants from the Japan Foundation and the Ford Foundation. The dialogue follows on from earlier successful dialogues in late 1998 and early 1999 in Melbourne, Washington and New York. In preparation for the Beijing dialogue, the Monash Asia Institute held two roundtable discussions last year at the Monash Centres in Prato (near Florence) Italy and at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. These roundtables enabled Monash to build research and other links with EU and British scholars. The dialogue process began in 1998 in reaction to nuclear tests by India and Pakistan. Details about the Beijing dialogue will be announced shortly. Information about the Monash Asia Institute's previous dialogues and roundtables can be found at: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/mai/virtualforum/prato/index.html and the 'archives' link on that webpage. Enquiries: Professor Marika Vicziany, Director, Monash Asia Institute marika.vicziany@adm.monash.edu.au ---------------------------------------------------- Item 9. Website in Memory of Dr Renuka Sharma On the anniversary of her passing, we would like you to visit the Sophia website where Renuka's contribution to society and her life are commemorated. Renuka was an Honorary Research Fellow of the Monash Asia Institute. She was psychiatrist and feminist philosopher who published a number of books and articles in her own right. There is a fine tribute by Professor Max Charlesworth, a prominent Australasian philosopher at the following website: http://www.philosophy.unimelb.edu.au/sophia/vol42no1/sharma.html =============================================================== Other items of interest =============================================================== Item 10. Meet the Author The Asia Society AustralAsia Centre and Dymocks Booksellers present Greg Sheridan Greg Sheridan will discuss his new book, "Cities of the Hot Zone: A Southeast Asian Adventure" Monday 10 November 2003, 6.00pm DYMOCKS Booksellers Lower Ground floor, 234 Collins Street, Melbourne Greg Sheridan knows Southeast Asia. He first went there in the 1970s as a young journalist following the story of the Vietnamese boat people. Almost three decades later his fascination for the region from a political, journalistic and above all personal perspective, remains unabated. With great warmth and insight, Greg Sheridan takes us on a very personal journey to six Asian cities that have intrigued, surprised, repelled and charmed him. Told with passion, wit and humour, and combining the best in travel writing and journalism, Greg Sheridan takes us inside the cities he has known and loved - and occasionally loathed - and which keep drawing him back again and again. Free, but BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL Phone Dymocks Booksellers on (03) 9660 8500 ---------------------------------------------------- Item 11. Call for papers Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights, Deakin University "Community Development, Human Rights and the Grassroots" 14-18 April 2004 Trades Hall, Victoria St (cnr Lygon St), Melbourne There is a renewal of interest in community development, both in Australia and internationally. This conference will explore the questions: What does community development look like today? What are its promises? How is it operating at the grassroots and in global contexts? The two-day conference for academics, researchers and grassroots practitioners will, through workshops and participatory interaction, examine the political context of community development, co-option and colonisation, new sites of Community development, challenging the status quo, working in atypical areas and community development and the future. Deadline for Abstracts: 14 November 2003 Enquiries: Anne O'Keefe, Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights Phone: (03) 5227 2113 http://www.deakin.edu.au/cchr/cdconf04/cdconf2004.htm ---------------------------------------------------- Item 12. Conference: Imagining Diasporas The Centre for Social Justice and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Windsor are hosting a conference Imagining Diasporas: Space, Identity and Social Change 4-16 May, 2004 University of Windsor, Ontario Canada Confirmed Speakers: Brian Keith Axel, "Diasporic Sublime" Robin Cohen, "The Uses of 'Diaspora'" Nina Glick-Schiller, "Biologies of Belonging: Blood, Diasporic Longing, Long-Distance Nationalism, and the World Beyond" Michael Gomez, "Dilemmas of Identity in Diaspora" Judith Sinanga, Ohlmann "La diaspora rwandaise: où 'l'origine' perd son sens" William Safran, "Diaspora: Disconnection, Hyphenation, Reconstruction" Individual and panel proposals are invited to address issues of broad theoretical interest, as well as case studies of individual diasporic communities. Paper and panel proposals may be sent to: Linda Feldman, Programme Chair Languages, Literatures and Cultures University of Windsor, Windsor, ON N9B 3P4, Canada e-mail: feldman@uwindsor.ca For more details, see: http://www.uwindsor.ca/diasporas ---------------------------------------------------- Item 13. Website of the month To celebrate the recent visit to the Monash Asia Institute, by Professor John Olsen, University of Arizona Tucson, we are pleased to recommend the University of Arizona website for those who would like to learn more about their work in Anthropology, and in particular Professor Olen's remarkable excavations in search of early human ancestors in Tibet, Mongolia and western China. URLs: http://w3.arizona.edu/~anthro and http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~mongolia ======================================================================== The Monash Asia Institute Newsletter incorporates news items from the six research centres of the Monash Asia Institute, partner organisations and other groups working to promote Asian Studies in Australia. For further information about the Monash Asia Institute and this newsletter: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/mai/ email: monash.asia.institute@adm.monash.edu.au ========================================================================